Christine and Bekah are back with round two, recapping three more conversations from the podcast's first month: Beatrice Tokayer on designing spaces that actually work with your nervous system, Tia Graham on asking for help before you hit total burnout, and Adam Cruz on what's really underneath addiction and hustle.

The through-line this time: healthy support isn't a sign something's wrong with you, it's what lets you keep growing instead of quietly collapsing under old coping mechanisms that stopped working.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro: recapping round two

02:16 Recapping Beatrice Tokayer: nervous system and space

08:25 Recapping Tia Graham: asking for help before burnout

17:38 Recapping Adam Cruz: what's underneath addiction and hustle

22:06 The healed hustle, and building a parallel strategy for growth

29:08 Closing thought: you have permission to ask for something new

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To celebrate one month of the podcast, Christine and Bekah sit down to recap three of the season's conversations: Nicole Santiago on unconditional love and boundaries with ADHD kids, Dr. Joseph Andrews on why an accurate diagnosis matters before medication, and Lucas LeFever on slowing down enough to actually process what's happening in your life.

The through-line: we don't do this alone. Each guest offers a different piece of the same idea, showing up, getting clarity, and letting the people and processes around you carry some of the weight.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro: one month of the podcast

02:20 Recapping Nicole Santiago: unconditional love and boundaries

15:46 Recapping Dr. Joseph Andrews: why an accurate diagnosis matters

29:59 Recapping Lucas LeFever: slowing down to process

37:09 Identity, journaling, and the cost of growth

44:15 Where these three conversations connect

46:35 Closing thought: you're not alone

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This episode discusses domestic abuse and coercive control in detail. Please take care while listening, and see the resources below if you need support.

Joy Forrest has been an advocate for domestic abuse survivors since 1997, founder of Called to Peace Ministries, and a survivor herself of a thirteen-year abusive marriage.

Prompted by the Netflix documentary The Death of a Pastor's Wife, Joy and Christine talk through coercive control, why marriage counselling routinely misses abuse, and the overlap between ADHD symptoms and complex PTSD, since difficulty focusing, time blindness, and memory gaps can look identical whether they come from someone's wiring or from sustained relational trauma.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro: who Joy is

02:20 Responding to the Micah Miller documentary

04:44 How abusers groom an entire community

13:25 Why marriage counseling fails in cases of abuse

16:29 Joy's own story: the man who changed after the wedding

25:46 Why Christians struggle with the idea of leaving

32:23 What complex PTSD actually looks like

36:56 The overlap between ADHD and CPTSD symptoms

44:19 Training pastors and churches: Protect the Flock

51:11 Where to find help, and Joy's closing thought on hope

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Joy Forrest (Called to Peace Ministries): Website · Warning Signs Quiz · Facebook · YouTube

Additional resource: Create a Personal Safety Plan (The Hotline)

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Jamie Maglietta spent years booking guests and producing segments for CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and BET before she started teaching other people how to actually get in front of the camera themselves.

This episode is different: instead of just talking about visibility, Christine and Jamie turn it into a live coaching session, fixing Christine's own podcast setup in real time. Audio, lighting, framing, background, wardrobe, even makeup, right there as it happens.

They also get into Jamie's KNOWN framework: know your message, nurture your purpose and presence, own your story, and why leaning into breaking news relevant to your niche (what Jamie calls "news-jacking") can be one of the fastest ways to get noticed. She's candid about why paid, fake press mentions don't actually help with real producers, even though they can still help with AI search results, and where that line sits.

If you've ever felt like your message is ready but your setup isn't, this episode is basically a masterclass you get to watch happen live.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro and prayer

08:11 Who Jamie was at eight

10:43 Can you make an impact without getting on camera?

12:45 Live coaching begins: audio and framing

19:15 Building a background that reflects your authority

22:53 Lighting basics and the on-camera go-bag

31:54 How Jamie got her start at Fox

34:16 Choosing your on-camera color, and knowing your colors

40:01 Stage vs. camera wardrobe

44:13 What makes Mel Robbins work

50:48 The KNOWN framework

53:12 News-jacking: leaning into breaking news

59:00 Legitimizers, real press vs. paid press, and AI search

1:02:16 Where to find Jamie and her free Visibility Bundle

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Zach King works with what he calls "stranded visionaries," leaders who can see what something could be two, five, ten years out, but struggle to get anyone else to see it too. They keep getting nods and pats on the back that fade into nothing.

Zach's own path through international missions media work, then building an online campus for a 1,500-person church during COVID, taught him this the hard way. He bought equipment alone without consulting the teammate who actually had the experience— a costly lesson in going it solo. A mentor, a retired pastor named Dave Archer, later helped him see the deeper pattern: he'd been carrying his vision completely alone, disconnected from his team and, without realizing it, from his own wife and even himself. He eventually had to admit, for the first time out loud, that he didn't actually enjoy the job he was so capable of doing.

That unraveling led to Zach's framework for leaders: build your GUILD. Grow by giving, teaching what you know. Unity, over competition. Influence, gained by shining the light on someone else. Legacy, understanding you're part of a chain, not just building alone (what he calls "founder's intent"). And Drive: moving from polished but parked to crappy and committed, because imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time.

His closing challenge: find one person a day and serve them. Turn the focus from inward (what's my vision) to outward (how can I help someone else build theirs).

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Cindy Garrard used to earn over $800,000 a year in commission sales, one of the top producers in a male-dominated banking industry. Then she noticed something: she was running on adrenaline, and it was leaking into every part of her life.

After 18 months at the peak of her career, she made a decision most people don't, she left on top instead of waiting for burnout to force her out. A year-long transition program (connected to the same institute behind Bob Buford and Peter Drucker) helped her step into coaching, built around what she now teaches as Joy as a Performance Strategy.

She and Christine talk about the gap between how success looks from the outside and what it costs on the inside, why she chose to post an honest, unfiltered fight with her husband instead of a curated highlight reel, and the Four Hour Advantage, a monthly practice of four unplugged hours doing something you loved before the world told you who to be.

Cindy also shares her free Joy Meter, a 60-second assessment showing exactly where your joy is running low.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

01:27 What Cindy was like at eight

06:18 Building a career in commission sales

09:58 Choosing honesty over a curated image

14:49 What was happening on the inside

17:53 Sensing the peak, and leaving on top

21:39 Finding the Halftime Institute

24:23 How a coach changed her life

27:25 The Thrive Test, choosing who you work with

33:16 The Four Hour Advantage, explained

43:27 What transformation looks like in coaching

49:08 The Joy Meter, and where to find Cindy

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Cindy Garrard: Make Wellness · Soul Hype Podcast

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Chad Becker is a nationally recognized sports leadership coach with 30+ years of coaching experience in Tennessee, 600+ wins, and dozens of championships.

In this episode, Chad opens with why winning a championship his first year of coaching, at just 22, was actually one of the worst things that could have happened to him.

For decades, Chad coached basketball and baseball and served as an athletic director, eventually overseeing 21 sports, 90 coaches, and 900 families. His identity became wrapped up in society's scorecard, winning, performing, being recognized for what he could do.

Then one ordinary Tuesday night changed something. A Lego castle knocked over in a dark hallway. An index card from his six-year-old daughter: How is your week going, Daddy? I haven't seen you.

That moment cracked something open.

Chad and Christine talk about what happens when success doesn't feel the way you thought it would. They unpack his S³ Leadership Blueprint (Site, Systems, Soul) and his C³ Trust Engine (Character, Competence, Connection), along with the 4 H's he uses to build real connection: History, Heartaches, Hopes, and Heroes.

If you've worked hard to get somewhere and wondered why it didn't feel the way you thought it would, this one's for you.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

02:33 Growing up in Fort Wayne, the Little League World Series

05:26 Learning that performance is what matters most

11:08 High standards, high support, and building a champion before championships

16:31 Athletics as the greatest developer of the human spirit, taught through storytelling and mistakes

23:57 Managing 21 sports and 900 families, and what coaches said the real problem was

28:02 The Lego castle and the index card

35:50 The S cubed and C cubed frameworks

46:27 The four H's exercise

50:50 Character and fulfillment

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Jason Alan Bohrer used to think discipline meant more push, more willpower, more grind.

Then he left his job, started a new business with a newborn and a toddler, zero income coming in, and ended up on the couch telling his wife there was nothing more he could do. The 12 months that followed taught him something different: burnout is born of overwhelm, overwhelm is born of avoidance, and avoidance is born of dysregulation.

He and Christine talk about the difference between performance as a mask and performance as alignment, why ambition can be avoidance with better branding, and why the nervous system, not just mindset, drives how clearly we think and perform.

If you've ever looked successful on paper and felt exhausted in private, this conversation names what's underneath that gap.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro: Record everything

03:17 What Jason actually does

05:45 The 12-month odyssey and who he was at eight

09:39 Performance as armor, and ambition as avoidance

11:41 The causal chain to burnout

17:13 Misalignment in founders and executives

19:39 Not enoughness and what pressure does to the brain

22:20 Awareness, alignment, action

28:44 Measuring capacity with HRV

34:14 Hitting burnout: the trifecta

36:40 The sentence that split his life in half

39:32 What Resilient actually stands for

42:50 Three steps for this week

47:02 The 90-second reset and rapid fire round

48:36 What to know if you're exhausted in private

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