About

For seven years and more than 400 episodes, Inspire Vision Podcast has explored the questions that shape who we become. Hosted by Dr. Doug Gulbrandsen, each episode is a thoughtful conversation about self-awareness, personal growth, meaning, and the slow work of becoming more fully ourselves. Guests share not only what they have learned, but what life asked of them along the way. These are conversations with room for a real idea to unfold, offered in the hope of helping people find peace, wholeness, and a way home. Inspire Vision Podcast is broadcast on K4HD Hollywood Talk Radio as part of the Talk 4 Media Network and is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Audible, Pandora, and other major podcast platforms. Explore the full archive at https://www.inspirevisionpodcast.com.

Inspire Vision Podcast is broadcast live at Friday's at 11AM PT on K4HD - Hollywood Talk Radio (www.k4hd.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com) where you can find the podcast with all past episodes.

This podcast is also available on Talk 4 Podcasting, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, Audible, Apple and all podcast platforms.

  • Freeing the Voice Within: A Conversation with Dr. Leslie Carr
    Psychologist, breathwork facilitator, and Akashic Records reader Dr. Leslie Carr joins Dr. Doug to talk about reclaiming a voice that was quieted in childhood. Together they explore soul level learning, nervous system regulation, and the gentle...
  • The Software Named Sanjay: Remembering Who You Are Beneath the Program
    Sanjay Sabnani once saw himself as a piece of software he never chose, written by culture, family, and expectation. In this gentle conversation, he and Dr. Doug reflect on the masks we wear, the inner voice we mistake for ourselves, and the stillness...
  • You Are Not Your Thoughts: A Quiet Conversation with Sonika Cottman
    After twenty years in HR, Sonika Cottman heard the voice in her head and realized, for the first time, that it was not her. Nothing on the outside changed. Same home, same job, same children. Everything on the inside did. In this gentle conversation,...
  • We Were Taught How to Perform. We Never Learned How to Be Human.
    Nami Prakash spent 20 years as a healthcare communications leader before discovering, at 40, that she had complex PTSD rooted in childhood bullying, abandonment, and abuse. In this conversation with Dr. Doug, she shares how high performance can be a...
  • The Hollow Form: What Nobody Sees From the Outside
    After a stroke, Chip Scholz's wife bought him a lathe, and it opened something he did not know was there. Chip talks about hollow forms, the vessels with a hidden inside that nobody ever sees, and why a forty two year marriage is shaped the same way....
  • Beyond Self Improvement: The Quiet Work of Human Becoming
    Self improvement is where most of us begin. But what comes after, once we have studied ourselves and named our patterns? Richard, a university professor, coach, and author of A Phenomenal Life, joins Dr. Doug to talk about human becoming: letting go...
  • The Pause Before You Answer
    Most of us are living by default. Saying yes when we mean no. Chasing a version of life that looks good from the outside but never quite settles inside. Author and strategic life coach Kirana Sidin joins Dr. Doug from Jakarta to talk about the...
  • Everything You Need Is Already Inside You
    Dr. Doug welcomes back counselor and author Faust Ruggiero for a quiet conversation about what we are really doing when we reach for something outside ourselves. They talk about plant medicine and meditation, the childhood imprints that shape how we...
  • Chemistry Is Not Compatibility
    Dr. Doug sits down with therapist and compatibility strategist Jena Jake to explore why we keep falling in love with the same person in a different body. Chemistry, Jena explains, is often just familiarity recognizing itself, and familiarity is not...
  • Life Hacks for Healing & Harmony. The Labels We Carry, and How to Set Them Down
    Dr. Doug sits down with Tara Mae Temple, author of Life Hacks for Healing and Harmony, to talk about the quiet stories we start believing about ourselves early on. Tara shares years of feeling like she did not belong, the practice she calls negative...
  • The Sacred Hum: A Conversation on Remembering Who You Are
    Alan Gillanders joins Dr. Doug for an unhurried conversation about the long way home to self, a shattered wedding ring, an answered prayer, and the ancient teaching of "I Am." Together they explore synchronicity, the frequency beneath all things, and...
  • Who Are You When the Work Is Gone?
    Many of us are living a life someone else chose for us. Author and longtime coach Chip Scholz joins Dr. Doug to talk about what happens when identity gets tied to a title, a family business, or a role we were expected to fill, and what remains when...
  • From Farm to Failing Heart: Building a Marriage That Survives Anything
    Gaylen Wilson nearly died three times before his heart transplant gave him a second chance at love. Now he teaches couples the "Monument Method”, protecting a relationship one kind word at a time. This episode covers attachment theory, fighting fair,...
  • Your Greatest Pain Can Become Your Greatest Power, with Tori Jenae
    Dr. Doug sits down with transformational life strategist Tori Jenae for an unhurried conversation about healing and remembering who we really are. Born into addiction and loss, Tori shares how she transformed her deepest wounds into purpose. Together...
  • Why Love Feels Familiar (But Hurts Anyway)
    Relationship coach Valerie Greene opens up about her own journey through conflict, divorce, and hard-won healing to share why we keep attracting what we've always known, and how to finally choose differently. In this conversation, she and Dr. Doug...
  • Raising Children Who Know Their Own Worth
    Author Terry Bean joins Dr. Doug to talk about the children's book Abracadabra and the tender work of helping a child trust themselves, acknowledging a child's feelings instead of rushing to fix them, the difference between guiding a child and living...
  • Digesting What We Carry: Healing Trauma Through Ancient Wisdom
    Ben Oofana spent decades learning from Native American healers, Taoist masters, and Hindu-Vedic teachers, not as an academic pursuit, but as a survivor seeking his own healing. In this conversation, he shares how unprocessed emotion lives in the body,...
  • Breathing Your Way Home — A Conversation with Jon Paul Crimi
    Jon Paul Crimi has helped thousands of people release what the body has been quietly holding — grief, fear, generational pain. In this gentle conversation, he shares how breathwork became his path home after addiction, loss, and years of living from...
  • When the Backpack Becomes a Steamer Trunk: Grief, Fatigue, and the Weight We Carry
    Dr. Doug sits with Laura Sharp-Waites, the Baking Pastor, to explore what emotional and spiritual fatigue really looks like — and why grief may be at the root of more than we realize. A quiet, honest conversation about naming what's heavy, finding...
  • That Which We Resist Persists - Energy, Emotion, and the Art of Letting Go
    Dr. Doug and medical intuitive Peggy Oberthier explore why acknowledging our feelings — rather than pushing past them — is the quiet key to releasing what no longer serves us. From stuck energy to soul-level authenticity, this conversation gently...