The Pivot Show with Cristina Dam

What does it take to keep going when life changes in ways you never imagined?

In this powerful episode of The PIVOT Show, Cristina Dam welcomes serial entrepreneur, filmmaker, and philanthropist Jason Reid, whose remarkable journey spans decades of business success, repeated failures, profound personal tragedy, and an unexpected mission to change the conversation around youth mental health.

Jason shares how he arrived in California with just $50, went on to build companies employing thousands, and survived more than 30 failed business ventures. But his greatest challenge came when his 14-year-old son, Ryan, died by suicide.

A note Ryan left behind—“Tell My Story”—would ultimately inspire a movement dedicated to helping young people and families communicate more openly about mental health.

Together, Jason and Cristina explore grief, resilience, parenting, the pressures facing today's children, the transformative power of curiosity and creativity, and the opportunities and dangers of artificial intelligence.

Jason also shares an important reminder: You don't have to be great at something to find joy in doing it.

This is an honest, moving, and thought-provoking conversation about navigating life's hardest pivots, discovering unexpected purpose, and finding the courage to keep moving forward.

Learn more about Jason and his work:

Tell My Story: https://www.tellmystory.org/

TEDx Talks and Goalcast: https://www.tellmystory.org/jasons-tedx-talk

Films and educational resources: https://www.tellmystory.org/

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Content note: This episode includes discussion of suicide and grief. In the U.S., call or text 988 for crisis support.

What happens when you grow up adjacent to one of the most famous families in the world—but still have to figure out who you are?

Navarone Garcia—musician, singer-songwriter, former frontman of Them Guns, and son of Priscilla Presley—joins Cristina Dam for an extraordinarily candid conversation about addiction, sobriety, family, identity, loss and reinvention.

Navarone opens up about his journey from experimenting with drugs as a teenager to an addiction that eventually consumed his daily life. He shares the shocking moment he discovered the substance he believed was heroin was actually fentanyl, the exhaustion of structuring his entire life around addiction, and what happened when he finally made the decision that no intervention or rehab could make for him: he wanted to stop.

His withdrawal would push him through 22 days without sleep—but on the other side was an entirely different life.

Navarone also shares the remarkable story of discovering a large Brazilian family he never knew he had, the painful breakdown of his relationship with his father, returning to Brazil sober, learning Portuguese so he could communicate with his relatives, and eventually building a life between the United States and Brazil.

He and Cristina also explore growing up around fame, his relationship with his mother Priscilla Presley, family loss, the end of his longtime band Them Guns, and his decision to step forward under his own name as solo artist Navarone Garcia.

His latest single, “If I Could I Would Scream,” marks the beginning of that new chapter.

This is a conversation about addiction—but even more, it's about identity.

About discovering who you are when everything you've used to define yourself begins to fall away.

And about the moment you realize no one else can make your PIVOT for you.

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Reba Merrill was fired, rejected by Hollywood, replaced by a 22-year-old—and still refused to quit.

In this powerful episode of The PIVOT Show, the Emmy Award-winning journalist shares how she rebuilt her life, created her own opportunities, interviewed nearly 1,000 celebrities, and turned rejection into reinvention.

Reba opens up about starting over as a single mother, being blackballed after refusing a powerful Hollywood executive, landing interviews with stars like Robert Redford and Paul Newman, battling self-doubt, and learning one of the biggest lessons of her life:

Don’t be afraid to ask for help. One phone call can change everything.

At 91, Reba’s message is simple: rejection is not the end. Sometimes it is the beginning of your next PIVOT.

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Alan Clancy went from performing as an acrobatic dancer around the world to being told he might never walk again.

After performing across Europe, Asia and Las Vegas, Alan’s life changed in an instant when he became critically ill with anthrax. He collapsed at home, his leg violently snapped, and he says he was essentially dead by the time help arrived.

In this extraordinary episode of The PIVOT Show, Alan sits down with Cristina Dam to share the story of surviving the seemingly impossible—and how losing the life he knew ultimately opened the door to an entirely different purpose.

Alan talks about rebuilding his body, spirituality and energy work, opening a spiritual center in Australia, and later working with people during the height of the AIDS crisis—supporting patients facing the end of their lives.

But Alan's story didn't begin with tragedy.

Long before his illness, he was already someone willing to challenge what other people called impossible. When he was told he was too short for a Las Vegas production, he auditioned anyway—and got the job. That determination would later become essential to his survival.

Doctors said he wouldn't walk again.

Alan refused to accept that as the ending of his story.

This is a conversation about survival, faith, healing, death, determination and what can happen when life destroys the future you thought you were going to have.

Sometimes life falling apart isn't the end.

Sometimes it's the beginning of your PIVOT.

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What if addiction isn't the real problem—but a symptom of something much deeper?

Filmmaker Mark Cole built a successful career as a director, producer and storyteller. Behind that success, however, was a battle with alcohol that eventually took control of his life.

In this deeply vulnerable episode of The PIVOT Show, Mark sits down with Cristina Dam to share what happened when the identity, career and life he had built began falling apart—and why simply getting sober wasn't the end of his journey.

Mark opens up about addiction, fear, loneliness, hitting rock bottom, recovery, spirituality, psychedelics, nervous-system healing and the difficult process of discovering who you are when everything you used to define yourself disappears.

His search for healing eventually took him beyond traditional recovery and into practices including meditation, Kundalini yoga and psychedelic experiences. Mark describes one experience with ayahuasca as giving him a profound feeling of joy and freedom from the judgment and constant thinking that had followed him for much of his life.

He then began exploring practices that he says helped him understand his mind, regulate himself and rebuild his relationship with his own thoughts.

But this conversation isn't really about alcohol.

It's about identity.

Who are you when the career disappears?

Mark's story is proof that sometimes the greatest PIVOT of your life isn't becoming someone new.

It's finally discovering who you were underneath everything else.

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What part of yourself would you discover if everything you thought defined you disappeared?

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What if you stopped asking, “Am I qualified?” and started asking, “How can I learn?”

Jess Furman has reinvented herself again and again—from singer-songwriter to producer, Billboard-recognized music executive, Emmy-nominated creative, entrepreneur and Web3 innovator.

In this episode of The PIVOT Show, Jess sits down with Cristina Dam to reveal how curiosity became the force behind an extraordinary career of constant reinvention.

Jess shares how a difficult childhood led her toward music, how she pursued her dream even when her parents wanted a different path, and what happened when promising record deals repeatedly disappeared.

Eventually, she got tired of letting other people control her future.

So she moved to Los Angeles, taught herself how to record and produce, and created an entirely new career.

Years later, she did it again.

Jess entered the world of blockchain knowing virtually nothing about it. Instead of deciding she wasn't qualified, she immersed herself, found communities, took courses, entered hackathons—and began building in a completely new industry.

Her story is a powerful reminder that you don't have to stay who you've always been just because other people understand that version of you.

Sometimes your next PIVOT begins with curiosity.

You don't have to know everything before you begin. You just have to be willing to learn.

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What would you try if you stopped believing you had to already be an expert?

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What if everything you were chasing suddenly stopped mattering?

Anthony Samadani built a successful career as an attorney before making an unlikely PIVOT into Hollywood as a television and film producer. But it was a frightening health crisis—and the experiences that followed—that forced him to question what success actually means.

In this powerful episode of The PIVOT Show, Anthony sits down with Cristina Dam to talk about going from attorney to producer, facing his own mortality, volunteering with people in hospice, and discovering something most of us spend our lives believing we have more of:

Time.

His experiences changed the way he looked at ambition, purpose and the way we spend our lives. Anthony began asking a profound question: if time is the one currency we can never earn back, what are we actually spending it on?

That philosophy ultimately became part of Anthony's concept of The Good Currency—using your time, talents and resources in ways that create good in your own life and in the lives of others.

Today, Anthony brings that mission to Good News Network, helping amplify stories that remind us there is still extraordinary good happening in the world.

This conversation is about mortality, purpose, success, service, reinvention and learning to stop living with one foot in and one foot out.

Because someday isn't guaranteed.

If your time is your most valuable currency… what are you spending yours on?

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If you knew exactly how much time you had left, would you spend today differently?

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Nick Yarris spent 22 years on Death Row for a murder he did not commit. Then DNA evidence finally proved his innocence.

In this extraordinary episode of The PIVOT Show, Nick sits down with Cristina Dam to reveal what it took to survive more than two decades facing death—and what happened when he finally walked free.

Nick shares the unbelievable story of his wrongful conviction, escaping custody and ultimately turning himself back in, the words from his mother that helped keep him alive, and the painful reality of rebuilding a life after prison.

But this conversation goes far beyond Death Row.

It's about forgiveness, resilience, self-love, freedom and choosing who you become after the worst thing imaginable happens to you.

Today, Nick's remarkable life has inspired books, the acclaimed documentary The Fear of 13, and a stage production of his story.

If a man can lose 22 years of his life and still choose love over bitterness, what could you choose to let go of today?

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