The Elisha Show: Purpose Driven Life & Mastery

On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha continues his storytelling series about God’s Kingdom and humanity’s identity as royal dispatchers sent to fulfill God’s purposes on earth.

He explores how worldly values can distort human purpose, how sin fractured humanity’s relationship with God, and why human transformation requires more than knowledge, resources, or better systems. He then turns to Jesus Christ, the Son sent by the King to reveal the Father’s character, call people to repentance, and bring the Kingdom of God near.

✅ How worldly values can distract people from...

On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Bobbie Cox about faith, purpose, spiritual growth, and creating habits that reflect the fruit of the Spirit.

Bobbie shares how a moment during the pandemic led to the creation of Branch to Hope, an app, books, bracelets, and challenges designed to help people intentionally practice love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control in everyday life.

✅ How Bobbie’s “1:11 moment” led to Branch to Hope

✅ Using colors as daily reminders of the fruit of the Spirit

✅ “Wear the color, walk th...

On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Tierah “Bob” Lothbrok, a facilitator and author, about leadership, decision making, indecision, and what happens when people become stuck.

Bob explains why a leader’s primary responsibility is to make decisions, how indecision can cost organizations time and momentum, and why leaders must become comfortable making decisions without having perfect information.

✅ Why a leader’s primary role is to decide

✅ How indecision creates lost opportunities and organizational stagnation

✅ Why leaders should make smaller decisions faster

✅ How to overcome the fear of maki...

On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Byron Irwin about turning waste into valuable resources and using sustainability to strengthen communities. Byron shares how his recycling and composting work grew into a sustainability campus that supports youth programs, community gardens, education, and local families.

He also explains why he believes success is not measured by money or possessions, but by the opportunities and impact we leave for the next generation.

✅ How waste can become a valuable community resource

✅ Turning recycling and composting into funding for youth programs

✅ Why co...

On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Dr. Julie Kaesberg about preventive health, functional medicine, early detection, lifestyle choices, and building a healthier life before serious health problems arise.

Dr. Julie shares her journey from anesthesiology to functional medicine and explains why she believes health should be treated as a foundation for living an excellent life. She discusses a case involving early cancer detection, the role of comprehensive testing, exercise, muscle health, nutrition, sleep, and how everyday choices can influence long term health.

✅ Why health is a foundation for an excellent li...

On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Jeffrey Kozlowski about his journey from drug and alcohol addiction to sobriety, personal growth, and a renewed approach to life. Jeffrey shares how a crisis moment led him toward recovery and how his experiences eventually inspired him to write his book.

Jeffrey also explains how principles from investing, including delayed gratification, consistency, and long term thinking, can apply to sobriety and recovery. He discusses the importance of changing your environment, accepting help, building responsibility, and taking recovery one day at a time.

✅ Jeffrey’s jour...

What legal challenges arise when healthcare businesses scale, handle patient data, and adopt AI? On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with healthcare lawyer John Rhodes about healthcare law, HIPAA, data privacy, AI regulation, and the legal complexities of expanding healthcare businesses across multiple states.

John shares lessons from his 20 year career in healthcare law, including his experience helping Walmart Health expand across states and why he eventually launched his own healthcare law firm. He also explains why healthcare businesses need to look beyond HIPAA and understand state privacy laws, data governance, and the...

On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha introduces The Royal Dispatchers, a kingdom story about identity, purpose, assignment, and humanity’s responsibility to represent God on earth.

Through the story, he explores how people can become so shaped by society that they forget why they were created, what they carry, and who sent them. The episode challenges listeners to see their abilities and resources not simply as possessions, but as things entrusted to them to serve others and fulfill their assignment.

✅ Why humanity was created in God’s image

✅ The idea of being...

What happens when an encounter with Jesus completely changes the direction of your life? On this solo episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha continues sharing his salvation story, describing how he moved from a Muslim background and resistance to Christianity to becoming a follower of Jesus and discovering a new sense of purpose.

Amb. Elisha shares his encounter with Jesus, receiving the Holy Spirit, his early experiences of ministry, and how his character and relationships began to change. He also explains why he believes following Jesus is about more than religion or a label, but about...

What makes a book continue getting discovered long after launch? On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Sarah Bean, Head of Marketing and Partnerships at Book Launchers, about self-publishing, book marketing, audience building, and how AI is changing book discoverability.

Sarah explains why authors should understand their target reader before writing, how GEO and SEO can help books become more discoverable through AI, and why consistent content, relationships, podcasts, email lists, and public discussion can build lasting momentum.

✅ Why a book launch is the beginning, not the finish line

✅ How...

Why do we keep repeating the same patterns even when we understand them? On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Anat Peri about emotional patterns, self awareness, nervous system safety, relationships, and the journey of personal transformation.

Anat shares her own journey from low self esteem and codependency to discovering deeper emotional tools, and explains why awareness alone may not create lasting change. She also explores how childhood experiences can influence adult relationships and how learning to experience emotions can build greater emotional capacity and resilience.

✅ Why emotional patterns keep repeating

What does it take to move from simply having a dream to creating a life you actually want? On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with mindset and performance coach Margaretrose Cox about emotional intelligence, decision making, personal growth, and helping young people find the right path for their future.

Margaretrose explains how to become more responsive instead of reactive, understand emotional triggers, and create practical plans based on your own interests rather than other people’s expectations.

✅ How DISC and emotional intelligence reveal behavior under pressure

✅ Moving from reactive awaren...

How does color affect the way we feel, behave, and experience our environment? On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Laurie Hartley-Moore, a holistic health practitioner, consultant, and author of The Color Constitution, about the science, psychology, and practical uses of color.

Laurie explains how people can use color intentionally in their wardrobe, homes, presentations, branding, business, and professional environments. She also shares her journey of learning, Native American medicine traditions, and her vision to make color a practical household resource.

✅ How color can influence mood, confidence, and environment

✅ The...

How can stress affect the body, and what can we learn by paying closer attention to physical symptoms? On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with interior designer and wellness educator Jeanette Chasworth about breast health, stress, emotional wellbeing, color psychology, and her personal journey toward helping women understand their bodies.

Jeanette shares how her experiences with asthma, breast pain, grief, and interior design led her to explore the relationship between emotions, physical sensations, and our surrounding environments.

✅ How chronic stress can affect the body

✅ Jeanette’s personal journey with asthma...

What is the difference between school and education, and how can parents choose the right learning environment for their children? On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with educator and author Meagan Sharp about homeschooling, parenting, education choices, and helping children learn in ways that work for them.

Meagan shares her journey from teaching and school leadership to homeschooling her children and writing Breaking Up with School, explaining why she believes education can happen beyond the traditional classroom.

✅ The difference between school and education

✅ Why some children struggle in traditional scho...

What shapes our identity, and how can we move beyond anxiety, limiting beliefs, and unfulfilling work? On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Adefehintola Ajibola about identity, anxiety, faith, purpose, career transitions, and the deeper beliefs that shape how we navigate life.

Fehintola shares her journey from architecture and professional work to discovering her calling to help others, including how her Christian faith transformed her experience with anxiety and changed her understanding of identity.

✅ Why your identity is deeper than your job, role, or relationships

✅ How anxiety and childhood expe...

In this personal episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha shares the beginning of his journey from being raised in a Muslim background to becoming a follower of Jesus.

He recounts his resistance to the gospel, the people who continued to speak to him about Jesus with love and persistence, and the encounter that became the beginning of his transformation.

✅ Growing up in a Muslim family in Nigeria

✅ Why he initially resisted conversations about Jesus

✅ The role of love and persistence in sharing the gospel

✅ How his search for answers...

What makes work truly fulfilling, and when is it time to change careers? On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with executive coach Randi Roberts about career transitions, personal values, meaningful work, and learning from difficult seasons.

Randi shares lessons from more than 30 years in the pharmaceutical industry and her transition into executive coaching, explaining how self awareness helped her recognize what she needed in the next phase of her life.

✅ Why people often prioritize career growth without asking what actually fulfills them

✅ How understanding your values can reveal what is m...

Can the choices you make today change what gets passed down to the next generation?

On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Curtis Larson about childhood trauma, alcohol addiction, faith, accountability, and his journey toward becoming what he calls a “chainbreaker.”

Curtis shares how confronting his past, taking responsibility, and surrendering his life to God changed his direction.

✅ How childhood trauma shaped Curtis’s life

✅ His journey from addiction to sobriety

✅ Why understanding your past should not become an excuse

✅ What it means to break gener...

What if some of the patterns holding you back are connected to unresolved trauma?

On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Carrie Davidson, a nurse, trauma recovery coach, and author of Addicted to Trauma, about CPTSD, addiction, emotional flashbacks, and changing deeply rooted patterns.

✅ CPTSD and how it differs from PTSD

✅ The connection between trauma and addiction

✅ How trauma can shape repeated patterns and behaviors

✅ Carrie’s Conscious Creation Method

✅ Why nervous system regulation matters

✅ How creativity can support the healing process

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What does it mean to become a person of strong character, purpose, and virtue in a world filled with distractions?

On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Boad Swanson, author of Great Soul Men, about virtue, masculinity, purpose, generosity, and the character required to build a meaningful life.

Boad shares how his own journey shaped his desire to help a new generation of men develop the virtues needed to serve their families and communities. Drawing from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics alongside examples from figures such as Steph Curry, George Washington, Abraham Li...

What if the place where you feel pain isn't actually where the problem begins?

On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with exercise professional Glen Owen about pain, mobility, strength, exercise mechanics, and how the body adapts to injuries and movement patterns over time.

Glen explains why understanding the underlying cause of discomfort can be more useful than simply treating the painful area and challenges common assumptions about stretching and mobility.

✅ Why pain may be a symptom rather than the source of the problem

✅ How previous injuries can chan...

On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Alicia Botyrius about preventive healthcare, stroke and heart disease risk, and why feeling healthy does not always mean there are no hidden health risks.

Alicia shares her work with Life Line Screening and explains how affordable preventive screenings can help identify potential risks before they become serious health emergencies.

✅ What proactive healthcare means and why early detection matters

✅ Stroke and cardiovascular disease risk factors

✅ What Life Line Screening tests for

✅ Why some preventive screenings may not be part of a rou...

What happens when success, intelligence, money, and ambition still cannot answer life’s deepest questions?

On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Mark Neyer, a former technology entrepreneur and engineer whose journey took him through Silicon Valley, financial markets, addiction, personal crisis, and eventually a renewed faith in Jesus Christ.

Mark shares how his early questions about God led him toward science, mathematics, technology, and a career connected to companies such as Uber, Twilio, and Google. He also opens up about how addiction and an existential crisis forced him to reconsider wh...

How can entrepreneurs use AI agents and automation to scale a business, reduce repetitive work, and unlock new opportunities?

On this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Olga Popova, an entrepreneur using artificial intelligence to transform how her business operates. Olga shares her journey from building a marketing and advertising business from scratch to operating with 2 humans and 27 AI agents.

She explains how AI can support business processes, automate routine tasks, expand productivity, and help people make better use of the opportunities already around them.

✅ Building and scaling a business wi...

What if your life was never meant to be reduced to working, paying bills, surviving, and eventually dying? In this solo episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha explores purpose, assignment, work, love, and what it means to live as an ambassador of God’s Kingdom on earth.

✅ Why your existence is bigger than simply making a living and maintaining yourself

✅ How the potential God placed inside you can become a solution that others need

✅ The difference between your job and your work, and why your assignment is connected to what you were sent to...

What if understanding the body requires looking beyond the symptoms? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Dr. Matt Singer about his journey into holistic medicine, healing, nutrition, the mind-body connection, the soul, and the differences between holistic and conventional approaches to health.

✅ How losing his grandmother as a teenager inspired Dr. Matt to search for approaches focused on the underlying causes of illness

✅ What muscle testing is and how Dr. Matt says he uses it to investigate possible factors contributing to health concerns

✅ Why Dr. Matt emphasizes individualized approa...

What happens when success, achievement, and leadership still leave you feeling empty? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Jesse Hardy about purpose, faith, leadership, burnout, forgiveness, and aligning your life with God’s heart.

✅ How Jesse’s difficult childhood and early decision to serve shaped his journey toward success

✅ Why achieving money, education, power, and corporate success still left Jesse asking, “Is there more?”

✅ How following Jesus and forgiving his father changed Jesse’s understanding of identity and purpose

✅ Why clarity about who you are, what success means, and...

What happens when loving your child is not enough to truly understand them? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with David Francis about fatherhood, leadership, purpose, parenting, faith, and the importance of understanding the unique needs of each child.

✅ Why David describes himself as an “apple tree” and how discovering what you are meant to produce can shape your life

✅ How David’s journey from studying to become a priest to entrepreneurship was shaped by his desire to serve others

✅ Why loving your children is not the same as understandin...

What happens when the life you built takes you far away from the person you were meant to become? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Dr. David Hoskins about addiction, faith, transformation, habits, surrender, purpose, and helping others heal from struggles he once experienced himself.

✅ How Dr. David’s early Christian upbringing eventually led him to question the faith he had inherited and walk away from it

✅ What happened during his years in the former Soviet Union and how addiction and destructive choices affected his life and relationships

✅ The mome...

What if meditation is less about stopping your thoughts and more about learning to be still with them? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Ray Schloss about meditation, spirituality, wellness, longevity, biohacking, peptides, GLP 1s, and the experiences that shaped his approach to helping others thrive.

✅ How Ray transitioned from a 17 year career at Microsoft into a life focused on music, spirituality, wellness, and coaching

✅ Why meditation can feel difficult when we expect ourselves to completely stop thinking

✅ How releasing the pressure to “meditate correctly” can make stillness more acces...

What happened when rebellion first entered heaven, and what can the story of the angels teach us about spiritual warfare today? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Rick Norris about his faith journey, Bible teaching, musical novels, angelic warfare, human struggles, and the unseen battle for the soul.

✅ How Rick’s childhood experience with his father’s departure introduced him to faith and shaped his journey

✅ What inspired Rick to create the musical novel, a unique combination of storytelling, music, and interactive technology

✅ How his Angelic Wars trilogy explores L...

What happens when life changes in an instant and the future you imagined no longer looks possible? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Ayis Caperonis about surviving a life threatening medical emergency, living through years of depression, faith, family, resilience, and finding light in the darkest seasons of life.

✅ How a childhood brain tumor and emergency surgery changed the direction of Ayis’s life

✅ The devastating impact of losing his motor skills and returning to a life that suddenly looked completely different

✅ How working alongside children with disabilities became a...

Why can weight loss feel harder after 30, and what if sustainable transformation is about much more than becoming smaller? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Ashley Perry Lambert about women’s health, strength training, nutrition, faith, identity, and creating a healthier life that supports your purpose.

✅ Why weight loss can become more challenging after 30 and why building and preserving muscle matters

✅ Why Ashley believes fitness should fit into your life rather than take you away from it

✅ How faith can anchor your identity beyond your appearance, weight, or physical...

What if the ordinary moments of parenting could become some of your child’s most treasured memories? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Craig Parks about parenting, connection, autism, creating meaningful childhood memories, and using what parents already have to build deeper relationships with their children.

✅ How raising a son on the autism spectrum transformed Craig’s understanding of love, connection, and parenting

✅ Why children need to feel seen, understood, and connected, and how parents can create that through everyday moments

✅ How using your body, voice, facial expressions, and physic...

What can a cancer diagnosis teach us about the value of time, relationships, and everyday life? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Andy Nelson about surviving cancer, faith, gratitude, leadership, clarity, and using difficult experiences to help others live with greater perspective.

✅ How a stage four cancer diagnosis changed Andy’s perspective on time, energy, and relationships

✅ Why he describes clarity as a light that can guide you when the path ahead is uncertain

✅ How faith and years of silent retreats helped Andy navigate his cancer journey

✅ Why...

What happens when mothers spend so much time caring for everyone else that they forget to care for themselves? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Tammy Powder about motherhood, self-care, asking for help, shame, compassion, and why caring for yourself can strengthen the people you love.

✅ Why mothers often put everyone else’s needs ahead of their own

✅ The “red juice” analogy and how accumulated stress can eventually spill over onto everyone around you

✅ Why asking for help can feel like failure and how mothers can begin to see support...

What happens when the things God gave you begin to control you instead of serving their purpose? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha explores stewardship, identity, possessions, and what changes when we understand that God is King and everything we have is entrusted to us for His purposes.

✅ Why recognizing God as King changes the way we view everything we have

✅ How money, possessions, careers, abilities, and influence can become masters instead of resources

✅ The childhood experience that taught Amb. Elisha that he owns nothing and is only a steward of God...

Can you really buy a business without having millions of dollars, perfect credit, or years of experience? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Curtis Brown about creative business acquisition, leveraging relationships, ownership, mindset, and finding opportunities where others see limitations.

✅ How Curtis went from driving a taxi to becoming a real estate broker and business owner

✅ The creative financing strategy he used to acquire a $3 million self-storage business

✅ How he leveraged an experienced employee to solve the experience and credit challenge

✅ Why competitors can sometimes become strategi...

What happens when reaching the top leaves you feeling empty? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with James Miller II about the loneliness of leadership, identity, failure, rest, faith, and learning to lead without losing yourself.

✅ Why success and leadership can sometimes create unexpected loneliness

✅ How leaders can lose their personal identity behind their professional roles

✅ What failure, bankruptcy, and divorce taught James about leadership and vulnerability

✅ The powerful lesson James learned when his daughter simply wanted his attention

✅ The 5R Framework: Reflect, Reconnect, Replenish, Reframe, a...