In this episode of Home of Misfits, Mark Steven Porro pulls up a chair with Sabine for an honest, unscripted conversation about what happens when life hands you a role you never auditioned for — and you decide to jump in, find the joy, and make it your own.

At 55, Mark traded his carefree bachelor life in Hollywood for something he never expected: becoming the full-time caregiver for his 90-year-old mother. What followed was three and a half years of role reversals, tenderness, frustration, laughter, dignity, and love — including beauty days, a briefly employed servant bell, and more than a few lessons neither of them saw coming.

But this conversation doesn't stay in the caregiving lane for long. Mark and Sabine wander from Hollywood and Cast Away to moving to the south of France, crazy European drivers, centuries-old villages, family, adventure, empathy, and Mark's philosophy of finding the joy wherever life happens to drop you.

Around here, we leave the scripts at the door and make space for real conversations with wonderfully imperfect humans. Some will make you laugh. Some will make you think. And every now and then, one quietly changes the way you see yourself.

If you've ever wondered where you fit, questioned the script everyone else seemed to follow, or simply needed the reminder that you're not alone...

Welcome home.

Connect with Mark

Website: https://acupofteaonthecommode.org

Social Media: Search “A Cup of Tea on the Commode” on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, and Bluesky

Books & Resources: A Cup of Tea on the Commode — available in paperback, large print, ebook, and audiobook

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Home of Misfits is an outreach program of the Happiness Matters Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping people rediscover hope, perspective, and belonging.

If these conversations have encouraged you, challenged you, or reminded you that you belong, we'd be honored to have your support.

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In this episode of Home of Misfits, José Pedras pulls up a chair with Sabine for an honest, unscripted conversation about what can happen when the identities, expectations, and labels we collect along the way begin to fall away — and we discover we might not need to replace them.

Around here, we leave the scripts at the door and make space for real conversations with wonderfully imperfect humans. Some will make you laugh. Some will make you think. And every now and then, one quietly changes the way you see yourself.

If you've ever wondered where you fit, questioned the script everyone else seemed to follow, or simply needed the reminder that you're not alone...

Welcome home.

Connect with José

Instagram: @jose_pedras_

Keep Hope in Motion

Home of Misfits is an outreach program of the Happiness Matters Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping people rediscover hope, perspective, and belonging.

If these conversations have encouraged you, challenged you, or reminded you that you belong, we'd be honored to have your support.

✨ Be the Spark That Keeps Hope in Motion

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/hope-and-happiness-in-action

Learn more:

🌐 Home of Misfits — https://HomeOfMisfits.com

🌐 Happiness Matters Foundation — https://HappinessMattersFoundation.org

In this episode of Home of Misfits, Beth Lynch pulls up a chair with Sabine for an honest, unscripted conversation about grief, intuition, and what happens when the things you've somehow always known begin to make sense.

From sensing something was wrong before her father's unexpected death to a haunting dream the night her mother's train crashed, Beth's story is filled with moments she couldn't explain at the time. What followed wasn't an instant awakening or a perfectly mapped spiritual journey. It was grief, anger, questions, curiosity, and eventually learning to trust a part of herself that had been there all along.

Around here, we leave the scripts at the door and make space for real conversations with wonderfully imperfect humans. Some will make you laugh. Some will make you think. And every now and then, one quietly changes the way you see yourself.

If you've ever wondered where you fit, questioned the script everyone else seemed to follow, or simply needed the reminder that you're not alone...

Welcome home.

Connect with Beth

Website: www.innerlightteaching.com

Keep Hope in Motion

Home of Misfits is an outreach program of the Happiness Matters Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping people rediscover hope, perspective, and belonging.

If these conversations have encouraged you, challenged you, or reminded you that you belong, we'd be honored to have your support.

✨ Be the Spark That Keeps Hope in Motion

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/hope-and-happiness-in-action

Learn more:

🌐 Home of Misfits — https://HomeOfMisfits.com

🌐 Happiness Matters Foundation — https://HappinessMattersFoundation.org

In this episode of Home of Misfits, Carm O'Sullivan pulls up a chair with Sabine for an honest, unscripted conversation about what can happen when we look beyond what someone did, who we thought they were, or what we thought we knew — and become curious about the story underneath.

Around here, we leave the scripts at the door and make space for real conversations with wonderfully imperfect humans. Some will make you laugh. Some will make you think. And every now and then, one quietly changes the way you see yourself.

If you've ever wondered where you fit, questioned the script everyone else seemed to follow, or simply needed the reminder that you're not alone...

Welcome home.

Connect with Carm

Website: https://CarmelSullivan.com

Keep Hope in Motion

Home of Misfits is an outreach program of the Happiness Matters Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping people rediscover hope, perspective, and belonging.

If these conversations have encouraged you, challenged you, or reminded you that you belong, we'd be honored to have your support.

✨ Be the Spark That Keeps Hope in Motion

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/hope-and-happiness-in-action

Learn more:

Home of Misfits — https://HomeOfMisfits.com

Happiness Matters Foundation — https://HappinessMattersFoundation.org

In this episode of Home of Misfits, Nina Thiara pulls up a chair with Sabine for an honest, unscripted conversation about what can happen when you spend years doing what is expected, pushing through, and slowly lose sight of yourself along the way.

Around here, we leave the scripts at the door and make space for real conversations with wonderfully imperfect humans. Some will make you laugh. Some will make you think. And every now and then, one quietly changes the way you see yourself.

If you've ever wondered where you fit, questioned the script everyone else seemed to follow, or simply needed the reminder that you're not alone...

Welcome home.

Connect with Nina

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nina.bains.16/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZoOAxhGmro/?hl=en

Keep Hope in Motion

Home of Misfits is an outreach program of the Happiness Matters Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping people rediscover hope, perspective, and belonging.

If these conversations have encouraged you, challenged you, or reminded you that you belong, we'd be honored to have your support.

✨ Be the Spark That Keeps Hope in Motion

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/hope-and-happiness-in-action

Learn more:

Home of Misfits — https://HomeOfMisfits.com

Happiness Matters Foundation — https://HappinessMattersFoundation.org

In this episode of Home of Misfits, Michael Foglietta pulls up a chair with Sabine for an honest, unscripted conversation about losing the life and brain you once knew, navigating invisible disability, and discovering that building a meaningful life doesn't require becoming who you used to be.

Around here, we leave the scripts at the door and make space for real conversations with wonderfully imperfect humans. Some will make you laugh. Some will make you think. And every now and then, one quietly changes the way you see yourself.

If you've ever wondered where you fit, questioned the script everyone else seemed to follow, or simply needed the reminder that you're not alone...

Welcome home.

Connect with Michael

YouTube: @mfoglietta1

Facebook: www.facebook.com/mike.foglietta

TikTok: @mfoglietta

Instagram: www.instagram.com/mfoglietta1

Keep Hope in Motion

Home of Misfits is an outreach program of the Happiness Matters Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping people rediscover hope, perspective, and belonging.

If these conversations have encouraged you, challenged you, or reminded you that you belong, we'd be honored to have your support.

✨ Be the Spark That Keeps Hope in Motion

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/hope-and-happiness-in-action

Learn more:

Home of Misfits — https://HomeOfMisfits.com

Happiness Matters Foundation — https://HappinessMattersFoundation.org

In this episode of Home of Misfits, Rachael Ortega pulls up a chair with Sabine for an honest, unscripted conversation about what happens when your heart refuses to fit inside someone else's expectations.

Around here, we leave the scripts at the door and make space for real conversations with wonderfully imperfect humans. Some will make you laugh. Some will make you think. And every now and then, one quietly changes the way you see yourself.

If you've ever wondered where you fit, questioned the script everyone else seemed to follow, or simply needed the reminder that you're not alone...

Welcome home.

Connect with Rachael

Website: https://rachaelortega.com

All Things Spiritual: https://allthingsspiritualco.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachaelortegamedium

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RachaelOrtegaMedium

Facebook Group: All Things Spiritual Community

Keep Hope in Motion

Home of Misfits is an outreach program of the Happiness Matters Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping people rediscover hope, perspective, and belonging.

If these conversations have encouraged you, challenged you, or reminded you that you belong, we'd be honored to have your support.

Be the Spark That Keeps Hope in Motion

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/hope-and-happiness-in-action

Learn more:

🌐 Home of Misfits — https://HomeOfMisfits.com

🌐 Happiness Matters Foundation — https://HappinessMattersFoundation.org

In this episode of Home of Misfits, Eric Gillis pulls up a chair with Sabine for an honest, unscripted conversation about what it really means to become a rebuilt warrior after life falls apart.

Around here, we leave the scripts at the door and make space for real conversations with wonderfully imperfect humans. Some will make you laugh. Some will make you think. And every now and then, one quietly changes the way you see yourself.

Eric openly shares his journey through military service, PTSD, a suicide attempt, rebuilding his life after rock bottom, redefining masculinity, and discovering that vulnerability isn't weakness — it's one of the greatest strengths we have.

If you've ever wondered where you fit, questioned the script everyone else seemed to follow, or simply needed the reminder that you're not alone...

Welcome home.

Connect with Eric

Website: https://therebuiltwarrior.com

Books & Resources: https://therebuiltwarrior.com

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Home of Misfits is an outreach program of the Happiness Matters Foundation. If these conversations remind you that you belong, help us save another chair at the table.

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HomeOfMisfits.com • HappinessMattersFoundation.org

In this episode of Home of Misfits, Cat Orme pulls up a chair with Sabine for an honest, unscripted conversation about what it means to move beyond survival, let go of the need for permission, and finally make room for the wonderfully imperfect human underneath it all.

Around here, we leave the scripts at the door and make space for real conversations with wonderfully imperfect humans. Some will make you laugh. Some will make you think. And every now and then, one quietly changes the way you see yourself.

Together, Sabine and Cat explore childhood grief, addiction and recovery, complex trauma, vulnerability, intimacy, alternative relationships, kink, self-forgiveness, and the courage it takes to stop asking for permission to simply be yourself.

This isn't a conversation about labels.

It's a conversation about being human.

If you've ever wondered where you fit, questioned the script everyone else seemed to follow, or simply needed the reminder that you're not alone...

Welcome home.

Connect with Cat

Website: https://kinkcollective.net

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kink.collective

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KinkCollectiveNYC

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catorme

Podcast: The Conscious Kinky Podcast (Spotify & YouTube)

Keep Hope in Motion

Home of Misfits is an outreach program of the Happiness Matters Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping people rediscover hope, perspective, and belonging.

If these conversations have encouraged you, challenged you, or reminded you that you belong, we'd be honored to have your support.

✨ Be the Spark That Keeps Hope in Motion

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/hope-and-happiness-in-action

Learn more:

Home of Misfits — https://HomeOfMisfits.com

Happiness Matters Foundation — https://HappinessMattersFoundation.org

In this episode of Home of Misfits, Jenny Garufi pulls up a chair with Sabine for an honest, unscripted conversation about what happens when you stop trying to be perfect, stop living for everyone else, and finally learn to believe that you are already enough.

Around here, we leave the scripts at the door and make space for real conversations with wonderfully imperfect humans. Some will make you laugh. Some will make you think. And every now and then, one quietly changes the way you see yourself.

If you've ever wondered where you fit, questioned the script everyone else seemed to follow, or simply needed the reminder that you're not alone...

Welcome home.

Connect with Jenny Garufi

Website: https://jennygarufi.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennygarufi

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jennygarufi

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennygarufi

Books & Resources: https://jennygarufi.com

Keep Hope in Motion

Home of Misfits is an outreach program of the Happiness Matters Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping people rediscover hope, perspective, and belonging.

If these conversations have encouraged you, challenged you, or reminded you that you belong, we'd be honored to have your support.

✨ Be the Spark That Keeps Hope in Motion

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/hope-and-happiness-in-action

Explore more:

🌐 Home of Misfits — https://HomeOfMisfits.com

🌐 Happiness Matters Foundation — https://HappinessMattersFoundation.org

Nobody likes talking about death… until life forces the conversation.

In this episode of Home of Misfits, B. Jane Jones shares the reality of caregiving, grief, preparation, faith, and rebuilding life after loss. From hard conversations to emotional survival, this one is honest, human, and deeply real.Sometimes strength looks like planning ahead.

Sometimes it looks like simply making the next phone call.

Connect with B. Jane Jones:

bjanejones.com

Connect with Sabine:

MattersOfPerspective.com

www.HomeOfMisfits.com

Sometimes the people who look the strongest are carrying the heaviest things.

In this episode of Home of Misfits, Daniel Sterling joins Sabine for an honest, unfiltered conversation about the stories people live behind, the things they avoid, and what happens when life finally forces a deeper look.

This one is thoughtful, funny, uncomfortable at times, deeply human… and probably going to hit a nerve or two.

Content Note: Mild language and discussions around emotional struggles and past experiences.

Connect with Daniel:

daniel-sterling.com

Instagram: @danielsterlingwriter

Connect with Sabine:

MattersOfPerspective.com

www.HomeOfMisfits.com

What happens when two misfits skip the small talk and go straight into the real stuff?

In this episode of Home of Misfits, Sabine sits down with Gregg “Triple G” Sheldon for a conversation filled with humor, horsepower, hard-earned wisdom, identity shifts, and one unforgettable phrase: “turd burglars.”

From motorcycles and mechanics to boundaries, belonging, authenticity, and becoming comfortable in your own skin, this episode is funny, honest, unexpectedly deep, and wildly human.

No scripts. No polished performances. Just two humans talking about life the way real people actually do.

Normal is optional. Masks are unnecessary. And yes… you absolutely belong here.

Connect with Gregg “Triple G” Sheldon:

719-661-1663

Connect with Sabine:

Matters of Perspective

Home of Misfits

This conversation contains strong language, real talk, and zero sugarcoating.

Getting sober didn’t fix everything.

Turns out… the patterns came along for the ride.

In this brutally honest, funny, deep-as-hell conversation, Sabine and Australian psychotherapist Chad Taylor dive into unconscious patterns, relationships, accountability, fear, ego, addiction, parenting, and why humans keep repeating the same chaos in different outfits.

This episode is part therapy, part perspective shift, part “well damn… that hit a little too close to home.”

Also: road rage, emotional raccoons, silence, spiritual awakenings, and why being “right” might actually be a drug.

Connect with Chad:

Chad Taylor Psychotherapy

Connect with Sabine

Matters of Perspective®

Home of Misfits

⚠️ This conversation contains adult language, references to sex, drugs, abusive relationships, and a whole lot of unapologetic Gen X storytelling. In other words… definitely not a Disney movie.

This episode feels less like an interview and more like sitting across from someone while they unpack the chapters that shaped them.

From New York clubs and backstage passes to family expectations, abusive relationships, Hawaii, marriage, motherhood, and learning to trust her instincts, Beth Pellino-Dudzic shares the winding path that eventually led her back to herself.

Some stories aren’t linear.

Some people aren’t either.

Welcome to Home of Misfits.

Connect with Beth Pellino-Dudzic:

PerfectionSaga.com

Facebook / Threads / Instagram: @BPellinoDudzic

TikTok: @BethAndPerfection1

YouTube: Beth Pellino-Dudzic

Connect with Dr. Sabine Mann— Queen of Shift:

MattersOfPerspective.com

HomeOfMisfits.com

Facebook / Instagram / YouTube: @MattersOfPerspective

What happens when the dream you were taught to want no longer fits?

In this episode of Home of Misfits, Stuart Jaffe joins Sabine Mann, PhD for a conversation about identity, performance, fiction, reality… and the strange feeling that modern life has gotten a little too artificial.

Thoughtful.

Sarcastic.

A little existential.

Very Gen X.

Connect with Stuart Jaffe

stuartjaffe.com

author@stuartjaffe.com

Connect with Dr. Sabine

https://mattersofperspective.com

https://homeofmisfits.com

Control can feel like safety.

Like structure.

Like the one thing keeping everything from falling apart.

…until it isn’t.

In this episode, we’re not talking about getting it right.

We’re talking about what happens when something doesn’t go the way you expected — and what that reveals about you.

This is a real conversation about fear, resistance, and the quiet ways we hold ourselves back while thinking we’re protecting ourselves.

Two experiences.

Same process.

Completely different outcome.

Not because anything external changed — but because something internal did.

If you’ve ever felt stuck, blocked, or like something just wouldn’t work no matter how hard you tried… yeah… this one might feel a little personal.

Different isn’t broken — it’s home.

https://www.homeofmisfits.com

https://mattersofperspective.com

If something in this conversation stirred something in you — and you’re sitting there thinking, “well… that hit a little too close to home” — you might belong here.

https://www.homeofmisfits.com/guest-application

You’re not broken.

You’re just not getting away with your own patterns anymore

What if the problem was never that you didn’t fit… but that you were trying to fit at all?

In this episode, I sit down with Aspry Jones — a creative mind who doesn’t quite stay in one lane… and doesn’t seem too bothered by that.

We touch on curiosity, identity, and the quiet pull to question what most people just accept — without needing to turn it into a performance or a perfectly packaged answer.

It’s one of those conversations that doesn’t try too hard… but still leaves you thinking.

Press play if you’ve ever felt like you’re “a little of everything” — and not sure where that’s supposed to fit.

Connect with Aspry:

Aspryjones.com

@AspryWrites

If something in this conversation lands… don’t just scroll past it.

Sit with it. Or share it with someone who might need to hear it too.

If you feel called to explore your own patterns, perspective, or next step — you’ll find ways to begin here:

https://mattersofperspective.com

Different isn’t broken — it’s home.

“I lost my way… and I got really good at it.”

Yeah. That part.

Because this isn’t one of those neat, inspirational “and then everything made sense” stories.

This is what happens when you grow up inside something that doesn’t make sense — and instead of fixing it… you learn how to function in it.

Michael Miski talks about surviving in environments where truth is shaky, trust is optional, and deception becomes… useful.

Not proud-of-it useful.

I need this to get through the day useful.

And here’s where it gets uncomfortable — when you get good at navigating the lie… you don’t always know how to live outside of it.

So what happens when you finally stop?

When you look around and go… “Wait. What is actually real here?”

No performance.

No polished version.

No pretending this was easy.

Just a real, slightly uncomfortable, very honest conversation about losing yourself… and figuring out if — and how — you come back.

Connect with Michael

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-miski-ba178b21a/

Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/author/michaelmiski

Connect + Continue the Conversation

Home of Misfits (Podcast + Movement):

Website: https://homeofmisfits.com

Email: hello@homeofmisfits.com

Matters of Perspective® (Deeper Work + Resources):

Website: https://mattersofperspective.com

Email: hello@mattersofperspective.com

Some people build their lives by choice.

Others… build them from whatever didn’t break them.

In this episode of Home of Misfits, I sit down with Sean Boyle for a conversation that doesn’t try to impress you — it meets you.

At 18, his world didn’t gently shift… it cracked wide open.

And suddenly, there’s no waiting, no easing in, no “when I’m ready.”

Just reality… and the quiet, heavy truth:

It’s on you now.

We talk about what that actually feels like — the pressure, the confusion, the moments you don’t post about… and the kind of growth that doesn’t come with a motivational quote attached.

This isn’t about success.

It’s about becoming someone you didn’t plan to be — but needed to become to survive… and eventually, to stand.

No fluff. No fixing. No pretending.

Just real life… and what you build from the fallout.

If you’ve ever found yourself in a moment where everything changed — and you had to figure it out anyway…

Yeah. This one’s for you.

Connect with Sean

Website: https://seanboyle.com

Email: sean@needmomentum.com

Connect + Continue the Conversation

Home of Misfits (Podcast + Movement):

https://homeofmisfits.com

Email: hello@homeofmisfits.com

Matters of Perspective® (Deeper Work + Resources):

https://mattersofperspective.com

Email: hello@mattersofperspective.com