Mike “C-Roc” Ciorrocco and I get into some of the darkest chapters of my life—from childhood sexual abuse and years of addiction to the moment I found myself on my knees in rehab, begging a God I didn't believe in to save me. We unpack how that experience changed everything, why sobriety alone couldn't heal my deeper wounds, and how those lessons eventually became the foundation of A Horse Named Lonesome. At its core, this conversation is about the search for belonging and the spiritual transformation that begins when we finally surrender.

Kyle Kingsbury joins me for this Lonesome Conversation to revisit the hollow season when football ended and the identity he’d leaned on his whole life simply vanished. He describes trading elite facilities and brothers-in-arms for working out alone next to a guy doing curls in the squat rack — and how that loss of both outlet and belonging sent him searching for something deeper. An honest look at the loneliness that arrives when who you thought you were falls away, and what gets built in its place.About KyleKyle Kingsbury is a former professional MMA fighter, podcast host, devoted husband and father, and human optimization expert whose work bridges physical performance, mental resilience, and spiritual growth. As host of The Kyle Kingsbury Podcast, he explores health, consciousness, personal transformation, and human potential through conversations with leading thinkers, athletes, and wellness experts.Drawing on his background in elite athletics and years of exploring both ancient wisdom and modern wellness practices, Kyle takes a holistic approach to personal development. Through his podcast, coaching, community programs, and transformational retreats, he helps people cultivate greater self-awareness, strengthen their mind-body connection, and create lives rooted in purpose, balance, and authentic connection.Lonesome Conversations Limited SeriesLonesome Conversations is a special series from The Life Stylist, built around my new book, A Horse Named Lonesome (out November 17, 2026). Loneliness is something almost everyone goes through, and almost nobody talks about honestly. So I sat down with psychologists, philosophers, trauma therapists, teachers, and friends to find the truth about loneliness, and how we heal from it. Each episode is its own conversation, but together they walk the same ground the book maps out. (Pre-order your copy at ahorsenamedlonesome.com) You'll find new episodes alongside our regular show over the coming months.

Menopause is not the end of your sexual life if you know how to handle it.Kimberly Ann Johnson is a sexological bodyworker, birth doula, and author of The Fourth Trimester, whose new book Erotic Seasons maps what happens to a woman’s body across menstruation, mothering, perimenopause, and the years beyond.The question driving this conversation: what does a man gain from understanding the seasons of the woman he loves?Kimberly pushes back on the trauma language that’s become ubiquitous and often weakening. She talks about hot sex and warm sex, why the parts of the body women battle hardest are the ones that make them female, and why “calm down” is often the opposite of what a woman needs.If you’ve ever felt the ground shifting in a long relationship and couldn’t name what was being asked of you, this is that conversation.Free Gift: Download an exclusive additional chapter from Erotic Seasons entitled “The Body and the Belly” at kimberlyannjohnson.com/erotic-seasonsYou'll learn:[0:00] Introduction[13:30] What a man gains from understanding the women he loves[22:31] Men overriding their own arousal to be good[30:59] Four seasons of a woman’s life explained[37:05] The male job is to run the perimeter[43:29] Reading your cycle as the ultimate biohack[52:12] What men get wrong about women’s desire and arousal[57:47] Erasing the staircase mentality of foreplay[1:06:21] Letting pleasure feel good and untying the knot of trauma[1:19:55] Discounting form on the spiritual path[1:32:20] Why unity in 12-Step rooms works miracles[1:46:12] Finding the gift in what was objectively negative[1:52:02] When nervous system regulation becomes suppression[1:57:21] You don’t regulate your way to an easier life[2:03:04] Why most people stay stuck in impulse and satiationResources Mentioned:Mothering the Bones | WebsiteFull show notes at lukestorey.com/somatic2Related The Life Stylist Episodes:Somatic Experiencing, Birth, Sex & Trauma w/ Kimberly Ann Johnson | PodcastFind more from Kimberly:Kimberly Ann Johnson | Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTubeRead: Erotic Seasons: Tuning into the Rhythms of Women’s Sexuality and Spirituality | BookRead: Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use It for Good | BookFind more from Luke:Luke Storey | Website | Instagram | Facebook | X | YouTube | LinkedInMy new book, A Horse Named Lonesome, launches November 17, 2026. Pre-order now at ahorsenamedlonesome.com and get bonuses: access to my Inner Circle Book Club, an exclusive Lonesome Conversations six-part miniseries, and an ebook transcript of the series.The Life Stylist is Brought To You By:URBAN ROOTS | Visit lukestorey.com/urbanroots and use code LUKE to save 15% off your first jar or 25% off your first month when you subscribe.BIOPTIMIZERS | Visit bioptimizers.com/luke and save 25% off sitewide now until November 22nd.QUANTUM UPGRADE | Visit lukestorey.com/quantumupgrade and use code LUKE15 to start your 15-day free trial.ACTIVATION PRODUCTS | Visit activationproducts.com/luke and use code LUKE for 15% off your order.

My conversation on Unity Manifest takes us back to some of the darkest chapters of my life—from childhood abuse and addiction to the long road toward sobriety and spiritual awakening. We unpack how early experiences can shape our capacity for intimacy, how shame keeps us trapped in destructive patterns, and why healing requires more than simply changing our behavior. I share how these experiences inspired A Horse Named Lonesome, my new memoir about loneliness, separation, and finding our way back to connection.

In this Lonesome Conversation, Sarah and I explore her reframe of shame as a metaphysical force whose whole function is disconnection—the thing that convinces you you’re separate from the rest of the whole. She shares the vivid dream in which her towering spirit guides told her they’d taped their heads to the wall to keep from laughing at how much weight she’d put on growing up poor, and how the shame dissolved on its own afterward. A striking look at why shame isolates us, and what it takes to feel part of things again.About SarahSarah Elkhaldy is a teacher, healer, and the host of the new series Mystery Teachings on the world’s largest conscious streaming platform Gaia.com.Sarah’s work bridges ancient wisdom, modern science, and consciousness studies to help people understand how our thoughts and energy shape the world around us. We’ll explore this new partnership, what viewers can expect from Mystery Teachings, and how we can all live more consciously in these transformative times.Lonesome Conversations Limited SeriesLonesome Conversations is a special series from The Life Stylist, built around my new book, A Horse Named Lonesome (out November 17, 2026). Loneliness is something almost everyone goes through, and almost nobody talks about honestly. So I sat down with psychologists, philosophers, trauma therapists, teachers, and friends to find the truth about loneliness, and how we heal from it. Each episode is its own conversation, but together they walk the same ground the book maps out. (Pre-order your copy at ahorsenamedlonesome.com) You'll find new episodes alongside our regular show over the coming months.

What really happens in the afterlife?Brendan D. Murphy is the author of The Grand Illusion and Reverse Engineering the Afterlife, and he treats consciousness the way an engineer treats a system: layered, mappable, and worth drawing properly.The conversation opens on reincarnation and the so-called soul trap, and why he doesn’t buy the version circulating online. The Tibetans, Jung, and near-death accounts all point to something more unsettling than a mechanism: your unmetabolized emotional charge becomes the environment you wake up in.From there, it turns to the evidence: Peak in Darien cases, Ian Stevenson’s birthmark research, and a woman who lived seven years inside a three-week induced coma.We also sit with a harder question: why do so many spiritually inclined people get stuck in paranoid loops about loosh harvesting and prison planets? Brendan’s answer reframes all of it, and probably your fear of dying with it.For details and discounts on Brendan's books and offerings, including his Evolve Yourself program and masterclass, visit brendandmurphy.com/lifestylist.You'll learn:[0:00] Introduction[7:31] Living in Australia through the COVID era[15:03] What makes the human psyche so susceptible to propaganda[22:31] Where the demand to be ruled actually comes from[28:37] My fear of being duped back into the recycling system[44:11] Working through your attractions and aversions before you die[51:21] Phobias as imprints from how you died in a past life[55:02] Whether past lives are sequential or stacked all at once[1:13:06] The Voice that told me you already have it all[1:17:28] Differentiation as the only thing the infinite one can do[1:33:28] Peak in Darien cases and meeting relatives you never knew existed[1:40:07] A cacophony of emotion after hunting my first large animal[1:52:29] Giving a child full autonomy to name itself[1:58:02] What loosh harvesting actually is and where Monroe landed[2:04:15] When spiritual seekers get trapped in the darkness[2:15:44] A sound-based modality born from a decade-long dark nightResources Mentioned:Read: The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot | BookEckhart Tolle | WebsiteRead: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes | BookRead: The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece by William Walker Atkinson | BookNear-Death Experience | WikipediaEdgar Cayce | WebsiteRudolf Steiner | WebsiteBrian Weiss | WebsiteMonroe Institute | WebsiteNick Sambrook | WebsiteFull show notes at lukestorey.com/ndeFind more from Brendan:Brendan D. Murphy | Website | Substack | Instagram | Facebook | X | TikTok | YouTubeRead: The Grand Illusion: A Synthesis of Science and Spirituality by Brendan D. Murphy | BookFind more from Luke:Luke Storey | Website | Instagram | Facebook | X | YouTube | LinkedInMy new book, A Horse Named Lonesome, launches November 17, 2026. Pre-order now at ahorsenamedlonesome.com and get bonuses: access to my Inner Circle Book Club, an exclusive Lonesome Conversations six-part miniseries, and an ebook transcript of the series.The Life Stylist is Brought To You By:JUST THRIVE | Visit justthrivehealth.com/luke and get 90 days of free digestive bitters with your first 90-day probiotic subscription.LEELA QUANTUM | Go to lukestorey.com/leelaq and use code LUKE10 for 10% off your first order.ACTIVE SKIN REPAIR | Visit lukestorey.com/skinrepair and use code LUKE for 20% off your order.NUCALM | Visit lukestorey.com/nucalm to start your free...

I joined my longtime friend Daniel Vitalis for a deep conversation about my new book, A Horse Named Lonesome, and the experiences that led me from childhood trauma and addiction to recovery and spiritual awakening. We explore the loneliness epidemic, why digital connection can never fully replace human intimacy, and how the pursuit of perfect health can become just another form of self-obsession. We also get into forgiveness, the spiritual cost of resentment, and why learning to love and serve others might be the most important work we ever do.

In this Lonesome Conversation, Oto and I go back to the loneliest stretch of his life — divorced, numbing himself with weed morning to night, “slowly killing himself” despite being a multimillionaire, down to a dog and a backpack after his apartment burned down. He shares how that string of losses felt like God rerouting him with a hard 180, and how meeting his partner a week after the fire met him at his sickest and heaviest. A raw, moving testament to how the ground falling away can be the thing that saves you.About OtoOto Gomes is a crypto investor, mentor, and founder of the Crypto Freedom Academy, an online educational platform helping people learn crypto and increase their wealth.With over 10 years experience in the crypto industry, and 10-plus years before that as an accountant, Oto has persevered through the bull and bear markets of life to find true freedom. His goal is to help others become the most abundant versions of themselves. Oto is a voice for truth, sovereignty, and a holistic approach to creating a life and world of prosperity.His mission is to create heart-centered, interdependent, and self-accountable communities to become the bridges to help themselves and others in recreating their relationship to money and re-internalizing their self worth.Lonesome Conversations Limited SeriesLonesome Conversations is a special series from The Life Stylist, built around my new book, A Horse Named Lonesome (out November 17, 2026). Loneliness is something almost everyone goes through, and almost nobody talks about honestly. So I sat down with psychologists, philosophers, trauma therapists, teachers, and friends to find the truth about loneliness, and how we heal from it. Each episode is its own conversation, but together they walk the same ground the book maps out. (Pre-order your copy at ahorsenamedlonesome.com) You'll find new episodes alongside our regular show over the coming months.

When I was addicted, I thought sobriety would fix all my problems . . . I was wrong.My beautiful wife Alyson is back for another AMA; this one pulls from listener questions Alyson compiled that I hadn’t seen beforehand.Sobriety taught me that removing the substance wasn't the fix I thought it was. A listener dealing with chronic illness asks how to find real friendship. Someone else asks how to find their dharma, and Alyson shares the dissolving process she went through to get to hers.My full mouth restoration with Dr. Kevin Winters, the Shroud of Turin, plus Luke’s Latest discoveries, and a few other things worth your attention are in here too.Happy birthday to me. Pull up a chair.Visit lukestorey.com/toku and use code LUKE for 20% off your first purchase of the first month of your subscriptionVisit mygutguardian.com/luke and use code LUKE for 10% offVisit lukestorey.com/chilipad to save 8% on your ChilipadVisit lukestorey.com/getmemoryair and use code LUKE15 for 15% offVisit lukestorey.com/nmn to get Wonderfeel Youngr NMN and use code LUKE to receive a free travel-size pouch with your first orderYou'll learn:[0:00] Introduction[4:21] Why I switched from three strikes to firing fast[10:46] Blaming the drug instead of facing deeper work[16:48] How the ego clings to labels and causes separation[21:09] Why unsolicited advice just bounces off the ego[27:44] Kaizen instant coffee and staying grounded on caffeine[40:33] The ChiliPad as the biggest health upgrade of all[49:42] How to actually find your dharma[56:44] Dissolving completely into nothingness and being reborn[1:03:38] Bringing every past part of yourself into the new era[1:11:37] The intersection of passion and natural aptitude[1:18:34] My whole mouth restoration after years of grinding and malnourishment[1:29:58] The Shroud of Turin and an image physics can’t explain[1:34:15] Making good friendships when you have a chronic illness[1:38:18] Seeing the soul behind every normie and NPCResources Mentioned:Cognitive Dissonance | WikipediaKaizen Signature Mushroom Coffee Blend | ProductKaizen Premium Electrolyte Mix | ProductDr. Kevin Winters, The Hills Dental Spa | WebsiteFull show notes at lukestorey.com/695Related The Life Stylist Episodes:Neuromuscular Dentistry: Solutions for TMJ, Headaches & Breathing Disorders w/ Dr. Kevin Winters | PodcastFarming and the Fall of Man with Daniel Vitalis | PodcastBreaking The Chains Of Human Domestication with Daniel Vitalis, Part One | PodcastBreaking The Chains of Human Domestication with Daniel Vitalis, Part Two | PodcastThe Water Wars Trilogy #129: Unlocking The Mysteries of Nature’s Greatest Gift with Daniel Vitalis | PodcastWildFed: How To Become A Modern Day Hunter-Gatherer *Vegan Trigger Warning | PodcastFake Food & Modern Medicine: Reclaim Your Health W/ Nature’s Wisdom Feat. Daniel Vitalis | PodcastDiscernment & Deception: Navigating AI, Occult Power, and False Light w/ Daniel Vitalis | PodcastFind more from Alyson:Alyson Charles Storey | Website | Instagram | X | TikTok | YouTubeGet the Animal Power book and deck, plus a free guided drumming shamanic journey to meet your power animal, at alysoncharles.com/animalpowerFind more from Luke:Luke Storey | Website | Instagram | Facebook | X | YouTube | LinkedInMy new book, A Horse Named Lonesome, launches November 17, 2026. Pre-order now at ahorsenamedlonesome.com and get bonuses: access to my Inner Circle Book Club, an exclusive Lonesome Conversations six-part miniseries, and an ebook transcript of the series.The Life Stylist is Brought To You By:URBAN ROOTS | Visit lukestorey.com/urbanroots and use code LUKE to save 15% off...

There's a better way to protect your health than paying for health insurance.My guest Andy Schoonover, founder of CrowdHealth, quit insurance after his plan refused to pay for his daughter's $8,000 ear procedure and built a parallel system.Paying cash shocked him. The same stress echo test that cost another man's insurance plan $5,000 cost him $225, and his pediatrician knocked 40 or 50 percent off the bill once insurance left the room.Andy explains how nearly 20 percent of claims get denied by design, why doctors see only eight cents of every healthcare dollar, and how 35,000 people are funding each other's medical bills through CrowdHealth.He also shares why he's willing to go to war with the system, even after death threats and regulatory fights.If you've ever opened an insurance bill and felt your stomach drop, this one is for you.Visit lukestorey.com/joincrowdhealth and use code LUKESTOREY to join for just $99 per member per month for the first three months.You'll learn:[0:00] Introduction[5:27] A moral obligation to fix a broken system[9:40] Up to four million would-be entrepreneurs held back by health insurance[23:54] Routing it through insurance locks you out of cash pricing[28:48] Andy ghosts a surprise bill he had no moral obligation to pay[37:16] The cortisol toll of living in medical debt[47:25] Why identical procedures cost wildly different amounts[54:25] Live hard and die fast instead of the nursing home[1:08:07] Members self-select out of broken systems[1:18:45] The best doctors are going cash-only[1:25:14] Starving the parasitic industry by taking your money back[1:31:03] The perceived downside of being responsible for your own bills[1:39:21] Bitcoiners and CrowdHealth share a similar worldview[1:48:48] Losing Grace and how it shaped Andy’s missionResources Mentioned:Visceral Fat | WikipediaFull show notes at lukestorey.com/crowdhealthFind more from Andy Schoonover: CrowdHealth | Website | Instagram | Facebook | X | TikTok | YouTubeFind more from Luke:Luke Storey | Website | Instagram | Facebook | X | YouTube | LinkedInMy new book, A Horse Named Lonesome, launches November 17, 2026. Pre-order now at ahorsenamedlonesome.com and get bonuses: access to my Inner Circle Book Club, an exclusive Lonesome Conversations six-part miniseries, and an ebook transcript of the series.The Life Stylist is Brought To You By:URBAN ROOTS | Visit lukestorey.com/urbanroots and use code LUKE to save 15% off your first jar or 25% off your first month when you subscribe.BIOPTIMIZERS | Visit bioptimizers.com/luke and use code LUKE15 to save 15% off sitewide.ACTIVE SKIN REPAIR | Visit lukestorey.com/skinrepair and use code LUKE for 20% off your order.QUANTUM UPGRADE | Visit lukestorey.com/quantumupgrade and use code LUKE15 to start your 15-day free trial.