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The Movement

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The Medicine

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JT Speaks

Raw Truths. Deep Wisdom. Where Darkness Meets Play.

The world doesn’t lack pain.
It lacks places to tell the truth about it.

Rape. Murder. Illness. Loss. Children dying.
We don’t flinch, and we don’t sensationalize.

Here, pain becomes a teacher.
We don’t waste our pain; we use it for good.

This is a movement disguised as a podcast.
Where devastation and delight sit side by side.
Where taboo is welcomed.
Where forgiveness, eros, humor, and joy are allowed to coexist with grief.

This isn’t surface-level inspiration.
This show gets into your bones.
And calls forward the Wise One Within us all.

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Bipolar Disorder

Child of an alcoholic

ADHD

Hypomania

Cultural judgement

Suicide of a parent

Family judgement

Alternative lifestyle

Religious judgement

Traumatic pregnancy

Lack of support

Autoimmune

Fluid sexuality/gender

Sick new mom

Shame

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Popular Speaking Topics: The Four Pillars

In her compelling talks, JT encourages audiences to embrace the wisdom and challenges of the Four Pillars
By combining these themes with stories from her own life, she captivates her audience in a way that leaves them feeling honored, held, and seen.

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Death

Of the body, loved ones, relationships, identities, jobs, beliefs, & more. Embracing transitional times as part of the life cycle elevates life force.

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Illness

Ease and dis-ease can occur in mind, body, and spirit, but with the help of the Wise One Within, illness can bring us deep wisdom and perspective.

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Sensuality

Lift the veils of shame on taboo topics. Elevate your life force and your creative power through the exploration of psycho-spiritual sensuality.

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Mothering

What you bring into the world matters. Embrace the flow of life force through the joys and pains of “mothering” ideas, businesses, kids, creative endeavors, & more.

Signature Talks

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Death as My Teacher:

Finding Joy In Life

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Motherhood & Chronic Illness:

Finding Wisdom Within the Challenge

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Pile of Puppies:

Building a Nonprofit Dream

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Psycho-Spiritual Sensuality:

Owning Your Creative Power

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Meet Your Host, JT Trepanier

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JT Trepanier, M.S.
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My mission is to illuminate how lived pain becomes lived wisdom, how what breaks us can also serve the greater good.

This work doesn’t rank lives.
It levels the room.

From famous voices to incarcerated ones.
From scientists to sex coaches.
From artists, authors, and tattooists to stay-at-home parents.

No one gets the higher chair.
Because wisdom doesn’t come from titles, it comes from lived truth.

What Does “Don’t Waste Your Pain” Look Like?

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JT's Pain

Purpose

Four years of autoimmune muscle disease leads to facing death as a child
Met my “Wise One Within” & earned my master’s in psychophysiology

Colorful, kind, alcoholic, bipolar
Dad who took his own life

Began hospice work & developed a deep appreciation of the power of death & dying
Traumatic pregnancy + 64-hour labor followed by two years as a sick new mom
Created the nonprofit Pile of Puppies, to bring joy to sick kids & their families
Immune system attacked lung during COVID19 pandemic; faced death again
Birthed books to share life lessons with my daughter; realized I was writing for the world

A Glimpse of Our Guests

Not interviews. Invitations.
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Mai Vo

Raped at 12. Later Became the First Vietnamese Deputy Judge in Oslo.
Born in Norway to parents who fled Vietnam seeking freedom as boat refugees, Mai survived childhood sexual violence and became Oslo's first Vietnamese deputy judge. Today, she champions a rights based society grounded in equal rights, inclusion and our shared humanity. 
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Dr. Buck Blodgett

Father Who Forgave His Daughter’s Killer
After his 19-year-old daughter was raped and murdered by a trusted friend, he forgave the man in court, transforming personal devastation into a global movement for forgiveness and rehabilitation.
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Becky Yee

Award-Winning Photographer Who Turned Illness Into Witness
After her own pain cracked her open, she transformed suffering into service, using her lens to make presidents, celebrities, and women with breast cancer feel profoundly seen.
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Angela Snow
Design leader turned cancer survivor, creating with resilience and heart.
After 42 years shaping global creative culture at Nike, retiring as an Executive leader in Design, Angela Snow is a mother, GlamMa/Grandma, and two-time breast cancer survivor who leads with heart. Through resilience, curiosity, and love, she transforms pain into purpose and keeps moving forward.
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Dr. Meenakshi Aggarwal

U.S. Physician Who Chose Compassion After Terrorism
Once told she was ‘too dark and too ugly to marry,’ she became a physician serving immigrant families. After losing her father and grandfather to terrorist attacks, she chose compassion over vengeance.
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Elizabeth Husserl
Wealth advisor exploring grief, enoughness, and a life well lived.
Elizabeth is a speaker, author, and guide in embodied wealth and purposeful living. Through The Art of Enough, she explores meaning and resilience, speaking openly about grief after her father’s death and how love, loss, and growth can coexist.
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Carrie Sipe

Mother Who Named This Movement
Two months after losing her 13-year-old son to cancer, she said on this show, ‘In our family, we don’t waste our pain, we use it.’ Her words became the heartbeat of this movement.
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Marta Kagan

Sensuality Coach Restoring Aliveness After Numbness
Raised in an unstable Ukrainian immigrant family in the U.S., she healed her own disconnection and now leads a global community of women reclaiming aliveness through movement, pleasure, and embodied self-trust.
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Kyla Mitsunaga

Happiness Professor Broken Open by Dementia and Depression
A Harvard-trained, award-winning former professor who lost her mom to dementia and found herself.  Today she guides people through belonging and meaning, often in PJs, with her emotional-support headband, Sally.
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Derek Peterson
An international child and youth advocate
Marked by suicide, bodily trauma, and devastating loss, he chose service over collapse—spending his life helping young people and communities turn pain into purpose through systems change, Indigenous advocacy, and lived love in action.
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Buck/Mai
Forgiveness and Justice: A Roundtable
A father who forgave his daughter’s murderer sits with a woman raped at 12 who became a judge. Together they explore accountability, rehabilitation, and what it truly means to alchemize pain.
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    Sneak Peeks

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      JT possesses a gift for captivating her audience, and her storytelling was engaging even without her physical presence. Her charisma and authenticity created an instant connection. She earned the highest rating from our kind yet opinionated Peer Counselors—no easy feat. I recommend her to any school or organization.

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      Ali Franks
      Beverly Hills High School Counselor
      JT's presentation was outstanding. She is to be commended. Our board was deeply touched.
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      Clifford A. Walters, MD
      President of Walters Foundation
      Her raw truths make everyone in the room feel seen.
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      Carson Pickett
      Medical Student President, Nat’l Univ. of Natural Medicine

        What Clients Are Saying

        TEST: Healing doesn't happen automatically. You have to be present, do the work. JT is a guide for this process. Working with her, I realized the pain I was feeling that was triggering me was in fact the entrance to my own wisdom.

        Corporate VP & mom
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        TEST: Healing doesn't happen automatically. You have to be present, do the work. JT is a guide for this process. Working with her, I realized the pain I was feeling that was triggering me was in fact the entrance to my own wisdom.

        Corporate VP & mom
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        TEST: Healing doesn't happen automatically. You have to be present, do the work. JT is a guide for this process. Working with her, I realized the pain I was feeling that was triggering me was in fact the entrance to my own wisdom.

        Corporate VP & mom
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        TEST: Healing doesn't happen automatically. You have to be present, do the work. JT is a guide for this process. Working with her, I realized the pain I was feeling that was triggering me was in fact the entrance to my own wisdom.

        Corporate VP & mom
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        TEST: Healing doesn't happen automatically. You have to be present, do the work. JT is a guide for this process. Working with her, I realized the pain I was feeling that was triggering me was in fact the entrance to my own wisdom.

        Corporate VP & mom
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        TEST: Healing doesn't happen automatically. You have to be present, do the work. JT is a guide for this process. Working with her, I realized the pain I was feeling that was triggering me was in fact the entrance to my own wisdom.

        Corporate VP & mom
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        TEST: Healing doesn't happen automatically. You have to be present, do the work. JT is a guide for this process. Working with her, I realized the pain I was feeling that was triggering me was in fact the entrance to my own wisdom.

        Corporate VP & mom
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        TEST: Healing doesn't happen automatically. You have to be present, do the work. JT is a guide for this process. Working with her, I realized the pain I was feeling that was triggering me was in fact the entrance to my own wisdom.

        Corporate VP & mom
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        TEST: Healing doesn't happen automatically. You have to be present, do the work. JT is a guide for this process. Working with her, I realized the pain I was feeling that was triggering me was in fact the entrance to my own wisdom.

        Corporate VP & mom
        In just a few sessions, JT took me on an incredible inner journey that helped me transition into the work of my dreams..
        Social Worker
        It felt like losing my virginity … the sensation of surrendering and trusting and letting somebody show me the way. I now have an access point, a true visual I can go back to, one that is rooted in such truth...
        Serial entrepreneur with 5+ businesses
        The best part of your approach is how you take an active role in helping clients to stop the narrative. It is amazing. I am now not being a martyr and am asking for what I need.
        Stay-at-home mom with autoimmune challenges
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        Unlike traditional therapists, JT didn’t ask me to talk about the events in my life and how I felt about them. Instead, she keenly listened for my triggers and quickly guided me to address the deeper need.
        Corporate VP & mom
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        Healing doesn't happen automatically. You have to be present, do the work. JT is a guide for this process. Working with her, I realized the pain I was feeling that was triggering me was in fact the entrance to my own wisdom.
        Corporate VP & mom
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        TEST: Healing doesn't happen automatically. You have to be present, do the work. JT is a guide for this process. Working with her, I realized the pain I was feeling that was triggering me was in fact the entrance to my own wisdom.

        Corporate VP & mom
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        TEST: Healing doesn't happen automatically. You have to be present, do the work. JT is a guide for this process. Working with her, I realized the pain I was feeling that was triggering me was in fact the entrance to my own wisdom.

        Corporate VP & mom
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        TEST: Healing doesn't happen automatically. You have to be present, do the work. JT is a guide for this process. Working with her, I realized the pain I was feeling that was triggering me was in fact the entrance to my own wisdom.

        Corporate VP & mom
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        TEST: Healing doesn't happen automatically. You have to be present, do the work. JT is a guide for this process. Working with her, I realized the pain I was feeling that was triggering me was in fact the entrance to my own wisdom.

        Corporate VP & mom

          What Clients Are Saying

          In just a few sessions, JT took me on an incredible inner journey that helped me transition into the work of my dreams..
          Social Worker
          It felt like losing my virginity … the sensation of surrendering and trusting and letting somebody show me the way. I now have an access point, a true visual I can go back to, one that is rooted in such truth...
          Serial entrepreneur with 5+ businesses
          The best part of your approach is how you take an active role in helping clients to stop the narrative. It is amazing. I am now not being a martyr and am asking for what I need.
          Stay-at-home mom with autoimmune challenges
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          Unlike traditional therapists, JT didn’t ask me to talk about the events in my life and how I felt about them. Instead, she keenly listened for my triggers and quickly guided me to address the deeper need.
          Corporate VP & mom
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          Healing doesn't happen automatically. You have to be present, do the work. JT is a guide for this process. Working with her, I realized the pain I was feeling that was triggering me was in fact the entrance to my own wisdom.
          Corporate VP & mom
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          TEST: Healing doesn't happen automatically. You have to be present, do the work. JT is a guide for this process. Working with her, I realized the pain I was feeling that was triggering me was in fact the entrance to my own wisdom.

          Corporate VP & mom
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            Pain is universal… and not often visible.

            Don’t Waste Your Pain podcast encourages people to speak their truth, access inner wisdom, and find purpose in their pain.

            Join JT Trepanier & her guests, ranging from global impact-makers to everyday people, as they transform life’s toughest challenges into positive impact.

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            What We Explore

            The Four Pillars of The Wise One Within

            The Don’t Waste Your Pain movement is built on the Four Pillars revealed in host JT Trepanier’s forthcoming book, The Wise One Within, releasing in 2026. In our episodes, we’ll explore:

            Death

            Endings and loss that
            dismantle who we thought
            we were, leaving behind
            truth, forgiveness, and what
            actually matters.

            Illness

            The body breaks pattern
            and speaks truth, exposing
            imbalance, demanding
            attention, and teaching us
            how to listen.

            Sensuality

            Pleasure, desire, life force,
            sexuality, and embodiment,
            reawakening aliveness,
            intimacy, and the courage
            to fully feel.

            Mothering

            Mothering as action, not identity, tending, birthing, and cultivating life in all forms: children, art, movies, music, books, businesses, movements, communities, and ultimately ourselves.

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            Death as My Teacher:

            Finding Joy In Life

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            Motherhood & Chronic Illness:

            Finding Wisdom Within the Challenge

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            Pile of Puppies:

            Building a Nonprofit Dream

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            Psycho-Spiritual Sensuality:

            Owning Your Creative Power

            Death Inititates. Illness Interrupts. Sensuality Ignites. Mothering Nurtures.

            Everything is shaping you.
            This is how life teaches, through attention, not avoidance.

            Explore the Four Pillars
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            JT Speaks

            Why Does Don’t Waste Your Pain Matter?

            Pain is not a problem to fix - it’s a portal to wisdom.

            When we feel it deeply, speak with it honestly, and use it intentionally, pain becomes purpose. Healing doesn’t just patch cracks, it opens doors to new life force.

            Don’t Waste Your Pain welcomes the whole mess. The grief. The rage. The humor that sneaks in sideways. The moments that nearly end you and somehow initiate you instead.

            This movement isn’t just soul-deep. It’s service-driven.

            That’s why 15% of all podcast proceeds go to Pile of Puppies, bringing “joy healings” to children who are chronically or terminally ill.

            Support Pile of Puppies