Beyond the Draft

Jason C. Johnson Sr. is an author, conference speaker, licensed and ordained minister, and creator of The 4-Step Biblical Discernment Framework. After overcoming false teaching early in his own Christian walk, he's dedicated his ministry to equipping believers with practical, Scripture-based tools for evaluating sermons, prophecies, and Christian teaching. He hosts The Miseducation of God's People...

At 67 years old, Beth Brookhart published her first book, the humorous historical fiction The Four Queens of the Buttonbush Museum. Drawing on 17 years serving on her local historical museum board, Beth turned the wild, sometimes chaotic reality of volunteer leadership into a story anyone who's ever served on a committee will recognize. In this episode, Beth shares how nearly two decades of museum...

Hidden conversation with Angela page

Mohamed Nabil is an independent philosopher and author of multiple books, including The Bachelors of Egypt and My Interview with ChatGPT. He created AIDOP, AI Debates on One's Publications, prompting AI tools to critique his own work and publishing the unedited transcripts within 24 hours, and he's codified the concept of Enlightened Populism as an alternative to blind elitism and ignorant populis...

Ken Webb served 33 years in the U.S. Army, rising to Lieutenant Colonel with combat deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo. But his battles began long before the military, growing up in a home marked by trauma and chaos. After retiring from the Army and later from American Airlines, Ken walked away from a contractor job to finally pursue something more meaningful: writing his debut psycholog...

Catherine Crestani is the author of My Virtual Obsession, a psychological novel exploring how loneliness and modern connection are reshaping relationships. With a background in speech pathology, business, and intuitive guidance, she's spent years observing how people communicate, attach, and often override what they know to be true in order to maintain connection. In this episode, Catherine unpack...

Wes Towers didn't learn marketing in a lecture hall, he learned it building his agency, Uplift 360, from scratch over more than 20 years, helping builders and trades turn websites and SEO into steady, qualified work. He's also the host of the podcast Built. Trusted. Chosen. In this episode, Wes explains why so many construction companies still struggle to stand out online, the most costly website...

Frank Joseph is the award-winning author of the Chicago Trilogy, three novels, To Love Mercy, To Walk Humbly, and To Do Justice, that tell the story of a city torn apart by racial turmoil at mid century. As a white boy growing up on Chicago's South Side, Frank lived through the disruption of a racially changing neighborhood and the "white flight" that followed. Later, as an Associated Press journa...

After 46 years working inside large corporations and governments, Kevin Coleman realized that all of that work was silently slipping away, and that at the end of his life, there would be little to show he'd been there. So he wrote a book. Then another. He's now the owner and publisher at Northern Forest Publishing, an independent hybrid publisher specializing in professional business books, and he...

Robert J. Wolf, MD, is a neuroradiologist and the award-winning author of Not a Real Enemy: The True Story of a Hungarian Jewish Man's Fight for Freedom, a biography about his father, a four-time escape artist who survived both Nazi and Communist Hungary. Ervin Wolf escaped the Nazis twice, only to later risk everything again to flee communism in the dead of a winter night. In this episode, Robert...

Nancy K. Napier spent over 35 years as a Distinguished Professor at Boise State University, studying organizational creativity and leading executive programs in Vietnam, before becoming a mystery novelist. Her debut, A Case of Too Many Deaths, follows a rookie lawyer racing to save an aunt on death row, while her second novel, The Art of Lies, set in Hanoi's art world, explores a museum curator un...

Marita Littauer is the author of 20 books, including her bestseller Wired That Way, which has remained in continuous publication and relevant for over 20 years. The daughter of renowned speaker Florence Littauer, Marita was immersed in personality theory from the age of nine, and has spent decades helping people understand themselves and strengthen their relationships through The Personalities. In...

Courtney Barriger is an award-winning artist, published author, and sustainable fashion designer exploring the intersection of fashion, psychology, mythology, and human consciousness. She's the author of ReFashion Workshop and founder of Holding Court Inc., a sustainable luxury fashion brand, and her current project, The Royal Robe, is an animated feature exploring dreams, symbolism, and the subco...

Charlie Sheppard is a professor of leadership, founder of World Bridge University, and biotech cofounder working on next-generation cancer therapies. He's the author of Get Off the Fence: You Matter More Than You Realize and the bestselling Save Your Drama for Your Mama, and he's known for creating the distinction between the reactive Drama Triangle and his Leadership Triangle framework. In this e...

Sheila Krygsheld is a Bible teacher, researcher, and author holding advanced degrees in Biblical Studies and Cultural Apologetics. She's the author of What Makes You Say That? How to Study What You Believe So You Can Share It with Others, and has taught religion at the college level while serving in worship, mentoring, and church leadership roles. In this episode, Sheila shares why your personal s...

Lauretta Zucchetti grew up in Italy believing submission was simply part of being a woman. By fourteen, she was surviving largely on her own. In her early twenties, she immigrated to California and, within a year, became the #3 sales representative at Xerox in the entire United States. She later built a career at Apple Computer International, traveling the world fluent in four languages, before ev...

Zac Baldwin has lived a life most novelists could only invent: a dancer turned choreographer, a live-action stunt performer in old-west reenactments, a street-fighting self-defense instructor, and eventually a novelist. His latest book, The Legend of Johnnie Swann, features a kickass female street fighter and honors the stories of real Vietnam veterans who asked him to fictionalize their experienc...

Silent Episode with Nancy

Ashley

Briana Bass writes romance and romantasy stories for modern Christian women, alongside gentle, spiritually grounded resources for women and teens navigating tender seasons of faith. With fifteen years of youth ministry experience and eleven years in higher education, she creates cozy, emotionally honest spaces where women feel seen, safe, and deeply understood. In this episode, Briana shares how h...

Liza Jacob is a seasoned audiobook narrator with over 30 titles produced across romance, cozy mystery, fantasy, and speculative fiction, and more than 10 accents mastered. Having worked closely with producers, engineers, and authors, she brings a rare insider's view of exactly where audiobooks succeed, and where they quietly fail. In this episode, Liza breaks down what's really happening in the fi...

Paula Panariello didn't start writing until after she retired. She's the author of The Necklace series, a Regency-era historical romance trilogy following the Stanhope family in early 1800s England, and she's currently working on a new series set in her own hometown of Mercer, Pennsylvania, in the 1940s, with The Christmas That Love Came due out this fall. In this episode, Paula shares the moment...

Most of us know the names Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, but history has largely overlooked the "ordinary man" who stood at the center of it all. Steve Vesce spent his career as an entrepreneur and CEO before a research project introduced him to Harry Hopkins, FDR's closest confidant and the visionary behind the New Deal. That discovery became his debut novel, One Ordinary Man, a 2025 American...

Will Severns was fired on a Tuesday and had his first clients by Wednesday morning. That origin story says everything about how he operates. As Chief Relationship Officer at ShareYourStory.com, he's spent seven years helping leaders, authors, and entrepreneurs find and share the stories the world hasn't heard yet, and he's the co-founder of Tablesetters, a free men's community built around real co...

Michelle Miles believes in fairy tales, true love, and a little bit of magic in every story. With over two decades of writing and publishing experience, she's the author of fantasy romance, fairy tale retellings, paranormal adventure, and time travel fiction, and she hosts her own podcast, Miles Beyond the Page, where she talks with authors about their writing journeys. In this episode, Michelle s...