Hosted by Sam Anderson · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 18 episodes
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Welcome to The Phoenix Table —a podcast for anyone rising through the messy middle. Hosted by entrepreneur, parent, and storyteller Sam Anderson , this show is where the real stories get told unfiltered, unpolished, and unapologetically powerful. Whether you're navigating burnout, grief, mental health, caregiving, or the quiet ache of rebuilding your life, you're not alone. Through soul-deep conversations, raw solo episodes, and stories of survival and rebirth, The Phoenix Table invites you to pull up a chair and exhale. We’re exploring the concepts of grit, grief and growth. This is not a space for toxic positivity or surface-level advice. It’s for the people who’ve been through it, are still in it, and are determined to rise anyway. You’ll hear from guests who’ve lost everything and started over, who’ve cared through crises, loved through darkness, and dared to dream again. A
Sam Anderson hosts The Phoenix Table, a society show with 18 episodes published.
Send us a text In this season finale of The Phoenix Table, Sam opens up about a struggle many high achievers face: using productivity as a vice. As year-end pressure builds, she finds herself stuck in the cycle of stress
Send us a text In this episode of The Phoenix Table, we sit down with Yasmine De Aranda, who turned a season of heartbreak and uncertainty into a profound journey of love, resilience, and redefinition. When Yasmine’s hus
Send us a text In this episode of The Phoenix Table, we sit down with Michele Hecken, a serial entrepreneur, speaker, and author who built her first business from scratch while raising two young daughters, and later tran
Send us a text In this solo episode of The Phoenix Table, Sam opens up about what it really means to love someone through their healing — and how to stay whole while doing it. She reflects on the quiet, complicated space
Send us a text In this episode of The Phoenix Table, we sit down with Travis Scott, who transformed a period of intense depression and grief into an extraordinary 2,500-mile journey on a bicycle. Travis shares the emotio
Send us a text In this episode of The Phoenix Table, Nicole Donnelly shares her journey as an entrepreneur, detailing the rise and challenges of her company Baby Legs, the emotional and financial struggles during economi
Send us a text In this mini episode, the first in a mini-series called “Coffee Breaks,” Sam reflects on what it really means to be brave, not in the loud, world-shifting moments, but in the quiet, unseen choices we make
Send us a text In this raw and eye-opening episode of The Phoenix Table, Todd Palmer shares how losing his father at just five years old shaped his beliefs about success, leadership, and self-worth. What began as a drive
Send us a text In Part 2 of I’m Not Okay, Sam shares the next chapter of her journey following a traumatic family event. What does it really look like to heal after everything falls apart? From the fog of grief to the un
Send us a text In this raw and heartfelt episode of The Phoenix Table, Sarah shares her journey of shifting from the CEO of a top HubSpot agency in the Philippines to becoming the full-time caregiver for her mother diagn
Send us a text In this raw and deeply moving episode of The Phoenix Table, Trygve Olsen opens up about his painful decision to become estranged from his parents after years of alcoholism, denial, and one traumatic event
Send us a text This week’s episode of The Phoenix Table is one of my rawest yet. Just two weeks ago, my husband’s depression reached a breaking point, and for the first time I had to face the reality that I couldn’t “fix
Send us a text In this episode of The Phoenix Table, Sam Anderson sits down with Meg Duffy, a Principal Professor at HubSpot Academy, who shares her powerful journey from running the Tokyo Marathon to facing an unexpecte
Send us a text What happens when success on paper doesn’t feel like success in life? In this episode of The Phoenix Table, Sam sits down with Dr. Kristen Kale — entrepreneur, author of Notivation, and unapologetic truth-
Send us a text In this episode of The Phoenix Table, we dive deep into the quiet pressures we place on ourselves—the "shoulds" that stack up and quietly define our identity. Sam unpacks how the collapse of her first busi
Send us a text In this deeply personal episode, Sam takes you back to the moment everything she built came crashing down — the collapse of her first business, the grief that followed, and the unexpected clarity it gave h
Send us a text In this debut episode, host Sam Anderson opens the door to The Phoenix Table — a show born from fire, resilience, and the messy middle of life. Sam shares what led her to create this space for raw stories
Send us a text In this short teaser, host Sam Anderson introduces the heart behind the show: a space for raw stories from the fire—for those rising through the messy middle. If you’ve ever faced a season of unraveling, o
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