“I cannot believe how much I feel like I learn from every episode. I’ve felt like I’m on the precipice of changing or not changing for the last few months and every episode feels like it’s meant for me. Vanessa counters and/or validates all of the guests’ fears with so much compassion that it expands beyond the conversation into my own heart.”

“No matter what the topic, I always take something away from each episode! Vanessa is a kind, and direct host who asks her guest probing questions to help them come to conclusions or insights that are right for them. I appreciate how much care and respect Vanessa shows each guest. 10/10 would recommend.

My only piece of feedback is that some of these episodes (“should I quit my crush”) should be required listening for teens and college age students. Not sorry - can you figure out a way to make that happen?”

“Listening to the opening episode of, “should I quit?” I actually got emotional, something that doesn’t happen often. I’m at a crossroads moment in my own life, as we all inevitably come to. But it’s more than that. This podcast has resonated at the deepest level for me, and made me at least start to be curious about why my moral compass has always insisted that endurance, perseverance, and commitment for the sake of it were so important. It’s made me wonder why quitting, which is actually a really rational decision, feels like such a referendum on myself. Vanessa’s questions to her guests, her compassion, and her insights have helped me enormously in this journey. The podcast is helping me to give myself permission to quit what no longer serves me. I’m so grateful.”

“Okay here’s the deal there are so many things and people in our life that tell us to achieve and accomplish and endure and persist and honestly, sometimes you just need someone to tell you to stop. Like all Not Sorry Production podcasts, this is amazing.”

“The Real Question is a podcast that invites you into thoughtful contemplation of your life, while being lovely, silly, warm, etc. Vanessa brings chaplaincy, theology, and her own great kindness and wisdom to peoples questions about how to live and what to quit. I recommend this to friends all the time.”