
Inner work, told through lived change.
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The Hoffman Podcast centers on people describing what changed after the Hoffman Process. Its conversations move through shame, grief, self-trust, childhood patterns, and the difficult practice of meeting pain with love.
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About The Hoffman Podcast
The Hoffman Podcast is built around conversations with people whose lives have been shaped by the Hoffman Process. Its subject is not quick self-improvement. It is the slower work of recognizing inherited patterns, facing shame, and learning how love can become practical in daily life. The episodes are intimate and often emotionally exposed. Guests describe depression, grief, childhood wounds, self-criticism, survivor guilt, and the strange relief that can come when a lifelong story about the self begins to loosen. The show returns again and again to one question: what changes after a person sees themselves more clearly? Sometimes the answer is dramatic. Steve Cieciuch describes a traumatic accident, a difficult recovery, reproductive grief, and the moral weight of surviving when someone else did not. Sometimes the answer is quieter. Allison Kahler speaks about self-forgiveness as a physical release and about building trust over time. Tamsyn Strydom frames change as learning to meet herself without judgment. Alyssia Sheikh names shame as something she can now identify instead of obeying. Andy Milberg brings the show into Hoffman concepts, including negative love and the patterns people mistake for identity. The tone is warm, spacious, and earnest. It gives people time to describe pain without rushing toward a tidy lesson. There is institutional context too, with the Hoffman Institute Foundation present in the framing and Matt Branigan closing episodes with its mission. Still, the emotional center is the guest’s lived account. The show works best for listeners who value therapeutic language, spiritual reflection, and detailed stories of repair. It is gentle, but not lightweight.
Made for: For listeners interested in personal growth, emotional healing, spiritual psychology, and candid stories about life after deep inner work. It especially suits people comfortable with vulnerable conversations about family patterns, shame, grief, and self-compassion.
What sets it apart: The show is unusually anchored in post-process testimony: guests describe not just what hurt, but how their relationship to pain changed afterward. Its strength is the steady attention to love as a lived practice rather than an abstract ideal.
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Love’s Everyday Radius
As heard by us
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
First-person Hoffman Process stories make emotional change legible through specific accounts of shame, grief, self-compassion and altered relationships.
The Hoffman Podcast follows personal change beyond the moment of revelation, asking guests how the Hoffman Process altered their relationship with shame, grief and self-criticism.
Why you'd press play
This is the show that makes "love yourself" answer your awkward follow-up: okay, but how?
Press play if you want
- first-person proof that emotional change can reach your relationships, not just your journal
- help recognizing shame in your body before it quietly starts running your day
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Episodes
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S12e11 Steve Cieciuch - Honoring This Remarkable Life
Hidden gemSteve describes surviving a helicopter-ski avalanche outside Revelstoke, British Columbia, after two feet of new snow slid over a weak layer and killed his partner.
Apr 16, 2026·37m·3 clips - 2
S12e10 Jan Docherty - I Wanted to Know Who I Am
Jan Docherty discusses her journey of self-discovery and healing after experiencing sexual abuse, seeking to uncover her true identity and joy.
Apr 9, 2026·29m - 3
S12e9 Allison Kahler - Building My Trust Muscle
Allison Kahler shares her profound experience of self-forgiveness and self-compassion during a Hoffman Institute process, describing a physical release of weight and a new choice to let go.
Apr 2, 2026·34m - 4
S12e8 Andy Milberg - Exploring the Negative Love Syndrome
Andy Milberg discusses the concept of negative love as a foundational principle of the Hoffman process, exploring how shame and patterns shape identity.
Mar 26, 2026·34m - 5
S12e7 Carrie Levine - Living in Alignment for Optimal Wellness
Carrie Levine discusses living in alignment for optimal wellness on the Hoffman Institute podcast.
Mar 19, 2026·43m - 6
S12e6 Mike Depatie - A Purposeful, Worthwhile Struggle
Hidden gemMike Depatie says Hoffman works because people are “lovable” when they share their “struggles” and “vulnerabilities.”
Mar 12, 2026·30m·2 clips - 7
S12e5 Tamsyn Strydom - A Profound Willingness to Change
Hidden gemTamsin Strydom describes how the Hoffman Process helped her confront lifelong cycles of depression, disordered eating, and financial instability after moving to a new country and rebuilding her business.
Mar 5, 2026·34m·2 clips - 8
S12e4 Alyssia Sheikh - Suddenly, Life Was in Full Color
Hidden gemAlyssia Sheikh says the Hoffman Process turned a grayscale life into one “in color,” with emotions she had never studied.
Feb 26, 2026·33m·2 clips - 9
S12e3 Nicole Olivier - Honoring Lineage & Reclaiming Courage
Feb 19, 2026·30m - 10
S12e2 Veta McFall - A Visual Representation of My Inner Transformation
Feb 12, 2026·27m - 11
S12e1 Matt Brannagan - Our New CEO for Hoffman 3.0
Feb 5, 2026·31m - 12
S11e16 James Bonilla - Seeing in Technicolor
Dec 4, 2025·33m - 13
S11e15 Emma Swift - The New Land Within Yourself
Nov 27, 2025·36m - 14
S11e14 Brian James Daly - The Ground Game of Transformation
Nov 20, 2025·34m - 15
S11e13 Ana Bok - It Is My Life That I Claim
Nov 13, 2025·42m - 16
S11e12 Medical Panel - Healing, Hoffman, & Finding Safety Within
A panel of medical professionals and Hoffman graduates discuss the connection between emotional and physical health, focusing on finding safety within.
Nov 6, 2025·53m - 17
S11e11 Jessica Harjo - My Ancestry Is My Soil, My Foundation
Oct 30, 2025·43m - 18
S11e10 Dr. Angela Le - Reclaiming My Power to Create
Oct 23, 2025·30m - 19
S11e9 Drew Horning - What It Means to Be Human
Oct 16, 2025·58m - 20
S11e8 Nichol Bradford - Technology, AI, & the Hoffman Process
Oct 9, 2025·45m - 21
S11e7 Madison Utendahl - Go Enjoy Your Life. I've Got Your Back.
Oct 2, 2025·43m - 22
S11e6 Jeff Orlowski-Yang - The Stories We Tell
Sep 25, 2025·48m - 23
S11e5 Rao Rao - Across the World, We Share the Same Humanity
Sep 18, 2025·32m - 24
S11e4 Simbi Hall - The Strength to Question My Own Narrative
Sep 11, 2025·34m - 25
S11e3 Shirin Oreizy - A Deep-Felt Appreciation for Life
Sep 4, 2025·37m - 26
S11e2 Dr. Kash Trivedi - I Am My Own Resource
Aug 28, 2025·30m - 27
S11e1 (non-grad) Suleika Jaouad - An Alchemical Life
Aug 21, 2025·46m - 28
S10e18 Diana Chapman - Experiencing More Heaven on Earth
Jun 19, 2025·41m - 29
S10e17 Helen Valleau - This Essence of Eternal Love Within
Hidden gem["The Hoffman Podcast interview with Helen Velo centers on \"This Essence of Eternal Love Within\" and the way the Hoffman Process shaped her life.", "Drew Horning hosts the conversation, Helen Velo appears as a Hoffman teacher of 30 years, and Liza Ingrassi and Raz Ingrassi close by naming the Hoffman Institute Foundation's mission.", "The episode asks what happens when spiritual practice, process work, and years of teaching turn self-love from an idea into an experience.", "Helen says she will mark 30 years teaching the Hoffman Process in November, and she connects that work to affirmative prayer, HeartMath training, and aging with purpose."]
Jun 12, 2025·35m·2 clips - 30
S10e16 Corey Campbell - I Am Enough Just as I Am
Jun 5, 2025·38m - 31
S10e15 Ade and Claudette Faison - Unlocking Futures
May 29, 2025·37m - 32
S10e14 Diana C. Toman - A Heart-Driven Badass
May 22, 2025·32m - 33
S10e13 Lee Klinger Lesser - What Does This Moment Ask of Me?
May 15, 2025·33m - 34
S10e12 Jake Reisch - Telling the Whole Story
May 8, 2025·34m - 35
S10e11 Brad Keywell - A Life of Expansive Curiosity
May 1, 2025·49m - 36
S10e10 Our Pre-Process Panel - Before the Process With Regina, Marc, and Jason
A panel discussion with Regina, Marc, and Jason about the pre-process experience at the Hoffman Institute, focusing on showing up authentically in a space for personal growth.
Apr 24, 2025·30m - 37
S10e9 Rusty Duke - Happy Before; Very Happy Now
Apr 17, 2025·34m - 38
S10e8 Carol Frank - Healing and Growing Relationships
Apr 10, 2025·31m - 39
S10e7 Our Post-Process Panel - After the Process, With Kevin, Steve, and Zeina
A panel discussion with Hoffman teachers about life after the Hoffman Process, focusing on integration and maintaining connection to one's authentic self.
Apr 3, 2025·31m - 40
S10e6 Patrick Belisle - Monks, Mysticism, and Money
Mar 27, 2025·36m - 41
S10e5 Nita Gage - Remembering Lee Lipsenthal, M.D.
Mar 20, 2025·30m - 42
S10e4 Miranda Barnhart Domenico - Rewriting the Past
Mar 13, 2025·42m - 43
S10e3 Sarah Hernholm - Whatever It Takes
Mar 6, 2025·34m - 44
S10e2 Megan Lowry - Building a Kernel of Hope Into Something Bigger
Feb 27, 2025·39m - 45
S10e1 Marissa & Raz Ingrasci - Spiritual Lineage & the Hoffman Process
Feb 20, 2025·49m - 46
S9e17 Kevjorik Jones - Moving Forward with Strength and Power
Kevjorik Jones discusses his journey of vulnerability and strength after completing the Hoffman Process, emphasizing the importance of staying open and moving forward with power.
Dec 26, 2024·35m - 47
S9e16 Christy Foley - Living in the Presence of the Unknown
Dec 19, 2024·34m - 48
S9e15: Arielle Ford - As Much Fun as Possible
Dec 12, 2024·40m - 49
S9e14 Roanne Adams - Putting the Process Into Practice
Dec 5, 2024·39m - 50
S9e13 Anna Switzer PhD - The Human Spirit and the Natural World
Nov 28, 2024·37m