Shells and Shadows

Welcome to Shells & Shadows with your host, Yehuda HaLevi. Through honest conversations and stories from young leaders and seasoned mentors, we will explore what it means to look into the mirror, face and befriend our shadow selves, and shed our outer shells to reveal the light we all contain within.

Shells and Shadows is a education podcast hosted by Yehuda HaLevi, with 31 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.

Yehuda HaLevi hosts Shells and Shadows, a education show with 31 episodes published.

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  The Body Remembers — Until You Teach It Otherwise (with Tricia Sexton)

  Mar 2, 202652 minS0

  <p>In this episode of Shells & Shadows, Yehuda sits down with Tricia Sexton — breathwork facilitator and founder of Rooted Journey Retreats.Tricia shares what it was like growing up inside bullying that escalated into sexual assault, rumor, and shame — and how that kind of betrayal can live in the body for decades, showing up as distrust, low self-worth, and painful patterns in relationships.What changed her life wasn’t a single breakthrough — it was leaving. A study abroad in Ireland became years of living abroad in places like Tanzania, Thailand, Nepal, Guatemala, and Costa Rica — and through that travel, she found a di...

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  Come As You Are: Building the Space I Never Had (with Ashley Rupe)

  Feb 27, 20261h 15mS0

  <p>In this episode of Shells & Shadows, Yehuda sits down with Ashley Rupe in the new Salt Lake City studio for a conversation about loneliness, survival, and building the support system you never had.</p><p><br></p><p>Ashley shares why she started a local healing collective — a non-clinical space rooted in breathwork, nervous system regulation, and real human connection. Not a place to be diagnosed. A place to show up exactly as you are. After hosting her first in-person event, one thing stood out:</p><p><br></p><p>Every single person said they were lonely.</p><p><br...

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  Time at the Edge: The Man Who Had to Die to Truly Live (with James Miragliotta)

  Feb 26, 20261h 5mS0

  <p>In this episode of Shells & Shadows, Yehuda sits down with James Miragliotta, author of Time at the Edge — a former attorney and entrepreneur whose life changed after a near-fatal stabbing and near-death experience.James built a high-achieving life: a growing law practice, public office, business ventures, and international work. But a series of losses — including the death of his father, his wife’s cancer, and the kidnapping and murder of a business partner — forced him to rethink everything.Years later, while caring for his second wife during a long struggle with paranoid schizophrenia, James woke up one night to a 16-inc...

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  The Search for Meaning in the Modern Youth Treatment Industry: A Dialogue with My Former Therapist

  Feb 24, 20261h 54mS0

  <p>What happens when your life is decided for you?</p><p>In this deeply personal episode of Shells & Shadows, Yehuda sits down with Phil Wintch—one of the therapists from the residential treatment center where Yehuda was sent at sixteen. What unfolds is not a takedown of the youth treatment industry, nor a blind defense of it—but an honest reckoning with the light and the shadow that live inside transformative experiences.</p><p>Together, they explore what it means to be forced into change… and what it takes to choose it.</p><p>They discuss the reality that youth...

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  What 30 Strangers' Shadows Taught One Man About His Own – Light Stone & Yehuda HaLevi

  Feb 20, 20261h 10mS0

  Yehuda HaLevi, host of Shells and Shadows, joins Light Stone on The Stone Protocol after recording 30 episodes in 14 days in Salt Lake City — more than his entire first year of podcasting combined. Shells and Shadows is a podcast about people who have turned their darkest experiences into their greatest gifts. After two weeks of holding space for strangers' stories of addiction, homelessness, sexual abuse, suicide and homicide, Yehuda found the same thread running through every single one of them. The darkness was never the end. It was the seed. The fruit was always coming.<br><br>In this conversation, Light dr...

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