A Contagious Smile Podcast
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A Contagious Smile Podcast
Stop surviving and start thriving. A Contagious Smile is a globally ranked podcast providing a safe haven for abuse survivors and special needs families navigating the journey of trauma recovery. Whether you are healing from domestic violence, narcissistic abuse, childhood trauma, or the daily chall...
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How Matthew Dixon Recovered From Schizophrenia And Biked Across Canada
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A schizophrenia diagnosis can feel like your life has been rewritten without your consent, and the hardest part is often the un...
When A Stranger Shares A Dark Secret
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A guy offers to help us move a table and chairs, and for a few minutes it feels like a normal neighborly moment. Then, out of n...
This Is What It Takes with Special Guest Rebecca Tuoni. Unbreakable Caregivers
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The fastest way to feel powerless is to sit in a hospital room while someone talks about your child like a “case” instead of a...
A Life Built On Miracles, Work Ethic, And Showing Up with Very Special Guest, Amir Arison
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One family’s survival story collides with a working actor’s hard-earned truth, and the result is a conversation that feels both...
Brave Conquer Fear Interview with Cheryl Preheim of NBC 11Aive and Faith
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Someone once told Faith’s family to “keep her comfortable and let her go.” That moment could have been the end of the story, bu...
This Is What It Takes with Michael Mackniak and Victoria Cuore. People Stop Seeking Help When The System Stops Listening
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The moment “help” makes you feel smaller, unheard, or more afraid, something in the system has already failed. We sit with the...
Why We Go Off Script And Talk Real Life
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A show can be funny and still hit like a truth bomb. Michael and Victoria keep Contagious Smiles unscripted on purpose, because...
Why Families Get Lost In Healthcare Systems And How To Fight Back with Michael Mackniak and Victoria Cuore
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Healthcare can make you feel like you’re doing everything “right” while the system keeps moving the goalposts. We’re tired of f...
Launching A Mental Health Support Network With Real Resources
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Building A Free Mental Health Resource Network For Caregivers with Michael Mackniak
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A Mother Remembers Her Son And Rebuilds Life After Opioid Loss with Katie Rizzo
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One phone call, one prescription, one quiet apartment, and a life splits into before and after. We sit down with Katie Rizzo, a...
Ripple Retreat with guest JJ Holley, A Veteran who lives to pay it forward
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A quiet town in Maine. A historic 1830s farmhouse and barn. A veteran with seven years of sobriety and a plan that flips the us...
A New Partnership For Trauma-Informed Mental Health Support with Michael Mackniak
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The scariest part of a mental health crisis isn’t always the symptoms. It’s the moment you realise nobody is talking to each ot...
Leaving An Abusive Relationship Starts With A Safety Plan
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“Why don’t you just leave?” gets thrown at survivors like it’s a simple fix, so we slow it down and tell the truth. We’re Stucc...
TikTok Toilets And A Very Bad Diastat Day
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One phone call can flip your whole world. We start with real life and real laughs, then move into the kind of story that makes...
What If Overworking Is A Trauma Reflex
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Burnout does not always look like falling apart. Sometimes it looks like answering messages at midnight, working seven days a w...
Five Packs Of Grits And A Side Of Reality
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A blood test can be louder than any argument, and we start there: Michael’s A1C comes back at a 9, and suddenly “I’ll deal with...
Friending: A Real-World Cure For Loneliness
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Loneliness doesn’t always look like sadness. Sometimes it looks like a full contact list, nonstop group chats, and a Friday nig...
The Man Behind the Badge joins us with special guest Eric Robinson
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A lot of people want the wild FBI stories. We wanted the part that lingers after the story ends, what the work does to your ner...
Coffee Beans, Misheard Words, And A Very Honest Marriage
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A Broadway-directing Hollywood powerhouse drops in, tells Michael he’s flat-out wrong about being “bad at podcasting,” and then...
Arim Arison Tells Michael about how great he is at Podcasting
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How Narcissistic Parents Lose Control When You Heal
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Some people don’t hate you because of what you did. They hate you because you healed, and now they can’t control you. Tonight w...
You Can Rebuild Safety With Small Daily Steps with Guest Joshua Hess
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Somebody can be sitting in an urgent care exam room with bruises, fear, and an abuser answering every question and still have n...
We Tried To Help His Dad And Uncovered A Nightmare
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He’s supposed to be “Dad” and he’s supposed to be safe. Then one phone call turns into months of ambulance rides, doctor appoin...
Teaching Responsibility Without Shame
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Responsibility sounds like a boring word until life makes it personal. We kick things off with a question we’ve all wrestled wi...
How A Couple Protects Joy From Outside Drama
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People love our chemistry and our laughter, but we don’t pretend life is perfect. We keep our home “drama trauma-free” by choic...
From A Scare To A Smile With Lessons On Health Love And Healing
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A Sunday lands us in the emergency room, and somehow it starts with a “gunshot wound” joke and ends with one of our most honest...
From Picture Books To Magazine Covers With A Survivor Advocate
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A lot can happen in one night at our house: a hurting back, a clean bedroom victory, a few laughs we didn’t plan on, and the ki...
What If Healing Is Control You Take Back
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The jokes land fast, but the truth lands harder. We pull back the curtain on how narcissism doesn’t end with parents—grandparen...
What Protects A Victim When Power Looks The Other Way
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A toga on the cover and a chiropractor who sends Michael flying might sound like pure chaos, but the laughter is only the doorw...
A Near-Miss At The Range Sparks A Candid Conversation About Parenting, Predators, And Protecting Kids
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A ricochet at the range, a Hello Kitty bandage, and a house full of laughter set the stage for a deeper conversation about how...
We Confront Sexualized Media, Unequal Pay, And Who Really Runs The House
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Inside Our Fight Against Abuse, Cover-Ups, And Silence
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What if a simple “I love you” could steady someone on their hardest day? We open our hearts and our home to talk about building...
Puppy Love And Tough Truths
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A mountain drive for “just one puppy” turns into two sleepy golden retrievers, a tour of a master blacksmith’s forge, and a sob...
Rising From The Ashes; Love, Knives, And Courage
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What if the loudest part of your healing is the quiet choice to keep going? We start with playful chaos—forgotten rolls, pajama...
A Hard Look At Consent, Courts, And Courage
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Start with a Valentine’s greeting, end with a fire in your chest. We open warm and then drive straight into the hard truths abo...
Rising Strong From Domestic Violence
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What if hope felt practical? We open with big news—a future celebrity co‑host, a magazine cover, and a wave of new faces in our...
Surviving Abuse, Exposing Cover-Ups, Rebuilding A Life
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A bruised face, a polite traffic stop, and a business card offering the abuser a job. That moment anchors a raw conversation ab...
Scent, Love, And Starting Over
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The laughter starts with old-school cologne and a running joke about who’s the “sapphire,” then takes a deliberate turn into wh...
We Share How Writing, Healing, And Community Keep Our Mission Alive
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Start with a laugh, stay for the lifelines. We open the door on a raw, hope-forward conversation about healing from narcissisti...