Heather Holt Podcast Host | Storytelling on Healing, Resilience & Life After Change

Inspiring stories told weekly to help change your perspective — and maybe even leave you smiling.

  • The People Who Stay There is a moment in almost every difficult season when we quietly start taking inventory of our lives. Not of our accomplishments. Not of our possessions. Of our people. Who still calls, still shows up, who sits in the silence when there are no easy answers? Who stays? That question stayed… Read more

  • Morgan Scafe’s Story and the Reality of Living with Complex PTSD One of the things that stayed with me most after recording Morgan Scafe’s story was how different survival looks from what many people imagine. When we hear stories about trauma, we often want a resolution. We want to believe that once the truth is… Read more

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    Some stories are not just about a person. They are about a moment in time and everything that had to change because of it. Ken Kunken’s story is one of those stories. In 1970, when Ken was injured during a college football game at Cornell University, the world looked very different for people living with… Read more

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    What happens when something changes your life and then the world stops talking about it? After talking with Kenny that question has been sitting with me. As I worked on this episode with Kenny, I kept coming back to my own experience during COVID. Not the headlines. Not the rules. But the moments that stayed… Read more

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    There are moments in life that don’t just happen, they stay. They settle into you quietly, and over time, you begin to realize they shaped more than just that day, they shaped who you became after it. Recording Scott DeLuzio’s story for Change Happened, Then What? brought me back to one of those moments in… Read more

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    There’s something about poetry that I’ve never quite been able to explain and maybe that’s the point. Poetry doesn’t ask you to understand it, It asks you to feel it, and I’ve always loved that. Even if I don’t read it as often as I wish I did. I don’t sit down every night with… Read more

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    What happens when what you’re told is “right”… doesn’t feel right? That’s the question at the heart of this episode with Leah—and if I’m being honest, it’s one that brought me right back to a chapter of my own life. Because long before we had the language we have now—before terms like neurodivergent were part… Read more

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    A Childhood Promise That Shaped Mark Maselli’s Life Sometimes the most powerful change in life doesn’t begin with a diagnosis, a moment, or even a turning point. Sometimes it begins with a decision. When Mark Maselli was just five years old, he watched his grandmother endure dialysis treatments. The machines, the hospital visits, and the… Read more

  • Most of us spend a good portion of our lives trying to plan the future. We map things out carefully.We imagine the life we want to build.We try to move step by step toward the person we hope to become. However, life has a way of reminding us that plans are just that — plans.… Read more

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    Why Self-Worth Can’t Be Measured Online For many of us, relationships today come with an unexpected complication: social media. Thirty years ago, connection looked very different. If you wanted to talk to someone, you called them. If there was tension in a relationship, you worked through it privately. And if you needed space from someone,… Read more