Start Right Here: Conversations About What Matters Most
by Allen Berger & Thom Rutledge · 36 episodes
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The Start Right HERE podcast was created because our world could use some therapy. From two bestselling authors and psychotherapists with more than 90 years of combined experience. Still standing, writing, and talking (And making sense the vast majority of the time). Start HERE emphasizes that mental and emotional well-being requires certain essential understandings and practices. The hosts demonstrate clearly how the same principles that they utilize in individual and relationship therapy also apply to the larger contexts of family, organizations, community and even government. The hosts are at times as much philosophical as psychological but never stray from their commitment...
Latest episodes
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51 min
Episode Forty: How Do We Say Goodbye?
The first thing we’ll say to anyone who has listened to any of our episodes to date is a BIG THANK YOU. We are not going anywhere but we are transitioning to a new focus and…
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44 min
Episode Thirty-Nine: Taking Care of Unfinished Business (Part Two)
Conversation about how we are challenged in the present to attend to unfinished emotional business continues, with both Allen and Thom giving specific examples (personal and profes…
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45 min
Episode Thirty-Eight: Taking Care of Unfinished Business (Part One)
Allen, Thom and Patrick all share their personal experiences to shed light on the therapeutic work of investigating our past as a way of helping to resolve issues in the present. E…
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45 min
Episode Thirty-Eight: Taking Care of Unfinished Business
Allen, Thom and Patrick all share their personal experiences to shed light on the therapeutic work of investigating our past as a way of helping to resolve issues in the present. E…
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1 h 01
Episode Thirty-Seven: What Can We Learn Together About Putting Support to Work in Our Lives?
Allen, Thom & Patrick are joined by two of the participants in the Thursday evening Emotional Sobriety Support Group -- Carol and Craig -- to discuss the importance and the "ho…
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55 min
Episode Thirty-Six: Former Lives, Wisdom & Hindsight
Allen & Thom do a deep dive this week into their raw formative periods, underlining how the pain and complications of their pasts contributed to the men they are today. They of…
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48 min
Episode Thirty-Five: How Can We Manage Our Flagging Self-Esteem? (Part Two)
Allen and Thom deepen their conversation from the previous episode about the actions we can all take to improve our self-esteem, emphasizing that concepts alone change nothing. It…
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50 min
Episode Thirty-Four: How Can We Manage Our Flagging Self-Esteem? (Part One)
This week we dig into questions of self-esteem, self-respect and self-worth. Unpacking why these are so hard to come by for some people, and discussing the ways that we can cultiva…
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59 min
Episode Thirty-Three: How Can We Find Our Way Through & Beyond Trauma? (with Dr. Nadine Macaluso)
Dr. Nadine Macaluso, psychologist & ex-wife of The infamous Wolf of Wall Street, joins the conversation. She shares some of her personal story - from experiencing trauma to spe…
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55 min
Episode Thirty-Two: What Actions Can We Take When Life Doesn't Go Our Way? (Part Two)
Allen, Thom and Patrick continue their conversation from last episode, making the point that “anybody can have a good day on a good day,” but it really is how we respon…
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57 min
Episode Thirty-One: What Actions Can We Take When Life Doesn't Go Our Way? (Part One)
Allen, Thom and Patrick share some of their responses to the recent Senate impeachment trial of the former president, including a celebration of the excellent job done by the House…
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57 min
Episode Thirty-One: What Actions Can We Take When Life Doesn't Go Our Way?
Allen, Thom and Patrick share some of their responses to the recent Senate impeachment trial of the former president, including a celebration of the excellent job done by the House…
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57 min
Episode Thirty: How Can We Patch up Relationships Damaged by Political Differences?
Dr. Michael McGee returns this week for an episode more focused on our fractured politics - how they’re expressed in our warring political parties, and how they affect our pe…
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57 min
Episode Thirty: What Can Four (4) Guys Figure Out About How to Heal a Nation (Or Patch up a Family Relationshi…
Dr. Michael McGee returns this week for an episode more focused on our fractured politics - how they’re expressed in our warring political parties, and how they affect our pe…
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Episode Twenty-Nine: How Can We Bring About a Spiritual Awakening? With Dr. Michael McGee, M.D.
Psychiatrist Dr. Michael McGee joins the conversation, talking first about his approach to prescribing medication to his patients. Dr. McGee says that his true passion is for doing…
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46 min
Episode Twenty-Eight: How Do We Move Forward in the Wake of Biden’s Inauguration?
Allen, Thom and Patrick continue the conversation about how we can contribute to the national healing while a global pandemic still rages, in the aftermath of political corruption…
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Episode Twenty-Seven: What Can The US Capitol Attack Teach Us About Ourselves? (Part Two)
Therapist and author Dr. John Amodeo joins us in conversation about the attack on the Capitol and how we might be able to contribute to healing. Much of the episode is framed by an…
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53 min
Episode Twenty-Six: What Can The US Capitol Attack Teach Us About Ourselves? (Part One)
The conversation begins this week with Thom discussing his experience with the publication of his book, Embracing Fear - shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 -…
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Episode Twenty-Five: What Have We Learned in 2020, and How Do We Move Forward in 2021? (with Mary Gordon)
Mary Gordon MA, LAADC, ICAADC shares her experiences as Director of The Betty Ford Center family program (among other things) in this discussion with Allen and Thom in th…
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50 min
Special Episode: How To Avoid Messing Up The Holidays!
Special Episode: How To Avoid Messing Up The Holidays! In the spirit of Allen’s 12-counts (12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery, 12 Smart Things To Do When the Booze &…