The Life Shift

Have you ever realized you were living the life someone else imagined for you? Andrew Mitch did everything right on paper. He followed the rules, earned the degrees, and chased approval until the weight of it all became too heavy to carry. When he finally walked away from the life others expected, he found the beginnin

Have you ever built a life that looked good from the outside but left you exhausted on the inside? Brooks Bell knows that feeling. At 38, she was the driven CEO who could carry it all until her body told her something wasn’t right. What followed was not only a colon cancer diagnosis but a reckoning with how she had bee

I’ve never been great at journaling. I’d start strong, buy the nice notebook, write for a few days – then stop. But through The Life Shift Podcast, I learned how powerful reflection can be when it’s real, not forced. So I created something I’d actually use. It’s called The Life Shift Journal. A 12-week guided reflectio

Sometimes the story we never wanted becomes the one that shapes who we are. When the people we love disappear too soon, we begin to understand how fragile and precious it all is. Ricardo was only ten when his mother dropped him and his brother at the bowling alley and promised she would be right back. She never came ba

Have you ever looked back on your childhood and realized how much you learned to keep inside? How the silence around you became something you carried, long after you left the place that taught it to you. Shigeko Ito grew up in a home that looked perfect from the outside but felt empty inside. Years later, after a momen

If you grew up carrying things no one else could see, you may feel yourself in this story. Maria Gallucci was a bridge from the very beginning. As a child of deaf adults, she learned early how to interpret not just words, but emotion, context, and belonging. She understood how small acts of inclusion can change the way