The Life Shift: Real Stories of Life-Altering Moments

Updated: 26 Aug 2025 • 326 episodes
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The Life Shift Podcast shares real, honest conversations about the pivotal moments that transform lives. Host Matt Gilhooly invites guests to explore the life-changing events, unexpected challenges, and personal awakenings that have shaped who they are today.  Through candid storytelling, listeners discover powerful journeys of identity, resilience, grief, healing, and growth. If you’re drawn to personal growth stories, inspired by how people rebuild after loss, or fascinated by the quiet moments that spark profound change, The Life Shift offers heartfelt insight and inspiration. New episodes every Tuesday. Listen in and find connection in the stories that make us who we are. For more information, please visit: https://www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com 

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What happens when your earliest moments of intimacy are taken from you? In this raw and powerful conversation, author Kaila Yu shares the truth about a traumatic experience in her early twenties that splintered her sense of self. Raised in a household where emotions were rarely named, Kaila spent years seeking validati

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What do you do when the world falls apart and your inner voice says, “Not yet”? Dr. Devin DeGreif shares a story so unimaginable it feels like fiction until you realize it is her truth. After the brutal loss of her mother, Devin unraveled, disassociated, and considered ending her life. But a thunderous inner "no" marke

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What if the bravest thing you can do is admit you’re struggling? When Jill Schulman walked into her ROTC unit ready to quit, she expected rejection. Instead, she was met with empathy. And that changed everything. In this powerful conversation, Jill shares the quiet, steady kind of bravery that helped her stay the cours

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What happens when your life splits in two more than once? Ash Perrow was a schoolteacher with a plan and a future he could see clearly. Then he held his stillborn daughter in his arms. That moment shattered everything. Years of survival, anxiety, and silence followed. Then a near-death experience cracked him open in a

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What if the perfect time never comes? Katie Svoboda-Rini spent years waiting for things to settle before she could finally chase her dream. But life had other plans, including the loss of both parents, a lifetime of body shame, and a wildfire that didn’t burn her house down but still took almost everything. In the rubb

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What happens when five grief-focused podcast hosts come together to speak grief out loud? This is a special recording of Giving Grief a Voice, a live panel hosted by Reimagine.org. In this heartfelt and honest conversation, five hosts share how telling and hearing stories of loss can bring comfort, connection, and hope

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