{"podcast":{"title":"Human School","slug":"human-school-7543113","podcast_index_feed_id":7543113,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10b384b70/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://humanschoolofficial.podbean.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/44732060/24de5aea86526211.jpg","author":"Miles Adcox","episode_count":37,"summary":"We’ve been taught everything except how to be human. In a world obsessed with output, Human School is where we study what happens within. This podcast was born from a journal entry during a breakdown. A reminder that struggle isn’t weakness - it’s instruction. Human School reframes pain as purpose, productivity as presence, and leadership as inner clarity. We’re building the education we never got. Through stories, tools, and raw conversations, we help people stop performing their lives–and start participating in them. Welcome to Human School.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-10T04:21:03.154911+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/human-school-7543113"},"episode":{"title":"Mary Bellofatto: What Happens When People Feel Truly Seen","slug":"mary-bellofatto-what-happens-when-people-feel-truly-seen","published_at":"2026-05-15T22:11:20+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/human-school-7543113/mary-bellofatto-what-happens-when-people-feel-truly-seen","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/human-school-7543113","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/human-school/episodes/Mary-Bellofatto-What-Happens-When-People-Feel-Truly-Seen-e3jea63","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10b384b70/podcast/play/120055427/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-15%2F424241837-44100-2-4d922b59f57dc.mp3","summary":"Have you ever met someone who spent 50 years healing others and somehow became more human with every one of those years? What would it mean to stop hiding behind your busyness, your title, or your phone, and let someone actually see you? Mary Bellofatto is a pioneer in mental health who has spent five decades walking the hardest terrain human experience offers — trauma, disordered eating, addiction, grief, and couples work. With deep mastery in psychodrama, she has brought healing to therapy rooms across the world. At 81, she still wakes up excited, tears up at the thought of never retiring, and gets out of Ubers last because someone needs to finish their story. In this conversation, Mary opens up about what it means to be a catalyst without burning out, why loneliness is cured by learning to be alone, and how shame shields the grief we won't feel. She shares the moment a young man in Uganda said, "I'm just a boy," and freed himself from years of soldiers' shame. Miles and Mary go deep into disordered eating, including what she said in a bathroom that finally unlocked the real story underneath. Eighty years of hard-won wisdom, delivered with Arkansas common sense and lack of clinical jargon. In this conversation, you'll learn: How to Be a Catalyst Without Losing Yourself How Loneliness Can Be Cured by Learning to Be Alone How Shame Functions as a Shield for Unprocessed Grief How to Widen Your Definition of Grief Beyond Loss How the Stories We Tell Ourselves Build a Lifetime Around a Lie How Psychodrama Unlocks What Talk Therapy Can't Reach How to Hold Space Without Trying to Fix Anyone How to Recognize When Busyness Is a Medicator How Disordered Eating Is Really About Dignity How to Live Your Legacy Right Now — Not Someday Human School is powered by the work…","meta_description":"Have you ever met someone who spent 50 years healing others and somehow became more human with every one of those years? What would it mean to stop hiding…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7107,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/human-school-7543113/episodes/mary-bellofatto-what-happens-when-people-feel-truly-seen/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/human-school-7543113/mary-bellofatto-what-happens-when-people-feel-truly-seen.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}