Rupture: The World of BestGuessistan
A podcast for anyone living in the After—the part of life that begins when injury, illness, burnout, caregiving, or grief rewrites the rules. Conversations with clinicians, thinkers, and survivors about nonlinear healing, updated expectations, and building a life that works with the body and brain you have now.
Episodes
21 episodes
Awareness, Affordability, Availability: The Concussion Care Gap
Concussion recovery isn't just a medical challenge. It's a systems challenge.In this episode, Wendy sits down with neurorehabilitation specialist Dr. Kellianne Arnella to unpack what she calls the "Three A's" of concussion care: Awarenes...
How COVID Destroyed My Career and Triggered a Mental Health Crisis
Before COVID, Lindsey Jennings was on the rise.A comedian, performer, and tour manager, she was building the career she'd worked toward for years when the pandemic abruptly changed everything.What followed wasn't one rupture. It w...
Eating Disorders in Adulthood: The Conversation Women Aren’t Having
Eating disorders don’t just affect teenagers.They follow women into adulthood. Into careers, relationships, motherhood, and everyday life.In this episode, Wendy Lurrie sits down with Fallon Morey to talk openly about something rarely...
The Rupture of Grief And What Happens When Systems Fail You
Grief isn’t just emotional. It’s structural.In this episode, Suzanne Barbetta shares the story of losing her husband to cancer at 45. But what follows is something rarely discussed. The collapse of the systems around her.Healthcar...
The TBI Disclosure Trap Nobody Talks About
What it means to live with a brain injury and decide whether, when, and how to tell peopleDo you tell people you have a brain injury?In this solo episode of Rupture: The World of BestGuessistan, host Wendy Lurrie explores...
“You Should Be Dead” → The TBI No One Diagnosed
Lara Benjamin survived a high-voltage electrical accident that should have killed her. But what no one realized at the time… was that her brain had been permanently changed.Years later, her symptoms began to surface. Vision loss. Daily m...
Why Clinical Trials Feel Out of Reach (and What to Know)
Clinical trials are often seen as a last resort. But what if they’re actually one of the most important options available?In this episode, Wendy talks with clinical trial expert Kelly McKee about how clinical trials really work, why they...
The Invisible Reality of Brain Injury | Dr. Melody Merati
What happens when your brain injury doesn’t show up on a scan… but changes everything?In this episode of Rupture: The World of BestGuessistan, Wendy speaks with neurologist and neuro-ophthalmologist Dr. Melody Merati about the h...
The 10–30% Who Don’t Recover: Living in the Aftermath of TBI
Most people are told a concussion resolves in 10–14 days. But for a significant group, it doesn’t.In this episode of Rupture: The World of BestGuessistan, host Wendy Lurrie speaks with Dr. Kellianne Arnella about the 10–30% of people ...
The Double Mind: Living With the Invisible Reality of TBI
A traumatic brain injury isn’t just the moment it happens.It’s everything that follows.In this episode of Rupture, Wendy Lurrie speaks with actor and audiobook narrator Suzanne Barbetta about the hidden, often misunderstood ...
Waterfall Rupture: Nina Scherenberg on Motherhood, Disability, and Survival
In this episode of Rupture, host Wendy Lurrie welcomes back Nina Scherenberg for an intimate and devastatingly honest conversation about what happens when one rupture becomes many.After a traumatic birth, Nina sensed something was wrong ...
Invisible Disability Is Exhausting | Fallon Morey on Autism, Anxiety, Masking & Systems Failure
What happens when nothing about the way you look has changed, but everything about the way you function has?In this episode of Rupture, Wendy Lurrie talks with Fallon Morey about invisible disability, the pressure to...
Rebuilding Trust After Brain Injury | The Reality of TBI Recovery
What happens when a traumatic brain injury changes your ability to trust your own brain?In this episode of Rupture, Wendy Lurrie sits down with Kim Lauersdorf to discuss the complex journey of recovery after TBI.They expl...
Lupus, Systems Failure, and the Identity Shift of Chronic Illness
What happens when your immune system turns on you. And the healthcare system is not built to catch you.In this episode of Rupture, Nina Scherenberg shares her experience living with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease that reshaped her b...
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI), Eating Disorders, Emotional Dysregulation & Stigma
Content Note: This episode contains discussion of self-harm, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), eating disorders, and related mental health challenges. If you are in the U.S., call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifel...
Living With Traumatic Brain Injury: Why Recovery Isn’t Linear
Traumatic brain injury can change everything. Not just how the brain functions, but how a person understands themselves, their limits, and their future.In this episode of Rupture: The World of BestGuessistan, host Wendy Lurrie i...
HR Leadership Is Failing Employees and How to Fix It with Marlo Green
What happens when the systems designed to support people stop working?In this episode of Rupture: The World of BestGuessistan, strategic HR executive Marlo Green joins the conversation to unpack why modern HR leadership is ...
The Menopause Penalty | Brain Fog, Ageism, and Leadership Loss
Menopause is not just hot flashes. It is a full body and brain shift that collides with modern work, leadership expectations, and a culture that still treats the topic as taboo.Wendy Lurrie sits down with leadership coach and brand consu...
The Hidden Cost of Caregiving: Identity, Burnout, and a Broken Healthcare System
Caregiving is often framed as an act of love. What is rarely acknowledged is the emotional load, financial strain, identity shift, and systemic failure that caregivers are forced to navigate every day.In this deeply personal episode, Wen...
Vision Rehab After TBI | How Brain Injury Changes How We See
Vision is how we move through the world. After a traumatic brain injury, that relationship can change in ways that are often invisible, misunderstood, or dismissed.In this episode of Rupture: The World of BestGuessistan, Wend...
Life After Traumatic Brain Injury: Identity Loss, Healing, and the Origins of BestGuessistan
In this episode of Rupture: The World of BestGuessistan, host Wendy Lurrie is joined by Kim Lauersdorf, founder of Cosmic Shift, for an intimate conversation about life after traumatic brain injury.This is not a story about quick ...
