Surprisingly podcast

Surprisingly

Bridget Deenihan

Surprisingly is all about creating space for meaningful and unexpected connections. In each episode, our curious host meets one-on-one with a stranger. No hidden agenda. No talking points. No prepared questions. Just two people seeing where the conversation leads.

27 Episodes

Allen Clark - Part 2: Career Shifts, Self-Improvement & Coaching Photographers
8/27/2026
1:03:27
Connective themes continue to emerge on the pod. In Allen Clark's second episode, he talks about transforming his years of knowledge as a professional photographer into more of a coaching role for up-and-comers. This isn't the first time we've heard a guest talking about a career shift because of how the future of technology and media is being shaped seemingly by the minute. See this episode and more on youtube.com/@Surprisingly_Pod. Find us on Instagram @surprisinglypod. LINK: allenclarkphotography.com
Allen Clark - Part 1: Photography, AI in Creativity & Spacesuits
7/21/2026
55:38
Interested in photography? Discussions about AI? Or people who are just really passionate about their careers? Hear Allen Clark nerd out about all of that, plus why he loves taking photos of space suits. See this episode and more on youtube.com/@Surprisingly_Pod. Find us on Instagram @surprisinglypod. LINK: allenclarkphotography.com
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Ash Rogers - Part 2: Childbirth, Working in Kenya & Sibling Appreciation
6/30/2026
57:51
In Ash Rogers' second episode, she shares the harrowing but beautiful experience of having her first child in Kenya and how that aligned with her taking on a new role to help further develop the community-led maternal healhcare in Kenya. She touches on how her husband's work in HIV care in East Africa easily translated to work here in Tennessee, and how she believes that if we care for one we care for all. We learn that she credits her father for giving her chops in sales, her sister for setting the standard in parenthood goals and her brother for shining his brilliance, worldview and voice during his shortened life. See this episode and more on youtube.com/@Surprisingly_Pod. Find us on Instagram @surprisinglypod. LINK: lwala.org
Ash Rogers - Part 1: Growing Up Mormon, Life Abroad & Love At First Sight
6/15/2026
1:02:31
In this Part One, I'm happy to introduce you and myself to Ash Rogers. If you've ever wanted to know what it's like growing up Mormon, this is your episode. Ash discusses her time in the church, her eventual expansion of beliefs in college and experiencing a kind of love-at-first sight when meeting her husband. See this episode and more on youtube.com/@Surprisingly_Pod. Find us on Instagram @surprisinglypod.
Dave Brown - Part 2: Hitchhiking, Minor Miracles & Growing a Garden
5/13/2026
1:10:01
Before Dave Brown became the co-owner of The Basement, The Basement East and Lowbar, he was just a guy who wisely decided to drop out of college and hitchhike across the country. He had just lost a dear friend in a horrific tragedy and was working through his grief, trying to make a living and casually figuring out the meaning of life along the way. Hear him talk about spotting small miracles in the moment, dumpster diving, and being stung by a scorpion in the second half of his sit-down with us. See this episode and more on YouTube. Find us on Instagram @surprisinglypod. LINKS: https://www.thebasementnashville.com https://www.lowbarnashville.com
Dave Brown - Part 1: Spotting Talent & Co-Owning The Basement, Basement East & Low Bar Nashville
4/28/2026
57:22
Like a lot of people in Nashville, Dave Brown is a songwriter and musician. Like exactly one other person in Nashville, he's the proud (and humble) co-owner of the legendary The Basement, plus The Basement East and Low Bar Nashville. Even though he's not the kinda dude who would take credit in this way, the former is a space that has helped launch musical magnificence: St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves and Sturgill Simpson, just to name a few. His Part 1 details his journey into becoming a business guy. But his Part 2? That one is all about his very unbusiness-like freewheeling escapades hitchhiking across the country after an early existential crisis. See this episode and more on YouTube. Find us on Instagram @surprisinglypod. LINKS: thebasementnashville.com & lowbarnashville.com
Scott Scovill - Part 2: Facing Fear, Meeting Yourself & Psychedelic Therapy
4/15/2026
56:53
Scott is here on a mission. He's ready to be the latest stranger to sit with us and he's willing to get extra vulnerable. He's just finished a book to help people get out of their own way and get busy pursuing their dreams. He cringes when he calls the book self-help, but he glows when he shares that he's gotten astronauts, famous artists and professional athletes to contribute their stories on its pages. He talks about navigating his relationship with a father who was mentally ill, we make some fart jokes and we cry a little too. See this episode and more on YouTube. Find us on Instagram @surprisinglypod. LINK: https://tenaciousbook.com
Scott Scovill - Part 1: Overcoming Trauma, Tenacity & Self Help
3/30/2026
41:52
Scott is here on a mission. He's ready to be the latest stranger to sit with us and he's willing to get extra vulnerable. He's just finished a book to help people get out of their own way and get busy pursuing their dreams. He cringes when he calls the book self-help, but he glows when he shares that he's gotten astronauts, famous artists and professional athletes to contribute their stories on its pages. He talks about navigating his relationship with a father who was mentally ill, we make some fart jokes and we cry a little too. See this episode and more on YouTube. Find us on Instagram @surprisinglypod. LINK: https://tenaciousbook.com
John Panzer - Part 2: Small Business, Fragrance Fandom & Scent Etiquette
3/16/2026
1:01:05
In John's second episode, we go full tilt boogie into the power, purpose and intricacies of finding and wearing fragrances. Lock in for tea on what scents he loves and how he advises wearing perfumes on the body. Stay awhile to hear him piece out some on the language in the olfactory world. Then don't miss the end, when he gives our newest coworker a concierge cologne reco sesh. LINKS: https://refineryfragrances.com
John Panzer - Part 1: Fashion, Football & Hired-Gun Touring
3/6/2026
57:19
In John's former life, he was a hired-gun touring guitarist. Now, in his early thirties, he runs his own fragrance boutique, offering a pretty massive selection of niche unisex lines from his Nashville shop and select fragrances online. We start talking with the full intention of delving into how he met his wife of 10 years when he was just 16, but listeners, we got sidetracked talkin' about scents, clothes, styling your home and hanging a TV for the first time. Zero percent sorry. In his episodes, we'll be covering off on three F's: fashion, fragrance and (Oop! Sidewinder!) football. In this Part 1, your host gets a history lesson about Baltimore's Colts and Ravens debacle, and John stands on business as a diehard fan. He shares the details about his full-circle story of playing with Skillet, his friendship with Colton Dixon and how it's wild to be just, you know, a human in a body. See this episode and more on YouTube. Find us on Instagram @surprisinglypod. LINK: https://refineryfragrances.com

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