Month: March 2026

What happens when grief turns into a mission to make the world kinder?

In this episode of Why Am I, I talk with writer, filmmaker, and pie maker Beth Howard about losing her husband, traveling the world with pie, running a pie stand at the real American Gothic House, and why sharing something simple can bring people together.

It’s a conversation about grief, connection, and the surprising power of baking something for another person.

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What does it take to draw a revolver and hit a target in under half a second?

In this episode of Why Am I, I talk with Cal, better known in the sport as “Quick Cal.” He’s been competing in fast draw shooting since the 1960s, winning world championships and helping build a sport where competitors in western gear race to quick-draw and fire wax bullets in less than half a second.

We talk about reaction time, the psychology of competition, and the culture behind cowboy fast draw, a sport built around family, integrity, and what its members call “the cowboy way.

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In this episode of Why Am I, I sit down with Elizabeth Bromstein, a writer, marketer, perfumer, and tarot reader who made a late-career pivot after realizing the old path wasn’t sustainable anymore. We talk about identity in midlife, ego checks, career humiliation, addiction, skepticism, belief vs. disbelief, behavioral psychology, AI anxiety, and why tarot might be less about divination and more about self reflection.

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