🎙 Access Pass

🧩 Season Theme: Hungry
This season, we’re exploring what it means to be truly hungry not for food, but for purpose, belonging, and meaning. Sometimes, that hunger shows up when the door won’t open and we’re left wondering if we even have the right password.

👣 Guest Introduction:
Ever typed in a password that should have worked… and it just didn’t? That locked-out feeling hits deeper than tech frustration it’s about access, belonging, and opportunity. My guest today, Vinnie Potestivo (or “Vin,” as I call him), knows that world well.

Vinnie is an Emmy Award-winning Media Advisor and Creator Economist, known for helping people unlock their potential and turn moments of creativity into legacy. As the Editor-in-Chief of I Have A Podcast® a Google News-verified platform amplifying independent voices Vin’s mission is to open doors for storytellers everywhere.

Before that, he spent nearly a decade at MTV Networks (1998–2007), where he helped discover and develop talent behind iconic shows like Punk’d, The Osbournes, TRL, Wild ‘N Out, and Laguna Beach. His fingerprints are all over the pop culture that shaped a generation.

💡 Episode Highlights:

The power of access and what to do when it’s denied

How Vinnie discovered and developed talent at MTV

Why storytelling is the real “password” to connection

The creative hunger that drives lasting impact

What it means to open doors for others in a world obsessed with gatekeeping

Why Cass Elliot’s “Make Your Own Kind of Music” still rings true today and how it connects to the freedom of owning your creative voice

🔗 Connect with Vinnie Potestivo:
Website: vpetv.com
Podcast: I Have A Podcast®
Instagram: @vinniepotestivo
🎁 Free Resource: vpe.tv/gift

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🎙 Discomfort

🧩 Season Theme: Hungry
The season theme Hungry explores the ache for something more the hunger for fulfillment, meaning, and a life that actually feels like our own.

👣 Guest Introduction:
We’ve all heard the phrase about the ostrich sticking its head in the sand. But what happens when we live that way avoiding, numbing, or ignoring what’s right in front of us?

Today’s guest, Megan Warren, knows this tension firsthand. Once a single mom working full-time in a foreign country while raising her son with autism, Megan wore the mask of success while quietly wrestling with people-pleasing, emotional suppression, and burnout. At 40, she made the courageous choice to stop hiding and start living differently.

Now, as an inner development coach and founder of Extraordinary Lives, Megan helps high-achieving women stop checking society’s “should” boxes and start creating a life that’s actually aligned with what they’re hungry for. She believes transformation doesn’t come from the outside it starts within.

💡 Episode Highlights:

What it really means to “put your head in the sand”

The hunger behind high-achieving women who ask: “Is this all there is?”

Megan’s journey of breaking patterns of suppression, people-pleasing, and numbing

The turning point of rebuilding life from the inside out at age 40

The five pillars of her Extraordinary Lives process:

Radical Self-Connection 💞

Keep it Lit Mastering Glo Mode 🔥

BOSS Energy Activation ⚡

Emotional Ninjas 🥷

BIG Magic ✨

Why letting go is the key to welcoming what’s truly meant for you

How fulfillment isn’t “out there” it’s already within you

🔗 Connect with Megan Warren:
Website: meganwarrencoaching.com
Extraordinary Lives: subscribepage.io/extraordinary_lives

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🎙 Corner Booth

🧩 Season Theme: Hungry
This season we’re exploring what it means to be hungry not just for food, but for belonging, for meaning, for God himself. Maybe you’ve walked into a room and wondered if there was a place for you. Today, consider this your invitation: there’s a spot at the corner booth waiting, and you don’t have to sit alone.

👣 Guest Introduction:
My guest today is Brandon Booth, President and Spiritual Director of Signpost Inn and host of The Signpost Inn Podcast. Brandon and his team walk alongside people in the middle of life’s chaos, offering friendship, compassion, and spiritual direction. Their mission is simple but deeply needed: to lift weary eyes toward Jesus and help people discover his steady presence in the mess.

💡 Episode Highlights:

What it feels like to show up at church and feel like you’re not one of the “cool kids at the cool table”

Why hospitality and belonging are essential to the life of faith

How Signpost Inn helps people reconnect with God when he feels distant

Brandon’s own journey into spiritual direction and why slowing down matters

What it means to “be still and know” in a distracted, noisy world

🔗 Connect with Brandon Booth & Signpost Inn:
Website: signpostinn.org
Podcast: The Signpost Inn Podcast

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