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Two callings, one purpose
The Walls R Talkin’ with Kelly and Troy Walls – Krystal Polychronis shares how God brings her gifts for songwriting and artist management together in one purpose. From an unexpected encounter with Ben Fuller to a No. 1 Christian radio hit, her journey explores faith, obedience, and trusting God when a calling takes a path beyond her own original plans...
Servant leadership and the power of putting people first
The Human Equation with Joe Pangaro – Servant leaders flip the traditional leadership model. Instead of asking, “How can my people serve the organization or me?” they ask, “How can I serve my people so they can perform at their best?” Servant leadership is not soft or passive. It requires strength, discipline, and a willingness to put others first—even when it is inconvenient. But the payoff is...
Raining food: What manna teaches us about trusting God
FAITH IS… with Pastor Rick Stevens – The Israelites follow God into the wilderness, yet hunger makes them question His care. Manna arrives one day at a time, teaching them to trust His provision. Their struggle speaks to our fears when obedience leads through uncertainty and tomorrow’s answers remain out of sight. Even when the path looks uncertain, God hears and provides...
Fear, diagnosis, and the erosion of human agency
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Theodore Dalrymple examines how fear of illness, expanding diagnoses, and institutional incentives reshape the way people understand themselves. He questions weak medical claims and psychological labels that turn ordinary struggles into disorders, arguing that sound judgment and personal responsibility remain essential to healthy human agency...
Strong organizations begin with leaders who value people
The Human Equation with Joe Pangaro – Organizations that embrace mentoring benefit in multiple ways. Studies show that mentoring increases productivity, accelerates skill development, and strengthens leadership pipelines. Mentored employees are significantly more likely to be promoted, and they report higher levels of job satisfaction and workplace happiness. This leads to...
Stepping outside your comfort zone
The MAHA Lowdown with Jeff Louderback – Stepping outside your comfort zone opens the door to renewed purpose, stronger faith, and healthier living. Real growth comes through honest work, mindful habits, and the courage to embrace change. Each faithful step builds resilience, restores hope, and strengthens the families and communities we cherish...
Remembering Rusty
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Robin Armstrong – Rusty’s memory reminds his family that love thrives in simple acts of kindness, loyalty, and presence. His loss brings grief, but his legacy offers enduring lessons in patience, forgiveness, and gratitude, inspiring families and communities to value connection and show greater compassion toward one another...
The calling behind your restlessness
Don’t Imbibe the Kool-Aid with Kim Kennedy – We live in a culture that confuses motion with meaning. We chase status, money, approval, and novelty, then wonder why success feels thin. The answer is not to shrink our desires. It is to redirect them. Fulfillment does not come from climbing higher for our own sake. It comes from surrendering our plans and letting God lead...
The power to rise: Roberta Tekala’s story of resilience
Your Man, Monk with Monk Coleman – Roberta Tekala shares her journey from childhood trauma and teenage motherhood to earning a doctorate. Through cultural identity, education, and perseverance, she confronts alcoholism’s impact on her Native community and demonstrates how resilience transforms adversity into opportunity, offering hope to others facing their own struggles...
California’s smart bet on financial literacy
The Hidden Lightness with Jimmy Hinton – California’s financial literacy requirement gives high school students practical tools for budgeting, saving, and investing. As Americans face rising prices and mounting financial pressure, personal finance education helps young adults manage debt, build emergency funds, and prepare for unexpected expenses with greater confidence and resilience...
Stand firm: Let God fight your battles
FAITH IS… with Pastor Rick Stevens – Faith means trusting God’s wisdom even when fear closes in. Moses and the Red Sea remind us that deliverance rests on God’s faithfulness rather than human strength. Through uncertainty and hardship, His presence sustains us as we stand firm and surrender our need for control...
What changed inside the body before the cancer appeared?
The Tenpenny Files – Dr. Mark Sircus explores how mineral status, cellular energy, environmental exposures, and emotional stress shape his biological terrain approach to cancer. The conversation examines his views on magnesium, iodine, and mitochondrial function while encouraging readers to ask questions about their health before a diagnosis occurs...
Think outside the mortgage: Rethinking the American dream
The Hidden Lightness with Jimmy Hinton – As home prices fall and inventory grows, buyers gain negotiating power, but affordability remains challenging. High mortgage rates strain budgets, while tiny homes, downsizing, and unconventional living arrangements offer alternatives. Creative housing choices help Americans reduce expenses, build savings, and pursue greater long-term financial freedom...
Equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome
Don’t Imbibe the Kool-Aid with Kim Kennedy – Americans face rising living costs while political leaders offer flashy checks instead of lasting solutions. Inflation, national debt, and unchecked spending demand honesty and restraint. Financial stability depends on responsible leadership, disciplined saving, and careful financial planning that make everyday life more affordable for families...
What if holding it all together is the opposite of what God asked you to do
The Tenpenny Files – Nichole Suvar explores the connection between faith, anxiety, and the need for control. Through her Garden of Eden framework, she encourages healthy boundaries, surrender, and trust in God’s timing, reminding overwhelmed believers that cultivating peace does not require holding everything together or guaranteeing every outcome...
Rick Rescorla: The 9-11 hero who saved 2,700 lives
The Hidden Lightness with Jimmy Hinton – Rick Rescorla’s courage and preparation save approximately 2,700 lives on September 11. As chaos engulfs the World Trade Center, he leads employees to safety before returning for others. His sacrifice challenges Americans to honor tragedy through service, resilience, and a commitment to protecting one another...
Beyond Borders: Achilles on culture, connection, and self-love
Your Man, Monk with Monk Coleman – There are enough resources in the world for everyone to benefit. Rather than approaching life from a mindset of scarcity, Achilles encourages people to recognize the abundance around them and understand that we can all contribute to one another’s growth. He emphasizes the importance of uplifting others, creating opportunities for one another, and...
Building resilience through mobility training and focus
Informed Dissent with Dr. Jeff Barke – Troy Casey explores how movement, meditation, nutrition, and self-discipline build resilience and restore balance. He encourages a return to simple daily habits that support physical, mental, and emotional wellness while challenging distraction, dependency, and quick fixes through personal responsibility, purposeful living, and connection with nature...
When ideology clouds our view of history
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Learning from the past requires honest reflection rather than politically convenient interpretations. From judicial precedent and scientific integrity to socialist policies and declining school performance, life’s consequences challenge us to examine our assumptions, question institutional failures, and ask whether history truly informs our decisions today...
God introduces a “sign for you”
FAITH IS… with Pastor Rick Stevens – God offers signs that point us toward trust rather than fear. Through Passover and the cross, He reveals His protection, mercy, and faithfulness. Life’s struggles invite us to choose confidence in His promises, resist discouragement, and keep moving forward with hope firmly rooted in Christ...
91 year old man makes history hiking the entire Appalachian Trail
The Hidden Lightness with Jimmy Hinton – Dale Sanders, known as Grey Beard, makes history at 91 by hiking the entire Appalachian Trail. His journey celebrates perseverance, healthy aging, and the kindness of strangers, inspiring Americans of every generation to embrace movement, pursue meaningful goals, and discover new possibilities at any age...
The DNA way: Unlock the secrets of your genes to reverse disease, slow aging, and achieve optimal wellness
The Tenpenny Files – Kashif Khan explores how genetics influence detoxification, metabolism, sleep, stress, supplements, relationships, and healthy aging, revealing why identical health advice can produce different results. His functional genomics approach encourages people to understand their unique biological instructions before choosing diets, treatments, or wellness protocols for themselves...
Wait… isn’t that a dewormer?
The Nurses Report on America Out Loud with Ashley Caputo, RN, FMP – I explore repurposed drugs, cancer biology, metabolic support, and integrative therapies while examining what research actually shows. I discuss ivermectin, fenbendazole, red-light therapy, nutrition, and faith, emphasizing evidence, safety, advocacy, and individualized care for people navigating difficult cancer treatment decisions and supportive options carefully...
Beyond survival: Chris Thompson’s power to choose
Your Man, Monk with Monk Coleman – Chris explores the idea that many of us live according to programs that were established long before we ever had the opportunity to question them. These programs can come from our families, our environments, our experiences, and the beliefs we develop about ourselves and the world around us. Without realizing it, we can allow those...
Breaking the poverty mindset through biblical wisdom
Don’t Imbibe the Kool-Aid with Kim Kennedy – Spiritual attitudes, personal choices, and financial habits shape how people experience poverty and prosperity. Biblical teachings challenge scarcity thinking, victim mentality, pride, and selfish motives while encouraging faith, wise counsel, balanced stewardship, and a Kingdom-focused approach to wealth, adversity, responsibility, and everyday provision with gratitude...
A functional approach to midlife women’s health: Hormones, foundations, and frequency-specific microcurrent therapy
The Nurses Report on America Out Loud with Melissa Schreibfeder, BSN, RN, BC-FMP – We explore a functional approach to midlife women’s health, focusing on foundational wellness, gut health, inflammation, individualized hormone therapy, and frequency-specific microcurrent. Our conversation also examines sound therapy, healing support, and how these modalities align with a Christian perspective on wellness...
Natural health: More choices, more control
The Nurses Report with Nicole, Ashley & David – Natural health education gives people practical tools, greater confidence, and more choices for improving wellness. Julie Whitman Kline discusses Trinity School of Natural Health, holistic training, community support, herbal resources, upcoming events, and opportunities that empower individuals to take a more active role in health...
The last of the firsts: Savoring the back-to-school years
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Angelina Farella – The first day of school symbolizes a child's independence and an annual milestone achievement. It can also be a nerve-wracking experience for parents. The first day of kindergarten and the first day leaving your kid at college are highly charged emotional days. School used to start after Labor Day in September, but in recent years it has been...
Beyond the ego: Dr. Taylor McIntyre’s journey into holistic healing
Your Man, Monk with Monk Coleman – This is a conversation about trauma, family, purpose, holistic healing, self-realization, and the journey beyond the ego toward a more connected and compassionate world. Taylor explores the importance of releasing the ego and moving toward a life of service. She believes that when we begin to let go of the need to be driven by...
Better work environments through servant leadership
Informed Dissent with Dr. Jeff Barke – Servant leadership transforms workplaces by putting people, trust, humility, and responsibility ahead of status. Strong leaders listen, support their teams, reward meaningful contributions, and lead by example. When employees feel valued as partners, morale rises, talent grows, and organizations build lasting cultures rooted in service...
Nobody is coming to save you
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – John Hawkins argues that confidence grows through responsibility, hardship, and action rather than constant protection and blame. From financial independence to resilience, relationships, and modern distractions, he urges young adults to build useful skills, accept reality, make difficult choices, and take ownership of their future...
The terrain ten, part 2: Looking beyond the tumor
The Nurses Report on America Out Loud with Ashley Caputo, RN, FMP – We explore the remaining Terrain Ten factors, examining immune regulation, inflammation, circulation, hormones, biorhythms, stress, and emotional health while showing how interconnected systems shape whole-person cancer support, resilience, patient advocacy, and informed healthcare decisions beyond focusing solely on the tumor itself...
The conversations we avoid: Planning for the end of life
The Nurses Report on America Out Loud with Kimberly Overton, BSN, RN, BC-FMP – Planning for the end of life becomes easier when families discuss final wishes before a crisis. Kimberly Overton and Daniel Lopez explore advance directives, patient autonomy, funeral planning, financial pressures, and personalized celebrations of life that help loved ones make informed decisions with greater peace...
Finding hope navigating an obscure path
The Tenpenny Files – Bruce Wolff shares how childhood loss, missionary upheaval, bitterness, and unanswered questions shape his understanding of God. Through forgiveness, faith, and missionary aviation, he discovers that trusting God often means taking one illuminated step at a time, even when the path ahead remains completely unclear...
The missing pieces of women’s hormonal health
The Nurses Report on America Out Loud with Melissa Schreibfeder, BSN, RN, BC-FMP – Women discover how functional medicine, nutrition, metabolic health, and nervous system regulation can address the root causes of hormonal symptoms. Christin Smoot shares her journey through PCOS, PMDD, thyroid dysfunction, migraines, and burnout while highlighting holistic strategies that support lasting wellness and recovery...
Why is the University of Michigan hiding grades from incoming freshman?
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The University of Michigan plans to hide incoming freshmen’s grades beginning in 2027, arguing the change supports mental health and academic exploration. Critics question whether masking grades weakens rigor, accountability, perseverance, and students’ ability to confront challenges that prepare them for future success and resilience...
Beyond the finish line: Jacob Sievers’ journey through adversity to purpose
Your Man, Monk with Monk Coleman – Like millions of other young people, Jacob suddenly found himself dealing with uncertainty and restrictions during a time that was supposed to be filled with important milestones. One of the most significant disappointments was not having the opportunity to walk across the stage at his high school graduation. A moment that should have...
The irreconcilable divide: Artificial intelligence vs. wisdom
The Counter Momentum of Spin, with Dr. Franco Musio – Artificial intelligence processes vast data with speed and efficiency, but wisdom draws on human experience, moral reasoning, compassion, humility, and reflection. Exploring their irreconcilable differences reveals why technological power cannot replace consciousness, sound judgment, acceptance of uncertainty, or concern for society’s long-term well-being and...
The turning point: How Donnie Walsh reclaimed his life
Your Man, Monk with Monk Coleman – Everything changed after one night of drinking ended in a violent altercation. Donnie suffered serious injuries, was arrested, and found himself facing the consequences of years of unhealthy choices. That painful experience became the wake-up call he needed. Determined to change, he entered a rehabilitation program where he began the...
Understanding probiotics when you have sensitivities
Informed Dissent with Dr. Jeff Barke – Probiotics and carefully chosen supplements support sensitive bodies without unnecessary fillers, synthetic ingredients, or megadosing. A food-first approach emphasizes gut health, magnesium, cod liver oil, transparent labels, and nutrient balance while encouraging people to identify deficiencies and restore wellness through practical, natural choices each day...