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Made, Not Found
Real conversations for people who believe the best lives aren't found. They're built, one real conversation at a time.
Episodes
Made, Not FoundYou Get to Fire Your Doctor
We have more tools, more information and more knowledge about health than any generation before us. So why are we sicker than ever? This one’s Mel’s world…
Made, Not FoundEveryone Doesn’t Have to Be Your Everything
How has your community changed over the years? If you’ve ever moved somewhere new, drifted from friends you thought you’d have forever, or tried to make…
Made, Not FoundWhen Love Doesn’t Look Like You Expected
How do you change your expectations when your head already knows you need to, but your heart isn’t there yet? Mel is grieving a little. Their oldest son, 14…
Made, Not FoundSwimming Alongside Religion
What did faith mean to you growing up, and how has it changed? Chris was a "holiday Catholic" who prayed every night but never felt at home in church. Mel grew…
Made, Not FoundThe Most Valuable Thing We Do
Here's the strange math of parenting: you pour everything you have into a person, and success looks like them leaving you. We started this one after a day of…
Made, Not FoundI'm Not Sober, I'm Just Not Drinking
There's a sentence one of us can't say without flinching first: we took Molly on our anniversary trip. Not because we're ashamed. Because we know the face some…
Made, Not FoundYou Don't Lose Yourself All at Once
You don't always know when you're lost. That's what makes the hard seasons hard. You don't wake up one morning missing pieces of yourself — it happens slowly…
Made, Not FoundDon't Fall out of Love at the Same Time
We just hit 19 years of marriage. 25 years together. And somewhere in the middle of celebrating that, we realized we'd never actually sat down and talked about…
Made, Not FoundDon't Make Me Live It Twice
Here's the part that still doesn't make sense to us. One of us grew up with no real trauma in it at all — and grew up afraid of almost everything. The other…
Made, Not FoundIs Sex Better in your 40's?
His entire sex education was two words: wrap it up. Hers was her mom begging her not to, and a stack of terrifying articles left out on the kitchen island…
Made, Not FoundMade, Not Found Trailer
This isn't a marriage podcast. It's not a business podcast. And it's definitely not self-help. Nineteen years ago, we had no idea what we were doing. We still…