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Find Your Light with Adam MacLean

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by Adam MacLean

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Welcome to Find Your Light with Adam MacLean - a show where we shine a light on shame and imagine a Post Shame world. In Act One we’ll meet a Post Shame warrior - someone who we think is up to something special and has a tool to help teach us to dismantle shame. Then in Act Two we’ll play a little game of arm chair quarterback by re-examining someone’s public shaming through the lens of Post Shame. If they had had access to this tool before their downfall, do we think they could have come out of it a better leader and helped others struggling with something similar? We'll see!

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May 12, 2026

Blockety Block with Madison Utendahl

Today's guest, <a href="https://www.madisonutendahl.com/about" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Madison Utendahl</a>, is a two-time Webby Award-winning creative director, writer, and brand strategist. She's the founder of Utendahl Creative — the Black-owned, all-female agency behind iconic brand identities for Law Roach, Lena Dunham, John Legend, Scarlett Johansson, and more — and now runs <a href="https://www.madisonutendahl.com/utendahl-consulting" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Utendahl Consulting</a>, a solo practice working directly with founders. She was on the founding creative teams of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Refinery29's 29Rooms, and Museum of Ice Cream. Her latest venture is her <a href="https://burntbyuc.substack.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">BURNT Substack</a> — not just a burnout prevention guide, but the lens through which she critiques culture.I'm so grateful she was willing to come on the show. We're friends in real life, and I basically asked her to take the conversations we have in private and shine some light on them — peak Find Your Light style.The centerpiece of this episode is <a href="https://burntbyuc.substack.com/p/the-vulnerability-trap-did-a-2010" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Madison's reconsideration</a> of Brené Brown's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">2010 TED talk on vulnerability</a>; the one that quietly shaped how an entire generation of millennial women approached work. After Madison wrote about it on BURNT, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWT1gDsCa3r/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Brené Brown commented on her Instagram post</a>. And then chaos ensued — racist commentary and attacks on Madison from people eager to defend Brené, stung by the fact that she'd hit a nerve.But Madison is not on a revenge tour. Our conversation is about re-examination: the way people become figureheads for ideas, our shared love of excellent apologies, the reason Madison is unlikely to get one, and the way Brené has responded more like a Boomer than the Gen X-er she actually is. We also get into the ways my own celebrity empathy has been getting in the way of recognizing privilege. We're also both a little obsessed with Lulu Garcia-Navarro and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/arts/television/michael-jackson-leaving-neverland.html" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Wesley Morris</a> over at the NYT. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t6-npk5_9U" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Lulu's interview with Brené</a> gave us a window into exactly what we're unpacking in this episode — and Wesley's cultural criticism has been a throughline in how both Madison and I have been thinking about all of it. If you're not reading or listening to either of them, fix that immediately.We also cover why Madison has the humor of a teenage boy, her deep thoughts on the (jokingly titled) <a href="https://www.bu.edu/rbfl/2023/05/17/30-under-30-pipeline-to-prison/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Forbes 30 Under 30</a> "<a href="https://gizmodo.com/yet-another-30-under-30-nominee-could-be-headed-to-prison-2000750475" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">prison pipeline</a>," why Boomers are the last generation that genuinely trusts media and what that says about everyone who came after them — and why Madison is unironically, wholeheartedly in love with Gen Z.

March 30, 2026

Like Gandhi Says... with Coach Kevin Martin

Coach Kevin Martin is a prolific content creator, shame dissolver and Post Shame warrior. He uses adult content as part of his coaching practice, primarily with gay men. He's a coach in every sense of the word: in real life, and in a committed internet-character kind of way, too.I like to say that shame cannot survive in my presence and Kevin is the same way.In this conversation, I make the joke that — like Gandhi says — "Make the porn you want to see in the world." A riff, of course, on "Be the change you want to see in the world." But while researching the links for this episode <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zmvwwnb">I found out Gandhi never actually said “Be the change you want to see in the world.”</a> That’s a kind of distillation of this real quote: "We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.”And I love this — because that's exactly what Post Shame and Kevin are up to. Helping people move through the shame that's stuck in their bodies. Because like Gandhi actually says: we but mirror the world. As we dissolve our own shame… we help heal it in others.And if you’re curious about what I’m referencing with Björk - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5LiHj2UGgA">“Don’t let poets lie to you." </a>You can Find Kevin on his <a href="https://www.coachkevmartin.com">website</a>, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/coachkevmartin.bsky.social">Bluesky</a>, <a href="https://onlyfans.com/coachkevmartin">Onlyfans</a> and JustFor.Fans as Coach Kev Martin. Find Your Light is made by the coolest #peepadoodles:Our brand design is by <a href="https://www.vetabates.com/">⁠@ladolceveta⁠</a> & <a href="https://www.instagram.com/salonisoni/">⁠@salonisoni⁠</a>Our new social media manager is <a href="https://www.instagram.com/colin.r.knapp/">⁠@colin.r.knapp⁠</a>Our theme music composer and show editor is <a href="https://zachwachteraudio.com/">⁠@zachwachter⁠</a>You can follow Adam <a href="https://www.instagram.com/adammacattack/">⁠@adammacattck⁠</a> & <a href="https://www.instagram.com/postshame/">⁠@postshame⁠</a>Until next time, no matter how you’re feeling - down, up or sideways, just look for some light, turn towards the light. Feel it on your face, that’s how you know you’re doing it right, turn towards the light and find your light. Get it get it get it.

March 23, 2026

Love Beyond Monogamy with Brian Murphy

Season 3, Episode 4 — Brian Murphy is a theologian, coach, and co-host of the Queer Theology Podcast. His new book, Love Beyond Monogamy, isn't a how-to manual — it's a meditation on life itself. You're going to hear the excitement in my voice during this conversation, because Brian helps me realize his own premise: that polyamory, at its core, is an exercise in cultivating awe and wonder in your life. That's the energy that guides everything here.Brian builds a world that feels big and generous: best friends, husbands, lovers, self-inquiry, and faith all woven together. What the book taught me is that life is lived in relationships — and that you're allowed to keep exploring yourself, your relationship, your desires. Even while married. Brian's the kind of person you can meander with — no shame, no rigidity — just exploration for exploration's sake. Abundance mindset at its best.Both Jewish and Christian traditions show up in our conversation — offered like an à la carte menu. Not dogmatic. Just invitations. Pick what resonates.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx-tLdA31CM" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">We also get into sacred texts — and Brian gives me the most gorgeous tee-up to talk about Queer as Folk</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethical_Slut" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">, The Ethical Slut</a>, and Star Trek's vision of utopia as texts that have genuinely guided people in how they love. Maybe Love Beyond Monogamy will join that list.Brian also offers some beautiful, practical wisdom: slutty hospitality, and using prayers of thanks — for friends and for hookups alike — as a grounding practice for building the life you actually want.This conversation made me deeply consider how all relationships end — either by breakup or by death — and somehow that realization made me less afraid. Less afraid of prenups. Less afraid of jealousy. Less afraid, period.Love Beyond Monogamy is out now. You can connect with Brian for coaching at <a href="http://briangerald.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">BrianGerald.com</a> and find him on Instagram at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thisisbgm" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@thisisbgm</a>.Listen to the <a href="https://www.queertheology.com/podcast/597/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Queer Theology Podcast</a> and get the book <a href="https://www.briangerald.com/book/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">here</a>! Find Your Light is made by the coolest #peepadoodles:Our brand design is by <a href="https://www.vetabates.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠@ladolceveta⁠</a> & <a href="https://www.instagram.com/salonisoni/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠@salonisoni⁠</a>Our new social media manager is <a href="https://www.instagram.com/colin.r.knapp/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠@colin.r.knapp⁠</a>Our theme music composer and show editor is <a href="https://zachwachteraudio.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠@zachwachter⁠</a>You can follow Adam <a href="https://www.instagram.com/adammacattack/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠@adammacattck⁠</a> & <a href="https://www.instagram.com/postshame/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠@postshame⁠</a>Until next time, no matter how you’re feeling - down, up or sideways - just look for some light, turn towards the light. Feel it on your face, that’s how you know you’re doing it right. Turn towards the light and find your light. Get it get it get it.

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What is Find Your Light with Adam MacLean?: Welcome to Find Your Light with Adam MacLean - a show where we shine a light on shame and imagine a Post Shame world.

In Act One we’ll meet a Post Shame warrior - someone who we think is up to something special and has a tool to help teach us to dismantle shame.

Then in Act Two we’ll play a little game of arm chair quarterback by re-examining someone’s public shaming through the lens of Post Shame.

If they had had access to this tool before their downfall, do we think they could have come out of it a better leader and helped others struggling with something similar? We'll see!
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates weekly.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 8 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.

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