The Place He Made: Nate's Legacy of Wellness

Ojai: Talk of the Town · Apr 30, 2026 · 59m

There are lives that flicker. And there are lives that catch—passing their light from one person to the next until you can no longer trace where it began.

Nathan “Nate” Rhoades was the latter.

In Episode 283 of Ojai Talk of the Town, we sit down with his mother, Heidi Allison, to talk about a life that burned bright, faltered, recovered, and — far too soon — ended in a tragic car accident in 2022. Nate was 21. But the story doesn’t end there. Not even close.

Because what Heidi and her husband Larry discovered in the days after Nate’s death was something both devastating and clarifying: their…