Kevin Polky - The Journey

Dalton is returning to the podcast to discuss The Hero's Journey. In this episode we discuss the initiation phase. Hope you enjoy this episode!

Beautiful Inside and Out Krystal Bolduc started her first diet when she was in 3 rd grade. Her life she has gained and lost hundreds of pounds. Now after hitting a physical bottom, she is living a healthy life. She came to a point where she had to Grow or Die. Listen to this conversation as Krystal shares the emotional and spiritual transformation of her journey with food and body image.

Skater. Recovering Addict. Activists Will Crandall is trying to make a difference in the community by bringing together artists, musicians and skate boarders to raise awareness of suicide, mental health and addiction. During this conversation, Will shares intimate details his own journey of addiction, recovery and now giving back. Some inside perspective of the mindset of a skater and how connects...

The Artist Finds His Strength Andrew is a dancer, singer, performer, author, artist and composer. Extremely talented young man. During this conversation, Andrew is transparent about his early years and the struggles with being bullied and rejected and not feeling good enough. Today, he is using his wounds and struggles to help others by giving hope through the arts. Great example of strength throu...

Staying True to Her Gifts Bethany Mead is the Community Outreach Coordinator at CEANCI-Career Education Associates of Northern Illinois. Bethany is passionate and faithful women who works hard for her family and the community. She started at beginning position at CEANCI and now is at the perfect for her experience, gifts and skill set. Listen to this conversation about her perseverance and her des...

Creating His Own Path This conversation is with Nick Goellner, Managing Director and Partner at Making Chips and Director of Sales and Marketing at Advanced Machine & Engineering. Nick shares about his experience working in the family business of machining and how he found his place but following his true gifts. Out of this journey, he helped create another company Making Chips specifically fo...

The Vulnerable Warrior This conversation absolutely blew me away. Ryan is a passionate, highly driven man. Initially, it was in the form of football at the high school, collegiate and beyond and now it is as one of the top personal trainers. Check out this check conversation when Ryan shares intimate details of his journey as competitive football player. He shares about big on top and when it came...

Staying true to His Heart. Len has always been creative and a gifted artist. As he was growing up though he passion was art, he was being directed to follow a more traditional route. Following the more traditional path of higher education after high school, Len found one dead end after another. In his late 20’s everything hit rock bottom, the bottom is where he rediscovered his heart and started f...

Walking in faith with a new-found strength. It was a beautiful fall day and then suddenly everything changed. Anne Grindle joins me on The Journey to share about her story of recovery and transformation. She shares about how previous experiences and her faith helped her heal after she was violently hit by a car as she walked across a street. She shares her story of healing and recovery. Learning t...

Husband, father, counselor and friend. I want to introduce you to a friend of mine, Pat Spangler. He has over 20 years of experience as an addiction counselor and therapist. He is a husband, son and father of four beautiful, athletic girls. He has a passion for helping others and assisting them on their journey of recovery. It was my pleasure to have Pat on The Journey and to have a conversation a...

Podcast #3 (Part 3): Dalton Bullard & Kylie Lewis The Warrior and the Princess. I had a greater opportunity during this three-part series to have a conversation with Dalton and Kylie about their journey individually and together. This is must for anybody in a relationship or longs to be in that relationship. It doesn’t have to be perfect because it is a journey. It just has to work for the two ind...

Podcast #3 (Part 2): Dalton Bullard & Kylie Lewis The Warrior and the Princess. I had a greater opportunity during this three-part series to have a conversation with Dalton and Kylie about their journey individually and together. This is must for anybody in a relationship or longs to be in that relationship. It doesn’t have to be perfect because it is a journey. It just has to work for the two ind...

Podcast #3 (Part 1): Dalton Bullard & Kylie Lewis The Warrior and the Princess. I had a greater opportunity during this three-part series to have a conversation with Dalton and Kylie about their journey individually and together. This is must for anybody in a relationship or longs to be in that relationship. It doesn’t have to be perfect because it is a journey. It just has to work for the two ind...

Episode #2: Kylie Lewis The Princess Within. Every girl longs to be a princess on the Disney stage or maybe even on a big stage but what happens when what you thought was greatest failures becomes just the beginning of true happiness. Kylie is the hometown girl who pursued her dreams to be that princess, but has returned to her hometown to bring back and even great prize. Kylie shares her experien...

Episode #1 : Dalton Bullard What makes a Warrior? Listen in on my inaugural podcast with conversation with my good friend, Dalton Bullard. Dalton is 4x All-State wrestler who later wrestled at NCAA I and III level. Dalton has taken his gifts and skills to high school level once again as a head coach and founder of the School of Wrestling program. During this conversation, you will hear about the j...