Live Your Purpose Podcast

In this episode, John sat down with his father-in-law as he shares his powerful story, growing up in Columbus, Ohio. He opens up about the impact of losing his father at the young age of seven and how even though this was certainly a tragedy for him and his family, it didn’t stop God from shaping him. He talks about his experience being called as a young man to preach and knowing it was his purpos...

In this weeks episode we sat with the good brother Taelor Gray a pastor, teacher, an artist/creative, entrepreneur, a mental health advocate, father and husband. In this conversation we discuss Taelors childhood in Columbus growing up sheltered in a Christian household. This sheltered and strict environment caused him to rebel in his teens where he ultimately found and gained a closer relationship...

Sat down with my friend and brother Cam Joyce Head Basketball Coach for St. Ignatius Wildcats in Cleveland for this weeks episode of LYP. Coming off his first state championship win as a coach, we spoke about how his first few years came with winning, but still short of their ultimate goal of a championship. Those early successes and failures helped them build a culture and foundation that propell...

In this special episode, I sit down with my wife, Dr. Ciara Dennis-Morgan a talented children’s book author, to talk about her latest book, Look at God. This beautiful story features our son, Messiah, as he embarks on a journey through his everyday life, discovering how God is present in his routines, relationships, and surroundings. Through Messiah’s eyes, readers are reminded of the power of pre...

It’s been 5 years since LYP Podcast first dropped and the first person who blessed us with their presence was none other than John’s Father John Morgan Sr. In episode 1 John Sr. shared his entire story growing up in Akron. In this episode John & his Father spoke about both of their healing Journeys over the last few years since their last sit down. This episode was full of transparency and generat...

This weeks episode of LYP we sat with good friend of the show recording artist Jerreau. Jerreau is coming off of releasing his newest project “WHY SOME PEOPLE BE MAD AT ME” where he shares with the world his real time processing of his emotions. From self reflection, giving himself and others grace to battling self sabotage Jerreau captures vulnerability in real time. On one record “DO BETTER” Jer...

“You can’t heal what you don’t reveal” The thing about healing is, it takes reflection, full out transparency and acceptance of the past. Even without full clarity or understanding, accepting that the things we’ve gone through are all a part of a bigger plan and we aren’t in control as much as we think. This weeks guest was the good brother Marcel McDaniel, he shared his story from being a gangste...

In this episode, two of LYPs finest Dr. Ci & Devin Joyce sat down to share how them forming an organic relationship/friendship was the foundation of them collaborating together to create “MORE LIFE Retreat”. After starring in LYPs film MORE LIFE: A Love Story on Black Women’s Full Humanity & Transformative Love the two curated a retreat dedicated to Black Women & Black Maternal Health full of rest...

In this weeks episode we sat down with an LYP Alum and family member, Producer, Artist & Grammy Award Winner Swoope. We start the conversation by reflecting on how much has changed since our first conversation back in 2019. From there we get into the reflections of getting older, and learning things that no longer serve us today. We briefly talk about the Swoope’s POV on the state of Hip Hop, spec...

None of us know how we will react and respond when tragedy happens. I pray that all of us can tap into some of the wisdom and courage that our guest Karl Majors gave me. Karl’s has worked in the world of finance for over 20 years, but this conversation we talked about his childhood growing up in Youngstown around substance, mental and physical abuse, lead him to Akron to pursue a career of nursing...

Dr. Ci came back and this time we expounded our some overall relationship topics from our last conversation. - foundational principles we established early in our relationship - different communication styles - why we choose marriage everyday - Parenting is no damn joke!!! Should Dr. Ci and I take this further and just start a pod together? Would y’all want to hear that? What do you think of that?...

We invited Dr. C back!!!! Last time we spoke with her, she told us her own story, This time we went through the origin of how we originally got together, before marriage & kids, bringing up the question of “who bagged who?!”. We’ve never shared our story on camera so this was so much fun to re live that first date. For those who do not know John & Ciara’s first date wasn’t like most traditional da...

In this week’s episode of LYP I sat with my friend Anthony Isom-Barnhill who I met years ago when him and I both worked at the Boys & Girls Club at a point where I now know to be divine. Everyone who’s ever had a job knows that if you keep a friend that you met at work AFTER you leave the job then yall REAL friends! lol We bonded & would talk about things most men do, sports, music, complain about...

In 2011 Kelley Williams-Bolar was convicted of lying about her residency to get her daughters into a better school district. In 2006 Kelley sent her daughters to school in Copley-Fairlawn School District. But it wasn't her Akron district of residence, so she was asked to remove her children from the district. 18 months after removing her daughters Kelley was sent an indictment from Copley schools....

It’s been a min since we dropped anything podcast related. For a variety of different reasons… 1. I only want to share my space with people who genuinely care about the mission we are doing at LYP. Anything other than that don’t serve me. 2. I been focused on some of the other projects, while being a dad. Yo these kids mannnn… lol they make you EARN it 3. I’ve been grieving…. Hard. So I’ve been tr...

In this episode John & Dr. T jump right in and cover the social media uproar over Keke Palmer & her boyfriend Darius Jackson. They both give their opinions on who was in the right or wrong. Dr. T shares a personal story about an interaction with her significant other. They finish the conversation talking about recent comments made from a pastor about gender roles and expectations

This week John & Dr. T start this episode off with John memorizing and paying tribute to his late mother & discussing grief. Then go into a variety of topics including Open relationships becoming more and more of an option Spiritual connection leading to open relationships Head of household? What does it mean to lead a house? What does it mean to be submissive?

In this episode John & Dr. T discuss the topics - Friends with children - Authoritative parenting over authoritarian - Surviving & Healing - Parenting out of fear - Ego based & Spiritual Based

This episode Dr. T & John jump right into great discussions. Leading with John saying how he’s calling out all hate in 2023 by featuring classic songs. They discuss examples of vulnerability, family outside blood relationships, & if you should have friendships with your children

Dr. T & John start of this weeks episode with discussing the importance of practicing vulnerability during conflict.  From there we discuss inner child wounds in relationships and how that shows up.  We wrap the conversation up by answering A question from the audience. Lastly we talk about Ace Metaphor a relationship influencer and how his content and others are extremely divisive and dangerous

This week we sat down with Brandon Scarborough an entrepreneur, creator and innovator here in Akron. We talked about Brandon’s upbringing as the child of a preacher and learning valuable information from his father along the way. His passion for music would ultimately evolve into a life of entrepreneurship and service where while working at a Nonprofit organization he started his organization DREA...

First episode release for 2023 of FTL featuring Dr. T we kick it off by going back to expound on some comments from the audience about healthy distractions in relationships

Suniyah El is a entrepreneur, fitness coach & overall mental health advocate. For the 1st episode of 2023 I released the conversation that I had with Suniyah, who talked openly with me about her life, battling depression and overcoming 7 different suicide attempts, while battling the trauma of being sexually abused as a child and experimenting what she called “Religious Trauma” growing up as a chi...

In this episode of FTL Dr. T & John jump right into the conversation discussing holiday stressors with family, grieving & pressures around the holiday Leading into more conversation around parenting and ending with criticism of social media influencer of Derrick Jaxn divisive content  topics include  - holiday stress - nothing more triggering than parenting  - nobody is wrong in relationships  - c...

Dr. Tania Lodge returns for our “For The Lovers” segment where we talk about relationships. This weeks episode we discuss  - When should couples consider couples counseling? - Relationship myths - Initiating sex in relationships - does watching porn impact relationships - How often should people have sex in relationships   To contact Dr. T from info below 👇🏾 (234) 466-0445 info@kindredspiritbh.o...