The StateChange Podcast

Middlebury College students Mars Etgu, Rob Ambat & Gray Groseclose reflect on the very interrupted & changed experience they have had as high school & college students in a post-COVID world, and their urgent concerns about young adult mental health and the lack of meaningful resources & supports on college campuses to address the growing crisis they see.

Three-time cancer survivor & clinical nutrition scholar Deb Kennedy was told she had 2 weeks to live at 26 years old, but has defied the odds for 3 decades. She reflects on how her intuition led her to go against medical advice and decline chemotherapy, instead pursuing integrative approaches that ultimately saved her life.

Vermont State Senator Becca White details how her longtime struggles with perfectionism & alcohol abuse came to a head during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, threatening her marriage and her career as a public servant, and how she met that moment with the courage, community & transparency that is the center of her recovery.

Youth worker & single dad Marlon Fisher recounts his experience as a young soldier in Afghanistan during the US surge, how he came to heal his lingering traumatic stress & grief through the art of public storytelling, and how this led him to pursue his passion for stand-up comedy.

In Episode 1, The StateChange Podcast host, psychotherapist & neuroscience consultant Shauna Hill shares her multi-year journey through a "one-in-a-million" cancer, skull tumor & neurosurgery that left her with a very changed brain, body and future in 2016, as a single mom of young twins.   

 In Episode 1, The StateChange Podcast host, psychotherapist & neuroscience consultant Shauna Hill shares her multi-year journey through a "one-in-a-million" cancer, skull tumor & neurosurgery that left her with a very changed brain, body and future in 2016, as a single mom of young twins.  

Stories of extraordinary human resilience & transformation, through life's most painful, unexpected & harrowing left turns. 

Hosted by Shauna Hill. 

Episode 1 launches October 11, 2023.