Ep. 248 | Surviving the Troubled Teen Industry: Separating Identity from Experience [REMASTERED]

07/15/24 • 32 min

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Meredith for Real: the curious introvert

Because of his out-of-control behavior, Rocky Kandola’s parents sent to a nightmarish WWASP teen rehab center in Mexico, where he served an indefinite sentence with an arbitrary points system. He describes how this was the beginning of a cycle of abuse, imprisonment & bad decisions, but not the end of his life. Hear how he sifted identity from trauma and what gave him hope to keep going.

This episode originally aired December 7, 2020.

If you liked this episode, you’ll also like episode 189: SURVIVING A SERIAL KILLER: VICTIM TO FELON TO FLOURISHING

Guest: https://www.instagram.com/rockykandola/ | https://www.facebook.com/Rocky-Singh-Kandola-571645029885830/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/rockykandola/ | https://www.rockykandola.com/

Host: https://www.meredithforreal.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/meredithforreal/ | [email protected] | https://www.youtube.com/meredithforreal | https://www.facebook.com/meredithforrealthecuriousintrovert

Sponsors: https://www.jordanharbinger.com/starterpacks/ | https://uwf.edu/university-advancement/departments/historic-trust/ | https://www.ensec.net/

This episode originally aired December 7, 2020.

If you liked this episode, you’ll also like episode 189: SURVIVING A SERIAL KILLER: VICTIM TO FELON TO FLOURISHING

Guest: https://www.instagram.com/rockykandola/ | https://www.facebook.com/Rocky-Singh-Kandola-571645029885830/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/rockykandola/ | https://www.rockykandola.com/

Sponsors: https://www.jordanharbinger.com/starterpacks/ | https://uwf.edu/university-advancement/departments/historic-trust/ | https://www.ensec.net/

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Ep. 247 | Is Your Food Causing Your Depression? Nutritional Psychiatry

Dr. Georgia Ede is a Harvard trained psychiatrist who began to experience a host of mystery symptoms in her 40s, including fibromyalgia, migraines, chronic fatigue syndrome, and IBS.
When she got relief after experimenting with her diet, she began her path of nutritional studies & later became a nutritional psychiatrist. In this episode, she covers questionnaire collecting vs research, a warning about experimenting on yourself, chemical imbalances vs inflammation & 3 tests you can do at home.

If you liked this episode, you’ll also like episode 204: ARE LOW FAT DIETS HEALTHY? HEART HEALTH & HECKLERS [REMASTERED]

Guest: https://www.instagram.com/georgiaedemd/ | https://twitter.com/GeorgiaEdeMD | https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/GeorgiaEdeMd | https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiaedemd/

Sponsors: https://www.jordanharbinger.com/starterpacks/ | https://uwf.edu/university-advancement/departments/historic-trust/ | https://www.ensec.net/

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Ep. 249 | Record Breaking vs Impact Making: Arctic Exploration

Mark Wood is a polar explorer, a title normally associated with big ego and fame as core motivations. In this episode; however, he shares his personal motivational evolution of going from a place of ego to one of wonderment. He shares how this shift lead him to teaching children via livestream from the death zone of Mt Everest, the highs and lows of the Expedition Solo 100 trek (100 days alone in the arctic), how to get people to care about the outdoors & even shares a paranormal moment while trekking.

If you liked this episode, you’ll also like episode 36: PAID TO ADVENTURE: TRAVEL SHOW HOST SHANE REYNOLDS

Guest: https://www.instagram.com/markwoodexplorer/ | https://www.markwoodexplorer.com/ |http://expeditionsolo100.com/ | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radio-solo-100/id1733318225

Sponsors: https://www.jordanharbinger.com/starterpacks/ | https://uwf.edu/university-advancement/departments/historic-trust/ | https://www.ensec.net/