
Screenwriter James Handel on Black Narcissus
Screenwriter James Handel joins us to discuss his genre-bending career and Powell & Pressburger’s psychological masterpiece Black Narcissus, a stunning exploration of faith, desire, and control.
Pete has been a broadcaster for the last 30 years, falling in love with the edit bay in the back of a newsroom in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He studied journalism at the University of Colorado with a focus on long-form documentary production, turning that early experience into a career helping businesses shape the stories of their brands through image and sound. Pete earned an M.S. in Organizational Design and spent fifteen years teaching graduate marketing students the power of human-centered communications. From public relations teams on global multi-million dollar brand projects to marketing for independent business owners, Pete has helped shape communications that build brands. In 2006, he launched Fifth & Main, LLC., a media consultancy focused on brand-building through the nascent field of podcasting. In 2020, nearly 3,000 individual podcast episodes behind them, the company rebranded as TruStory FM with an ear toward the next decade of podcast education and entertainment.
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Screenwriter James Handel joins us to discuss his genre-bending career and Powell & Pressburger’s psychological masterpiece Black Narcissus, a stunning exploration of faith, desire, and control.

In this episode of The ADHD Podcast, Pete Wright and Nikki Kinzer take us into the heart of the paradox. They begin with a simple but profound question: How do we make AI work for us, rather than the other way around?

We continue our Hannibal Lecter series with the continuation of Hannibal and Clarice Starling, 10 years later. Ridley Scott’s at the helm with Julianne Moore as Starling. How well does it work? Tune in to hear us discuss Scott’s 2001 film Hannibal.

We continue our members-only season-long Roger Corman series with a film he produced – Penelope Spheeris’ brilliant 1983 film Suburbia. It’s a powerful glimpse into disaffected punk youth in the early 80s.

Artificial intelligence is everywhere—shaping how we work, think, and even how we manage our ADHD. But is AI a game-changing cognitive assistant or just another digital white whale primed to swallow our focus whole?

We continue our Hannibal Lecter series exploring everyone’s favorite cannibalistic serial killer with inarguably the best film in the series and the one that gave us Anthony Hopkins’ take on Lecter, it’s Jonathan Demme’s 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs.

Season finale Q&A tackles your toughest divorce questions – from custody battles and hidden assets to international complications. Plus, we wrap up our complete guide to navigating your divorce case from start to finish.

Making friends as a kid felt effortless—one shared lunch, one game of tag, and suddenly, you had a best friend. But as adults, friendship is more complicated, especially for those with ADHD, where forgetfulness, time blindness, and social missteps can make connection feel just out of reach. Caroline Maguire understands this better than anyone and she’s back this week to help.

We kick off our Hannibal Lecter series with a conversation about the first of the adaptations from Thomas Harris’ novel ‘Red Dragon’. It’s Michael Mann’s 1986 film ‘Manhunter.’

In this episode of Human Solutions, we’re tackling real HR dilemmas based on questions we’re hearing from our customers. Can an employer require an obituary to approve bereavement leave? What should you do if you suspect a doctor’s note is fake? Are employees allowed to secretly record conversations at work—and can those recordings be used against employers?