REAL Courses in the Media

Personal Development Podcasts & Media

Explore personal development podcasts featuring REAL Courses instructors in conversations about emotional growth, relationship patterns, experiential personal development, and meaningful change. These personal growth conversations look at the experiences and beliefs we carry into adulthood, how they affect the way we relate to ourselves and others, and what it can take to create new patterns.

The Holistic Counselor

Why Do I Keep Repeating the Same Patterns?

Featuring Mark Levinsky, LMHC  •  58 min

Why do the same relationship patterns, emotional reactions, and behaviors keep showing up even when we understand where they come from? REAL Courses instructor Mark Levinsky joins host Diana S. Rice to explore childhood experiences, emotional growth, vulnerability, relationships, and why insight can be only one part of creating change.

Listen on Apple Podcasts
The Present Moment Project

The Personal Growth Work That Changed Everything

Featuring Jon Waller, LMHC and Stephanie Savo-Smellie  •  1 hr 9 min

REAL Courses instructors Jon Waller and Stephanie Savo-Smellie join Jill Bershad to reflect on the personal development work that changed their own lives. They discuss people-pleasing, self-doubt, childhood beliefs, vulnerability, relationships, and how experiential work can help people recognize old patterns and practice new ways of showing up.

Listen on Spotify
The Holistic Counselor

Why Men Struggle With Emotions

Featuring Jon Waller, LMHC  •  1 hr 1 min

REAL Courses instructor Jon Waller joins Diana S. Rice for a conversation about men's emotional health, relationships, and the pressure many men feel to fix problems rather than express what they are experiencing. They explore emotional shutdown, anger, childhood patterns, vulnerability, communication, and healthier ways of creating connection.

Listen on Apple Podcasts