Our Story

A place for honest conversations.

Every city has a hotel that seems a little different from the rest. The kind of place where travelers arrive from different directions carrying different stories. Some stay for a night. Some stay longer. Some arrive exhausted. Some arrive curious. Some arrive because they have nowhere else to go.

The Rio Mad Hotel is just that kind of place.

It’s a podcast, a community, and an ongoing conversation about survival, recovery, identity, creativity, chronic illness, mental health, and the strange experience of being human.

We believe the most interesting conversations happen when people stop performing and start telling their truth.