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Life doesn't always turn out the way we thought it would.
Sometimes our childhood follows us into adulthood.
Sometimes success doesn't feel the way we imagined.
Sometimes becoming a parent makes us think about the child we used to be.
Sometimes we're building the life we wanted while still trying to understand ourselves.
That's what we talk about here.
Trauma. Healing. Therapy. Family. Marriage. Parenting. Money. Work. Entrepreneurship. Ambition. Success. Failure. Starting over.
Not as an expert.
Not as a coach.
Not as someone who has it all figured out.
Just as someone who has lived some things, gotten some things wrong, learned some things, and is still figuring out the rest.
Some conversations have answers.
Some lead to better questions.
Either way, the conversation is worth having.
Have you ever looked at your life and wondered:
"Is it just me?"
Why do I still think about things that happened when I was a kid?
Why doesn't success feel the way I thought it would?
Why is being a parent bringing up parts of myself I thought I had already dealt with?
Why can I have everything I worked for and still feel like something is missing?
Why is healing so much messier than people make it sound?
Why do we keep trying to look like everything is okay?
I don't always have the answers.
But I keep having the questions.
And that's where the conversations begin.
I'm Zebulon Thomas.
I'm a filmmaker, cinematographer, creative strategist, husband, father, entrepreneur, and the host of The Podcast In The Rough.
I've spent nearly two decades working in commercial production, storytelling and creative environments, chasing opportunities, building things and learning what success looks like from the inside.
I've also learned that the things we build don't necessarily fix the things we carry.
Some of that realization came through failure.
Some through burnout.
Some through becoming a husband and father.
Some through therapy and the uncomfortable work of looking at parts of my life I had spent years avoiding.
This podcast is where I talk about those experiences.
Not because I've figured them all out.
Because I'm still figuring them out.
The Podcast In The Rough is an independent podcast built one conversation at a time.
If something you hear here makes you think, laugh, question something, remember something, or simply realize you're not the only one, that's why I keep making it.
If you'd like to help keep the microphone on, you can support the show.
Your support helps cover the time, equipment, production and work that goes into keeping these conversations going.
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The best conversations don't always start with answers.
Sometimes they start with a question.
Is there something about life, success, family, healing, money, work, parenting, relationships or growing up that you've been thinking about?
Send it to me.
Your question might become part of a future episode.
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