Love, Loss & Hallucinations with Scott Schumaker

About Love, Loss & Hallucinations with Scott Schumaker

Welcome to Love, Loss and Hallucinations with Scott Schumaker — a podcast where we start with those three themes and see where the conversation takes us. This podcast is about the beauty and pain of being human, a podcast about finding strength and connection in vulnerability, a podcast to amplify the voices of those who have been through the ringer of life and have wisdom to share, and a podcast about the healing, evolution, and transformation that can happen when you’re willing to lean into the uncomfortable and the unknown. I’ll be talking with therapists, coaches, world-class athletes, writers, musicians, artists, shamans, plant medicine guides, and everyday who’ve been touched by incredible moments of love, shattered by loss, or altered by the extraordinary. If you’ve ever felt like your heart was going to explode from either love or loss; if you’re wanting deeper connection in this increasingly lonely world; if you’re curious about plant medicine, or you’ve experienced an out-of-the-ordinary vision...then you’ll feel at home here.

Publisher

Scott Schumaker

Category

education · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

29 Jul 2025

Latest episode

26 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

41 of 60 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   26 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Pain, Beauty, Divinity and Ultramarathon Running with Travis Helms (ep58)

   Host Scott Schumaker interviews Episcopal priest, poet, and ultrarunner Travis Helms about finding divinity and beauty in extreme endurance and embracing the transformative power of pain.

2. 

   19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Heather A. Lee on Aging, Saging and Psychedelics (ep57)

   Psychedelic psychotherapist Heather A. Lee and host Scott Schumaker explore how plant medicine and traditional therapy heal aging women navigating loss and transformation.

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   5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Jayson Gaddis: Creating Deep & Resilient Relationships, an Expert's Insights (ep56)

   Host Scott Schumaker interviews relationship expert Jayson Gaddis about creating resilient partnerships through empathy, repair, and understanding nervous system regulation.

Inside a recent episode

Pain, Beauty, Divinity and Ultramarathon Running with Travis Helms (ep58)

Published 26 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Because if you talked about anyone else this way, I'd say it was borderline abusive. Wow. But that's my default. I think a lot of people have that default. I think so. And the only reason I mention it is that I don't think we can love one another well if we don't also love ourselves. I think that there's a reciprocity there and a calculus that... has to be balanced on both sides of the equation. And so I think that what I'm bringing back from Leadville is it's always a desire to love other people better. But I have to start with something that feels like it was a lesson for me. So it sounds a little self-interested when I say this, but I think it's actually for the greater good, is that capacity to be in pain and discomfort and not just reach for an exit button, a parachute, you know, whether that looks like self-medication, numbing, escapism. […]

Who has been a guest on Love, Loss & Hallucinations with Scott Schumaker

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• Travis Helms
• Heather A Lee
• Jayson Gaddis
• Téa Obreht
• Martin Luke Brown

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

20 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

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