Totally Unexpected!
Hosted by Chavie and Chavie Bruk · Chavie Bruk
5.0from 165 ratings
- 57
- Episodes
- 13
- Transcribed
- 165
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Totally Unexpected!
Join Chavie as she discovers the one totally unexpected moment in her guests’ lives that changed everything. These are real stories about pain, joy, and struggle, the moments that make us human. Chavie is obsessed with personal growth and doesn't shy away from the hard conversations. She covers topics like Jewish astrology, parenting taboos, health and wellness, adoption, race, and sexuality inside the Orthodox Jewish community and beyond. Chavie Bruk is a mother of five adopted children and the co-director of Chabad Lubavitch of Montana together with her husband, Rabbi Chaim Bruk. On Totally Unexpected! Chavie doesn't just interview her guests, she sits with them for long, unfiltered conversations where they laugh, cry, and share the stories that shaped who they have become. Chavie also writes a weekly essay on Substack about the unexpected moments in her life, the one's happening in real time that are challenging her, stretching her, and helping her grow. Sign up for free here: www.TotallyUnexpected.blog. (http://www.totallyunexpected.blog)
- Publisher
- Chavie Bruk
- Category
- religion & spirituality · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Aug 2024
- Latest episode
- 19 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
13 of 57 episodes have a transcript.
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Erica Pelman's Story: What the Abortion Debate Misses About Mothers
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Blimie Heller's Story: The Illusion of Control - A Parent’s Dilemma
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
David Aaron's Story: Kabbalah Demystified - The Science of Judaism
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Erica Pelman's Story: What the Abortion Debate Misses About Mothers
Published 19 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So what you're actually providing is, is something that if it wasn't available, then there's a lot of other ramifications that happened down the line because there was no support. And it always fascinates me, this shame piece that comes along with all of these experiences, whether it's abuse and infertility or unplanned pregnancies or whatever we experience, we have this tremendous amount of shame. And one of my goals about talking about infertility and adoption in such a public way was to try because we're all going to feel shame at some point. And it's all and we're all on our journey to work through our own realities and emotions with our experiences. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Totally Unexpected!
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- Erica Pelman
- Blimie Heller
- David Aaron
- Shevach Tamir
- Naomi Salfati
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 61 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 104 ratings
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Who hosts Totally Unexpected!?
Chavie and Chavie Bruk host the show. Published by Chavie Bruk.
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