Pete Wright is a podcaster, author, and co-founder of TruStory FM. He's been behind a microphone for over thirty years and has logged thousands of episodes across three dozen shows covering film, ADHD, creative process, and the craft of storytelling. He spent fifteen years teaching graduate students and has consulted on brand communications for organizations ranging from global brands to one-person shops. His debut science fiction novella, Lattice, was published in 2026. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Pete has hosted as well as been a panelist on a number of episodes.
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You signed a rule about your own worth before you could even read it — and for the ADHD brain, it got written in permanent ink. This week, we read the fine print and start figuring out how to rewrite it.
A week off won’t undo your progress. Hosts Pete Wright and Srdjan Injac, with ELEV8 trainer Devon Castro, cover what really happens when you stop training, why “never skip breakfast” is half-myth, how everyday walking adds up, and why sleep is the one thing worth protecting on the road.
Matthew Fox joins The Film Board to review The Mandalorian and Grogu: thin plot, a Swole Hutt debate, Grogu in a swamp, and whether Star Wars belongs in theaters.
Bart loves guns. Laurie loves crime. Together they’re inevitable—and doomed. Andy and Pete dig into Joseph H. Lewis’s scorching 1950 film noir Gun Crazy.
Spielberg, at 79, finally tells the next part of his aliens-are-real story — and the Film Board can’t agree on whether the old master still has it. Pete, Steve, Tommy, JJ, and Mandy go full-spoiler on “Disclosure Day”: Emily Blunt’s panic attack, the bar nobody understands, the train, and an ending that whispers one word.
A complaint lands on your desk, and your first instinct — keep the peace, move fast, protect a good employee — can be the exact one that lands you in a deposition. Sarah Piscatelli and Tom Jones join Pete Wright to draw the line between overreacting and underreacting, and to name the quiet mistakes that turn a manageable problem into a lawsuit.
This week: five minutes in which two spies almost have feelings, a man agrees to commit grand theft jetpack over breakfast, and a winged superhero is born. Also a robust, completely unsolicited defense of a 2012 smartphone, because apparently that is where we are now.
“Good enough” can sound like permission or accusation — and ADHD brains often hear both. This week, Pete and Nikki untangle the difference between settling, ending, and finishing on purpose.
The wellness internet says women’s fitness runs on a $40 cycle calendar, a fear of carbs, and a hormone out to get you. The science says otherwise. A look at GLP-1’s muscle-and-bone cost, what keto does to thyroid and energy, and why the scale lies.
Zhang Yimou’s ink-wash wuxia epic Shadow features a secret double, bladed umbrellas, and one of the most visually committed films of his career.