A Contagious Smile Podcast
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A Contagious Smile Podcast
Stop surviving and start thriving. A Contagious Smile is a globally ranked podcast providing a safe haven for abuse survivors and special needs families navigating the journey of trauma recovery. Whether you are healing from domestic violence, narcissistic abuse, childhood trauma, or the daily chall...
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Five Packs Of Grits And A Side Of Reality
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A blood test can be louder than any argument, and we start there: Michael’s A1C comes back at a 9, and suddenly “I’ll deal with...
Friending: A Real-World Cure For Loneliness
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Loneliness doesn’t always look like sadness. Sometimes it looks like a full contact list, nonstop group chats, and a Friday nig...
The Man Behind the Badge joins us with special guest Eric Robinson
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A lot of people want the wild FBI stories. We wanted the part that lingers after the story ends, what the work does to your ner...
Coffee Beans, Misheard Words, And A Very Honest Marriage
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A Broadway-directing Hollywood powerhouse drops in, tells Michael he’s flat-out wrong about being “bad at podcasting,” and then...
Arim Arison Tells Michael about how great he is at Podcasting
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How Narcissistic Parents Lose Control When You Heal
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Some people don’t hate you because of what you did. They hate you because you healed, and now they can’t control you. Tonight w...
You Can Rebuild Safety With Small Daily Steps with Guest Joshua Hess
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Somebody can be sitting in an urgent care exam room with bruises, fear, and an abuser answering every question and still have n...
We Tried To Help His Dad And Uncovered A Nightmare
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He’s supposed to be “Dad” and he’s supposed to be safe. Then one phone call turns into months of ambulance rides, doctor appoin...
Teaching Responsibility Without Shame
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Responsibility sounds like a boring word until life makes it personal. We kick things off with a question we’ve all wrestled wi...
How A Couple Protects Joy From Outside Drama
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People love our chemistry and our laughter, but we don’t pretend life is perfect. We keep our home “drama trauma-free” by choic...
From A Scare To A Smile With Lessons On Health Love And Healing
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A Sunday lands us in the emergency room, and somehow it starts with a “gunshot wound” joke and ends with one of our most honest...
From Picture Books To Magazine Covers With A Survivor Advocate
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A lot can happen in one night at our house: a hurting back, a clean bedroom victory, a few laughs we didn’t plan on, and the ki...
What If Healing Is Control You Take Back
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The jokes land fast, but the truth lands harder. We pull back the curtain on how narcissism doesn’t end with parents—grandparen...
What Protects A Victim When Power Looks The Other Way
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A toga on the cover and a chiropractor who sends Michael flying might sound like pure chaos, but the laughter is only the doorw...
A Near-Miss At The Range Sparks A Candid Conversation About Parenting, Predators, And Protecting Kids
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A ricochet at the range, a Hello Kitty bandage, and a house full of laughter set the stage for a deeper conversation about how...
We Confront Sexualized Media, Unequal Pay, And Who Really Runs The House
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Inside Our Fight Against Abuse, Cover-Ups, And Silence
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What if a simple “I love you” could steady someone on their hardest day? We open our hearts and our home to talk about building...
Puppy Love And Tough Truths
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A mountain drive for “just one puppy” turns into two sleepy golden retrievers, a tour of a master blacksmith’s forge, and a sob...
Rising From The Ashes; Love, Knives, And Courage
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What if the loudest part of your healing is the quiet choice to keep going? We start with playful chaos—forgotten rolls, pajama...
A Hard Look At Consent, Courts, And Courage
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Start with a Valentine’s greeting, end with a fire in your chest. We open warm and then drive straight into the hard truths abo...
Rising Strong From Domestic Violence
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What if hope felt practical? We open with big news—a future celebrity co‑host, a magazine cover, and a wave of new faces in our...
Surviving Abuse, Exposing Cover-Ups, Rebuilding A Life
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A bruised face, a polite traffic stop, and a business card offering the abuser a job. That moment anchors a raw conversation ab...
Scent, Love, And Starting Over
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The laughter starts with old-school cologne and a running joke about who’s the “sapphire,” then takes a deliberate turn into wh...
We Share How Writing, Healing, And Community Keep Our Mission Alive
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Start with a laugh, stay for the lifelines. We open the door on a raw, hope-forward conversation about healing from narcissisti...
How Caregivers Cope When A Loved One Won’t Admit An Addiction
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Addiction, Love, And The Weight We Carry
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Two golden retrievers at our feet, a heavy topic on the table. We dive straight into addiction’s messy reality: the slow drift...
Inside The OR: Infection, Accountability, And Self-Advocacy
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My Husband, A Pee Hat, And A Plot Twist
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A bathroom mix-up in the ER shouldn’t become a masterclass in patient advocacy—but ours did. What starts as a comic detour with...
Protecting Your Peace From Narcissists
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Some nights turn into a tug-of-war between chaos and clarity. We start with the mess that hits after a loved one passes—address...
Welcoming Dad Home
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The night the house gets quieter, life gets louder. We open the door to Dad after he loses his wife and talk candidly about wha...
Smoke, Safety, And A Package On The Porch
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A quiet Thanksgiving gave way to a jarring delivery that raised a bigger question: what’s the line between personal freedom and...
Beyond The Limb And Beyond Labels: A Family’s Mission To Uplift Amputees And Special Needs Kids
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What if the most meaningful gift you give this year is your story? We’re opening our arms to two big projects fueled by real li...
How Muck Sticky Turns Grit Into Joy And Advocacy Into Action
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Some stories crack you open in the best way. This conversation with Muck Sticky blends raw honesty, laugh-out-loud moments, and...
Silence loses when truth finds a microphone
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Truth doesn’t whisper—it arrives with fire, humor, and a plan. We kick things off with a preview of our upcoming conversation w...
Jealousy, jokes, and the hard truths of narcissism—how one family turns chaos, grief, and healing into love, laughter, and boundaries
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Love, legacy, and the courage to prepare for the worst
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A single phone call flipped our week, our plans, and our priorities—and taught us how “having a will” can still leave a family...
When Your Truth Becomes Their Trigger
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Have you ever been silenced for speaking your truth? Join us for an intimate conversation about breaking through barriers and f...