Oct 29, 2021
Today I speak with Jaime Clemmer, author of Heartbroken, But Not Broken, which offers readers an intimate recounting of how she got through any parent's worst nightmare–her son’s sudden death at the age of 10.
Clemmer shares the details of her unfettered grief to offer license to anyone struggling to tell their own...
Oct 22, 2021
Today I speak with Dr. Patrick Oliver about the only drug approved currently to treat suicidal ideation: Ketamine.
"Where this works is literally in making connections in the brain."
Dr. Oliver is an emergency room physician that left the ER to start his own Ketamine infusion clinics because he saw a need that no one...
Oct 15, 2021
How did fish evolve to walk on land? What are the details of how that process happened?
Today on The Soul of Life I speak with Neil Shubin, the 2004 co-discoverer of Tiktaalik, a fish fossil that is the first evidence of so-called bridge animals with features that show the evolutionary transition between swimming fish...
Oct 8, 2021
Today on The Soul of Life I speak with Dr. Lou Lucas, chief of Palliative Medicine at the Nebraska and Western Iowa Veterans Health Care Systems.
As a palliative medicine doctor, Dr. Lucas is trained to pull together all of the specialists that might be caring for a patient with a life threating disease and implement a...
Oct 1, 2021
The pandemic of 2020 brought us supply shortages. Basics like sugar and flour were scarce. But a truck driver in Houston was making sure people didn’t run out of cake.
Mark says "It’s Texas, so you know, we do things a little bit different from the rest of the country here...Gotta have cake."
If you’ve ever woken...