In this episode of The Inciting Incident, Tim speaks with Dr. Mark Sherwood, former professional baseball player, SWAT officer, and law enforcement veteran turned functional medicine practitioner, about the moments that redirected his life and redefined his understanding of service.

A single statistic about first responder life expectancy became the catalyst for a profound shift in Dr. Mark's life. What began as a mission to protect and serve on the streets of Tulsa evolved into a global calling to help people reclaim their health, their agency, and their lives.

Along the way, Dr. Mark shares the story of a childhood dream carried for 15 years, a calling delivered through an unforgettable dream, and the realization that wellness is about far more than prescriptions.

Connect with Dr. Mark:

Personal Website: drmarksherwood.com

Company Website: fmidr.com

Instagram: @drmarksherwood

YouTube: @livingyourwellnesslife

What if the reactions running your life aren't conscious choices—but unprocessed memories stored deep in your body?

Licensed marriage and family therapist, trauma resolution specialist, and bestselling author Laurel Wiers joins Tim Shields to unpack how trauma, betrayal, and early attachment wounds quietly shape our relationships, nervous systems, and sense of self. From the science behind the amygdala and fight-or-flight responses to the profound healing power of inner-child work, Laurel explains why talk therapy often hits a ceiling—and what actually creates lasting change.

Together, they explore how subtle childhood moments can echo for decades, why betrayal is uniquely destabilizing, and how regulating the nervous system can unlock freedom, clarity, and authentic connection.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why trauma isn't the event—it's what never got processed
• How the nervous system drives relationships, triggers, and attraction
• What real healing looks like when you stop outsourcing safety and rescue yourself

If you've ever wondered why awareness isn't enough—or why your body reacts before your mind—this conversation might be your inciting incident.

Host: Tim Shields
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📸 Instagram: @timshieldswriter
🌐 Website: therealtimshields.com

Guest: Laurel Wiers
🧠 Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist | Trauma Resolution Specialist
📘 Author of Betrayed Not Broken

What if healing doesn't begin in the mind—but in the feet?

This week, Tim sits down with Victoria Salomon, experienced practitioner of Systematic Kinesiology, Biomechanics, and Clinical Massage, for a conversation about biomechanics, trauma, and human potential. What begins as a discussion about posture and movement opens into a deeper exploration of how the body stores memory, how the nervous system finds safety, and how alignment can quietly reroute an entire life.

Together, Tim and Victoria explore the relationship between meditation and mechanics, joints as energy centers, and why so many people search for healing without realizing the vehicle itself is misaligned.

Content Warning: Suicide

Connect with Victoria:

Website: ixcheltherapies.co.uk

Instagram: @theixchelsystem

What happens when you experience something no one ever taught you was possible?

In this episode, Tim sits down with futurist and consciousness researcher Adam Apollo to trace the moment his understanding of reality cracked wide open. What began as a visceral teenage experience sent Adam down a lifelong path of questioning mainstream science, reexamining ancient wisdom, and exploring the deeper mechanics of time, memory, and matter.

This conversation moves through personal awakening, what past-life memory really is, and what happens when curiosity takes you past the edge of the official story.

Connect with Adam:

Website: adamapollo.com

Instagram: @adam_apollo

Book: Lifetimes

The Gatework Protocol

What happens when the world you thought you understood quietly falls away and something far larger steps in?

This week, Tim sits down with Dr. Alisha Das, a spiritual intuitive and global authority on angels, for a conversation that moves far beyond belief and into lived experience.

From a childhood marked by early encounters with unseen realms, to a pivotal awakening in her twenties, to a recent, very real brush with devastation during the Pacific Palisades fires, Alisha traces the moments that reoriented her life and her understanding of what it means to be human.

Connect with Alisha:

Website: alishadas.com

Instagram: @alishakdas

Podcast: Live Your Love

Book: Your Angelic Ancestry

What happens when a single moment shatters the life you thought you were living and reveals the one you were meant for?

This week, Tim is joined by Happy Ali, a transformational coach, intuitive guide, and master hypnotherapist whose life has been shaped by moments that demanded surrender rather than certainty. From profound personal loss to prophetic dreams, Happy reflects on the moments that forced him to listen to his soul when the world told him to do otherwise.

Tim and Happy explore how ignoring the soul's guidance often invites louder lessons, why suffering can become a doorway rather than a sentence, and how learning to recognize which inner voice to trust can change everything.

Connect with Happy:

Website: happyinsights.net

Instagram: @happyinsightsofficial

YouTube: Happy Insights Channel

Books: The Intuition Bible & The Charisma Within

This week, Tim sits down with scholar, spiritual detective, and author, Dr. Joanna Kujawa. She breaks down why UFO encounters, Marian apparitions, psychedelic visions, and ancient goddess traditions might actually be expressions of the same phenomenon arriving through different doorways of consciousness. Together they explore her book Alien Goddess, the dark side of AI, the rise of the feminine, and why humanity might be standing at one of the most important turning points in its spiritual evolution. It's a mind-bending, paradigm-rattling journey that asks a simple question: What if the message has been coming through for centuries, and we're finally ready to hear it?

Connect with Joanna:

Website: joannakujawa.com

Books: Joanna Kujawa

Instagram: @drjoannakujawa.author

YouTube: Dr Joanna Kujawa Spiritual Detective

This week, Tim sits down with transformational teacher and intuitive channel Christy Whitman for a conversation that moves from corporate burnout to quantum flow to the moment she realized she could literally channel higher consciousness.

Christy unpacks the inciting incidents that cracked her open: the emptiness beneath early career success, a cross-country move that dismantled her life, and the meditation teacher who introduced her to the truth that changed everything.

Tim and Christy dive into energy mastery, abundance, spiritual awakening, and what it actually feels like to receive guidance from beyond the physical. The Council even comes through to answer Tim's big questions directly.

Connect with Christy:

Website: christyandthecouncil.com

Website: watchyourwords.com

Instagram: @christywhitman1

YouTube: @ChristyWhitmanCouncil

Facebook: Christy Whitman International Inc.