On this Episode of The Commute, Nikki Medoro talks with Silicon Valley tech guy Chris Messina.  But this isn't a tech story. It's a love story.  And the person Messina is trying to fall in love with is himself.  Find out how a trip to Burning Man helped Messina discover a truth about himself and how that ultimately destroyed his marriage.

Imagine taking a path for so long to reach a goal.  It could be in your career, a relationship or something else.  But then all of a sudden, you no longer want to be on that path.  The goal you have been working towards is something you no longer want.  Would you be able to say goodbye to all you have done to get to this point - in hopes that the unknown future will be better for you? In this episode of The Commute, Nikki Medoro talks with former Pando Daily/GigaOm/ReCode tech reporter Carmel DeAmicis.  HER path took her from the Middle East to Columbia Journalism School and then to Silicon Valley.  And when she finally got there, she decided to give it all up.  Could you do the same in your life?  Is the POSSIBILITY of happiness worth changing course?

In this season of The Commute, it's all about happiness and positivity...and the path people take to get there.  In this  episode, Nikki Medoro talks with someone who hit rock-bottom in life until a BOOK helped her view life differently. Also listen for a preview of what stories are coming up.

You're on the inside - safe and sound.  On the outside, is a child running away from a killer.  What do you do? Do you open the door? In this Pothole Episode of The Commute, Nikki Medoro explores this situation that is often found in horror movies.  But this time, it's happening to all of us - in real life.

How The World Turns: Diary and Confessions of a Mom Living in a How-To World.  In this episode, Nikki Medoro gives a hilarious take on how living in this "how-to" and "simple steps" world can drive people nuts!

Understanding each other can be so hard. But why is it so hard to put ourselves in someone else's shoes and realize that there can be more to a situation that what you initially see? On this episode of The Commute, Nikki Medoro talks to the mother of an autistic child who is outraged by a Sunnyvale neighborhood that wants to brand an autistic child a public nuisance. Find out how she is able to understand BOTH sides of argument.

To welcome in October - the season of remembering the dead - Nikki Medoro brings you three stories of spirits trying to communicate with the living.   It includes a tale of murder and of a family of spirits that just don't know how to say goodbye.

This is The Commute's first Pothole Episode.  Nikki Medoro has a lesson in lying that she is not only teaching her kids, but hopefully can teach big business.  She looking at you Volkswagen.

Nikki Medoro gives her take on "extreme proposals".  You know, the ones that happen on live television, get millions of hits on YouTube or interrupt sporting events.  And she shares the story of one proposal that happens in a very unlikely place.  At a funeral.

Nikki Medoro is talking love.  Well, actually loveys.  You know, those blankets, bears or other toys from childhood.  Do they survive the trip into becoming an adult or are they stuffed away in the attic, like what almost happened to Woody and Buzz in Toy Story?  And what is an adult to do when her lifelong, childhood pal seems to call to her from the closet?