At the Brink with Erica Brinker

At the Brink is a podcast about the inflection points that define a life and career. The pivots no one saw coming. The decisions made under pressure. The stories people rarely tell out loud. Each episode is a conversation with a leader, founder, artist, parent or advocate who has lived through a moment that changed everything — and chose to talk about what actually happened. Not because those stories are easy. Because they are real. At the Brink explores reinvention, resilience and the defining moments that reshape who we become. Hosted by Erica Brinker. This show began as something personal. When her son Luca died suddenly at four months old, everything reorganized. What she found in the years that followed was that the people who looked the most composed were often carrying the most. At the Brink exists because those conversations deserve a stage. Business inquiries and guest bookings: <a href="mailto:hello@atthebrinkmedia.com" rel="noopener

At the Brink with Erica Brinker is a society podcast hosted by Erica Brinker, with 24 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Erica Brinker hosts At the Brink with Erica Brinker, a society show with 24 episodes published.

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  Unplugged: Sydney Sweeps, iPhone Duo Dual, No Love for Lying and Champagne Stockpiling

  Sep 18, 202635 min

  Sydney Sweeney got naked for a gambling app and everyone has an opinion. Ours might be unpopular: she has equity in the company, she came up with the creative and she knew exactly what her assets are worth. Stop tearing women down! We do love what the female athletes did in response though — it gave them a platform they might not have had otherwise. Win-win? Also this week: the iPhone Duo is $2,000 and Sara can't decide, Dyson made a toothbrush with a camera in it ($499), the Eight Sleep Pod might change your life but then you can never sleep in a hotel again, a Gossip Girl from a 46-year-old whose friends typed 39 on her Hinge profile over margaritas and now she's on date three with a man who thinks she was born in 1987, champagne prices are going up because France is too hot (stock up now), Priyanka Jain just raised $59 million for women's health research (women weren't required in federal studies until 1993), and Sara and Erica answer: what are you finally done apologizing for? On At the Brink: Colleen Mahoney. She had a heart attack while conducting a meeting. Her story is one you need to hear. Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com Here you go: At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after? New episodes every Wednesday. Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com Instagram: @at.the.brink.media Executive producer | Sara Glassman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #22

  The Heart Attack She Almost Ignored | Colleen Mahoney

  Sep 16, 202642 minS1

  Colleen Mahoney has spent more than two decades at the top of corporate marketing and commercial leadership — nineteen years at Honeywell across aerospace and building technologies, then renewables, and now specialty chemicals. She is the person who drives results and gets things done, a self-described workaholic and perfectionist. A few years ago, in Atlanta, in her early 40s, she had a heart attack. The warning signs did not look like the textbook. She felt a throbbing pain the night before and told herself it was stress and travel. The next morning she drove her daughter to school and ran a staff meeting before she finally went to the hospital, where doctors told her she was in the middle of a heart attack with a heart rate over 206. As she puts it, she ignored it the way so many women do. In this episode Colleen talks with Erica about what her body was trying to say and what she decided to actually hear — dismantling the perfectionism, learning that 50 percent of good is often good enough, and finally asking for help. She also talks leadership, switching industries, raising a daughter in a digital age, and the company she started a little over a year ago. It is a conversation about what changes when your body interrupts a life you were too busy to stop. Executive Producer: Sara Glassman Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media&nbsp;|&nbsp;YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast Follow Colleen Mahoney: ckmarketsolutions.com&nbsp; www.atthebrinkmedia.com&nbsp;|&nbsp;hello@atthebrinkmedia.com Here you go: At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after? New episodes every Wednesday. Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com Instagram: @at.the.brink.media Executive producer | Sara Glassman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Unplugged: Gap Is Cool Again (But Not for Us), Brand Mashups, Passed Over at 42 and our 9/11 Stories

  Sep 11, 202630 min

  Gap is cool again but apparently not for us. Gen X holds a quarter of household wealth and they're chasing Gen Z with Katseye collabs. So we played a round of brand mashups to fix this ourselves: Salt & Peppa for perimenopause telehealth, Caboodles x Tumi, Keds x Golden Goose, Lisa Frank x Le Creuset (instant bestseller) and Zima x High Noon (hard pass). Also this week: Ina Garten's new podcast and the fake Martha rivalry (stop pitting women against women), a Gossip Girl from a woman who was passed over for a 33-year-old after 11 years at her company, Blandine L'Hirondel breaking records on the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, and a Say the Thing that got real — on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 we both shared where we were that morning. Also out this week: Karina Zuniga. A military wife who fought the VA when they told her husband to man up. Her story is one you need to hear. Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com Here you go: At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after? New episodes every Wednesday. Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com Instagram: @at.the.brink.media Executive producer | Sara Glassman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #21

  She Fought the System for Her Husband. Then She Had to Save Herself. | Karina Zuniga

  Sep 9, 202641 minS1

  This episode contains frank discussion of PTSD, veteran mental health and loss. Karina Zuniga was born and raised in Mexico. She met Billy, an American veteran, in Los Cabos. They fell in love over books and conversation. After September 11, Billy re-enlisted. Karina left everything — her country, her career, her family — to follow him to Arizona. Billy came home from Afghanistan with shrapnel in his head, a destroyed knee and severe PTSD. What followed was years of episodes so intense he thought their backyard was a combat zone. He told Karina: I know I’m here. I just can’t get out. When he went to his chain of command begging for help, they told him to man up. Karina became his advocate — driving across states to visit him in rehab centers, learning what oxycodone was, watching him cycle through pills that went up, pills that went down and pills that were supposed to keep him in the middle. Eventually she had to make the hardest decision of her life: leave the marriage to save herself. Billy died in his sleep on September 11, 2017. In this conversation, Karina talks about what it means to love someone through trauma the system won’t treat, what advocacy actually looks like from the inside and how she found herself again after losing the person she fought hardest to save. Executive Producer: Sara Glassman Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media&nbsp;|&nbsp;YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast www.atthebrinkmedia.com&nbsp;|&nbsp;hello@atthebrinkmedia.com Here you go: At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after? New episodes every Wednesday. Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com Instagram: @at.the.brink.media Executive producer | Sara Glassman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Unplugged: Getting Snatched, PSL Party Poopers, Daisy Chain Flower Power and Glorious Gloria

  Sep 4, 202632 min

  Good Good update: the CEO left, the president left, Dick's dropped the products. Then we got into Tarte's "Snatch Stick" campaign — they sent creators boxes with their own photos marked up for plastic surgery to sell a $26 contour stick. It met its sales targets. We're buying one anyway because we're doing an experiment for the people. Also this week: Trust Me on Netflix (five stars, obsessed, don't make us go to Reddit for recommendations), pumpkin spice is losing to matcha in 29 states, a Gossip Girl about a husband who won't stop calling his wife's profitable business a "hobby," a tribute to Gloria Steinem (who never passed the torch — she lit other people's), Blandine L'Hirondel breaking 22 hours on the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, and a new segment called Say the Thing where Erica pulled a card and Sara immediately passed. Enjoy the mini-tantrum that followed. Also out this week: Becky Sidelinger. Three decades in the most powerful rooms in manufacturing. Her story is raw, honest and one you need to hear. Follow At the Brink: Instagram @at.the.brink.media | YouTube @AtTheBrinkPodcast www.atthebrinkmedia.com | hello@atthebrinkmedia.com Here you go: At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after? New episodes every Wednesday. Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com Email: hello@atthebrinkmedia.com Instagram: @at.the.brink.media Executive producer | Sara Glassman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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