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A Place For My Head
by Brandon Thompson & Jerry Petuck
Radio Influence - Digital Audio
Episodes
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A Place For My Head: Nate Lastinger
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson chats with Nate Lastinger, a friend who has overcome an uber-religious childhood and subsequent substance abuse to find success. Nate came from a Christian family who grew up wanting to be different in his own way. Along the path growing up in…
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A Place For My Head: Lena Scissorhands, Lead Singer Of Infected Rain
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson chats with the lead singer of the metal band Infected Rain, Lena Scissorhands. The two discuss how she discovered her singing ability by sheer accident, being affected by emotional trauma and living it through someone else, the difficulties of...
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A Place For My Head: Retired Navy Seal/Author Jason Redman
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson chats with former Nacy SEAL turned author Jason Redman. Jason spent 21 years in the Navy and has taken those lessons learned and is now sharing his motivational message with companies, teams, churches, and individuals across the globe through...
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A Place For My Head: The Social Dilemma
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck dive into the Netflix documentary called “The Social Dilemma.” The documentary has a ton of buzz surrounding it as it digs deep into how social media is being used to manipulate the public, the way it thinks, and it’s mental...
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A Place For My Head: Psychological Well-Being Practitioner Katia Bell
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck go across the pond to the United Kingdom to chat with Katia Bell, a psychological well-being practitioner. Katia shares her own story of what it was like growing up with a father who dealt with clinical depression, how it led to...
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A Place For My Head: Toxic People
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck discuss the subject of toxic people and how they affect your mental health. What are the characteristics of a toxic person? What are the warning signs? What happens if that toxic person is a family member, friend, or co-worker?…
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A Place For My Head: Drew Garabo Of 102.5 The Bone
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck are joined by Drew Garabo, afternoon drive host on 102.5 The Bone in Tampa. The guys discuss the radio business, trying to pick yourself up after losing a gig and losing faith, the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of finding...
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A Place For My Head: Marine Corps Veteran Shawn Lopez Talks Mental Health & The Military
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck are joined by Shawn Lopez, a five year veteran of the US Marine Corps and Purple Heart recipient. Shawn did tours in both Afghanistan and Iraq and shares his struggles of dealing with the loss of another Marine during combat,...
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A Place For My Head: Kids, The Pandemic, & Mental Health
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck continue their conversation about change and then get into the pandemic and how it’s affecting kids of all ages. As the ongoing debate about whether schools should be reopened or not, the fact of the matter is the lives of…
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A Place For My Head: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Change in life is inevitable. It happens to everyone. How you handle it and how you respond to it dictates whether the change will be good or bad. This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck discuss just that and the changes going on in Brandon’s life with the opening […]...
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A Place For My Head: Former Police Officer/911 Dispatcher Jamie Gonzalez Talks PTSD
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck discuss a serious issue within the law enforcement community and that’s PTSD. Former police officer/911 dispatcher Jamie Gonzalez, a long time friend of Jerry’s, is featured in the upcoming documentary PTSD 911, where she shares...
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A Place For My Head: Jaret Reddick Of Bowling For Soup
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck sit down for an open, candid conversation with Jaret Reddick, lead singer of Bowling For Soup. Bowling For Soup has released ten studio albums, two live albums, and been on the music scene since 1994. What you may not have known...
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A Place For My Head: Self-Doubt, Self-Sabotage, & The Ways Of The World
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck piggyback last week’s incredible conversation with pro wrestler and actor Aron Stevens, who opened up about overcoming his own self-doubt, with some stories of their own battles with it and how it’s something that haunts them…
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A Place For My Head: Pro Wrestler Aron Stevens (fka WWE’s Damien Sandow)
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck chat with the artist formerly known as WWE’s “Intellectual Savior Of The Masses” Damien Sandow, current NWA superstar Aron Stevens. Aron has had one of the most interesting careers in the wrestling business in recent memory. He...
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A Place For My Head: Control Is An Illusion
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck open the show talking about how everyone is so mentally exhausted by everything going on in the world between the ongoing pandemic and the social issues but then takes a turn to talk about toxic people in your life who like to…
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A Place For My Head: Three-Time Super Bowl Champion Randy Cross
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck continue their conversation from last week about the racial equality and civil rights issues going on in the country and how it’s affecting everyone. Then, the guys discuss the story of University of Tennessee freshman…
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A Place For My Head: Protests, Riots, & The Senseless w/DJ Ekin
We’re angry. You’re angry. The nation is pissed off…..and rightfully so. There are peaceful protests. There are riots. There is looting. The mental health of the nation is in shambles. The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis was the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back but this has been...
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A Place For My Head: Former Puddle Of Mudd/Rev Theory Guitarist Paul Phillips
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck are joined by former Puddle Of Mudd and Rev Theory lead guitarist Paul Phillips. Throughout Paul’s successful music career, he’s always dealt with social anxiety and used alcohol as a tool to get through it. Paul shares stories...
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A Place For My Head: Model Serra Scars
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck chat with model Serra Scars, who goes deep into the body image issues she’s had her entire life, the surgeries that she’s gone through that only made matters worse, the dangers of self-medicating, and how she’s been able to come...
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A Place For My Head: Singer/Songwriter Cristian Machado
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck sit down with the founder and former lead singer of Ill Nino, Cristian Machado. Brandon and Cristian have been friends for years after spending a ton of time on the road touring with the band. Cristian and the guys discuss the…
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A Place For My Head: Fourth Year Med Student Rebecca Minner
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck sit down with Rebecca Minner, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Arkansas and matched into a psychiatry residency. Originally from Iowa, she came down to Arkansas to play volleyball during college. She received…
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A Place For My Head: Former Atlanta/Tampa Bay Radio Personality Jesse Kage
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck sit down with former Atlanta and Tampa Bay radio personalty Jesse Kage. The three of these guys have been friends for years and Jesse opens up about the ups and downs of his radio career, the blurred lines between reality and his...
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A Place For My Head: Pro Beach Volleyball Player Kenzie Kleespies
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck have a great conversation with pro beach volleyball player Kenzie Kleespies, who opens up about her lifelong struggle with anxiety and depression. This University of Arizona alum also shares a crazy story about how an assault and…
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A Place For My Head: Jenny Dempsey of CustomerServiceLife.com
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck chat with Jenny Dempsey of CustomerServiceLife.com, a website she created to help the mental health of those in the customer service industry. It’s a great concept and an eye-opener about some of the things that go on in call...
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A Place For My Head: Former Tampa Bay Radio Personality Pool Boy
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck chat with one of Brandon’s best friends and brother. They were able to get each other through the toughest times in life. Blake Young, formerly Pool Boy of 98 Rock in Tampa, and Brandon share their ups and downs throughout their...
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A Place For My Head: Singer/Songwriter Leah Summer
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck chat with singer, songwriter, actress, model, and all around badass Leah Summer, who shares her story of overcoming physical and mental abuse as both a child and as an adult and overcoming an eating disorder to find success in…
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A Place For My Head: Just Breathe
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck talk about the stress the Coronavirus is creating in everyone’s lives. The guys discuss dealing with the anxiety that it’s causing, how to avoid going stir crazy, trying to jockey business and family life while being locked down…
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A Place For My Head: Corona Stress
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck talk about the hysteria surrounding the Coronavirus and why everyone needs to take a step back, take a deep breathe, and let common sense take over. Take all of this seriously but don’t lose your sanity over it. If you feel you…
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A Place For My Head: When The High Road Isn’t Healthy
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck talk about what happens when taking the high road and doing the right thing ultimately ends up hurting you more than not. How do you handle the stress of those situations? How do you diffuse it? What’s the best thing to do? […]…
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A Place For My Head: Authors/Motivational Speakers Joshua & Cynn Coburn
This week on A Place For My Head, we interview two of the most incredible people in the world with the biggest hearts, it’s almost unimaginable! Joshua and Cynn Coburn open up about about their lives and what developed their passions in life, spreading kindness, love, amazing energy that’s truly...
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A Place For My Head: Ego, Narcissism, & Self Entitlement
This week on the A Place For My Head Podcast, hosts Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck discuss the troubles of dealing with people that have over inflated egos, narcissism, and self entitlement. We all have those type of people in our lives. What are the best ways to deal with them? The guys want...
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A Place For My Head: The Pros & Cons Of Online Therapy
This week on the A Place For My Head Podcast, hosts Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck share their thoughts on the concept on online therapy. They discuss all of the practicalities of it, if it’s worth it from a financial standpoint, the privacy and online safety sides of things, along with what...
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A Place For My Head: Life Can Change In The Blink Of An Eye
In 2007, host Jerry Petuck went through a life changing medical trauma that came within 90 minutes of killing him. Physical, mentally, emotionally, and any other way you can think of…..the near deadly situation changed his life forever. For the first time, Petuck speaks publicly about the entire...
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A Place For My Head: Brandon Thompson’s Journey To Good Mental Health
This week on A Place For My Head, Brandon Thompson shares his journey in finding good mental health and shares stories about the hurdles and pitfalls he’s faced through the process. He discusses the issues he had with initially going to a primary care physician to seek treatment, finding the…
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A Place For My Head: Law Enforcement & Mental Health
After seeing “Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops” on HBO, hosts Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck knew that the work these two San Antonio police officers are doing is something that had to be discussed in an open forum. If you haven’t seen it, Ernie Stevens and Joe Smarro, two San Antonio officers…
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A Place For My Head: Remembering Opa
The grieving process brings out the best in people and the worst in people. Sometimes, it’s expected following a long illness. Most times, it’s unexpected. Either way, it’s never an easy thing. This week on A Place For My Head, hosts Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck are in opposites ends of the...
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A Place For My Head: New Year’s Resolutions
This week on A Place For My Head, hosts Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck discuss New Year’s Resolutions. Are they worthwhile or just another source of stress in your life if you don’t follow through with them? If you feel you are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at...
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A Place For My Head: 16 Myths About Depression
This week on A Place For My Head, hosts Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck are MYTH BUSTERS!!!!! The guys give their thoughts on an article by Jennifer Huizen on MedicalNewsToday.com titled, “16 Myths About Depression.” They share their thoughts on the article, the stigmas and attitudes directed…
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A Place For My Head: Mental Health & The Holidays
This week on A Place For My Head, hosts Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck talk about the toll the holidays can take on your mental health, some of their own experiences, and some things they’ve done to get through it. There are a lot of people who struggle around the holidays for various reasons....
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A Place For My Head: Social Media’s Affects On Mental Health
This week on A Place For My Head, hosts Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck talk about both the positive and negative affects of social media on our mental health as well as the pitfalls of children being on social media. If you feel you are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention...
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A Place For My Head: Overcoming Addiction & Depression w/Author Sharon Fekete
This week on A Place For My Head, hosts Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck are joined by the author of “The Broken Road To Mental Health: In Life And Business,” Sharon Fekete. Sharon shares her incredible journey to sobriety and shares some things that she’s done to help her overcoming her battles...
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A Place For My Head: Triggers, Trust Issues, & Finding Balance
This week on A Place For My Head, hosts Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck talk about overcoming the stress of having something trigger destructive memories from your past, working through trust issues, and the never ending battle of finding balance in life. Thanks for downloading and listening!…
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A Place For My Head: You Are Physically Incapable Of Fixing Yourself
This week on A Place For My Head, hosts Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck explain why the show took such an abrupt break (it’s on Petuck) and talk about what’s been going on in their lives that caused the hiatus. After that brief conversation, the guys share their thoughts on the stigma around...
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A Place For My Head: Suicide Is Not A Selfish Act
According to the CDC and World Health Organization, approximately 123 Americans commit suicide a day. There is a suicide every 12 minutes. Even scarier, for every one suicide, there are 25 people who survive their attempts. It doesn’t affect one age group or race. It affects everyone. Anyone who...
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A Place For My Head: It’s Too Loud To Hear A Sound
This week on A Place For My Head, hosts Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck are talking about struggles with anxiety. It affects everyone in different ways and they explore their own experiences with it and how they’ve overcome it. It’s all based on the blog Brandon has written on the A Place For…
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A Place For My Head: Addressing The Demons
This week on A Place For My Head, hosts Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck are “Addressing The Demons.” The guys discuss how this first post that Brandon ever made on APlaceForMyHead.com jump started this entire project, their own experiences with how anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder has...
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A Place For My Head: What Is A Place For My Head?
On this debut episode of A Place For My Head, hosts Brandon Thompson and Jerry Petuck talk about their thought process on launching the podcast. The two share their own personal stories, talk about the stigma surrounding mental health and why it needs to disappear, the creation of the A Place For...
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A Place For My Head: Brandon Thompson On “The Mike O Show” On 102.5 The Bone Tampa
We’re a week out from the debut episode for A Place For My Head but we wanted to give you this interview that Brandon Thompson did with our long time friends over at 102.5 The Bone in Tampa, FL with Mike Oliviero and Monika on “The Mike O Show.” Mike gave Brandon his start in […] The post A Place...
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A Place For My Head With Brandon Thompson & Jerry Petuck Coming Sept. 2nd
RADIO INFLUENCE GIVES YOU “A PLACE FOR MY HEAD” BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 2ND Radio Influence is pleased to welcome “A PLACE FOR MY HEAD” to the Radio Influence family beginning Monday, September 2nd, 2019. “A Place For My Head” is a new podcast which seeks to open the dialogue and change the stigma...
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