The Yellow Coat Club | Stop Hiding. Start Becoming.

He was thirteen when he started stealing his dying mother's pain pills so he wouldn't have to feel her leaving. By the time Ashton met me, he'd buried his mom at her funeral and buried himself in everything that would numb it — pills, cocaine, anything to sedate. He'd cheated on the mother of his daughter and told her he didn't want to be with her anymore. He was angry at the w...

Nobody has it figured out. Not your parents. Not the person in the room who looks like they do. Not you — and that's okay. In this episode, Sean gets honest about what becoming a parent revealed: that the weight of decision-making never goes away, it just changes with time and perspective. The goal was never a life without problems. It was always about who you become in the middle of them — an...

What's your why? We ask it about the big things—purpose, calling, meaning. But what's the real motivation behind your everyday life? The text you sent. The prayer you prayed. The favor you did. This episode is an honest look at the motives we hide, even from ourselves. Sean sits in the mirror with rigorous self-examination and asks the question most of us avoid: what's actually driving...

Becoming who God created you to be doesn't happen in one decision. It happens in the decision you make today, tomorrow's today, and so on. And sometimes it's just the next fifteen minutes when you've already stumbled and you have to choose again. In this episode, Sean unpacks the principle that changed how he sees everything —  just for today.  Learned not from a stage, but from a...

I used to beg God to just take it away. The eating disorder, alcoholism, the void my parents left. I believed He could — and that's what made me so angry. Why wouldn't He just fix it? Here's what I've learned: God will never take away the fight you need to go through to become the person He created you to be. In this episode, I'm talking about why we've become a culture add...

As I was packing up my life in Phoenix, I was caught up in all the memories of our home, and that's when it hit me. I could see the thread. Every leap I didn't feel ready for. Every step I took without a plan. Every moment the call was louder than the fear. And here's what I know now: the faith it took to do the last hard thing won't carry you into the next one. Faith is a muscle....

Before anyone ever told you who to be — who were you? Most of us never get to answer that. Not because we don't want to, but because the answer gets taken before we even know. This episode is about identity. Not the version you perform for everyone else — the one that was yours before the labels, the wounds, and the noise started stacking up. There's a difference between working for your i...

What happens when you stop negotiating with mediocrity? In this episode, we get honest about the slow drift that pulls us away from the things that matter most — our health, our relationships, our faith, our work — and what it actually takes to stop it. This isn't about perfection. It's about setting a standard and refusing to bend it, no matter what. We talk about the difference between g...

For a long time, I thought isolation was protecting me. During the years when I was struggling with addiction, grief after losing my parents, and mental health battles, I became consumed with trying to survive my own life. When that happens, something subtle begins to take over. You start thinking about yourself constantly. Not because you want to be selfish, but because you’re drowning. There’s a...

In September 2019, I was faced with a choice. I could either continue to live a life that was destroying me or lay down my weapons and surrender my pride. I was trapped in addiction and every day was a reminder that my life had become unmanageable. As I sat on the ground, drunk and alone, in my despair, I cried out to God, "take me now..." In this episode, I talk about the day I surrende...

We don’t drift into the future God has for us. We strategically move into it. In this episode, I talk about what it really takes to step forward—personally, spiritually, and practically. Not vague motivation, but honest evaluation. If we want a different future, we have to ask three questions: What do I need to stop doing? What do I need to continue doing? And what do I need to start doing? Workin...

We all live by stories—about who we are, what’s possible, and what we can or can’t do. And often, we don’t even realize how much those stories are shaping our lives. In this episode, I start with a familiar story from Exodus. The Israelites had witnessed God’s power firsthand—freedom from captivity, miracles, provision, and His presence guiding them by fire and cloud. Yet when they reached the Red...

There was a time in my life when my word meant nothing—because my actions didn’t back it up. I lied about my pain. I hid an eating disorder. I lied about drinking. I told people I was fine when I wasn’t. And one day, after asking a friend why no one believed me, they told me the truth I didn’t want to hear:  you’ve created a reputation where you can’t be trusted. That moment changed everything. In...

After a relapse on New Year’s Day, I once asked someone when the pain would stop. His answer was simple:  “When you stop digging.” But for a long time after that, I kept digging anyway. In this episode, I talk about the shovel—what it represents, why we keep holding it, and how easy it is to stay busy, planned, and controlled while avoiding the deeper surrender that healing and faith require. I sh...

As we look ahead to a new year, many of us begin thinking about goals, direction, and what we want our lives to look like moving forward. But beneath those questions is often a deeper tension—an awareness that we know where we’re playing it safe, where we’re avoiding risk, and where we’re not listening to the voice that keeps saying,  “Follow Me.” In this episode, I reflect on the story of Peter s...

The holidays can bring joy, but they can also uncover something deeper—grief, longing, loneliness, old wounds, and the weight of missing the people who aren’t at the table for one reason or another. And when those feelings surface, many of us slip into numbing—through substances, isolating, or burying emotions we’re afraid to acknowledge. In this episode, I talk about what the holidays used to loo...

For years, I lived with a secret. Bulimia wasn’t something I chose—it was something that owned me. It started when I was ten, comparing myself to every kid around me… and realizing I didn’t measure up to what the world called “beautiful” or “enough.” But this episode isn’t just about an eating disorder. It’s about shame, comparison, body image, and the pressure to become who the world tells us we...

For a long time, I knew something wasn’t right. I felt everything — too deeply, too fast, too much. The highs were electric, the lows were unbearable, and I couldn’t name what was happening. Like so many others, I turned to alcohol and substances to cope, to quiet the noise I didn’t understand. In this episode, I share my experience living with bipolar disorder and how addiction intertwined with i...

Most of us learn early that being “good” keeps us safe — that if we behave, perform, and please enough, maybe we won’t be left behind. But somewhere along the way, that need to prove ourselves becomes a mask we forget we’re wearing. In this episode, Sean shares the story of the moment he realized “good” wasn’t enough — and how that wound shaped years of striving, performing, and overworking in sea...

Two days after celebrating six years of sobriety, Sean held his newborn son Jack for the first time. In this episode, he shares about losing his dad, the hurt and hiding that followed, and the years of unspoken pain that shaped his story. From the redemption found in sobriety to the miracle of Jack’s birth, Sean reflects on grief, healing, and the ongoing journey of  becoming —all held together by...

In this first episode, Sean Little shares the origin story of The Yellow Coat Club —a movement born from pain, healing, and the courage to stop hiding. Discover how the yellow coat became a symbol of identity and belonging, and why this podcast exists to help you step into who you were created to be.