The truth is something we all carry, but don’t always speak—or step into. The Truth Is explores what becomes possible when we do, with ourselves and with each other. Hosted by Kathryn Flaschner, it’s a space to listen more closely, trust what we know, and find our own way forward. Each week, we explore what opens through honesty: deeper connection, greater clarity, and a life that feels real. New episodes return September 17 and drop every Wednesday.
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Alyssa Flaschner: Find the Thing That Makes You Come Alive (Encore)
Season 2 · Episode 36
Wednesday, June 24, 2026 • Duration 01:05:13
If you missed this one when it first aired in October 2025, here's your moment.
Kathryn sits down with her sister, Alyssa Flaschner, for a conversation about paying attention to what makes us feel alive, and how change really happens: not all at once, but through tiny degree shifts that slowly realign our lives toward what feels true.
In the stillness of COVID, Alyssa began to notice a quiet pull toward something else. What started as weeknights with her cookbook collection soon turned into a decision to take herself—and her curiosity—seriously. That choice led to nine months of commuting to New York City for culinary school—twenty-seven weekends in a row—couch surfing with friends and family and rolling a little suitcase full of knives through the city. Nine months later, that curiosity had become a craft—and eventually, a full-time role on the team at Philadelphia’s acclaimed restaurant My Loup.
Together, we talk about what it means to find the thing that makes you come alive—and to keep following it, even when it asks you to rewrite the life you thought you were building.
In this episode, we talk about:
How perfectionism shaped Alyssa as a competitive dancer—and the ways it still shows up in the kitchen
The difference between chasing achievement and feeling alive
How small degree shifts add up over time—where slowly, you start to take yourself seriously, and the things that once felt impossible begin to feel real
The awkward, necessary process of being a beginner again
What it’s like to work in an environment where you can’t fake it—and how that kind of honesty builds confidence
The people who remind us of our own strength, and why support systems matter more than we think
It’s an intimate, sister-to-sister conversation about curiosity, courage, and learning to trust the pull toward what makes you come alive.
Links & Resources
Visit My Loup, where Alyssa is part of the culinary team
Read Alyssa’s essays on Substack
Follow Alyssa on Instagram → @alyssaflash
Video production and editing by Anton LaPlume
Hosted by Kathryn Flaschner
Music by Will Savino → wsavino.com
Visual Identity by Sarah Gainer & Jonathan Bush
Advised by Natalie Tulloch
Jedidiah Jenkins: The Authority of Your Own Questions (Encore)
Season 2 · Episode 35
Thursday, June 11, 2026 • Duration 01:21:52
This episode first aired in December 2025. We're bringing it back because it's one that stays with you.
What if the clarity you’re looking for isn’t “out there” at all, but already inside you — waiting for the moment it comes into view?
In this conversation, NYT bestselling author and adventurer Jedidiah Jenkins sits down with us to talk about revelation, habituation, aging, and what it means to build a life you’re actually comfortable being yourself in.
Jed talks about how his books — from To Shake the Sleeping Self through Mother, Nature and now his upcoming fourth — trace the long arc of becoming, moving through the mother wound, his religious upbringing, and the early experiences that sharpened his curiosity. He shares why he sees revelation as the moment when previously collected pieces finally organize into clarity, and how trusting the authority of his own questions has guided his life and work.
We talk through:
Revelation vs. information — why most “aha” moments are old truths finally landing in the right order
Habituation and the hedonic treadmill — how we get used to everything, even the life we once wanted, and how Jed disrupts that pattern
How he now makes sense of the 30-year-old who biked from Oregon to Patagonia — and the life that opened because of it
How his first three books became a trilogy of healing the mother wound
Why living fully as yourself quietly liberates other people to do the same
His eight-week, no-phone sabbatical in rural Colorado during the election — and what surfaced when the noise stopped
Why he believes many of us are one sabbatical away from a breakthrough
Entering the “youngest old person” season of life and finding a beginner’s mindset again in midlife
We also talk about the truth of the moment — how naming what’s real as it arises becomes its own form of presence — and how Jed has had to rebuild his sense of truth from the inside out after growing up inside a religious system that defined it for him. He reflects on learning to trust the authority of his own questions, and why that practice continues to shape his life and his work.
Kate Boyer: If I Don't Go Now, I'm Never Gonna Go — On Stunt Work, Self-Trust, and Doing It Afraid
Season 2 · Episode 34
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 • Duration 54:54
Kate Boyer is a Los Angeles-based stunt woman and actor who has built her career one leap at a time — literally. She grew up in Philadelphia with an explorer's mindset, found her way to martial arts young, and eventually packed everything into a Honda Civic and drove cross-country with a vision. What she found on the other side of that move became the foundation of a decade-plus career in film and television, doubling for actors and executing the kind of work that demands total trust in yourself and the people around you.
Kathryn has known Kate through their shared world as actors, and has watched up close what it looks like to build a self-led life in one of the most uncertain industries there is. This conversation is about the posture you have to take to do that — not waiting for the golden ticket, but deciding what the next move is and going. Kate is beginning to bring that practice to other artists, helping them find the clarity to do the same.
In this conversation:
Growing up in Philly and the explorer's mindset that never left
Discovering stunt work as an expression of art — and what it demands emotionally
The Honda Civic move to LA and learning to listen to your inner voice
Why fear is a muscle, not a wall
The feeling on the other side of doing something you were afraid to do
What it means to bring your truth into a room rather than perform what you think is wanted
Building toward work that serves other artists
Follow Kate: Instagram The Truth Is: Instagram | Video production and editing by Anton LaPlume. Music by Will Savino. Visual identity by Sarah Gainor and Jonathan Bush. Guidance and advising by Natalie Tulloch.
Wilfredo Perdomo: Building a Business Is a Spiritual Experience — On Taking a Faithful Leap and Finding Your Destino
Season 2 · Episode 33
Wednesday, May 27, 2026 • Duration 01:11:12
Wilfredo Perdomo is the founder of DESTINO, a wellness-focused hospitality and lifestyle concept he's building in the Catskills. As a Cuban-American raised by immigrant parents, his foundation is rooted in working hard, creating beauty with what you have, and making people feel genuinely welcomed. He spent eight years working with Drew Barrymore, most recently as president of Barrymore Brands — building products with heart and creating things people truly connect with. Now he's bringing all of that into something entirely his own: a micro-resort and retreat space centered around wellness, design, nature, and emotional reset. His mission is to make wellness feel accessible and less performative — to give people permission to pause.
Kathryn met Wilfredo during those brand-building years. This conversation is about what it looks like when you take everything you've learned and take a faithful leap into yourself — and what it costs, demands, and opens up when you do.
In this conversation:
The spiritual and emotional initiation of leaving a career to build something of your own
The ego humbling of building your brand in public
Divine action as a daily practice for navigating uncertainty
A breathwork realization about his mom that reframed everything
The Surrender Experiment and the balance between trust and showing up to do the work
What it means to stop deferring the life you actually want
Mentioned in this episode: The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer
Charlotte Jackson: Trust Falling With the Universe — On Dreaming Vaguely and Following Your Fun-tuition
Season 2 · Episode 32
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 • Duration 01:02:23
Charlotte Jackson is a private chef, cofounder of CANDID, writer, coach, and host focused on helping people have better conversations with themselves and each other. She's also one of the original minds behind Reading Rhythms, the silent reading community that started on a rooftop in Williamsburg and caught the attention of the New York Times and the Today Show.
Charlotte is one of those people who wants to do all of it — and rather than questioning what to eliminate, she's letting it all coexist. A lot of us feel the limitations, and even the slow death, of the linear career path, and Charlotte is a living example of what's possible when you loosen your grip on that model we inherited. When you give yourself permission to experiment rather than arrive.
In this conversation: running two experiments at once, Internal Family Systems and the warring parts within us, why she's allergic to the word strategy, how to embrace your vague dreams and follow your Fun-tuition.
Mentioned in this episode:Run Two Experiments — the framework Charlotte references for navigating a career transition: one experiment for the thing you can't stop thinking about, one for the skill you can offer tomorrow.
Kate Mueller: Nature Can Hold All of Our Differences — On Coffins, the Camino, and Awe
Season 2 · Episode 31
Friday, May 15, 2026 • Duration 01:14:56
"I'm the last to know why I do things," Kate Mueller said to me during this interview. What an enticing revelation, especially as Kate and I looked back on the creative projects that have come through her, starting with a coffin she began building when she was 19, that sits in the middle of her living room at 35. She told me it is a good way to not watch too much Netflix. Not only has her coffin been with her as a reminder of our shared truth, but she's made friends through it, hosting coffin parties in LA where people gather to explore mortality over a glass of wine. Great way to skip some small talk!
In my experience, the exploration or the contemplation of our own mortality has a helpful side effect — it orients us back to our life. The nowness (whether you like it or not!) of it all. And her work also takes us there. Kate's large scale installations, including String of Light That Connects All Things, a series of steel sculptural forms placed along the Southern California shoreline at sunset, are designed not to be looked at but to draw your awareness to what's already there. We talk about her orientation towards the awe of the natural world, how she gathered her friends and family across political differences following the 2024 election for an installation on the beach, and what that experience opened up for her.
Kate's journey has been true to her from the beginning, and her life as an artist has been informed by her own pilgrimage for truth. From growing up homeschooled in a conservative and religious household, to being met by a nun at the train station in Romania to live in a monastery — where she hoped to find the clarity and courage to be honest with her family about her faith — to walking the Camino de Santiago alone in her early 20s, she found her foundational truth. A belief that people are good, that we are here to care for one another, and that anyone can mirror back to you a spark of the divine. And that nature has a way of holding us all.
This conversation will invite you to step into the awe that exists right here in this lifetime.
In this episode we talk about:
Building her own coffin at 19 — and what it's taught her about living
Hosting coffin parties in LA and what happens when you bring mortality into the room
Tazin Khan: Are You Doing This for Ego or Impact?
Season 2 · Episode 30
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 • Duration 01:06:07
Tazin Khan is a cyber risk strategist, digital rights advocate, and the founder and CEO of Cyber Collective, a nonprofit dedicated to making digital safety education accessible, human, and community rooted. Her work is driven by a simple but urgent belief: everybody deserves to experience the internet without harm.
That belief didn't come from a boardroom. It came from growing up Bengali in post-9/11 Virginia as one of the only Muslim families for miles. From translating immigration documents in fourth grade. From living in and out of her car at nineteen while working three jobs and meeting a stranger who she emailed every month until she got hired. From watching her father get scammed on Facebook and realizing the gap between what the industry knows and what the people most at risk are ever taught.
Tazin has spent over 13 years in cybersecurity — across Fortune 10 companies, government agencies, and grassroots organizing — and what she's built with Cyber Collective is something the industry was never going to build for itself. A community-rooted, feminine-designed organization that meets people where they are and asks the questions the sector would rather not answer.
This conversation goes deep into all of it.
We talk about:
Growing up bicultural and what it taught her about empathy, translation, and pushing back
The Michael Kors moment that changed the direction of her life
What she learned — and what she couldn't unsee — in corporate cybersecurity
Why the internet's harms are not the user's fault and what accountability actually looks like
Building Cyber Collective: the vision, the near-burnout, and what's coming
Feminine design principles and what it looks like to run an org aligned to your body and your values
The question she asks herself constantly: am I doing this for ego or for impact
What proximity to power does to you and how she stays honest about it
Why to get far, sometimes you have to stop
What stayed with me after this conversation is that Tazin is doing exactly what this show believes is possible: taking the most personal work and turning it outward. Her story is her methodology. And her methodology is changing what the internet is allowed to do to the people it was never designed to protect.
Corey Thibodeau: When You Stop Forcing It
Season 2 · Episode 29
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 • Duration 01:06:36
Corey Thibodeau is the co-founder of West Side Yoga — three studios in Providence, Rhode Island that have become something rarer than a successful small business. A place where people find each other, and sometimes, finally find themselves.
She will not dress it up for you. What it actually takes to build something real while straddling a corporate career. What it feels like to give a decade of yourself to a company and have it end the way it ended. What patience and trust — not hustle, not forcing — actually produce when you finally give them room. And what it means to build something so rooted in a community that the community starts to heal because of it.
That is what this conversation is. The honest version of a story a lot of people are living but not saying out loud.
We talk about:
Running a half marathon ten years after swearing off running — and why this time felt nothing like suffering
Building West Side from a single studio to three locations, a teacher training program, and a waitlist
A decade of doing both — and what that duality actually costs
The truth of what it feels like to be laid off after ten years — and the honest reckoning with never having left on her own
Her husband Joe — business partner, balance, and the person who nudged her toward a half marathon at 1am in November
Santosha — contentment — and how hard it is to live a practice you teach
The third space that sat empty for months, and what shifted when she finally said yes
What happens when you stop forcing and start trusting — and what that produced
The impact of building something truly local, truly communal — and why that might be exactly what the world needs right now
ABOUT COREY THIBODEAU
Corey Thibodeau is the co-founder of West Side Yoga, a studio community with three locations in Providence, Rhode Island, which she runs alongside her husband Joe Thibodeau. She has been teaching yoga since 2015.
This week, I'm taking a little space — and I want to offer you the same.
A year into leaving the corporate world to build something new, I caught myself in a familiar pattern: the same nonstop hustle I thought I'd left behind. This episode is a small pause to name that, sit with it, and try something a little different.
I share where my obsession with truth actually began — a foundational acting exercise called Meisner repetition, where the whole practice is just speaking the felt sense of what's true in the moment. And then I offer a visual I've carried since 2019: a straight line and a squiggle. One is alignment. One is being human.
This episode ends with a short guided meditation — whether you're sitting, walking, driving, or somewhere in between — just a few minutes to come back to yourself and notice what's true right now.
Consider it spring space.
Wade Brill: We Have One Mind, One Body, One Life
Season 2 · Episode 27
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 • Duration 01:04:26
Wade Brill woke up the Monday we recorded this episode, got a last-minute cancellation, and found herself with unexpected open space in her morning. She didn’t fill it. She went for a walk. That choice — to meet the open space instead of immediately closing it — is the whole philosophy. It sounds simple. It isn’t. She’s been practicing it for a long time.
Wade Brill is a mindfulness coach, meditation teacher, certified professional coach, and author of 100 Mindful Moments — a book ten years in the making that she finally published almost a year ago. She trained through UCLA and works with clients to strengthen their mindfulness muscles, gain awareness of what’s meaningful to them, and make more intentional choices from the inside out.
In this conversation, Wade takes us into the rupture that changed everything: a cancer diagnosis at 21 while studying abroad in Buenos Aires, and the sudden loss of her mother two months into chemotherapy. It was in that impossible convergence that she found meditation — not as a wellness practice, but as access to herself, and to her life. What emerged was a life philosophy rooted in body intelligence, self-trust, and the radical choice to actually live rather than just get through it.
We talk about hurry sickness and why American culture trains us to equate speed with worth, the difference between living from your head versus your body, what it means to have a strong constitution, and why self-trust is the antidote to anxiety.
In This Episode:
Why mindful living is consistently hard even for those who teach it
The decade-long internal battle to publish her book — and what finally shifted
Negativity bias, proof in the pudding, and why sharing her work is a marathon not a sprint
COVID’s lasting impact on loneliness and connection — and what the statistics actually show
How her cancer diagnosis at 21 and her mother’s sudden death became the foundation of her life’s work
Why the body holds more wisdom than the mind
What meditation gave her access to in the middle of a shit storm
The concept of “constitution” — and the mountain within
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And yes — we talk about the leaf.
The one Kathryn caught during a silent walk at Jed’s retreat, the one that never touched the ground. Jed wrote on it: What falls will feed the new. It becomes a quiet throughline for this conversation about clarity, courage, and letting what’s no longer true fall away so something more honest can grow.
Credits
Hosted by Kathryn Flaschner
Edited by Dan Croll
Music by Will Savino
Visual Identity by Sarah Gainer & Jonathan Bush
Advised by Natalie Tulloch
Video production and editing by Anton LaPlume. Music by Will Savino. Visual identity by Sarah Gainor and Jonathan Bush. Guidance and advising by Natalie Tulloch.
Editing and video production by Anton La Plume. Music by Will Savino. Visual identity by Sarah Gainor and Jonathan Bush. Guidance and advising by Natalie Tulloch.
Growing up homeschooled in a conservative religious household and knowing early her truth lied somewhere beyond it
What 500 miles alone in winter taught her about people
String of Light That Connects All Things and the Thanksgiving beach installation
Sitting inside a mirror chamber and stepping outside your own ego
Why she still believes people are largely good — and what convinced her
Success looks like a worn down pencil — and wishing notes washing back to shore
Kate Mueller is a Los Angeles–based installation artist whose work feels like an invitation to step into another astral plane. Her large-scale sculptural forms shift perception, drawing viewers into a heightened state of awareness. Merging welding with transdisciplinary techniques, Mueller constructs immersive works that engage movement, scale, and presence, making participation central to the experience. Her sculptures are designed to be entered, circled, and encountered physically, drawing attention to the immediacy of the moment, the awe of the natural world, and the interconnectedness of all things.
Tazin Khan is the founder and CEO of Cyber Collective, a nonprofit making digital safety education accessible, human, and community rooted. With over 13 years of experience spanning Fortune 10 companies, government agencies, and grassroots organizing, her work has reached more than 5.5 million people globally. She holds a master's from NYU and has been featured in Forbes, Harper's Bazaar, People Magazine, and on CNN.
