Unleashed

Everyone is waiting on God for something. Ryan’s fastest way back to peace is simple: stop and remember every time God has already come through. In this teaching he walks back through more than 40 years of God’s faithfulness, starting with a childhood Bible and Proverbs 3:5–6 printed on a dot matrix printer. Ryan shares how a prompting to write a memo in a congressional office led to meeting his w...

Back in high school, Vanessa Nunez felt God put a book on her heart: Do You Know Who God Is? Years later, after Bible college, children's ministry, and 12 years running a newborn photography business, she still wondered if her gift really mattered. Then God gave her a dream about a key, and she threw it away. Ryan and Vanessa talk about why "I'm way too busy" is the sneaky lie that keeps so many m...

In 2020, Zach Rippey lost his comedy career to COVID and found Jesus in the Gospel of John. That same year, his best friend Armani was drawn closer to the Lord too. Months later, Armani had a stroke while white-water rafting and never came home. Zach’s new book, Me, Armani, and Jesus, took him back to the cabin and the river where Armani spent his last days. Ryan and Zach talk about why grief hit...

Kim Gilson was teaching her stuffed animals at age ten, and she’s been a teacher ever since: in the classroom, as an assistant principal, as a state accountability consultant, and now on stage. Her message is built on the seven motivational gifts from Romans 12, and her struggle is the one a lot of gifted people share. God wired her to teach and speak. He didn’t wire her to market herself. On this...

Gary Jepsen resisted going live for a long time. Then he finally hit the button. At his first Friday night Facebook Live, a woman with a torn meniscus was walking without pain or a knee brace by the end of the 45-minute call, and everyone who asked received prayer or a prophetic word. In this Igniting Vision call, Ryan and Gary build out the strategy behind it. They cover how a single weekly live...

At five years old, Shawn Kennedy pretended her bedroom was full of people, and she was helping them heal. She knew she'd write a book one day. Then came decades of trauma, mental illness, addiction, and a learning disability that convinced her she was "dumb and stupid." In this episode, Shawn shares how God never let go of that dream, how a lie finally broke, and how she wrote not one but two book...

Lachele Bryant spent 35+ years in law enforcement investigating crimes against children and 11 years sitting on a word from God. In this Igniting Vision call, she opens up about the vase she wrote on in 2015, the family gathering she finally hosted a decade later, and the ministry, She Is Becoming, now taking shape because of it. Lachele and Ryan talk honestly about disobedience, timing, and what...

Cassandra is a ranch wife and homeschool mom of five who said yes to a message before she had a plan, a platform, or even confidence she was "the teacher" type. Holy Spirit told her to start a YouTube channel so she did, with zero clarity on what would come next.    In this episode, she shares the message on her heart for women everywhere: God is not disappointed in you. He's not waiting for you t...

Zac Brown - musician, creative director, and worship pastor sits down with Ryan to talk about something most driven believers never learn: how to actually rest.    Zac shares the season of burnout that led his church leadership to send him away for a week alone in a cabin with no Wi-Fi  and what happened when God finally got him to stop. From Elijah's snack-and-nap prescription to the lie that bus...

In this Igniting Vision episode, Catherine Bass shares how losing her husband in a sudden accident led her to a moment in the hospital that changed everything and how that moment became a calling to help widows rebuild. From writing her story to launching TikTok in her grief to building a business around financial and emotional healing for widows, Catherine's journey is a powerful reminder that yo...

For 25+ years, Shirley Corcoran has lived with multiple sclerosis — and for the last several, she's done it from a wheelchair. In this Igniting Vision coaching call, Shirley sits down with Ryan to unpack how a quiet whisper from God — "let them know their power is in their words" — turned into a full-blown ministry. That whisper became In the Spare Room: a monthly, physically mailed letter written...

This is a new kind of episode for Unleashed - an Igniting Vision call. These calls are coaching sessions for the person Ryan's interviewing, but the heart of it is for you. Watching someone take what's on their heart and turn it into something real — piece by piece — is exactly how Ryan learned to grow his own business, and that's what unleashes an audience: seeing it happen in someone else's stor...

This week Ryan takes listeners on a journey back in time — literally. Picking up a journal he started writing in 2012, he shares entries from some of the hardest and most formative seasons of his life: navigating business uncertainty, walking through loss, and sensing God speak the simple but powerful words, "I am your source." Along the way, Ryan discovers something else in those old pages — the...

What if the things that have always fascinated you aren't random at all? In this episode, Ryan sits down with Steve Uppal, senior leader of All Nations Church in Wolverhampton, UK, and apostolic leader of the All Nations Movement. Steve shares how paying attention to your passions, your gifts, and even the injustices that make you angry can reveal what God wrote for you long before you were born....

Have you ever felt the nudge toward something — a book, a calling, a dream — and just... not moved? In this episode, Ryan unpacks a single verse from 1 Thessalonians 5 that stopped him mid-reading and reframed everything he does through this podcast. Feeling inadequate isn't disqualifying — it's actually one of the most common things Ryan hears from people on the edge of stepping into what God cal...

What does it look like to step into your calling when you can't even see it yourself? Antonio Thompson, life coach, motivator, and host of the Winners for Life Coaching Podcast, shares the real story behind his 100-episode journey: the gaps, the discouragement, and the people who saw something in him before he could see it in himself. The conversation builds to a moment that might change how you t...

What does it look like to step into your calling when you can't even see it yourself? Antonio Thompson, life coach, motivator, and host of the Winners for Life Coaching Podcast, shares the real story behind his 100-episode journey: the gaps, the discouragement, and the people who saw something in him before he could see it in himself. The conversation builds to a moment that might change how you t...

What if being unleashed isn't really about you at all and it's about God being expressed through you? In this episode, Ryan shares a powerful truth from Hebrews 13 and Ephesians 1 - inside every believer is a unique expression of God that the earth won't see unless you say yes. The same power that raised Christ from the dead lives in you. That's not just theology...it's your assignment. If you've...

Do you have a dream in your heart but you're not sure it counts as "real ministry"? In this episode, Ryan shares a personal revelation — he's a business planter — and invites kingdom-minded entrepreneurs to step into the calling God has placed on their lives.   Try Kingdom Launchpad for FREE for 7 Days - https://www.skool.com/kingdom-launchpad-6884/about

What if the thing that changed your life was someone seeing something in you that you couldn't see in yourself? Travis Vaughan of Upward Sports knows that feeling firsthand. A coach's nudge on a school bus led to a college scholarship, a career in ministry, and a 7-year pursuit of the Boston Marathon. In this episode, Travis unpacks how Upward Sports serves 225,000 kids annually across 47 states,...

What's been sitting on your heart for years that you still haven't done anything about? In this episode, we dig into one of the most practical and convicting passages in Scripture — James 4:7 — and break down four steps that will move you from stuck to launched. We talk about why delaying your calling isn't wisdom, what submission to God actually means in the original Greek, and how to get out in...

There's a thought that hits almost every person who feels called to something. It shows up right after the excitement, right after the tug. It sounds like this: yeah, but that won't pay the bills.   In this episode, Travis Peters joins me to talk about why that thought is one of the enemy's most effective delay tactics and why so many believers have spent years, sometimes decades, treating the God...

You don't have to have it all figured out. You just have to be willing to be led. In this episode, Ryan opens up about a season of transition — selling his business and feeling like he's starting over — and what God spoke to him in the middle of it. Looking back at every major turning point in his life, he kept landing on the same truth: he didn't make those things happen. He followed simple promp...

You've felt the pull toward something... a dream, a calling, an idea that won't go away and you've also felt the weight of not knowing how it's supposed to happen. But what if you've been approaching it wrong? In this episode, Ryan digs into Genesis 1:28 and uncovers a sequence that changes everything: God blessed them before He ever gave the command to be fruitful. The empowerment came first. Eve...

There's a dream sitting in you. You've prayed about it, sensed the nudge of the Holy Spirit, maybe for years, but you haven't moved.   In this conversation, Ryan talks about: Why the miracles are in the movement, not in the waiting What to do when the people closest to you meet your vision with silence or doubt How to take the one small step that gets God's direction flowing Why your breakthrough...