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The Molten Truth

The Molten Truth

By: Zoey Michaels
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The Molten Truth podcast is about people who have faced daunting, traumatic, and/or life changing episodes in their lives. They have figuratively gone through trial by fire and been broken down to their truest core to rebuild and come back stronger - often taking their life in a direction they never before imagined. Zoey Michaels is a writer and the host of The Molten Truth. For more information visit zoeymichaels.com

2025 Zoey Michaels
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  • Before the Name

    Before the Name
    Feb 8 2026

    We think we know famous lives.

    We know the performances, the achievements, the headlines. We know how their stories ended - or so we think.

    Behind the Diagnosis: Famous Lives, Untold reveals the medical stories hidden beneath the public personas of people the world thought it understood.

    Each episode tells the story of a well-known life without revealing the name, focusing instead on the illness, injury, misdiagnosis, or medical turning point that quietly shaped their path. Along the way, we explore how medicine - sometimes its breakthroughs, sometimes its blind spots - intersected with fame, timing, and the human body.

    These are not gossip stories.

    They are not autopsies of celebrity.

    They are deeply human narratives about vulnerability, missed warning signs, medical change, and the moments when a diagnosis altered everything - for one person, and sometimes for medicine itself.

    The name always comes at the end.

    Because it's not just about who they were.

    It's about what their body was trying to tell us.

    Behind the Diagnosis: Famous Lives, Untold

    The life you knew - until the diagnosis.

    Hosted by Zoey Michaels, author and podcaster of The Molten Truth
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