What happens when silence stops working, and honesty becomes an act of care?

In this episode, we sit with a story about breaking, language, and the quiet power of naming what’s hard without letting it spill onto the people we love.

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What happens when survival isn’t the finish line, but the beginning?

In the Season 3 premiere of What’s Your Story?, host J.D. Murgolo explores a narrative of transition, responsibility, and the profound choice to prioritize one’s own path. This episode is a deep dive into the personal narratives of leaving what we know and the healing that begins when we finally choose ourselves.

In this conversation, we explore:

• The Weight of Responsibility: Navigating the roles we play for others vs. the roles we play for ourselves.
• The Act of Leaving: Understanding that survival is often just the first step toward a new story.
• Choosing Yourself: The quiet, often difficult moment of reclaiming your own narrative agency.

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This show is a production of Fragile Moments, a storytelling studio dedicated to the craft of presence. We believe the best stories don't just end when the audio stops; they breathe and create space for your own.

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A new story is arriving.

What’s Your Story? returns this February with a new season titled The Art of Returning — a cinematic exploration of what it means to come back to yourself after loss, change, or silence.

This season unfolds as a storyworld within the What’s Your Story? anthology, weaving together lived experiences, quiet reckonings, and the moments that reshape who we are.

Produced by Not Today Media. New episodes begin February.

Every season has a thread — a fragile line of truth that weaves its way through each story. For Season 2, that thread has been about return: to resilience, to tenderness, to the quiet places inside us that teach us how to keep going.

In this final episode of the season, JD sits down with Christina Kingston — known to many as The Velvet Empath — to explore what it means to live with open hands and an open heart. Christina’s presence is both invitation and reminder: that empathy is not weakness, but courage; not just softness, but strength.

Together, they reflect on the power of vulnerability, the risk of feeling deeply, and the ways empathy creates connection where silence might otherwise linger.

As we close this season, may Christina’s story remind you that your own story matters too — and that the endings we reach are often thresholds waiting to become beginnings.

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You don’t have to be a believer to pray. Sometimes the prayer isn’t even words.Sometimes it’s just the ache of being lost long enough to finally ask for help — not from a person, not from a system, but from whatever else might be listening.

That’s where Sophia’s story begins. On a beach in Egypt. A stranger in a strange place. A whispered please — flung into the air with no expectation of return.

But something answered. And what unfolded from that moment was nothing short of a quiet spiritual rebellion — the kind of path you can only follow barefoot, with everything you thought you needed falling away.

This is not a story about religion. It’s a story about asking. And being met. And letting go of everything that doesn’t survive the meeting.

If you’ve ever felt on the edge of belief.If you’ve ever spoken to the sky and waited.If you’ve ever been changed by something you still don’t fully understand…This one’s for you.

If this resonates, share it with someone else who might need to be reminded that their softness is not a weakness it’s the start of healing.

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We also make Dads Cry Too and Come Back To Earth.

There’s a kind of wisdom that doesn’t announce itself.It doesn’t arrive in the form of a five-step plan or a TED Talk voice.It arrives slowly — in stillness. In the breath you didn’t know you were holding.In the soft return to a body you forgot how to trust.

That’s what this story holds.Not a lesson. Not a formula. Just a quiet unfolding.

Catherine Crestani has walked the long road of returning to herself. Not in a loud, dramatic way — but in a way that feels like rooting.Her presence is medicine. Not because she’s trying to heal you, but because she’s made a practice of honoring her own healing — and letting that ripple outward.

If you’ve ever felt the ache of burnout, the dissonance of performing calm while feeling chaos, or the yearning for a slower, truer life…This one is for you.

A soft reminder:You don’t have to be fixed.You just have to come home.

If this resonates, share it with someone else who might need to be reminded that their softness is not a weakness it’s the start of healing.

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Some relationships look like love on the surface — but underneath, they echo the same abandonment, chaos, or silence we learned to tolerate as kids.

This week, I sit down with Dr. Chelsea Azarcon — a deeply thoughtful voice in the intersection of trauma, health, and emotional healing — to talk about the kind of love that breaks us down before it builds us back up.

Chelsea shares her story of surviving a seven-year, emotionally abusive relationship that began when she was just 18. It was a cycle of leaving and returning, of questioning herself, of feeling both addicted to and terrified by the pull of someone who mirrored her early wounds.

What followed was a years-long process of reclaiming her voice, her nervous system, and her sense of worth. This episode isn’t just about relationships — it’s about rewriting what we think we deserve, and learning how trauma lives not only in our minds, but in our bodies and beliefs.

In this conversation, we explore:— The hidden cost of emotionally unavailable relationships— Why chaos can feel like connection (until we unlearn it)— How trauma patterns show up in our health, identity, and nervous system— What it looks like to break cycles without breaking yourself— The power of coming home to your body and your story

If this resonates, share it with someone else who might need to be reminded that their softness is not a weakness it’s the start of healing.

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Sometimes the loudest part of life is the silence that follows holding it all together.

This episode opens in the stillness after bedtime dishes undone, a baby monitor humming, the hum of mental chaos louder than anything outside. It’s a fictional story, but if you’ve ever sat alone in a room feeling like the weight of your own life might quietly crush you…you’ll feel seen here.

This isn’t a comeback story. It’s not about fixing or rising.It’s about the moment you let yourself break gently.The kind of moment you never post about, but never forget.

🎙️ In this episode, we explore:

* The invisible labor of being the “strong one”

* Quiet unraveling as a form of healing

* Why slowing down is sometimes the bravest move

* The difference between coping and showing up for yourself

This story lives at the center of Fragile Moments, a space for emotional honesty, storytelling as medicine, and the soft rebellion of telling the truth about how hard things really are.

💌 If this resonates, share it with someone else who might need to be reminded that their softness is not a weakness it’s the start of healing.

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Thanks for being here.

We’re all still stitching the fragile back together — one story at a time.

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