An attic room with wooden walls and ceiling, decorated with string lights. There is a bookshelf with a skull on top, a desk with a typewriter and a lit lamp, a window showing darkness outside, and an antique radio. In the foreground, there is a potted cactus in a teacup-shaped pot with a saucer, and a sign that reads 'From the Attic with Love'.

The Podcast

“I would walk away that day, start my own metaphorical fire and burn much more than sheets and toys.” - from Life Broke, Fire Woke

Kicking That Kactus is a personal essay podcast blending humor, heartbreak, and brutally honest storytelling.

Each episode explores family, relationships, grief, reinvention, or the strange ways she kept moving forward while trying to determine whether everyone else was coping better or simply lying

Written and narrated by emotional essayist “Sunshane,” these essays are short, sharp, and shamelessly human—created for anyone who has ever looked around at their own life and thought,“Well… this certainly wasn’t the plan.”

Come for the punchlines. Stay for the bruises.

The podcast is taking a short pause for reinvention.

Apparently personal growth now includes audio editing, platform-building, YouTube algorithms, and saying things like “content strategy” without breaking out into hives.