Well, That F*cked Me Up! Surviving Life Changing Events.
BITE-SIZE PERSONAL STORIES OF SURVIVING LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCES: Hosted by Luke Colson and Kyle Wise, we feature weekly guests and explore extreme personal life changing experiences and the journey emotional and physical recovery. Each guest discusses their story of how their lives were turned upside down, by unexpected events. Stories like surviving a car crash, surviving abuse, being paralyzed in an accident, witnessing a crime.. and many more! Luke and Kyle will take an honest, raw, yet positive and hopeful approach, to really find out how these sudden events have effected our guests, and hear about the tools they use to overcome the subsequent struggle and adversity. We will focus on the journey to success and recovery, and hear stories of how our guests overcame trauma, and mental health challenges like ptsd, anxiety depression and phobias that have often lead to addiction, alcoholism, and disorders. While we will focus on the events themselves, and the lasting effects of these moments, our goal in this podcast is to concentrate on the positive journeys of resilience, recovery and hope that comes from these extraordinary stories. Join us for the ride of your life, and other peoples too! Why listen? We hope that our listeners will feel comfort, empowerment, strength and hope through this community of people and the stories we share. Everyone’s experiences are unique, but the circumstances around recovery and healing can be a shared and comforting journey. EMAIL: wtfmupodcast@gmail.com MUSIC by DeVyruss from Pixabay SPOTIFY: For reasons that no one at Spotify knows, our podcast does NOT play on the Spotify App from IOS devices. It works on every other platform, and even works on Spotify App from Android and works just fine on Spotify for Desktop. Spotify tell us they don' t know how to fix it. We love our listeners and encourage you to find another way, and another platform, and we apologize, this one is out of our hands.
Episodes
343 episodes since 2021
S4 EP36: Lisa's Story - My Thyroid Was Removed Due To A Typo!
Lisa Wilson is a leadership coach, HR consultant and mediator. She works with small to medium sized companies to help them get the best from their teams. In 2014 she was laid off from my job. It was a blessing, because she knew she would start ...
September 12, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 36
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43:10
S4 EP35: Alana's Story - Near Death, Chronic Illness, And Awakening!
Alana Joy has spent over 20 years working as a nurse and psychotherapist. When she was a young girl, she had a near death experience after a tonsil removal operation that went wrong! Through her life and into adulthood, Alana always felt differ...
September 05, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 35
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40:47
S4 EP34: Jeff's Story - Kidnapped! 43 Days To Freedom!
Jeff Frazier is a decorated US Army veteran with a passion for humanitarian work, that led him to Haiti, where he fought child trafficking, learned Haitian Creole, and relocated his family to Florida to serve Haiti’s most vulnerable communities...
August 29, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 34
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49:59
S4 EP33: Bambi's Story - Redemption From A Life Time Of Abuse
Bambi Lynn joins us this week for a story of redemption against all the odds. Bambi endured some horrific abuse, from her mother and her father, her uncle, and various partners. It’s harrowing at times, and no one should have to go through what...
August 22, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 33
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46:31
S4 EP32: Sherry's Story - Who Will Take Care of Me Now?
Sherry Buckley-Brown was 12 years old when her father came upstairs and said ‘i just killed your Mom’. After years of physical abuse, he had finally done the unthinkable. Sherry has written a book, about her struggle as a young girl, as she gra...
August 15, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 32
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34:39
S4 EP31: Teresa's Story - My Journey To Finding Real Happiness
There was something about turning 40 years old that made Teresa Greco reevaluate her life. Some people might call it a midlife crisis, but for Teresa, it was an opportunity to start asking some very important questions about her life. Realizing...
August 08, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 31
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43:16
S4 EP30: Jocelyn's Story - Losing Both Parents 7 Days Apart During Covid!
Jocelyn Bates is still processing what must be one of the traumatizing experiences we have ever heard on the show, and she says that she expects to continue to process what happened for the rest of her life.Her story of trauma is losing her par...
August 01, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 30
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50:25
S4 EP29: Raja's Story - My Life With A Stutter...
Raja Vaidya has struggled with a stutter all his life. In this extremely raw and honest episode, Raja discusses how his stutter affected his life! From his childhood, which included years of rejection and bullying, to his professional years, an...
July 25, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 29
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42:31
S4 EP28: Melissa's Story - The Day I Lost My Career
Melissa Robinson-Winemiller was a professional musician, it was her life since childhood, her study, and eventually her dream job. it was all she ever knew, and it was at this dream job that her life would be flipped upside down in an instant, ...
July 18, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 28
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39:24
S4 EP27: Lisa’s Story - How Do We Deal With Grief?
Lisa Heacock lost 12 loved ones in a 22 month period, including her parents, and her 24 year old son-in-law. She ended a 28 year marriage, and was diagnosed with breats cancer and had a double mastectomy! After the losses, her life trajectory c...
July 11, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 27
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55:49
S4 EP26: Michelle's Story - Multiple Miscarriages And The Path To Filling Our Family!
Michelle Rae Woodward has had the most painful, extraordinary, and exhausting journey through multiple pregnancies. All of which ended in 2nd term pregnancy loss (birthed 3 boys and 2 girls, all deceased). She talks about how she was treated by...
July 04, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 26
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44:12
S4 EP25: Shay's Story - Orphaned at 13, After The Death Of My Mother
In this raw and often heartbreaking episode, we hear how Shay Leonia had to witness the slow demise of her mother who was diagnosed with dementia when Shay was only 9 years old, and her mother was in her Forties! There is still so much that is ...
June 27, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 25
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43:41
S4 EP24: Jacques' Story - The Night I Hit A Cyclist In My Car
WARNING: Graphic Content involving description of fatal road traffic accident.Jacques is a trauma survivor, after being involved in a horrific accident that totally changed the course of his life.The accident is quite graphic, you have ...
June 20, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 24
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42:10
S4 EP23: Alana's Story - My Toxic Boss Hell!
30 BRAND NEW EPISODES STARTING NEXT WEEK!: Wow, this one is extraordinary. Thank you Alana for coming on and really just telling it how it is. This is for all of you listeners out there with any toxic work experiences, in fact maybe you are...
June 13, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 23
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43:34
S4 EP22: Gina's Story - Redemption From Unimaginable Abuse
Gina Fox is a childhood and adult trauma survivor. She was abused from age 5 to 16 by her own father, and its tough to listen to. She was then abused again by her ex-husband for 5 years. She had very bad coping skills as a result of these horri...
June 06, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 22
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46:59
S4 EP21: Sabrina's Story - My Mom Became Completely Paralyzed!!!
Sabrina Colosimo, discusses her mom's rare syndrome that rendered her paralyzed up to her eyeballs, within two weeks. Terrifying! It baffled the doctors and it turned their lives upside down. She “lived” in the ICU for 16 months, fully consciou...
May 30, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 21
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43:10
S4 EP20: Leticia's Story - I Was Stabbed By My Husband
TRIGGER / CONTENT WARNING: Domestic Abuse and Domestic Violence.We re-visit this amazing episode, and hear how Leticia was groomed by her would be husband at 14 years old, he was twice her age. As a child, she was rejected by her pare...
May 23, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 20
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47:53
S4 EP19: Tara's Story - Trauma, Triggers, & Opioids!
This week, Tara Henderson comes on the show to discuss trauma and triggers and a serious battle with addiction! Tara has a lengthy background of childhood trauma, with both her parents being alcoholics. That childhood experience turned into dru...
May 16, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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41:39
S4 EP18: Tarah's Story - Daughter Of An Addict
This week, we revisit this amazing chat with Tarah Dowling, In one of the most emotional episodes we have had to date, Tarah tells us about her harrowing and traumatic childhood growing up with her drug addicted mother. She tells us about her h...
May 09, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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50:17
S4 E17: Sarah's Story - Surviving Breast Implant Illness
Sarah Bussey was fighting a hidden illness that doctors simply could not diagnose. In her mid thirties, she was losing he hair, gaining weight, having seizures, and coming out in rashes and pain all over her body. She was bed ridden and thought...
May 02, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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56:38
S4 EP16: Danielle's Story - My Mothers Suicide And Escaping A Cycle Of Abuse
Danielle Patrice lost her Mother to suicide when she was just 22, and as an only child, and her Father not around, she had to work out what to do and how to deal with all the things that come with a Parents death, alone and at such a young age....
April 25, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 16
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53:21
S4 E15: Ann's Story - We Need To Amputate Your Leg
After 20 years, Ann finally found the strength to escape an abusive, emotionally crippling, and desperate marriage. Just as her life was beginning to blossom, disaster struck. After coming down with the Flu one day, Ann's health started t...
April 18, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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41:22
S4 EP14: Anastasia's Story: It's OK To Not Be OK
A few years ago, Anastasia Zadiek, left her house after an argument with her husband with the sole intention of ending her life. Decades of childhood trauma had led to suicidal thoughts, and that night, everything just boiled over. As she walke...
April 11, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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42:16
S4 EP13: Kendall's Story - Overcoming Relentless Adversity!
Kendall Patterson joins us this week, for a simply wonderful episode. Kendall has experienced abuse (of all the kinds), poverty, traumatic events, two traumatic brain injury parents (on separate occasions!) and most of her immediate family are ...
April 04, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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1:01:22
S4: EP12: David's Story - Heroin Took Everything!
David was a young, successful, high-flying executive, making his way to the top! First working for a record label in LA, he then fell into the business and marketing side of the adult film industry! By his twenties, he had 'the cars, the ...
March 28, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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47:34