Artist Recovery Podcast

Artist Recovery Podcast is Bringing Light to the Darkside of Art. I’m Rich Wright, your host — and here we're redefining recovery as Renewal, Resilience and Creative Transformation. Because for artists, it’s more than survival… it’s Remembering.
This show is about the real journey of being a working creative — the highs, the lows, the pivots, and the reinventions that shape who we are. Together we’ll explore how setbacks can spark transformation, how loss can open new paths, and how resilience fuels the heart of every artist’s story.
If you’ve ever faced doubt, setback, or the call to reinvent yourself, you’re in the right place. Let’s recover — and create — together.”

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Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 31: Noah May on Mental Health, Bullying & Building a Podcast Business

July 31, 2026 • Rich Wright • Season 2 • Episode 31

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Noah May turned a lifetime of being the kid nobody wanted to hear into three podcasts, a journalism degree from Auburn, and a growing platform for mental health advocacy. He joins Rich Wright to trace the full arc, from a small farm town in northeast Alabama to the mic he now sits behind every week.

Growing up an only child in a loving but atypical household, Noah found early refuge in cartoons, animal books, and PC games like Chuzzle and Feeding Frenzy. But by middle school, the bullying began. Verbal abuse, being treated as invisible, and a class so troublesome teachers warned each other about it. Noah opens up about the depression that surfaced around age 13, the anxiety that struck his senior year as physical stomach illness, and the suicidal ideation he faced at his lowest points. He speaks candidly about learning to hide it all, becoming a chameleon, and finding peace at the lake with his headphones on.

This conversation goes deep on generational patterns of mental health, the stigma that kept a self-diagnosing family away from therapy, and why depression may be something Noah carries for life while learning to make it smaller. Rich shares his own parallel journey with anxiety, stomach issues, and survival, offering Noah and the audience a reminder: recognizing your triggers and becoming your own advocate is the work that keeps you moving forward.

The back half turns to reinvention. Noah reveals how podcasting fell into his lap after graduation, how a single email from PodMatch founder Alex catapulted Lethal Venom into rapid success, and why he named a show after the idea that truth, like venom, can be lethal to hear. He and Rich talk about the creative craft of podcasting, the challenge of running three shows at once (Lethal Venom, Music Talks, and Southern Reads), and what it feels like when one project takes all the spotlight while the others wait their turn.

This is a story about resilience, courage, and the strange grace of being heard at last.

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Website: https://noahspodcasts.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-c-may
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lethalvenompodcast

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