The Life Shift
Matt Gilhooly • Education, Self-Improvement
Matt Gilhooly • Education, Self-Improvement
The Life Shift
Matt Gilhooly • Education, Self-Improvement
Matt Gilhooly • Education, Self-Improvement

About

The Life Shift shares real and honest conversations about the moments that change us. Host Matt Gilhooly sits with guests as they tell true stories of life-changing events, unexpected challenges, and quiet awakenings that shaped who they are today.

Each episode offers meaningful and candid storytelling about grief, healing, resilience, identity, and growth. These are the personal stories that remind us what it feels like to be human. These are the turning points that stay with us.

If you are drawn to personal growth, emotional well-being, or stories of how people rebuild after loss, this show offers a gentle place to land. Listeners come for the life changes. They stay for the connection.

New episodes every Tuesday.

For more information, please visit https://www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com

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Episodes

  • He Stepped Out of the Spotlight to Hear Himself Again
    Broadway performer and spiritual guide Seth Stewart shares his journey from center stage to sacred stillness, revealing how trusting his inner voice reshaped his life.
  • Learning to Live With Grief | Bonus
    A reminder that grief shifts and changes, and you are allowed to move with it.
  • Learning to Tell the Story You Thought You Had to Hide
    Author and healer Kristina Amelong shares how the loss of her brother, addiction recovery, and decades of silence led to a powerful story of healing, connection, and transformation in her memoir What My Brother Knew.
  • When Burnout Starts to Break You Open | Bonus
    A moment to consider the truth burnout is trying to show you about your life and your pace.
  • The Doctor Said, “Spank Him.” Piper Said No.
    Dr. Piper Gibson shares how refusing harmful medical advice for her son’s tic disorder led her to rebuild her life through functional medicine and help thousands of families worldwide.
  • Rebuilding a Life You Never Asked to Start Over
    Former college basketball player Ava Jones shares how she survived a fatal car accident, grieved her father, overcame stage four cancer, and found meaning in rebuilding her life.
  • She Lost Her Brother Tragically. Poetry Helped Her Heal.
    Poet and practitioner of poetic medicine Cyra Sweet Dumitru shares how writing became her path to healing after her brother’s suicide.
  • He Lost the Job. He Found His Life.
    After losing his job right before the pandemic, Clay Garrett discovered that slowing down was the key to finding purpose, presence, and peace.
  • Leaving the Plan to Become the Person
    Country singer Andrew Mitch shares how leaving a PhD program, coming out, and an unexpected angel-like encounter launched his authentic music career.
  • When Her Body Spoke, She Finally Heard
    After a colon cancer diagnosis at 38, Brooks Bell learns to listen to her body, release perfection, and rediscover joy in being alive.
  • I Finally Made a Journal I’d Actually Use
    A guided way to slow down, notice what’s real, and see what’s shifting.
  • Grief Changed Him. Joy Came Later.
    After losing his mother as a child and later facing cancer, Ricardo discovered that joy is not found but built through small, intentional choices.
  • Breaking the Cycle No One Talks About
    Author Shigeko Ito shares her journey from childhood neglect and a shocking hospitalization in Japan to breaking generational trauma and finding healing through compassion and storytelling.
  • She Grew Up Interpreting the World for Everyone Else
    Maria Gallucci shares how growing up as a child of deaf adults and facing profound losses shaped her commitment to inclusion, compassion, and building connection across communities.
  • Learning to Forgive the Person You Used to Be
    Author and speaker Cheryl Wilder shares how one split-second decision led to decades of shame, the struggle for forgiveness, and ultimately the journey to reclaiming her worth.
  • Leaving the Life You Thought You Were Supposed to Live
    Author and retired psychiatrist Marty Ross-Dolen shares how 9/11, motherhood, and multi-generational grief reshaped her life and inspired her memoir Always There, Always Gone.
  • How Isabelle Daikeler Found Strength in Surrender and Transformed Her Life
    In this episode, Isabelle Daikeler shares how surrendering during a decade of pain sparked a profound transformation toward healing and authenticity.
  • Why Heidi Blackie Chose to Believe in Her Body’s Ability to Heal
    Heidi Blackie shares how loss, illness, and perfectionism led to one pivotal vow to believe in her body’s ability to heal.
  • Chris Jordan on Living a Life That Was Never Dull
    Chris Jordan shares how six words on his grandfather’s headstone became the guiding mantra that shaped his creative life and choices.
  • How Dan Boettcher Rebuilt His Life After a Mental Health Crisis
    Dan Boettcher shares how a mental health crisis unraveled his carefully planned future and led him to rediscover meaning through jewelry and storytelling.