The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and After
The Life Shift shares real and honest conversations about the moments that change us. Host Matt Gilhooly sits with guests as they tell true stories of life-changing events, unexpected challenges, and quiet awakenings that shaped who they are today.Each episode offers meaningful and candid storytelling about grief, healing, resilience, identity, and growth. These are the personal stories that remind us what it feels like to be human. These are the turning points that stay with us.If you are drawn...
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What He Heard: Six Words That Moved Him Across the World
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Midlife: The Night He Asked If He Would Fold
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Blissful Ignorance: The Character Who Saved His Life
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Cancer: The Diagnosis That Stopped the Reinventing
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Devotion: Writing Someone Else's Story to Find Your Own
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147 Days: Raising and Losing My Sister
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Rock Bottom: Where the Most Fulfilling Life Began
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Starting Over: You Can Lose Everything and Still Be Okay
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Anger: The Drink I Never Stopped Drinking
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Surrender: The Wave That Changed Everything
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Reclamation: Coming Back To The Girl Who Got Shut Down
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Choosing the Harder Door: From Childhood Shame to Federal Prison
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Comfort: When Cozy Becomes a Cage
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Fatherhood: The Fifteen Minutes That Changed Everything
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Illness: When the Hard Thing Sets You Free
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Identity: More Than the Thing You're Known For
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Self-Worth: The Life She Fought For
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The Cost of Quiet: Learning to Speak Up After Years of Silence
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Introducing Trivia, Sort Of: A New Spinoff Show
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Writing Your Own Story: When the Fire Reveals What Matters
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Identity: The Job That Wasn't the Whole Story
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Adoption: The Brothers He Never Knew He Needed
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Adoption: The Chapter You Thought Was Finished
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Survival as a Calling: The Boy Who Decided to Get Up
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Survival Into Service: The Night a Dog Changed Everything
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The Hero's Journey: Finding Yourself in the Story You Already Lived
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Start Here: What Is The Life Shift?
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Resilience After Amputation: Rebuilding Life From the Ground Up
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Lemon-Sized Brain Tumor: The Life That Grew After Surgery
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How Misha Brown Got Sober and Learned to Be His Own Best Friend
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Under the Surface: The Shark Attack That Taught Tim Thomas to Trust
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What Happened to You: Breaking the Cycle Sixty Years in the Making
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What Survives: A Story About Loss, Resilience, and Inner Friendship
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Grief and Fatherhood: The Song That Changed Everything
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Honesty Over Comfort: The Confession That Changed Everything
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Grief, Ancestors & Cuba: Finding Your Mother Again
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Living With MS: Finding Strength From the Inside Out
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Part of Me Died That Day: Learning to Live After the Worst Day of Your Life
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Coma at 14: Learning to Walk, Talk, and Trust Yourself Again
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Control: What the NICU Took and What It Gave Back
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Addiction and Recovery: When the Hero Asks for Help
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Identity: What a Stroke Couldn't Take
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Family Secrets: When the Truth You Always Sensed Finally Has a Name
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Mental Health: Learning to Live on the Other Side of Breaking
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Domestic Violence: Breaking the Silence Men Are Taught Not to Break
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Existing vs. Living: A Mother's Journey Back to the World
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Unsaid: The Stories That Disappear Before We Think to Ask
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Grief: Learning to Stay Open When Everything Hurts
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The Small Moments That Quietly Change Your Life
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Grief: Making Something Beautiful From What Broke
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