Last Night on Let’s Get Unstuck Live, I sat down with The Therapist Who Came Undone for a conversation about grief, friendship, and what it means to show up when nothing can be fixed.

She read her story F**k It Bucket It — a reflection on profound loss, a milestone birthday reshaped by grief, and the friends who arrived not with answers, but with presence.

This is a story about:

* grief that changes the shape of everything

* friendship in the aftermath of loss

* showing up without trying to fix

* love without instructions

* letting meaning unfold instead of forcing it

What makes this story land isn’t just what happened — it’s the honesty in how it’s held. There’s no rush to resolve the pain. No tidy bow. Just truth, connection, and the quiet power of staying.

And the bucket?It’s unexpected. Irreverent. Exactly right.

This conversation is for:

* anyone grieving a loss that still feels close

* anyone who’s been held up by friends when they couldn’t stand

* anyone learning that presence matters more than answers

* anyone navigating the tension between meaning and mess

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Last night on Let’s Get Unstuck Live, I sat down with Anna of Tender & True for a conversation about motherhood when life doesn’t follow the plan you imagined.

Anna reads her story titled So, the Anatomy Brought Hard News- You’re Not Alone. It’s about learning her son would be born with a limb difference — a moment that stops time, rearranges expectations, and forces you to confront fear, grief, faith, and love all at once.

This is a story about:

* motherhood you don’t prepare for

* receiving life-altering news during pregnancy

* raising a child with a limb difference

* holding fear and faith in the same breath

* choosing love again and again, even when the future feels uncertain

What makes Anna’s story so powerful isn’t just what happened — it’s how she met it. With honesty. With vulnerability. With a heart wide enough to hold both grief and deep devotion to her son.

And the letter she writes at the end? OMG, be prepared to cry your eyes out!It will undo you.

It’s raw. It’s faithful. It’s filled with the fierce, unconditional love only a mother can give — the kind that doesn’t need fixing or answers, just presence.

This conversation is for:

* mothers navigating unexpected diagnoses

* parents raising children with disabilities or limb differences

* anyone who’s had to let go of the life they imagined and learn how to love the one they were given

* anyone who needs to be reminded that love doesn’t disappear when plans change — it deepens

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Read Jake’s Story - Authenticity & Anthony Bourdain

I held off on having Jake Summers on Let’s Get Unstuck Live until 2026 for a reason.His story felt like the right way to kick off this year — with honesty, risk, and the kind of truth that rattles something awake in you.

Jake walked away from a six-figure finance career — the kind of life that checks all the boxes society tells you to want — and followed a pull that didn’t make sense on paper.

That pull took him across the world to rural Cambodia.Sleeping in a shipping container.Showering with river water.Building a mango farm from the ground up.

What struck me most while reading his story is why Anthony Bourdain mattered so much to him.

They both lived corporate lives that looked impressive from the outside.And they both chose curiosity over comfort.Travel over performance.Authenticity over approval.Jake doesn’t glamorize that choice — he tells the truth about the fear, the uncertainty, the relapses, the rebuilding, and the constant work of choosing a life that actually feels like his.

We lost Anthony Bourdain far too soon.But reading Jake’s story reminded me what it looks like to take chances while you’re still here — to give up what people think matters most: money, status, stability and build something meaningful anyway.

This isn’t a story about quitting your job or moving to Cambodia.It’s a story about asking yourself one uncomfortable question:

Am I building a life that looks good… or a life that feels true?

🎙️ Let’s Get Unstuck Live with Jake SummersWe’ll have a conversation about authenticity, reinvention, choosing truth over applause and what happens when you stop performing and start living.

If you’ve ever felt the pull to burn down a version of yourself that no longer fits — this conversation is for you.

Read Jake’s Story - Authenticity & Anthony Bourdain

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Hannah’s story begins with a diagnosis — Stage III endometrial cancer at thirty-two — and a sentence no one is ever prepared to hear. But what unfolds isn’t just about illness or prognosis.

It’s about what surfaces when time suddenly feels fragile. It’s about grief that never fully had space to breathe — especially the loss of her mother when Hannah was just nine years old —this followed her into adulthood, influencing how she learned to worry, to brace, and to survive.

In her writing, Hannah doesn’t rush toward answers or silver linings.

She allows us to sit inside the fear, the memories, the questions, and the weight of realizing how much has been carried for so long.

This story is about reckoning. About how past loss collides with present reality. About what happens when the body forces us to listen to what the heart has been holding.

Hannah writes her story with honesty that doesn’t ask for sympathy — it simply asks the reader to truly see her experience.

Full Episode of today’s Live with

Gabrielle Sojourner

This brave soul jumped on camera for the 1st time to tell her story

One that stems from pain - living in a relationship of

Intimate Partner Rape & Psychological Abuse

Here she tells us how she decided one day that enough is enough

Her strength to walk away.

The deep depression that set in with an attempted suicide.

Being misunderstood by her Dr. & speaking to authorities who never listened.

To hours of therapy and finally reclaiming her life no longer as a victim, but a true “thriver”

Please share your support and listen and comment with kindness.

Thank you

I’m joined by someone who blends science, emotional truth, and lived experience in a way that women in midlife desperately need to hear.

Her story tonight has gone viral and I can’t wait to share it with you.

Ellen Scherr is a licensed clinical therapist, a certified life and business coach, and a woman who has personally walked through the emotional turbulence of midlife. She has tackled divorce, career reinvention, identity shifts, menopause, and the mental load that women are expected to carry without collapsing.

Her piece, ‘Aging Out of F***s: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore,’ has resonated deeply with thousands of women because it names something we all feel but rarely understand — that sudden moment when the performance stops, the filter breaks, and the truth comes out sharper and faster than you expected.

What I love about Ellen is that she doesn’t just explain this scientifically — she normalizes it emotionally. She reminds women they’re not broken; they’re becoming clearer, braver, and more aligned with themselves than ever before.

I’m joined by a writer whose work doesn’t just tell a story — it makes you feel your own.

John also known as The Positive Pen on SS is an author, artist, and storyteller with a gift for noticing the quiet things most people rush past — the small gestures, the in-between moments, the conversations that happen without words.

His chapter, ‘Postcards and Miles,’ is one of those rare pieces that reads like a film and feels like a confession — a story about fatherhood, heartbreak, mentorship, and the small rituals that become anchors when the rest of life is unsteady.

It’s tender, cinematic, and deeply human.

And what makes it even more powerful is knowing that this isn’t imagined — it’s lived.

I’m joined by a man whose strength lives somewhere between exhaustion and grace.

Chris B. is an award-winning poet, caregiver, dad and husband— and if you ask his son Brayden, he’s also a real-life superhero.

Brayden, lovingly called Bray Bray, was born with a rare genetic disorder that causes seizures and developmental delays. But his light — and his laughter — became the center of Chris’s poetry, his purpose, and his faith. But let’s pause, that smile from Bray Bray… You think you are having a bad day.. Look at Bray Bray’s smile as that kid can turn a frown upside down in a heart beat!

In his poem ‘The Believer,’ Chris takes us into the raw, unfiltered world of caregiving — where anger and gratitude often share the same heartbeat. He writes about the paperwork, the walls, the sleepless nights, and the love that still manages to shine through it all.

Tonight, we’ll talk about what it means to be the strong one, what it means to break the cycle of frustration, and how a father and son remind each other what belief truly looks like.

To all you gems that showed up to support, Thank you! You know it’s not easy to show up and be brave to tell our stories, but we do it anyway!

Why, b/c we are here to help others! Thank you so much: Massive Shout out to Bear Sage 🐻Kaylie Klein, Hannah Brown, Psychic Medium, Donna Frasca, Rey Pacheco, Hari G. Darcy, Sage Taylor Kingsley and many others for tuning into my live video with Bear Sage! Also, can someone PLEASE teach me what the hell I am doing wrong with Substack Lives? 😆 My goodness! Technically challenged over here 🙋🏻‍♀️Join me next Wednesday at 5:30pm PST when I get the pleasure to hang out with one of my buddies Chris B. Writes Chris’s will be reading us all a gorgeous poem called The Believer and similar to this evening I will be asking Chris questions about what inspired his story.

I’m joined by writer Kaylie Klein, aka The Space Between and she wrote a story called

‘The Freedom I Was Chasing Wasn’t Freedom At All’ as this redefines what liberation really looks like. Kaylie opens up about the illusion of freedom that came with addiction

how she’s found a deeper kind of freedom through sobriety —

one rooted in presence, motherhood, and purpose.

Her story is raw, unfiltered,reflective.. Really just beautifully honest

it’s a reminder that sometimes the real work begins once we stop running.