Try On These Shoes

What if the noise in your life is keeping you from hearing what you actually need? After years of pushing harder, chasing success, and suppressing what was happening beneath the surface, Tom Sö reached a point where he finally admitted, “I need help.” In “Silent Mode,” we explore vulnerability, meditation, mental noise, healing, and what can happen when we become quiet enough to stop simply reacting to life and start truly being present for it.

What if surviving is only the beginning? After growing up under communist rule in Romania and walking through trauma, addiction, and devastating loss, Mia Godfrey shares how faith, therapy, and finally confronting what she had buried helped her discover that being buried is not the same as being broken and that there can still be more to life.

What happens when something that lasted only moments affects you for decades? In “Permanent,” Dean Sikes shares the story of a trauma he kept secret for 22 years and the journey through faith, forgiveness, healing, and hope that followed. Your past may shape your story, but it doesn’t have to define your future. You matter.

What happens when anxiety has been part of your life for so long that you don’t realize how much it is shaping the way you see yourself? In this episode, I sit down with psychotherapist, author, and expressive arts educator Elke Scholz to talk about anxiety, the stories we tell ourselves, and the tools that can help us understand what is happening beneath the surface instead of simply judging ourselves for it. Elke brings both professional insight and personal experience to a conversation about curiosity, creativity, self-compassion, and learning how to become a safer place for yourself. From being your own worst enemy to becoming your own best friend, this is a Lost & Found conversation about what can happen when we stop fighting ourselves long enough to listen.

What if confidence isn’t about proving you have it all together, but believing you’re worthy enough to take the next step? Steve Wormer, founder of the You Are Worthy Network, joins me to talk confidence versus arrogance, empathy, self-worth, and why vision only matters when we’re willing to move, even if that movement begins with one baby step.

What do you do when life doesn’t yell “Fore!” before everything changes? ⛳ 💥 Kym Coco knows that feeling. ❤️ After losing her husband, Steve, Kym was left facing a life that looked nothing like the one they had planned together. Grief changed the landscape, but it didn’t end the walk. 👣 In this episode of Other People's Shoes, Kym shares what it has looked like to keep moving through loss, and how golf has become part of the way she processes, focuses, and finds her footing again. 🏌️‍♀️ 🧭 Because on a golf course, a fore gives you a warning. Life isn’t always that kind. Sometimes the impact comes first. Then you have to decide what your next shot will be. 🎯 🎧 Listen now: https://www.opspodcast.com/ #OtherPeoplesShoes #LostAndFound #GriefJourney #KeepWalking

What happens when the hard in your life isn’t something you chose? In “Choose Your Hard", Cory Young joins Other People's Shoes to share how a surfing accident at just 20 years old left him paralyzed from the neck down and forced him to rethink what life, purpose, and moving forward could look like. As part of our new season, Lost and Found, Cory’s story is a powerful reminder that sometimes what we lose changes everything, but it doesn’t have to be the end. We talk about perspective, resilience, chasing the feeling of being fully alive, and one difficult question: How do you choose your hard when hard has already chosen you? 🎙 "Choose Your Hard" Season 24: Lost and Found | Guest: Cory Young Thank you for walking in Other People's Shoes. 👟🩵