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In this powerful episode of Happiness Sold Separately, host Jason Hensley sits down with board-certified psychiatrist Dr. Dawnmarie Risley-Childs for a raw, deeply honest conversation about survival, trauma, and what it really takes to heal.

Dr. Risley-Childs shares her personal journey through decades of domestic violence, sexual violence, and complex PTSD, and explains why she refuses to soften the language around what happened to her. This wasn’t “abuse.” It was violence. And the impact of that violence didn’t live only in memory — it lived in the body, the nervous system, and the subconscious.

Blending clinical insight with lived experience, this episode explores how trauma is stored, why traditional talk therapy often falls short for survivors, and how alternative approaches, including psychedelic-assisted therapy, helped unlock memories her brain had buried in order to survive. Jason and Dr. Risley-Childs also discuss dissociation, forgiveness, resilience, and how joy can still be found — sometimes quietly, sometimes unexpectedly — even after unimaginable pain.

This conversation is honest, heavy, and hopeful. It’s about naming the truth, releasing what was never meant to be carried forever, and finding a way forward without pretending the past didn’t happen.

Listener discretion is advised, as this episode includes discussions of domestic violence, sexual violence, and trauma.

Happiness Sold Separately is a weekly podcast featuring real conversations with people who’ve faced life’s hardest moments and found meaning, healing, and connection on the other side. These stories are shared without embellishment, because healing starts with truth.

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In this powerful episode of Happiness Sold Separately, Jason Hensley sits down with US Navy veteran and “Unfiltered Wisdom” founder Robert Greene for a raw, no-BS conversation about trauma, PTSD, men’s mental health, addiction and the real pursuit of happiness.

Robert opens up about his childhood—watching his mother flatline on Christmas Eve, growing up with an abusive, alcoholic father and stepmother, and developing a deep, unconscious belief that life would always hurt. He shares how that pain pushed him into the military, why war felt safer than home, and how deployments to Afghanistan, Africa and Eastern Europe only added layers of trauma to an already overloaded nervous system.

After leaving the military, Robert became a high-functioning alcoholic and later turned to more substances just to feel okay in his own body. On the outside, he looked successful: a good job, a fiancé, a career traveling overseas. On the inside, he was falling apart—and ultimately reached the point of attempting to end his own life.

From there, Robert walks Jason through the turning points: discovering that pills were just “a bandaid over a bullet hole,” recognizing the difference between coping and healing, and choosing slow, painful change over constant numbing. He explains how days spent alone in nature, long hikes without a phone, yoga, breathwork and meditation became his way of pulling out the emotional “splinter” instead of just covering it with fresh bandages.

Jason and Robert dig into the invisible weight men carry as providers and protectors, the way long days at work turn into “second shift” at home, and how unprocessed stress spills onto wives and kids, silently eroding intimacy and connection. They explore forgiveness and generational trauma—especially Robert’s relationship with his father, a Black man born in 1934 who faced real, systemic racism and believed the only way to keep his sons safe was to make them the “most dangerous men in the room.”

Robert shares how he learned to forgive without ever getting the apology he hoped for, and why understanding is the currency of higher consciousness. He also introduces his simple “equation for happiness”: the way your expectations, preferences and desires stack up against reality, why expectations are really “hope mixed with aggression,” and how adjusting them can radically change your emotional life.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re just coping your way through your days, if you’re a veteran struggling to adjust after service, or a man quietly drowning under pressure and responsibility, this episode will help you feel less alone—and offer you practical ways to start relating differently to your pain.

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In this deeply human episode, Jason talks with financial consultant and lifelong caregiver Shelly Grimm, whose story begins with one of the earliest documented cases of Crohn’s disease in the United States. At five years old, Shelly became the primary caregiver for her mother, navigating poverty, chronic illness, and emotional isolation. The weight she carried shaped her understanding of family, responsibility, trauma, and survival.

Her experiences eventually led her into the world of trusts, estates, financial planning, and crisis navigation — fields that revealed just how unprepared most families are when medical emergencies or end-of-life situations happen. Through the Family Love Letter and her new brand, The Perpetual Caregiver, Shelly is teaching families and caregivers how to prepare emotionally, financially, and practically for the unexpected.

This conversation explores child caregiving, chronic illness, digital assets, passwords, legacy books, mental health, emotional burnout, and the hidden burdens of family caregiving. It also gives listeners a compassionate roadmap for creating stability and peace in moments of crisis.

If you love someone, this is an episode you cannot afford to skip.

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In this explosive conversation, former jewel thief Larry Lawton reveals the untold truth behind the criminal empire that made him the most notorious jewel thief in United States history. Larry takes us inside the inner circles of the Gambino crime family, sharing raw, unfiltered stories about the mafia bosses he worked under, including men connected to Murder Incorporated and the legendary Albert Anastasia.

Jason Hensley guides the conversation with depth and curiosity as Larry opens up about the high-stakes heists, the danger, the adrenaline, and the psychological cost of a life lived in the shadows of organized crime.

This episode dives into Larry Lawton’s early years, the rise of his criminal career, the mob-operated world he became locked inside, and the empire of diamonds, money, and violence that consumed him. As the largest jewel thief in American history, Larry explains how he built trust with mafia captains, earned the nickname “The Kid,” and supplied countless mobsters across New York with stolen diamonds. His stories are gripping, brutal, human, and impossible to ignore.

Jason and Larry explore themes of redemption, consequences, reform, personal responsibility, and the human spirit—creating a powerful episode rooted in emotional truth, journalism, storytelling, and real-world criminal history. If you're fascinated by organized crime, true crime storytelling, mafia history, psychological depth, and raw personal transformation, this conversation is one of the most compelling episodes we’ve ever released.

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What happens when faith becomes control—and family becomes captivity?
In this gripping episode of Happiness Sold Separately, host Jason Hensley sits down with Welcome to Plathville’s Lydia-Grace Meggs, who opens up about growing up in a deeply fundamentalist household, the trauma of obedience, and the painful moment she chose freedom over family.

Lydia shares her journey from isolation and abuse to healing and music, reflecting on forgiveness, identity, and how to build a new life from ashes.
A raw, unfiltered conversation about courage, religion, and reclaiming your voice.

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At 21, Ruth Soukup died in the back of an ambulance. Doctors said she had a 10% chance to live.
Two decades later, she’s a bestselling author, millionaire entrepreneur, wife, mother — and survivor.

In this raw, unfiltered conversation with host Jason Hensley, Ruth reveals:

• Her suicide attempts and miraculous survival

• The long road through depression and six hospitalizations

• Losing everything — marriage, friends, hope — and rebuilding from zero

• How she turned pain into purpose and built multiple seven-figure brands

• The moment faith found her again — through a baptism dress

• Why “having it all” might be a myth, and what “living well” really means

If you’ve ever felt broken, hopeless, or like you’ve failed too much to start over — this one will shake you.

Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your inspiration.

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Dr. Tony Dice’s life reads like a movie — firefighter, paramedic, Navy SEAL, private security contractor… and then a full-blown crystal meth addict.

In this episode, he sits down with Jason Hensley for one of the most brutally honest interviews ever recorded. He talks about the darkness that followed him home, the moral injuries that haunted him, and the night he almost lost his son because of addiction.

Hear how selling his car to pay for rehab became the turning point that saved his life.
A story of pain, purpose, and redemption that proves it’s never too late to start over.

Listen now — this episode will stay with you long after it ends.

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Doctors didn’t believe her. They said it was all in her head.

After years of pain, misdiagnosis, and being dismissed, Trinity Lothian finally discovered the truth — an autoimmune disease attacking her nerves and body. But instead of giving up, she became a world-class wheelchair fencer and competed on the Paralympic stage.

In this deeply human conversation, Trinity opens up about the darkness, the fight, and the unbreakable will that pushed her from a hospital bed to the global arena.

🎙️ Hosted by Jason Hensley, Happiness Sold Separately brings you stories that explore what it truly means to be human — and how people rise when life tries to knock them down.

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