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Staying PowerHealing is Hard, Healing is Worth ItEpisode 089: “Healing is Hard, Healing is Worth It”First responders see and experience trauma daily — and often carry those wounds long after the sirens fade. In this episode of Staying Power, JD Wyneken and Ashley Knebel talk with trauma psychologist Dr. Denise Haselwood about how trauma rewires the brain, why it changes thoughts and behavior, and most importantly, how it can be healed. Denise shares practical insights, science-based therapies, and real stories from her work with firefighters, police, EMTs, and more. If you’re a first responder — or someone who loves one — this episode offers knowl...
2025-09-0453 minStaying PowerRest Without Retreat: How to Recharge Without Sabotaging Your GoalsEpisode 078: Rest Without Retreat: How to Recharge Without Sabotaging Your GoalsSummer’s here, the pace of life is shifting—and suddenly it feels easier to let our goals slide in the name of rest, fun, or “taking a break.” But what if those moments of rest could actually support your progress instead of derail it?In this episode of Staying Power, JDK Wyneken and Ashley Knebel unpack how to stay focused on your growth while also giving yourself permission to relax and recharge. Drawing from neuroscience, somatic practices, and psychological resilience theory, they explore how to balan...
2025-06-1254 minStaying PowerOther People's Versions of UsEpisode 031: Other People's Versions of Us Wanting to control how other people view us can be a powerful impulse, but is ultimately an impossible goal whose pursuit can leave us feeling frustrated, fearful, or worse. In this episode, JD and Ashley share their own challenges and lessons learned in this area, and also share some of the latest expert perspectives on things like self-perception, how to better know and trust ourselves, and how to better let go of our concern over how others see us. https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/eight_reasons_to_distrust_yo...
2024-07-0227 minStaying PowerDecisions, Decisions....Episode 030: Decisions, Decisions....Many decisions - especially big ones - can freeze us in place as we want to make the "perfect" or "right" decision in order to ensure the outcome we want. How can we shift our perspective to focus on how to make our choice more successful, no matter which course we take? JD and Ashley zero in on this topic this week, incorporating some of the latest science and psychology of decision-making into their discussion. Along the way, see what you learn about yourself as you learn about how the two hosts face these c...
2024-06-2527 minStaying PowerWhat We Need to Know About ResiliencyEpisode 1: "What We Need to Know About Resiliency" Welcome to a show about how we can all choose to develop resilience in our lives and move beyond what we - and society - often say is possible. What is resilience exactly, and what does it look and feel like within us? What is it NOT? How can we take daily steps to build it and bring us into more ease, flow, purpose, and meaning? Take a listen to this inaugural episode and be sure to subscribe, review, share, and join JDK Wyneken and Tawny Sanabria eac...
2023-11-0226 min
Stacy Connects…with Stacy HellerPouring it Out in Porto, Portugal: JDK WynekenStacy returns from Portugal, full of stories and memories to share about her explorations in Lisbon, Porto, and – weirdly – a candy shop in the Amsterdam airport. Along the way she rode on rivers in the pouring rain, cooked a fabulous Portuguese meal, saw statues of Some Important Historical Dudes, admired tiles, and witnessed how art and life intertwine in every place she visited. Guest JDK Wyneken also returns to sprinkle in some historical tidbits to add legitimacy to Stacy’s “ripped from the headlines” version of Portugal’s history. Get your wanderlust on! To connect with Stacy, go to https://www...
2023-10-2555 minStacy Connects…with Stacy HellerCaptain Dork Vs Geek WomanWith Stacy under the weather, JDK Wyneken and Grace Heller take over the mic to discuss their longtime debate about the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s a conversation, though, more about the nature of friendship, character building, and why we all care about our heroes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2023-01-0455 minStacy Connects…with Stacy HellerThe Great JDK and Bruce Show HijackingWith Stacy on vacation in villa-esque Italy, her friends JDK Wyneken and Bruce Pflaumer - who also host podcasts that Stacy helped produce - steal the mic for this weeks episode to give her listeners more insight into what makes Stacy great and a World Champion Connector. And don’t worry - they were nice. Mostly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2022-10-2655 min
Athletic ObscuraHome GameOn this episode Seth takes Rich on a sports journey across the globe profiling unique and dangerous traditional sports from around the world, as well as the communities and cultures where they thrive. Locations include Florence Italy, Kyrgyzstan, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the tropical island of Bali. Using the Neflix Docu-series Home Game as source material, Seth will take the listeners on a global adventure and catch a glimpse of culture and history as well. Link to JDK Wyneken's podcast that Seth was on (look for episode 59).https://www.wordsbyjdk.com/ ...
2022-02-261h 00
Athletic ObscuraBonus Episode: January 2022Sorry for the delay in production. We will be back recording episodes ASAP and hope to have something for you all by early February 2022. Check out our friend JDK Wyneken https://www.wordsbyjdk.com/ @JdkWyneken Follow us on Twitter @athleticobscura Send us an email- athleteticobscura@gmail.comBuy us a coffee (Or some Pizza): www.buymeacoffee.com/AthleticObscura Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-01-1405 min
Plateau Partners PulseDr. JD Wyneken & Julia Cannell: Airway Science for KidsJDK and Julia both join the show, JD as the member of the Plateau Partners and Strategic Planning and Reengagement Director for Airway Science for Kids (ASK) and Julia, as Executive Director of ASK. After answering the speed round of questions covering the basics, JD and Julia dive in sharing the important history, mission, and goals of ASK. A nonprofit, its’ mission is to remove barriers for children and youth who have been systematically excluded from STEAM education and careers. Their approach is unique, inspiring and innovative and so is the conversation. To learn more about Airway Science for Kids go...
2021-10-2055 min
Between Two CheeksEp 02: The History of BushIn this episode, we sit down with Dr JDK Wyneken and we uncover the tip of the iceberg on the history of bush. A PhD who has spent his career teaching others, Brooke and Stacy teach JDK a thing or two about bush and how the Brazilian wax started with a family of sisters out of New York.
2021-04-1818 minStacy Connects…with Stacy HellerRebuilding After A Dumpster FireRebuilding After a Dumpster Fire with Guest JDK Wyneken. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2020-12-0955 min
Building From the Bullet HoleLeveling UpI've worked hard to remember and learn from my past, and I've also had to grow beyond it. The same is true, I've found, in how history shapes and affects current events; we have to remember the past while not being shackled by it. All of these have collided together for me recently - in a painful but illuminating experience in my personal life, in the ongoing COVID crisis, and in the protests, violence, and national reckoning about race that has swept America after the killing of George Floyd. Join me for a raw examination, and weaving together, of...
2020-07-0143 minBuilding From the Bullet HoleEveryone Has A Story Worth TellingWhether in a written story, the annals of history, or in life, the smallest of developments can produce immense consequences. How we respond to them often then tells the story of who we each are. In this episode, I talk with Julia Cannell, the Executive Director of Airway Sciences for Kids, a nonprofit dedicated to helping underserved children and teens discover and tell their own stories through aviation and aerospace. Julia also is a big part of my own story, as she came to my assistance at a crucial moment early in my rebuild. We talk about various elements...
2020-06-1848 minBuilding From the Bullet HoleThunderstruckThe bullet holes we build from come in all shapes and sizes, from all sorts of sources. In this episode, my great friend Cyra Sadowl stops in to discuss her own life rebuild from the wound of her late husband - and my close friend - Matt's sudden death. Cyra was also my chief creative consultant and initial editor on Krelle's Inferno, so our respective rebuilds wove in and around that story. We dig into that at length, discuss our favorite memories of Matt, Cyra takes us back from her darkest days to her brighter ones today...
2020-06-0349 minBuilding From the Bullet HoleGrilled!Now that you've (literally) heard Chapter One of Krelle's Inferno, take a listen as JDK answers questions about the book from Stacy Heller, his friend and a connector-extraordinaire. Learn more about where the book's title and characters originated, JDK's writing process, and hear about some of the locations readers will visit in the book. It's a freewheeling discussion that includes everything from crashing airplane metaphors and fashion critiques to not-so-oblique references to one of JDK's favorite musicians and to a visually-challenged, pint-sized, and beloved right fielder with an overactive imagination and a massive crush on a lifeguard.
2020-05-2052 minBuilding From the Bullet HoleOpen to Page One - A Reading From Krelle's InfernoHey there, all you cool cats and kittens! Grab a snack, a beverage of your choice, get comfy, and settle in to listen to the first chapter of my novel. It's like an old-time radio show, but without the campy studio-manufactured background noises and cheesy accents. Instead, it's me in my campy, ramshackle blanket-fort reading my own words! I’m so excited for you to finally meet Geren Krelle, get a sense of his character, the dilemma he faces, and the world he must confront. Enjoy!
2020-05-0743 minBuilding From the Bullet HoleBased on Real Events. . .If They Went to HellFinally! With JDK's personal backstory established, it's time to kick of the podcast season's second half with the history behind his novel, Krelle's Inferno. Rooted in JDK's professional research and knowledge of the Second World War and early Cold War, the book instead explores an alternate history timeline that skews from a fateful and decisive event in human history - the "D-Day" invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Hear about how JDK made the choices he did in building Geren Krelle's frightening world, and how actual history and counterfactual history can tell similarly human stories in dynamically different ways.
2020-04-2229 minBuilding From the Bullet HoleWe Are[n't] Our WoundsJoin JDK for an intimate and fun conversation with Steven Crozier - musician, writer, and Incredible Human Being - about the roots of creativity and expression, not as products of inherent "genius," but from (and through) the wounds we all have. Steven and JDK will talk about how their creative outlets proved to be both sources and outcomes of healing from their past mistakes, and Steven will read the poem that gave this podcast its name. https://www.wordsbyjdk.com/
2020-04-0834 minBuilding From the Bullet HoleMy Brooklyn Bridge(Mature Content Warning - Lots of Adult Language and Topics. Keep the kiddies away). Join JDK for a wide-ranging conversation with his "smokejumper", Jay Parker, founder of the No More Secrets recovery program. Brooklyn-born Jay tells his own epic rebuilding story, then he and JDK compare notes on the roles played in their respective rebuilds by letting go of secrets, confronting the shame of their pasts, being involved in shared communities, and developing personal spirituality. It's a deep dive into JDK the human being and author from the perspective of one of the people who knows him...
2020-03-2541 minBuilding From the Bullet HoleVoice LessonsA conversation with emotional intelligence and addiction expert Dr. Hilarie Cash, LMHC, Ph.D. Learn how she helped JDK find the inner strength - his "Voice" - to move beyond his past and begin the growth that led to his writing of Krelle's Inferno. https://www.wordsbyjdk.com/
2020-03-1139 minBuilding From the Bullet HoleFireball Ain't Just a DrinkOn previous episodes I’ve spent a lot of time speaking about Geren Krelle’s story from my book, Krelle’s Inferno. In this episode, I talk about mine. More specifically, I give you background on the emotional challenges I faced growing up and into adulthood that brought me to a crisis point where I blew up my life. I love analogies, and the one that best serves my story is that of a forest fire that I was responsible for lighting by giving it all the fuel it needed to burn my life down. That created fertile ground to sta...
2020-02-2137 minBuilding From the Bullet HoleAn Accidental AutobiographyIt’s a truism that author’s write what they know, and Geren Krelle - the main character in my novel – is well known to me after all, I created him. It wasn’t until after the writing process was complete, though, that I came to realize WHY I knew him so well. In many ways (most, if I’m being honest), he is the me of my past. Krelle’s emotional journey in this story mirrors my own over the past decade. Take a listen to find out how and why, and why it tells both our stories
2020-02-2122 minBuilding From the Bullet Hole[re]Building a Life in Real Time In this first episode, I talk about what it means – and what it’s like – to be a “man in the middle.” In the middle of rebuilding and redirecting my life after blowing up my old one spectacularly about a decade ago. Emotional growth has been the driving force behind the rebuild and it turns out, writing of my alternate history fiction novel, Krelle’s Inferno has been a key part of the redirection as well. The personal and professional sides of me have joined for this journey. Hear about the first steps and lessons I took as a fiction...
2020-02-2126 minBuilding From the Bullet HolePrologue - Building From the Bullet Hole Like Krelle’s Inferno, I wanted to share a prologue for Building from the Bullet Hole (it’s the author in me!). This episode is a quick overview of the WHY and WHAT (to expect) during the first season. I’m thrilled that you’re willing to come on this new journey as I lay the foundation of how Krelle’s Inferno ultimately ended up being an accidental autobiography. This isn’t about entertainment; it’s about connectedness - with ourselves, with each other, and with the reality that have more in common with the generations before us than histor...
2020-02-1414 min
The Bestseller ExperimentEP209: Writing Alt. History with JDK WynekenThe Alt. History genre — also known as Counter-Factual History — takes a key moment in history and use a "What if?" question to create enthralling stories. JDK Wyneken's forthcoming novel Krelle's Inferno asks what would have happened if the D-Day landings had failed. We met at Duxford Airbase during the preparations for the D-Day anniversary events to discuss how to write in this extraordinary genre. To support the show go to bestsellerexperiment.com/support Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality
2019-07-1502 min