trailer

Finding Treasures in the Trash: When the Messy Parts Hold the Truth

If your life hasn’t been a neat, white picket fence…

If you’ve learned how to function, succeed, even thrive—while something inside still feels tight, unfinished, or quietly aching—this podcast is for you.

Finding Treasures in the Trash is an invitation to turn toward what you’ve avoided: the anxiety, the unease, the stories you were taught to disown. Through intimate conversations with teachers, leaders, and everyday humans, we explore what happens when pain isn’t something to fix—but something to listen to.

This isn’t a lifelong healing marathon.

It’s about courage, honesty, and curiosity.

So grab your gloves.

Let’s go dumpster diving—because in the muck lives the gold.

Transcript
Speaker:

Cari Jacobs-Crovetto: If you're listening to this, chances are your life hasn't been a neat, white picket fence either. Maybe you grew up with dysfunction, maybe anxiety or debilitating panic attacks found you early or later, and you never quite understood why. Maybe you've learned how to function, succeed and even thrive on the outside, while something inside still feels tight, unfinished or quietly aching. What if your anxiety, your unease, your sense of not quite belonging, isn't a flaw, but a signal, a signal that something true was pushed down, something important was disowned, something in you wants to be seen finding treasures in the trash. Is a podcast for people willing to turn toward what they've avoided, the messy parts, the uncomfortable stories, the so called Trash of their lives, and discover that this is actually where the gold lives through intimate conversations with wisdom, teachers, professors and educators, executives, celebrities and everyday heroes and humans, you'll hear what happens when people stop bypassing their pain and start listening to it, not to fix themselves, but to become whole. So if you struggle with anxiety, depression, feel incomplete or secretly wonder if you belong, this podcast is for you. This isn't about a lifelong healing marathon. It's about courage, honesty and curiosity. So grab your gloves, let's go dumpster diving and turn your trash into treasure, because in the muck lives the gold. I'm Carrie Jacobs cravetto Join me on finding treasures in the trash. Carrie,

About the Podcast

Show artwork for Finding Treasures in the Trash
Finding Treasures in the Trash

About your host

Profile picture for Cari Jacobs-Crovetto

Cari Jacobs-Crovetto

Cari Jacobs-Crovetto is an executive and leadership coach and the founder of Brave Directions, where she works with senior leaders and C-suite executives to strengthen interpersonal and team relationships, navigate conflict skillfully, and deepen self-awareness, influence, and confidence.
Before becoming a coach, Cari spent three decades in marketing and product leadership roles across Fortune 100 companies, media networks, consulting firms, and venture-backed startups. In 2019, she was named one of Forbes’ Top 50 Chief Marketing Officers.
Cari brings together decades of operating experience with more than 45 years of Buddhist meditation study and practice, integrating deep inner work with practical leadership development.
She facilitates the renowned Interpersonal Dynamics (“Touchy Feely”) course at Stanford Graduate School of Business where she also coaches grad school students, leads meditation classes and leadership workshops, and hosts the podcast Finding Treasures in the Trash.
Her mantra: Fierce Heart — where compassion meets bold, badass leadership.