Writing as Gratitude, Therapy, & Mischief
part 1: the book had other plans
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musings about mystery, math, music, myth, movies, and finding magic in the midst of the mundane...and many more things that may or may not start with M
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Ep 438 Faith, Addiction Recovery, and Rebuilding a Blended Family w/Darryl and Tracy Strawberry
Zach sits down with baseball legend Darryl Strawberry and his wife Tracy for a conversation that has almost nothing to do with baseball. Both are on their third marriage. Both are in long term recovery, Darryl more than two decades sober, Tracy twenty five years clean. And both point to the same turning point in their story: faith. Zach wants to know what actually sits underneath a phrase couples…
Ep 437 What Generational Trauma Skips and What It Doesn't w/Kara & Stacy (Zach's cousins)
Zach sits down with his cousin Kara and her wife Stacy, two women he has known since before they were officially a couple, for a conversation that starts as a family reunion and turns into something much deeper. Kara and Stacy have been together for 26 years, married twice (once in civil union, once when it finally became legal), and are raising two kids, Ryland, 11, and Avery, 13, in a household…
Ep 436 When Your Nervous System Is the Third Person in the Room w/Deborah Rozman, Ph.D. & Howard Martin
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Ep 435 Should You Even Be in Couples Therapy? Zach Answers on The Bomb Life w/Melissa Vogel
Zach trades chairs this week. Instead of interviewing a couple, he's the one being interviewed, sitting down with Melissa Vogel of The Bomb Life for a wide-ranging conversation about what actually makes relationships work. Melissa is a health and fitness coach who works with individuals, often watching one partner transform physically and emotionally while the other stays stuck, and she brings…
Ep 434 They Fell in Love Passing Notes in Med School. Thirty Years Later, They're Still Learning Each Other w/Alexandra and Rod Stockwell
Zach sits down with Alexandra and Rod Stockwell, married almost 30 years and both trained as physicians. They met in 1993 as first-year medical students, passing paper notes back and forth during lectures, and that early habit of asynchronous, patient communication turns out to have shaped everything that came after. Alexandra is now a relationship and intimacy coach and host of The Intimate…
Ep 433 Ironman Training With Stage 4 Cancer: Jim and Kelly on Discipline, Marriage, and Kona
Zach sits down with Jim and Kelly, married 30 years, while Jim trains for the Ironman World Championship in Kona and works through his 25th round of chemotherapy. Jim was diagnosed with terminal cancer in April 2024. Rather than pulling back, he set a goal: arrive alive in Kona, finish under 17 hours, promote a book he wrote during treatment, and raise $100,000 for the Ironman Foundation. Zach…
Ep 432 Kings, Queens, and the Chessboard of Marriage w/A.D and Courtney
Zach sits down with married couple A.D. and Courtney, who met on their first day at the University of North Texas and have been together, on and off, for over a decade. A.D. runs a coaching brand built around helping men value themselves inside marriage, and Courtney works in a corporate hybrid role while raising their three kids. Zach opens by asking what makes them tick, and gets a lot more than…
Ep 431 The Couple Who Healed Their War Zones w/Frannie and Danny
Zach sits down with Frannie and Danny, a married couple and wellness practitioners based in Florida who run an energy center in Palm Beach Gardens and lead workshops rooted in trauma recovery, energy work, and conscious relationship practices. Both come from what Frannie calls "war zones." Danny grew up in Israel with an Egyptian-French mother. Frannie was raised in Canada by Holocaust survivors,…
Ep 430 When the Therapist Comes Home: Marriage, ADHD, and the Work Behind the Work w/Eli & Ariella
Zach sits down with Eli, a therapist, podcast host, and author, and his wife Ariella, a registered dietitian, for an honest look at what it actually takes to build a good marriage, not the sanitized version you'd expect from someone with a therapy practice and a book on relationships, but the real one. Seven weeks from welcoming their third child, living in Las Vegas with two kids already in tow,…