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Conversations about doing things we're afraid of.
Every day across the world, people take actions that scare them. It might be a new job, a move across town, going to dinner alone, pursuing a passion, starting a relationship, opening test results or simply walking outside.
Each episode will feature a story of someone persisting through fear.
Every day across the world, people take actions that scare them. It might be a new job, a move across town, going to dinner alone, pursuing a passion, starting a relationship, opening test results or simply walking outside.
Each episode will feature a story of someone persisting through fear.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 18 days
Average audio length:
54 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
9 episodes
since May 14, 2026
episodic
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Journalist and disability rights advocate Melissa Blake has been doing things she’s afraid of her whole life. Born with Freeman-Sheldon Syndrome, a genetic bone and muscular disorder, she had more than 26 surgeries starting in childhood.In this episode of Bodacious Tenacity, Melissa talks about sta…
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Lorenz Hemicker is a German journalist whose grandfather, Ernst, was an SS officer who served at Rumbula, where roughly 25,000 Jews were murdered outside Riga, Latvia in 1941. When Lorenz was a little boy, his father told him his grandfather had "served with distinction" but Lorenz never …
CONTENT NOTE: This episode includes brief discussion of past suicidal thoughts. Please listen with care. Support resources are included in the episode description.In 2024, Ben Stone underwent planned brain surgery called arteriovenous malformation (AVM) to remove a tangled, abnormal mass of arterie…
Content note: This episode includes brief discussion of self-harm and past suicidal thoughts. Please listen with care. Support resources are included below.
For years, Leeann Bongiorno went from doctor to doctor searching for relief from debilitating chronic pain, and no one could fix her. As trea…
Sasha Karelsky was in Turkey working through her own depression when a gut feeling told her to check her boyfriend's location. What she found cracked her world open. This week on Bodacious Tenacity, Sasha shares how her worst fear becoming real led her across the world, and to a new life in London.
Miguel Olave had no business background, no industry connections and no plan — until Romeo's TikTok went viral and he decided to figure it out anyway. What started as one bold move turned into landing huge brand deals with names like Dr Pepper, negotiated entirely on instinct.Then Miguel did someth…
On this episode, Cory Young talks about persisting through fear when he nearly drowned in a surfing accident that broke his neck and how he has continued to push through addiction, depression, PTSD, suicidal thoughts and someone attempting to set him on fire.
In our premiere podcast episode, Abigail Washington discusses how she persisted through the fear of becoming a teenage mother, and how she has continued to push herself outside of her comfort zone.
In our first Street Stories, part of the @BodaciousTenacityPodcast, Amanda tells her story of persisting through the fear or brain surgery — and how it changed her life.
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