Fit & Fire: The Prostate Cancer Comeback Podcast

What if the summit isn’t the victory we imagine?   In this episode of Fit & Fire — The Prostate Cancer Comeback Podcast, I share a real-time checkpoint in the middle of my recovery journey.   Cancer has a way of forcing clarity. It changes the lens you see your life through.   Looking back at your life through today’s wisdom can be difficult. But sometimes that clarity is exactly what reshapes...

Episode 6 – The Mountain Speaks: The Narrow Path   Episode 6 marks a turning point.   This is where healing stops being theoretical and starts becoming visble.   In this episode, I step into the next phase of the journey and share four real-world steps that prove healing is not perfect, but it is real. Healing doesn’t mean everything is fixed. It means movement. It means awareness. It means choosi...

THE WIND SHIFTS.   In this episode of Fit & Fire, we talk about what happens when the wind shifts and everything feels different. Not rushing ahead. Not trying to fix everything. Just learning how to walk forward again — steady and intentional.   This is a reflection on recovery, resilience, and listening to your body and spirit. Progress doesn’t always look fast or loud. Sometimes it looks li...

This Episode was recorded without chasing perfection. Episode 4 speaks from the valley-where doubt, fear, and faith meet-and reminds us that clarity often comes through the mist, not after it clears.  This is for the man who keeps going even when he doesn't feel ready. 

Summit Wind is the resistance you feel when you’re closest to change.   At the summit, the wind doesn’t just test your strength — it reveals your identity. You see the man you used to be. You face the man you are in the moment. And you’re confronted with the responsibility of the man who must lead from here.   This episode is a real-time reflection on pressure, faith, and endurance — on what it me...

Episode 2 — The Mountain Climb This episode takes you into the raw middle of recovery — still healing, still in hormone treatment, still climbing. Al Carter shares what happens when the body is weak, the mind turns hostile, and faith becomes the only fuel left. This is an unfiltered, real-time testimony about identity, surrender, and learning to breathe at spiritual elevation — with a clear call t...

Episode 1- The Mountain opens Season One of Fit & Fire.  This episode is recorded in real time during my recovery from prostate cancer-not from a distance, not hindsight. What you hear is lived experience, unfolding as it happens. The mountain is a metaphor for the challenges we all face, especially the ones men are taught to ignore.  This 26-episode season follows a real-time journey through...

Episode 0 of Fit and Fire shares one man’s real-life journey from a routine check-up to a prostate cancer diagnosis and a spiritual awakening that reshaped his purpose. Through honest reflection, faith, and hard-earned lessons, he explains how pain became a doorway to rebuilding mind, body, and spirit and why men must stop suffering in silence. This episode is a call to action for men to face thei...