Generational Health

Lauren Hargrove is one of only five female engineers in the nearly 100-year history of the Chandler Fire Department. She has held dying strangers in her arms, worked triple homicide scenes in the pouring rain, performed CPR on a 21-year-old in the middle of an intersection while his father screamed from the sidewalk, and then driven back to the station in silence to eat dinner with her crew.In this conversation, Lauren opens up about what it really costs to do this job as a woman in a male dominated field, how she processes trauma without letting it consume her, the quiet practice she has developed at every code she has ever run, and what she believes it means to truly show up for the people who need you most.This is a conversation about resilience in its rawest form.

Billy Fulcher grew up dreading when his dad came home. A brilliant man with a 99 on the ASVAB who spent 24 years drinking his life away — through prison, through liver failure, through every chance to change. When Billy got the text at Fry’s that his dad was found unconscious, he already knew where it was heading. In this conversation, Billy opens up about the complicated grief of losing a parent you never stopped hoping would change, breaking a generational cycle of addiction, and why his dad’s death felt both devastating and like mercy. This one will stay with you.

Dale Gelder was 75 years old when he suffered cardiac arrest on the gym floor. He was in a coma for two weeks. His family did not think he was coming back. During that time he had a vision of animals passing through a forest and was told that if one of them did not accept him he would not make it. A mandarin duck saved his life.Eight months later he was back at the gym.This is a conversation about faith, marriage, survival, and what it looks like to live with quiet certainty that every day belongs to God. Dale has been married 56 years, raised three children, coached youth sports for over a decade, built a career from sales to company president, and has never once doubted that he was exactly where he was supposed to be.One of the most peaceful and wise conversations in the history of this podcast.

Andrea Allen built a community of over 1 million women not by being perfect — but by being real. In this episode, the founder of Deliciously Fit and Healthy joins Colby to talk about the depression that changed her life, the generational body image patterns most moms don’t see in themselves, why your nervous system is the missing piece in your fitness results, the honest truth about GLP-1 medications, and why getting your hormones checked might be the most important thing you’re not doing. This one is for every woman who has ever felt like she was doing everything right and still not getting anywhere.

In this deeply emotional episode of The Generational Health Podcast, I sit down with Sera Young to hear her side of a story that has touched hundreds of thousands.After interviewing her husband, Dustin, about his battle with terminal brain cancer, many listeners asked to hear from Sera—the wife, mother, caregiver, and woman living every day with the reality of anticipatory grief.Sera shares what it was like to discover Dustin had a massive brain tumor, how their life changed after his diagnosis, and what it means to love someone while knowing your time together may be limited.We talk about marriage, motherhood, faith, grief, anger, memory-making, documenting life, and the fear of raising children without their father.This episode is about the kind of love that becomes more intentional when time feels uncertain—and the painful beauty of choosing to keep loving fully, even when grief is already present.If you have ever loved someone through illness, loss, or uncertainty, this conversation will stay with you.