The Great Detour
Navigate life’s transitions with resilience and rewrite your story as your most authentic, empowered self.
The Great Detour
Navigate life’s transitions with resilience and rewrite your story as your most authentic, empowered self.
About The Great Detour
Navigate life’s transitions with resilience and rewrite your story as your most authentic, empowered self.
The Great Detour™ is a podcast about embracing life’s unplanned paths. These defining experiences—whether they bring challenges, lessons, or new opportunities—have one thing in common: they guide us toward self-discovery and growth.
Why Join The Great Detour as a Guest
Growth-Minded Listeners
You reach people drawn to personal growth, life transitions, and resilience stories that feel honest, practical, and relatable.
Story-First Interview Style
You get a vulnerability-forward conversation that makes room for lived experience, lessons learned, and the turning points behind your detour.
Trust-Building Guest Spot
You appear on a show centered on self-discovery, grief, anxiety, and healing, which supports thoughtful positioning and credibility.
Shareable Episode Asset
You leave with an episode you can share across your community, website, and social channels to extend your message.
Episode Angles & Guest Pitches
When Life Breaks Your Plan
You unpack the moment your path changed and how you found meaning on the other side.
Healing Through Mental Health Challenges
You share how anxiety, OCD, or emotional overwhelm shaped your life and what helped you move forward.
Rewriting Your Story After Setback
You explain how you rebuilt after a breakup, job loss, diagnosis, or major identity shift.
Trusting the Liminal Season
You talk about the in-between season where nothing is settled, and why that space can still be meaningful.
How You'd Contribute to the Show
Audience Takeaways
Your episode helps listeners trust uncertainty, navigate life transitions, and find practical ways to move through grief, anxiety, or reinvention with more clarity.
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Why Trust Me
The Ideal Guest
You're a strong fit if you share a lived experience story, expert insight, or practical framework around grief, anxiety, healing, reinvention, or navigating major life transitions.
Recent Episodes
Don’t Miss What’s Meant for You (& Season 4 Coming Soon)—Solo
The Great Detour • Feb 4, 2026
Heartbreak, Growth, & Modern Masculinity with Amadeus Heimann
The Great Detour • Jan 28, 2026
When Your Life Stops Working with Psychotherapist Casey Stevens
The Great Detour • Jan 21, 2026
Sarah Michelle Boes on Anxiety, OCD, & Raising a Child with a Heart Condition
The Great Detour • Jan 14, 2026
From Ironman Athlete to Brain Tumor Survivor: Risa August’s Road to Resilience
The Great Detour • Jan 7, 2026
Lessons from the Liminal: Navigating a Season of Transition (Solo)
The Great Detour • Dec 31, 2025
26. Reshma Kearney on Suicide Loss, Mindfulness, and Parenting Through Grief
The Great Detour • Dec 17, 2025
25. Awakening to the Spirit World with Intuitive Guide Jackie Kenner
The Great Detour • Dec 10, 2025
24. Balancing Gratitude and Ambition with Jack Wagoner
The Great Detour • Dec 3, 2025
23. When Life Hands You Back-to-Back Detours with Laura Behnke
The Great Detour • Nov 26, 2025
22. Jason Lacayo on the Power of Vulnerability and Men’s Mental Health
The Great Detour • Nov 19, 2025
21. I Quit My Job with Nothing Lined Up—And I’ll Be Back in the Fall! (Solo)
The Great Detour • Jun 25, 2025
20. Letting Your Soul Lead the Way with Leah Brathwaite
The Great Detour • Jun 18, 2025
19. Nick Bragman on Crohn’s, Setbacks, and Making Peace with a New Path
The Great Detour • Jun 11, 2025
18. Creating a Life You Actually Love with Dr. Wendy O’Connor
The Great Detour • Jun 4, 2025
17. From Self-Abandonment to Self-Remembrance with Colleen Avis
The Great Detour • May 28, 2025
16. What Surviving Sudden Cardiac Death Taught Jeff Luther About Living
The Great Detour • May 21, 2025
15. Get Griefy with Kera Sanchez: Life After Loss and Finding Your Spark Again
The Great Detour • May 14, 2025
14. Life Without a Tie: Ray Martin on Rewriting the Script and Living Without Attachments
The Great Detour • May 7, 2025
13. Love, Loss & the Bounce Back: Elle Davis on Resilience After Widowhood
The Great Detour • Apr 30, 2025
12. Leaning Into Uncertainty & Discovering New Possibilities with Jake Bushman
The Great Detour • Apr 23, 2025
11. Finding Support & Balance While Caring for Aging Loved Ones with Isabel Melgarejo
The Great Detour • Apr 16, 2025
10. Navigating the Healing Journey & Rising through Life's Challenges with Janel Gonzalez
The Great Detour • Apr 9, 2025
9. Divorce as a Rebirth: Embracing Heartbreak, Growth & Self-Reclamation with Lulu Rios-Hollmann
The Great Detour • Apr 2, 2025
8. Embracing Career Detours with CEO of Tailor Made Growth, Diamond Mullings
The Great Detour • Mar 26, 2025
7. Turning Pain Into Power: Dan Carazo’s Comeback Through Endurance Sports
The Great Detour • Mar 19, 2025
6. Embracing Solitude: The Journey to Self-Discovery (Solo Episode)
The Great Detour • Mar 12, 2025
5. From Heartbreak to Reinvention with Chef Wanda Richardson
The Great Detour • Mar 5, 2025
4. Discovering Passions & Authenticity in the Midst of Uncertainty with Jaime Maldonado
The Great Detour • Feb 26, 2025
3. The Transformative Power of Community and Movement with Matt Carnaghi of Dubset Running Collective
The Great Detour • Feb 19, 2025
2. Changing the Game: Vanessa Dias on Inclusion, Community, and Able Athletics
The Great Detour • Feb 12, 2025
1. Finding Authenticity and Purpose along the Appalachian Trail with Ryan Benz
The Great Detour • Feb 5, 2025
Welcome to The Great Detour Podcast
The Great Detour • Jan 3, 2025
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