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Dr. Braden Brown is a licensed marriage and family therapist and the VP of Coaching & Counseling at Ampelis, a holistic human performance and mental wellness practice. Braden was a four-year letterman on BYU's football team from 2009-2012, where he played in all 52 games of his career and tallied 41 starts at offensive tackle. Following his BYU football career, Dr. Brown was invited to the 201...

This past 24 hours Neil and I have been on a rollercoaster of emotions as we decided to enroll our kids into a new school and then ended up taking them out and putting them back into their old school. We're sharing all the ups and downs of this decision, what made us question whether something was a sign, and how to tell when God is telling you "no." We also share a couple of resources of counsel...

If you've got a high school reunion coming up, then today's episode is specifically for you! And even if you don't have one coming up soon, we're going to talk all about what we learned from our recent 20 year high school reunions, our interactions with making and receiving amends, some mindset shifts that made all the difference, and some tips on social situations and how to make the most out of...

Sarah Sun is Utah's brand new Miss Utah who will represent them in the Miss America competition this upcoming year. She's from Cedar City, Utah, and is a junior at Brigham Young University majoring in music and political science. Previously, she served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints in Southern California, and studied applied economics and management at Cornell Universi...

Billie Roberts is a certified life coach who has a gift for helping others find peace and fulfillment in their lives. She has an incredibly calming presence and an ability to hold space for different people, different struggles, and different life circumstances. Before Billie became certified through Brooke Castillo's life coach school, she experienced many of her own ups and downs, including fina...

Today we're opening the doors to our first semester ever of Becoming Codafree Bootcamp! This bootcamp was birthed after more than 12 years of my own self-development work to overcome codependency, and in this episode I'm sharing where this whole idea came from and what codafree means, who this bootcamp is for, and who it's not for, and what you can expect if you enroll. Enrollment is only open for...

When was the last time someone really hurt you, or really made you angry? When was the last time you were treated super unfairly, wrongly judged, harshly spoken to, or maybe even worse, talked about behind your back, or as a mama bear, one of your kids was treated this way? It happens all the time around all of us. It's been weighing VERY heavy on my mind and heart for a long time as I've heard lo...

Father's Day is just around the corner and, in honor of that, I decided to interview our favorite dad in this house, Neil! Neil has gone from being "not a kid guy" to a 5-star dad in a world where fatherhood is oftentimes downplayed and demoralized. Today he shares with me some of the greatest lessons he's learned about fatherhood, starting with a few from his own dad and then moving into his evol...

We've all seen it in movies and TV shows and books and in real life, sometimes in a lunch table or a tight-knit group of people who are popular-by-association, otherwise known as the cool kids. It might seem harmless, but it can be problematic and detrimental to personal growth and to our culture and community in schools, neighborhoods, churches, really everywhere.  Furthermore, it's a mirage. It'...

Today's episode is with my good friend Xander Clark, who identifies himself as a recovering drug addict. Xander tells his story of leaving to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints only to come home early after a couple months due to a stomach wound and how that led him to a dependency on pain medication. We address the commonly asked questions of "how do you know if y...

Mandie Rudd-Sherman is a 33 year old woman living with cystic fibrosis. She has been married for 9 years, has one 7 year-old-son and is expecting a baby girl via gestational surrogacy this summer. She loves exercise, podcasts, reading and skiing with her boys. Mandie is a respiratory therapist, public speaker and advocate. She educates on her life story living with CF and provides awareness for ch...

Julie Taylor is a writer, creator, and consultant for over a decade. To me, she's a positive cheerleader and realist and someone whose light is continually brightening my experience on social media with her hilarious reels and deeply thought-provoking shares. Julie's only agenda is to help you do you and feel good while doing it! All of her work has one common goal: to help alleviate the suffering...

Have you ever heard people talking about codependency, or maybe you've seen it referenced in an article or a book or even a movie at some point and then wondered, "Wait, I wonder if that's me? Am I codependent?" If you've ever wondered this, and especially if you have loved ones who have addictions or even seem to have a lot of chaos that cause you heartache or heartburn, then today's episode is j...

Chris Jones and his wife Natalie live in Salt Lake City, Utah, and are the parents of 4 children and grandparents of two. Chris is a fiercely creative entrepreneur who builds businesses and products that build people. He's a prolific writer whose work has been widely recognized as unflinchingly authentic, insightful, and an invitation to live a more examined life. Chris's work has since gained int...

17 years ago, I went to the Bountiful Temple for the first time to receive my own endowment (which is another word for gift). This ordinance or sacred work is something members of my church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often do once they reach adulthood or are preparing to serve as a full-time missionary or before they're married in our temple. I had an exceptional experience...

Nicole Parker is a former Special Agent (SA) with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (also known as the FBI). She served in Miami from January 2011 through October 2022, and for the first four years she worked securities fraud cases - investigating multi-million-dollar Ponzi schemes, money laundering, embezzlements, and more. In January 2015, she transferred to violent crime, where she worked a m...

Dave Jensen is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Sandlot Partners, an independent private investment firm. He also co-founded Beacon Data, an expert data strategy and implementation company serving the private equity community. Dave enjoys spending time in the outdoors with his wife Liz and their 5 children. In addition to being an avid golfer, skier, hiker, and movie watcher, Dave is a for...

The heaviness of the Covenant School Shooting in Nashville is weighing heavy on our hearts, so we felt like God wanted us to process this out loud today, on our podcast, with you. We don't profess to be the experts, but we'll share our experiences and some of the writings and teachings from leaders both in our faith and other faiths that have helped us navigate hard times like these. If you've bee...

Dr. Fab Sagebin was born in the south of Brazil and grew up in Utah. He studied biology and chemistry at UVU before attending NYU School of Medicine. He trained in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Rochester with an emphasis in advanced heart failure and mechanical heart technology. In 2019, he was recruited to Southern California where he started Orange County's first mechanical heart p...

We're finally back! After taking a couple months off we are so happy to be returning with new weekly episodes, and this week we're sharing Bobby's birth story, how 5 total visits to Labor & Delivery ended in an unscheduled but successful c-section, the hardest hospital recovery I've ever had, why we had to stay an extra day in the hospital, but also some of the miracles and tender mercies we e...

How many kids is the perfect, ideal amount? What's the best family size? Is it wise to have a big family? These are some of the questions we'll explore today as well as tell our own story on how we decided to have 5 kids and what led up to that big decision! We're also sharing an announcement so stay tuned for that and we hope you know how grateful we are for your listenership and for being here a...

Bruce Kayitare was born in Rwanda where he now lives with his wife and two children. He says, "I am a child of God born again after receiving Jesus Christ in my life, and I have seen the work of God through all my life." He is passionate about ministering and mentoring. Bruce has worked in leadership for about a decade working in factory operations, supply chain, production systems of luxury produ...

How do you start your day out? Do you roll out of bed and let life dictate your plans, or do you do things every day that set your intentions, your mind and your spirit up for whatever success means to you? Today Neil and I are sharing how we go about our daily routines, or dailies as we call them, why they're so important, how to get started with them, and what you'll get out of making dailies a...

Casey Baugh is a 40-year-old investor, operator, board member, advisor, husband, and father of 5. During his 13 year tenure at Vivint, Casey played a critical role in sales leadership helping grow revenue from $30M to $1B. Later he Co-Founded & is a Managing Partner of Sandlot Partners, a private investment firm that has deployed over 350 million dollars since inception. Casey has also been in...

Have you ever been involved in some kind of charitable work or cause that afterward you realized maybe didn't do as much or the kind of good as you intended? I definitely have on a couple of occasions, and one super eye-opening moment for me happened on the beach in the North Shore of Oahu a couple of years ago where I met Lindsay Hadley and she broke down for me the basics of what she calls The O...