HUMAN ENOUGH

What happens when the life you planned begins to fall apart… And somehow, through the struggle, you discover the life you were actually called to live? In this episode of Human Enough, I sit down with Elder Yolonda Troupe Smith — preacher, teacher, author, singer, songwriter, and transformational voice whose mission is to help people “Get the Holy Spirit Hookup.” Yolonda’s journey has taken her fr...

What if one of the biggest sources of wasted money inside modern companies isn’t employee productivity—but the struggle to find the right information? In this episode of Human Enough, I sit down with Susan Kraft-Yorke, a Silicon Valley veteran and Information Architect who helps engineering organizations understand the hidden costs of poorly managed information. Knowledge workers can spend a signi...

What if clutter isn’t just the stuff around us? It can be physical, digital, mental, emotional, and even spiritual—and each type can quietly contribute to overwhelm. In this episode of Human Enough, I sit down with Kerry Thomas, an organizational consultant and owner of Conquer the Chaos. With a background in Special Education and years of experience helping leaders with ADD, Kerry takes a differe...

What if some of the hardest questions about faith are actually invitations to understand God more deeply? In this episode of Human Enough, I sit down with Dr. Gerald “Dr. G” Robison, a pastor, Bible teacher, author, and speaker who has ministered across three continents and trained Bible teachers in more than 25 countries. Known for making complicated Christian ideas easier to understand—and often...

What happens when faith stops being about pretending everything is okay and becomes an honest conversation with Jesus? In this episode of Human Enough, I sit down with Jeff Dalton, author, poet, and speaker, to talk about faith, mental health, shame, rejection, vulnerability, and what it means to have a real and unfiltered relationship with Jesus. Jeff shares his journey from struggling with depre...

What can a lifetime of travel teach us about being human? Elisabeth Villiger Toufexis has travelled to more than 100 countries, speaks six languages, worked as a tour guide across the world for 11 years, and spent 17 years as a conference interpreter. Today, she is an author, speaker, life coach, hypnotherapist, and host of the internationally acclaimed Most Memorable Journeys podcast. Her latest...

What if some of life’s biggest lessons could be taught through a simple story? Kirsten Telan is a children’s author, kindness advocate, and creator of The Confetti Effect, a platform dedicated to helping children grow in kindness, confidence, character, and faith. Her children’s book, A Tale of Two Dogs, uses friendship and differences to teach children about kindness, courage, empathy, and the be...

What happens when we finally slow down long enough to ask ourselves where we’re actually going? Born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria, Tobi Ojekunle moved to Germany to study Electrical Engineering and Information Technology before building a career in the renewable energy industry. But alongside his engineering career, Tobi developed a passion for personal growth, self-improvement, and meaningful co...

What happens when everyday products stop working for the people who need them most? Douglas Katz is a West Point graduate, disabled Army veteran, inventor, and entrepreneur who has made it his mission to design practical tools that restore independence without sacrificing dignity. His journey led to NULU, an adaptive kitchen knife designed to give people with joint, strength, or mobility challenge...

What happens when life changes you—but you refuse to let it define you? At 13 years old, Darren Richardson’s foot was crushed by a massive boulder. Doctors warned him that he might never return to the activities he loved. He refused to accept that limitation. Years later, Darren became a firefighter and paramedic and spent 18 years serving others. But the trauma of being a first responder eventual...

What happens when history becomes personal? In 1938, Ruth Stitt’s grandmother received a letter from her first cousin in Berlin. He and his two sisters were searching for relatives in America who might help them escape Hitler’s Germany. That letter began a five-year correspondence filled with hope, fear, emigration, romance, and tragedy. For years, Ruth kept those letters on a shelf. Eventually, s...

What if the life you want becomes possible when you stop seeing yourself as limited and start remembering your true worth? In this episode of HUMAN ENOUGH, I sit down with Dr. Victoria Rader, founder of YU2SHINE, bestselling author, transformational speaker, and pioneer of Quantum Personal Development. Victoria shares her perspective on transformation, spiritual growth, universal laws, and surrend...

What if extraordinary relationships aren’t found—but built? In this episode of HUMAN ENOUGH, Ed Tomlinson, author of Glowing Relationships: How Two Ordinary People Create What Dreams Are Made Of, shares lessons from more than 50 years of exploring what makes people and relationships thrive. We talk about trust, communication, intimacy, curiosity, kindness, forgiveness, and the small everyday choic...

What if your labs are “normal,” but you still don’t feel like yourself? In this episode of HUMAN ENOUGH, Estela Rojas, a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner, Navy Nurse Corps Officer, and functional medicine health coach, explores the often-overlooked factors behind fatigue, burnout, stubborn weight gain, brain fog, and low energy. We talk about women’s health, stress, sleep, nutrition, sust...

What happens after you survive trauma? In this powerful episode of HUMAN ENOUGH, Karen Robinson, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, therapist, coach, and trauma recovery expert with 24 years of experience, shares insight into what genuine healing can look like. We explore trauma, relationships, communication, boundaries, community, spirituality, and the difficult journey of rebuilding your life af...

Who are you when you strip away the titles, responsibilities, and achievements that have shaped your life? In this episode of HUMAN ENOUGH, Dawn Stephens explores identity, purpose, faith, service, and the danger of becoming so focused on pouring into others that we forget to refill ourselves. Dawn shares the story behind her “Fruit Pot” identity and her books The Little Pot, The Tea Pot, The Oil...

After 30 years of struggling with binge eating, shame, and food obsession, Ronni Robinson found a path to recovery—and has now been 18 years free from binge eating. In this powerful episode of HUMAN ENOUGH, Ronni shares her journey from secrecy and self-blame to freedom, exploring the hidden cycle of restriction, guilt, and binge eating, and why dieting and willpower aren’t always the answer. We t...

What makes democracy worth defending? And what happens when people stop believing that it works? In this episode of Human Enough, I sit down with British journalist and former Metropolitan Police officer Theo Allthorpe-Mullis, host of Dictators v Democrats: Why We Fight. Before becoming a journalist covering geopolitics, conflict, democracy, and authoritarianism, Theo spent seven years as a police...

What happens to your faith when suffering stops being a theological question and becomes your everyday reality? In this episode of Human Enough, I sit down with David Libby, a Christian apologist, theologian, author, and longtime student of theology and philosophy. David spent years studying the difficult questions surrounding God, morality, suffering, and human existence. But everything changed w...

What happens when you spend years believing you aren’t enough—and then finally decide to discover who you are without someone else defining you? In this episode of Human Enough, I sit down with Teri M. Brown, bestselling and award-winning author, podcaster, mother, grandmother, and lifelong storyteller. Teri’s journey is about much more than writing books. After leaving an emotionally abusive 14-y...

What do you do when life tells you that you shouldn’t survive? What happens when you’re born into circumstances that seem to define your future before you’ve even had the chance to discover who you are? In this episode of Human Enough, I sit down with David Ebel, author, photographer, disaster responder, instructor, and man of faith whose life began with extraordinary medical challenges and chroni...

What if some heartbreak could be prevented before it ever happens? What if the warning signs were there—but we were too emotionally invested to see them? In this episode of Human Enough, I sit down with Dave McLachlan, ICF-certified relationship coach, author of Is He Worthy? Using Red Flags to Find The Perfect Match, and founder of IsHeWorthy.com. After experiencing the devastating end of his own...

What happens when you grow up surrounded by circumstances that make you question what your future could ever look like? What happens when trauma follows you into adulthood… When addiction becomes part of your story… When despair makes you question whether life can ever become what you hoped it would be? In this episode of Human Enough, I sit down with Faisal Ensaun, a high-performance and business...

What if the most valuable thing you possess isn’t money, time, or success… But your life energy? What if the reason you feel exhausted, anxious, frustrated, or vaguely dissatisfied isn’t always because something is wrong with you—but because your energy is constantly leaking into things that don’t truly matter? In this episode of Human Enough, I sit down with Karen Bentley, bestselling author of W...

What happens when the life you planned for yourself slowly becomes a life you never expected? Sean Mitchell grew up in Dallas dreaming of becoming a sportswriter. But college, the turbulence of the 1960s, teaching, journalism, theater, cultural criticism, and Hollywood gradually pulled him in a completely different direction. In this episode of Human Enough, I sit down with Sean Mitchell, author,...