The David Leifeste Podcast

Conversations on success, meaning, and the possibility of you. Psychotherapist and executive coach David Leifeste, M.S., L.P.C., draws on forty years and more than 100,000 conversations to explore how people actually change — through honest interviews and solo field notes on purpose, resilience, relationships, and the quiet decisions that shape a life.

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  Episode #5

  More Powerful Than Medication — Dr. Grant Daugherty

  Sep 1, 202642 minS0

  <p>What if the most powerful medicine isn't a medication at all? Dr. Grant Daugherty is a psychiatrist trained at the Cleveland Clinic, now practicing in Tulsa — and someone I've had the joy of watching grow for fifteen years. In this conversation he shares the research that surprises almost everyone: the relationship between doctor and patient can be more powerful than the prescription itself. We talk about getting unstuck, journaling your way to clarity, why loneliness has become America's number one epidemic, and the simple daily practice of choosing connection over fear. I left this conversation full of hope, and I...

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  Episode #4

  Create the Right Conditions — with Dr. Matt Griswold

  Aug 25, 202643 minS0

  <p>Dr. Matt Griswold has spent his adult life asking one question: what happens when you create the right conditions and let the body do what it was made to do? In this conversation, one of my dearest friends — and one of the most respected healthcare professionals in our region — shares the story behind his practice, the rituals that carry him through a hundred patients a day, and why the physical and the emotional are two wings of the same bird. I left this one grateful, and I believe you will too.</p> <p>ABOUT THE GUEST<br>Dr. Matt Gris...

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  Episode #3

  Never Live the Same Year Twice — with Julian Essolakina

  Aug 18, 202637 minS0

  <p>Julian Essolakina was born in Togo, West Africa, moved to France as a young student, and now works out of Washington, DC — with a recent chapter in Tulsa, where he and David first met. He reads Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Camus for pleasure, moves between languages and continents the way most of us cross state lines, dresses like no one else in the room, and organizes his whole life around one rule: never live the same year twice.</p> <p>In this conversation, David — psychotherapist and executive coach with 40 years and more than 100,000 conversations in practice — and Julian dig into juxtap...

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  Episode #2

  What the Dead Teach Us About Living — Dr. Jarred Michalski, Forensic Pathologist

  Aug 11, 202648 minS0

  <p>Dr. Jarred Michalski is a triple-board-certified forensic pathologist who investigates unexpected and unnatural deaths — and now works alongside Dr. Bennet Omalu, the physician Will Smith portrayed in "Concussion." He is also a gymnast, a juggler, and one of the most philosophically alive minds David has sat down with.</p> <p>In this conversation, David — psychotherapist and executive coach with 40 years in practice — and Jarred go from the autopsy table to Albert Camus: why "autopsy" literally means to see for yourself, what daily proximity to death teaches about impermanence, why hope and regret may be the same trap, and how to bui...

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  Shot at 12, Living in a Car — How Dan Arthur Built an Extraordinary Life

  Aug 9, 202630 minS0

  <p>At ten years old, Dan Arthur was living in a tent at a campground, selling nightcrawlers and hand-poured sinkers to buy macaroni and cheese. At twelve, he was living in a 1966 Plymouth Fury with his dad — until the night someone broke in with a gun. Today he's an engineer, a geologist, the owner of multiple companies, and an expert called on around the world.</p> <p>In this first conversation on The David Leifeste Show, David — a psychotherapist and executive coach with 40 years in practice — walks through how Dan's openness and relentless curiosity turned brutal circumstances into an extraordinary life...

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