Episodes

  • Austin Davis Founder and CEO of Clearfork Academy

    Austin Davis Founder and CEO of Clearfork Academy
    Apr 26 2025
    Austin is a visionary leader in teenage behavioral health and addiction treatment, spending the past 15+ years committed to transforming the lives of teens & their families. He uses the power of faith in the recovery process to help his clients grow into healthy and happy members of their community. He is the founder and CEO of Clearfork Academy, the go-to treatment center in Texas for troubled teens.

    His dedication to teen mental health makes him a driving thought leader in the industry. He has spoken to parents, community health professionals, educators and teens nationwide—sharing insights on effective treatment methodologies, the importance of mental health awareness and the power of faith in the recovery process.

    Austin earned a Bachelor of Science in Pastoral Ministry from Lee University in Cleveland, TN, and furthered his education with a Master of Arts in Counseling from The Church of God Theological Seminary. This education laid the foundation for his professional journey in clinical counseling and church ministry.

    When he's not helping teens or serving his community, he is found spending time with his wife & three kids, playing guitar, and being outdoors.


    https://clearforkacademy.com/

    My Kid, My Crisis Book:

    Austin Davis' My Kid, My Crisis provides a profound exploration into the turbulent journey of families navigating teenage mental health and substance abuse crises. Drawing from his extensive experience, Davis offers a compassionate guide through the trials and triumphs faced by parents and their teens. This book is not just a collection of stories; it's a beacon of hope, shedding light on the silent struggles and providing a roadmap for healing and understanding. Through personal accounts and professional insights, Davis fosters a sense of community, encouraging open dialogue and offering practical advice to those in the midst of their own crisis. My Kid, My Crisis is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand the complexities of teenage mental health and substance abuse, advocating for a world where no family has to navigate these challenges in isolation.

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    27 mins
  • Julie Brill - Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia

    Julie Brill - Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia
    Apr 26 2025
    As a child, Julie held two conflicting beliefs. She knew Germans had murdered her Jewish grandfather in occupied Yugoslavia, yet she somehow believed the Holocaust had never come to his hometown of Belgrade. The family anecdotes her father passed down, a blend of his early memories and what his mother told him, didn’t match what Julie had heard about Germany, Poland, and Anne Frank in Holland during World War II.With so few Jewish survivors and descendants from Serbia, the story of the Shoah there has gone untold. Julie’s quest to understand and share what she learned led to Hidden in Plain Sight.Julie’s numerous short pieces related to this larger project appear in Haaretz, The Forward, Balkan Insight, Kveller, Cognoscenti, Alma, the Globe Post, and elsewhere. Julie is a contributor to the Read650 Anthology Jew-ish: True Stories of Love, Latkes, and L'Chaim and has been featured on Memoir Mondays. She shares her family’s Holocaust experiences in classrooms through Living Links.Additionally, Julie is a lactation consultant, doula, birth educator at WellPregnancy. She is the author of the anthology Round the Circle: Doulas Share their Experiences. She lives near Boston and is the mother of two adult daughters.

    Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia (Holocaust Heritage)

    Discover a powerful, untold chapter of Holocaust history and a daughter’s enduring quest to know the story that began a generation before her birth. From childhood, Julie Brill struggled to understand how her father survived as a young Jewish boy in Belgrade, where Nazis murdered 90 percent of the Jewish population without gas chambers or cattle cars. Through exacting research, a bit of luck, and three emotional trips to Serbia, she pieces together her family’s lost past, unearths secrets, and returns to her father a small part of what the Nazis stole: his own family history.

    https://juliebrill.com/

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    27 mins
  • Kristin Casey, author of Casey Dancer

    Kristin Casey, author of Casey Dancer
    Apr 23 2025
    ABOUT KRISTIN CASEY AND CASEY DANCER

    The follow-up to Kristin Casey's widely acclaimed memoir Rock Monster: My Life with Joe Walsh Casey Dancer is the true story of a thirty-nine-year-old part-time stripper, full-time real estate agent, and struggling writer navigating the chaos of love and ambition. Fresh from a tumultuous breakup and newly sober, Kristin finds herself struggling to re-enter the dating scene. When she falls for Lalo, a charming but troubled ex-coke dealer, their steamy affair leads to deep emotional conflict, testing her boundaries and stirring memories of past relationships. Through the highs of passion, the lows of financial strain, and the harsh realities of erotic labor, Kristin fights to reclaim her sense of self. Bold, raw, and unapologetically honest, Casey Dancer is a story of resilience, vulnerability, and self-discovery. "In Casey Dancer, Kristin Casey invites readers into an unfiltered exploration of her journey through the complexities of sex, dating, and intimacy, transcending the superficial allure of romantic entanglements to uncover the raw truths that lie beneath. This candid memoir serves as a fearless examination of the often-unspoken realities of modern relationships, revealing not only the euphoric highs of passionate encounters but also the deep vulnerabilities that arise when one dares to be truly seen by another. With an honesty that is both refreshing and disarming, Kristin confronts her own choices and experiences with genuine curiosity, challenging societal norms and expectations along the way. Throughout the memoir, she thoughtfully references her first book, Rock Monster, which chronicled her whirlwind relationship with rock legend Joe Walsh. These poignant callbacks serve as effective reminders of where she's been and how those experiences have shaped her understanding of love and self. Through her journeys, both physical and emotional, Kristin pushes boundaries in ways that are not only refreshing but also deeply relatable. She invites readers to join her on a path of self-acceptance, exploring the intersections of sexuality, identity, and the relentless passage of time. Casey Dancer dares to ask the difficult questions, embracing the messy, beautiful, and sometimes painful realities of being human. It is a celebration of resilience, a testament to the strength found in vulnerability, and an invitation for readers to embark on their own journeys of self-discovery." -Chris Epting, memoirist and author of forty-five books including Where One Hears the Rain

    ABOUT KRISTEN CASEY

    Kristin Casey is a writer and recovered alcoholic and addict. Her first memoir Rock Monster: My Life with Joe Walsh documents their tumultuous six-year relationship and drug-fueled, train-wreck breakup. Her second, Casey Dancer: A Memoir About Dating, Stripping, and a Little Hot Yoga, chronicles her journey overcoming fear of intimacy in early sobriety. She's survived clinical depression, numerous addictions, the panhandle of Texas, and seventeen years of Catholicism. Her writing has appeared in the Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, The Nervous Breakdown, Please Kill Me, $pread, and elsewhere. She writes about addiction, dependency, sexuality, and relationships. She resides in Austin, Texas, where she's a certified sexuality counselor and retired intimacy coach and IPSA-trained surrogate partner.

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    11 mins
  • Deborah Archer, president of the ACLU

    Deborah Archer, president of the ACLU
    Apr 23 2025
    ABOUT DEBORAH ARCHER AND DIVIDING LINES

    From an eminent legal scholar and the president of the ACLU, an essential account of how transportation infrastructure-from highways and roads to sidewalks and buses-became a means of protecting segregation and inequality after the fall of Jim Crow.
    Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Dividing Lines, before we can think about rebuilding and repairing, we must consider the role race has played in transportation infrastructure, from the early twentieth century and into the present day.
    As Archer demonstrates, the success of the Civil Rights movement and the fall of Jim Crow in the 1960s did not mean the end of segregation. The status quo would not be so easily dismantled. With state-sanctioned racism no longer legal, officials across the country-not just in the South-turned to transportation infrastructure to keep Americans divided. A wealthy white neighborhood could no longer be "protected" by racial covenants and segregated shops, but a multilane road, with no pedestrian crossings, could be built along its border to make it difficult for people from a lower-income community to visit. Highways could not be routed through Black neighborhoods based on the race of their residents, but those neighborhoods' lower property values-a legacy of racial exclusion-could justify their destruction. A new suburb could not be for "whites only," but planners could refuse to extend sidewalks from Black communities into white ones.

    Drawing on a wealth of sources, including interviews with people who now live in the shadow of highways and other major infrastructure projects, Archer presents a sweeping, national account-from Atlanta and Houston to Indianapolis and New York City-of our persistent divisions. With immense authority, she examines the limits of current Civil Rights laws, which can be used against overtly racist officials but are less effective in addressing deeper, more enduring, structural challenges. But Archer remains hopeful, and in the final count describes what a just system would look like and how we can achieve it.

    ABOUT DEBORAH ARCHER

    Deborah N. Archer is president of the ACLU, where she serves as chair of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee. She is a tenured professor and associate dean at New York University School of Law and the faculty director of the Community Equity Initiative at NYU Law. She lives in New York with her husband and two children.

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    9 mins
  • Gospel Zero: Unleashing Radical Grace with Andrew Farley & John Lynch

    Gospel Zero: Unleashing Radical Grace with Andrew Farley & John Lynch
    Apr 22 2025
    Buckle up, Refocused fam—today we crack open the vault of raw, untamed grace. Host Shemaiah Reed sits down with Dr. Andrew Farley—best‑selling author, president of The Grace Message, and lead pastor with a reputation for torching religious red tape—and John Lynch—story‑driven speaker, former pastor, and co‑author of the cult‑classic The Cure. Their new co‑release, Gospel Zero (dropping March 18, 2025), isn’t just another devotional—it’s a sledgehammer aimed at legalism, doctrinal drowsiness, and the “good‑Christian checklist” mentality still haunting today’s church. In This Episode:
    • The spark that set Gospel Zero ablaze—and who they wrote it for.
    • How to rebel against toxic legalism without losing compassion.
    • “Doctrinal drowsiness”: why the modern church keeps hitting the snooze button.
    • Radical grace, defined—gritty, messy, life‑altering.
    • A blueprint for communities that actually live like grace is true.
    • Practical steps to ditch checkbox Christianity and rediscover the wild freedom Jesus promised.
    • Where to snag the book and stay plugged into Andrew’s radio show & John’s Trueface tribe.
    If you’re tired of the mundane and mediocre, craving something real and revolutionary, slide on those headphones and hit play. This convo might just be the wake‑up call your faith’s been waiting for. 🔗 Connect & Subscribe
    • Andrew Farley: thegracemessage.org | nightly call‑in radio show
    • John Lynch: trueface.org | Facebook & Insta @JohnSLynch

    Andrew Farley Dr. Andrew Farley is a bestselling author of nine books including The Grace Message, The Naked Gospel, and Twisted Scripture. He serves as president of The Grace Message, hosts a live, call-in radio program every weeknight, is the lead pastor of The Grace Church, and has been recognized with several awards for his excellence in teaching. Andrew lives in Texas with his wife Katharine and their son Gavin.

    John Lynch is a speaker, author, and former pastor. After 27 years as the teaching pastor at Open Door Fellowship in Phoenix, Arizona, John joined Trueface in 1997 and began speaking nationally and both authoring and coauthoring many resources such as The Cure and TrueFaced, and his own story in On My Worst Day. As an outlet for his love of writing and performing, John co-founded and was both a playwright and actor for Sharkey Productions, a theater troupe focused on Gospel-anchored theater productions for those still seeking Jesus. John and his wife Stacey have three grown children and a growing troupe of grandchildren.

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    29 mins
  • Dr. Sara Erdner, CMPC | Dear Coach

    Dr. Sara Erdner, CMPC | Dear Coach
    Apr 22 2025
    What began as a passion project during PhD research on the coach-athlete relationship quickly evolved into something more. It became evident that most popular-press books prioritize the coach’s voice when discussing best coaching practices, while the athlete’s perspective is largely absent. As athletes’ lived experiences were collected for a dissertation, it became clear that these stories needed to be shared beyond academic publications—where only a limited audience would have access to them. This realization led to the creation of Dear Coach, What I Wish I Could Have Told You: Letters from Your Athletes. The goal in promoting the book is to amplify the confidential voices of athletes and spark a larger conversation about necessary changes within the sporting arena. The hope is to share these stories with a wider audience and encourage meaningful dialogue.

    https://www.dearcoachbook.com/

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    30 mins
  • From 4,500 Flips to Inner Freedom: Brad Chandler on Reprogramming Your Life

    From 4,500 Flips to Inner Freedom: Brad Chandler on Reprogramming Your Life
    Apr 22 2025
    What happens when a real‑estate mogul with a multi‑million‑dollar empire realizes success can’t silence the voice that says, “You’re not enough”? In this episode, host Shemaiah Reed sits down with Brad Chandler—a man who built a business that runs itself, lost nearly everything that mattered, and then rebuilt his life from the inside out. Brad unpacks:
    • Why our “bad habits” aren’t moral failures but outdated survival programs.
    • The pivotal moment that pushed him from profit to purpose.
    • Simple, science‑backed techniques to rewrite limiting beliefs and ignite self‑love.
    • The hidden root of most relationship conflicts (hint: it starts long before the first date).
    • A step‑by‑step blueprint listeners can use today to break free from anxiety, self‑doubt, and burnout.
    If you’re an entrepreneur, parent, or anyone tired of hustling for worthiness, this conversation will flip the script on success—and hand you the tools to code a life you actually love. Tune in, take notes, and get ready to hit “refresh” on your mindset.

    Brad Chandler is a serial entrepreneur turned transformational coach who proves that true success isn’t measured only by net worth but by inner freedom. After flipping more than 4,500 homes and building a real‑estate engine that runs without him, Brad hit an unexpected wall: two failed marriages, $9 million in business blunders, and a dependence on alcohol and marijuana—all traced back to buried childhood trauma and a crippling belief that he wasn’t worthy. Determined to break the cycle, Brad dove into meditation, neural reprogramming, and radical self‑love. The result? A total life reboot that healed his family, reignited his purpose, and inspired a repeatable framework for lasting change. Today Brad helps entrepreneurs, parents, and high‑achievers rewrite subconscious “untruths,” dismantle self‑sabotage, and build relationships—and businesses—rooted in genuine freedom. His mission is simple: show people they’re not broken; they’re just running old code that’s ready for an upgrade.

    https://unlocklimitlessyou.com/self-love-quiz/

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    28 mins
  • When Truth Meets the Classroom: Why Christ-Centered Education Still Matters | Dr. Don Sweeting

    When Truth Meets the Classroom: Why Christ-Centered Education Still Matters | Dr. Don Sweeting
    Apr 22 2025
    What happens when “Christian” is just a label and not a life‑shaping force? Host Shemaiah Reed sits down with Dr. Don Sweeting—Chancellor of Colorado Christian University, seasoned pastor, scholar, and cultural commentator—to tackle that question head‑on. Dr. Sweeting shares:
    • Why being Christian is not enough in today’s academic arena.
    • How CCU bucked the nationwide enrollment slump with a 128 % surge.
    • The growing ideological imbalance on college campuses—and how parents and students can discern education vs. indoctrination.
    • Practical wisdom for young believers navigating a confused world.
    If you care about faith, truth, and the future of higher ed, this conversation will refocus your perspective and ignite your purpose.

    Dr. Donald W. Sweeting — Snapshot Bio
    • Chancellor, Colorado Christian University (2022–present)
    • President, CCU (2016–2022) – steered 13 straight years of record enrollment, launched CCU Academy for high‑schoolers, and opened new campus centers.
    • Former President, Reformed Theological Seminary (Orlando) and longtime pastor & church‑planter in Illinois and Colorado.
    • Academic creds: Moody Bible Institute (Bible‑Theology), B.A. History – Lawrence U., B.A./M.A. – Oxford, graduate work – Regent College, Ph.D. Historical Theology – Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
    • Thought leader & author: frequent contributor to Fox News, The Gospel Coalition, World, Townhall, and co‑author of How to Finish the Christian Life.
    • Boards & service: National Association of Evangelicals, International Alliance for Christian Education, EPC Theology Committee, Western Conservative Summit co‑chair.
    • Personal: Married to Christina; proud dad of four adult children.
    https://www.ccu.edu/

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    28 mins
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