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To celebrate 100 episodes I am featuring and discussing seven different messages from listeners of the Better Preach Podcast. Thanks to each of the following for their wonderful contribution!

Karl Hendrickson - Teacher, School Administrator and Community formation teacher

www.saintagnesschool.org

Megan Copeland - Podcaster and Catholic Speaker

https://www.hisbelovedcatholic.com

Sr. Nicole - Religious Sister with Salesian Sisters of St John Bosco

https://www.salesiansisters.org

Chris Hurtubise - Director of Evangelization and Missionary Discipleship with the Diocese of Superior

https://catholicdos.org/people/chris-hurtubise

Nikki - Canadian Catholic Coach

https://www.instagram.com/canadiancatholiccoach/

Nick Longo - Youth Minister and founder of SENT Parish

https://sentparish.com

Colleen Vermeulen - Director of Mission with Catholic Biblical School Ministry

https://catholicbiblicalschool.org

Links

For more information about the Better Preach Podcast visit: www.ryanohara.org/betterpreach

Better Preach Podcast is now on YouTube. Here’s a link to the channel.

Check out Ryan’s FREE course on “sharing your faith as a Catholic.”

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I want to hear from you! Would you be willing to record a voice-text (90 sec or less) and send it to me? If so, here are the four questions I’d like you to answer!

1) Name
2) Ministry / Role (if applicable)
3) How has the podcast supported you as a teacher/preacher?
4) What was one of your favorite episodes and why? or Favorite takeaway from of the episodes?

If interested - go to this link:

www.ryanohara.org/betterpreach

and send me an email through the CONTACT FORM on the middle of the page and use the subject line: VOICE TEXT.

I’ll send you the details from there!

Again, don’t forget I am shooting to have these by end of day, Friday June 6th, 2025. And while I can’t wait to hear your comments I will be selecting a handful to share on the show for episode 100!

Please reach out to with any questions!

Links

For more information about the Better Preach Podcast visit: www.ryanohara.org/betterpreach

Better Preach Podcast is now on YouTube. Here’s a link to the channel.

Check out Ryan’s FREE course on “sharing your faith as a Catholic.”

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  Are you Like me? I always watch TV shows and movies at home with captions on. It's one of the reasons I don't want to go to the movie theater. Because I can't do the captions. I don't know if I'm getting old or what it is, but it's just so much better with the captions .

I can follow every little thing that's said, and I feel like I'm understanding what's going on much better, because I can hear it and I can read it. That's kind of the idea that I'm tapping into today. There's this psychological theory called the “dual coding theory. It says that we store information in two ways, words and images.

And if you put them together, there's a much better likelihood that you'll remember the idea. Words connected to images.

Most people are running away from slides. I think you have an opportunity to make incredible slides that can really reinforce the big ideas. From your talk

It's really helped me to communicate ideas better using slides sparingly, but strategically. So I wanna share three principles that really help guide me in that during this episode:

1) Think Images not Text

2) Think Phrases not Paragraphs

3) Build it Last

Tools

For designing slides: canva.com

For finding great free images: unsplash.com

Caravaggio’s “The Call of Matthew” - https://www.caravaggio.org/the-calling-of-saint-matthew.jsp#google_vignette

Links

For more information about the Better Preach Podcast visit: www.ryanohara.org/betterpreach

Better Preach Podcast is now on YouTube. Here’s a link to the channel.

Check out Ryan’s FREE course on “sharing your faith as a Catholic.”

Follow Ryan on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, or Facebook

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