The Life Stylist

My conversation on Unity Manifest takes us back to some of the darkest chapters of my life—from childhood abuse and addiction to the long road toward sobriety and spiritual awakening. We unpack how early experiences can shape our capacity for intimacy, how shame keeps us trapped in destructive patterns, and why healing requires more than simply changing our behavior. I share how these experiences inspired A Horse Named Lonesome, my new memoir about loneliness, separation, and finding our way back to connection.

In this Lonesome Conversation, Sarah and I explore her reframe of shame as a metaphysical force whose whole function is disconnection—the thing that convinces you you’re separate from the rest of the whole. She shares the vivid dream in which her towering spirit guides told her they’d taped their heads to the wall to keep from laughing at how much weight she’d put on growing up poor, and how the shame dissolved on its own afterward. A striking look at why shame isolates us, and what it takes to feel part of things again.

About Sarah

Sarah Elkhaldy is a teacher, healer, and the host of the new series Mystery Teachings on the world’s largest conscious streaming platform Gaia.com.

Sarah’s work bridges ancient wisdom, modern science, and consciousness studies to help people understand how our thoughts and energy shape the world around us. We’ll explore this new partnership, what viewers can expect from Mystery Teachings, and how we can all live more consciously in these transformative times.

Lonesome Conversations Limited Series

Lonesome Conversations is a special series from The Life Stylist, built around my new book, A Horse Named Lonesome (out November 17, 2026). Loneliness is something almost everyone goes through, and almost nobody talks about honestly. So I sat down with psychologists, philosophers, trauma therapists, teachers, and friends to find the truth about loneliness, and how we heal from it. Each episode is its own conversation, but together they walk the same ground the book maps out. (Pre-order your copy at ahorsenamedlonesome.com) You'll find new episodes alongside our regular show over the coming months.

What really happens in the afterlife?

Brendan D. Murphy is the author of The Grand Illusion and Reverse Engineering the Afterlife, and he treats consciousness the way an engineer treats a system: layered, mappable, and worth drawing properly.

The conversation opens on reincarnation and the so-called soul trap, and why he doesn’t buy the version circulating online. The Tibetans, Jung, and near-death accounts all point to something more unsettling than a mechanism: your unmetabolized emotional charge becomes the environment you wake up in.

From there, it turns to the evidence: Peak in Darien cases, Ian Stevenson’s birthmark research, and a woman who lived seven years inside a three-week induced coma.

We also sit with a harder question: why do so many spiritually inclined people get stuck in paranoid loops about loosh harvesting and prison planets? Brendan’s answer reframes all of it, and probably your fear of dying with it.

For details and discounts on Brendan's books and offerings, including his Evolve Yourself program and masterclass, visit brendandmurphy.com/lifestylist.

You'll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[7:31] Living in Australia through the COVID era

[15:03] What makes the human psyche so susceptible to propaganda

[22:31] Where the demand to be ruled actually comes from

[28:37] My fear of being duped back into the recycling system

[44:11] Working through your attractions and aversions before you die

[51:21] Phobias as imprints from how you died in a past life

[55:02] Whether past lives are sequential or stacked all at once

[1:13:06] The Voice that told me you already have it all

[1:17:28] Differentiation as the only thing the infinite one can do

[1:33:28] Peak in Darien cases and meeting relatives you never knew existed

[1:40:07] A cacophony of emotion after hunting my first large animal

[1:52:29] Giving a child full autonomy to name itself

[1:58:02] What loosh harvesting actually is and where Monroe landed

[2:04:15] When spiritual seekers get trapped in the darkness

[2:15:44] A sound-based modality born from a decade-long dark night

Resources Mentioned:

Read: The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot | Book

Eckhart Tolle | Website

Read: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes | Book

Read: The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece by William Walker Atkinson | Book

Near-Death Experience | Wikipedia

Edgar Cayce | Website

Rudolf Steiner | Website

Brian Weiss | Website

Monroe Institute | Website

Nick Sambrook | Website

Full show notes at lukestorey.com/nde

Find more from Brendan:

Brendan D. Murphy | Website | Substack | Instagram | Facebook | X | TikTok | YouTube

Read: The Grand Illusion: A Synthesis of Science and Spirituality by Brendan D. Murphy | Book

Find more from Luke:

Luke Storey | Website | Instagram | Facebook | X | YouTube | LinkedIn

My new book, A Horse Named Lonesome, launches November 17, 2026. Pre-order now at ahorsenamedlonesome.com and get bonuses: access to my Inner Circle Book Club, an exclusive Lonesome Conversations six-part miniseries, and an ebook transcript of the series.

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I joined my longtime friend Daniel Vitalis for a deep conversation about my new book, A Horse Named Lonesome, and the experiences that led me from childhood trauma and addiction to recovery and spiritual awakening. We explore the loneliness epidemic, why digital connection can never fully replace human intimacy, and how the pursuit of perfect health can become just another form of self-obsession. We also get into forgiveness, the spiritual cost of resentment, and why learning to love and serve others might be the most important work we ever do.

In this Lonesome Conversation, Oto and I go back to the loneliest stretch of his life — divorced, numbing himself with weed morning to night, “slowly killing himself” despite being a multimillionaire, down to a dog and a backpack after his apartment burned down. He shares how that string of losses felt like God rerouting him with a hard 180, and how meeting his partner a week after the fire met him at his sickest and heaviest. A raw, moving testament to how the ground falling away can be the thing that saves you.

About Oto

Oto Gomes is a crypto investor, mentor, and founder of the Crypto Freedom Academy, an online educational platform helping people learn crypto and increase their wealth.

With over 10 years experience in the crypto industry, and 10-plus years before that as an accountant, Oto has persevered through the bull and bear markets of life to find true freedom. His goal is to help others become the most abundant versions of themselves. Oto is a voice for truth, sovereignty, and a holistic approach to creating a life and world of prosperity.

His mission is to create heart-centered, interdependent, and self-accountable communities to become the bridges to help themselves and others in recreating their relationship to money and re-internalizing their self worth.

Lonesome Conversations Limited Series

Lonesome Conversations is a special series from The Life Stylist, built around my new book, A Horse Named Lonesome (out November 17, 2026). Loneliness is something almost everyone goes through, and almost nobody talks about honestly. So I sat down with psychologists, philosophers, trauma therapists, teachers, and friends to find the truth about loneliness, and how we heal from it. Each episode is its own conversation, but together they walk the same ground the book maps out. (Pre-order your copy at ahorsenamedlonesome.com) You'll find new episodes alongside our regular show over the coming months.

When I was addicted, I thought sobriety would fix all my problems . . . I was wrong.

My beautiful wife Alyson is back for another AMA; this one pulls from listener questions Alyson compiled that I hadn’t seen beforehand.

Sobriety taught me that removing the substance wasn't the fix I thought it was. A listener dealing with chronic illness asks how to find real friendship. Someone else asks how to find their dharma, and Alyson shares the dissolving process she went through to get to hers.

My full mouth restoration with Dr. Kevin Winters, the Shroud of Turin, plus Luke’s Latest discoveries, and a few other things worth your attention are in here too.

Happy birthday to me. Pull up a chair.

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You'll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[4:21] Why I switched from three strikes to firing fast

[10:46] Blaming the drug instead of facing deeper work

[16:48] How the ego clings to labels and causes separation

[21:09] Why unsolicited advice just bounces off the ego

[27:44] Kaizen instant coffee and staying grounded on caffeine

[40:33] The ChiliPad as the biggest health upgrade of all

[49:42] How to actually find your dharma

[56:44] Dissolving completely into nothingness and being reborn

[1:03:38] Bringing every past part of yourself into the new era

[1:11:37] The intersection of passion and natural aptitude

[1:18:34] My whole mouth restoration after years of grinding and malnourishment

[1:29:58] The Shroud of Turin and an image physics can’t explain

[1:34:15] Making good friendships when you have a chronic illness

[1:38:18] Seeing the soul behind every normie and NPC

Resources Mentioned:

Cognitive Dissonance | Wikipedia

Kaizen Signature Mushroom Coffee Blend | Product

Kaizen Premium Electrolyte Mix | Product

Dr. Kevin Winters, The Hills Dental Spa | Website

Full show notes at lukestorey.com/695

Related The Life Stylist Episodes:

Neuromuscular Dentistry: Solutions for TMJ, Headaches & Breathing Disorders w/ Dr. Kevin Winters | Podcast

Farming and the Fall of Man with Daniel Vitalis | Podcast

Breaking The Chains Of Human Domestication with Daniel Vitalis, Part One | Podcast

Breaking The Chains of Human Domestication with Daniel Vitalis, Part Two | Podcast

The Water Wars Trilogy #129: Unlocking The Mysteries of Nature’s Greatest Gift with Daniel Vitalis | Podcast

WildFed: How To Become A Modern Day Hunter-Gatherer *Vegan Trigger Warning | Podcast

Fake Food & Modern Medicine: Reclaim Your Health W/ Nature’s Wisdom Feat. Daniel Vitalis | Podcast

Discernment & Deception: Navigating AI, Occult Power, and False Light w/ Daniel Vitalis | Podcast

Find more from Alyson:

Alyson Charles Storey | Website | Instagram | X | TikTok | YouTube

Get the Animal Power book and deck, plus a free guided drumming shamanic journey to meet your power animal, at alysoncharles.com/animalpower

Find more from Luke:

Luke Storey | Website | Instagram | Facebook | X | YouTube | LinkedIn

My new book, A Horse Named Lonesome, launches November 17, 2026. Pre-order now at ahorsenamedlonesome.com and get bonuses: access to my Inner Circle Book Club, an exclusive Lonesome Conversations six-part miniseries, and an ebook transcript of the series.

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There's a better way to protect your health than paying for health insurance.

My guest Andy Schoonover, founder of CrowdHealth, quit insurance after his plan refused to pay for his daughter's $8,000 ear procedure and built a parallel system.

Paying cash shocked him. The same stress echo test that cost another man's insurance plan $5,000 cost him $225, and his pediatrician knocked 40 or 50 percent off the bill once insurance left the room.

Andy explains how nearly 20 percent of claims get denied by design, why doctors see only eight cents of every healthcare dollar, and how 35,000 people are funding each other's medical bills through CrowdHealth.

He also shares why he's willing to go to war with the system, even after death threats and regulatory fights.

If you've ever opened an insurance bill and felt your stomach drop, this one is for you.

Visit lukestorey.com/joincrowdhealth and use code LUKESTOREY to join for just $99 per member per month for the first three months.

You'll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[5:27] A moral obligation to fix a broken system

[9:40] Up to four million would-be entrepreneurs held back by health insurance

[23:54] Routing it through insurance locks you out of cash pricing

[28:48] Andy ghosts a surprise bill he had no moral obligation to pay

[37:16] The cortisol toll of living in medical debt

[47:25] Why identical procedures cost wildly different amounts

[54:25] Live hard and die fast instead of the nursing home

[1:08:07] Members self-select out of broken systems

[1:18:45] The best doctors are going cash-only

[1:25:14] Starving the parasitic industry by taking your money back

[1:31:03] The perceived downside of being responsible for your own bills

[1:39:21] Bitcoiners and CrowdHealth share a similar worldview

[1:48:48] Losing Grace and how it shaped Andy’s mission

Resources Mentioned:

Visceral Fat | Wikipedia

Full show notes at lukestorey.com/crowdhealth

Find more from Andy Schoonover:

CrowdHealth | Website | Instagram | Facebook | X | TikTok | YouTube

Find more from Luke:

Luke Storey | Website | Instagram | Facebook | X | YouTube | LinkedIn

My new book, A Horse Named Lonesome, launches November 17, 2026. Pre-order now at ahorsenamedlonesome.com and get bonuses: access to my Inner Circle Book Club, an exclusive Lonesome Conversations six-part miniseries, and an ebook transcript of the series.

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I joined The Grimerica Show for a conversation about what it really means to be free—not just politically or financially, but emotionally and spiritually. We cover my journey from addiction to recovery, the childhood experiences behind A Horse Named Lonesome, and why I've become increasingly unwilling to compromise my integrity for money, status, or approval. We also explore the loneliness of questioning mainstream narratives, the importance of finding your people, and why freedom means very little if we're still prisoners of our own minds.

In this Lonesome Conversation, Kyle and I explore a hunger most of us don’t know we have — the deep deficit of physical touch in Western culture, where contact gets siloed off into family or romance with nothing in between. He explains how we’re biologically wired for touch as co-regulation, how we convince ourselves we’ve “outgrown” the need, and why you can’t feel the lack until something finally fills it. A reframe of loneliness as, in part, a body starved of the care it was designed to receive.

About Kyle

Kyle Coursey is the creator of THE RESET, a one-of-a-kind experience. He works with high-performing and high-functioning individuals, founders, and executives who have done the work but still feel something is off.

His work focuses on identifying and resolving the underlying distortions in the human system, across nervous system, physiology, psychology, and relational patterns, so clients can return to clarity, performance, and internal stability.

Through his immersive RESET sessions, he compresses years of work into a single, focused experience designed to restore coherence and unlock what’s been inaccessible through conventional approaches.

Lonesome Conversations Limited Series

Lonesome Conversations is a special series from The Life Stylist, built around my new book, A Horse Named Lonesome (out November 17, 2026). Loneliness is something almost everyone goes through, and almost nobody talks about honestly. So I sat down with psychologists, philosophers, trauma therapists, teachers, and friends to find the truth about loneliness, and how we heal from it. Each episode is its own conversation, but together they walk the same ground the book maps out. (Pre-order your copy at ahorsenamedlonesome.com) You'll find new episodes alongside our regular show over the coming months.

Thirty minutes after the biggest relief of his life, Dylan Gemelli found out his apartment was being ransacked, with half a kilo of cocaine in the safe.

A leading voice in fitness and biohacking, Dylan has over 1.5 million Instagram followers and a podcast that hit #1 in Health and Fitness in October 2025.

He shares how he got caught, what prison did to his character, and the moment his Mom asked him a question on a collect call that broke him open.

Then the conversation turns to hormones. Anabolic steroids versus TRT, why free testosterone can matter more than total, the sperm count issue many men on testosterone don't see coming, and the oral testosterone option that changes the math.

Visit getkyzatrex.com/dylangemelli to get Kyzatrex oral testosterone replacement therapy.

You'll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[0:52] Dylan’s apartment ransacked 30 minutes after the biggest relief ever

[9:13] What prison is actually like versus what the movies sell

[21:05] Prison as the biggest investment Dylan ever made

[32:54] Verbal abuse in prison fuels the revolving door

[36:02] Teaching safer steroid use to a million YouTube subscribers

[46:06] COVID in bed and the lightbulb moment that birthed Dylan’s podcast

[49:50] SARMs were built to fight muscle wasting before bodybuilders found them

[54:27] Bringing testosterone to normal levels is not cheating

[1:05:56] My emasculating sperm count and the testosterone connection

[1:17:04] How much credence your blood work actually deserves

[1:23:29] Mind and spirit come before diet and training

[1:36:17] Environmental orthorexia and feeling the world is trying to kill you

[1:42:46] The peptide Wild West and the Ozempic skeleton aesthetic

[1:54:44] Building the biggest wellness conglomerate ever

Resources mentioned:

NASM | Website

STEMREGEN | Website

Boundless Life | Podcast

CAROL Bike | Website

EWOT | Website

Dr. Daniel Amen | Website

Dave Asprey | Website

Kevin Trudeau | Website

Ben Azadi | Website

ZYN | Website

Full show notes at lukestorey.com/gemelli

Related The Life Stylist Episodes:

This Is My Brain On Drugs, Booze, EMF, & Trauma with Dr. Daniel Amen (Luke's SPECT Scan Results) | Podcast

Find more from Dylan:

Dylan Gemelli | Website | Instagram | Facebook | X | TikTok | YouTube

Find more from Luke:

Luke Storey | Website | Instagram | Facebook | X | YouTube | LinkedIn

My new book, A Horse Named Lonesome, launches November 17, 2026. Pre-order now at ahorsenamedlonesome.com and get bonuses: access to my Inner Circle Book Club, an exclusive Lonesome Conversations six-part miniseries, and an ebook transcript of the series.

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