Neil Matthews

Other People's Shoes

Religion EN ↓ 396 episodes

On my show, I intentionally create space for every voice and every point of view to be heard. Honest, constructive conversations have a way of opening our eyes to stories we might otherwise miss. After all, when you step into Other People’s Shoes, you gain what we’re all searching for… a different perspective on life.

Author

Neil Matthews

Category

Religion

Podcast website

www.opspodcast.com

Latest episode

Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

Twenty Twenty 21.01.2026

  🎙 WHO’S THERE -“2020” Hindsight is 20/20… but only after everything changes 🚪 SEASON THEME: WHO’S THERE Season 22 asks a simple but unsettling question: What happens when life knocks… and you answer? And just as powerfully  what happens when you don’t? Some knocks are subtle. Some are disruptive. Some arrive without warning and change the direction of everything. This season explores the moment...

Rejected 14.01.2026

  🎙 Episode Title: Rejected 🧩 Season Theme: Who’s There? 🚪 This season asks one haunting question: Who’s knocking at your life’s door? Some knocks invite healing. Others demand courage. And some… almost change everything. ⚠️ Listener Advisory This episode contains adult and mature subject matter. Listener discretion is strongly advised. This conversation includes honest discussions around addict...

Intruder 07.01.2026

  🎙 SEASON 22: WHO THERE 🚪  As we step into Season 22, I’m asking one big question: Who’s knocking at your life’s door? 👤 Is it a long-lost friend… a past mistake… or an opportunity you never saw coming? 💡 Is it joy, peace, and purpose… or fear, doubt, and bad habits? Some doors we throw open 🔓 Some we keep locked 🔒 Some knocks change everything This season is about the front-door moments the...

Atlas 31.12.2025

  🎙✨ SEASON FINALE: ATLAS ✨ 🧩 SEASON THEME: HUNGRY: This season finale asks a simple but weighty question: what are you carrying ? Atlas, the Titan condemned to hold up the sky, has become a symbol for anyone who feels responsible for keeping everything together relationships, expectations, appearances, success. Strength slowly turns into obligation. Responsibility becomes identity. By the end...

The Gift 24.12.2025

🎙 EPISODE TITLE: THE GIFT 🎁  🧩 SEASON THEME: HUNGRY This season has been about appetite  not just for success or answers, but for meaning, honesty, and something real. The Gift sits right in the middle of that hunger, asking a simple but unsettling question: What does this world actually need right now? 👣 GUEST INTRODUCTION: A CHRISTMAS TRADITION For six years now, Christmas on Other People’s S...

Crap... 17.12.2025

  🎙✨ CRAP 🧩 Season Theme: Hungry It starts with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on white bread. 🥪 Cheap. Easy. Normal. At 15 years old, Dr. Aaron Chapa found himself overweight, confused, and hungry for direction  with no real guidance on food, health, or how the body actually works. This episode is called “CRAP” because sometimes what we eat, what we trust, and what we’re told is “normal” s...

Now And Next 10.12.2025

🎙✨ NOW AND NEXT 🧩 Season Theme: HungryyAs we enter the home stretch of this season, the conversations get even more honest. “Hungry” has always been about the things we long forrconnection, clarity, purposeeand this episode lands right in that space..Most of us spend too much time wishing we could rewrite the past..However, in this episode leans into a mindset shift called “the now and the next....

Chicken Or Fish 03.12.2025

  🎙 Chicken Or Fish 🧩 Season Theme: Hungry As we enter the home stretch of this season, the conversations get even more honest. “Hungry” has always been about the things we long for connection, clarity, purpose and this episode lands right in that space. 👣 Guest Introduction: My guest this week is Jonathan McLean, a true “Why” guy. He’s the kind of person who isn’t afraid to ask the deeper quest...

The Shot 26.11.2025

  🎙: The Shot 🧩 Season Theme: Hungry This season leans into the places where our cravings, choices, and deeper longings collide. It’s about the things we chase, the stories we tell ourselves, and the hunger literal and not that shapes who we become. 👣 Guest Introduction: Ana Reisdorf has spent more than 15 years helping people understand their relationship with health, weight, and nutrition. Ear...

Enough Mediocrity 19.11.2025

  🎙  Enough Mediocrity 🧩 Season Theme: Hungry This season explores hunger not just for food, but for belonging, purpose, identity, and healing. Hunger shows us what we’re still carrying and what we keep feeding. 👣 With Thanksgiving almost here, it’s natural to think about who’ll be gathering around your table. But today’s conversation asks a deeper question: Who have you been allowing to sit at...

Connect 12.11.2025

🎙 Connect: 🍽️ Season Theme: Hungry This season, we’re exploring what it means to be hungry not just for food, but for purpose, meaning, connection, and identity. Hunger drives us, defines us, and sometimes exposes what’s really missing inside. 👣 Guest Introduction: Have you ever tried eating alone in a restaurant no phone, no music, just you and your thoughts? It’s harder than it sounds. I’ve bee...

Plant & Grow 05.11.2025

🎙 Plant & Grow 🌱 🍁🌱 A Thanksgiving Seed Thanksgiving isn’t just about full plates 🦃🍽️ it’s about roots  the kind we grow on purpose 🌾 The soil remembers every hand that turned it 🤲 every hope tucked beneath chilly November ground 🍂 Some seasons feed us 🥕 Some seasons stretch us 🌿 And hunger? It’s not always a rumble in the stomach  sometimes it’s the deep ache to become who we’re meant to...

Unwanted 29.10.2025

🎙 Episode Title: Unwanted 🧩 Season Theme: Hungry This season explores different kinds of hunger both literal and metaphorical. From struggles with food to deeper cravings for purpose, fulfillment, and connection, we’re diving into stories that truly nourish the soul. 👣 Guest Introduction: I’ve got to admit when I first heard that today’s guest, Christi Kelsey, had a connection to Duke University...

Golden Ticket 22.10.2025

🎙 Golden Ticket 🧩 Season Theme: Hungry This season, we’re exploring what it means to be hungry not just for food, but for purpose, meaning, connection, and identity. Hunger can drive us, define us, and sometimes destroy us. But it also reveals what truly satisfies the soul. 👣 Guest Introduction: Remember Charlie Bucket from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory the kid who found the Golden Ticke...

Sitting In The Chair 15.10.2025

  🎙 Episode Title: Sitting In The Chair 🧩 Season Theme: Hungry What does it really mean to hunger for something deeper  something more than routine, more than the surface-level faith that just gets us through the day? This season invites us to pay attention to what our souls crave and how we’re feeding that hunger. 👣 Guest Introduction: How comfortable are you in the seat you’re sitting in right...

Access Pass 08.10.2025

🎙 Access Pass 🧩 Season Theme: Hungry This season, we’re exploring what it means to be truly hungry  not for food, but for purpose, belonging, and meaning. Sometimes, that hunger shows up when the door won’t open and we’re left wondering if we even have the right password. 👣 Guest Introduction: Ever typed in a password that should have worked… and it just didn’t? That locked-out feeling hits deep...

Discomfort 01.10.2025

🎙 Discomfort 🧩 Season Theme: Hungry The season theme Hungry explores the ache for something more the hunger for fulfillment, meaning, and a life that actually feels like our own. 👣 Guest Introduction: We’ve all heard the phrase about the ostrich sticking its head in the sand. But what happens when we live that way avoiding, numbing, or ignoring what’s right in front of us? Today’s guest, Megan W...

Corner Booth 24.09.2025

🎙 Corner Booth 🧩 Season Theme: Hungry This season we’re exploring what it means to be hungry not just for food, but for belonging, for meaning, for God himself. Maybe you’ve walked into a room and wondered if there was a place for you. Today, consider this your invitation: there’s a spot at the corner booth waiting, and you don’t have to sit alone. 👣 Guest Introduction: My guest today is Brandon...

Sugar-Free 17.09.2025

🎙 Sugar-Free 🧩 Season Theme: Hungry This season we’re talking about hunger physical, emotional, and spiritual. What do we crave? What fills us? And what leaves us empty? 👣 Guest Introduction: Dr. Cali Estes knows firsthand the dangers of quick fixes and hidden addictions. Early in her life, she was prescribed the now-banned weight-loss drug Fen-Phen a combination that promised results but came w...

Bitter Herbs 10.09.2025

🚨 If You’re Struggling If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, please don’t wait. Help is available. In the U.S., dial 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Visit 988lifeline.org for more resources. You are not alone. 🎙 Episode Title: Bitter Herbs 🧩 Season Theme: Hungry The season theme Hungry explores the cravings that shape our lives not just for food, but for healing, hope, and...

Saying Grace 03.09.2025

🎙 Saying Grace  🧩 Season Theme: Hungry This season, we explore what it means to be hungry, in all its forms. Hungry for food, for meaning, and for connection. Together, we’ll pull up a chair, break bread, and discover what truly nourishes us. 👣 Guest Introduction: Does prayer really do any good or are we just talking to the ceiling? In this opening episode of Season 21 Hungry, we step into the s...

SEASON FINALE: De Oppresso Liber 27.08.2025

⚠️ Content Warning:In this episode, Joshua Daniel shares about his time as an Army Ranger and Green Beret, including a mission involving a suicide bomber. Listener discretion is advised.⚠️  🎙 De Oppresso Liber 🧩 Season Theme: Unmade The season theme 'Unmade' refers to the concept of an 'unmade bed' raw, honest, and messy moments in life when things fall apart, identities unravel, and people are c...

Borrow My Hope 20.08.2025

🎙 Borrow My Hope 🧩 Season Theme: Unmade The season theme 'Unmade' refers to the concept of an 'unmade bed' raw, honest, and messy moments in life when things fall apart, identities unravel, and people are confronted with the truth of who they really are. 👣 Guest Introduction: Meet Cristie Cerniglia a marriage coach certified through Laura Doyle’s Relationship Coaching program. A homeschooling mo...

Missing Piece 13.08.2025

🎙 Episode Title: The Missing Piece 🧩 Season Theme: Unmade The season theme 'Unmade' refers to the concept of an 'unmade bed' raw, honest, and messy moments in life when things fall apart, identities unravel, and people are confronted with the truth of who they really are. 👣 Guest Introduction: Jordan Turbyfill has made a career in craftsmanship, but today he steps into a very different kind of w...

Messy Prayers 06.08.2025

🎙Messy Prayers 🗝️ Praying for someone—especially your spouse—is like trying to plant seeds in rocky soil. You know growth is possible, but every time you kneel down, you hit something hard: past wounds, unmet expectations, pride, fear. It takes work to clear the ground. But if you stay with it, roots can take hold—and something beautiful can grow. 👣 Guest Introduction: Amanda Hayhurst once looked...

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