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This episode is with Dan Blakeslee. Dan is a musician, artist, and all-around creative force. If you’ve spent any time on the Seacoast, you’ve seen his fingerprints everywhere — whether it’s his prints hanging in local cafés or his name on the bill at your favorite venue. He’s led the Calabash Club from subways to festival stages, blending grit, heart, and a relentless creative drive.

We get into his origin story — growing up surrounded by jazz, hip hop, punk, and country, finding guitar in art school as a way to decompress, and building a life around both music and visual art. He shares the grind of booking his own shows, the joy of connecting with intimate audiences, and his vision for getting his work out into the world without sacrificing the authenticity that fuels it.

We talk home turf vs. the road, his deep connection to nature, and the loss of his younger brother, and how those experiences shaped the way he creates and lives today. It’s a conversation about craft, community, and carving your own lane without compromise.

And we sang some songs!

Giddy up.

Connect with Dan

https://www.instagram.com/danblakesleemusic/

In this conversation, Dr. B and Jenn discuss the importance of wellness, community, and personal growth through the lens of Jen's wellness series at Laney and Lu.

They explore how creating elevated experiences in hospitality goes beyond food production, emphasizing the significance of connection, authenticity, and empowerment, particularly for women. The discussion highlights the challenges of entrepreneurship, the value of real conversations, and the role of fitness and active adventure in fostering community and personal development.

Jenn then tells us about the next steps she will be taking with her personal brand to further empower women within our community.

Giddy up!

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https://www.instagram.com/jenniferldesrosiers/

Today’s episode is with Dagan Migirditch.

Dagan is the co-founder of Liar’s Bench Beer Co. in Portsmouth. But more than that, he’s a guy who gives a damn. About beer, sure. But also about people. About story. About building a place that actually feels like a place.

We talk about what it means to create real community. Not the buzzword version. The kind you can feel in your gut when you walk in the door. We get into authenticity, alcohol as a tool for connection (and disconnection), and how his brewery became a third space for the Seacoast.

And then we take it further. Into Portsmouth's housing crisis, zoning reform, yoga, nervous stomachs, capitalism’s shadow side, and why modest living shouldn’t feel like a failure.

It’s real. It’s raw. And it’s local. This one's got some bite. Giddy up.

Connect with Dagan

https://www.instagram.com/daganspellsgood/

https://www.liarsbenchbeer.com/

Today’s episode is with Tony Retrosi.

Tony’s a force. Owner of Atlantic Gymnastics in Portsmouth and Dover. Founder of Gym Momentum. International coach. City councilman. Dad. Blogger. Still doing handstands at 59. Gamba, baby.

We talk about building something real, from scratch. What it takes to create a business that actually means something. How to lead a family, a team, a town. And what happens when you stop chasing the message and start doing the damn thing.

Tony’s got thoughts on everything from youth sports and parenting to campaign finance, healthcare, and the collapse of the middle class. And he’s not wrong.

If you’ve ever tried to build anything, your body, a business, a community, then get in here, this ones for you.

Giddy up.

Connect with Tony

https://www.instagram.com/tonyatlantic/

Today’s episode is with Keelia Ryan. Keelia is a medicine woman, a trauma survivor, and space holder who doesn’t just talk about healing, but lives it.

She is the founder of Plant Allied Recovery, a growing community for people navigating trauma, addiction, and everything in between, through connection, integrity, and conscious work with plant and fungal medicines.

She’s walked through fire—kidnapped as a teen, hooked on drugs, surviving homelessness, and losing her partner to suicide. But this isn’t a story about what broke her. It’s about what built her

We talk about AA, the limitations of abstinence-only rhetoric, and the power of choosing a path that’s rooted in community, honesty, and aligned medicine. We talk about nervous system healing, safe psychedelic spaces, and why “recovery” means more than just putting the bottle down.

Keelia’s the kind of person who brings ceremony into real life. Who teaches you that integrity matters more than image. That healing isn’t a trend, it’s your birthright.

Giddy up.

Connect with Keelia

https://www.instagram.com/keelia.ryan/

Today's episode is with Kathleen Beede — physical therapist, mom, hiker, and owner of Eagle PT in Dover, NH.

She walked away from her hospital job when they told her to get the COVID vaccine. Started her own practice. Didn’t take insurance. Built something from scratch, based on her values.
Freedom. Sovereignty. Service. Strength.

We talked about healing the body through breath, movement, food, and intuition.We talked about hiking in snowshoes. Parenting teenage boys with discipline and love.
We talked about rebuilding trust in your body — and what happens when the system you served turns on you.

Kathleen’s the real deal

This is a story about alignment, resilience, and reclaiming your health on your own terms.
Full episode’s live.
Giddy up.

Connect with Kathleen

https://www.instagram.com/the_eaglept/

Today’s episode is with John Moro.John’s a pharmacist — but not the kind who rushes your script and tosses a bottle in a bag. He’s the owner of The Herbal Path, and one of the few folks I’ve met who took the white coat path and still found his way back to the Earth.We talk about how that happened. How his dad’s heart surgery derailed his plans and pulled him into pharmacy. How he climbed the ladder, got the MBA, ran districts, answered to spreadsheets. And how COVID cracked the whole thing open.John walks me through the exact moment he reconnected with the founder of The Herbal Path, the chance encounter on a street corner, and how that led to leaving the corporate machine behind for good.We talk chronic disease, polypharmacy, the real reason so many people are sick, and what happens when healing becomes a business model instead of a birthright.And we get into herbs. The good ones, the dangerous ones, the forgotten ones. Mushrooms, too. Echinacea, maca, ashwagandha — adaptogens, immune modulators, the works. We talk about why lavender wrecked one woman’s skin and why marshmallow root might save the trees. We even get into creatine and hydrogen therapy.But this episode isn’t about pills or powders. It’s about connection. It's about returning to the path.Giddy up.

Connect with John @theherbalpathportsmouth

https://www.instagram.com/herbalpathportsmouth/

@theherbalpathdover https://www.instagram.com/herbalpathdover/

Today’s episode is with Alex Tarnava. Alex is a self-taught scientist, a relentless innovator, and the creator of the world’s first open-cup molecular hydrogen tablet. He’s also the co-founder of Inhale H2 and the author of The Final Thought War, a book that pulls no punches when it comes to Big Pharma, academia, and the future of free thought.During the episode, Alex walks me through the moment his health collapsed and how that led to an obsessive journey to understand inflammation, biohacking, and ultimately, hydrogen therapy. He takes us from his garage experiments with magnesium powder to FDA-grade production runs, and the unlikely relationships with chemists and skeptics who helped him prove the doubters wrong. We dive deep into how scientific consensus gets manufactured, what AI is doing to our minds, and how decentralized networks might be the only way out.Ultimately this was a powerful conversation with someone who’s not just disrupting health and science—but reimagining what it means to seek truth in a world built to suppress it. Giddy upConnect with AlexAlexTarnava.comhttps://www.instagram.com/alextarnava/

Today’s episode is with Steven Wright.

Steven is a former Red Sox All-Star, a two-time World Series winner, and one of the last knuckleballers to throw heat in a game that no longer has room for feel. But what makes this episode powerful isn’t the stats. It’s the story behind them

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Steven walks me through the climb, from the Cape League to Fenway. And the fall that followed—injuries, surgeries, silence, and a league that stops calling the second you’re no longer useful. We talk about pain, addiction, the broken pipeline of pro sports, and how he found a way back through cannabis, purpose, and telling the truth.

We get into what’s changed in baseball, why the culture’s lost its edge, and what happens when players are treated like products instead of people. He also breaks down the work he’s doing now. He’s bringing real integrity to the cannabis space, advocating for healing, and trying to build something better than what he came from.

He’s sharp. He’s grounded. He’s got nothing left to prove. Giddy up.

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Today's episode is with Dessiree Berry. Dessiree is 24, has three degrees under her belt, just wrapped a public health master’s, and is finishing clinical nutrition. She’s also a farmer, a mom, sober since 20, and running point on one of the most compassionate maternal care projects in rural Maine — The Postpartum Project. She is an absolute FORCE.

During the episode, we get into what’s broken in our maternal health system, how she’s building something better, and why birth doesn’t need to be an emergency unless it actually is. We touch on what's happening in Maine and we also get into historical narratives, class disparities and the forgotten middle.

She’s smart, she’s real, and she’s not afraid to challenge the system. Giddy up.

Connect with Dessiree

https://www.instagram.com/dessi.berry/

https://postpartumproject.me/