Patrick Huey
Host | Speaker | Writer
At The Podium is a space to sit firmly in honesty, vulnerability, and hope.
Join host Patrick Huey in intimate, soul-centered conversations with writers, creators, visionaries, and healers. Each episode peels back the layers of memory, transformation, identity, and human longing — the stories we think we’ve left behind and the truths waiting to bring us home. Whether we’re talking second chances, reinvention, spiritual awakening, healing, or deep creative work,
Season 4
Coming Home
Launching 2026!
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"The only way for change to happen is if the person speaks up and out."
Kathryn Hahn
Agatha Harkness in Agatha All Along
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"You cannot please everyone. So you just have to be your own self and believe in your journey and learn about yourself the most. You have to be strong."
Jakub Jozef Orlinski
Internationally Acclaimed Countertenor
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“We live in a time when there is not a lot of margin for error. But facing failure gave me freedom.”
Guide Me Home, Author
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“Art is beautiful, even when it depicts ugliness and strife. And one of the things about doing the book, I wanted it to be beautiful because I wanted you to see the beauty in the art because that leads you to the beauty in the person and that’s really what I was striving for.”
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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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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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“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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“I’m glad nothing I wished for came true. Because what came true is better than anything I could’ve wished for.”
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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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“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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"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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“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
First Soloist SemperOper Ballet Dresden & Vocal Musician
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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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"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."
A Place Called Home, Author
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“I had to let go of the limiting belief that I was not good enough. I’m still on that journey.”
Sanctum, Co-Founder
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"We are emotional beings. And those emotions are real, undeniable, and we often face them when going through a lot of growth, a lot of change and a lot of disruption."
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"Facing the unknown, leaning into the fear, and trusting your team, and yourself is where all the growth happens."
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"The connection you are creating here is like a flower. It requires soil and sun... But it is you, all of us, who has to water the flower to make it grow."
From Scratch and Someday, Now, Author
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"Life is a dance with energy, an opportunity to experience our power to create. And we can transform our pain into light, our grief into beauty, and our breath into song."
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“The thing is, [grief] doesn’t go away, the sadness. It just moves toward the back of the closet, if that makes sense. You still keep it with you always, but, eventually, it’s not the only thing you think about—not every day, all day.”
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“It’s been a journey for me. I have grappled with my biracial identity. It's not been the easiest of roads for me."
Patrick Huey is a global hospitality and wellness executive, creative, and podcast producer. With more than two decades of leadership across the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia, he has led multimillion-dollar operations while building cultures and developing leaders. He is the creator, producer, and editor of At the Podium, a long-form interview podcast exploring voice, legacy, and becoming—rooted in curiosity, presence, and listening.
At the Podium
Season 4: Coming Home
What does it mean to come home?
Not to a house or a city, but to a version of ourselves we’ve left behind. Or maybe ran from.
Home & Belonging
Explore all seasons!
Love & Relationships
Identity & Belonging
Creativity & Reinvention
Healing & Personal Growth
