InkleDeux Podcast

This week, AJ is flying solo to process a little bit about the power and importance of making a retreat to refocus our lives on God and His call for us.

This week, AJ and Brandon dive into the idea of discernment. How do we identify God's will? What are some of the pitfalls that get in our way? Make sure to give it a listen and reach out with your own experiences of discernment!

With this week's return to our series of InkleDeux interviews, AJ is joined by Ed Oliver from The Caffeine Fix. He shares how his faith has grown and developed throughout a career in media and now in his work highlighting the coolest coffee spots in Phoenix. Ed has a ton to offer, so make sure to give this one a listen and a share. Also, check out his ongoing work via social media by looking for @...

A brief thank you and greeting as the year comes to a close. Normal episodes resume next week. God bless!

It's Brandon's turn to share his faith journey. In keeping with the themes from our Highlights, Brandon shows that there's nothing "ordinary" about anyone's journey. We all have something worth sharing, we just need to find our voice.

This week, Brandon and AJ take a look at some of the advice found in a parenting book Brandon's been reading and try to figure out how to balance the need to correct the behavior of children without losing sight of the fact that all of us are battling our fallen nature as well. Make sure to find us on Facebook and hit us with your thoughts and experiences in childhood and parenting!

This week, Brandon shares his sadness and hurt over the current split and schism happening in the Methodist community. Together, he and AJ talk about why these divisions happen, why it hurts so much when it happens, and how we can try to minimize them. Also, stick around all the way to the end to catch an update about a live podcast coming up this Friday!

This week, AJ and Brandon come back to talk about their Christmases and the challenge of good gift giving before giving a couple of goals for the New Year. Remember to like, follow, and share us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter! Listen and subscribe at:     iTunes  Spotify Stitcher

This week, for the first time in a few weeks, Brandon and AJ are back on the weekly recording schedule. Since the year is winding down, we took a look at the goals we set and posted for ourselves at the beginning of the year and decided to check and see how we'd done. We'll be taking next week off for Christmas, so we hope you and yours all have an incredible and blessed holiday! Remember to like,...

This week, Brandon is joined by Legind Studios, a faith based media studio out of Avondale, AZ.  Duane and Antoinette share their story and their passion with us for a great conversation! Find them on all your social media apps @dnafilmworks and make sure to check out the projects they're working on!

Today, Brandon and AJ are joined by Jake Stanley from Man Fully Alive Ministries. Jake shares the experiences which led to he and his friends to form MFA ministries and the importance of an intentional community for men. Follow them and share them with the men in your life! This is a tremendous community of men working the difficulties of life together. Find them on social media @mfaministries and...

This week's Highlight, Brandon sits down with Kevin at Well Coffee for an awesome chat about his life, his mission, and his work with Well Coffee. After pumping Brandon full of caffeine, Kevin shares his journey through near homelessness, working in restaurants, and eventually to Arizona, in a small, community coffee shop. They serve a great cup of coffee, and even better conversation! Check them...

Brandon and AJ spend some time discussing Kanye West's recent, and very public, conversion. How are we supposed to react to a celebrity conversion? What are the actual impacts? How do we balance our hope and optimism for a new brother in Christ with our concerns about how some Christian celebrities have represented us badly in the past?

This week in our Highlights, Brandon sits down with his former philosophy professor, Kelly Fitzsimmons-Burton. Brandon stepped up and did the interview, anxious to impress his former teacher. Check out the links below! https://www.paradisevalley.edu/students/honors/kelly-fitzsimmons-burton Grab her book at: https://www.amazon.com/Kelly-Fitzsimmons-Burton/e/B07L54V3M7%Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share...

For the first time in nearly a month, Brandon and AJ recorded a new podcast! Having launched their pop-up coffee shop(every Saturday from 8-Noon at Throne Brewing at 67th Ave and Bell), both of them are still very much processing how it went and how they prepared for it. It turns into a conversation about the tension between being content or grateful for what we have, and still wanting to strive f...

This week's episode of Highlights, AJ is joined by his friend, Ryan Ayala. Ryan is the campus minister at St. Mary's Catholic High School in Phoenix, as well as a theology teacher. In addition, Ryan is a husband, father, and Catholic with a ton of insight. We'd especially encourage any fathers or parents of teens to listen to some of the lessons he's learned in his time in ministry. If you want mo...

Brandon and AJ finish filling out the bracket and come to crown the Ultimate Disney Princess. Then, Brandon is joined by a genuine Disney expert, Brooklyn, to explain how we messed up and got it wrong. Remember to like, follow, and share us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter!

On this episode of Highlights, AJ is joined by Ashley Reynolds to discuss her experience as a victim of sextortion and her incredible drive and work to help make sure other women don't experience the same things she did. This was certainly a very difficult experience, but rather than being overwhelmed by it, Ashley has stepped up in a big way to try and educate others to avoid the traps she fell i...

With Brandon and his family getting ready to head to Walt Disney World in Florida, he and AJ decide to take a crack at making a definitive ranking of the Disney princesses. Since it was a serious conversation, we wound up having to stretch it to 2 parts. Remember to like, follow, and share us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter! Listen and subscribe at:     iTunes  Spotify Stitcher

In this Highlight, AJ is joined by Marquisse, an incredible person with a mission to match. Marquisse is part of Kill Today's Giant, an organization dedicated to ending human trafficking and the sex trade here in the States. Listen and educate yourself about the reality, and then get in touch with KTG, on social media and become part of the solution! Find them @killtodaysgiant on Twitter, Instagra...

AJ found himself flying solo today after some technical difficulties. Taking a look at the current events with Antonio Brown as a starting point, AJ shares his frustrations with celebrity culture and hero worship, and it's dangers. Remember to like, follow, and share us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter! Listen and subscribe at:     iTunes  Spotify Stitcher

This week in our Highlights series, AJ spent some time with Emily, the founder/owner/manager for Sweetz Brew in Gilbert, AZ. She shared a ton of great insight about what it's been like for her to chase down her passions, building from a literal home business where customers would come into her home to an incredible brick and mortar shop, the first cold brew coffee shop in the state. Follow on soci...

So, there was some kind of mishap in our first attempt at publishing this, but let's give it another shot: Let’s get a little morbid! This week, Brandon and AJ talk about our culture’s seeming obsession with death while still being scared to discuss our own mortality. Remember to like, follow, and share us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter! Listen and subscribe at:     iTunes  Spotify Stitcher

For our second episode in this season of Highlights, we were joined by Joey Szolowicz at North Mountain Brewing. Joey is a man of drive and passion, and he graciously agreed to talk to us about how he found his balance with work and family, his passion for health and fitness, and some of the exciting stuff coming in the future for his clients. Make sure to find Joey at @joeyszolowicz on Intstagram...

To launch our second season of Highlights, we sat down with Pastor Tim Wright from Community of Grace Lutheran Church at Cabin Coffee in Peoria. Pastor Tim shared a lot of great insight on living our faith, the importance of examples of faith in the family, and education. Pastor Tim shared insights both from faith and neuroscience about the boy crisis in our schools and communities. Please visit P...