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All Episodes

Was It Chance? — 112 episodes

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#112 - Kern Carter: Read Between the Grind

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#111 - Chris Dattoli: Betting on Yourself in a Feast or Famine Career

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#110 - Katy Scoggin: What Happens When You Document Your Own Divide?

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#109 - Ray Hartjen: When Time Stops Being Unlimited

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#108 - Merit Kahn: Optimistic Personality Disorder - Turning Life Into Comedy

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#107 - Rich Wright: The Dark Side of Creativity—and the Way Through

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#106 - Troy Horne: Why Midlife Is the Best Time to Chase the Dream

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#105 - Paul Pape: Santa for Nerds, Making the Things That Don’t Exist Yet

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#104 - 2025 End of Year Reflection

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#103 - Kay A Oliver: Leaving Hollywood Without Leaving Storytelling

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#102 - John DeDakis: Interviewing Hitchcock, Writing Thrillers, and Facing Failure

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#101 - Kara Cutruzzula: The Sliding Doors of Creativity

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#100 - Bianca D’Alessio: Selling the Hamptons and Finding Yourself

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#99 - David Armstrong: Broadway’s Untold Story- Who Really Created the American Musical

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#98 - Audrey Goldberg Ruoff: How Failure Fueled a Debut Novel

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#97 - Megan Michelle: When the Universe Hands You a Saga

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#96 - Evelyn Skye: The Write Amount of Delusion

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#95 - Tad Stoermer: The Founding Fathers Were Not Your Heroes

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#94 - Victoria Christopher Murray: An Overnight Sensation After 25 Years

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#93 - Laura Wood: Therapy, Romance, and Embracing the Chaos

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#92 - Serena Burdick: When Your Grandmother’s Nude Sparks a Novel

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#91 - Nick Rashad Burroughs: Living the Life You Were Meant to Create

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#90 - Lena Hall: Finding Your True Voice by Saying “F** It”*

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#89 - Becky Mollenkamp: Redefining Success on Your Own Terms

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#88 - Mei Lee: Blending Ancient Practice with Modern Applications

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#87 - Don Mamone: Different Doesn't Mean Broken

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#86 - Venessa Vida Kelley (from the vault)

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#85 - Jaclyn Goldis: The World Traveling Novelist

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#84 - Jennifer Apple: There Is Enough Space To Go Around

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#83 - Jen Ponton & Deborah Unger: Maiden Mother Crone

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#82 - Pepe Muñoz: It’s Not Talent, It’s Tylenol

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#81 - Maddie Price: Age Is Only a Number

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#80 - 2024 End of Year Reflection

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#79 - Rowan Jetté Knox: Normalizing Trans Youth

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#78 - Lyndsay Rush: Butt-Cracks of Light and Resurrectile Dysfunction

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#77 - Janusz Domagala: Baking with Pride on on Reality TV

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#76 - Kaitlin Johnstone: Kindess Rooted in Justice, Grounded in Action and Open to Change

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#75 - Nikki Payne: Writing Black Women Into Their Happily Ever After

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#74 - Lili Thomas (From the Vault)

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#73 - The Broadway Husbands, Bret Shuford & Stephen Hanna: Love, Fatherhood, and Broadway Dreams

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#72 - Isaac Mizrahi: Becoming a Fashion Icon by Accident

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#71 - Dallas James Pritt: Turning Rejection into Fuel

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#70 - Matthew Hubbard: Failure is a Chance to Take the Scenic Route

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#69 - Alison Luff: The Power of 'No'

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#68 - Meg Shaffer: The Lost Story

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#67 - Anna DeShawn: The Founder of The Qube

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#66 - Laura Larios: It's a Called a "Nervous" System for a Reason

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#65 - Andy Mientus: tick... tick... BOOM... He's in The Flash

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#64 - Katie Horwitch: Turning Self-Doubt into Self-Empowerment!

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#63 - Mark Daley: Wrong Door, Right Time

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#62 - Alison Cochrun: Authors... They're Just Like Us!

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#61 - James Jin: Pushing Through The Visually Uncomfortable

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#60 - Lara Love Hardin: Climbing Back From a Heroin Addiction

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#59 - Anoushka Lucas: Redefining Intentionality

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#58 - Venessa Vida Kelley: Bless Your Mistakes

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#57 - Steve Kamb: Not All Heroes Wear Capes (but this one might)

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#56 - 2023 End of Year Reflection

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#55 - Paula Lafferty: The TikTok Whisperer

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#54 - Chris Sabol & Billy Aberle: They Are Anything but "Straight Forward"

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#53 - Brenden Kumarasamy: The Master Manifestor

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#52 - Rashan Brown: Allowing Us to Feel All the Feels

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#51 - Jai Rodriguez: An Original 'Queer Eye' Guy Who Won't Punch Down

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#50 - Drew Stern: Creating Theater's First Digital Collectible Marketplace

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#49 - Asi Wind: The Magician's Magician

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#48 - Analena Fuchs: Human Designing Her Way to Success

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#47 - Jasmine Rafael & Cassidy Hamilton: Three Lesbians and an Alan

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#46 - Javier Muñoz: Just Call Him "Sexy Javi"

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#45 - Erica Lynn Cunanan: Learning How to Spray Tan from Ryan Murphy

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#44 - Maria Shehata: Making London Funnier

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#43 - Lauren Lee Crane: The 8th Grade Health Class You Should Have Had

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#42 - Jeff Madoff: Creating more PERSONALITY!

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#41 - Amber Trueblood: The Headmaster at the School of Rock!

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#40 - Julie Civiello Polier: The Aesthetician to the Stars

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#39 - Joe Rosko: Training Better Than Thor Hemsworth Does

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#38 - Joanne Lipman: NEXT! That's What She Said

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#37 - Alex Donnelly: From Finance to the Stage

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#36 - Anthony Norman: Accidentally Becoming Successful

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#35 - Donnie Brown: THE Reality TV Wedding Planner

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#34 - Lili Thomas: Connor's Mom Has Got It Going On

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#33 - Sami Moog: Alchemy of Imagination

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#32 - Lee Zlotoff: MacGyver the Musical

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#31 - Mikayla Petrilla: Just a Damn Good Person

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#30 - 2022 End of Year Reflection

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#29 - Mauricio Martínez: Leading Man Energy!

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#28 - Nicole Carosella: Energy, Manifestation, Witches, and Jewelry OH MY!

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#27 - Steve Silverman: "Go Home and Write, Steve"

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#26 - Justin Guarini: Creating Unbreakable Confidence with our Favorite American Idol

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#25 - Jesse McAnally: This Mega-Nerd's Gone Feature-Length!

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#24 - Benjamin S. Ptashinsky-Skinner: aka "Equity Ben"

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#23 - Jay Clouse: Enabling Creators to Be More Creative (and Earn More Money)

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#22 - Lindsay McMahon: The Master of Edu-tainment - All Ears English

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#21 - Ian Eisendrath: Being An Artist is Like Coming Home

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#20 - Nicholas Hussong: Projecting His Creative Destiny

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#19 - Mary Rutt: Meet this Latter-Day Lesbian

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#18 - Sammi Cannold & Dori Berinstein: The Show Must Go On (with Andrew Lloyd Webber)

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#17 - Morgan James: From Broadway to Indie Artist Superstar

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#16 - Mike Abrams: “Grizabella was the wrong cat to die. Welcome to my Ted Talk.”

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#15 - José Rolón: Turning Tragedy into Triumph

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#14 - Denise Duffield-Thomas: The money mentor helping to change the world

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#13 - Christina Ray-Lynn Connelly: Artist, Actor, Dangerbot, & creator of Vagina Plushies!

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#12 - Jenny Steingart: Tony Award-Winning Producer and Professional Chance Taker

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#11 - Lulu Picart & Alison Burns: The Masterminds Behind the 10KDollarDay Podcast

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#10 - Lauren Jelencovich: Just Traveling The World As Yanni's Lead Singer. No Biggie.

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#9 - Xochitl Gonzalez: Olga Dies Dreaming

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#8 - Jim Jimirro: The Inventor of The Disney Channel and co-founder of J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company

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#7 - Rain Ross: A Series of Dance Encounters

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#6 - Josh Breckenridge: He Is Anything But Monotonous

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#5 - Drew Gasparini: From College Dropout to Broadway Composer

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#4 - Steven Sater: Tony/Grammy/Olivier/Lortel/Drama Desk Award-Winning Awesome Guy

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#3 - Erica Swindell: Lead Violinist / Concertmaster for The Eagles

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#2 - James Harkness: Navy Vet turned Broadway Actor

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#1 - What is this about? Introducing "Was It Chance?"