Getting Under The Skin
Getting Under The Skin
Podcast Description
Welcome to Getting Under The Skin (GUTS)! Where the stories of our lives can be medicine for each other. Where reflection and curiosity opens up paths of conversation for us to explore together.Join us for an exploration through conversation. This is an expedition, a journey in search of the stuff that makes us feel most human, the stuff that stirs your soul and reminds you of what really matters. These conversations are not performative interviews, book release tours or productivity hacks. They are an antidote to superficial small talk or marketing in disguise. We explore how people are formed by the lives they’ve lived, and celebrate the wisdom gained along the way.Hosted by Topaz Adizes, Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and experience design architect exploring the transformative power of human connection. He is the founder and executive director of THE SKIN DEEP, creator of {THE AND} and author of 12QFL.If you're ready to Get Under The Skin — we’ll meet you here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The podcast focuses on themes of personal transformation, emotional resilience, and human connection, featuring episodes on generational trauma, navigating grief, and finding purpose, with specific discussions on healing from illness and redefining family roles.

Welcome to Getting Under The Skin (GUTS)! Where the stories of our lives can be medicine for each other. Where reflection and curiosity opens up paths of conversation for us to explore together.
Join us for an exploration through conversation. This is an expedition, a journey in search of the stuff that makes us feel most human, the stuff that stirs your soul and reminds you of what really matters. These conversations are not performative interviews, book release tours or productivity hacks. They are an antidote to superficial small talk or marketing in disguise. We explore how people are formed by the lives they’ve lived, and celebrate the wisdom gained along the way.
Hosted by Topaz Adizes, Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and experience design architect exploring the transformative power of human connection. He is the founder and executive director of THE SKIN DEEP, creator of {THE AND} and author of 12QFL.
If you’re ready to Get Under The Skin — we’ll meet you here.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What happens when you win the thing you’ve been working toward your whole life and it terrifies you?
In this episode of GUTS, we sit down with Jess Russ, Grammy award-winning songwriter, creative, and athlete, who grew up in Alabama with Goodwill clothes and $5 to everyone else’s hundred. She learned early how to show up and show out. But at 27, she’s asking a harder question: what happens when showing up starts to cost you everything?In this episode:
– Growing up Black in the South, showing up in rooms she was never handed access to
– How winning a Grammy at 27 became a double-edged sword
– Why her biggest failures have been relational, not professional
– The fear of being considered but never chosen
– What it really means to give yourself permission before anyone else does
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