How to Human is a brave and inclusive space where everyday people in our communities share honest, vulnerable stories to help us better understand ourselves and each other. Through these real experiences, we learn how to human—growing through our differences, connecting through shared emotions, and reimagining a more compassionate world together.
How to Human
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Podcast Overview
How to Human is a brave and inclusive space where everyday people in our communities share honest, vulnerable stories to help us better understand ourselves and each other. Through these real experiences, we learn how to human—growing through our differences, connecting through shared emotions, and reimagining a more compassionate world together.
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8/24/2025
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Recent Episodes
April 5, 2026
Five Years Sober: The Whisper That Changed My Life
<p>This week’s episode of <strong>How to Human</strong> is a little different.</p><p>Instead of me interviewing someone else, my partner Anne takes over the host seat and interviews me.</p><p>The reason? This week marks five years since I last drank alcohol or used cocaine.</p><p>In this conversation, I share more openly than I ever have on the podcast about my relationship with substances—how it began when I was a teenager, how it evolved through my twenties, and the quiet whisper that eventually told me something had to change.</p><p>We talk about the messy middle of getting sober:<br>the grief, the shame, the fear, and the courage it took to rebuild my life almost entirely from scratch.</p><p>I share what it looked like to leave relationships, move in with family, face my trauma, and slowly learn how to feel my emotions without numbing them.</p><p>But we also talk about what sobriety has given me:<br>love, curiosity, community, deeper connection, and a life I truly never imagined was possible.</p><p>If you’ve ever been sober curious, struggled with substances, or simply wondered what it means to come home to yourself, this conversation is for you.</p><p>Sobriety, for me, has been many things.<br>A gift.<br>A rebirth.<br>And ultimately, a journey home.</p>
March 29, 2026
Befriending Pain
<p>Pain has a way of demanding our attention.</p><p>In this solo episode, I share two recent experiences with physical pain—one involving a sudden stomach episode at work and another involving a stubborn back injury that completely disrupted my daily life.</p><p>What unfolded inside those moments wasn’t just physical discomfort. It was shame. Fear. Embarrassment. The urge to power through. The familiar pull toward coping strategies that numb or distract instead of helping.</p><p>And ultimately, it became an invitation to ask a deeper question:</p><p>What if pain is actually trying to help us?</p><p>As I navigated days of back pain that refused to go away, I began experimenting with something simple but surprisingly difficult—listening to it. Instead of fighting the sensation or trying to outthink it, I started paying attention to what the pain was asking for.</p><p>Slow down.<br>Rest.<br>Move differently.<br>Take care.</p><p>This episode explores what happens when we stop treating pain as the enemy and start treating it as information.</p><p>Along the way, I also reflect on how our personal relationship with pain mirrors something much larger—how we respond to discomfort individually, and how that response can echo in our relationships, our systems, and our collective struggles.</p><p>Because maybe one of the most human things we can learn is this:</p><p>What if pain isn't something to escape, but rather something to listen to? What would that change about our individual lives and the collective?</p><p></p>
March 15, 2026
Wrestling With Evil
<p>What do we really mean when we talk about evil?</p><p>In this episode of How to Human, I sit down again with Molly Gorney and Anne Skriba to explore one of the most uncomfortable—and deeply human—questions: what is evil, and where does it actually live?</p><p>Together we unpack the ways religion shaped our earliest understanding of sin, goodness, and hell, and how those beliefs have evolved through our own journeys of deconstruction, sobriety, healing, and lived experience.</p><p>We talk about harm, accountability, shame, and the systems that allow suffering to continue. We wrestle with the tension between believing humans are inherently good while also acknowledging the very real harm people cause. And we explore what it means to look honestly at our own shadow without losing our capacity for compassion.</p><p>This conversation isn’t about arriving at a clean answer. It’s about curiosity, humility, and the courage to sit with complexity.</p><p>Because maybe learning how to be human means recognizing that the capacity for both harm and healing lives in all of us.</p><p></p>
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