Inspired Human Podcast

We are talking all things Parenting and Self Awareness. Madeleine is a multiple #1 international best selling author, a TedX speaker, and the founder of Fast Results Now Training and Coaching Solutions. She has over 30 years experience in the areas of parenting and life solutions strategies. We discuss: - Why parenting starts with actually knowing what you want. - Why joy can be elusive for parent...

Longtime friend, Duke Th. D candidate, Purple Heart recipient, author, and fellow chaplain Adam Tietje is here. Adam served for ten years as an active duty army chaplain, in 3rd Special Forces Group, 101st Airborne, and as a Hospital Chaplain in the DC area. He's now at Duke pursuing a Th. D.  Stuff we explore: - Why is it that in the first few hundred years of Christian literature, no author...

“I gave my life to God in Mogadishu.” From basic training to Airborne School, from Ranger School to the Ranger Regiment, and then… to Mogadishu, Somalia: That’s how Brian McCroskey’s military career started. He was a young enlisted Ranger in the battle of Mogadishu, where he earned the Purple Heart. He was forced to medically separate from the military as a result of those wounds, but eventually r...

Dairus sits down with our friend Tim Spayd! Tim shares his experiences as a young Ranger with JTF 1-79, Operation Eagle Claw, Charlie Beckwith (founder of Delta), touring and playing with the band Foreigner (“I wanna know what love is!”), how he became a Christian, and living with Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS).   Tim is in the Army Ranger Hall of Fame. He continues to support chapel services and rang...

Christianity, in its best form and most mature traditions, teaches you how to die-in-life, how to see, and how to come alive. Death, sight, and life. In the ancient traditions, these experiences are called the Desert, the Mountain, and the Cloud. Let's talk about how to see, and "continuous partial attention," and water! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this wi...

Dairus Barnes sits down with his friend and former colleague, CSM(R) Chris Fields.   Chris served 30 years in the Army as an Infantryman, and is now a licensed counselor who works in full time ministry at a local church in Clarksville, TN.   This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit inspiredhuman.substack.com

Two friends interview each other. It feels like a bro session (it is), but instead of lifting weights and yelling “ light weight baby !!” we’re discussing the things that have formed and shaped us: School. Kids. Family. Military life. Books. Pain. Jesus. Happy New Year, friends! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visi...

Are you literally waiting for 2020 to be over?  Do you find yourself hoping for 2021 to bring something new?  We are all in a season... a very long season, of waiting, wanting, and hoping.  Listen and discover the grandest story .. the story that helps make sense of your own story, and of your waiting, wanting, and hoping. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subs...

Let's talk about March 4, 2002, merely six months after 9/11/01:  The day Nate Self led a platoon of Rangers in a 15 hour battle on the top of a 10,000 ft. mountaintop in Afghanistan called Takur Ghar.  From that battle, two people would ultimately earn the Medal of Honor, multiple would earn awards for Valor, Nate Self would earn the Silver Star, and 7 Americans would lose their lives. Nate...

God sides with humanity against all who oppose it.  All the dark powers and principalities. Against all inhumanity.  God chose Mary; she consented. And God becomes human. A silent child who would have perished if Mary and Joseph did not care for him, feed him, and nurture him.  God became human. God is human, forever, sitting at the right hand of the Father as one of us. We have the immensely arti...

We are so, so thrilled that these last few episodes have been meaningful for you.  I love hearing your stories, and how you are interacting with these topics. Keep the emails and messages coming! And please continue to let us know how to pray for you. This episode gets real personal for Dr. Rita Brock (see her bio here ).  She shares about her father, a 29-year Army veteran who served in Normandy...

Welcome the esteemed Dr. Rita Brock! She's the Founding Director of the Soul Repair Center at Brite Divinity School, the current Senior VP and Director of the Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America, and author of many books and articles on the topic of Moral Injury and soul care.  - Why is our language for suffering in the western world is so limited? - Is our spirituality too thin...

Part 2 with Tom and Jen Satterly: This conversation was absolutely incredible.  Absolutely. Inspiring. We explore: - False Warrior culture; - Tom's death-in-life; - Jen: "When I became friends with some of the other Operators, every single one of them also talked about suicidal ideations"; - Moral injury; - Why God lives even in the far country; - And, as always, we repeatedly misus...

Meet Tom and Jen Satterly! - All Secure Foundation: https://www.allsecuremission.com - Retired Command Sergeant Major. - 20 years as a Delta Operator.  - Fought in the battle of Mogadishu (Black Hawk Down).  - Fought in the longest sustained firefight since Vietnam.  - He was a part of the mission to capture Saddam Hussein in 2003. After retiring in 2010, he fell into depression, substance abuse,...

We're coming off of an incredible weekend of speaking and discussions. In this episode we discuss important questions: Who am I? What grounds me? Why is the fire alarm going off at 2AM? Is it actually raining? Along the way, we explore the Tyranny of the Urgent, the two great paths of transformation (i.e. the paths of suffering and love), the book  Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me , why it i...