AFTER THE ANCHOR PODCAST Peer-led healing. Pull up, you’re one of us. 🎙 Hosted by Leslie Wise & Lauren Gray

This Isn’t a Podcast. It’s a Wake-Up Call.

By Leslie Wise

We’re not influencers. We’re not therapists. We’re two people who decided to stop shrinking and start talking.

Half the world tells you to “move on,” and “stay strong.”

But what happens when you’re tired of filtering the truth?

What happens when you’re tired of being the strong one?

That’s where After The Anchor Podcast starts.

What We’re Doing

After the Anchor Podcast is a peer-led podcast, but really we hope to become a gathering place.

A mic for the people to tell their story the first time or the thousandth. It’s messy. It’s funny. It’s honest. And it’s what happens when real people start choosing themselves.

This is where we talk about:

• Survival and the stuff no one sees

• Mental health, motherhood, masculinity, and pressure

• Codependency, burnout, trauma bonds

• Addiction, boundaries, loss, and starting over

• Reclaiming your story when the world wrote the wrong one

• How to get motivated through peers to get your life moving again

• Navigating the world between denial & acceptance, healing to healthy

• Tips to help you through triggers and how to identify your own, through peer led learning

We’re not here to fix you. We’re here to show you that you’re not alone to navigating the fire.

Who It’s For

This is for anyone who’s ever looked around and thought, “Is it just me?”

- Trauma does not discriminate

It’s for the people who show up for everyone else but crash alone in the quiet.

It’s for the men trying to rewrite emotional patterns they weren’t allowed to name.

It’s for the women who are done pretending healing is cute or linear.

It’s for the ones who want more peace, truth, connection, realness and don’t know where to start.

We’re not therapists.

We’re peers.

We’ve lived it.

And we’re still figuring it out.

Where We’re Going

This is just the beginning.

We’re building a full media brand:

• A podcast that hits like a group chat and a therapy session collided.

• Traveling the USA to bring you story tellers who have felt just like you do.

• And yeah… network TV? Don’t rule it out.

The goal is simple: bring peer-led healing to every corner of the world.

From bedrooms and car rides to men’s groups and mother circles.

From TikTok comments to real-life breakthroughs.

Why Now?

Because the world’s full of noise, but very little honesty.

Because we’re tired of feeling alone in our struggles.

And because healing doesn’t have to be lonely.

Most importantly; this isn’t just a podcast. It’s a promise I made to myself.

I have a mission to heal.

And to never feel like I felt that day again.

You know the one.

The day where everything was too heavy.

Where the scream felt completely silent against the music.

After the Anchor Podcast was born from that moment; not as a brand, not as a show, but as a lifeline.

It’s for every version of me that didn’t have the words, didn’t have the tools, and didn’t have the space to say:

“I’m not okay. But I want to be.”

And if that’s you too?

Welcome.

We’re healing. Loudly. Messily. Purely. Together.

This is After the Anchor Podcast

It’s not polished.

It’s not perfect.

But it’s real.

Peer-led healing. Pull up. You’re one of us.

Leslie Wise - Frenchie