More Life with Carl Radke

The Real Housewives of New Jersey star and The Traitors Season 3 winner Dolores Catania has built a reputation as the friend who will show up for you at three in the morning — and she wouldn’t have it any other way.

On this episode of More Life, Dolores reflects on the life lessons that shaped her, from learning that holding onto anger only hurts you to understanding that no job is beneath you when it’s time to get back on your feet.

Growing up in Paterson, New Jersey, in a home where emotions weren’t openly discussed, Dolores learned to be tough early. Before joining the Housewives, she worked in a jail — and she opens up about how those experiences shaped the woman she is today. She also gets real about divorcing while pregnant, maintaining a close family with her ex, what she’d tell her Season 1 self, and why Carl could use a little tough love.

Plus, Dolores shares the charitable organizations close to her heart, including St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital and St. John’s Cathedral’s Compostela Program in Paterson, as well as Pitbulls & Addicts and Halfway Home Animal Shelter.

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Bachelor in Paradise’s Joe Amabile had no symptoms, no warning, and no reason to think anything was wrong. Then a scan found a brain tumor, and everything else they’d been worried about didn't matter anymore.

Joe and his wife, Serena Pitt, met on Bachelor in Paradise and now host the podcast Not Married to This. On this episode of More Life , they sit down with Carl, a good friend who ran last year’s New York City Marathon alongside Joe, to talk about the phone call that changed their year. They get into the decision to have surgery, the recovery that followed, and what it was like for Serena to become Joe’s caretaker. Joe also shares why he’s still planning to run this year’s NYC Marathon, where he and Carl will start the race side by side.
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Taylor Strecker spent 15 years interviewing reality stars before she became one herself. On this episode of More Life with Carl Radke, the House of Stassi star sits down with Carl, a friend of more than 10 years, for her most open conversation yet about coming out, leaving her marriage, falling in love with her best friend, and starting a family with her wife, Teddy.

Taylor is the host of the Taste of Taylor podcast, the co-host of Stassi with Tay with Stassi Schroeder, and a longtime Bravo and Real Housewives superfan. She tells Carl how she met Stassi at SiriusXM, why she kept her relationship with Teddy quiet for a year before telling her audience, and how IVF and becoming a parent changed the way she sees everything, including reality TV.

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The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’s Meredith Marks is known for her famous line: “I’m disengaging.” But she’ll tell you it’s not about avoiding a fight, it’s about knowing when to step away so you can actually fix things.

She sits down with Carl to talk about what it’s like to have your marriage and your kids on camera, how she handles it when the drama comes for her family, and why getting defensive only makes people believe the worst. She also opens up about showing up for a friend through the hardest loss imaginable, and what the sisterhood looks like. They also get into her DJ tour, her caviar brand, and why she wants everyone around her to succeed, even the people she’s not getting along with.

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Harris Wittels was one of the funniest writers in comedy, a Parks and Recreation writer and producer and friend to Sarah Silverman, gone from an opioid overdose in 2015 at just 30 years old. His sister, Stephanie Wittels Wachs, spent years not understanding what was actually happening to him, and turned that grief into a mission to make sure other families wouldn't have to learn it the hard way.She sits down with Carl for a conversation that feels like two siblings comparing notes on a grief they never asked for. They talk honestly about opioid addiction as a disease, how families fall apart trying to respond to it, and the real, practical harm reduction tools, including Narcan, that are actually saving lives right now.Stephanie is the CEO of Lemonada Media and author of "The Last Day: How to Stop Losing Our Loved Ones to the Opioid Crisis," written for anyone who has ever loved someone in active addiction, or lost someone to it.Resources from this episode:Naloxone (Narcan) Safe Spot overdose detection hotline
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