Episodes 34
Avg. Duration 45m
Activity Sporadic
Apple Rating 4.9 (53)
Since Jan 2020
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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Unfixed: The Podcast What if the very thing that unmoored you became the thread that held you together? Unfixed is a podcast about living—and learning to love—the question. In each season, we explore the unpredictable terrain of adversity, creativity, and transformation through intimate, unguarded conversations with people who are reshaping their lives in the wake of what they didn't choose. Season One pairs individuals living with chronic illness or disability with artists, clinicians, and thinkers who bring their own experience of challenge to the table. These duets are invitations to listen with curiosity and compassion, revealing how presence—not perfection—makes a life powerful. Season Two ventures into the literary world of Substack, where Kimberly Warner speaks with writers whose fiction, memoir, and essays illuminate the "unfixed" condition in its many forms—grief, gender, aging, family rupture, economic uncertainty, and environmental collapse. Together, they unearth the wisdom hidden inside complexity and remind us that the mess is often the message. Season Three introduces Unfixed: Uncut—shorter, spontaneous conversations recorded live. In just 30 minutes, guests respond to one central inquiry: What's something in your life that's come undone—and how might it be exactly what you needed? Whether chronic illness or heartbreak, identity or ecological grief, each episode is a practice in staying open, in finding meaning without resolution. Because sometimes, the very thing we fear is the thing that saves us.

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S2E12 Eric's Fool is Wondrous and Wise

Dec 02, 2025 1h 6m

"We're always asking questions and the outer world is a reflection of those questions being answered, unfolding in linear time so we have the time to experience the answers." -E.T. Allen, author,…

S2E11 Mary Tabor invites you aboard her Lifeboat

Nov 14, 2025 53m

"The splash, instead of a return to surface calm, stays open and splayed. That open water with risen water all around the fallen place is an open hand and palm that takes in the wounded and the…

S2E10 Nina Listens for the Heartbeat

Nov 07, 2025 56m

"What I'm teaching is how to write from the body. If you generate sound and rhythm, that's what the body feels. So you're creating at the sentence level a reality that cannot be denied. I'm feeling…

S2E9 Adam's grand third act

Sep 09, 2025 57m

"I'm no fan of myself. I've learned to tolerate myself. Like, okay, this is who I am. I don't know if anybody runs around and goes, gosh, I'm so glad I'm me. So, I don't have that, but there is an…

S2E8 Slow blooming with Nathan Slake

Sep 01, 2025 58m

"Writing is the most true to myself that I can be." "To me, it's just exhilarating, the notion that you can have a seed of an idea and then the only way to find out where the plot is going to go is…

S2E7 Gail Marlene Schwartz isn't afraid of the hard stuff

Aug 18, 2025 46m

"I love that imagination gives us access to certain kinds of truth that don't exist in the factual world. There is sometimes way more truth we can explore in fiction than we are able to in our very…

S2E6 Mary Tabor's unimaginable lightness of being

Aug 13, 2025 1h 2m

"By experiencing deeply and profoundly the grief, I floated on this ocean of loss. And I felt saved in my life by that." -Mary Tabor, author (Re)Making Love: A Memoir, The Woman Who Never Cooked, Who…

S2E5 Alisa sings the brain electric

Aug 11, 2025 1h 1m

"You can come to a place in your life where you run out of resilience because you're in such an adversarial relationship with your body. And so it's about how to recast and reframe and re-narrativize…

S2E4 Chloe's sacred everything

Jul 31, 2025 57m

"There are times when I'm with someone at the end of their life or I'm with a tiny bird and there is that moment where I'm just like Oh, Oh yeah, I think there's some God here. I love more deeply…

S2E3 Mr. Troy Ford's Inclusive Nest

Jul 25, 2025 55m

"Must the alternative to mindfulness be some kind of zombie existence, a living death? That's not cool. And frankly, I don't believe that's how it works—so often we stumble on beauty, grace and…

S2E2 Bertus' Beautiful Brain

Jul 25, 2025 57m

"Language. I burn it to stay warm." -Bertus Meijer Interviews aren't supposed to be this fun. My conversation with Bertus felt more like hanging out in a sandbox with an old friend, making castles…

S2E1 Ben Wakeman's Memory of My Shadow

Jul 25, 2025 44m

"I think the solve for humanity, if there is a solve, is empathy. If there was a way to put an empathy chip in every single human, so many of our problems would go away." Ben Wakeman - author,…

S2E14 Ep. 14 Bless the Beasts with Jennifer Trepanier and Morgan McCarthy

Jun 15, 2021 34m

Dogs are unspoken healers. For some, they offer companionship, to others they act as an essential lifeline. In this episode, two women living with chronic illness explore the joy and purpose dogs…

S2E13 Ep. 13 Dads with Disability ft Anthony Sanchez and Brian Langhans

Jun 01, 2021 36m

Dads are often likened to superheroes. Tireless providers and valiant protectors, they've rightfully earned the comparison. Some dads, however, are actual superheroes fighting battles every day.…

S2E12 Ep. 12 Dismantling Stigma with Dawn Averitt and Melody Moezzi

May 14, 2021 45m

HIV/AIDS, mental illness, and activism. Three topics rooted in stigma that become more complex when they intersect with another taboo topic – women. Not many dare to step into these challenging…

S2E11 Ep. 11 Finding My People - Online Communities with Jenny McGibbon and Stefanie Grant

May 01, 2021 37m

Having a chronic illness as a young adult can be isolating. Healthy peers don't understand and the medical world feels designed for older people. Then one day, you find people like you online. These…

S2E10 Ep. 10 Approaching Terminal Illness with Openness with Pierre Zimmerman and Dylan Shanahan

Apr 15, 2021 43m

Most of us don't like to think about the end until we're forced to. In this episode, two men suddenly confronted with their own mortality talk about the grace they found on the other side of…

S2E9 Ep. 9 Our Heroes with Bethany Cook and Tamara Cook

Apr 01, 2021 42m

Sometimes our heroes aren't legendary figures, they're the ones right in our home. Bethany Cook's world shattered when she was diagnosed with Narcolepsy and Cataplexy on the brink of young adulthood.…

S2E8 Ep. 8 Mystery Illness, Women, and Their Care with Sarah Ramey and Brianna Cardenas

Mar 15, 2021 43m

The number of illnesses that qualify as mysterious is staggering. They also predominantly affect women. In this episode, author Sarah Ramey and Physician Assistant and professor Brianna Cardenas draw…

S2E7 Ep. 7 The Trauma Link with Veronique Mead and Kristy Boyd

Mar 01, 2021 45m

Life is traumatic. But some of us get an extra whopping dose of it, especially before we've learned tools to help us navigate. In this episode, our guests explore the connection between the nervous…

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