Fill To Capacity (Where Heart, Grit and Irreverent Humor Collide)

About Fill To Capacity (Where Heart, Grit and Irreverent Humor Collide)

Podcast for people too stubborn to quit and too creative not to make a difference!Join visual artist Pat Benincasa in conversation with a riveting roster of guests to uncover extraordinary stories of everyday people. Listen as they share their quirky wisdom, unlikely adventures, and poignant life lessons! Fasten your emotional seatbelt for this journey of heart, humor and grit!

Publisher

Pat Benincasa

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Apr 2021

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

157 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Under Our Feet-Faults, Quakes & Ancient Forces

   Send us Fan Mail 🌎Minnesota doesn't do earthquakes. Right? Think again. 👀 Beneath the snow, the lakes, and the sleepy farm fields, the ground holds secrets—ancient ones. And every so often, it lets us know it's there. Dr. Aaron Hirsch of the Minnesota Geological Survey reads the ground the way most of us read a book. He takes us down through the dirt, past the glaciers, and into rock billions of years old. What's that boom💥 on the coldest January night? What would we find if we pulled the plu...

2. 

   1 Oct 2026

   I Didn't Pack A Bag

   Send us Fan Mail What we lose. 🍂 What we keep.✨ A short episode about the difference — and how it shows us who we are.💗 Please Note: The views expressed by our guests do not necessarily reflect the views of the podcaster. Follow me on Instagram!

3. 

   23 Sept 2026

   In the Space Between Cultures

   Send us Fan Mail What happens when you spend a lifetime moving between worlds—never entirely leaving one behind, never quite belonging to just one? Nancy Xiong is a first-generation Hmong American, daughter of war refugees from Laos, whose life has taken her from northern Wisconsin to Japan, the East Coast, India, and back to Minnesota. Along the way, the seemingly unrelated pieces of her life began doing something unexpected: they started connecting. Culture. Identity. Survival. Service. Sou...

Who has been a guest on Fill To Capacity (Where Heart, Grit and Irreverent Humor Collide)

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Caroline “Siffy” Torkildson
• Brittany Colt
• Kristianne Schultz
• Joan Vorderbruggen

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

85,679

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

56

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

68