The Journey Parent Podcast

Guests: Coach Vic Shealy, Chief of Staff, and Dr. Houn Hib, Head of School, Plano campus   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Like many young men, Houn Hib was greatly influenced by the faith and leadership of Coach Vic Shealy. Years later, God would reunite that relationship here at PCA as Coach Shealy is now moving into the newly created Chief of Staff positi...

Guest: Natasha Crain   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   We are excited that Christian author and apologist Natasha Crain will be joining us for our 2025 Biblical Worldview Conference (BWC) September 28-30 - make sure you register today for this outstanding event! Natasha shares in this podcast about the importance of parents to be armed with the truth of God’...

Guest: Dan Panetti, Director of Parent Engagement & Ministry, PCA Plano campus   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   If you’ve heard my story, you know that my wife Tricia and I were huge public school advocates - Tricia was teaching in PISD and we wanted to be “salt and light” in the public school system. God had different plans for our family. Twenty-two y...

Guest: Ruslan KD   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Born Ruslan Karaoglanov to Armenian parents in Baku, Azerbaijan, Ruslan was a child when he immigrated with his family to the United States in 19900 to escape religious persecution after an ethnic conflict broke out in the wake of tensions between the dissolving Soviet Union and the Azerbaijan government. Ru...

Guests: Gabe Boyd and Justin McAdams   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Important overview discussion about the Netflix series “Adolescence” that deals with the cultural issues of masculinity, parenting, violence, social media, pornography, education, and loneliness. We plan to dive deeper into each of these components for our summer series - so make sure tha...

Guest: Erin Williams, PCA US Counselor, Plano campus   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   This is a continuation of our powerful discussion on the book Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up, which is the 2024 book from Abigail Shrier and came as a result of her revealing book a few years before that called Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seduci...

Guest: Erin Williams, PCA US Counselor, Plano campus   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   We had a powerful discussion on the book Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up, which is the 2024 book from Abigail Shrier and came as a result of her revealing book a few years before that called Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (202...

  Guest: Alycia Wood, Apologetics, Inc.   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Loved chatting with Alycia Wood about life and how to navigate the current cultural chaos with the truth of God’s Word. Alycia reminded us that we can use just about anything - movies, music, etc. to engage in meaningful conversations about spiritual and eternal things. C.S. Lewis in T...

Guest: Jan Jeffcoat, PCA LS Principal, Plano campus   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   We had a great conversation with Jan Jeffcoat, PCA’s Lower School Principal, about her family’s journey to PCA and how God provided through the generosity of PCA families who financially supported PCA’s Sponsor-A-Lion program to help families afford Kingdom Education at PCA...

Guests: Eddie Jimenez (PCA Band Director, Plano campus), Eli Taylor (Class of ‘25, Plano campus), Tatum Samuels (Class of ‘25, Plano campus), Harper Glenn (Class of ‘27, North campus), David Madison (Class of ‘25, Plano campus), Shay Planas (Class of ‘26, Plano campus), Kaylee Smith (Class of ‘27, Plano campus)   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   In this episo...

  Guest: Linda Paulk, President & CEO, Sky Ranch Christian camps   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page . What a great conversation with Linda Paulk, President & CEO of Sky Ranch Christian camps - we talked about everything - their summer overnight camps and day camps, their family camps, their leadership training programs, their parent/child weekend get-away...

Guest: Kenzie Venus, Director of Development Events and Annual Funds For questions about the Zig, you can email Kenzie at KVenus@prestonwoodchristian.org   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Parents, this year “The ZIG” (the Zig Ziglar Servant Leadership Awards Banquet) will be at The Gaylord Texas on Sunday evening, April 27th. This venue is different from the...

Guest: Ryan Bangert, Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives & Special Counsel to the President for Alliance Defending Freedom   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Updates on a few important Free Speech/Freedom of Religion cases: Adam Smith-Connor , UK case dealing with an Army veteran who was arrested for a silent prayer offered outside an abortion fa...

Guests: Carter Morris, President & CEO, and Drew Herndon, Distribution and Services Manager for GraceBridge   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page . It is a privilege to let you know about the incredible work of GraceBridge and The Master Cares , two organizations dedicated to the ministry of the Gospel by serving the needs of their communities - as they say on t...

Guest: Erin Williams, LPC, PCA US Counselor, Plano campus   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   This is week two of a great conversation with Erin Williams about the book Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic - and What We Can Do About It by Jennifer Breheny Wallace. This book is a New York Times bestseller, but remember that it is written from th...

Guest: Erin Williams, LPC, PCA US Counselor, Plano campus   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Great conversation with Erin Williams about the book Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic - and What We Can Do About It by Jennifer Breheny Wallace. This book is a New York Times bestseller, but remember that it is written from the perspective of someo...

Guest: Dr. O.S. Hawkins, PhD, Chancellor, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, President Emeritus, GuideStone Financial Resources.   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   To learn more about Dr. Hawkins, you can visit his website at OSHawkins.com   What an honor to sit down to record with Dr. O.S. Hawkins, the 2025 Zig Ziglar Servant Leadership Award recipie...

Guest: The Honorable Matt Shaheen , Texas State Representative, District 66   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   We had the opportunity to sit down and catch up with State Representative Matt Shaheen after he returned from the oral arguments at the Supreme Court on his bill (HB 1181) that requires age verification to prevent minors from accessing inappropriate...

Guests: Sevyn Trogdon, Emerson Seal, and Elizabeth Teague, PCA sophomores at the Plano campus    If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   In this episode, we spend a little time talking about their journey toward wisdom during their sophomore year at PCA and the events and activities that help keep them on the right track! The girls talk about activities like Freedom...

Guest: Amanda Henderson, LS Counselor   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Enjoy this conversation with Amanda Henderson as we contemplate the future of learning and education. Mrs. Henderson is a favorite of students and faculty alike in the Lower School with her warmth and gentleness coupled with her stuffed animal puppets that provide a sense of security and...

  Guest: Angie Gray, Chief Enrollment and Marketing Officer for PCA   Re-enrollment opens January 15th and goes through the 31st for existing PCA families in good standing. After that time, available spots will be made available to students and families not currently enrolled at PCA for the following year.   The small percentage increase in tuition is passed on to support the pay increase for PCA’...

Guests: Jason Spodnik, President and Head of School, Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy (Cuyahoga Falls, OH)   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Parents, here is some wisdom from a guy who has been in the private Christian education world for many years: There is so much to learn, so don’t let pride get in the way as we look to steward the incredible gifts of o...

Guests: Amy Petrof, Kristin Dysart, and Gabe Boyd   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   We hope you enjoy this fun conversation with some PCA parents about their holiday traditions as they desire to keep Christ in the middle of Christmas!   Special shout out to Jared Wood for allowing us to use his music - check him out at JaredWoodMusic !

Guests: Dr. J’Aime Balogh, Jenitta Eskew, and Nena Graham   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   Executive Functioning - are all of the cognitive skills necessary to regulate your thinking, feelings/emotions, and behaviors to reach a goal.   Executive Functioning skills are necessary for all of the other cognitive functions - these are the primary functions that...

Guests: Stephen Bryant, Chris Housewright, Mike Thornberry   If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page .   First of all, just a reminder that Gladiator II is Rated R, which means that you’ll want to proceed with caution - a great place to learn more about why movies receive their ratings is either PluggedInOnline (from Focus on the Family) or MovieGuide .   Next, it is wi...