ORIGINAL SECTION
Original Section Podcast — Description
Original Section is a spoken-word podcast rooted in authenticity, real life, and unfiltered experience.
Season One focuses on PTSD — exploring trauma, loss, addiction, paranoia, self-hate, and the search for peace through personal storytelling and cinematic narration. It’s not therapy and it’s not performance — it’s lived truth.
Each season of Original Section shifts into a new chapter, tackling different real-life topics through an original lens. Every episode comes from a place of honesty, growth, and self-reflection — because no two sections are the same, and no story is meant to be told the same way twice.
This podcast is for anyone navigating real life, real pain, and real growth — Live From The Section.
Episodes
8 episodes
Episode 8- I Can't Breathe
“I can’t breathe” isn’t always about air.Sometimes it’s about pressure.Sometimes it’s about survival.Sometimes it’s about trauma living in the body.In this episode, I speak on what it feels like when PTSD ...
Episode 7 — “Traveling With My Demons”
In this episode, Kariem Ali walks through the quiet war that happens inside the mind — the kind nobody sees, the kind most people suffer with alone.“Traveling With My Demons” is a raw reflection on how trauma follows you, how ...
Episode 6 — “The Bottom”
There’s a place I don’t talk about often.A place I call the bottom.Not just a basement…but a state of mind.In Episode 6 of the Original Section Podcast, Kariem Ali takes listeners inside the emo...
EPISODE 5 — “Self Hate”
In this episode, Self Hate, we explore the quiet war many of us fight when no one else is watching — the one that starts with the mirror.This is a conversation about reflection, trauma, and the environments that shape how we s...
Episode 4 — Faded
There was a time when I wasn’t really living — I was fading.In this episode, I speak openly about addiction, trauma, and the quiet ways people disappear inside themselves. About using substances not to get high, but to stay nu...
Episode 3 — The Pain That Turned Into Silence
Episode 3 — The Pain That Turned Into SilenceThere came a point where the pain stopped being spoken… and started being carried.In this episode, I open up about the kind of trauma that doesn’t scream — the kin...