Listen to Unpacking Peanuts

Hi everyone. While I’m taking a break from this podcast I’m working on another one called Unpacking Peanuts, where 3 cartoonists take an in-depth look...

Take A Break

I want to let regular listeners know that I’m taking a break from creating new episodes of I Always Wanted To. I have plans to make additional “best o...

Join the Circus

Allison’s interest in becoming a performing artist began when she joined FSU’s Flying High Circus in 2004 where she was able utilize her background in...

House the Homeless

Josh Young is an athlete, leader, and follower of Jesus. He graduated from F&M with honors while playing two NCAA sports, D1 wrestling and football. S...

Find a Diet I Like

Jess Reid is a self-care keto coach, a certified life coach with the International Coaching Federation, and the founder of her own coaching practice,...

Be A Podcaster

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I have met some wise, wonderful, and generous people in...

Make Ceramics

Catherine is an audio storyteller with a background in art based in Oakland, CA, where they produce and host Material Feels, a podcast exploring the i...

Write A Novel

Nicole Meier is a multi-published author and book coach living in the Pacific Northwest. Her debut novel, THE HOUSE OF BRADBURY, was chosen as a Best...

Be A Fashion Designer

Nic Hyl (pronounced Nick Hill) is the founder and creative director of New York’s emerging and award winning swimwear, clothing and activewear brand,...

Be More Adventurous

Heather Hansen O’Neill is an international speaker, author, adventurer, and entrepreneur using her action-packed experience to Fire Up audiences. She...

Keep My New Year's Resolutions

In this year end episode I share some tips for creating New Year's Resolutions you'll actually keep, plus some alternative approaches from Dave Evans...

Travel - From the Vault

When I ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, a frequent response is travel. They want to go places they’ve never been and experience the cultur...

Be A Podcaster - Bonus Preview

In late 2017, with no previous experience in audio-making or storytelling, Lori Mortimer simply decided it would be a good idea to start a podcast. Th...

Learn To Sing - From the Vault

This episode is a compilation of my favorite excerpts from my most popular podcasts-- the series on Learning To Sing. In putting this together I see t...

Hear Your Feedback

Liz wraps up Season 8 and talk about what's upcoming over the next few months. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I love hearing l...

Leave an Abusive Relationship

Patrisha’s Journey
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Bike Across the Country

Dr. Leslie Kasanoff has spent her life in healthcare, including 25 years as a holistic chiropractor on the Central Coast of California  and 10 years b...

Play A Theremin

Dorit Chrysler has been dubbed a superior wizard of the theremin. An Austrian-born, New York-based composer, producer, and singer Chrysler is the co-f...

Spot Disinformation

He is co-author of Narrative Landmines: Rumors, Islamist Extremism and the Struggle for Strategic Influence (Rutgers University Press, 2012), as well...

Be A Competitive Athlete (Starting At Age 57)

Madonna Boclair Hanna  had a successful career in the fashion industry at the corporate level. She retired  as an award winning fashion marketing educ...

Play the Harmonica

My guest, Mark Radel,  describes himself this way: I have always been around music.  I sang in the church choir, school choirs, acted in musicals in h...

Be A Cave Diver

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Know What I Want To Be When I Grow Up

My guest, Annie Handmer, is a final year PhD Candidate at the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Science, in the School of History and Philosophy of Sc...

Find My Purpose

In this, my 50th episode, I talk about the upcoming season which begins Monday, September 13th. 
Coming up on I Always Wanted To:
--and mo...

Go Behind The Scenes

Liz Sumner tells the story of how I Always Wanted To podcast came to be, where she finds her guests, and shares her favorite podcast mentors.

Find My Birth Mother

Annie Peguero is a High-Performance Mindset Coach who helps female entrepreneurs integrate spiritual development into their business so they can make...

Build A Tiny House

Ethan Waldman is a tiny house author, speaker, and teacher. He built his own tiny house on wheels in 2012, and has been passionately helping future ti...

Be An Archaeologist

Smiti Nathan, PhD has been an archaeologist for 15+ years. Her current research focuses on ancient societies in Oman and Ethiopia. She works with inte...

Visit A Haunted House

In 2014, Dr. Kristy Sumner coupled her passion for travel, history and the paranormal when she formed Soul Sisters Paranormal, an all-female team, mad...

Create A Graphic Novel

Jimmy Gownley is the New York Times Bestselling author of Amelia Rules! And the Dumbest Idea Ever. He has done work for Disney on properties such as T...

Be A Sommelier

Live Abroad

Heather is a graduate of Environmental Biology from Antioch College and Antioch University Graduate School. She has dabbled in higher education admini...

Intro to Season 7

The new season begins May 3rd with more fascinating interviews with regular people doing things that others long to do.

Understand Why People Like Hip-Hop - Part 2

In part two Manny responds to some of my preconceptions about what hip hop music is and is not. In part one he explained the culture of hip hop and wh...

Understand Why People Like Hip-Hop - Part 1

In part one Manny explains the culture of hip hop and why he founded the center for Hip Hop Advocacy. In part two he responds to some of my preconcept...

Climb Mt Kilimanjaro

SIMONE KNEGO leads an ordinary life filled with extraordinary moments. As a wife, mother to six children (and three dogs), and a serial entrepreneur,...

Learn Another Language

Polyglot with 8 currently active languages and more on the side. Former expat and international English teacher, now back in the US trying to conquer...

Run For Office

Liz Sumner, a candidate for the 23rd Wisconsin Assembly District in 2018, is a Fox Point resident, small business owner, wife and mother of two small...

Intro Season 3

Liz Sumner introduces the new series which begins November 4th.

Figure Out Social Media

Shaily started doing social media for her hobby community in high school… ON MYSPACE. She didn't realize what she did was doing social media until aft...