The Pour Over Podcast

In this episode we have a conversation with Cece Jones-Davis. Cece is a minister, artist, speaker and justice advocate and activist hailing from Halifax County Virginia. Cece gives us her experience and perspective of anti-black racism through a woman of colors lens. We then talk about the interconnectedness of justice and mental health and ways to seek flourishing for ourselves and our neighbors...

In this episode we have a conversation with David Bedrick. David is a Jewish author, teacher, attorney and psychologist that focuses most of his work on what he calls unshaming and helping others see themselves more than through the lens of shame. In this episode David gives us a window into how his Jewish identity and experiences has shaped him and his worldview. We then discuss the current situa...

Peaks & Valleys family, we made it to 50 episodes!🥳 Our episode this week is a shorter one, but we wanted to take a moment to reflect over the start of this podcast to now having 50 episodes out, how we have progressed and a little about our framework now and where we are going. As always a big thank you to everyone that listens and leans in with us because you all listening is what keeps us...

CW/TW: mention of miscarriage loss in this episode. Welcome to the first episode of 2024! In this first episode of the new year we have a peer and friend of ours Serra Jane on to share her story. In the spirit of breaking down dualistic thinking and disrupting narratives we hear her story of growing up Christian and then eventually practicing Islam. Her own journey is a beautiful window into that...

In our last a final episode of the year we cover our favorite episodes and reflect on this years podcasting. A big thank you to everybody that leans in with us and listens to our voice. We are excited to bring more conversations and some progression to this podcast in 2024. We round out talking about the spirit of giving during Christmas, but specifically giving our voice and solidarity to Palesti...

First off, so great to be back with you all sharing this collective online space! In this episode your hosts (Kyle and Jonathan) are back to talk a bit about masculinity, binary thinking and suicide awareness, because these intersect more than you think! With so much going on in our world we talk about us being complex humans, which we have chatted about in previous episodes, being confronted with...

In todays episode you will hear from our other host, Kyle Ridgley and his own journey of deconstruction, mental health and navigating a crisis of faith that has lead him to where/who he is today and why he is passionate about helping others navigate their own mental health and see people flourish. He then shares about navigating life where he is now as a gay man. His story is powerful and worth li...

In this two part series your hosts Jonathan and Kyle share their own journeys. What started deconstruction, navigating life/mental health amongst that and where they are now. Today Jonathan shares his own story of choosing to step away from his own faith background to questioning everything he had been taught to know is true. We hope you enjoy sitting with us and leaning into these journeys and ga...

In this episode we have a conversation with Mac Scotty McGregor. Mac is a transgender man that grew up in the south, but now lives in Seattle. Before transitioning Mac was a US karate team member, a champion martial arts competitor, and coach/teacher. He now spends his time doing diversity training around gender and LGBTQ. He also founded and runs a non-profit called positive masculinity seeking t...

In this episode, your hosts Jonathan Coggins and Kyle Ridgley do some reflection. We reflect on our episodes on liberation out of reformed/calvinistic spaces with Noah and Hannah and our episode on ADHD in a neurotypical world with Alex of the Epics Podcast. We give our own thoughts and things we took away from each episode. We then move into a conversation about progressing and wholeness, and the...

In this episode your host Jonathan Coggins brings his own thoughts around change and progressing. In a world that is rapidly changing this a conversation that is needed and sometimes in an off the cuff and raw disposition. Then his own thoughts around guns, trauma and the need for change in that conversation. We hope you all enjoy this short, but we believe potent episode!

We at The Pour Over Podcast thought given our cultural moment and climate surrounding the conversation of LGBTQ people this would be a good re-release. Hopefully re-listening to this episode can humanize this conversation, and wherever you fall or don't fall religiously, and bring us all into better neighborly love and to see people in the LGBTQ community worthy of dignity, love, respect and equal...

In this episode we have Alex Wait of The Epics Podcast where he shares stories to fight hate and marginalization to help chart better paths forward in our world and we LOVE that at Peaks & Valleys. Alex opens up and shares his journey of being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and navigating life with ADHD in a world built for neurotypical people. His story and perspective is challenging, beauti...

This episode is a re-release we felt for our culture and sociopolitical moment was a good refresher for having better conversations around understanding one another and all around better community! We hope you enjoy this episode and it helps you find better paths forward and leads to flourishing mental health for you and others. As always connect with us here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/...

This episode is very special. We got to share the table with and hold two journeys from two beautiful souls. We were joined by Hannah Lloyd and Noah Althoff to share their journey of navigating being in the calvinistic/reformed mode of evangelicalism. We explore what their individual experiences were, where they overlapped and what broke that tradition for them. We also talked their views of menta...

In this episode we have a guest co-host Timothy Lloyd to talk all things resisting Christian Nationalism. Tim is deeply committed to Jesus, but also resisting oppressive forms of Christianity like Christian Nationalism and seeing all humans flourish. We talk what is Christian Nationalism, why we resist it, why others should speak up against it and how it affects our non-religious, non-straight, im...

Welcome to the Christmas Special of The Pour Over Podcast! We hope you have a great holiday season and a smooth mental health experience through the many complications that come with this time of year. In this episode we talk about the importance of LGBTQ inclusion and stepping into other peoples experience and social location. We round out by talking harmful views of mental health from the evange...

Content and trigger warning: mentions of suicide In this episode we sit down with our friend and creative entrepreneur/barista Dylan Studt. We have a conversation about having outlets for your mental health and his own experiences with mental health and what he has observed as a peer. We round this conversation out on Dylan giving us ways to chart better paths forward in supporting youth in their...

In this episode, your hosts Jonathan and Kyle will be responding to a terrible take on mental health from within the church that actually harms people and does not lead to human flourishing. We directly confront the harmful views and deconstruct them and then help chart some better paths forward to moving away from these harmful views. Peaks & Valleys Zoom community/support group signup (July...

In this episode we have have a conversation with Mike Maeshiro about LGBTQ, coming out, navigating sexuality in evangelical spaces and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. Mike shares his own story and gives us some encouragement and tools for challenging our own beliefs around this conversation. We also talk about anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and resisting that for the sake of the LGBTQ people in our lives and around us....

In this episode we reflect on our previous episodes on people living with a disability, seeing people as whole people and dismantling the idea of "special needs". In light of sexual abuse, cover ups and gaslighting and not believing victims we affirm our position as an organization where we stand and how we seek to approach this conversation. We then round this episode out resisting the homophobia...

In this weeks episode Jonathan has a conversation with Rachel Richards who is the face of the Instagram account heychurch. She advocates for being person centered when it relates to disabled people and dismantling/resisting ableism so all people living with disabilities are able to live more liberated and full lives. We talk about her journey of navigating church culture around this, change in the...

In this episode we dive into a conversation about the intersection of living with a disability and mental health. We have Dionne Sanchez of Words Of Heart podcast. Dionne shares her own journey of navigating living with physical disabilities at an early age and then the ensuing socialization an mental health struggles that she walked through. She also shares her powerful story of overcoming and ch...

Hang out with your hosts (Jonathan and Kyle) in this episode as we chat about the first few episodes of this season. We do some reflecting on what we have learned, expounding on things we have learned and that really stuck with us and we even share a funny story in the beginning involving Kyle and a certain coffee from Indonesia! We hope you all enjoy this style every once in a while of reflecting...

In this episode we are joined by fellow resister Ryan Ramsey. Ryan works in healthcare chaplaincy, but has been in the organizational role of pastor. We dive into resisting the organizations and structures that oppress, abuse and domineer over people that cause grief and trauma. Ryan loves the church and shepherding people, but also knows the good work of resisting and critiquing these organizatio...