The Present Moment Project

This podcast, hosted by Jill Bershad — a psychotherapist, EMDR and hypnotherapist, Reiki master, and sound healer — is a heartfelt space for healing, growth, and connection. With a blend of authenticity and compassion, Jill invites listeners to join her in real conversations about resilience, trauma, addiction, and self-discovery. Through shared stories and gentle wisdom, she reminds us that while pain is inevitable, suffering is optional, and that we can all “grow through what we go through.” More than just a podcast, it’s a supportive community built to help listeners rediscover joy, laughter, and their most authentic selves — one present moment at a time.

The Present Moment Project is a health podcast hosted by Jill Bershad, with 23 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.

Jill Bershad hosts The Present Moment Project, a health show with 23 episodes published.

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  Ep. 21 - The Personal Growth Work That Changed Everything

  Jul 28, 20261h 9m

  Personal growth, healing old patterns, and learning to trust yourself shape this honest conversation as Jill Bershad welcomes therapists and Real Course instructors Jon Waller and Stephanie Savo-Smellie. Together they reflect on the life-changing work that helped them move beyond people-pleasing, self-doubt, and childhood beliefs that continued to influence their adult relationships. Jon and Stephanie share how The Real Course uses experiential personal development to help people recognize limiting beliefs, step outside their comfort zones, practice vulnerability, and take responsibility for the lives they want to create. They also talk about how the work has transformed their relationships, careers, and the way they show up for themselves and others. Jill opens up about how this work changed her own life after years of carrying childhood wounds, and how learning about boundaries, integrity, accountability, and self-love continues to shape her healing after profound loss. Together they explore why growth often begins with discomfort, why healthy relationships require honesty, and how small shifts in awareness can create lasting change. Healing doesn't happen by pretending the past didn't matter. It begins by understanding the beliefs we've carried for years, choosing new ways to respond, and giving ourselves permission to live with greater authenticity, connection, and compassion. Contact Jill K. Bershad, LMHC, CAP Email: jill@jillbershad.com Website: jillbershad.com Instagram: @jillkbershad.lmhc Facebook: jillkbershad

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  Ep. 20 - How Do We Keep Living After Losing Someone We Love?

  Jul 14, 20261h 7m

  Grief, resilience, and learning how to keep living after loss are at the heart of this deeply personal conversation. Jill Bershad sits down with Amy to talk about the death of Amy’s son Yossi from brain cancer and the experiences that led her to write The Wholeness of a Broken Heart. Amy shares the nine months between Yossi’s diagnosis and his death, the community that surrounded her family, and the difficult reality of being present for one child while continuing to parent and care for the rest of her family. She and Jill reflect on vulnerability, asking for help, accepting what cannot be changed, and the people who show up when life becomes too heavy to carry alone. Their conversation moves through the seven pathways Amy writes about, including acceptance, vulnerability, self-care, family and chosen family, beauty, faith, and miracles. They talk about finding comfort in nature, listening to intuition, setting boundaries, speaking to ourselves with kindness, and allowing grief and beauty to exist at the same time. There are no simple answers for moving through profound loss. Sometimes resilience begins with accepting the life that is actually in front of us, finding safe people who will sit beside us, and remaining open to the beauty, connection, and small miracles that still exist. Contact Jill K. Bershad, LMHC, CAP Email: jill@jillbershad.com Website: jillbershad.com Instagram: @jillkbershad.lmhc Facebook: jillkbershad

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  Ep. 19 - Starting Over at 45 and Building Something That Matters

  Jun 30, 20261h 1m

  Starting over at 45, building a startup, and learning to trust yourself are at the heart of this conversation. Jill Bershad sits down with her longtime friend Natalia to reflect on decades of friendship, raising families, navigating financial uncertainty, and finding the courage to begin again. Natalia shares how a personal family tragedy led her to leave a successful event planning career, return to graduate school, and eventually launch Anywhere DX, a company working to develop an at-home strep test designed to make testing and treatment more accessible. Along the way, she talks honestly about self-doubt, resilience, pitching investors, and discovering confidence she didn't know she had. Their conversation moves naturally between memories of young motherhood, entrepreneurship, empty nesting, marriage, and the unexpected ways life keeps asking us to adapt. Rather than having all the answers, they reflect on what it means to keep moving forward, trust the process, and take chances on yourself even when the outcome isn't guaranteed. Sometimes resilience looks less like a dramatic moment and more like making the next decision, taking the next step, and believing that growth is possible long after life has changed. Contact Jill K. Bershad, LMHC, CAP Email: jill@jillbershad.com Website: jillbershad.com Instagram: @jillkbershad.lmhc Facebook: jillkbershad

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  Ep. 17 - Finding Purpose After Losing a Child with Camilla Goodwin of Myla's Beleaf

  Jun 2, 20261h 4mS0

  <p>Childhood cancer, grief, and what it actually looks like to build something meaningful after the worst possible loss. Camilla Goodwin lost her daughter Myla in 2020 to a rare and aggressive form of kidney cancer called Wilms tumor. She was eight years old. In the years since, Camilla and her husband Mike have opened a restaurant, started a foundation, raised over three million dollars for families facing childhood cancer diagnoses, and somehow kept showing up for their other two kids, their community, and each other.</p><p>This conversation goes to a lot of honest places. Camilla talks about the...

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  Ep. 16 - When Your Pain Finally Outgrows Your Fear

  May 26, 20261h 10mS0

  <p>First responder mental health and the silence around it is where this conversation begins — with Tim Roberto, a Marine Corps veteran with 19 years of sobriety who turned his own history into something that helps people in uniform ask for help without losing anything in the process. He founded Stomping Out the Stigma, a nonprofit that connects first responders and veterans with licensed, culturally competent therapists. No insurance. No HR. No agency reporting. First name only, and someone calls you back within 24 hours.</p><p>Tim started using at 11, worked his way through everything available between then and 16, and got so...

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