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The Truth Is
by Kathryn Flaschner
Hi, I’m Kathryn Flaschner, and welcome to The Truth Is, a podcast dedicated to speaking the truth— the truths of who we are, what we experience, and what we dream of. Our goal here is twofold. The first order of business is to unpack why we historically, and in so many spaces today, don’t speak our truth. Why do we hide who we really are? Why do we doubt what we go through? Why do we hesitate to take up more space in the world? We’ll next discover what happens when we do share our truthful stories— what happens to us, those around us, and to our communities at-large?Through solo episodes and special guest interviews, we’ll bring together people across cultures, generations and industries to share their important stories-- in all of their messy, unfiltered glory. My hope is you'll find yourself in these conversations and walk away with a sense of strength and responsibility to speak more boldly at. home, at work, and in all facets of your life.New episodes drop every Friday. I am so
Episodes
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Sarah Spoto: From Burnout to What Sustains Us (Encore)
In this week’s episode, I sit down with Sarah Spoto, founder of Badii, a bathing culture brand inspired by her transformational experience living in Baden, Switzerland. After nearly a decade in corporate America, Sarah made the leap to create something of her own — a shift fueled by burnout, hard...
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Samantha Abrams: From Love, Not For Love (Encore)
What does it mean to make decisions from love instead of for love? In this conversation, I sit down with Samantha Abrams to explore how that distinction quietly shapes our work, our relationships, and the lives we build—and why it takes real courage to live it. Samantha is a transformational…
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Performing Productivity for a Baby Black Bear (Summer Solo Check-In)
Checking in with you from the liminal space between season 2 and 3. For those who don't know me personally (hi, I'm Kathryn, the creator and host of this show), shifting from my 10+ years in corporate spaces to this pathless path of a creative entrepreneur (I guess that's the current buzz title...
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Joanne Molinaro (The Korean Vegan): Fighting for Yourself and Becoming Someone You Respect (Encore)
We're revisiting this conversation from October 2025 because hearing Joanne speak is the jolt of conviction we all need. This week on The Truth Is, Kathryn sits down with Joanne Molinaro — or as many know her, The Korean Vegan — a New York Times best-selling and James Beard Award–winning author,...
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John Markland: The Truth Beneath the Identities We Build (Encore)
We're revisiting this conversation from October 2025 because it's stayed with us — and we think it will with you too. John Markland is a highly respected director, screenwriter, producer, and acting teacher, and the founder of The Markland Studio, whose work has guided countless artists and...
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Joss Richard: When the Dream Finds You (and It's Different This Time) (Encore)
Romance author Joss Richard joins us this week to talk about what happens when something that's lived quietly inside you for years finally asks to be shared. We talk about the leap from corporate to a creative life, how writing fan fiction became her quiet training ground, and the months of 5…
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Alyssa Flaschner: Find the Thing That Makes You Come Alive (Encore)
If you missed this one when it first aired in October 2025, here's your moment. Kathryn sits down with her sister, Alyssa Flaschner, for a conversation about paying attention to what makes us feel alive, and how change really happens: not all at once, but through tiny degree shifts that slowly...
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Jedidiah Jenkins: The Authority of Your Own Questions (Encore)
This episode first aired in December 2025. We're bringing it back because it's one that stays with you. What if the clarity you’re looking for isn’t “out there” at all, but already inside you — waiting for the moment it comes into view? In this conversation, NYT bestselling author and adventurer...
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Kate Boyer: If I Don't Go Now, I'm Never Gonna Go — On Stunt Work, Self-Trust, and Doing It Afraid
Kate Boyer is a Los Angeles-based stunt woman and actor who has built her career one leap at a time — literally. She grew up in Philadelphia with an explorer's mindset, found her way to martial arts young, and eventually packed everything into a Honda Civic and drove cross-country with a vision....
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Wilfredo Perdomo: Building a Business Is a Spiritual Experience — On Taking a Faithful Leap and Finding Your Destino
Wilfredo Perdomo is the founder of DESTINO, a wellness-focused hospitality and lifestyle concept he's building in the Catskills. As a Cuban-American raised by immigrant parents, his foundation is rooted in working hard, creating beauty with what you have, and making people feel genuinely…
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Charlotte Jackson: Trust Falling With the Universe — On Dreaming Vaguely and Following Your Fun-tuition
Charlotte Jackson is a private chef, cofounder of CANDID, writer, coach, and host focused on helping people have better conversations with themselves and each other. She's also one of the original minds behind Reading Rhythms, the silent reading community that started on a rooftop in Williamsburg...
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Kate Mueller: Nature Can Hold All of Our Differences — On Coffins, the Camino, and Awe
"I'm the last to know why I do things," Kate Mueller said to me during this interview. What an enticing revelation, especially as Kate and I looked back on the creative projects that have come through her, starting with a coffin she began building when she was 19, that sits in the middle of her...
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Tazin Khan: Are You Doing This for Ego or Impact?
Tazin Khan is a cyber risk strategist, digital rights advocate, and the founder and CEO of Cyber Collective, a nonprofit dedicated to making digital safety education accessible, human, and community rooted. Her work is driven by a simple but urgent belief: everybody deserves to experience the...
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Corey Thibodeau: When You Stop Forcing It
Corey Thibodeau is the co-founder of West Side Yoga — three studios in Providence, Rhode Island that have become something rarer than a successful small business. A place where people find each other, and sometimes, finally find themselves. She will not dress it up for you. What it actually takes...
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Spring Space
This week, I'm taking a little space — and I want to offer you the same. A year into leaving the corporate world to build something new, I caught myself in a familiar pattern: the same nonstop hustle I thought I'd left behind. This episode is a small pause to name that, sit with it, and try...
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Wade Brill: We Have One Mind, One Body, One Life
Wade Brill woke up the Monday we recorded this episode, got a last-minute cancellation, and found herself with unexpected open space in her morning. She didn’t fill it. She went for a walk. That choice — to meet the open space instead of immediately closing it — is the whole philosophy. It sounds...
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In Defense of Your Human Brain: Solo Reflections on AI, Creative Voice, and Getting Your Reps In
After a month of conversations with Esosa Osa, Asma Khan, Franziska Gonder, and Stacey Lindsay, Kathryn steps back to name what she's learning and living through: the humility of being a year into a major career transition, the gap between taste and execution that every creative has to sit…
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Stacey Lindsay: This Life, Your Life, Belongs to You
Stacey Lindsay is a journalist and author whose work has always centered on one thing — creating the conditions for people to tell the truth. As a girl, she watched Diane Sawyer, Maria Shriver, and Christiane Amanpour on the news and felt the thread pulling her toward that work. Years later she...
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Franziska Gonder: Leadership That Heals the World
There are conversations that inform you. And then there are conversations that return you to yourself. Lucky for us, this one does both. Franziska Gonder arrived on this show as what I can only describe as a missing puzzle piece — for my own understanding and for the inquiry this season has been...
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Asma Khan: I Came Out Glistening Like Gold
The first time I heard Asma Khan speak, I was sitting in the back of an auditorium in Los Angeles at a crossroads in my life. I didn't know who she was before that day. By the time she finished, something in me had shifted. She spoke truth — about her own life and about the world we live in — in…
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Esosa Osa: Who Tells Your Story Decides Your Future — On Disinformation, Narrative Power, and Work That's Good
The information around us has never been more abundant. The truth has never been harder to find. Not because we've gotten less intelligent. But because the systems shaping what we see, believe, and repeat were not designed with our discernment in mind. In this episode of The Truth Is, I sit down...
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Regulation Before Revelation: Solo Reflections on Rest, Attention, and Discerning What’s True
Over the past month on The Truth Is, I’ve had conversations about rest, nervous system regulation, pleasure, and the systems shaping our attention. After stepping back and looking at them together, I realized they were all circling the same question: Why is it so difficult to access what’s…
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Jiore Craig: Dark Hope and the Work of World-Building
The present moment doesn’t just feel noisy. It feels disorienting. Not because we’ve become less thoughtful, but because we’re living inside systems that reward reaction over reflection — systems that pull at our nervous systems all day long and quietly influence what starts to feel obvious,...
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Nahid de Belgeonne: The Culture of Self-Improvement and the Loss of Self
What does it actually mean to regulate in a world that feels increasingly dysregulated? In this episode, I sit down with somatic movement educator and author Nahid de Belgeonne to explore the nervous system not as a self-improvement project, but as a doorway back to discernment. Nahid is the...
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Cindy Scharkey: On Permission for Pleasure — and Why You’re Worthy of It
What would change if you believed you were worthy of pleasure? In this episode of The Truth Is, I sit down with Cindy Scharkey — Registered Nurse, OB/GYN nurse, Certified Childbirth Educator, and host of the podcast and author of Permission for Pleasure. With nearly 40 years in women’s health,...
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Sam Bianchini: Rest as a Return to Self — On Ritual, Worthiness, and Remembering
Rest isn’t just about slowing down. It’s about remembering who you are. This conversation begins there. My guest is Sam Bianchini, an international yoga teacher, psychedelic therapist, and artist. Sam led a Yoga Nidra training I took during a season of deep burnout — a moment when I didn’t yet…
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David Neimanis: The Hour You Don’t Have to Earn
In Spain, there’s a ritual called La Hora del Vermut — a pause in the middle of the day that isn’t about winding down or earning rest. It’s a celebration of the day itself. This conversation starts there — with vermut, salty snacks, and a toast. My guest is David Neimanis, a maker I grew up down...
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Samantha Abrams: From Love, Not For Love
What does it mean to make decisions from love instead of for love? In this conversation, I sit down with Samantha Abrams to explore how that distinction quietly shapes our work, our relationships, and the lives we build—and why it takes real courage to live it. Samantha is a transformational…
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Year-End Reflections: On Truth, Identity, and Curiosity
A year-end solo reflection drawing three throughlines from the season: telling yourself the truth, loosening the grip of identity, and orienting toward curiosity. Featuring moments from conversations with Joanne Molinaro, John Markland, and Jedidiah Jenkins. This episode gathers what emerged,...
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Megan Hellerer: When Achievement Stops Working — Reorienting Around Curiosity
What happens when achievement delivers everything it promised, except fulfillment? In this episode, Kathryn sits down with Megan Hellerer to examine the quiet crisis many high-achieving people experience: success on paper, disconnection inside. Megan shares the moment when the old rules stopped...
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Jen Randle: Personal Truth, Collective Trust, and the Reimagining Ahead
This week’s conversation widens the frame. The Truth Is has always centered the internal work—alignment, reckoning, truth-telling, and the quiet process of returning to ourselves. But for many of us, the tension isn’t only personal. It’s structural. The friction we feel inside is often a response...
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Jedidiah Jenkins: The Authority of Your Own Questions
What if the clarity you’re looking for isn’t “out there” at all, but already inside you — waiting for the moment it comes into view? In this conversation, NYT bestselling author and adventurer Jedidiah Jenkins sits down with us to talk about revelation, habituation, aging, and what it means to...
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Blair Milam: Letting Both Be True — Power, Softness, and Who We Become
Blair Milam is the co-founder of Sound Garden in Mill Valley, CA, a new space for sound healing, restoration, and deeper connection. Over the years, Blair has moved through many environments — from high-performing corporate settings to yoga studios, teacher trainings, and sound school — letting...
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Jakob Wandel: Do It Scared — On Making, Meaning, and Beginning Again
Jakob Wandel is a filmmaker and photographer whose path has carried him from the Navy to years on tour with musicians — and now into a new chapter of storytelling through his documentary series, Craft. In this episode, we talk about how his journey has been one long act of starting again: leaving...
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John Markland: The Truth Beneath the Identities We Build
John Markland is a highly respected director, screenwriter, producer, and acting teacher, and the founder of The Markland Studio, whose work has guided countless artists and performers toward deeper, more authentic expression. In this conversation, we talk about what happens when the identity...
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Joss Richard: When the Dream Finds You (and It's Different This Time)
Debut romance author Joss Richard joins us this week to talk about what happens when something that’s lived quietly inside you for years finally asks to be shared. We talk about the leap from corporate to a creative life, how writing fan fiction became her quiet training ground, and the months of…
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Joanne Molinaro (The Korean Vegan): Fighting for Yourself and Becoming Someone You Respect
This week on The Truth Is, Kathryn sits down with Joanne Molinaro — or as many know her, The Korean Vegan — a New York Times best-selling and James Beard Award–winning author, attorney, and creator whose storytelling and advocacy invite millions to look more closely at who they are, what they…
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Jennifer Swartley: Beneath the Noise
This week on The Truth Is, Kathryn sits down with Jennifer Swartley—her coach and a leadership, mindset, and career coach whose work helps people return to themselves, rebuild compassion within, and move through change with clarity and agency. Together, they talk about the moment we’re in—one…
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Alyssa Flaschner: Find the Thing That Makes You Come Alive
This week on The Truth Is, Kathryn sits down with her sister, Alyssa Flaschner, for a conversation about paying attention to what makes us feel alive, and how change really happens: not all at once, but through tiny degree shifts that slowly realign our lives toward what feels true. In the...
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James & Michael Gallagher: From Portugal to Rituil, and the Practice of Vertical Timing
This week, I sit down with James and Michael Gallagher—brothers from the Midwest who spent years on different career paths before choosing to create something together. James built a career in design, while Michael worked in recruiting. Their journeys eventually came together in this new chapter...
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Sarah Spoto: From Burnout to What Sustains Us
In this week’s episode, I sit down with Sarah Spoto, founder of Badii, a bathing culture brand inspired by her transformational experience living in Baden, Switzerland. After nearly a decade in corporate America, Sarah made the leap to create something of her own — a shift fueled by burnout, hard...
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Katherine Naylor Pullman: Come As You Are
In this first episode of the new season, I sit down with Katherine Naylor Pullman, Founder & CEO of Our Third Place. What began as a single dinner has grown into a global community of more than 1,600 members across 37 cities — proof that in a hyperconnected world, what we’re really craving is...
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Welcome to The Truth Is
The Truth Is is back. This trailer is an invitation into what’s ahead — stories and conversations that ask us to listen more closely, trust what we know, and find our own way forward. Subscribe now to be the first to hear when new episodes drop on September 17.
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Joshua Selesnick: Awakening Your Childlike Imagination
Actor. Entrepreneur. Dungeon Master. Joshua Selesnick is a force, and a dear friend of mine, who believes his purpose is to bring out the creative genius in everyone he works with. In this episode, we reflect on his journey embracing the power of his own imagination in every area of his life- as…
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Denisha Brekke: Finding Your Secret Sauce
Today, my dear friend, Denisha Brekke, takes us on her journey as an intuitive, creative, saucy entrepreneur. Her story teaches us the power of experimenting without expectations, and what can happen when you give up who you thought you 'should be' in the world, so you can discover the beautiful...
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To Be Clear Is To Be Kind
This lesson has turned into a mantra for me. To be honest in the relationships we have with ourselves and with others, is not just a pathway to connection and growth, but also sign of respect. It can be scary in the moment to hear what someone honestly thinks or to share how you really feel, but...
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Allian Roman: It's Never Too Late For Transformation
In today's episode, Allian Roman joins me to talk about the truth of transformation. Allian is a Latina, an actor, a body-builder, and an engineer. Her story teaches us that as awkward and uncomfortable as it is to be a late bloomer, it is never too late to pivot. Be sure to follow Allian's…
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Embracing the Discomfort of a New Chapter
In today's episode, I reflect on the new chapter I am starting (city, job, dog... the trifecta) and share my guiding principles for embracing the discomfort, awkwardness, and profound meaning that comes with stepping into something new.
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Sam Kozin: Being on the Same Side as Your Body
On today's episode, my dear friend and ultramarathoner, Sam Kozin, joins me to unpack the truth behind her excellence. She courageously shares with us her journey into running, and the humbling journey she's endured to learn to listen to her body, and prioritize joy.
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The Truth Is: You Are Supposed to Be There
In today's episode, I share my reflections on imposture syndrome and what I've learned about cultivating relationships and environments that remind us we belong. Stop Telling Women They Have Imposture Syndrome (Harvard Business Review)
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Hi, I’m Kathryn Flaschner, and welcome to The Truth Is, a podcast dedicated to speaking the truth— the truths of who we are, what we experience, and what we dream of. Our goal here is twofold. The first order of business is to unpack why we historically, and in so many spaces today, don’t speak our truth. Why do we hide who we really are? Why do we doubt what we go through? Why do we hesitate to take up more space in the world? We’ll next discover what happens when we do share our truthful stories— what happens to us, those around us, and to our communities at-large?Through solo episodes and special guest interviews, we’ll bring together people across cultures, generations and industries to share their important stories-- in all of their messy, unfiltered glory. My hope is you'll find yourself in these conversations and walk away with a sense of strength and responsibility to speak more boldly at. home, at work, and in all facets of your life.New episodes drop every Friday. I am so
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