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Rachel Thexton Connects — Season 7 premieres September 3. Be kind. Truly connect.
New season — premieres Sept 3

Conversations that truly connect.

Rachel Thexton welcomes media voices, leading experts, and diverse Canadians for conversations on mental health, substance use, culture and community.

Latest episodes — Season #06

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Pastor Emerson Mendoza on Rachel Thexton Connects
Season 6 finale — faith & second chances

Pastor Emerson Mendoza

Emerson Mendoza went from living a dangerous double life to leading a prison ministry in Surrey. In the Season 6 finale, Rachel sits down with the Village Church pastor for an honest conversation about faith, accountability, mental health, forgiveness and second chances. After his hidden life was exposed, Emerson fell into shame and depression, praying the same prayer every night: "God, if You're real, show up." He eventually accepted responsibility for his past and received an unexpected prison sentence — and behind bars he found peace, purpose and a Sunday service of his own making. Today he supports people at Surrey Pretrial and equips churches to bring hope into correctional institutions across Canada.

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Dr. Fred Moss on Rachel Thexton Connects
Mental health & the "un-doctor"

Dr. Fred Moss

A psychiatrist who has written hundreds of prescriptions says he will never write another one. Dr. Fred Moss — the "un-doctor" — traces his path from engineering dropout to psychiatrist to outspoken critic of the system he trained in, and argues that communication, not medication, sits at the heart of human healing. He breaks down his Undoctored Reset framework, challenges the chemical imbalance myth, and tells the full-circle story of a patient whose life turned out to be entangled with his own. Rachel also opens up about her own lived experience with opioid and benzodiazepine addiction that began with a prescription pad.

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Author Erin Steele on Rachel Thexton Connects
Memoir, identity & honesty

Erin Steele

Writing a memoir takes courage. Writing an honest one takes something more. Rachel sits down with Canadian author and self-described low-key philosopher Erin Steele to talk about her debut memoir Sunrise Over Half-Built Houses: Love, Longing and Addiction in Suburbia. Set in Surrey, BC, the book is a deeply personal reckoning with compulsive behaviour and the search for identity — a meditation on what it means to fill the space inside yourself with honesty rather than escape. They talk about writing truthfully about people still in your life, stillness and self-compassion, a late-in-life ADHD diagnosis, a path to wellness that didn't follow traditional program models, and the call for more compassion in how we treat one another.

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