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At the Brink with Erica Brinker

At the Brink with Erica Brinker

著者: Erica Brinker
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At the Brink is a podcast about the inflection points that define a life and career. The pivots no one saw coming. The decisions made under pressure. The stories people rarely tell out loud.


Each episode is a conversation with a leader, founder, artist, parent or advocate who has lived through a moment that changed everything — and chose to talk about what actually happened. Not because those stories are easy. Because they are real.


At the Brink explores reinvention, resilience and the defining moments that reshape who we become.


Hosted by Erica Brinker. This show began as something personal. When her son Luca died suddenly at four months old, everything reorganized. What she found in the years that followed was that the people who looked the most composed were often carrying the most. At the Brink exists because those conversations deserve a stage.


Business inquiries and guest bookings: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Erica Brinker
社会科学 経済学
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  • She Broke Her Face at 13. An Orthodontist Changed Her Life. | Dr. Sima
    2026/07/15

    Dr. Sima Yakoby Epstein was 13 years old when a head-on collision broke her face. She was sitting in the middle seat with no seatbelt. When she looked in the rearview mirror, all she saw was blood. Her first instinct was to turn to her mother and ask if she was okay.

    Her parents were Georgian immigrants who didn’t speak the language and couldn’t navigate the medical system. They went to the local dentist because he was the only one they could afford. What followed was years of surgeries, root canals, crowns and implants. As a teenager, Sima wouldn’t smile. She had what she describes as Dracula teeth. She was embarrassed and sad.

    Then she met an orthodontist who looked like Santa Claus. He never commented on how she looked. What he said instead was: great things will come from you. Those five words changed the trajectory of her life. Today she is a double Penn graduate, a former Cornell surgical resident, a former NYU professor and the founder of OrthoNu. She became the person on the other side of the chair.

    In this conversation, Sima talks about growing up in the projects in Queens, her father’s 14-year journey from checker cab driver to fleet owner, her mother who was one semester short of becoming a doctor, losing both parents, and why she decided to stop waiting for someone else to build what patients actually needed.

    Executive Producer: Sara Glassman


    Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast

    Follow Dr. Sima: Instagram @simayakobyepstein | Website: orthonu.com


    www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com

    Here you go:

    At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?


    New episodes every Wednesday.


    Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com

    Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com

    Instagram: @at.the.brink.media


    Executive producer | Sara Glassman

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    43 分
  • She Started from Zero in Three Countries. Then She Did It Again After Divorce. | Alexia Bertsatos
    2026/07/08

    Alexia Bertsatos left Greece at 18 with almost nothing. She studied architecture and interior design in London, pivoted to real estate during the 2008 crash, moved to Arizona for graduate school and met the man she would marry. She became a stay-at-home mom and spent nine years caught between guilt about not working and guilt about not being with her kids enough.


    When the marriage ended, Alexia had no professional track record in the United States, two children under eight and a divorce she didn’t see coming. She had to figure out bills, careers and identity all at once. In this conversation, she talks about what starting over actually looks like when you’ve done it three times in three countries, why she chose not to be the victim of her own story and what her kids were watching the whole time.


    Executive Producer: Sara Glassman


    Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast

    Follow Alexia: Instagram @realestate.by.alexia | Website: alexiabertsatos.com

    www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com

    Here you go:

    At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?


    New episodes every Wednesday.


    Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com

    Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com

    Instagram: @at.the.brink.media


    Executive producer | Sara Glassman

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    38 分
  • Her Daughter Was 8. The Doctor Said Cancer. | Melody Orak
    2026/07/01

    On an ordinary afternoon in March 2022, Melody Orak got a phone call that split her life in two. Her eight-year-old daughter Elilai had a bone tumor. What the doctors said would be 12 rounds of chemotherapy became 28. Then 33 consecutive days of radiation. Then nine months of fighting a disease that still treats children with protocols developed in 1956.


    In this episode, Melody sits down with Erica Brinker to talk about what it actually takes to hold everything together when your child’s life hangs in the balance: the impossible choices made for an eight-year-old, the moment she shaved her own head, the day Elilai’s body said it couldn’t take any more, and the bittersweet reality of remission three years later.


    Plus: the hype song that gets Elilai through middle school, why scan anxiety is real, and a toast you won’t forget.


    Executive producer: Sara Glassman


    Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast

    www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com

    Here you go:

    At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?


    New episodes every Wednesday.


    Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com

    Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com

    Instagram: @at.the.brink.media


    Executive producer | Sara Glassman

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    38 分
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