Living the CALL with Deacon Charlie

This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Rachel Bulman, a wife, mother, Catholic Keynote speaker, retreat facilitator and author. Rachel is a regular contributor to the Word on Fire blog and co-hosts the Youtube show “Meet the Bulmans.” She has been married since 2008 to Jason, who was recently ordained to the Order of the Diaconate.  Together they have the gift of 7 childr...

This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Marcellino D'Ambrosio, husband, father and Director of Marketing and Community Success for SENT Ventures. SENT empowers Spirit-Led Catholic founders & executives to build values-based teams, raise capital, & develop growth strategies so they can successfully integrate faith into their business and thrive. In this episode, Deacon C...

This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Jennifer Nolan, a wife, mother and the President and Co-Founder of a new Catholic STEM university called Catholic Polytechnic University. She is a former neuroscientist and homeschool mom and earned her Ph. D. in Psychology from UC Irvine's Department of Cognitive Science. She is also the Executive Director of the Right to Life League in...

Melody is a natural health educator and author, pursuing the restoration of culture through home educating, natural healing, and enthusiastic dish washing. Compelled by gratitude, she is passionate about bringing the healing power of Jesus Christ to others. She lives near Cleveland, OH with her husband and family. Follow Melody & Things We Discussed: • TheEssentialMother.com • Get Melody’s Boo...

This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Christian McGuigan, a husband, father and CEO of Dynamite Studios: a 21st century media company that creates films, documentaries, and commercials. Dynamite has produced content for Hyundai, Microsoft, Disney, PWC, Nestle, Lego and many more.  In this episode, Deacon Charlie talks with Christian about his work at Dynamite, which spec...

This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie talks with Martin Doblemeir, president and founder of Journey Films. Since 1984, he has produced and directed more than 30 films focused on religion, faith and spirituality. They explore how belief can lead individuals to extraordinary acts, how spirituality creates and sustains communities and how faith is lived in remarkable ways.  In this episod...

This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie talks with J.D. Long-Garcia, a husband and father, and senior editor at America Magazine, a national news platform run by the Jesuits. At America, J.D. heads up the publication’s efforts to report on Latinos in the Catholic Church, with special attention to immigration, criminal justice and Catholic education. In this episode, Deacon Charlie and J.D. di...

This week on Living the Call Deacon Charlie talks with Jason Deutermann. Jason is a husband and father and works as the Director of Innovation Design at the OSV Institute. His work focuses on helping parishes and dioceses innovate their processes and programs of ministry. In this episode, Deacon Charlie and Jason discuss fitness, diet,  holistic living and how the body and spirituality intera...

This week on Living the Call Deacon Charlie talks with Martin Ford, a graphic designer, project manager and founder of Harbor: an organization that partners with parishes to transform former convent buildings into places where young adults can live, work and grow in Catholic community. In this episode, Deacon Charlie and Martin discuss Martin’s life as a proud San Francisco native of Mexican-desce...

This week on Living the Call Deacon Charlie talks with Jeff Schiefelbein and Nick Bezner. Both are husbands, fathers and managing partners for Undivided Life: an  organization that humanizes business through strategy and culture consulting. They’re also co-hosts of the BeatiDudes podcast! In this episode, Deacon Charlie, Jeff and Nick discuss what it means to have an “undivided life,” giving...

This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie talks with Timothy O’Malley: a husband, father and the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life. He’s also the academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy. Tim researches and teaches at Notre Dame in the areas of liturgical-sacramental theology, marriage and family, catechesis, and spirituality. In this episode, Deacon C...

This week on Living the Call Deacon Charlie talks with Dave Plisky, husband, father and leader of technology at Desales Media, a company focused on modernizing the Church through products and services that together create a communications hub for dioceses, parishes, schools and ministries across the US. In this episode, Deacon Charlie and Dave discuss a special research project by DeSales Media th...

This week on Living the Call Deacon Charlie talks with Roxie Beckles, former International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation Pro and 2014 Olympian competitor. She is the founder of RoxStar Fitness, a company that gives women the tools they need to transform their bodies and reach their highest fitness goals through physical, mental, emotional and spiritual fitness. In this episode, Deacon Charli...

This week on Living the Call, join us for Part 2 of Deacon Charlie’s conversation with Karl Keating. Karl is the OG apologist and a pioneer of Catholic media. He’s a full time author, with 20 books published to-date, including his most recent titled, 1054 And All That , A Lighthearted History of the Catholic Church. In this episode, Deacon Charlie and Karl tackle woke ideology and offer a response...

A special episode from Deacon Charlie: "No Ordinary Week". Check back Thursday this week for Part 2 of Deacon's conversation with Karl Keating.

This week on Living the Call, join us for Part 1 of Deacon Charlie’s conversation with Karl Keating. Karl is the OG apologist and a pioneer of Catholic media. He’s a full time author, with 20 books published to-date, including his most recent titled, 1054 And All That , A Lighthearted History of the Catholic Church. In this episode, Karl discusses his new book, particularly how much fun it was to...

This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Edward Herrera - husband, father of five and Executive Director for the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Institute for Evangelization. Previously, Edward was the Director for the Office of Marriage and Family Life, in which his focus was accompanying couples in marriage prep. In this episode, Deacon talks with Edward about the most effective wa...

Edmundo is Co-Founder of Real & True, an innovative start-up media company re-expressing the truth of the Catechism in new media throughout the world. He lives in Detroit, MI with his wife and children.     The books/podcasts/organizations we mentioned on the show:    The Bible Project Real + True Unleash the Gospel Revive Parishes   Support this podcast! &nb...

Join us this week for a special episode of Living the Call. Deacon Charlie honors Los Angeles Archdiocese Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell, whose life was tragically and violently taken last month. Come hear about the inspiring life and legacy of this great Bishop.

This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Deacon Omar Gutierrez, husband and father of four. Deacon Omar is the President and co-Founder of the Evangelium Institute , a non-profit dedicated to providing dynamic catechetical and spiritual formation to adults.  In this episode,  Deacon Omar discusses how Catholic Social Teaching is often geared towards “doing”, but what m...

This week on Living the Call, Jonathan Roumie is here! You may know him from his role as Jesus on the hit show, The Chosen : the first ever multi-season TV series about the life of Jesus.  Come join in the conversation now, as Jonathan gives us a sneak peak of his new movie, Jesus Revolution , in theaters now!

This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Bill Yoh: familyman, business owner and executive, lifelong writer and award-winning author. In this episode, Bill plunges us into a missionary trip he was called to take, where he encountered unimaginable poverty yet discovered faith and hope at every turn. He shares this raw and captivating experience in his most recent book, Unvarnishe...

This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Fr. Jesse Esqueda. Fr. Esqueda was born in Mexico, raised in Southern California and ordained in 2014. He is a parish priest in Tijuana, Mexico and is the Superior for the Missionary Oblates of Mary for the Baja mission.  In this episode, Fr. Esqueda shares his experience of being called to mission work and how sharing his life with...

This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Deacon Dave Arms from the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Together with his father in law, he developed the “Rite of Passage weekend,” to commemorate each of his sons’ 13th birthday, and their transition from boyhood to manhood. In this episode, Deacon Dave discusses the practical ways to implement ”the weekend,” and the transformative powe...

This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Jacob King, founder of Dropout : a Catholic ministry geared at young adults through modern, high-quality media. Dropout presents the often-misrepresented truths of the Catholic Church to a demographic that’s deeply longing for happiness and meaning but seeking for it in many of the wrong places. In this episode, Jacob shares his journey f...