More Life with Carl Radke

The reunion you didn't know you needed. Lindsay Hubbard sits down with Carl at Soft Bar for the first time to reminisce about the early days, the seasons that bonded them, and the slow rebuild of their friendship. Lindsay also gets into life as a mom to Gemma, building ‘In the City’ from scratch, and where she's at now. This one’s a good reminder that growth, grace, and time can bring people back together.

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'High School Musical' star and musician Joshua Bassett sits down with Carl to discuss his memoir, 'The Rookie: My Public, Private, and Secret Life', opening up about the ketamine addiction that nearly killed him, surviving heart failure at 23, and the body image struggles men keep hidden.

Joshua serves as an Official NAMI Ambassador. NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization. Learn more at NAMI.org.

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KJ Dillard sits down with his friend and Summer House castmate Carl for one of the deepest conversations on More Life. He opens up about the mental health crisis that followed last summer, being hospitalized, getting diagnosed with BPD, and how recovery gave him a whole new way to live. KJ also gets real about growing up too fast, losing the brother he never got to meet to addiction, the pressure of navigating reality TV as a Black man, and finding purpose on the other side of rock bottom.

KJ Dillard is a professional skateboarder, model, musician, and cast member on Summer House. Originally from Kansas City, he's built a career across skateboarding, fashion, music, and reality TV - all while openly sharing his journey with mental health and recovery to help others feel less alone.

About The Release Foundation:

The Release Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding access to life-saving addiction and mental health treatment for individuals and families in need. Through treatment scholarships, community partnerships, education, and advocacy, the Release Foundation works to remove financial barriers to care and create pathways to lasting recovery. Founded by leaders with lived experience, the Release Foundation is committed to breaking the stigma surrounding substance use and mental health challenges while ensuring that hope and healing are accessible to all.

No matter where you or a loved one is on the recovery journey, help is available. Learn more or support our mission at ReleaseRecoveryFoundation.org

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Exploring the Founder’s Journey: Laura left a successful corporate sales career, got sober, and sold her husband's wine collection to fund a mocktail brand now backed by Bethenny Frankel. Carl sits down at Soft Bar with the founder of Mingle Mocktails, Laura Taylor, to talk leaving corporate, betting on the non-alc boom early, and what it really takes to build something from nothing. 

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Carl and Tom Schwartz have known each other for a decade, and it shows. Tom Schwartz (Vanderpump Rules, The Valley) joins Carl on More Life to get into his return to Bravo and how he’s changed post-Vanderpump Rules, the new love bringing his sparkle back, closing TomTom, and the family chapter unfolding off-camera. It's vulnerable, funny, and full of the kind of hard-won wisdom only Tom Schwartz can deliver. This one’s a good reminder that reinvention is always possible.

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Survivor 48 winner and Survivor 50 contestant Kyle Fraser joins Carl Radke for an honest conversation about incarceration, sobriety, masculinity, reality TV, and the road to winning Survivor. Kyle opens up about reinventing himself, becoming a father, and why his darkest moments ultimately changed his life.

Kyle Fraser is the winner of Survivor Season 48, an attorney and soon-to-be father whose journey to reality TV success included arrests, incarceration, sobriety, and using his experience to help others.

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Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino sits down with Carl to share the story behind the ‘Jersey Shore’ icon America thought it knew. Mike opens up about hiding a debilitating pill addiction on the biggest reality show in the country, the on-camera moments fans remember, and how he went from owning a vodka company to running Archangel Centers, his nationwide network of treatment facilities.

Now nearly 11 years sober, Mike talks about redemption, fatherhood, fame, and why the comeback is greater than the setback.

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Carl sits down with reality TV icon Jason Wahler (Laguna Beach, The Hills) for a raw conversation about fame, addiction, and recovery.

Jason opens up about his struggles with mental health, multiple arrests at the height of his MTV fame, and how addiction took over his life. He shares the moment that finally changed everything, what sobriety really looks like, and how he rebuilt his life, marriage, and identity.

Jason Wahler is a TV personality, author, and mental health advocate. Today, he’s a husband, father of three, and uses his story to help others find a way out.

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Shea Gomez has built a community helping women rethink their relationship with alcohol. She joins Carl to talk about her journey from blacking out at open bars to building No Booze Babes - and how getting sober opened the door to a life she never saw coming.

She joins Carl to get honest about the gray area drinking that consumed her early 20s - the blackouts, the bartenders she made out with, the conversations she couldn't remember with the people she loved. And what happened when she finally stopped: she had to face everything she'd been numbing, including feelings about her sexuality she hadn't let herself sit with sober.

She shares what it was like to start dating sober, explore her attraction to women for the first time, and navigate the confusion, fear, and freedom that came with it. They also talk about people-pleasing, shame, and why learning to trust yourself is hard work.

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Carl sits down with Summer House’s Bailey Taylor for a conversation on heartbreak, healing, and starting over. Bailey opens up about her toxic past relationship, navigating anxiety and trauma, and what it’s really like dating again after it all. She shares how grief, loss, and a major breakup shaped her - and how she’s rebuilt through therapy, medication, and pouring herself into her It Girl podcast.

She and Carl also get into what trauma looks like when it shows up in unexpected ways, how the Summer House cameras caught her in the middle of her healing, and why getting her joy back might be the biggest thing the summer gave her.

Please consider donating to Lower Eastside Girls Club, an organization close to Bailey’s heart that provides free programs and mentorship for young women and gender-expansive youth.

If anything from today’s conversation resonated with you, you’re not alone - and support is available. To learn more about emotional abuse, recognize the signs, or get help for yourself or someone you care about, visit the National Domestic Violence Hotline at thehotline.org.

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