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Abbie Kearse

Writer, reporter, and producer, Abbie Kearse, sat down with some of rock and hip-hop’s biggest legends and tackled some of the most important social issues of the day. This week, Abbie recounts interviewing a sleepy Joe Perry, tracking down an errant Rakim, covering Snoop Dogg’s 1995 murder trial, and hanging with Kurt Loder and Mick Jagger.

Michael Alex

Few MTV News staffers had a run like Michael Alex. From producing “The Week in Rock” and “Choose or Loose,” to launching MTV News Dot Com, Michael did it all. Buckle up and ride shotgun with Michael and Paul McCartney, Kieth Richards, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Paul Simon, Sinéad O’Connor, Bootsy Collins, and many, many more.

John Norris

In his more than two-decade tenure, MTV News Correspondent John Norris interviewed everyone from Britney Spears and Janet Jackson to U.S. Senator John McCain and Vice President Al Gore. In this broad, deep, and thoughtful conversation with the self-described “retrophobe,” we trace the arc of his career, hitting the club with Madonna, going to court with Michael Jackson, walking the VMA Red Carpet with Green Day, and much, much more.

Luke Russert

The journalist and author dives deep into his New York Times Best Seller, “Look For Me There,” in which he recounts a journey that began a few months of travel to decompress, and became a three-year, six-continent odyssey to discover the world, process his grief, and find himself.

Hannah Storm

As Founder of Headlines Network, Hannah Storm is at the forefront of creating connections and driving conversations toward improving journalists’ mental health. From her home north of London, Hannah discusses her early career, experience with journalism safety and wellness, and her own healing journey.

LJ Malberg

In this wide-ranging conversation, Coach, Community Builder and CoMuse CEO, LJ Malberg and I go deep on cultivating compassion, finding connection, getting uncomfortable, and letting go.

Tracey Quillen Carney & Dr. Julius Mullen Sr.

Delaware First Lady Tracey Quillen Carney and Trauma Matters Delaware Chairperson Dr. Julius Mullen discuss their pioneering work in recognizing and responding to childhood trauma.

John Faye

Singer/songwriter and alt-rock frontman John Faye’s “The Yin and the Yang of It All: Rock’n’Roll Memories from the Cusp,” takes us for a ride into the belly of a dream. In the new memoir, Faye beautifully renders his healing journey from an alienated and grief-stricken teen and major label frontman to a fiftysomething father, mentor and champion of the middle-class musician.

Elisa Peimer

Longtime singer/songwriter friend, Elisa Peimer, discusses growing up in Ossining to a steady soundtrack of Styx and Queen, being the only female audio engineering student at NYU, her mid-life pivot from music marketer to psychotherapist, and what she’s hearing post-COVID.

In The End

I was recording “In The End” in Muscle Shoals just a week after demo’ing it, when bandleader Will McFarlane, asked, “Should we go full Otis on this one?” Otis Redding recorded his posthumous hit, “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay,” in that very room on those very keyboards just months before dying in a plane crash in 1967. “Absolutely,” I responded. The story behind Constellations’ fifth and final song and Kyiv-penned music video, this week on Friends & Neighbors.

Paul Cheung

Prior to becoming CEO of Center for Public Integrity, Paul Cheung put in three decades at America’s most prestigious journalism institutions including The Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, Associated Press, and the Knight Foundation. This week, Paul travels back to his childhood in Hong Kong and immigration to Manhattan’s Lower East Side, adolescence in suburban New Jersey, and storied career at the intersection of journalism, technology and social justice.

Finding The Secret Song

In this audio companion to my recently premiered documentary short, I trace my road trip from Memphis to Muscle Shoals writing and recording my tenth album, “Constellations,” and reveal how a Texan waitress, Mexican tailor, and Tupelo pop icon’s secrets helped inspire my path towards recovery.