Speak Plainly Podcast
Hosted by 2 time best-selling trauma author, Owl C Medicine. A veteran of the US Military, Owl's no nonsense approach to mental physical and relational health is exactly what you didn't know you need. Listen in for ideas worth chewing on and science based tools for living life after trauma.
Speak Plainly Podcast
Latest Episodes
The Confederacy That Survived - How Postwar Pardons Kept Racism alive in America
dig into how Confederate leaders avoided real punishment after 1865 and how that choice helped preserve racist power structures for generations. I connect Reconstruction’s collapse, the Lost Cause myth, and the dismantling of modern voting prot...
The Heartwood Problem
A tree can look solid for decades while the center quietly hollows out, and archaeology has a name for the confusion that creates: the heartwood problem. When you carbon date wood, you can end up measuring the newest layer instead of the oldest...
4 Amazing ideas White People Ruined
We break down how white people keeps stealing effective systems from other cultures, stripping out the context, then acting surprised when the watered-down version barely works. We trace that pattern through Maslow, mindfulness, Indigenous fire...
Pathological Normativity Theory; Behind Neurodivergence
“Normal” is one of the most powerful words in mental health, and it might be doing more damage than we admit. I’m putting a full framework on the table: pathological normativity theory, the idea that what we call neurotypical may be less of a b...