The Truth Is with Kathryn Flaschner

By Kathryn Flaschner

The truth is something we all carry, but don’t always speak—or step into. The Truth Is explores what becomes possible when we do, with ourselves and with each other. Hosted by Kathryn Flaschner, it’s ... more

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June 11, 2026Jedidiah Jenkins: The Authority of Your Own Questions (Encore)
This episode first aired in December 2025. We're bringing it back because it's one that stays with you.
What if the clarity you’re looking for isn’t “out there” at all, but already inside you — waiting for the moment it comes into view?
In this conversation, NYT bestselling author and adventurer Jedidiah Jenkins sits down with us to talk about revelation, habituation, aging, and what it means to build a life you’re actually comfortable being yourself in.
Jed talks about how his books — from To Shake the Sleeping Self through Mother, Nature and now his upcoming fourth — trace the long arc of becoming, moving through the mother wound, his religious upbringing, and the early experiences that sharpened his curiosity. He shares why he sees revelation as the moment when previously collected pieces finally organize into clarity, and how trusting the authority of his own questions has guided his life and work.
We talk through:
Revelation vs. information — why most “aha” moments are old truths finally landing in the right order

Habituation and the hedonic treadmill — how we get used to everything, even the life we once wanted, and how Jed disrupts that pattern

How he now makes sense of the 30-year-old who biked from Oregon to Patagonia — and the life that opened because of it

How his first three books became a trilogy of healing the mother wound

Why living fully as yourself quietly liberates other people to do the same

His eight-week, no-phone sabbatical in rural Colorado during the election — and what surfaced when the noise stopped

Why he believes many of us are one sabbatical away from a breakthrough

Entering the “youngest old person” season of life and finding a beginner’s mindset again in midlife
We also talk about the truth of the moment — how naming what’s real as it arises becomes its own form of presence — and how Jed has had to rebuild his sense of truth from the inside out after growing up inside a religious system that defined it for him. He reflects on learning to trust the authority of his own questions, and why that practice continues to shape his life and his work.
And yes — we talk about the leaf.
The one Kathryn caught during a silent walk at Jed’s retreat, the one that never touched the ground. Jed wrote on it: What falls will feed the new. It becomes a quiet throughline for this conversation about clarity, courage, and letting what’s no longer true fall away so something more honest can grow.
More from Jedidiah Jenkins:
• Website — www.jedidiahjenkins.com
• Instagram — @jedidiahjenkins
• Substack — jedidiahjenkins.substack.com
• Forthcoming fourth book — out fall 2026 (fun sneak peek at the process mentioned in the episode)
Connect with The Truth Is:
🎥 Watch the full conversation on YouTube → @thetruthis_pod
📸 Follow on Instagram → @thetruthis_podcast
Credits
Hosted by Kathryn Flaschner
Edited by Dan Croll
Music by Will Savino
Visual Identity by Sarah Gainer & Jonathan Bush
Advised by Natalie Tulloch
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1h 22min
June 03, 2026Kate Boyer: If I Don't Go Now, I'm Never Gonna Go — On Stunt Work, Self-Trust, and Doing It Afraid
Kate Boyer is a Los Angeles-based stunt woman and actor who has built her career one leap at a time — literally. She grew up in Philadelphia with an explorer's mindset, found her way to martial arts young, and eventually packed everything into a Honda Civic and drove cross-country with a vision. What she found on the other side of that move became the foundation of a decade-plus career in film and television, doubling for actors and executing the kind of work that demands total trust in yourself and the people around you.
Kathryn has known Kate through their shared world as actors, and has watched up close what it looks like to build a self-led life in one of the most uncertain industries there is. This conversation is about the posture you have to take to do that — not waiting for the golden ticket, but deciding what the next move is and going. Kate is beginning to bring that practice to other artists, helping them find the clarity to do the same.
In this conversation:
Growing up in Philly and the explorer's mindset that never left

Discovering stunt work as an expression of art — and what it demands emotionally

The Honda Civic move to LA and learning to listen to your inner voice

Why fear is a muscle, not a wall

The feeling on the other side of doing something you were afraid to do

What it means to bring your truth into a room rather than perform what you think is wanted

Building toward work that serves other artists
Follow Kate: Instagram The Truth Is: Instagram | Video production and editing by Anton LaPlume. Music by Will Savino. Visual identity by Sarah Gainor and Jonathan Bush. Guidance and advising by Natalie Tulloch.
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55min
May 27, 2026Wilfredo Perdomo: Building a Business Is a Spiritual Experience — On Taking a Faithful Leap and Finding Your Destino
Wilfredo Perdomo is the founder of DESTINO, a wellness-focused hospitality and lifestyle concept he's building in the Catskills. As a Cuban-American raised by immigrant parents, his foundation is rooted in working hard, creating beauty with what you have, and making people feel genuinely welcomed. He spent eight years working with Drew Barrymore, most recently as president of Barrymore Brands — building products with heart and creating things people truly connect with. Now he's bringing all of that into something entirely his own: a micro-resort and retreat space centered around wellness, design, nature, and emotional reset. His mission is to make wellness feel accessible and less performative — to give people permission to pause.
Kathryn met Wilfredo during those brand-building years. This conversation is about what it looks like when you take everything you've learned and take a faithful leap into yourself — and what it costs, demands, and opens up when you do.
In this conversation:
The spiritual and emotional initiation of leaving a career to build something of your own

The ego humbling of building your brand in public

Divine action as a daily practice for navigating uncertainty

A breathwork realization about his mom that reframed everything

The Surrender Experiment and the balance between trust and showing up to do the work

What it means to stop deferring the life you actually want
Mentioned in this episode: The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer
Follow Wilfredo: Instagram DESTINO: Instagram Website
The Truth Is: Instagram YouTube
Video production and editing by Anton LaPlume. Music by Will Savino. Visual identity by Sarah Gainor and Jonathan Bush. Guidance and advising by Natalie Tulloch.
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1h 12min
May 20, 2026 Charlotte Jackson: Trust Falling With the Universe — On Dreaming Vaguely and Following Your Fun-tuition
Charlotte Jackson is a private chef, cofounder of CANDID, writer, coach, and host focused on helping people have better conversations with themselves and each other. She's also one of the original minds behind Reading Rhythms, the silent reading community that started on a rooftop in Williamsburg and caught the attention of the New York Times and the Today Show.
Charlotte is one of those people who wants to do all of it — and rather than questioning what to eliminate, she's letting it all coexist. A lot of us feel the limitations, and even the slow death, of the linear career path, and Charlotte is a living example of what's possible when you loosen your grip on that model we inherited. When you give yourself permission to experiment rather than arrive.
In this conversation: running two experiments at once, Internal Family Systems and the warring parts within us, why she's allergic to the word strategy, how to embrace your vague dreams and follow your Fun-tuition.
Mentioned in this episode: Run Two Experiments — the framework Charlotte references for navigating a career transition: one experiment for the thing you can't stop thinking about, one for the skill you can offer tomorrow.
Follow Charlotte: Instagram Substack
CANDID: Website Instagram
Reading Rhythms: Instagram
The Truth Is: Instagram YouTube Substack
Editing and video production by Anton La Plume. Music by Will Savino. Visual identity by Sarah Gainor and Jonathan Bush. Guidance and advising by Natalie Tulloch.
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1h 3min
May 15, 2026Kate Mueller: Nature Can Hold All of Our Differences — On Coffins, the Camino, and Awe
"I'm the last to know why I do things," Kate Mueller said to me during this interview. What an enticing revelation, especially as Kate and I looked back on the creative projects that have come through her, starting with a coffin she began building when she was 19, that sits in the middle of her living room at 35. She told me it is a good way to not watch too much Netflix. Not only has her coffin been with her as a reminder of our shared truth, but she's made friends through it, hosting coffin parties in LA where people gather to explore mortality over a glass of wine. Great way to skip some small talk!
In my experience, the exploration or the contemplation of our own mortality has a helpful side effect — it orients us back to our life. The nowness (whether you like it or not!) of it all. And her work also takes us there. Kate's large scale installations, including String of Light That Connects All Things, a series of steel sculptural forms placed along the Southern California shoreline at sunset, are designed not to be looked at but to draw your awareness to what's already there. We talk about her orientation towards the awe of the natural world, how she gathered her friends and family across political differences following the 2024 election for an installation on the beach, and what that experience opened up for her.
Kate's journey has been true to her from the beginning, and her life as an artist has been informed by her own pilgrimage for truth. From growing up homeschooled in a conservative and religious household, to being met by a nun at the train station in Romania to live in a monastery — where she hoped to find the clarity and courage to be honest with her family about her faith — to walking the Camino de Santiago alone in her early 20s, she found her foundational truth. A belief that people are good, that we are here to care for one another, and that anyone can mirror back to you a spark of the divine. And that nature has a way of holding us all.
This conversation will invite you to step into the awe that exists right here in this lifetime.
In this episode we talk about:
Building her own coffin at 19 — and what it's taught her about living

Hosting coffin parties in LA and what happens when you bring mortality into the room

Growing up homeschooled in a conservative religious household and knowing early her truth lied somewhere beyond it

What 500 miles alone in winter taught her about people

String of Light That Connects All Things and the Thanksgiving beach installation

Sitting inside a mirror chamber and stepping outside your own ego

Why she still believes people are largely good — and what convinced her

Success looks like a worn down pencil — and wishing notes washing back to shore
Links to Kate's Work:
Kate's Coffin (Feature in LA Times)
String of Light That Connects All Things
Upcoming Installation May 23rd Oxnard,CA
About Kate Mueller
Kate Mueller is a Los Angeles–based installation artist whose work feels like an invitation to step into another astral plane. Her large-scale sculptural forms shift perception, drawing viewers into a heightened state of awareness. Merging welding with transdisciplinary techniques, Mueller constructs immersive works that engage movement, scale, and presence, making participation central to the experience. Her sculptures are designed to be entered, circled, and encountered physically, drawing attention to the immediacy of the moment, the awe of the natural world, and the interconnectedness of all things.
CONNECT WITH KATE
KATE'S WEBSITE
KATE'S INSTAGRAM
CONNECT WITH THE TRUTH IS
Instagram: @thetruthispodcast
YouTube: @thetruthis_pod
Substack: Kathryn Flaschner
CREDITS
Hosted by Kathryn Flaschner
Production & Editing by Anton LaPlume
Music by Will Savino — wsavino.com
Visual Identity by Sarah Gainor & Jonathan Bush
Advised by Natalie Tulloch
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1h 15min
May 06, 2026Tazin Khan: Are You Doing This for Ego or Impact?
Tazin Khan is a cyber risk strategist, digital rights advocate, and the founder and CEO of Cyber Collective, a nonprofit dedicated to making digital safety education accessible, human, and community rooted. Her work is driven by a simple but urgent belief: everybody deserves to experience the internet without harm.
That belief didn't come from a boardroom. It came from growing up Bengali in post-9/11 Virginia as one of the only Muslim families for miles. From translating immigration documents in fourth grade. From living in and out of her car at nineteen while working three jobs and meeting a stranger who she emailed every month until she got hired. From watching her father get scammed on Facebook and realizing the gap between what the industry knows and what the people most at risk are ever taught.
Tazin has spent over 13 years in cybersecurity — across Fortune 10 companies, government agencies, and grassroots organizing — and what she's built with Cyber Collective is something the industry was never going to build for itself. A community-rooted, feminine-designed organization that meets people where they are and asks the questions the sector would rather not answer.
This conversation goes deep into all of it.
We talk about:
Growing up bicultural and what it taught her about empathy, translation, and pushing back

The Michael Kors moment that changed the direction of her life

What she learned — and what she couldn't unsee — in corporate cybersecurity

Why the internet's harms are not the user's fault and what accountability actually looks like

Building Cyber Collective: the vision, the near-burnout, and what's coming

Feminine design principles and what it looks like to run an org aligned to your body and your values

The question she asks herself constantly: am I doing this for ego or for impact

What proximity to power does to you and how she stays honest about it

Why to get far, sometimes you have to stop
What stayed with me after this conversation is that Tazin is doing exactly what this show believes is possible: taking the most personal work and turning it outward. Her story is her methodology. And her methodology is changing what the internet is allowed to do to the people it was never designed to protect.

ABOUT TAZIN KHAN
Tazin Khan is the founder and CEO of Cyber Collective, a nonprofit making digital safety education accessible, human, and community rooted. With over 13 years of experience spanning Fortune 10 companies, government agencies, and grassroots organizing, her work has reached more than 5.5 million people globally. She holds a master's from NYU and has been featured in Forbes, Harper's Bazaar, People Magazine, and on CNN.
Tazin on Instagram | Cyber Collective

CONNECT WITH THE TRUTH IS
Instagram: @thetruthispodcast
YouTube: @thetruthis_pod
Substack: Kathryn Flaschner

CREDITS
Hosted by Kathryn Flaschner
Production & Editing by Anton LaPlume
Music by Will Savino — wsavino.com
Visual Identity by Sarah Gainor & Jonathan Bush
Advised by Natalie Tulloch
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1h 7min
April 29, 2026Corey Thibodeau: When You Stop Forcing It
Corey Thibodeau is the co-founder of West Side Yoga — three studios in Providence, Rhode Island that have become something rarer than a successful small business. A place where people find each other, and sometimes, finally find themselves.
She will not dress it up for you. What it actually takes to build something real while straddling a corporate career. What it feels like to give a decade of yourself to a company and have it end the way it ended. What patience and trust — not hustle, not forcing — actually produce when you finally give them room. And what it means to build something so rooted in a community that the community starts to heal because of it.
That is what this conversation is. The honest version of a story a lot of people are living but not saying out loud.
We talk about:
Running a half marathon ten years after swearing off running — and why this time felt nothing like suffering

Building West Side from a single studio to three locations, a teacher training program, and a waitlist

A decade of doing both — and what that duality actually costs

The truth of what it feels like to be laid off after ten years — and the honest reckoning with never having left on her own

Her husband Joe — business partner, balance, and the person who nudged her toward a half marathon at 1am in November

Santosha — contentment — and how hard it is to live a practice you teach

The third space that sat empty for months, and what shifted when she finally said yes

What happens when you stop forcing and start trusting — and what that produced

The impact of building something truly local, truly communal — and why that might be exactly what the world needs right now
ABOUT COREY THIBODEAU
Corey Thibodeau is the co-founder of West Side Yoga, a studio community with three locations in Providence, Rhode Island, which she runs alongside her husband Joe Thibodeau. She has been teaching yoga since 2015.
Corey on Instagram
West Side Yoga on Instagram
West Side Yoga Website

CONNECT WITH THE TRUTH IS
Instagram: @thetruthispodcast
YouTube: @thetruthis_pod
Substack: Kathryn Flaschner

CREDITS
Hosted by Kathryn Flaschner
Production & Editing by Anton LaPlume
Music by Will Savino — wsavino.com
Visual Identity by Sarah Gainor & Jonathan Bush
Advised by Natalie Tulloch

Topics: women and work, reinvention, building a business, yoga, community, corporate to entrepreneurship, trusting yourself, identity, truth
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1h 7min
April 23, 2026 Spring Space
This week, I'm taking a little space — and I want to offer you the same.
A year into leaving the corporate world to build something new, I caught myself in a familiar pattern: the same nonstop hustle I thought I'd left behind. This episode is a small pause to name that, sit with it, and try something a little different.
I share where my obsession with truth actually began — a foundational acting exercise called Meisner repetition, where the whole practice is just speaking the felt sense of what's true in the moment. And then I offer a visual I've carried since 2019: a straight line and a squiggle. One is alignment. One is being human.
This episode ends with a short guided meditation — whether you're sitting, walking, driving, or somewhere in between — just a few minutes to come back to yourself and notice what's true right now.
Consider it spring space.
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27min
April 15, 2026Wade Brill: We Have One Mind, One Body, One Life
Wade Brill woke up the Monday we recorded this episode, got a last-minute cancellation, and found herself with unexpected open space in her morning. She didn’t fill it. She went for a walk. That choice — to meet the open space instead of immediately closing it — is the whole philosophy. It sounds simple. It isn’t. She’s been practicing it for a long time.
Wade Brill is a mindfulness coach, meditation teacher, certified professional coach, and author of 100 Mindful Moments — a book ten years in the making that she finally published almost a year ago. She trained through UCLA and works with clients to strengthen their mindfulness muscles, gain awareness of what’s meaningful to them, and make more intentional choices from the inside out.
In this conversation, Wade takes us into the rupture that changed everything: a cancer diagnosis at 21 while studying abroad in Buenos Aires, and the sudden loss of her mother two months into chemotherapy. It was in that impossible convergence that she found meditation — not as a wellness practice, but as access to herself, and to her life. What emerged was a life philosophy rooted in body intelligence, self-trust, and the radical choice to actually live rather than just get through it.
We talk about hurry sickness and why American culture trains us to equate speed with worth, the difference between living from your head versus your body, what it means to have a strong constitution, and why self-trust is the antidote to anxiety.

In This Episode:
Why mindful living is consistently hard even for those who teach it

The decade-long internal battle to publish her book — and what finally shifted

Negativity bias, proof in the pudding, and why sharing her work is a marathon not a sprint

COVID’s lasting impact on loneliness and connection — and what the statistics actually show

How her cancer diagnosis at 21 and her mother’s sudden death became the foundation of her life’s work

Why the body holds more wisdom than the mind

What meditation gave her access to in the middle of a shit storm

The concept of “constitution” — and the mountain within

Equanimity as nervous system regulation

The overwhelm archetypes quiz — Kathryn is a Spinner, Wade is a Controller

Hurry sickness: why we speed up even when we don’t need to

Practicing the pause: a tool you can use anywhere, anytime

The centered walk as a mindfulness practice

Self-trust as the antidote to anxiety

Connect with Wade
Wade’s book: 100 Mindful Moments
Wade’s overwhelm archetype quiz: WadeBrill.com/quiz
Wade’s website: WadeBrill.com
Wade on Instagram: @OneWade
Wade’s podcast: Centered in the City

Connect with The Truth Is
Instagram: @thetruthispodcast
YouTube: @thetruthis_pod
Substack: Kathryn Flaschner

Credits
Hosted by Kathryn Flaschner
Production & Editing by Anton LaPlume
Music by Will Savino — wsavino.com
Visual Identity by Sarah Gainor & Jonathan Bush
Advised by Natalie Tulloch
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1h 5min
April 08, 2026In Defense of Your Human Brain: Solo Reflections on AI, Creative Voice, and Getting Your Reps In
After a month of conversations with Esosa Osa, Asma Khan, Franziska Gonder, and Stacey Lindsay, Kathryn steps back to name what she's learning and living through: the humility of being a year into a major career transition, the gap between taste and execution that every creative has to sit inside, and the growing pressure to outsource her own thinking in an age when that's never been easier to do.
She talks about runway — real, financial runway — and the parts of this transition that don't make it into the highlight reel. She shares Ira Glass's concept of the taste/execution gap and why the only answer is more reps. And she brings it all back to a single question she's refusing to stop asking: what do I actually want to create?
In this episode:
One year since leaving her last job — what that anniversary actually feels like, and the context she thinks is missing from most "I made the leap" stories

The Ira Glass taste vs. execution gap, and why comparing yourself to someone with a thousand reps when you have twenty is both humbling and human

Brené Brown's arena metaphor — and Kathryn's honest reckoning with the times she's been in the cheap seats

AI as temptation to "optimize": the HBR finding that AI doesn't reduce work, it intensifies it — and what that's looked like inside a team of one

What her acting teacher said about voice — and what it clarified about why she's making this at all
Episodes referenced in this episode: Episodes linked to YouTube — also available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Esosa Osa — Who Tells Your Story Decides Your Future

Asma Khan — I Came Out Glistening Like Gold

Franziska Gonder — Leadership That Heals The World

Stacey Lindsay — This Life, Your Life, Belongs To You

Jiore Craig — Dark Hope & the Work of World-Building

Jedidiah Jenkins — The Authority of Your Own Questions

John Markland — The Truth Beneath the Identities We Build
Referenced in this episode:
Tristan Harris on Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Ira Glass on Ability vs Taste

AI Doesn't Reduce Work, It Intensifies It — Harvard Business Review

Resignation letter from Mrinank Sharma, Anthropic

The AI Doc

Connect with The Truth Is
Instagram: @thetruthispodcast
YouTube: @thetruthis_pod
Substack: Kathryn Flaschner

CREDITS
Hosted by Kathryn Flaschner
Production & Editing by Anton LaPlume
Music by Will Savino — wsavino.com
Visual Identity by Sarah Gainor & Jonathan Bush
Advised by Natalie Tulloch
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42min

FAQs about The Truth Is with Kathryn Flaschner:

How many episodes does The Truth Is with Kathryn Flaschner have?

The podcast currently has 53 episodes available.