Spirit Talk Show - Bedtime Stories for Grown Ups

He walked into his first breathwork class and saw a sheepskin rug, crystals, and oils. He looked around and thought: what is this fresh hell that I have now stepped into? He was from Boston. He did not believe in Mercury in retrograde. He was not the guy for this.

Then Matthew Perry bought him a session with a guru, told him he was the only friend who would do it, and asked him to report back. So he went. And something happened that he could not explain. And he spent the next fifteen years figuring out why — stripping away the mysticism, finding the science, and building a method that has now certified over 3,000 practitioners worldwide and put thousands of skeptical, eye-rolling, arms-crossed human beings on the floor and cracked them open.

Jon Paul Crimi is a breathwork teacher, former Hollywood screenwriter, sobriety coach, and the guy who figured out how to bring the most woo-woo tool in the wellness world to the people who would never go near it. The SWAT captains. The firefighters. The husbands dragged to class on a Friday night who end up crying in the lobby and asking if they can give him a hug.

In this episode, Jon Paul explains what transient hypofrontality actually means — and why it is the thing you have been chasing with every drink, every meditation app, and every therapy session that did not quite get there. He talks about his close friendship with Matthew Perry, the screenplay that was stolen from him in Hollywood and made into a movie, why trauma lives in the body and not the head, and what it looks like when someone's nervous system starts telling the truth before their mind is ready to hear it.

He also calls out Doyle live on air for skipping most of the class.

Find Jon Paul and his breathwork at https://jonpaulcrimi.com

Spirit Talk Show – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups
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Some stories don't die.

They wait.

At 19 years old, Rodney Phillips began writing a novel about conflict — about how a single disagreement can fracture trust, unravel loyalty, and ignite consequences no one can control. Then life happened. Career. Coaching. Fatherhood. Leadership. And the manuscript — handwritten in notebooks and on furniture store layaway cards — sat untouched in a filing cabinet for 37 years.

Until one quiet weekend in an empty nest, he opened the drawer.

In this powerful episode of Spirit Talk Show: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups, Rodney shares the journey behind Dissension: A Disagreement That Leads to Discord — a gripping cartel thriller set in Miami that explores loyalty, betrayal, ambition, communication breakdown, and the fragile line between order and chaos.

We explore:

What 19-year-old Rodney understood about conflict

How 37 years of life experience reshaped the story

Writing strong female characters in male-dominated worlds

Loyalty versus blind obedience — and where the line sits

The psychology of disagreement and fractured trust

Why unfinished dreams don't disappear — they wait

Rodney reads the prologue of Dissension, and we dive into the emotional core of a story that spans decades — both on the page and in the writer's life.

This episode isn't just about publishing a novel.

It's about reopening a drawer.
It's about finishing what you started.
It's about proving it's never too late to return to the dream that once defined you.

Dissension is currently ranked #9 on Goodreads under Spy Thriller.

Learn more about Rodney Phillips and his work at:
https://RodneyPhillipsAuthor.com

Because sometimes the storm you wrote at 19…
is the one you're finally strong enough to finish at 56.

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Most of what runs your life is not part of you. You would not recognize it if it bumped into you in the street. Underneath the version of you that picks out a t-shirt in the morning and answers emails and makes small talk — there is another you. A quieter one. An older one. The one who learned very early what was safe and what was not. What love looked like. What you were worth. Whether you had to keep your guard up just in case.

That version of you does not ask permission. It just runs. And it has been running for decades.

Craig Meriwether has spent sixteen years walking carefully, patiently, and with extraordinary skill into that underneath place. He has done it with veterans carrying things no human being should have to carry. With cancer patients. With children, athletes, entrepreneurs, and ordinary tired people who finally said enough. Tonight he did some of it with us, live, on air.

This episode is different from most. Craig does not just talk about the work — he teaches it. You will hear two live techniques designed to reset the nervous system, ease anxiety, and begin to rewrite the subconscious story that has been running quietly beneath everything you do. Bring a quiet room. Bring an open hour. Bring yourself.

We also go deep into past life regression, the brain as antenna rather than storage house, and what a seventy-year-old woman discovered in three sessions that she had been carrying since she was twelve months old, standing in her crib.

Craig is the creator of Depression 180, the Mind Mastery Blueprint, and the Life Transformation Kit. He is a featured author in the New York Times bestselling anthology Pearls of Wisdom alongside Jack Canfield and Marci Shimoff, and has interviewed some of the most compelling voices in consciousness and healing.

Find Craig and his work at https://craigmeriwether.com

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What does it teach you when a city rises from nothing… and then vanishes on purpose?

Doyle is joined by guest co-hosts Howie and Russ for a wide-ranging conversation with Sarah Marshall, author of Playa Dust in My Soul, a novel that drops you into Burning Man through seven distinct characters and a fully lived, 360-degree view of the Playa.

Sarah unpacks the deeper philosophy beneath the spectacle: radical self-reliance, the gift economy, participation without an audience, and how impermanence reshapes identity. We talk community and chosen family, what it means to “export” your most authentic self into everyday life, and why so many people return to the Playa year after year.

Sarah also reads an excerpt from the opening of her book, grounding us in dust, freedom, discipline, and the strange tenderness of starting over. Then we close with a question that lingers: if all the roles and identities fell away tomorrow, who would remain in the dust?

Learn more about Sarah and Playa Dust in My Soul at: playaadustinmysoul.com

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In this deeply moving episode of Spirit Talk Show, Doyle sits down with Devorah Brinckerhoff for a powerful conversation about grief, trauma, creativity, and the quiet courage it takes to face the parts of ourselves we were taught to hide.

Devorah shares how her work with Soul Portraits was born not from theory, but from survival—through loss, family rupture, profound betrayal, and the long process of reclaiming identity after trauma. What emerged was a creative healing practice that helps people transform letters, photographs, journals, and other personal artifacts into visual expressions of truth, memory, and becoming.

Together, Doyle and Devorah explore what it means to carry pain in the body, why traditional talking sometimes is not enough, how objects can hold emotional energy, and why healing is not about erasing the past but transforming our relationship to it. They also talk about shame, self-worth, grief, inner wisdom, and the surprising power of making something with your own hands when words no longer reach deep enough.

This is a conversation about the stories we carry, the identities we outgrow, and the possibility of meeting ourselves with more compassion than judgment.

A soulful, vulnerable, and unforgettable episode for anyone who has ever wondered whether broken pieces can still become something beautiful.

Learn more about Devorah Brinckerhoff and Soul Portraits:
https://soulportrait.art/

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