Patrick Huey
Host | Speaker | Writer
“We all face the question of how to live a better life—no matter where we are on our path. Join me as, story by story, my guests and I explore this question and celebrate the resiliency of the human spirit.”
Patrick Huey, Creator and Host of ‘At The Podium’ and ‘The Fast,’ and Ex-Chairman of the Board of ISPA, has been at the forefront of wellness, spa and hospitality for two decades. He is now bringing his experiences from his travels and his work to you. Creating a space for people to share their stories to help transform, uplift and inspire the world.
At the Podium
In Season 1, Season 2, and Season 3 of the ‘At the Podium’ podcast, Patrick has conversations with people who come from different walks of life, careers, and experiences but all share one thing in common – they have stepped fully into the transformative power of saying “Yes” to the unexpected turns of their lives.
The Fast
In this We Care Spa Limited Wellness Series, we invite nine of our favorite thought-leaders and innovators to share their own joy of healthy living. Host Patrick Huey explores new beginnings, ancient fundamentals, the realities of starting a business, the power of forgiveness, microbiomes, why babies like to dance, and much more. In every episode we see the moments of clarity when a person throws what no longer serves a purpose into the fire, and how that choice moves them forward.
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"You have to recognize the love we have for our parents, no matter who they are or what they might have done."
Kristen McGuiness
Publisher, Rise Books
Author, Live Through This
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We are only as whole and as well as the secrets we keep and the truths we tell. Speaking your truth can heal the broken parts of your life. If you can say it and claim it, your secrets will no longer have a hold o n you."
Patrick Huey
Creator & Host, At the Podium
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“What does it mean to break bread? It takes down the walls and the barriers. It means to come together. It means to share a meal and maybe let go of our differences for the moment when literally and figuratively we’re having this bread.”
Chef Nina Curtis
Director and Executive Chef, Plantish & Co. Culinary Arts
White House Guest Chef
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“All boys aren’t blue because we’re not a monolith. None of us have the same spirit. We all have different struggles we will go through. We all have a different journey. We all have a different path. And trying to force us to all be the same, trying to force us to be blue impedes the path and impedes the purpose of a person’s life.”
George M. Johnson
Author, All Boys Aren’t and We Are Not Broken
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“It seems like in general in life when things are really extremely in one direction it’s not ideal. That the more moderate we can be the more we can actually listen to each other; actually, have empathy; find ways to teach instead of punish. These are ideal situations.”
Nora Zelevansky
Co-Author,
Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland
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“Having - I guess I’ll call it - a bipolar brain I do think is directly connected to my creativity… I see connections between lots of ideas and thoughts that others might not see, and that is a big boon to creativity.”
Zak Sandler
Writer, Composer, Lyricist, Broadway Pianist
Mental Health Advocate
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“I think building these healthy, deeper relationships at work, can only help us build a more healthy, resilient, inclusive society. Maybe I’m optimistic, but that is my belief and my philosophy.”
Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky
Keynote Speaker, Workplace Belonging Expert,
Author, Friendship in the Age of Loneliness
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On Jackie Bouvier Kennedy - "All of us are multidimensional. A person of substance can also have style. We create these categories and labels. We write these narratives not only about others, but about ourselves that are idealized, and not reality."
Carl Sferrazza Anthony, Author & Historian
Camera Girl, The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy
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“You really find out who you are by the obstacles that you’re facing.”
Jimmy T. Martin
Co-Founder, Brrrn
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“Everybody questions everything when you start a business. You’re going to get questioned and you’re going to fail. But the failure’s good because you’re going to keep learning.”
Hugh Huffaker
Founder
Cause+Medic and Clean Republic
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“There is a danger in putting your identity and its value in the hands of other people instead of it being deeply rooted in who you know you are in any given moment.”
Shaunda McDill
Managing Director
Pittsburgh Public Theater
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“I think for me it all comes back to my central motto in life which is that every single young person deserves the opportunities and support they need to reach their full potential. And we need to do everything possible to make that happen.”
Connor Schoen
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Breaktime (Breaking the Cycle of Young Adult Homelessness)
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“I believe now that your behavior mirrors your belief. So, you cannot change your behavior without changing your belief.”
Nigel Franklyn
The Spa Whisperer
Co-Founder, Moss Wellness Consultancy
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"When you're going through a career change, you have to rely on those traits of passion, discipline and making sacrifices on a daily basis. And I'm humble enough and smart enough to really seek out other people that can add value to my life."
Chris Hetherington
Founder & CEO, Peels CBD
Former NFL Fullback with the Bengals, Colts and 49ers
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“I can’t help but see how beautiful adversity can be for transforming the perception of life into just a moment by moment miracle. I never knew the greatest gift in my life was going to be my daughter and this disease.”
Travis Suit
Executive Director,
Piper’s Angels Foundation, Foundation For Cystic Fibrosis
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“I’m the person who’s going to ask the hard question. I won’t be rude or disrespectful about it because I don’t think that’s required, but I will call things out as I see them.”
Susan Chapman-Hughes
C-Level Executive, Digital Transformation, Growth Strategy & Connected Leader
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“I will say I think I’m fortunate that I get to live and to be a part of a generation, I think, that is helping push change. Where we are saying ‘it’s not enough anymore.’ I get to live out the change that people before me didn’t have the rights to have.”
Yissel Guerrero
Former State Government Liaison, Mayor Marty Walsh Administration
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“As an owner, as a founder, you’re driven by your ability to be authentic. You’re on your own path. There is nobody telling you what to do, how to say it, where to show up and what to sell. That’s the beauty, or the challenge of being an entrepreneur.”
Noel Asmar
Founder, Noel Asmar Group of Companies
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“If you can show up in love for somebody who is in hate for you, that’s where change happens. That’s where the progress occurs.”
Joe Hudson
Creator and Executive Coach, The Art of Accomplishment
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“At the end of the day, know this, all you have is this one life. And you are deserving of living it fully, with intention, with peace, love and joy unspeakable. And nothing or no one is worth it for you to be dragging through life broken.”
Marsha-Ann Donaldson-Brown
Tourism Executive, Mentor and Advocate
Creator & Host, Real Talk with Marsha-Ann
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"What this company allowed me to do was really stand my ground and be the leader that I was too afraid to think I could ever be."
Marnye Young
Owner, Audio Sorceress
SOVAS and Earphone Award-Winning Narrator
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"Honoring transitions is a lost art. It can provide more depth, more knowing, more information, more fuel for the things we are creating.”
Oceana Sawyer
Author, Life, Death, Grief and the Possibility of Pleasure
End of Life Doula
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"You know what? I don't have a specific dream and I actually kind of like it that way. That's how I've gotten to where I am now. It's just by saying 'yes' to cool opportunities."
Zelda Adams
Film Maker, Actress, Model, Drummer
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“You know, I don’t know if my dad really realizes this, but he shaped me because he taught me how to live without him. And you know, he killed a part of me as well, and there is a part of me missing, that I think I will never have.”
Kevin Chadwin Davis
PrEP & HIV Advocate
Public Health Student
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“I have a philosophy where I try my best to say yes to everything. Because if you say yes to everything, you literally never know where it’s going to lead. And more often than not, it leads to something amazing. And if it doesn’t, it leads to learning something.”
Leon Logothetis
Author and TV Host, The Kindness Diaries
Founder, Winston Entertainment
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"No one is going to love you more than you. You teach people how to treat you, and you teach people how to interact with you. And in knowing that, be and expect nothing but the best."
Gennean Scott
Chief Diversity Officer
The Broadway League
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"In reality there's always something given up in order to chose a certain path."
Dr. Devin Singh
Founder and President, Leadership Kinetics LLC
Associate Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College
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“What’s interesting about vulnerability is that vulnerability is not wearing your heart on your sleeve for everybody to see. Vulnerability is sharing your stories with the people who have earned the right to hear them.”
Liz Brunner
CEO and Founder, Brunner Communications
Emmy Award-Winning Journalist
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“As a dancer, I’ve had to really look at myself… and know my strengths, know my weaknesses. Know my worth and confidently understand that, without any doubt at all. And I think that has translated also into my personal life; me as a person.”
Skyler Maxey-Wert
Second Soloist SemperOper Ballet Dresden & Vocal Musician
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“I have this theory that crime is about scarcity and the illusion of scarcity. There’s not enough land. There’s not enough food. There’s not enough love. When there actually is. The world is quite abundant if we share.”
Attica Locke
Author, Screenwriter, TV Producer
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"I want to make music that is for people, that moves people, that might inspire people. It’s the understanding that I’m not just a musician. I am a citizen. And I have responsibilities as a citizen.”
Dr. Timo Vollbrecht
Director of Jazz Studies & Lecturer
Brown University
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"Education is connected to our overall landscape as humans. And if we really want to ensure that our government, that our companies and that our communities are navigating from an ethical lens, from a knowledgeable lens then… academic institutions have a social responsibility to ensure that… everyone in our society can thrive.”
Derrick Young, Jr.
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Leadership Brainery
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“Those of us who are concerned with social transformation, we have to continue to develop self-awareness, social-awareness and spiritual awareness which I actually believe is really critical for those of us who are called to lead at the intersections of life.”
Jonathan Allen
Co-Founder & Director of Development, Leadership Brainery
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"I am struck by the fragility of life. The fragility of our institutions and how quickly they can breakdown."
Regina Bain
Executive Director, Louis Armstrong House Museum & Archives
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"We have taken a machete to the social welfare safety net, and then we're shocked when people fall through the gaping holes. And through that gaping hole, a woman and three children found themselves on the street. And we stayed there for 11 years."
David Ambroz
Author, A Place Called Home
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“As the Tech Industry has said, ‘Look how much of the world is knowable,’ it has created this false perception that we can have certainty about things that are essentially uncertain.”
Caleb Gardner
Author, No Point B,
Co-Founder 18 Coffees Innovation & Change Management Consultants
Former Lead Digital Strategist - President Obama’s Political Advocacy Group, OFA
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"Do you want your life to flourish? Face the area that makes you feel vulnerable. It is your cross. Your cross leads to your calling."
Dr. Johnny Parker
CEO/Founder, The Parker Group, LLC
Author Turn the Page
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"I am always working on the inner me, so that I can help develop a better inner person for another person."
Dr. Darian Parker
Owner, Parker Personal Training
Co-Founder, Epic Leisure Management
