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What happens when the life you thought you were living suddenly falls apart?
More than twenty years ago, a series of life-altering events led Bradley Hall through what he now describes as an identity crisis and egoic collapse — an experience that shattered his assumptions about who he was, what he believed, and how he understood himself.
That journey sparked a lifelong exploration of psychology, mindfulness, trauma recovery, spirituality, resilience, and human transformation. Today, The Bradley Hall Show explores the questions that surface when life forces us to reinvent ourselves — and how we grow through adversity into a deeper, more authentic version of who we actually are.
Hosted by Bradley Hall — a trauma-informed coach, mindfulness teacher, veteran, former firefighter, and advocate for personal transformation — the show features real conversations with experts, authors, researchers, thought leaders, and everyday people with extraordinary stories.
The podcast began with a focus on DNA discoveries, Non-Paternal Events (NPEs), family secrets, and identity disruption. Over time, it has evolved into something bigger — a broader exploration of identity, healing, relationships, purpose, mindfulness, psychological growth, leadership, spirituality, and human potential.
Whether you're navigating a major life transition, recovering from loss or trauma, searching for deeper meaning, or simply working to become the best version of yourself — you'll find practical insights, inspiring stories, and the kind of thoughtful conversations that actually move the needle.
Because sometimes losing who you thought you were is the first step toward becoming who you were meant to be.
Episodes
5 days ago
5 days ago
27 min
There is a particular morning people describe to me, and they describe it almost identically no matter what happened to them. You wake up. For about four seconds everything is ordinary. And then you remember.
Nothing in the room has changed. Not one object, not one person, not one fact about your history. You could take an inventory of your entire life and find everything exactly where you left it. And you would still not be sure you are the same person.
That experience gets dismissed constantly, including by the people having it. It is not an overreaction. Something real is happening, it has a shape, and once you can see the shape you can do something about it.
In this episode Bradley works through identity disruption: what actually gets hit when one fact changes, why your past can stay identical while its meaning shifts completely, and why the same photograph can be a warm memory in March and unbearable in April.
He also takes on the sentence almost everyone hears. You are still the same person. Nothing has really changed. The people saying it mean well, and on the level of facts they are not wrong, but they are answering a question you did not ask. That is why it isolates instead of comforting.
And there is a warning against the thing instinct pushes you toward. When identity comes apart, the pull is to resolve it immediately, to swap one fixed answer for another. The people who move fastest to a new answer often end up doing the work twice.
In this episode:
- What identity disruption actually is, and why the term comes from trauma, adoption, and grief work rather than from anywhere new
- Why so much of what you call yourself started as information somebody else handed you
- The difference between the facts of your life and the meaning you assigned to them
- How a meaning becomes a habit, a habit becomes a trait, and a trait starts feeling like your nature
- Why grief with no death attached to it is still grief
- Why "nothing has really changed" lands the way it does
- Six questions that are actually answerable, when "who am I now" is not
Next episode: Belonging. Why the need for it runs deeper than we credit, what happens to someone who never quite feels it anywhere, and why it is not a personality problem.
New episodes one to two times per week. Runtime: 27:36
The Bradley Hall Show explores identity disruption and reconstruction. Across this season, Bradley works through what happens when the story you built your life around stops being true, whether that came from a DNA surprise, a divorce, a job loss, a move between cultures, or any other loss of the self you knew. Each episode ends the same way.
Experience shapes perception. Awareness creates choice.
5 days ago
5 days ago
15 min
Where are you from? For most people it is small talk. Four seconds, no perceived cost. For some of us, that question opens a door.
Because the honest answer is longer than the moment allows. It involves a place you left, or a family story that turned out not to be accurate, or two countries and a passport that names one of them. So you build a short version. A clean one. And every time you use it, you notice the distance between the answer you gave and the answer that is true.
That distance is what this show is about.
If you have listened before, this one sounds different, and Bradley explains why. The Bradley Hall Show is built in seasons now. One subject per season, worked in order, mostly solo episodes, fifteen to twenty minutes each. An argument that builds instead of a new topic every week. Everything in the main feed stays free.
If you are new, here is the short version of what you have found. Bradley Hall works with people whose understanding of who they were came apart, usually without warning and usually in a single afternoon. That work started with NPEs, people who took a DNA test and learned the family story they were given was not the story their biology told. It is still that work. But the questions were never staying inside one community. The adoptee asks them. So does the person raised between two countries, the immigrant's kid who is one person at home and another at school, the person who left the religion they were raised in, and the person whose career ended and took a large piece of their self-understanding with it.
Different lives. The same handful of questions. Where do I belong. Who gets to decide who I am. Why does the way people see me not match the way I experience myself. What do I do when the story I was handed does not fully explain me.
Season one is twenty episodes on identity and belonging, and this is where it starts.
In this episode:
- Why "Where are you from?" is a harder question for some people than it looks
- What changed about the show and why the format is different now
- Who this season is for, and why the audience is wider than where it started
- What the twenty episodes cover, from identity disruption through grief, adaptation, and integration
- What begins in January, and why this season is the ground it stands on
Next episode: Who am I when my story changes. What happens inside a person when the account they have been living inside stops matching what they now know, and why people telling you nothing has really changed makes it worse rather than better.
New episodes one to two times per week. Runtime: 15 minutes.
Experience shapes perception. Awareness creates choice.
Jun 6, 2022
Jun 6, 2022
1 hr 27 min
Jodi Girard returns to update us on her personal journey since her shocking DNA discovery.
Be sure to subscribe to Bradley's YouTube channel to receive notifications of future episodes on trauma recovery, personal growth, and holistic health.
Bradley is a childhood trauma survivor. He utilizes his unique experiences, extensive education, and talents to help others navigate the normal challenges of their daily lives to help them create the life they desire and deserve. He is a certified mindfulness instructor and trauma recovery coach with over 30 years of coaching and mentoring experience. He specializes in helping facilitate foundational awareness and personal growth with his clients. He founded the Life In Truth Academy in 2019 to offer personal growth and healing education to a wider audience.
He is currently pursuing his PhD in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. He is the creator and host of his podcast, The Bradley Hall Show.
More information at: www.thebradleyhall.com.
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May 16, 2022
May 16, 2022
1 hr 27 min
Brianne Kirkpatrick, Founder of Watershed DNA, shares new information gleaned from a study of 20,000 people who experienced a surprise discovery while taking an at-home DNA test. We discuss the impact on the NPE community. We also discuss Brianne's new online course, Writing is Healing, an online healing course that utilizes the power of creativity to heal, and her upcoming presentation at the annual NPE Virtual Retreat in June of 2022. For more information, go to www.thebradleyhall.com.
Be sure to subscribe to Bradley's YouTube channel to receive notifications of future episodes on trauma recovery, personal growth, and holistic health.
Bradley is a childhood trauma survivor. He utilizes his unique experiences, extensive education, and talents to help others navigate the normal challenges of their daily lives to help them create the life they desire and deserve. He is a certified mindfulness instructor and trauma recovery coach with over 30 years of coaching and mentoring experience. He specializes in helping facilitate foundational awareness and personal growth with his clients. He founded the Life In Truth Academy in 2019 to offer personal growth and healing education to a wider audience.
He is currently pursuing his PhD in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. He is the creator and host of his podcast, The Bradley Hall Show.
More information at: www.thebradleyhall.com.
#NPE #MPE #geneticsurpirse #dnadiscovery #dnasurpise #familysecrets #donorconvieved #adoption #latediscovery #mentalhealth #trauma #ptsd #TraumaCoaching #LifeCoaching #mentalhealthawareness #healing #podcast #mindfulness #depression #psychology #jung #anxiety #selfcare #selflove #meditation #wellness #holistichealth #thebradleyhall #ethnicity #forgiveness #therapist #socialwork #stress #dna #recovery #selfhealing #cptsd #genetics #epigenetics #heritage #genealogy #23andme #ancestry #dna #identity
Sep 27, 2021
Sep 27, 2021
1 hr 27 min
Chaimaa shares her story of being torn between two cultures growing up in New York to immigrant parents, and how discovering her African heritage helped her heal her identity and childhood trauma.
Be sure to subscribe to Bradley's YouTube channel to receive notifications of future episodes on trauma recovery, personal growth, and holistic health.
Bradley is a childhood trauma survivor. He utilizes his unique experiences, extensive education, and talents to help others navigate the normal challenges of their daily lives to help them create the life they desire and deserve. He is a certified mindfulness instructor and trauma recovery coach with over 30 years of coaching and mentoring experience. He specializes in helping facilitate foundational awareness and personal growth with his clients. He founded the Life In Truth Academy in 2019 to offer personal growth and healing education to a wider audience.
He is currently pursuing his PhD in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. He is the creator and host of his podcast, The Bradley Hall Show.
More information at: www.thebradleyhall.com.
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Aug 30, 2021
Aug 30, 2021
53 min
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Hope shares her shocking DNA discovery, her unique experience regarding her African heritage and the blessing of having two fathers.
Be sure to subscribe to our channel now to receive notifications of future episodes on trauma recovery, personal growth, and holistic health. Bradley is a childhood trauma survivor. He utilizes his unique experiences, extensive education, and talents to help others navigate the normal challenges of their daily lives to help them create the life they desire and deserve. He is a certified mindfulness instructor and trauma recovery coach with over 30 years of coaching and mentoring experience. He specializes in helping facilitate foundational awareness and personal growth with his clients.
He founded the Life In Truth Academy in 2019 to offer personal growth and healing education to a wider audience. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA.
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/L5KIEsATTp8
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Aug 16, 2021
Aug 16, 2021
58 min
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Bradley is a childhood trauma survivor. He utilizes his unique experiences, extensive education, and talents to help others navigate the normal challenges of their daily lives to help them create the life they desire and deserve. He is a certified mindfulness instructor and trauma recovery coach with over 30 years of coaching and mentoring experience. He specializes in helping facilitate foundational awareness and personal growth with his clients.
He founded the Life In Truth Academy in 2019 to offer personal growth and healing education to a wider audience. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA.
He is the creator and host of his podcast, The Bradley Hall Show. More information at: www.thebradleyhall.com.
Bradley is on Youtube. Be sure to subscribe! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZjmeWtSOvpRW8_zubl0_He7rwI3brlla
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Aug 2, 2021
Aug 2, 2021
59 min
https://www.thebradleyhallshow.com
Shari talks about her NPE experience and shares her shocking discovery of her fathers true identity, as well as her discovering another shocking family secret! Buy her book here: https://amzn.to/2WFlA3V
Be sure to subscribe to our channel now to receive notifications of future episodes on trauma recovery, personal growth, and holistic health.
Bradley is a childhood trauma survivor. He utilizes his unique experiences, extensive education, and talents to help others navigate the normal challenges of their daily lives to help them create the life they desire and deserve. He is a certified mindfulness instructor and trauma recovery coach with over 30 years of coaching and mentoring experience. He specializes in helping facilitate foundational awareness and personal growth with his clients.
He founded the Life In Truth Academy in 2019 to offer personal growth and healing education to a wider audience. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. He is the creator and host of his podcast, The Bradley Hall Show. More information at: www.thebradleyhall.com.
Bradley is on Youtube. Be sure to subscribe! See this episode on YouTube here:https://youtu.be/BexUzrMuIU0
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Jul 19, 2021
Jul 19, 2021
1 hr 2 min
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Kara and Alesia both talk about their unexpected DNA discovery. Kara explains what it was like being raised bi-racial, only to discover that she was not bi-racial. Bradley, Kara, and Alesia discuss the complexity of at-home DNA testing, and how Right To Know is working to change the landscape of this phenomenon through education, legislation, and addressing mental health.
Taken from Right To Know website: "We advocate for people whose genetic parent(s) is not their supportive or legal parent(s) through education, legislation, and mental health initiatives to promote understanding of the complex intersection of genetic information, identity, and family dynamics."
Be sure to subscribe to our channel now to receive notifications of future episodes on trauma recovery, personal growth, and holistic health.
Bradley is a childhood trauma survivor. He utilizes his unique experiences, extensive education, and talents to help others navigate the normal challenges of their daily lives to help them create the life they desire and deserve. He is a certified mindfulness instructor and trauma recovery coach with over 30 years of coaching and mentoring experience. He specializes in helping facilitate foundational awareness and personal growth with his clients.
He founded the Life In Truth Academy in 2019 to offer personal growth and healing education to a wider audience. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA.
He is the creator and host of his podcast, The Bradley Hall Show. More information at: www.thebradleyhall.com.
Bradley is on Youtube. Be sure to subscribe! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZjmeWtSOvpRW8_zubl0_He7rwI3brlla
#NPE #MPE #donorconvieved #adoption #latediscovery #mentalhealth #trauma #ptsd #TraumaCoaching #LifeCoaching #mentalhealthawareness #healing #podcast #mindfulness #depression #psychology #jung #anxiety #selfcare #selflove #meditation #wellness #holistichealth #thebradleyhall #ethnicity #africanamerican #eskanazi #jewish #forgiveness
Jun 28, 2021
Jun 28, 2021
1 hr 6 min
NPE Friends Fellowship Founder, and Executive Director, Catherine St. Clair and Bradley discuss all things NPE, and share some insight and advice to help all people touched by the NPE experience.
Bradley is a childhood trauma survivor. He utilizes his unique experiences, extensive education and talents to help others navigate the normal challenges of their daily lives to help them create the life they desire and deserve. He is a certified mindfulness instructor and trauma recovery coach with over 30 years of coaching and mentoring experience. He specializes in helping facilitate foundational awareness and personal growth with his clients.
He founded the Life In Truth Academy in 2019 to offer personal growth and healing education to a wider audience. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. He is the creator and host of his podcast, The Bradley Hall Show.
More information at: www.thebradleyhall.com.
Watch this episode on YouTube. Be sure to subscribe!
https://youtu.be/-Yp-aDdS5fYhttps://youtu.be/ZHk_GR5Uqng
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