I’m so excited to share another episode of Unprocessed with you.

Today’s conversation is with Greg Denning, author of The Formidable Family Man, father of seven, and someone who has spent decades intentionally building the kind of family life he wished he had growing up.

Greg moved out on his own at 16, and during some of his loneliest years, he made a decision: if he ever had a family of his own, he was going to be an incredible dad. What followed was a commitment to working on himself, confronting his own insecurities and temper, and becoming the kind of man he wanted his children to have as an example.

In this conversation, we get into why becoming a great father starts with working on yourself, how emotional strength and resilience are built through the challenges we face, and why our kids learn so much more from what we do than what we tell them. Greg shares how he and his wife have built a life around travel, fitness, adventure, faith, and raising seven capable, curious kids who are encouraged to discover their own paths.

We talk about traveling the world as a family, making movement and doing hard things part of everyday life, and finding ways to encourage our kids without forcing them to be someone they’re not. Greg shares why he believes struggle is an essential part of growth, how the habits and patterns we develop shape the people we become, and why the work we do on ourselves can have an impact that reaches far beyond us.

One of my favorite moments is when Greg describes the kind of life he wants to build, saying: “I don’t wanna be a businessman with a family. I wanna be a family man with a business.”

There’s something powerful about that distinction. What would change if we built our lives around the things that matter most, rather than trying to fit them into whatever time and energy we have left?

This is a conversation about fatherhood, personal responsibility, and creating a life that reflects your values. More than anything, it’s a reminder that building the family and life you want starts with becoming the person who can help create them.

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I’m so excited to share another episode of Unprocessed with you.

Today’s conversation is with Heather Elliott, founder of Mindful Change and creator of 5D Psychology. Heather trained in traditional psychology and spent years as a teacher before stepping away to follow a different path, one that looks beneath the surface of our thoughts and emotions to understand the beliefs that are actually shaping our lives.

I had a session with Heather before we recorded this conversation, and it stayed with me. There’s something about the way she works that gets underneath the story you think you’re dealing with and starts asking a much deeper question: what is the belief underneath it?

In this conversation, we go deep into the conditioning we pick up from our parents, our families, school, and society, and how those voices can quietly become the stories we carry around with us. Heather explains how emotions can be the surface of something much deeper, and why changing the underlying belief can change the pattern itself.

We talk about why people can spend years trying to understand themselves and still find themselves repeating the same patterns, the difference between knowing your story and actually changing it, and the strategies we develop to protect beliefs about ourselves that may no longer serve us.

There are some pretty big questions in this one. What if the things limiting us aren’t actually who we are? What if so much of what we believe about ourselves was learned before we were old enough to question it?

Heather is a badass, deeply thoughtful, and just so cool. I loved this conversation, and I think there’s a lot in here to sit with.

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Today’s conversation is with my friend Jason Hickey. Jason is a husband, a father, a professional poker player, and a coach. But what really drew me to this conversation is his honesty about the work of becoming who we actually want to be.

We talk about addiction, healing, discipline, fatherhood, and what it means to build a life from the inside out. It’s a conversation about presence more than performance, and about remembering that the people we love most don’t need us to be perfect — they just want the real, authentic, present version of ourselves.

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Today’s conversation is with my dear friends Steve Coughran and Jamie Davidson. Through their work, they help couples build strong relationships rooted in faith, personal responsibility, and a deeper understanding of the masculine and feminine.

We explore true partnership, parenting, and what it looks like to intentionally create a life that really reflects your values. For Steve and Jamie, it’s the road far less traveled. It’s a life of texture, and it’s included lots of border crossings in Central America and, currently, lots of chopping wood in rural Montana.

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Today’s conversation is with Janet Flores Pavlovich, the force of nature and founder of Coyotas, the best tortillas on the planet. Janet grew up in Hermosillo, Sonora, the birthplace of the flour tortilla, and has spent years exploring how to restore dignity to traditional foods and the lineage of women who have nourished generations.

We talk about preserving culture through food, the importance of clean ingredients, and why looking back at the wisdom of our ancestors is essential to help us feed our families better today. And in that wisdom lies reverence, simplicity, and beauty worth preserving.

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Today's conversation is with my friend David Sutcliffe. Many of you will know David from his acting career, but these days he works as a Somatic Practitioner and Core Energetics coach, leading life changing workshops that help people better understand themselves and thus their relationships.I've learned a lot participating and cooking for David's retreats, and in this conversation we explore presence, old patterns, and the practices that help us navigate life with a lot more grace.🥩 Join the What Feeds Us community on Substack for recipes, reflections, and real conversation.👉 https://chefarangoldstein.substack.com/📱 Follow along on Instagram for more of the day to day.👉 @chefarangoldstein#UnprocessedPodcast #DavidSutcliffe #GettingUnstuck

Today’s conversation is with my friend Eben Britton.

Eben is a former NFL offensive lineman, a father, a writer, a coach, and someone who has spent the last decade asking deeper questions about what it means to live a meaningful life.

What drew me to this conversation is Eben’s honesty.

We talk about life after professional sports, healing old wounds, fatherhood, faith, discipline, and the ongoing work of becoming who we really are beneath the roles we play.

It’s a conversation about truth, presence, and learning to trust your own inner compass in a world full of noise.

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Today’s episode is a little different. Before we dive into conversations with guests, I wanted to take some time to share where this podcast came from and some of the questions that keep pulling at me.

Questions about food, sure, but also about family, fatherhood, health, community, and this feeling that I just can’t shake, that there’s got to be a better way to live.

So this is really the beginning of that exploration, and I’m glad you’re here for it.

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