Robert B. Speigel

Robert Speigel has spent more than half a century listening to the stories people tell about their lives—and the quieter stories they struggle to tell themselves.

His work as a psychotherapist, teacher, researcher, group facilitator, and writer has taken him into thousands of conversations about loss, healing, relationships, recovery, creativity, and the lifelong search for meaning. Across those years, he gradually discovered that the deepest transformations rarely come from finding better answers. More often, they begin when we learn to ask gentler questions and to listen with greater honesty.

From that discovery grew On Thriving in Real Time, Living in the Land of the Not Not True (soon to be published).

Rather than separating his professional life from his personal one, Rob has spent decades allowing each to illuminate the other. His work has included clinical practice, NIH-supported research, the development of innovative hypnosis technologies, and the facilitation of transformational workshops, but he has come to believe that his greatest teachers have often been found outside professional titles—in family, friendship, failure, recovery, grief, music, nature, and the ordinary moments that quietly reshape a life.

He also authored Of Endings and Beginnings: A Memoir of Discovery and Transformation and the novel Braided: A Not Not True Story, along with his blog and podcast, I Know What Rob Would Say.

Rob lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, Mary Anne, whose companionship has been one of the enduring gifts of his life. Together they have raised a family, welcomed grandchildren, and continue to share a deep curiosity about what it means to live with presence, humility, gratitude, and wonder.

To view Rob’s televised interview video, please click this link.