The Rebel Tribe

What does hope look like when you still don’t have answers?

In 1999, Sharon and Rick Reece’s son John disappeared while hiking in Hawaii over Thanksgiving. He was never found. Years later, they shared their experience in Aloha Is Forever: Finding Hope in the Midst of Despair.

Sharon joins me in The Author’s Chair to talk about the book, writing through grief, and living with questions that haven’t been answered. Faith is part of that story, along with the difficult work of finding a way forward while still loving and missing someone.

I wanted to know what it took to put those memories into words—and what she hopes sharing them might offer someone else who is hurting.

If you’ve ever wondered how hope and heartbreak can exist together, come join us for this conversation.

Learn more about Sharon and Rick’s book, Aloha Is Forever: Finding Hope in the Midst of Despair

What do aerospace engineering, poetry, and rock music have in common? More than you might think!

My guest, Mark Winters, is an aerospace engineer who picked up a guitar to surprise his wife on their anniversary. What started as one romantic gesture turned into an unexpected journey through songwriting, performing, and eventually becoming a full-time touring musician.

And that's only part of his story.

We talked about his grandmother Deane, who introduced him to poetry when he was a little boy, the surprising connections between science and creativity, and his philosophy of "Think Like a Proton."

But what really stuck with me was our conversation about giving ourselves permission to be beginners. Somewhere along the way, we adults get the idea that if we're not immediately good at something, we shouldn't bother.

Mark's story is a pretty good argument against that.

We also talked about finding joy, following curiosity, and discovering that something wonderful might still be waiting for you, regardless of your age.

This was such a fun conversation, and I think you'll enjoy meeting Mark.

What's something you've always wanted to learn or try, but haven't yet?

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We have access to more information than at any other time in history—but are we actually better informed?

In this After Hours conversation, I sit down with Kira Shishkin, founder of informed.now, to talk about the increasingly difficult job of separating signal from noise in a world of breaking-news alerts, social media, clickbait, misinformation, advertising, and endless demands on our attention.

We explore information overload, the economics of attention, media mindfulness, sensationalism, and what happens when platforms designed to inform us are also competing to keep us clicking.

Kira also shares why he created informed.now, a simple approach to staying informed without spending your morning scrolling through headlines. I've been using it myself, and one of the things that intrigued me was how quickly I can get a sense of what's happening without disappearing down the news rabbit hole.

But this conversation is bigger than any one app or news source.

It's about something increasingly valuable: your attention.

Who gets it? What deserves it? And how do we become genuinely informed without becoming completely overwhelmed?

Grab your coffee and join us for a conversation about information, discernment, attention—and learning to recognize the signal hiding inside all that noise.

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About After Hours:
After Hours is where we set aside the polished talking points and have the conversations that happen when curious people sit down over coffee and follow an idea wherever it leads.

Have you ever tried to follow all the advice in a self-help book and wondered who actually has time to do all of this?

I have. I even tried The Miracle Morning. It lasted about a week.

In this After Hours conversation, Monica Packer and I get into what she calls the “bro culture” of self-help—and why so much of the advice women are given about habits, productivity, and personal growth doesn't necessarily take into account the lives women are actually living.

Monica knows this territory well. She's a recovering perfectionist, the founder of About Progress, and the author of the newly released Sticky Habits. She even had the author of The Miracle Morning on her own podcast and challenged him about whether his system was really sustainable for women.

We talk about perfectionism, habits that work in real life, why women so often think they're the problem when they can't stick to someone else's system, and how we can keep growing without trying to force ourselves into a blueprint that was never designed for us in the first place.

This was one of those conversations where I could have kept talking for another hour.

If you've ever thought, “This sounds great, but who has time for all that?” you're going to enjoy this one.Get "Sticky Habits" NowAbout Progress With Monica PackerConnect with Monica on InstagramAbout Progress on YouTube

What does it really mean to take control of your financial future?

In this episode of The Rebel Tribe Podcast, I sit down with Ben Berry of Berry Financial Services to talk about financial independence, building wealth, and creating more choices with your money.

We talk about why so many people—especially women—feel intimidated by finances, why it's important to understand and participate in your own financial decisions, and how to start taking greater control even if you feel like you're behind.

Ben also shares his perspective on traditional financial advice, our dependence on Wall Street, alternative approaches to building and protecting wealth, and why financial freedom isn't just about how much money you have. It's about having options and being able to build your life on your own terms.

Whether you're building a business, thinking about retirement, starting over, or simply ready to become more intentional with your money, there's plenty to think about in this conversation.

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Have you ever looked around and wondered if you should be further along by now?

It's easy to measure our lives against someone else's timeline—their career, their business, their accomplishments, even the dreams they've already checked off their list. But your life was never supposed to follow someone else's map.

In this Mini Mindset Drop, I'm talking about giving yourself permission to own your unique path: the unexpected turns, the fresh starts, the lessons, the detours, and even the dreams you've outgrown.

Different doesn't mean wrong. Taking longer doesn't mean you've failed. And changing direction doesn't erase everything that came before.

Maybe you're not behind at all.

Maybe you're simply on a path that was never supposed to look like anyone else's.

🎧 Own Your Unique Path

What if the goal isn’t to conquer anxiety but to stop fighting yourself?

In this episode, I sit down with licensed professional counselor and Hello, Anxiety author Heidi Dennis for a refreshingly different conversation about anxiety and what happens when we stop trying to overpower our nervous systems and start learning to work WITH them.

We talk about anxiety, boundaries, time blocking, burnout, people-pleasing, and why traditional productivity advice doesn’t always work for everyone.

Heidi shares practical ways to understand what our nervous systems may be telling us, create boundaries that support us, and find ways of living and working that actually fit who we are.

If you’ve ever wondered why pushing harder isn’t working or felt like you should somehow be able to just “get over” anxiety, this conversation offers another way to look at it.

Heidi Dennis is the author of Hello, Anxiety and a licensed professional counselor. Get your copy here.

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People change. Relationships do too. The question is: how do you keep growing together when both of you are changing?

In this episode of the Unstuck series, I sit down with Ian Mychel of Helping the Heard for a very real conversation about the things we do that can quietly create distance between us.

We say “I’m fine” when we’re not. We assume we know what the other person is thinking. We avoid asking the question because we might not like the answer. And sometimes we create an entire story about what’s happening without ever checking to see if any of it is true.

We talk about why trying to be understood isn’t the same as trying to understand each other, why someone else’s feelings aren’t necessarily ours to fix, and what it means to take responsibility for our part without taking responsibility for everything.

Because growing together doesn’t mean staying the same.

It means learning how to keep meeting each other as the people you’re both becoming.

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Have you ever looked back over your life and wondered why you've changed directions so many times? What if you weren't changing course nearly as much as you thought? In this Mini Mindset Drop, I'm sharing an unexpected lesson I learned after revisiting fifteen years of my own work. Beneath the different jobs, projects, businesses, and dreams, I discovered one common thread that had been there all along.

✨ Sometimes the best way to discover your purpose isn't by looking ahead. It's by recognizing the pattern that's been quietly guiding you for years.

I thought I had spent the last 15 years constantly reinventing myself.

New businesses.
New books.
New podcasts.
New ideas.

But after spending eight hours digging through old folders on my computer, I realized something surprising.

I wasn't starting over.

Every project, every product, every new direction was simply another expression of the same purpose.

In this episode of You've Got Something to Say, I'm sharing what I discovered about purpose, finding your voice, and why the message you're meant to share may have been with you all along.

Maybe you're not starting over.

Maybe you're finally seeing the thread that's been connecting everything all this time.