Know What You See with Brian Lowery

Nikki Parkinson is a divorce doula or separation strategist with a long background in family law, as well as personal experience navigating her own painful divorce. She joins Brian to explore what happens to our sense of self when a marriage ends, and how separation changes our relationships with family, friends, and community. They also discuss why divorce is so often framed as failure, and whether telling a different story can help us move through it with more compassion and respect.
Visit Nikki at divorceandseparationhub.com to learn more about her work and listen to her podcast, and find out more about Brian Lowery at brianloweryphd.com.

What does it take to let go of who you’re supposed to be and embrace more of who you are? Kim Pham, co-founder of the Asian food brand Omsom, joins Brian Lowery to discuss how celebrating her cultural identity opened the door not only to starting a new business but also to exploring her sexuality. On this episode, they examine shame, self-discovery, and the risks and rewards of living openly on your own terms.
For more on Brian Lowery and Know What You See, visit brianloweryphd.com/podcast.

What happens when the thing that defines you begins to limit who you can be? Former professional volleyball player Benjamin Patch joins Brian to reflect on leaving the sport and entering the creative world, a change that helped him discover more about who he is beyond his achievements on the court.
For more on Brian Lowery and Know What You See, visit brianloweryphd.com/podcast.

This season on Know What You See, host Brian Lowery explores transformation as the human condition. Through conversations with people from all walks of life, we'll look at how we're changed by love and loss, or luck and choice, and the experiences that make us who we are.
Writer Brianne Cail expected GLP-1 medications to change her health and her body. But she was surprised at how they altered the way the world treated her. In this episode, she and Brian discuss how losing weight challenged her sense of identity and the pleasures of food that connect us to one another.

For more on Brian Lowery and Know What You See, visit brianloweryphd.com/podcast.

Sometimes healing doesn't mean trying to erase the past, but honoring it — cracks and all. In this episode, artist Naoko Fukumaru shares her deeply personal story of transformation through kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery or ceramics with lacquer and gold or silver powder to highlight the fractures and seams. She and host Brian Lowery explore what it means to mend — not just objects, but spirit — and why the most broken parts of us may be the most beautiful.
For more on Naoko Fukumaru visit naokofukumaru.com, and for more on Brian Lowery and the show, check out knowwhatyousee.com.