Hot Mess Espresso

Hot Mess Espresso is a mental health podcast focused on honest conversations around healing, burnout, anxiety, self-growth, and navigating the chaos of everyday life. Through relatable stories, expert insight, and unfiltered moments, the podcast creates a safe space for listeners to feel seen, supported, and a little less alone while figuring life out one episode at a time. Want to follow along more? Follow us on IG: @hotmess.espresso & @heather.herington Business & guest inquiries: team@hotmessespressopodcast.com

Hot Mess Espresso is a health podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 143 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.

Unknown Host hosts Hot Mess Espresso, a health show with 143 episodes published.

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  (143) From Finding Healing in Music to Healing the Music Industry with Erin Ventoso

  Sep 9, 202645 min

  This week, I was able to sit down with Dr. Erin Ventoso, a RocDoc provider and host of the Hardcore Healing Pod. We just DOVE into a conversation about mental health, music, and what taking care of yourself actually looks like... especially when your job happens to involve living on the road. Erin opens up about navigating OCD, anxiety, and a later ADHD diagnosis, how music became a lifeline for her, and the not-so-glamorous reality of keeping touring musicians and crews healthy behind the scenes. We get into nervous system overload, sustainable self-care, why healthcare on tour needs to be more accessible, and how Erin found a way to give back to the music community that helped her through some of her hardest moments. Plus naturally, some ADHD tangents, feline interruptions, millennial coping mechanisms, and a little House of the Dragon obsession made their way in. Because this is still Hot Mess Espresso, and even with heavy topics there's always some chaos.

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  (142) Heavy Music For Heavy Feelings With Lives Lost

  Sep 2, 202643 min

  After having the pleasure of meeting up with the guys from Lives Lost when their tour came through, this week I’m joined by Tanis, Shawn, and Dan to talk about the reality of building a band, surviving tour, and making music out of some of the hardest parts of life. We get into how the band has evolved with a new lineup, writing through grief and trauma, and what it’s like putting deeply personal songs into the world knowing someone else might hear their own story in them. Of course, we couldn’t keep things serious for too long. We also get into their most unserious coping mechanisms, the songs we put on when we need to be dramatic, everyone's guilty pleasure music, questionable tour purchases, and why holding your dog up like Simba might actually be a valid mental health strategy. Check out the end of the episode for info on where you can find Lives Lost on tour very soon.

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  (141) A Year Later, He Flipped Off The River: JT White

  Aug 26, 202646 min

  This episode hits a little differently for me. JT isn’t just a guest: he’s my friend, and I still remember getting the text after he got out of the hospital telling me how close he had come to ending his life. I’d talked to him just days before and had absolutely no idea what he was carrying. One year and one day after his attempt, JT joined me to talk openly about what led him there, his experience in the mental health system, and what the last 366 days of choosing to stay have actually looked like. We talk therapy, medication, finding pieces of yourself again, saying yes to the things you’ve always wanted to do, and building a life that finally feels like your own. It’s a heavy conversation, but it’s also about what can happen after your darkest moment; and getting to hear my friend talk about the future he’s building is something I’m incredibly grateful for. IG: @heavymetalcowboy

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  (140) Is That A Healthy Boundary, Or Just Avoidance? With Candice Coughenour

  Aug 19, 20261h 5m

  This week, I’m joined by marriage and family therapist Candice Coughenour for a very real conversation about relationships, communication, and all the complicated stuff that happens when two people bring their own histories, triggers, and nervous systems into the mix. We talk about why premarital counseling deserves way more attention, how neurodivergence can impact communication between partners, and what it actually means to take accountability for the role we play in our relationship patterns. We also get into boundaries versus requests, people pleasing and overfunctioning, learning to sit with discomfort, and why “protecting your peace” doesn’t necessarily mean avoiding anything that makes you uncomfortable. Candice breaks down why more than one thing can be true at the same time, how our family dynamics follow us into adulthood, and why sometimes the healthiest thing you can do during an argument is go to bed angry and come back to it when everyone’s nervous system has calmed the hell down.

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  (139) Your Labs Are Normal, So Why Do You Still Feel Like S*it?

  Aug 12, 202644 min

  Nervous system resets, cortisol, supplements, hormones… the internet has approximately 47 solutions for everything wrong with us. So I sat down with integrative health practitioner Ashley Cruz Arata to cut through some of the noise. Ashley shares her own journey from being repeatedly told she was “fine” to discovering a precancerous thyroid tumor, and how that experience completely changed the direction of her life and career. We talk about medical dismissal, chronic illness and mental health, functional medicine, supplement overload, perimenopause, and why “resetting your nervous system” probably isn’t as simple as TikTok makes it sound. The biggest takeaway from this episode? You know your body better than anyone.

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