Each episode is a conversation with a leader, founder, artist, parent or advocate who has lived through a moment that changed everything — and chose to talk about what actually happened. Not because those stories are easy. Because they are real.
At the Brink explores reinvention, resilience and the defining moments that reshape who we become.
Hosted by Erica Brinker. This show began as something personal. When her son Luca died suddenly at four months old, everything reorganized. What she found in the years that followed was that the people who looked the most composed were often carrying the most. At the Brink exists because those conversations deserve a stage.
Business inquiries and guest bookings: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Each episode is a conversation with a leader, founder, artist, parent or advocate who has lived through a moment that changed everything — and chose to talk about what actually happened. Not because those stories are easy. Because they are real.
At the Brink explores reinvention, resilience and the defining moments that reshape who we become.
Hosted by Erica Brinker. This show began as something personal. When her son Luca died suddenly at four months old, everything reorganized. What she found in the years that followed was that the people who looked the most composed were often carrying the most. At the Brink exists because those conversations deserve a stage.
Business inquiries and guest bookings: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Then two founder stories that run in opposite directions. PepsiCo bought Poppi last year for $1.95 billion, with up to $300 million more for the founders if the brand hit its sales targets. Pepsi’s latest filing values that bonus at about $12 million. Erica explains how an earnout works and why the headline price rarely tells the real story.
Reese Witherspoon went the other way: she sold Hello Sunshine, the company behind The Morning Show and Big Little Lies, at a $900 million valuation in 2021, and this month she partnered with French media group Mediawan to buy it back. Sara quizzes Erica on the Hello Sunshine catalog, and Erica has seen more of it than she thought. Plus Giggly Squad books Madison Square Garden, and a Taco Tuesday wins over a full table that includes a six-year-old.
The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is back with a $50 million Fantasy Bra on Kylie Jenner, and neither host can figure out who it’s for. A new study of more than 300 million lab tests finds the body changes abruptly around a woman’s final period, and Erica puts Sara through a hype-or-proven round on the perimenopause products filling their feeds. Retinoids and sunscreen pass. The supplements do not. They’re not doctors, and they say so.
In Gossip Girl, a 41-year-old mom wants to wear a Catwoman suit to an adult Halloween party, and her 15-year-old says it’s a lot for a mom. The ruling is unanimous. Women Killing It goes to Havi Nguyen, whose company Abby Care just raised $82 million to train and pay family caregivers, and to 24-year-old An Se Young, who won a record 47th international badminton title at the Denmark Open. They close with why this week’s guest episode with Lisa Miller is one of their favorites yet.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media · YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast · LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/at-the-brink-media
Follow Erica: Instagram @official.erica.brinker
www.atthebrinkmedia.com · hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Then two founder stories that run in opposite directions. PepsiCo bought Poppi last year for $1.95 billion, with up to $300 million more for the founders if the brand hit its sales targets. Pepsi’s latest filing values that bonus at about $12 million. Erica explains how an earnout works and why the headline price rarely tells the real story.
Reese Witherspoon went the other way: she sold Hello Sunshine, the company behind The Morning Show and Big Little Lies, at a $900 million valuation in 2021, and this month she partnered with French media group Mediawan to buy it back. Sara quizzes Erica on the Hello Sunshine catalog, and Erica has seen more of it than she thought. Plus Giggly Squad books Madison Square Garden, and a Taco Tuesday wins over a full table that includes a six-year-old.
The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is back with a $50 million Fantasy Bra on Kylie Jenner, and neither host can figure out who it’s for. A new study of more than 300 million lab tests finds the body changes abruptly around a woman’s final period, and Erica puts Sara through a hype-or-proven round on the perimenopause products filling their feeds. Retinoids and sunscreen pass. The supplements do not. They’re not doctors, and they say so.
In Gossip Girl, a 41-year-old mom wants to wear a Catwoman suit to an adult Halloween party, and her 15-year-old says it’s a lot for a mom. The ruling is unanimous. Women Killing It goes to Havi Nguyen, whose company Abby Care just raised $82 million to train and pay family caregivers, and to 24-year-old An Se Young, who won a record 47th international badminton title at the Denmark Open. They close with why this week’s guest episode with Lisa Miller is one of their favorites yet.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media · YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast · LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/at-the-brink-media
Follow Erica: Instagram @official.erica.brinker
www.atthebrinkmedia.com · hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Lisa Miller was born in Detroit to a mother living with addiction. Before she was 10, she and her two older brothers had been through what she calls the year of hell with their biological father, in rural Appalachian Virginia, then a group home and separate placements. She was eventually adopted, moved out at midnight on her 18th birthday and became a mom at 21.
Then the years piled up. Her youngest son, Luke, arrived at 30 weeks and was diagnosed with autism at 2. Her oldest brother, Ryan, moved in with the family and died months later in a motorcycle accident. At 28, Lisa got sick with Sjögren’s, an autoimmune disease that scarred her lungs and kept her on oxygen for a year and a half. Doctors kept telling her she looked fine.
At 32, with life finally looking good on paper, she told her husband she needed help. Lisa tells Erica Brinker what that help looked like, including the ketamine infusions and trauma therapy that led to a diagnosis she didn’t expect: complex PTSD and anxiety, not depression.
Almost three years ago, she sold the house in Knoxville, signed a lease on a Brooklyn apartment she’d only toured on a screen and moved her husband and three kids to New York City. Now she documents it all, silly and dark, as @LisaMillerInRealLife and is writing a memoir. Her advice to anyone at their own brink: give yourself a yes year.
If you or someone you love is struggling or thinking about suicide, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, available 24/7 in the U.S.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media · YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast · LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/at-the-brink-media
Follow Erica: Instagram @official.erica.brinker
Follow Lisa: Instagram @LisaMillerInRealLife · TikTok @lisamillerinreallife
www.atthebrinkmedia.com · hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Lisa Miller was born in Detroit to a mother living with addiction. Before she was 10, she and her two older brothers had been through what she calls the year of hell with their biological father, in rural Appalachian Virginia, then a group home and separate placements. She was eventually adopted, moved out at midnight on her 18th birthday and became a mom at 21.
Then the years piled up. Her youngest son, Luke, arrived at 30 weeks and was diagnosed with autism at 2. Her oldest brother, Ryan, moved in with the family and died months later in a motorcycle accident. At 28, Lisa got sick with Sjögren’s, an autoimmune disease that scarred her lungs and kept her on oxygen for a year and a half. Doctors kept telling her she looked fine.
At 32, with life finally looking good on paper, she told her husband she needed help. Lisa tells Erica Brinker what that help looked like, including the ketamine infusions and trauma therapy that led to a diagnosis she didn’t expect: complex PTSD and anxiety, not depression.
Almost three years ago, she sold the house in Knoxville, signed a lease on a Brooklyn apartment she’d only toured on a screen and moved her husband and three kids to New York City. Now she documents it all, silly and dark, as @LisaMillerInRealLife and is writing a memoir. Her advice to anyone at their own brink: give yourself a yes year.
If you or someone you love is struggling or thinking about suicide, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, available 24/7 in the U.S.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media · YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast · LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/at-the-brink-media
Follow Erica: Instagram @official.erica.brinker
Follow Lisa: Instagram @LisaMillerInRealLife · TikTok @lisamillerinreallife
www.atthebrinkmedia.com · hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>First on the list: Shane Gillis, who used his third SNL hosting gig to take aim at women in gym clothes. Ego Nwodim responded with a gym selfie and “whore reporting for duty.” Dan Levy had thoughts, too. And Chelsea Handler once called Shane “the shape of a steamed dumpling.” We tend to agree.
Pete Davidson joins the list for going after female influencers in a Variety interview. His question: how do they even make money? Our question: why do you care? Gmail also makes the list for apparently aging without maturing. It’s older than Sombr. We’d expect more.
On the lighter end: balloon pants. Erica is ready to commit but needs the shirts to match. Sara needs to confirm we’re not talking about the barrel silhouette. Also, fiber is coming for us. We just got the hang of protein.
Then there’s Kelly Clarkson, who walked into The Art of Play in Williamsburg, asked about a $15,000 bird named Molly and was told she couldn’t buy it. Kelly compared the experience to Pretty Woman. The shop owner has since put a $15 million price on Molly. Sara remains Team Kelly.
Meanwhile, Gen Z thinks we all dress the same—and now they want our clothes. Secondhand is booming. Vintage band tees can command serious money. Old Levi’s are desirable again. Coach is cool again. So naturally we inventory our closets: no band tees, no 501s, one possible Swatch and a vintage Wilson leather jacket that Erica is absolutely not giving Gen Z.
Gossip Girl: She’s 52, works in benefits administration and her real love is baking. There’s a former bakery two blocks from her house, ovens included. Her husband says wait until the kids finish college. By then she’ll be 58. We say: if not now, when?
Women Killing It: Natalie Nakase is making history with the Golden State Valkyries. And Donna Jean Wilde, a 61-year-old retired teacher and grandmother of 11, broke a Guinness World Record by planking for five hours. She reads, types and even wrote a book from the plank position. Suddenly our workouts seem inadequate.
Plus: Halloween decorating, Erica’s two-meals-one-sauce triumph, Sara plays Unchopped with an avocado and a potato, and an update on our eight Signal Awards nominations. Thank you to everyone who voted.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>First on the list: Shane Gillis, who used his third SNL hosting gig to take aim at women in gym clothes. Ego Nwodim responded with a gym selfie and “whore reporting for duty.” Dan Levy had thoughts, too. And Chelsea Handler once called Shane “the shape of a steamed dumpling.” We tend to agree.
Pete Davidson joins the list for going after female influencers in a Variety interview. His question: how do they even make money? Our question: why do you care? Gmail also makes the list for apparently aging without maturing. It’s older than Sombr. We’d expect more.
On the lighter end: balloon pants. Erica is ready to commit but needs the shirts to match. Sara needs to confirm we’re not talking about the barrel silhouette. Also, fiber is coming for us. We just got the hang of protein.
Then there’s Kelly Clarkson, who walked into The Art of Play in Williamsburg, asked about a $15,000 bird named Molly and was told she couldn’t buy it. Kelly compared the experience to Pretty Woman. The shop owner has since put a $15 million price on Molly. Sara remains Team Kelly.
Meanwhile, Gen Z thinks we all dress the same—and now they want our clothes. Secondhand is booming. Vintage band tees can command serious money. Old Levi’s are desirable again. Coach is cool again. So naturally we inventory our closets: no band tees, no 501s, one possible Swatch and a vintage Wilson leather jacket that Erica is absolutely not giving Gen Z.
Gossip Girl: She’s 52, works in benefits administration and her real love is baking. There’s a former bakery two blocks from her house, ovens included. Her husband says wait until the kids finish college. By then she’ll be 58. We say: if not now, when?
Women Killing It: Natalie Nakase is making history with the Golden State Valkyries. And Donna Jean Wilde, a 61-year-old retired teacher and grandmother of 11, broke a Guinness World Record by planking for five hours. She reads, types and even wrote a book from the plank position. Suddenly our workouts seem inadequate.
Plus: Halloween decorating, Erica’s two-meals-one-sauce triumph, Sara plays Unchopped with an avocado and a potato, and an update on our eight Signal Awards nominations. Thank you to everyone who voted.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>The mammogram confirmed breast cancer on the right side. An MRI caught a second primary tumor on the left. One was triple negative — a rare and aggressive form that accounts for 10 to 15 percent of breast cancer diagnoses. The other was hormone positive. What she thought would be a two-month detour became a year-long treatment plan: 16 rounds of chemotherapy, a double mastectomy and 30 rounds of radiation.
Her husband Bruce had just marked one year cancer-free when Stacy got diagnosed — to the day. Their family had been through this before. But Stacy had something else too: 12 women led by her friend Janie Reese who called themselves the Stacy Strong Tribe. They showed up for every chemo session, cooked meals and sent cards for a year straight. Her son shaved his head. Her colleagues at Leslie’s — a team she’d known for barely two months — picked up her work without being asked.
Stacy never stopped working through treatment. She talks about the faith that carried her, the books that helped, the Thanksgiving she couldn’t cook and the moment she told Bruce to get the clippers. She is now one year cancer-free, retired from corporate America and running marketing for Bruce Woods Realty. Her mammogram came back clear the day before this interview.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Stacy: Instagram @stacyinthe55 | LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/stacyawoods
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>The mammogram confirmed breast cancer on the right side. An MRI caught a second primary tumor on the left. One was triple negative — a rare and aggressive form that accounts for 10 to 15 percent of breast cancer diagnoses. The other was hormone positive. What she thought would be a two-month detour became a year-long treatment plan: 16 rounds of chemotherapy, a double mastectomy and 30 rounds of radiation.
Her husband Bruce had just marked one year cancer-free when Stacy got diagnosed — to the day. Their family had been through this before. But Stacy had something else too: 12 women led by her friend Janie Reese who called themselves the Stacy Strong Tribe. They showed up for every chemo session, cooked meals and sent cards for a year straight. Her son shaved his head. Her colleagues at Leslie’s — a team she’d known for barely two months — picked up her work without being asked.
Stacy never stopped working through treatment. She talks about the faith that carried her, the books that helped, the Thanksgiving she couldn’t cook and the moment she told Bruce to get the clippers. She is now one year cancer-free, retired from corporate America and running marketing for Bruce Woods Realty. Her mammogram came back clear the day before this interview.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Stacy: Instagram @stacyinthe55 | LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/stacyawoods
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>If you or someone you know has been affected by sexual assault, the RAINN hotline is available at 1-800-656-4673 or online at rainn.org.
Then the tone shifts. Sara takes Erica through NYC's line culture explosion — hours-long waits for bagels, frozen yogurt, restaurants that don't take reservations. They debate what's actually worth the wait (Taylor Swift floor seats? A sample sale? Four AM for a Cronut?). The answer: it depends on your hunger level and your relationship with patience.
Erica read Derek Thompson's Atlantic article "You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner" and the stats are wild: the share of Americans who host friends at home monthly fell from 42% in 1975 to 12% in 2026. She's on a mission to bring back the dinner party and made bulgogi beef for friends last weekend to prove it's not that hard.
Sara walks Erica through Amazon's viral "About You" feature that builds a profile from your purchases, searches and Alexa conversations. Sara's says she makes sourdough and her dog likes rain. Erica's says she's "good at hunting." She has never hunted. Alexa has some explaining to do.
The Elizabeth Holmes documentary drops October 16 — she invited cameras into her home 34 days before reporting to federal prison. Nathan Fielder directed. It runs almost three hours. We are not waiting for streaming.
Gossip Girl this week: she's been the host of her friend group for six years. Not once has anyone had her over. One friend has a pizza oven and has posted about it on Instagram 40 times. She's never eaten a single pizza from that oven.
It's Sara's birthday. She's celebrating with a flu shot and ice cream. An investment in health and happiness.
Woman Killing It: Victoria Beckham. Her company just reported its first operating profit in 18 years after she brought in an external CEO and consolidated from two clothing lines to one. She showed her spring/summer 2027 collection at Paris Fashion Week with A-listers in the front row. Not just a Spice Girl.
This week on At the Brink: Merrick Walter on living with chronic illness for ten years and choosing joy when your body won't cooperate. He almost joined the CIA because he knew Russian. Tune in.
Vote for us in the Signal Awards through October 15: atthebrinkmedia.com/vote
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>If you or someone you know has been affected by sexual assault, the RAINN hotline is available at 1-800-656-4673 or online at rainn.org.
Then the tone shifts. Sara takes Erica through NYC's line culture explosion — hours-long waits for bagels, frozen yogurt, restaurants that don't take reservations. They debate what's actually worth the wait (Taylor Swift floor seats? A sample sale? Four AM for a Cronut?). The answer: it depends on your hunger level and your relationship with patience.
Erica read Derek Thompson's Atlantic article "You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner" and the stats are wild: the share of Americans who host friends at home monthly fell from 42% in 1975 to 12% in 2026. She's on a mission to bring back the dinner party and made bulgogi beef for friends last weekend to prove it's not that hard.
Sara walks Erica through Amazon's viral "About You" feature that builds a profile from your purchases, searches and Alexa conversations. Sara's says she makes sourdough and her dog likes rain. Erica's says she's "good at hunting." She has never hunted. Alexa has some explaining to do.
The Elizabeth Holmes documentary drops October 16 — she invited cameras into her home 34 days before reporting to federal prison. Nathan Fielder directed. It runs almost three hours. We are not waiting for streaming.
Gossip Girl this week: she's been the host of her friend group for six years. Not once has anyone had her over. One friend has a pizza oven and has posted about it on Instagram 40 times. She's never eaten a single pizza from that oven.
It's Sara's birthday. She's celebrating with a flu shot and ice cream. An investment in health and happiness.
Woman Killing It: Victoria Beckham. Her company just reported its first operating profit in 18 years after she brought in an external CEO and consolidated from two clothing lines to one. She showed her spring/summer 2027 collection at Paris Fashion Week with A-listers in the front row. Not just a Spice Girl.
This week on At the Brink: Merrick Walter on living with chronic illness for ten years and choosing joy when your body won't cooperate. He almost joined the CIA because he knew Russian. Tune in.
Vote for us in the Signal Awards through October 15: atthebrinkmedia.com/vote
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>In the spring of 2015, everything changed. Within nine months, Merrick was diagnosed with a blood disorder, a bicuspid aortic valve, an aortic aneurysm and neuroendocrine cancer. He has had more than a dozen surgeries since, including three open heart surgeries. He almost bled out on the table. He carries a hospital bag in his backpack because sometimes he goes to the doctor and doesn’t come home.
In this conversation, Merrick talks about what chronic illness actually looks like from the inside: the dark nights, the projects he couldn’t finish, the disability system he couldn’t access, the 700-square-foot apartment he sometimes doesn’t leave for weeks, and why “you look great” is the worst thing you can say to someone who is fighting to get out of bed. He also talks about what keeps him going: his partner Mark, his doctors, the tulips from the greenmarket and the decision to take hold of the steering wheel again.
His toast: to people living with chronic illness and to the friends, family and medical providers who keep us going.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media |YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Merrick Walter: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/merrick-walter-a036139| Skillingual: skillingual.com
www.atthebrinkmedia.com| hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>In the spring of 2015, everything changed. Within nine months, Merrick was diagnosed with a blood disorder, a bicuspid aortic valve, an aortic aneurysm and neuroendocrine cancer. He has had more than a dozen surgeries since, including three open heart surgeries. He almost bled out on the table. He carries a hospital bag in his backpack because sometimes he goes to the doctor and doesn’t come home.
In this conversation, Merrick talks about what chronic illness actually looks like from the inside: the dark nights, the projects he couldn’t finish, the disability system he couldn’t access, the 700-square-foot apartment he sometimes doesn’t leave for weeks, and why “you look great” is the worst thing you can say to someone who is fighting to get out of bed. He also talks about what keeps him going: his partner Mark, his doctors, the tulips from the greenmarket and the decision to take hold of the steering wheel again.
His toast: to people living with chronic illness and to the friends, family and medical providers who keep us going.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media |YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Merrick Walter: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/merrick-walter-a036139| Skillingual: skillingual.com
www.atthebrinkmedia.com| hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Also this week: return to office is pushing women out of the workplace (30% of companies now require five days on site and on-site job postings jumped from 65% to 87% this year). Then Glow Recipe dropped a twist-and-cut under eye mask and two days later Huda Beauty had the same one. Two days after that, Fenty had one too. Fenty posted the Spider-Man pointing meme. We respect the move.
Gossip Girl this week is a heartbreaker: she built a company, mentored an employee for eight years, taught her everything. The employee left and took their two biggest clients. Now there’s a launch party invitation on her desk with a handwritten note: “None of this would be possible without you.” Do you go?
Plus: Taylor Swift’s $40 tank top sold out in 15 minutes, women’s NFL merch has tripled since 2020, Erica has a Cowboys bomber jacket she needs to give away, and Madonna won seven VMAs at 68 including Artist of the Year over Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter. Her manager told her in 1984 that her career was over. We’d like a word.
This week’s guest: Caralyn Brace on a miscarriage on her wedding day, a cancer diagnosis on vacation and raising a daughter with Type 1 diabetes.
Vote for us: https://atthebrinkmedia.com/vote
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Also this week: return to office is pushing women out of the workplace (30% of companies now require five days on site and on-site job postings jumped from 65% to 87% this year). Then Glow Recipe dropped a twist-and-cut under eye mask and two days later Huda Beauty had the same one. Two days after that, Fenty had one too. Fenty posted the Spider-Man pointing meme. We respect the move.
Gossip Girl this week is a heartbreaker: she built a company, mentored an employee for eight years, taught her everything. The employee left and took their two biggest clients. Now there’s a launch party invitation on her desk with a handwritten note: “None of this would be possible without you.” Do you go?
Plus: Taylor Swift’s $40 tank top sold out in 15 minutes, women’s NFL merch has tripled since 2020, Erica has a Cowboys bomber jacket she needs to give away, and Madonna won seven VMAs at 68 including Artist of the Year over Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter. Her manager told her in 1984 that her career was over. We’d like a word.
This week’s guest: Caralyn Brace on a miscarriage on her wedding day, a cancer diagnosis on vacation and raising a daughter with Type 1 diabetes.
Vote for us: https://atthebrinkmedia.com/vote
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>They got pregnant fast. On their wedding day — a small backyard ceremony with immediate family — Caralyn was bleeding heavily. She knew what was happening. Any woman who has miscarried knows. She took the medication that was supposed to stop it. It didn’t stop. She finished the ceremony, walked upstairs, and then came back down and cut the cake.
Six months later, on vacation, her husband became violently ill. He couldn’t leave the hotel room. At the resort bar, Caralyn met a woman who turned out to be an adoption attorney. Over the next few days, that stranger taught her everything about how adoption in this country actually works. They came home. Within a week, her husband was diagnosed with stage 3B colon cancer.
What followed was sperm banking before chemotherapy, adoption paperwork filed during treatment and an open adoption with a birth mother who had Type 1 diabetes. They knew the risk. They chose to walk toward it. Their daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 at age five.
In this conversation, Caralyn talks about what it means to keep choosing forward when every chapter comes with a new crisis, what the day-to-day of Type 1 really looks like and the moment on the oncology ward when she decided she could handle it.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media |YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>They got pregnant fast. On their wedding day — a small backyard ceremony with immediate family — Caralyn was bleeding heavily. She knew what was happening. Any woman who has miscarried knows. She took the medication that was supposed to stop it. It didn’t stop. She finished the ceremony, walked upstairs, and then came back down and cut the cake.
Six months later, on vacation, her husband became violently ill. He couldn’t leave the hotel room. At the resort bar, Caralyn met a woman who turned out to be an adoption attorney. Over the next few days, that stranger taught her everything about how adoption in this country actually works. They came home. Within a week, her husband was diagnosed with stage 3B colon cancer.
What followed was sperm banking before chemotherapy, adoption paperwork filed during treatment and an open adoption with a birth mother who had Type 1 diabetes. They knew the risk. They chose to walk toward it. Their daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 at age five.
In this conversation, Caralyn talks about what it means to keep choosing forward when every chapter comes with a new crisis, what the day-to-day of Type 1 really looks like and the moment on the oncology ward when she decided she could handle it.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media |YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>This week: Target launched a comeback campaign and we were bored. Meanwhile three people told Erica their cute outfit was from Walmart. Ann Taylor is also trying and also boring. Donatella Versace is 71 and thriving at Revolve. Then we got into interview icks — the iced coffee debate that hit the Today show (we're fine with it), bringing a parent to an interview (we are not fine with it, and Erica once rescinded an offer over it), the coffee cup test (mind games), and the no-makeup question that opened a real conversation about gender bias in hiring.
Gossip Girl this week: a woman in Boston is spiraling about her 30th high school reunion because the guy who dumped her before prom is now divorced and DMing her. She has a trainer and two dresses. We told her to bring the husband.
Also: tofu beat every protein on the planet in a Cambridge study (cheddar cheese came in last), and Hannah Berner and Paige DeSorbo of Giggly Squad just signed a $140M deal with Sirius XM. They record in the same studio we do. We're giggling with them.
Production notes:
This week's guest: Ryan Larson on her IVF journey and the misdiagnoses that almost derailed it.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>This week: Target launched a comeback campaign and we were bored. Meanwhile three people told Erica their cute outfit was from Walmart. Ann Taylor is also trying and also boring. Donatella Versace is 71 and thriving at Revolve. Then we got into interview icks — the iced coffee debate that hit the Today show (we're fine with it), bringing a parent to an interview (we are not fine with it, and Erica once rescinded an offer over it), the coffee cup test (mind games), and the no-makeup question that opened a real conversation about gender bias in hiring.
Gossip Girl this week: a woman in Boston is spiraling about her 30th high school reunion because the guy who dumped her before prom is now divorced and DMing her. She has a trainer and two dresses. We told her to bring the husband.
Also: tofu beat every protein on the planet in a Cambridge study (cheddar cheese came in last), and Hannah Berner and Paige DeSorbo of Giggly Squad just signed a $140M deal with Sirius XM. They record in the same studio we do. We're giggling with them.
Production notes:
This week's guest: Ryan Larson on her IVF journey and the misdiagnoses that almost derailed it.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>She got pregnant quickly and lost it early. She got pregnant again, and that is where it came apart. Bleeding one night in San Francisco, she went to the hospital. They did an ultrasound, told her there was a heartbeat and sent her home. There was no baby on the scan. She had miscarried weeks earlier, and nobody caught it until she found a doctor who would look properly.
What followed was retained tissue, a fever she could not break, multiple procedures, a move back across the country to find care she could trust, and a full round of testing where every single result came back normal. She was 31.
In this conversation Ryan talks about what it takes to get a doctor to listen, the question her husband started asking in every appointment, the parts of IVF nobody warns you about, and the ultrasound she walked into expecting the worst.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>She got pregnant quickly and lost it early. She got pregnant again, and that is where it came apart. Bleeding one night in San Francisco, she went to the hospital. They did an ultrasound, told her there was a heartbeat and sent her home. There was no baby on the scan. She had miscarried weeks earlier, and nobody caught it until she found a doctor who would look properly.
What followed was retained tissue, a fever she could not break, multiple procedures, a move back across the country to find care she could trust, and a full round of testing where every single result came back normal. She was 31.
In this conversation Ryan talks about what it takes to get a doctor to listen, the question her husband started asking in every appointment, the parts of IVF nobody warns you about, and the ultrasound she walked into expecting the worst.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Also this week: the iPhone Duo is $2,000 and Sara can't decide, Dyson made a toothbrush with a camera in it ($499), the Eight Sleep Pod might change your life but then you can never sleep in a hotel again, a Gossip Girl from a 46-year-old whose friends typed 39 on her Hinge profile over margaritas and now she's on date three with a man who thinks she was born in 1987, champagne prices are going up because France is too hot (stock up now), Priyanka Jain just raised $59 million for women's health research (women weren't required in federal studies until 1993), and Sara and Erica answer: what are you finally done apologizing for?
On At the Brink: Colleen Mahoney. She had a heart attack while conducting a meeting. Her story is one you need to hear.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Also this week: the iPhone Duo is $2,000 and Sara can't decide, Dyson made a toothbrush with a camera in it ($499), the Eight Sleep Pod might change your life but then you can never sleep in a hotel again, a Gossip Girl from a 46-year-old whose friends typed 39 on her Hinge profile over margaritas and now she's on date three with a man who thinks she was born in 1987, champagne prices are going up because France is too hot (stock up now), Priyanka Jain just raised $59 million for women's health research (women weren't required in federal studies until 1993), and Sara and Erica answer: what are you finally done apologizing for?
On At the Brink: Colleen Mahoney. She had a heart attack while conducting a meeting. Her story is one you need to hear.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>The warning signs did not look like the textbook. She felt a throbbing pain the night before and told herself it was stress and travel. The next morning she drove her daughter to school and ran a staff meeting before she finally went to the hospital, where doctors told her she was in the middle of a heart attack with a heart rate over 206. As she puts it, she ignored it the way so many women do.
In this episode Colleen talks with Erica about what her body was trying to say and what she decided to actually hear — dismantling the perfectionism, learning that 50 percent of good is often good enough, and finally asking for help. She also talks leadership, switching industries, raising a daughter in a digital age, and the company she started a little over a year ago. It is a conversation about what changes when your body interrupts a life you were too busy to stop.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Colleen Mahoney: ckmarketsolutions.com
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>The warning signs did not look like the textbook. She felt a throbbing pain the night before and told herself it was stress and travel. The next morning she drove her daughter to school and ran a staff meeting before she finally went to the hospital, where doctors told her she was in the middle of a heart attack with a heart rate over 206. As she puts it, she ignored it the way so many women do.
In this episode Colleen talks with Erica about what her body was trying to say and what she decided to actually hear — dismantling the perfectionism, learning that 50 percent of good is often good enough, and finally asking for help. She also talks leadership, switching industries, raising a daughter in a digital age, and the company she started a little over a year ago. It is a conversation about what changes when your body interrupts a life you were too busy to stop.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Colleen Mahoney: ckmarketsolutions.com
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Also this week: Ina Garten's new podcast and the fake Martha rivalry (stop pitting women against women), a Gossip Girl from a woman who was passed over for a 33-year-old after 11 years at her company, Blandine L'Hirondel breaking records on the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, and a Say the Thing that got real — on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 we both shared where we were that morning.
Also out this week: Karina Zuniga. A military wife who fought the VA when they told her husband to man up. Her story is one you need to hear.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Also this week: Ina Garten's new podcast and the fake Martha rivalry (stop pitting women against women), a Gossip Girl from a woman who was passed over for a 33-year-old after 11 years at her company, Blandine L'Hirondel breaking records on the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, and a Say the Thing that got real — on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 we both shared where we were that morning.
Also out this week: Karina Zuniga. A military wife who fought the VA when they told her husband to man up. Her story is one you need to hear.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Karina Zuniga was born and raised in Mexico. She met Billy, an American veteran, in Los Cabos. They fell in love over books and conversation. After September 11, Billy re-enlisted. Karina left everything — her country, her career, her family — to follow him to Arizona.
Billy came home from Afghanistan with shrapnel in his head, a destroyed knee and severe PTSD. What followed was years of episodes so intense he thought their backyard was a combat zone. He told Karina: I know I’m here. I just can’t get out. When he went to his chain of command begging for help, they told him to man up.
Karina became his advocate — driving across states to visit him in rehab centers, learning what oxycodone was, watching him cycle through pills that went up, pills that went down and pills that were supposed to keep him in the middle. Eventually she had to make the hardest decision of her life: leave the marriage to save herself.
Billy died in his sleep on September 11, 2017. In this conversation, Karina talks about what it means to love someone through trauma the system won’t treat, what advocacy actually looks like from the inside and how she found herself again after losing the person she fought hardest to save.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Karina Zuniga was born and raised in Mexico. She met Billy, an American veteran, in Los Cabos. They fell in love over books and conversation. After September 11, Billy re-enlisted. Karina left everything — her country, her career, her family — to follow him to Arizona.
Billy came home from Afghanistan with shrapnel in his head, a destroyed knee and severe PTSD. What followed was years of episodes so intense he thought their backyard was a combat zone. He told Karina: I know I’m here. I just can’t get out. When he went to his chain of command begging for help, they told him to man up.
Karina became his advocate — driving across states to visit him in rehab centers, learning what oxycodone was, watching him cycle through pills that went up, pills that went down and pills that were supposed to keep him in the middle. Eventually she had to make the hardest decision of her life: leave the marriage to save herself.
Billy died in his sleep on September 11, 2017. In this conversation, Karina talks about what it means to love someone through trauma the system won’t treat, what advocacy actually looks like from the inside and how she found herself again after losing the person she fought hardest to save.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Also this week: Trust Me on Netflix (five stars, obsessed, don't make us go to Reddit for recommendations), pumpkin spice is losing to matcha in 29 states, a Gossip Girl about a husband who won't stop calling his wife's profitable business a "hobby," a tribute to Gloria Steinem (who never passed the torch — she lit other people's), Blandine L'Hirondel breaking 22 hours on the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, and a new segment called Say the Thing where Erica pulled a card and Sara immediately passed. Enjoy the mini-tantrum that followed.
Also out this week: Becky Sidelinger. Three decades in the most powerful rooms in manufacturing. Her story is raw, honest and one you need to hear.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Also this week: Trust Me on Netflix (five stars, obsessed, don't make us go to Reddit for recommendations), pumpkin spice is losing to matcha in 29 states, a Gossip Girl about a husband who won't stop calling his wife's profitable business a "hobby," a tribute to Gloria Steinem (who never passed the torch — she lit other people's), Blandine L'Hirondel breaking 22 hours on the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, and a new segment called Say the Thing where Erica pulled a card and Sara immediately passed. Enjoy the mini-tantrum that followed.
Also out this week: Becky Sidelinger. Three decades in the most powerful rooms in manufacturing. Her story is raw, honest and one you need to hear.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>What nobody knew was that for the past three years, she’d been having panic attacks every time she stood up to speak. On stages. On conference calls. On a call with Condoleezza Rice’s consulting firm where all she had to do was introduce herself. She shook uncontrollably. Her heart raced. She couldn’t breathe. She had no idea what was happening.
The trigger wasn’t one thing. It was 40 years of things: a mother who judged everything she said, a first husband who was threatened by how smart she was, a second husband who nearly died on a ventilator for six weeks, and an HR leader who told her to stop talking about her personal life at work. The accumulation broke something open.
In this conversation, Becky talks about the hard hat line she got at 21, what it cost to care too much in a world that called it a weakness, the moment she lost herself and the presentation that helped her find her voice again. She came to At the Brink without her beta blocker. This is the first time she’s saying most of this out loud.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Becky Sidelinger: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/becky-sidelinger
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>What nobody knew was that for the past three years, she’d been having panic attacks every time she stood up to speak. On stages. On conference calls. On a call with Condoleezza Rice’s consulting firm where all she had to do was introduce herself. She shook uncontrollably. Her heart raced. She couldn’t breathe. She had no idea what was happening.
The trigger wasn’t one thing. It was 40 years of things: a mother who judged everything she said, a first husband who was threatened by how smart she was, a second husband who nearly died on a ventilator for six weeks, and an HR leader who told her to stop talking about her personal life at work. The accumulation broke something open.
In this conversation, Becky talks about the hard hat line she got at 21, what it cost to care too much in a world that called it a weakness, the moment she lost herself and the presentation that helped her find her voice again. She came to At the Brink without her beta blocker. This is the first time she’s saying most of this out loud.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Becky Sidelinger: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/becky-sidelinger
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>In this episode: the Good Good x Callaway ad that never should have aired (and the non-apology that made it worse), a segment called Gossip Girl where an anonymous listener asks if she was right or just organized, the case for cabbage being the vegetable of 2026, a quick-fire safe conflict round (pineapple on pizza, the thumbs up emoji, reclining on airplanes), Erica's countdown to 50, a shout out to Yano Ba and the Women in Auto program in Sierra Leone, a moment for Dolly, and the Dyson Airwrap situation that cost Erica $700 she'll never get back.
At the Brink | Unplugged with Erica Brinker and Sara Glassman
New Unplugged episodes drop weekly alongside the regular At the Brink interviews.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>In this episode: the Good Good x Callaway ad that never should have aired (and the non-apology that made it worse), a segment called Gossip Girl where an anonymous listener asks if she was right or just organized, the case for cabbage being the vegetable of 2026, a quick-fire safe conflict round (pineapple on pizza, the thumbs up emoji, reclining on airplanes), Erica's countdown to 50, a shout out to Yano Ba and the Women in Auto program in Sierra Leone, a moment for Dolly, and the Dyson Airwrap situation that cost Erica $700 she'll never get back.
At the Brink | Unplugged with Erica Brinker and Sara Glassman
New Unplugged episodes drop weekly alongside the regular At the Brink interviews.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>She was miserable in a job that gave her no room to make noise — all passion and vision, none of the authority. Her husband told her New York was the only place for her. She went, slept with cockroaches on the floor and made friends out of strangers, then launched an interactive-media company and, in 2003, a magazine built to talk to women without talking down to them.
In this episode Moonah tells Erica how she got past every gatekeeper, why she bet on talent like Ryan Reynolds before anyone knew the name, and why she believes so fiercely in showing up in person. She also talks about 21st Century Power Women, the coffee table book marking 20 years of celebrating the leaders she has championed. It is a conversation about reinvention, nerve and refusing to take no.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Moonah Ellison: New York Moves — newyorkmoves.com | Instagram @nymovesmagazine | MovesNexus — movesnexus.com | LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/moonah-ellison
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>She was miserable in a job that gave her no room to make noise — all passion and vision, none of the authority. Her husband told her New York was the only place for her. She went, slept with cockroaches on the floor and made friends out of strangers, then launched an interactive-media company and, in 2003, a magazine built to talk to women without talking down to them.
In this episode Moonah tells Erica how she got past every gatekeeper, why she bet on talent like Ryan Reynolds before anyone knew the name, and why she believes so fiercely in showing up in person. She also talks about 21st Century Power Women, the coffee table book marking 20 years of celebrating the leaders she has championed. It is a conversation about reinvention, nerve and refusing to take no.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Moonah Ellison: New York Moves — newyorkmoves.com | Instagram @nymovesmagazine | MovesNexus — movesnexus.com | LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/moonah-ellison
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>She was grieving at the same time. Her father, in the end stage of alcoholism, died seven days before her surgery. In this episode she talks with Erica about how she held both at once — the healing and the grieving — using what she calls healthy compartmentalization, and why, as a science teacher, research became a source of power rather than fear.
Then came the second brink. Last year an explosion sparked a fire that tore through her home while she was there alone, her husband away and her daughters out of the house. Jessica talks about that night, the community that showed up, and the reframe she lives by now: I get to, instead of I have to. It is a conversation about rebuilding — and about the spirit that led her daughters to bling out her eye patch in the middle of it all.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Jessica Harris: Mindset Momma — mindsetmomma.com
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>She was grieving at the same time. Her father, in the end stage of alcoholism, died seven days before her surgery. In this episode she talks with Erica about how she held both at once — the healing and the grieving — using what she calls healthy compartmentalization, and why, as a science teacher, research became a source of power rather than fear.
Then came the second brink. Last year an explosion sparked a fire that tore through her home while she was there alone, her husband away and her daughters out of the house. Jessica talks about that night, the community that showed up, and the reframe she lives by now: I get to, instead of I have to. It is a conversation about rebuilding — and about the spirit that led her daughters to bling out her eye patch in the middle of it all.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Jessica Harris: Mindset Momma — mindsetmomma.com
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>The diagnosis was a rare vocal cord disorder with no cure. But the deeper problem was burnout — the kind that hides inside ambition and calls itself personality. Elsa tried a sabbatical. She tried stepping down. The symptoms kept coming back, because rest alone was never the fix.
In this episode she takes Erica back through the unraveling: the insomnia, the hair falling out, the version of herself she had to grieve. She talks about the coach who helped her see her own blind spots, the calling she heard in her driveway, and the method she now teaches ambitious women — small pattern disruptions, nervous-system regulation and the truth underneath overwork.
It is a story about voice, in every sense — losing it, and finding a truer one.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Elsa Arend: Instagram @elsa.arend | elsaarend.com
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>The diagnosis was a rare vocal cord disorder with no cure. But the deeper problem was burnout — the kind that hides inside ambition and calls itself personality. Elsa tried a sabbatical. She tried stepping down. The symptoms kept coming back, because rest alone was never the fix.
In this episode she takes Erica back through the unraveling: the insomnia, the hair falling out, the version of herself she had to grieve. She talks about the coach who helped her see her own blind spots, the calling she heard in her driveway, and the method she now teaches ambitious women — small pattern disruptions, nervous-system regulation and the truth underneath overwork.
It is a story about voice, in every sense — losing it, and finding a truer one.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Elsa Arend: Instagram @elsa.arend | elsaarend.com
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>That conversation became The Principal Diaries, Brady’s first book — 15 years in the making, finished after the one person who asked for it was gone. In this episode he takes Erica through the whole arc: the upbringing, the mission, and a health crisis 12 years ago that nearly stopped him, when his body was, in his words, eating itself from the inside out.
Brady talks about what 25 years in schools actually looks like from the inside — why relationships have to come before learning, why he redesigned the principal’s office to feel like anything but one, and why he will fight to keep recess, art and music in the building. It is a conversation about education, grief and the kind of legacy that gets built one day at a time.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Brady Wald: One Lucky Principal - sites.google.com/view/oneluckyprincipal | The Principal Diaries (book) | Instagram @oneluckyprincipal
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>That conversation became The Principal Diaries, Brady’s first book — 15 years in the making, finished after the one person who asked for it was gone. In this episode he takes Erica through the whole arc: the upbringing, the mission, and a health crisis 12 years ago that nearly stopped him, when his body was, in his words, eating itself from the inside out.
Brady talks about what 25 years in schools actually looks like from the inside — why relationships have to come before learning, why he redesigned the principal’s office to feel like anything but one, and why he will fight to keep recess, art and music in the building. It is a conversation about education, grief and the kind of legacy that gets built one day at a time.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Brady Wald: One Lucky Principal - sites.google.com/view/oneluckyprincipal | The Principal Diaries (book) | Instagram @oneluckyprincipal
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>That work became the foundation of Unmarked Beauty and Wellness, the practice she built from a small salon suite into a facility she now owns. Along the way she went through a divorce, became a single mom, remarried, brought her husband into the business (after initially refusing his help), went back to school to become a nurse practitioner and added hormone therapy to her practice because she kept seeing women’s symptoms go untreated.
In this conversation, Brandie talks about what the ER does to you, how the name Unmarked came from the women she was helping heal, the business mistakes she made early on, what working with her husband almost cost their marriage and why she still does pro-bono scar removal through the Cynosure Cares program.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Brandie Heredia: Instagram @brandiesmiles | Website: unmarkedbeautyandwellness.com
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>That work became the foundation of Unmarked Beauty and Wellness, the practice she built from a small salon suite into a facility she now owns. Along the way she went through a divorce, became a single mom, remarried, brought her husband into the business (after initially refusing his help), went back to school to become a nurse practitioner and added hormone therapy to her practice because she kept seeing women’s symptoms go untreated.
In this conversation, Brandie talks about what the ER does to you, how the name Unmarked came from the women she was helping heal, the business mistakes she made early on, what working with her husband almost cost their marriage and why she still does pro-bono scar removal through the Cynosure Cares program.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Brandie Heredia: Instagram @brandiesmiles | Website: unmarkedbeautyandwellness.com
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Before the impressions, before the Kardashian sketches, before she hosted 500 live shows for up to half a million viewers a night on an Emmy-nominated game show, Anna was a theater kid from Philly whose parents partied more than she did. She knew she wanted to perform before she knew the word for the job. There was never a backup plan because there was nothing to back up to.
When she got laid off from her day job at a venture capital firm, she did the only thing that made sense to her: she started a live comedy show from her couch called The Unemployed Show. The only rule was that guests had to be unemployed. She prank-called her old boss on air. She took job interviews live on camera. She ran an awards ceremony for Most Unemployed Dad.
In this conversation, Anna talks about why she was the serious kid in a wild family, what the creator economy actually looks like from the inside, how she enters a room as anyone from Joan Rivers to Kris Jenner, and why patience is the only piece of career advice worth giving.
This episode is different from the rest. It’s funny. Very funny. You’re welcome.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Anna Roisman: @AnnaRoisman everywhere
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Before the impressions, before the Kardashian sketches, before she hosted 500 live shows for up to half a million viewers a night on an Emmy-nominated game show, Anna was a theater kid from Philly whose parents partied more than she did. She knew she wanted to perform before she knew the word for the job. There was never a backup plan because there was nothing to back up to.
When she got laid off from her day job at a venture capital firm, she did the only thing that made sense to her: she started a live comedy show from her couch called The Unemployed Show. The only rule was that guests had to be unemployed. She prank-called her old boss on air. She took job interviews live on camera. She ran an awards ceremony for Most Unemployed Dad.
In this conversation, Anna talks about why she was the serious kid in a wild family, what the creator economy actually looks like from the inside, how she enters a room as anyone from Joan Rivers to Kris Jenner, and why patience is the only piece of career advice worth giving.
This episode is different from the rest. It’s funny. Very funny. You’re welcome.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Anna Roisman: @AnnaRoisman everywhere
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Her parents were Georgian immigrants who didn’t speak the language and couldn’t navigate the medical system. They went to the local dentist because he was the only one they could afford. What followed was years of surgeries, root canals, crowns and implants. As a teenager, Sima wouldn’t smile. She had what she describes as Dracula teeth. She was embarrassed and sad.
Then she met an orthodontist who looked like Santa Claus. He never commented on how she looked. What he said instead was: great things will come from you. Those five words changed the trajectory of her life. Today she is a double Penn graduate, a former Cornell surgical resident, a former NYU professor and the founder of OrthoNu. She became the person on the other side of the chair.
In this conversation, Sima talks about growing up in the projects in Queens, her father’s 14-year journey from checker cab driver to fleet owner, her mother who was one semester short of becoming a doctor, losing both parents, and why she decided to stop waiting for someone else to build what patients actually needed.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Dr. Sima: Instagram @simayakobyepstein | Website: orthonu.com
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Her parents were Georgian immigrants who didn’t speak the language and couldn’t navigate the medical system. They went to the local dentist because he was the only one they could afford. What followed was years of surgeries, root canals, crowns and implants. As a teenager, Sima wouldn’t smile. She had what she describes as Dracula teeth. She was embarrassed and sad.
Then she met an orthodontist who looked like Santa Claus. He never commented on how she looked. What he said instead was: great things will come from you. Those five words changed the trajectory of her life. Today she is a double Penn graduate, a former Cornell surgical resident, a former NYU professor and the founder of OrthoNu. She became the person on the other side of the chair.
In this conversation, Sima talks about growing up in the projects in Queens, her father’s 14-year journey from checker cab driver to fleet owner, her mother who was one semester short of becoming a doctor, losing both parents, and why she decided to stop waiting for someone else to build what patients actually needed.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Dr. Sima: Instagram @simayakobyepstein | Website: orthonu.com
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>When the marriage ended, Alexia had no professional track record in the United States, two children under eight and a divorce she didn’t see coming. She had to figure out bills, careers and identity all at once. In this conversation, she talks about what starting over actually looks like when you’ve done it three times in three countries, why she chose not to be the victim of her own story and what her kids were watching the whole time.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Alexia: Instagram @realestate.by.alexia | Website: alexiabertsatos.com
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>When the marriage ended, Alexia had no professional track record in the United States, two children under eight and a divorce she didn’t see coming. She had to figure out bills, careers and identity all at once. In this conversation, she talks about what starting over actually looks like when you’ve done it three times in three countries, why she chose not to be the victim of her own story and what her kids were watching the whole time.
Executive Producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Alexia: Instagram @realestate.by.alexia | Website: alexiabertsatos.com
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>In this episode, Melody sits down with Erica Brinker to talk about what it actually takes to hold everything together when your child’s life hangs in the balance: the impossible choices made for an eight-year-old, the moment she shaved her own head, the day Elilai’s body said it couldn’t take any more, and the bittersweet reality of remission three years later.
Plus: the hype song that gets Elilai through middle school, why scan anxiety is real, and a toast you won’t forget.
Executive producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>In this episode, Melody sits down with Erica Brinker to talk about what it actually takes to hold everything together when your child’s life hangs in the balance: the impossible choices made for an eight-year-old, the moment she shaved her own head, the day Elilai’s body said it couldn’t take any more, and the bittersweet reality of remission three years later.
Plus: the hype song that gets Elilai through middle school, why scan anxiety is real, and a toast you won’t forget.
Executive producer: Sara Glassman
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Johanna grew up in New Jersey, trained as a classical ballet dancer at an all-Black school, started using drugs young, got married at 21, divorced at 25, got sober, worked three jobs (nightlife, modeling and teaching Pilates at $23 a class), got fired from the club, and then built a career in wellness that she never planned but couldn’t stop building.
In this conversation, Johanna talks about what her ballet teacher taught her about effort and excuses, the moment she realized she could just show up and be taken care of, teaching Pilates inside a women’s prison through the nonprofit 300 Letters, how Peloton DM’d her during the darkest stretch of her infertility journey, what it means to be a stepmom to a child she met at four, and why she told both Peloton and Lululemon upfront: this is who I am and none of it is going to change.
She also shares where she is in her IVF journey and the stigma around infertility in Black and brown communities, and closes with her signature toast: here’s to doing no harm and taking no shit.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Johanna: Instagram @junglejohanna | Peloton: Johanna Ricouz
Executive producer: Sara Glassman
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Johanna grew up in New Jersey, trained as a classical ballet dancer at an all-Black school, started using drugs young, got married at 21, divorced at 25, got sober, worked three jobs (nightlife, modeling and teaching Pilates at $23 a class), got fired from the club, and then built a career in wellness that she never planned but couldn’t stop building.
In this conversation, Johanna talks about what her ballet teacher taught her about effort and excuses, the moment she realized she could just show up and be taken care of, teaching Pilates inside a women’s prison through the nonprofit 300 Letters, how Peloton DM’d her during the darkest stretch of her infertility journey, what it means to be a stepmom to a child she met at four, and why she told both Peloton and Lululemon upfront: this is who I am and none of it is going to change.
She also shares where she is in her IVF journey and the stigma around infertility in Black and brown communities, and closes with her signature toast: here’s to doing no harm and taking no shit.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Johanna: Instagram @junglejohanna | Peloton: Johanna Ricouz
Executive producer: Sara Glassman
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>When threats followed Tristan to a second school and a group of kids showed up at their house, Rick made the hardest decision of his life: he sent his son to Europe to live with his mother, because it was the only place he felt safe.
What Rick didn’t know was that the group targeting his son was part of a loosely connected network of 40 to 90 teenagers across 16 schools in the East Valley. They called themselves the Gilbert Goons. They recorded their beatings, uploaded them to a Snapchat channel called Pound Town, and operated with near-total impunity. In October 2023, they beat a boy named Preston Lord and left him to die in the street.
Katey McPherson is a former school administrator turned youth advocate who had been tracking the violence before most people knew the name. Together with Rick and hundreds of other parents, she helped organize the Upstanders, a community group that crowdsourced evidence, pressured local government and ultimately helped pass Preston’s Law, an Arizona statute that created a new felony category for swarming attacks.
In this conversation, Rick and Katey talk about what the system looks like from the inside when it fails, what it took to make a community listen and what Rick’s family is still living with today.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>When threats followed Tristan to a second school and a group of kids showed up at their house, Rick made the hardest decision of his life: he sent his son to Europe to live with his mother, because it was the only place he felt safe.
What Rick didn’t know was that the group targeting his son was part of a loosely connected network of 40 to 90 teenagers across 16 schools in the East Valley. They called themselves the Gilbert Goons. They recorded their beatings, uploaded them to a Snapchat channel called Pound Town, and operated with near-total impunity. In October 2023, they beat a boy named Preston Lord and left him to die in the street.
Katey McPherson is a former school administrator turned youth advocate who had been tracking the violence before most people knew the name. Together with Rick and hundreds of other parents, she helped organize the Upstanders, a community group that crowdsourced evidence, pressured local government and ultimately helped pass Preston’s Law, an Arizona statute that created a new felony category for swarming attacks.
In this conversation, Rick and Katey talk about what the system looks like from the inside when it fails, what it took to make a community listen and what Rick’s family is still living with today.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>When Joey came out at 13, they sent him to a facility in Texas they told him was a visit to cousins. It was a conversion therapy center. He was placed alongside people being treated for drug addiction and sexual disorders. He was 13 years old. He figured out what he needed to say to get out, went home, got a girlfriend, and performed being straight for the next three years.
What Joey didn’t know until years later was the story of his Uncle George. George was his grandfather’s brother, a man who spoke five languages but stuttered and shuffled when he walked. The family said he’d been hit in the head during his medical residency. At George’s funeral, Joey learned the truth: George had been caught in bed with another man in the 1940s, and his own mother had him lobotomized.
In this conversation, Joey talks about what it’s like to grow up performing faith while hiding yourself, the moment a woman walked down the aisle and confronted his pastor, how a chance encounter at a Circle K at 16 changed his life, and what 30 years with his partner Fredrik have taught him about love, forgiveness and building a life on your own terms.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Executive producer: Sara Glassman
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>When Joey came out at 13, they sent him to a facility in Texas they told him was a visit to cousins. It was a conversion therapy center. He was placed alongside people being treated for drug addiction and sexual disorders. He was 13 years old. He figured out what he needed to say to get out, went home, got a girlfriend, and performed being straight for the next three years.
What Joey didn’t know until years later was the story of his Uncle George. George was his grandfather’s brother, a man who spoke five languages but stuttered and shuffled when he walked. The family said he’d been hit in the head during his medical residency. At George’s funeral, Joey learned the truth: George had been caught in bed with another man in the 1940s, and his own mother had him lobotomized.
In this conversation, Joey talks about what it’s like to grow up performing faith while hiding yourself, the moment a woman walked down the aisle and confronted his pastor, how a chance encounter at a Circle K at 16 changed his life, and what 30 years with his partner Fredrik have taught him about love, forgiveness and building a life on your own terms.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Executive producer: Sara Glassman
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>For years Erika tried to outrun what she was. She studied theater, moved to Los Angeles, searched through every religion she could find. Then came a dark night of the soul that forced her to stop running and turn around. She has now been working as a professional spiritual medium for nearly two decades, with thousands of readings behind her and features in The New York Times, Forbes, Goop and InStyle.
In this conversation, Erika explains what actually happens during a reading, why she calls herself “just a straw,” how spirit guides work on their own timeline (not ours), what she has learned about grief from sitting with hundreds of grieving parents, and why she will never tell someone that everything happens for a reason.
She also talks about religion and mediumship, the celebrities who won’t let her use their names, the reading that led a woman to her mom’s neighbor and a job, and what she would tell her terrified seven-year-old self.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Erika Gabriel: Instagram @spiritualmediumerika | Podcast: You Are Not Alone
Executive producer: Sara Glassman
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>For years Erika tried to outrun what she was. She studied theater, moved to Los Angeles, searched through every religion she could find. Then came a dark night of the soul that forced her to stop running and turn around. She has now been working as a professional spiritual medium for nearly two decades, with thousands of readings behind her and features in The New York Times, Forbes, Goop and InStyle.
In this conversation, Erika explains what actually happens during a reading, why she calls herself “just a straw,” how spirit guides work on their own timeline (not ours), what she has learned about grief from sitting with hundreds of grieving parents, and why she will never tell someone that everything happens for a reason.
She also talks about religion and mediumship, the celebrities who won’t let her use their names, the reading that led a woman to her mom’s neighbor and a job, and what she would tell her terrified seven-year-old self.
Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast
Follow Erika Gabriel: Instagram @spiritualmediumerika | Podcast: You Are Not Alone
Executive producer: Sara Glassman
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Erica Brinker lost her four-month-old son Luca to SIDS in December 2015. In the aftermath, the people closest to her went quiet. Friends stopped calling. Her own mother never said Luca’s name, afraid it would ruin a good day. And Erica, who had spent her career performing capability in boardrooms and on stages, found herself in a kind of silence she’d never experienced.
So she did something unexpected. She threw a party. Every year on the anniversary of his death, she asked people to do a good deed in Luca’s name and bring canned goods for a food pantry. She launched a blog called Inspired by Luca. She started building a platform for honesty in a world that kept looking away.
In this conversation, Erica talks about who she was before Luca, what grief actually felt like, the five-year infertility journey that followed, the birth of her son Sayers, and why she walked away from a decades-long corporate career to create At the Brink.
Interviewed by executive producer Sara Glassman.
Follow At the Brink: @atthebrinkmedia
Follow Erica: Instagram @official.erica.brinker | LinkedIn: Erica Brinker
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Erica Brinker lost her four-month-old son Luca to SIDS in December 2015. In the aftermath, the people closest to her went quiet. Friends stopped calling. Her own mother never said Luca’s name, afraid it would ruin a good day. And Erica, who had spent her career performing capability in boardrooms and on stages, found herself in a kind of silence she’d never experienced.
So she did something unexpected. She threw a party. Every year on the anniversary of his death, she asked people to do a good deed in Luca’s name and bring canned goods for a food pantry. She launched a blog called Inspired by Luca. She started building a platform for honesty in a world that kept looking away.
In this conversation, Erica talks about who she was before Luca, what grief actually felt like, the five-year infertility journey that followed, the birth of her son Sayers, and why she walked away from a decades-long corporate career to create At the Brink.
Interviewed by executive producer Sara Glassman.
Follow At the Brink: @atthebrinkmedia
Follow Erica: Instagram @official.erica.brinker | LinkedIn: Erica Brinker
www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Then she signed up for a triathlon at 35. She won her age group. Eight years later, she’s competed at four Ironman World Championships and became one of the first three women to make the time cutoff at the Himalayan Triathlon. She also got divorced, started over with everything she owned in two trucks and built a coaching business from scratch.
Plus: the mindset framework she teaches every client, the Mother’s Day note from her daughter that says it all and a toast to freedom.
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>Then she signed up for a triathlon at 35. She won her age group. Eight years later, she’s competed at four Ironman World Championships and became one of the first three women to make the time cutoff at the Himalayan Triathlon. She also got divorced, started over with everything she owned in two trucks and built a coaching business from scratch.
Plus: the mindset framework she teaches every client, the Mother’s Day note from her daughter that says it all and a toast to freedom.
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>In this episode, Hilary sits down with Erica Brinker to tell the full story — the grooming, the silence, the fawning response that shaped her survival, the therapist who abused her when she finally tried to get help, and the phone call 20 years later that changed everything. She and fellow survivor Melissa Ferris brought criminal charges, went public in Vanity Fair and are now fighting to close a legal loophole in Massachusetts that still allows teachers to claim a student consented.
Plus: what the courtroom felt like, the trauma response nobody talks about, and a toast to burning it all down.
If you or someone you know needs support:
RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-HOPE (4673)
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call or Text 988
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>In this episode, Hilary sits down with Erica Brinker to tell the full story — the grooming, the silence, the fawning response that shaped her survival, the therapist who abused her when she finally tried to get help, and the phone call 20 years later that changed everything. She and fellow survivor Melissa Ferris brought criminal charges, went public in Vanity Fair and are now fighting to close a legal loophole in Massachusetts that still allows teachers to claim a student consented.
Plus: what the courtroom felt like, the trauma response nobody talks about, and a toast to burning it all down.
If you or someone you know needs support:
RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-HOPE (4673)
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call or Text 988
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>In this episode, Ashlie sits down with Erica Brinker to talk about living with depression while performing success, walking away from a seven-figure career that no longer aligned with who she was, and what life coaching taught her about the difference between being driven and being free.
Plus: Taylor Swift as a life philosophy, what she hopes her kids say about their childhood, and a toast you’ll want to steal.
Ashlie Molstad
🔗 https://ashliemolstad.com
📸 @ashliemolstad
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>In this episode, Ashlie sits down with Erica Brinker to talk about living with depression while performing success, walking away from a seven-figure career that no longer aligned with who she was, and what life coaching taught her about the difference between being driven and being free.
Plus: Taylor Swift as a life philosophy, what she hopes her kids say about their childhood, and a toast you’ll want to steal.
Ashlie Molstad
🔗 https://ashliemolstad.com
📸 @ashliemolstad
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>In this episode, Tari sits down with Erica Brinker to talk about what it felt like to realize access had been withheld, the year that nearly broke her — an assault, the recession, losing $50K and totaling two cars — and how faith carried her through all of it. Today she manages over $40 million in real estate assets and as the founder of Passive Investment Flight Club, making sure women and people of color don’t stay in the dark the way she did.
Plus: why asking for help is harder than building a portfolio, what her grandmother would think of all this, and a toast to the season she’s in now.
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>In this episode, Tari sits down with Erica Brinker to talk about what it felt like to realize access had been withheld, the year that nearly broke her — an assault, the recession, losing $50K and totaling two cars — and how faith carried her through all of it. Today she manages over $40 million in real estate assets and as the founder of Passive Investment Flight Club, making sure women and people of color don’t stay in the dark the way she did.
Plus: why asking for help is harder than building a portfolio, what her grandmother would think of all this, and a toast to the season she’s in now.
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker about the inflection points that define a life. The decisions made under pressure. The pivots no one saw coming. The stories we rarely tell out loud.
Leaders, founders, executives, artists, parents, advocates. They have built companies, broken barriers, survived the unthinkable and reinvented themselves on the other side of it. At the Brink brings you into those conversations — the ones that go past the resume and into the room where the real decision happened.
New episodes every Wednesday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube.
🔗 Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
📧 hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
📸 Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker about the inflection points that define a life. The decisions made under pressure. The pivots no one saw coming. The stories we rarely tell out loud.
Leaders, founders, executives, artists, parents, advocates. They have built companies, broken barriers, survived the unthinkable and reinvented themselves on the other side of it. At the Brink brings you into those conversations — the ones that go past the resume and into the room where the real decision happened.
New episodes every Wednesday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube.
🔗 Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
📧 hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
📸 Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Here you go:
At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?
New episodes every Wednesday.
Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com
Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com
Instagram: @at.the.brink.media
Executive producer | Sara Glassman
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
]]>