The Ordinary Mystic

This week I sit down with two of my favorite humans on the planet — Scott and Kaitlin Elliott , hosts of the So…What Else? Podcast, dear friends, and fellow travelers on this winding spiritual path. We grew up inside the same faith stories, the same expectations, the same pressure to “have it all together.” And somewhere along the way, life unraveled those old scripts for each of us — through loss...

There comes a moment when the ground beneath you starts to tremble. Not violently, but slowly, a deep, quiet shaking that tells you something old is falling away. In this episode, Ryan explores what happens when the faith, identity, and certainty you once clung to begin to crack. Drawing inspiration from Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward , he reflects on the seasons when our beliefs collapse, our mask...

We spend so much of life chasing “someday” — the job, the body, the bank account, the spiritual breakthrough, believing that arrival will finally make us whole. But what if you were never broken to begin with? In this episode, Ryan unpacks The Myth of Arrival , the illusion that peace and purpose live somewhere beyond where you are right now. Drawing from Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward , he explore...

There are moments when the ground beneath us begins to tremble—not always with the violence of an earthquake, but with the slow, insistent shifting of something deep and undeniable. This episode is the beginning of that story. In today’s episode, I take you back to the moment when everything I thought I believed began to unravel. Not with a bang, but with a question. Not with certainty, but with s...

There comes a moment when the old stories stop working. When faith unravels, certainty slips away, and all the formulas we were given leave us hollow. This podcast was born in that ache. The Ordinary Mystic is for those standing in the threshold—between what was and what might be. Between belief and mystery. Between burnout and becoming. In this trailer, I share why I’m starting this, who it’s for...