At the Brink with Erica Brinker
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Podcast Overview
<p>At the Brink is a podcast about the inflection points that define a life and career. The pivots no one saw coming. The decisions made under pressure. The stories people rarely tell out loud.</p><br><p>Each episode is a conversation with a leader, founder, artist, parent or advocate who has lived through a moment that changed everything — and chose to talk about what actually happened. Not because those stories are easy. Because they are real.</p><br><p>At the Brink explores reinvention, resilience and the defining moments that reshape who we become.</p><br><p>Hosted by Erica Brinker. This show began as something personal. When her son Luca died suddenly at four months old, everything reorganized. What she found in the years that followed was that the people who looked the most composed were often carrying the most. At the Brink exists because those conversations deserve a stage.</p><br><p>Business inquiries and guest bookings: <a href="mailto:hello@atthebrinkmedia.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">hello@atthebrinkmedia.com</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Recent Episodes
July 8, 2026
She Started from Zero in Three Countries. Then She Did It Again After Divorce. | Alexia Bertsatos
<p>Alexia Bertsatos left Greece at 18 with almost nothing. She studied architecture and interior design in London, pivoted to real estate during the 2008 crash, moved to Arizona for graduate school and met the man she would marry. She became a stay-at-home mom and spent nine years caught between guilt about not working and guilt about not being with her kids enough.</p><br><p>When the marriage ended, Alexia had no professional track record in the United States, two children under eight and a divorce she didn’t see coming. She had to figure out bills, careers and identity all at once. In this conversation, she talks about what starting over actually looks like when you’ve done it three times in three countries, why she chose not to be the victim of her own story and what her kids were watching the whole time.</p><br><p>Executive Producer: Sara Glassman</p><br><p><strong>Follow At the Brink: </strong>Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast</p><p><strong>Follow Alexia: </strong>Instagram @realestate.by.alexia | Website: alexiabertsatos.com</p><p>www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com</p><p>Here you go:</p><p>At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?</p><br><p>New episodes every Wednesday.</p><br><p>Website: <a href="http://www.atthebrinkmedia.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.atthebrinkmedia.com</a> </p><p>Email: <a href="mailto:hello@atthebrinkmedia.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">hello@atthebrinkmedia.com</a> </p><p>Instagram: @at.the.brink.media</p><br><p>Executive producer | Sara Glassman</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
July 1, 2026
Her Daughter Was 8. The Doctor Said Cancer. | Melody Orak
<p>On an ordinary afternoon in March 2022, Melody Orak got a phone call that split her life in two. Her eight-year-old daughter Elilai had a bone tumor. What the doctors said would be 12 rounds of chemotherapy became 28. Then 33 consecutive days of radiation. Then nine months of fighting a disease that still treats children with protocols developed in 1956.</p><br><p>In this episode, Melody sits down with Erica Brinker to talk about what it actually takes to hold everything together when your child’s life hangs in the balance: the impossible choices made for an eight-year-old, the moment she shaved her own head, the day Elilai’s body said it couldn’t take any more, and the bittersweet reality of remission three years later.</p><br><p>Plus: the hype song that gets Elilai through middle school, why scan anxiety is real, and a toast you won’t forget.</p><br><p>Executive producer: Sara Glassman</p><br><p><strong>Follow At the Brink: </strong>Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast</p><p>www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com</p><p>Here you go:</p><p>At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?</p><br><p>New episodes every Wednesday.</p><br><p>Website: <a href="http://www.atthebrinkmedia.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.atthebrinkmedia.com</a> </p><p>Email: <a href="mailto:hello@atthebrinkmedia.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">hello@atthebrinkmedia.com</a> </p><p>Instagram: @at.the.brink.media</p><br><p>Executive producer | Sara Glassman</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
June 24, 2026
She Got Sober, Got Divorced, Got Fired. Then Peloton Called. | Johanna Ricouz
<p>Most people know Johanna Ricouz as one of the newest Pilates instructors on Peloton, the one with the tattoos, the nails, the hip hop and the mouth. What they don’t know is what it took to get there.</p><br><p>Johanna grew up in New Jersey, trained as a classical ballet dancer at an all-Black school, started using drugs young, got married at 21, divorced at 25, got sober, worked three jobs (nightlife, modeling and teaching Pilates at $23 a class), got fired from the club, and then built a career in wellness that she never planned but couldn’t stop building.</p><br><p>In this conversation, Johanna talks about what her ballet teacher taught her about effort and excuses, the moment she realized she could just show up and be taken care of, teaching Pilates inside a women’s prison through the nonprofit 300 Letters, how Peloton DM’d her during the darkest stretch of her infertility journey, what it means to be a stepmom to a child she met at four, and why she told both Peloton and Lululemon upfront: this is who I am and none of it is going to change.</p><p>She also shares where she is in her IVF journey and the stigma around infertility in Black and brown communities, and closes with her signature toast: here’s to doing no harm and taking no shit.</p><br><p><strong>Follow At the Brink: </strong>Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast</p><p><strong>Follow Johanna: </strong>Instagram @junglejohanna | Peloton: Johanna Ricouz</p><br><p>Executive producer: Sara Glassman</p><p>www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com</p><p>Here you go:</p><p>At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?</p><br><p>New episodes every Wednesday.</p><br><p>Website: <a href="http://www.atthebrinkmedia.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.atthebrinkmedia.com</a> </p><p>Email: <a href="mailto:hello@atthebrinkmedia.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">hello@atthebrinkmedia.com</a> </p><p>Instagram: @at.the.brink.media</p><br><p>Executive producer | Sara Glassman</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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- What is At the Brink with Erica Brinker?
<p>At the Brink is a podcast about the inflection points that define a life and career. The pivots no one saw coming. The decisions made under pressure. The stories people rarely tell out loud.</p><br><p>Each episode is a conversation with a leader, founder, artist, parent or advocate who has lived through a moment that changed everything — and chose to talk about what actually happened. Not because those stories are easy. Because they are real.</p><br><p>At the Brink explores reinvention, resilience and the defining moments that reshape who we become.</p><br><p>Hosted by Erica Brinker. This show began as something personal. When her son Luca died suddenly at four months old, everything reorganized. What she found in the years that followed was that the people who looked the most composed were often carrying the most. At the Brink exists because those conversations deserve a stage.</p><br><p>Business inquiries and guest bookings: <a href="mailto:hello@atthebrinkmedia.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">hello@atthebrinkmedia.com</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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