
Todd Carswell
Chief Creative Officer and Writer
A Compass for Midlife: Our podcast helps listeners navigate the complex challenges of midlife through the collective wisdom of expert insights, real-life stories, scientific research, biographies, and historical narratives. Whether you're seeking deeper connection with others, navigating family dynamics, building financial literacy, planning a career transition, decluttering your life, or simply learning to enjoy life more—this is where we cut through the noise and help you craft your own roadmap to a meaningful life. Join us as we explore the human condition in search of personal growth and existential inquiry.
Chief Creative Officer and Writer
Andrew-Ryan Profaci is a cult and cancer survivor, and the author of The War on Love, a raw, groundbreaking memoir exposing the hidden truths behind the Love Has Won cult and its infamous leader, Amy Carlson, aka Mother God. As the person closest to Amy, Andrew shares shocking secrets no news outlet, documentary, or survivor has ever revealed, including how he was manipulated and what it took to finally break free.
Brandon Held's life story reads like a manual on resilience -- growing up in poverty, living with an abusive, alcoholic stepfather, losing his infant daughter, multiple failed marriages, surviving a suicide attempt, and emerging not just intact but mentally resilient and determined to help others.
Brandon is the host of 2 Podcasts: Life is Crazy and Buckeye Battle Cry
Chris is a Vice President and Financial Advisor at RBC Wealth Management. He grew up in Yonkers, NY, joined the US Marine Corps after 9/11, and trained as an Infantry Officer. Chris would go on to Command 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion 8th Marines in the 2nd Battle of Fallujah. After the military, Chris trained to become a Financial Advisor. He’s also heavily involved in the veteran community.
Jeff Callahan, the founder of Become More Compelling knows exactly what it feels like to get stuck in your head. He used to have a stutter so intense he couldn’t even say his own name.
Over the last 10+ years, he’s reverse-engineered more than 90,000 conversations, coached over 100 FAANG professionals, and built a system that helps people turn overthinking into social confidence.
Jeff works with smart, capable professionals who crush it at work but still feel awkward at happy hours, second-guess themselves in meetings, or replay conversations on an endless loop.
His focus is simple: help people build habits to connect naturally, without faking, forcing, or feeling like someone they’re not.
Right now, Jeff is writing Confidence Maxxing: How To Crush Awkwardness, Build Social Confidence, & Become Unforgettable. (Coming in early 2026)
John Brink was born in Nazi-occupied Holland at the beginning of the Second World War. From the time he could walk, his days often consisted of foraging for food with his brother and sister. His mother was left to raise the three kids alone when their father was drafted into the Dutch Army. They wouldn’t know if he was alive until the liberation of their village, by Canadian soldiers, on April 12, 1945.
This was the exact moment John determined he would make his life in Canada … the land of his heroes. He was only five years old.
John fulfilled his childhood dream by emigrating to Canada in July 1965. Arriving in Prince George, British Columbia, with only $25.47 in his pocket, he began his new life with determination and hope. Ten years later, in 1975, he realized another lifelong ambition by founding Brink Forest Products.
Steve McCready is a coach and psychotherapist who helps thoughtful, sensitive people stop people-pleasing and overthinking, to set real boundaries, and to start living more authentic lives so they can find their place in the world.