A Row With Two Chairs: Creating a Life Worth Saving

A little 'Behind the scenes' for each of the chapters, a bonus episode for subscribers.

Autumn settles over Paris, and something begins shifting inside Scott too. French school, long walks along the Bassin de la Villette, and strange trip-hop soundtracks become the backdrop to a quiet ache growing beneath the surface. In this chapter, a simple podcast ad sparks a dream, a chance meeting births a new friendship, and a well-intentioned mission to feed the hungry does not go as planned....

Isolation is loud in a city of millions. In this chapter, Scott wrestles with loneliness, culture shock, and the ache of starting over. Yet through Turkish kebabs, French lessons, and unexpected friendships, something begins to take root. And in a tiny Parisian apartment with slanted ceilings, he and Mark form the bond that will carry the whole adventure forward. This is the episode where the miss...

How lost can you get in a foreign country before you realize you’re in over your head? Scott is about to find out. After a late-night Bible study outside the city, a missed train leaves him stranded in a town he can’t pronounce, with no map, no language, and no way home. What follows is part comedy, part panic, and part defining moment. This chapter is where the romantic missionary imagination col...

Paris is beautiful, but arrival is brutal. Scott steps into the City of Light with hope, exhaustion, and zero plan — no home, no visa stamp, and no idea what awaits him. What he finds instead is disorientation, unexpected kindness, and one sacred moment on the Seine that tells him he isn't alone. This episode captures the truth about chasing calling: sometimes the miracle is simply that you ma...

Letting go sounds romantic until it becomes real. In this chapter, Scott faces his most painful goodbye yet — and it’s not a person. As he empties his home, sorts through memories, and packs what little remains of his old life into two suitcases, everything seems to fall apart, including the one thing he thought was guaranteed. What do you do when the dream is intact, but every piece of stability...

Some decisions split your life in two, and this is the chapter where Scott steps across that line. After announcing his move to France, the fallout lands closer to home than he expected. A breakfast table becomes a battleground, a visa appointment turns sideways, and the cost of saying yes begins to show up in the places that matter most. This episode explores the moment when conviction meets resi...

The trip is over. The dust settles. And now comes the question that changes a life: Do I stay, or do I go? Scott seeks guidance from people who have nothing to gain from his decision—and finds clarity in the most surprising way. This episode traces the quiet courage required to leap into the unknown, and the moment a simple question becomes an unshakeable conviction. —This podcast is the complete...

Paris doesn’t just welcome you, it evaluates you. Scott arrives in the city with hope, wonder, and the faint sense that he may be stepping into a new chapter of his life. But the City of Light has a way of revealing what’s real and what’s fantasy. Late-night jazz, long walks along the Seine, and an unexpected turn force him to confront the difference between calling and desire, and between what fe...

Seven Oklahomans. A snowy Swiss village. A lodge full of Parisians. And a long-awaited meeting that could change everything. In this episode, Scott steps into a world that feels both foreign and strangely familiar, sharing his story with a room full of teenagers while navigating cultural mishaps, spiritual moments, and a rendezvous fifty days in the making. Nothing goes quite as planned—and that’s...

Scott reconnects with the life he left behind, only to discover that the story he’s living has grown larger than he realized. A surprise phone call opens the door to a far-off country, an unexpected invitation, and the kind of long-distance connection that feels too unreal to be coincidence. This chapter is the beginning of a plot twist where destiny, calling, and timing collide in ways that feel...

One year after deciding to follow God, Scott returns to the church where everything began, expecting a celebration. Instead, he walks straight into heartbreak, a leadership shake-up, and an unexpected conversation that shifts the trajectory of his entire faith journey. This episode explores what happens when the ground beneath you gives way, and the only thing left to hold onto is the truth that y...

I had this idea today to release a video each week as a commentary to the prior weeks chapters. In the commentary, I am hoping to give you some behind the scenes info, maybe expound on some things that didn't make it into the book, or answer whatever questions people may be asking. I only had a few questions in my head, so, please send whatever pops in your head. Either as a comment on the pod...

High in the Rockies, under a sky full of silence and stars, Scott goes searching for the voice of God—and finds something far more intimate. Two strangers on a dark mountainside discover what it means to listen, to trust, and to be seen. And when the night ends in snow, grace shows up one more time, just to make sure the message lands. —This podcast is the complete audio edition of A Row With Two...

Confusion, exhaustion, and doubt collide as Scott faces a flood of ideas he can’t yet grasp. But in a quiet moment with a stranger named Gary, a single question shifts everything: What if it isn’t your job to hold on to God—but His to hold on to you? Sometimes the lesson you didn’t understand was the one you were meant to live. —This podcast is the complete audio edition of A Row With Two Chairs:...

On a plane to Colorado, Scott’s journey of faith takes him far from home—and deeper into the unknown. Surrounded by leaders, pastors, and strangers who seem to have it all together, he wrestles with the feeling that maybe he doesn’t belong at all. But the mountains have a way of stripping away pretense, and what he finds there will begin to reshape his understanding of calling, courage, and grace....

Do I have what it takes? That question haunts every man who’s ever been left behind. In this chapter, Scott looks back at the wound that shaped him—the day his father left, and the quiet belief that it was somehow his fault. Through the pages of Wild at Heart and the early days of rediscovering faith, he begins to see that Christianity was never about taming men, but about setting them free. Peopl...

Ninety-two days after surrender, Scott takes his first halting step into life as a believer. A lunch meeting meant for business turns into something far more personal — and a tiny plastic bag from his past falls into his lap, forcing him to decide which life he’s really living. Where Do I Fit? is about the collision of old identities and new convictions, and the uncomfortable grace of being reshap...

Winter settles in, the lights are still off, and the silence becomes sacred. In the cold and dark, Scott rediscovers an old gift — and a long-buried memory that rewrites everything he thought he knew about faith. More to This Story explores the quiet space between doubt and revelation, where the smallest flicker of light can open a door you didn’t know was still locked. — This podcast is the compl...

Three weeks into his thirty-day experiment with God, Scott finds himself broke, exhausted, and out of options. What begins as a choice between gas and cigarettes becomes a night that changes everything — a small act of faith colliding with an unexpected answer. Cigarettes and Chicken is a story of risk, grace, and the strange way provision often shows up in disguise. This podcast is the complete a...

SUBSCRIBE TO NOT MISS ANY EPISODES Welcome to A Row With Two Chairs: Creating a Life Worth Saving - THE PODCAST I am releasing a new chapter every weekday for the remainder of 2025. Start the adventure with Chapter 1. __________________________________________ Before a thirty-day deal can be made, desperation has its turn. Alone in a dark apartment, surrounded by the wreckage of his old life, Scot...