ReFraming Life Wed, 27 May 2026 17:05:18 -0400 http://kentwaugh.com en-ca © 2026 © 2026 ReFraming Life yes 39ec7a92-485d-5a64-a689-6cbc1e97e393 Kent Waugh episodic false ReFraming Life by Kent Waugh is a deeply personal storytelling podcast exploring love, relationships, heartbreak, resilience, and the moments that reshape our lives.


The featured series, My Soulmate Named Adel, tells the true story of Kent and Adel’s extraordinary relationship, from falling deeply in love to navigating illness, loss, and the emotional journey that followed.


These are stories about soulmate connection, emotional intimacy, healthy relationships, lasting love, vulnerability, healing, and learning how to remain open-hearted after life changes forever.


For listeners searching for real love, deep connection, relationship wisdom, love after 40, mature relationships, calm love, and emotionally honest storytelling.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Kent Waugh https://storage.buzzsprout.com/ijoocif4qxnjb020svho4d20kn9k?.jpg ReFraming Life http://kentwaugh.com When Life Divides Into Before and After | Episode 12 - My Soulmate Named Adel When Life Divides Into Before and After | Episode 12 - My Soulmate Named Adel There are moments that divide a relationship into before and after. Ours arrived quietly, not as a dramatic turning point, but as a phone call I somehow already understood before a single word was spoken. I couldn't get to Adel fast enough. And in those three minutes, love stopped being abstract. It became the only thing that mattered. What followed wasn't fear; it was quiet, focused, determined courage. 

And it changed everything.

]]> There are moments that divide a relationship into before and after. Ours arrived quietly, not as a dramatic turning point, but as a phone call I somehow already understood before a single word was spoken. I couldn't get to Adel fast enough. And in those three minutes, love stopped being abstract. It became the only thing that mattered. What followed wasn't fear; it was quiet, focused, determined courage. 

And it changed everything.

]]> Kent Waugh Buzzsprout-19188581 Sun, 17 May 2026 06:00:00 -0700 491 1 12 full false Why I'm Telling This Story | ReFraming Life — Start Here Why I'm Telling This Story | ReFraming Life — Start Here Most people don't ask it out loud, but I hear it. 

Why would you share something this personal? 

The honest answer has two parts. 

The first is a promise I made to Adel: that what we had wouldn't fade into memory, but would live on for anyone still trying to build something real. 

The second is something I've learned to be true again and again: that the deepest connections, the truest joy, come from choosing to stay open. Even when it costs you. This is why I'm telling these stories. Not to teach. Not to preach. To show what's possible when you choose to stay open, even when it's hard.

]]> Most people don't ask it out loud, but I hear it. 

Why would you share something this personal? 

The honest answer has two parts. 

The first is a promise I made to Adel: that what we had wouldn't fade into memory, but would live on for anyone still trying to build something real. 

The second is something I've learned to be true again and again: that the deepest connections, the truest joy, come from choosing to stay open. Even when it costs you. This is why I'm telling these stories. Not to teach. Not to preach. To show what's possible when you choose to stay open, even when it's hard.

]]> Kent Waugh Buzzsprout-19172559 Wed, 13 May 2026 11:00:00 -0700 142 bonus false We Thought We Had Forever — A True Love Story | Episode 11 - My Soulmate Named Adel We Thought We Had Forever — A True Love Story | Episode 11 - My Soulmate Named Adel Some of the most beautiful seasons of our lives only reveal their true meaning in hindsight.

Not because anything went wrong in the moment…
 but because we later realize we were living inside a chapter that wouldn’t last forever.

In this episode, I take you back to the summer of 2018, a time when life with Adel felt full, expansive, and open in every direction. We travelled to Budapest, where she reconnected with her childhood story of leaving Hungary under extraordinary circumstances, and then to Tuscany, where a simple vacation quietly turned into something much bigger.

That trip changed how we saw our future.

We began to imagine a different kind of life, one built around experiences, travel, and fully living in the present rather than waiting for “someday.”

And like so many dreams we created together… it felt completely possible.

What we didn’t know at the time was that we were living in our final season of normal life. A season filled with gratitude, laughter, and possibility, one that would soon give way to something neither of us expected.

Looking back now, I don’t see that time as something we lost.

I see it as something we were lucky enough to fully live.

🎙 My Soulmate Named Adel is part of the ReFraming Life series, true stories of love, loss, and what it means to be human.


]]> Some of the most beautiful seasons of our lives only reveal their true meaning in hindsight.

Not because anything went wrong in the moment…
 but because we later realize we were living inside a chapter that wouldn’t last forever.

In this episode, I take you back to the summer of 2018, a time when life with Adel felt full, expansive, and open in every direction. We travelled to Budapest, where she reconnected with her childhood story of leaving Hungary under extraordinary circumstances, and then to Tuscany, where a simple vacation quietly turned into something much bigger.

That trip changed how we saw our future.

We began to imagine a different kind of life, one built around experiences, travel, and fully living in the present rather than waiting for “someday.”

And like so many dreams we created together… it felt completely possible.

What we didn’t know at the time was that we were living in our final season of normal life. A season filled with gratitude, laughter, and possibility, one that would soon give way to something neither of us expected.

Looking back now, I don’t see that time as something we lost.

I see it as something we were lucky enough to fully live.

🎙 My Soulmate Named Adel is part of the ReFraming Life series, true stories of love, loss, and what it means to be human.


]]> Kent Waugh Buzzsprout-19115588 Sun, 03 May 2026 07:00:00 -0700 434 1 11 full false Love Doesn't Wait for Anniversaries | Episode 10 - My Soulmate Named Adel Love Doesn't Wait for Anniversaries | Episode 10 - My Soulmate Named Adel Someone once told me they had stopped celebrating their first date anniversary after they got married. They figured the wedding had replaced it. 

I sat with that for a while, because Adel and I never saw it that way. 

Every Wednesday, for more than fourteen years, I would turn to her and say: "Happy weekversary." Not every year. Every week. 

Because we believed you don't wait for the big moments to celebrate love. The small moments are the big moments. They're the ones that become your life.

]]> Someone once told me they had stopped celebrating their first date anniversary after they got married. They figured the wedding had replaced it. 

I sat with that for a while, because Adel and I never saw it that way. 

Every Wednesday, for more than fourteen years, I would turn to her and say: "Happy weekversary." Not every year. Every week. 

Because we believed you don't wait for the big moments to celebrate love. The small moments are the big moments. They're the ones that become your life.

]]> Kent Waugh Buzzsprout-19041515 Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:00:00 -0700 308 1 10 full false My Soulmate Named Adel | Series Trailer My Soulmate Named Adel | Series Trailer This is the beginning of a 20-episode true love story.

My name is Kent Waugh. And the woman who changed everything I thought I knew about love was named Adel.

She was the only person who responded to my dating profile — one response, to 20 very specific things I had written about what I believed and what I was looking for. She answered every single one.

What followed was 14 years of something I can only describe as soulmate love. The kind that asks you to become more than you thought you were. The kind that reshapes you, quietly, from the inside out.

This series — My Soulmate Named Adel — is the true story of that love. 

What it looked like. 

What it required. 

What it taught me. 

And what it left behind.

20 episodes. One true story. I'm glad you're here.

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]]> This is the beginning of a 20-episode true love story.

My name is Kent Waugh. And the woman who changed everything I thought I knew about love was named Adel.

She was the only person who responded to my dating profile — one response, to 20 very specific things I had written about what I believed and what I was looking for. She answered every single one.

What followed was 14 years of something I can only describe as soulmate love. The kind that asks you to become more than you thought you were. The kind that reshapes you, quietly, from the inside out.

This series — My Soulmate Named Adel — is the true story of that love. 

What it looked like. 

What it required. 

What it taught me. 

And what it left behind.

20 episodes. One true story. I'm glad you're here.

▶ Follow ReFraming Life on Spotify or Apple Podcasts so you never miss an episode.

📬 Subscribe to the ReFraming Life weekly letter on Substack: https://kentwaugh.substack.com/

]]> Kent Waugh Buzzsprout-18965788 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:00:00 -0700 76 1 trailer false Love Taught Me to Put the Camera Down | Episode 9 - My Soulmate Named Adel Love Taught Me to Put the Camera Down | Episode 9 - My Soulmate Named Adel It was early 2006 when our plane landed in Mazatlán, one of our first real trips together, just the two of us. Adel brought a camera, and since photography had always meant something to me, you'd expect I'd never put it down. 

But somewhere in those early days, I stopped. Adel noticed before I did. When she asked me why, I sat with it for a long moment before the answer came: every time I looked through the viewfinder, I was framing the moment for someone else, and I lost the sense of being there with her. I didn't want anything between me and being fully present. Not even a lens.

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]]> It was early 2006 when our plane landed in Mazatlán, one of our first real trips together, just the two of us. Adel brought a camera, and since photography had always meant something to me, you'd expect I'd never put it down. 

But somewhere in those early days, I stopped. Adel noticed before I did. When she asked me why, I sat with it for a long moment before the answer came: every time I looked through the viewfinder, I was framing the moment for someone else, and I lost the sense of being there with her. I didn't want anything between me and being fully present. Not even a lens.

Subscribe on Spotify or Apple Podcasts so you never miss an episode.

]]> Kent Waugh Buzzsprout-18965169 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0700 656 soulmate, true love, relationships, love story, being present, mindfulness, life lessons, emotional storytelling, personal growth, grief and loss, meaningful life, deep connection, relationship wisdom, presence, life after loss 1 9 full false When Everything Fell Apart, We Laughed | Episode 8 - My Soulmate Named Adel When Everything Fell Apart, We Laughed | Episode 8 - My Soulmate Named Adel By the summer of 2018, Adel and I had turned travel into something close to an art form, not about plans, but about presence. Barcelona was supposed to be a simple day trip. It became one of the most chaotic, most hilarious, and most revealing days we ever had together. A hotel booked for the wrong night. A missing backpack. The wrong train. The wrong station. And a locked gate at 1:00 in the morning. By the end of it, we weren't frustrated. We were laughing, the kind of laughter that tells you something true about two people. Joy in a relationship isn't just romance. It's resilience with laughter in it.

]]> By the summer of 2018, Adel and I had turned travel into something close to an art form, not about plans, but about presence. Barcelona was supposed to be a simple day trip. It became one of the most chaotic, most hilarious, and most revealing days we ever had together. A hotel booked for the wrong night. A missing backpack. The wrong train. The wrong station. And a locked gate at 1:00 in the morning. By the end of it, we weren't frustrated. We were laughing, the kind of laughter that tells you something true about two people. Joy in a relationship isn't just romance. It's resilience with laughter in it.

]]> Kent Waugh Buzzsprout-18885468 Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:00:00 -0700 1053 relationships true love soulmates love story relationship wisdom 1 8 full false What If Your Soulmate Was Already Waiting? | ReFraming Life What If Your Soulmate Was Already Waiting? | ReFraming Life There is an old belief that the people we are meant to love are already tied to us by an invisible red string, across distance, across time, pulling quietly until we finally arrive. 

I used to think that was a beautiful idea. Nothing more. 

And then I met Adel. 

This is the story of what I've come to understand about soulmates, destiny, and the strange thing I call retroactive destiny, the way the most sacred moments in life only reveal themselves when you look back. Even after losing her, I don't feel like the string has been cut. It feels like it's tied to something I can't see yet.

It serves as a quiet introduction to the series My Soulmate Named Adel, a true story told across twenty episodes about love, timing, loss, and the moments that quietly change everything.

]]> There is an old belief that the people we are meant to love are already tied to us by an invisible red string, across distance, across time, pulling quietly until we finally arrive. 

I used to think that was a beautiful idea. Nothing more. 

And then I met Adel. 

This is the story of what I've come to understand about soulmates, destiny, and the strange thing I call retroactive destiny, the way the most sacred moments in life only reveal themselves when you look back. Even after losing her, I don't feel like the string has been cut. It feels like it's tied to something I can't see yet.

It serves as a quiet introduction to the series My Soulmate Named Adel, a true story told across twenty episodes about love, timing, loss, and the moments that quietly change everything.

]]> Kent Waugh Buzzsprout-18809559 Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0700 518 1 full false Togetherness Was Our Superpower | Episode 7 - My Soulmate Named Adel Togetherness Was Our Superpower | Episode 7 - My Soulmate Named Adel The hardest speech I've ever given was at my wife's Celebration of Life. I opened with: "One of us was sleeping with their boss." The room went still. In this episode, I share the partnership few people knew about, how Adel and I spent 24 hours a day, seven days a week together, not just as partners at home, but at work. We were us to the power of two. And what we discovered through all of it is something I didn't fully understand until she was gone: togetherness doesn't weaken strong relationships. It reveals them. Love doesn't need distance to survive. It needs alignment.

]]> The hardest speech I've ever given was at my wife's Celebration of Life. I opened with: "One of us was sleeping with their boss." The room went still. In this episode, I share the partnership few people knew about, how Adel and I spent 24 hours a day, seven days a week together, not just as partners at home, but at work. We were us to the power of two. And what we discovered through all of it is something I didn't fully understand until she was gone: togetherness doesn't weaken strong relationships. It reveals them. Love doesn't need distance to survive. It needs alignment.

]]> Kent Waugh Buzzsprout-18725724 Sun, 22 Feb 2026 07:00:00 -0800 692 1 7 full true The Day She Asked "Are We Still a Team?" | Episode 6 - My Soulmate Named Adel Series The Day She Asked "Are We Still a Team?" | Episode 6 - My Soulmate Named Adel Series The stress had been building for weeks, a money issue, the kind that tightens your chest and makes you want to be right more than you want to be close. I felt my voice climbing. And then Adel looked at me with no judgment and asked just four words: "Are we still on the same team?" That was all it took. 

In this episode, I share what it meant to grow because of someone, not just with them. The ordinary riches of a Sunday morning coffee. The ER Valentine's Days under fluorescent lights. The business we built together, not out of necessity, but out of values. And the one question that kept us close, again and again, for 14 years.

]]> The stress had been building for weeks, a money issue, the kind that tightens your chest and makes you want to be right more than you want to be close. I felt my voice climbing. And then Adel looked at me with no judgment and asked just four words: "Are we still on the same team?" That was all it took. 

In this episode, I share what it meant to grow because of someone, not just with them. The ordinary riches of a Sunday morning coffee. The ER Valentine's Days under fluorescent lights. The business we built together, not out of necessity, but out of values. And the one question that kept us close, again and again, for 14 years.

]]> Kent Waugh Buzzsprout-18653675 Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 594 1 6 full false The Day She Stopped Hiding | Episode 5 - My Soulmate Named Adel Series The Day She Stopped Hiding | Episode 5 - My Soulmate Named Adel Series For years, my wife Adel hid new clothes in the trunk of her car — not because she couldn't afford them, but because a previous partner had shamed her for wanting them. She only spent her own money. She earned more than he did. And still, shame found a way in. It followed her into our relationship before she ever said a word about it. In this episode, I share the small acts of trust that slowly undid that shame, the joint accounts we opened early, the bedroom fashion shows she'd put on just for me, and a Las Vegas afternoon that ended with a $10,000 slot machine jackpot, a pair of Jimmy Choo boots, and one of the most quietly beautiful moments of our life together. The real win that night wasn't the money.

]]> For years, my wife Adel hid new clothes in the trunk of her car — not because she couldn't afford them, but because a previous partner had shamed her for wanting them. She only spent her own money. She earned more than he did. And still, shame found a way in. It followed her into our relationship before she ever said a word about it. In this episode, I share the small acts of trust that slowly undid that shame, the joint accounts we opened early, the bedroom fashion shows she'd put on just for me, and a Las Vegas afternoon that ended with a $10,000 slot machine jackpot, a pair of Jimmy Choo boots, and one of the most quietly beautiful moments of our life together. The real win that night wasn't the money.

]]> Kent Waugh Buzzsprout-18653664 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 547 1 5 full false We Introduced Our Kids in 9 Days | Episode 4 - My Soulmate Named Adel Series We Introduced Our Kids in 9 Days | Episode 4 - My Soulmate Named Adel Series The Friday after our first date, I told my sons I'd met someone very important to me. I felt the knot in my stomach as I said it. They had me exclusively for four and a half years, and I knew what I was asking of them. But I had made a promise to myself long before Adel: I would never bring someone into their lives unless I was deeply confident it would last. With Adel, I had no doubts. 

So nine days after we met, all of our kids were in a bowling alley together, two families cautiously orbiting each other, awkward and polite, keeping it light. And somehow, exactly right. In this episode, I share what Adel and I did, and didn't do, that made blending our families feel less like a strategy and more like a daily choice: just show up and love each other well.

]]> The Friday after our first date, I told my sons I'd met someone very important to me. I felt the knot in my stomach as I said it. They had me exclusively for four and a half years, and I knew what I was asking of them. But I had made a promise to myself long before Adel: I would never bring someone into their lives unless I was deeply confident it would last. With Adel, I had no doubts. 

So nine days after we met, all of our kids were in a bowling alley together, two families cautiously orbiting each other, awkward and polite, keeping it light. And somehow, exactly right. In this episode, I share what Adel and I did, and didn't do, that made blending our families feel less like a strategy and more like a daily choice: just show up and love each other well.

]]> Kent Waugh Buzzsprout-18653653 Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 618 1 4 full false When She Stopped Believing I'd Stay | Episode 3 - My Soulmate Named Adel Series When She Stopped Believing I'd Stay | Episode 3 - My Soulmate Named Adel Series A close friend gave me a set of coasters after my first marriage ended. One of them had a simple phrase: "Love like you'll never get hurt." I set it on our living room table and watched it sit there for weeks, right in front of Adel. Because she was building a wall around her heart, one brick at a time — and I had made a quiet decision. For every brick she put up, I was going to rip out three.

In this episode, you'll hear what it looked like when Adel began testing me, and the raw conversation where she finally admitted she was waiting for the other shoe to drop. 

Subscribe on Spotify or Apple Podcasts so you never miss an episode.

]]> A close friend gave me a set of coasters after my first marriage ended. One of them had a simple phrase: "Love like you'll never get hurt." I set it on our living room table and watched it sit there for weeks, right in front of Adel. Because she was building a wall around her heart, one brick at a time — and I had made a quiet decision. For every brick she put up, I was going to rip out three.

In this episode, you'll hear what it looked like when Adel began testing me, and the raw conversation where she finally admitted she was waiting for the other shoe to drop. 

Subscribe on Spotify or Apple Podcasts so you never miss an episode.

]]> Kent Waugh Buzzsprout-18653633 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 669 1 3 full false I Nearly Walked Away | Episode 2 - My Soulmate Named Adel Series I Nearly Walked Away | Episode 2 - My Soulmate Named Adel Series I pulled my hands away when she reached for me across that Starbucks table… Twenty-four hours after our first date ended, we were already together again — sitting across from each other at a Starbucks table, laughing, soaking in what felt like the most natural thing in the world. And then she reached across the table to hold my hands. I pulled away. In her eyes, I saw something I never wanted to put there — the quiet hurt of someone who thinks they are being turned away. What she didn't know yet was that I wasn't pulling away because I didn't want this. I was pulling away because I had never felt anything this big before in my life.

In this episode, you'll hear about that second date, the speakerphone call with my parents, the moment that told Adel everything she needed to know about who I was, and the honest conversation that may have saved our entire story before it had barely begun. 

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]]> I pulled my hands away when she reached for me across that Starbucks table… Twenty-four hours after our first date ended, we were already together again — sitting across from each other at a Starbucks table, laughing, soaking in what felt like the most natural thing in the world. And then she reached across the table to hold my hands. I pulled away. In her eyes, I saw something I never wanted to put there — the quiet hurt of someone who thinks they are being turned away. What she didn't know yet was that I wasn't pulling away because I didn't want this. I was pulling away because I had never felt anything this big before in my life.

In this episode, you'll hear about that second date, the speakerphone call with my parents, the moment that told Adel everything she needed to know about who I was, and the honest conversation that may have saved our entire story before it had barely begun. 

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]]> Kent Waugh Buzzsprout-18653602 Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 642 1 2 full false We Knew on Our First Date | A Love Story That Couldn't Last | Episode 1 - My Soulmate Named Adel We Knew on Our First Date | A Love Story That Couldn't Last | Episode 1 - My Soulmate Named Adel What happens when you finally meet your soulmate… and one day, they’re gone?
In this opening episode of My Soulmate Named Adel, I share the true story of how Adel and I met online, the instant connection that felt like destiny, and an 8-hour first date that changed everything I believed about love.
You’ll hear:
• How rewriting my dating profile like a “manifestation list” led to one message that changed my life
• The moment we both wondered, “OMG… do you think we might be soulmates?”
• Our first phone call, her unforgettable accent, and the line that stopped me in my tracks: “How can you miss someone you’ve never met?”
• The countdown to meeting “IRL,” why we kept moving the time earlier, like excited school kids
• Our first embrace at the restaurant door… and why Adel later said, “You had me at the a** grab.”
• The 8-hour first date, the roses for her and her daughters, and the drive home, where I felt like I was floating in heaven
This is where our love story begins.

]]> What happens when you finally meet your soulmate… and one day, they’re gone?
In this opening episode of My Soulmate Named Adel, I share the true story of how Adel and I met online, the instant connection that felt like destiny, and an 8-hour first date that changed everything I believed about love.
You’ll hear:
• How rewriting my dating profile like a “manifestation list” led to one message that changed my life
• The moment we both wondered, “OMG… do you think we might be soulmates?”
• Our first phone call, her unforgettable accent, and the line that stopped me in my tracks: “How can you miss someone you’ve never met?”
• The countdown to meeting “IRL,” why we kept moving the time earlier, like excited school kids
• Our first embrace at the restaurant door… and why Adel later said, “You had me at the a** grab.”
• The 8-hour first date, the roses for her and her daughters, and the drive home, where I felt like I was floating in heaven
This is where our love story begins.

]]> Kent Waugh Buzzsprout-18652804 Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:00:00 -0800 874 1 1 full false