Jesse Thorn has built a sizable audience with his podcast business Maximum Fun. His NPR interview show, "Bullseye With Jesse Thorn," has brought on guests including Jonathan Majors, Tom Hanks and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
But during the last few years, he said, running the Los Angeles-based business drove him to a breaking point. The father of three young children struggled to balance his work-life and home-life. He suffered from splitting migraines.
"You have to back off of this," his wife, Theresa, told him at their dining room table in 2018. "I'm afraid you're going to die."
