Defining Moments | A Podcast with JP and MK

For five episodes, JP Blevins and MK Wathen have been asking other people the hard questions. This time, they answered them. In this episode of Defining Moments, JP and MK turn the microphone on themselves — each sharing five life lessons they'd go back and tell their younger selves, and what it actually cost to learn them. MK sits with the wounds she almost passed on to her kids without knowi...

When the Gold Glove finally arrived, Doug Flynn found himself more frustrated about the years he didn't win it than grateful for the one he did. It was the first time he admitted — to himself — how selfish he'd become. In this episode, Doug Flynn joins JP and MK to reflect on a life built in the margins of expectation — a Lexington kid with no scholarship offers who signed his first pro co...

The FDIC told him to sell or liquidate. He took a breath and said no. In this episode, Chip Mahan joins us to reflect on the handful of moments that quietly built one of the most remarkable entrepreneurial careers to ever come out of Kentucky — from a tobacco barn in Frankfort to a $15 billion bank in Wilmington, North Carolina. The conversation moves through loss, loyalty, and the particular kind...

Each morning during the 2007 NFL season, Chad Pennington got on his hands and knees and asked God to take football away from him. His father told him to stay in the fire. In this episode, Chad Pennington joins us to reflect on the moments that reshaped his relationship with the game, his identity, and the people closest to him. He speaks not as a former first-round pick or two-time Comeback Player...

In this episode, Jess Correll joins us to reflect on what it looks like when a life built around business has to be rebuilt around something more. He talks about growing up in rural Kentucky with a father who believed he could do anything and charged him 50% interest for co-signing his first bank note. About selling Bibles door-to-door at 17, buying that first bank at 26, and building First Southe...

Before they ask anyone else, they go first. In this inaugural episode of Defining Moments, JP Blevins and MK Wathen set the stage for what’s ahead: long-form conversations with Kentucky’s builders, leaders, and athletes about the few decisions that changed everything. But first, they share their own. JP reflects on his mother kneeling in the backyard when he was eight, telling him he could do anyt...