From MTV and National Geographic to Lonely Planet and The Daily Beast, Deepa Lakshmin has been a prolific journalist and content strategist for over a decade. Over the past year, she set out to determine whether drinking was holding her back from being her happiest self. On this episode, I ask Deepa all about her journey phasing out alcohol.

When she’s not sharing nuggets of wisdom on TikTok, Mayssa Chehata is busy running BEHAVE candy, which you may have spotted at Erewhon, Urban Outfitters and more. On this episode of Phasing Out, Mayssa—whose impressive career spans working for the NFL, Uber, Daily Harvest and SoulCycle—shares how she is manifesting her dreams by shedding limiting beliefs and scarcity mindset from all aspects of her life.

A 5x world record holder, Andrew, the son of a professor of music and an Episcopal priest, left his small town in North Dakota and went on to become part of the six-person crew that completed the first-ever human-powered row to Antarctica.

In addition to climbing the tallest mountain on every continent, working for the CIA, serving his country overseas, and obtaining degrees from Yale, Wharton and Penn Law, Andrew holds multiple Guinness World records, national championships in collegiate rowing and club running, and a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

On this episode of Phasing Out, we explore everything from Andrew’s childhood and numerous career pivots to his experience triaging victims of the 2015 Everest avalanche and the shocking limits of human resilience. We posed the question: what sets those who make it apart from those who don’t? Are any of us really that special?

What does it mean to love your shadow self? To find out, I sat down with Anna Bella, a modern-day spiritualist, intuitive energy reader, clairvoyant, and certified tarot card reader. Through her readings, she connects people to loved ones on the other side, and with the help of spirit guides, source, angels, and other entities, she provides guidance, divine insight, and key messages that help people heal and experience inner peace.

To book a reading, visit annalbella.com and use code PHASE15 for 15% off.

Kamala Harris, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Jerry Brown took her advice. You should too. On today's episode, one of California's most respected communications professionals, Elizabeth Ashford, shares life lessons around career, dating, friendship and more. 

"If he wanted to, he would." On this episode of Phasing Out, I sit down with a man who works with formerly incarcerated men to help them process their emotions, so they can phase out their past and meaningfully integrate back into society. Learn how activist, artist and All Kings Executive Director Raul Espinoza— whose work has been featured in National Geographic, The New York Times, The Sun, and more—deconstructs toxic masculinity.

Our first guest flew from California to Egypt for what she thought would be a short trip, only to be consumed by four years of toxic relationships culminating in ripped passports, urine-dripped suitcases, and some admittedly euphoric moments along the Red Sea. Learn how she phased out the messiest chapter of her life and came out on the other side.