Perspective, after the noise.
A podcast about perspective, clarity and meaning - what becomes visible with distance and time.
35,000 Feet is a long-form podcast about perspective, clarity, and meaning — what becomes visible when we gain distance from chaos, pressure, and identity noise.
Each episode features thoughtful, unhurried conversations with people who have experienced disruption, loss, or profound change — including illness, divorce, career collapse, moral injury, institutional failure, or quiet internal shifts that altered how they see the world. Rather than focusing on trauma narratives or motivational advice, 35,000 Feet explores the aftermath: how people think, integrate, and make sense of life once the noise has passed.
This podcast is intentionally calm and reflective. There are no prescriptions, no productivity frameworks, and no forced takeaways. Instead, the focus is on perspective — how distance, time, and reflection reshape understanding, values, and identity.
35,000 Feet is for listeners who feel fatigued by outrage culture, constant optimization, and performative self-improvement — and who are looking for deeper conversations about emotional clarity, personal growth, and the human experience without being told what to believe or how to fix themselves.
Some experiences resolve.
Some don’t.
But perspective, when it comes, often changes everything.
Topics explored include:
Perspective after loss or life change
Emotional clarity and integration
Identity shifts and meaning-making
Power, institutions, and moral injury
Personal growth beyond motivation culture
Finding clarity after chaos
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35,000 FEET is where distance changes what we see in the aftermath
| 35,000 FEET is where distance changes what we see in the aftermath
Meet Your Host
Claire Von Cleveland
Claire Von Cleveland is a writer, speaker, and founder whose work explores perspective, power, identity, and the human cost of systems that prioritize image over integrity. Her thinking is shaped by a career that spans corporate leadership and consulting, the founding and operation of a mission-driven business, and sustained, lived proximity to incarceration, institutional failure, donor power, and survivor-centered work. This experience is grounded not only in professional roles, but in long-term observation of how people navigate loss, disruption, and meaning across cultures, informed by travel to more than 70 countries.
Claire writes to think, not to persuade. Her long-form essays examine ambiguity, accountability, and the slow, often uncomfortable process of gaining clarity over time. She is the author of Hey White Boy: Conversations of Redemption and publishes reflective writing on Substack that focuses on power, culture, and redemption beyond performance or outrage.
As the host of 35,000 Feet, Claire brings a calm, attentive presence to conversations about aftermath — listening for what people understand once certainty falls away, rather than what they are trying to prove. Her approach emphasizes emotional intelligence, perspective, and trust over motivation or ideology.
She lives in California, where she also owns and operates a cat café — a daily practice in responsibility, care, and paying attention to what is directly in front of her.