The ER sent him home with kidney stones. A week later, doctors found five blood clots and a rare blood cancer.

Nathan Weaver and Paulo Cardoso sit down for the first episode of Meant to Live. Nathan shares the story of moving his family from Toronto to California after sensing God say "move," and what happened one week after they arrived. If they had stayed in Canada, he says, he would not be alive today.

You'll hear about:

- His dad's car accident when he was 13

- Getting kicked out of Bible college

- A family that sold everything to follow what they believed God was saying

- A misdiagnosis, a 45-minute airlift, and a $95,000 flight

- Running a triathlon the day after chemo

- Why he hid his diagnosis from his wife for a week

- Living with a blood cancer that has no cure, without fear

If you're walking through something hard, this episode is for you. You're not alone, and you were made for more.

Meant to Live is about body, mind and spirit, and sharing real stories of what God is doing.

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome to Meant to Live

2:00 Meet Nathan Weaver

3:27 Age 13: his dad's car accident

7:24 Bible college and meeting his wife

9:30 Hungry for more

11:08 "Move to California"

12:53 His son opens a Bible

14:51 Selling everything and the Costco travel insurance

18:45 The ER sends him home

20:16 Five blood clots and an overnight airlift

22:21 The $95,000 flight and the rare blood cancer

24:19 "I'm not here to die, I'm here to live"

26:24 The Joshua 3 promise

28:45 How the family fought back

30:50 The call he hid from his wife

32:42 Why vulnerability makes us strong

36:26 You were made for more

38:32 Advice for teens: you were not born wrong

40:31 A falling wall, a nail, and a reason not to quit

42:19 How to hear God wisely

44:24 The Bible as your life manual

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What comes out of you when life gets hard?

Anyone can have patience when everything is going their way.

But what happens when you’re exhausted? When someone hurts you? When your kids are driving you crazy? When you're angry, stressed, tempted, or completely alone?

That’s where the real test begins.

In this episode of Meant To Live, Paulo Cardoso gets honest about what it means to actually live out your faith when life gets messy. He dives into the fruit of the Spirit from Galatians 5 and asks a question that is easy to avoid:

What is your life producing?

Paulo shares openly about his own struggles with pornography, temptation, anger, self-control, marriage, and learning that asking for help isn't weakness. He talks about the small moments when nobody is watching—the text you choose not to send, the temptation you choose to walk away from, the argument you choose not to escalate, and the moment you stop and ask, “Jesus, how do You want me to respond?”

Because spiritual growth doesn't always look dramatic.

Sometimes it looks like a three-second pause.

Sometimes it looks like admitting, “I'm struggling.”

Sometimes it looks like choosing patience when you'd rather explode.

And sometimes it looks like realizing that you're not failing because you're still struggling—you may actually be growing because you're responding differently than you used to.

There’s one idea Paulo keeps coming back to:

What you feed grows.

Feed anger, and anger grows.
Feed fear, and fear grows.
Feed lust, and lust grows.
But feed your relationship with God, your marriage, your friendships, gratitude, and truth—and something different begins to grow inside you.

So don't ask yourself whether you're perfect.

Ask yourself:

Am I growing?

And perhaps the harder question:

What am I feeding right now that is producing something in my life I don't want?

This is a raw, practical conversation about faith, temptation, self-control, identity, and becoming more like Jesus in the ordinary moments of everyday life.

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Would you still do the right thing if you knew nobody would ever find out?

What if doing the right thing cost you money? Your reputation? Your job? Your relationships? What if the easier choice was right there in front of you?

In this episode of Meant To Live, Nathan and Paulo have a brutally honest conversation about integrity, identity, temptation, and the pressure to compromise when the culture around you is telling you to do something different.

Paulo shares the story of finding a wallet containing thousands of dollars during a financially difficult season—and the decision he made when he realized nobody would know if he kept it. Nathan shares a very different encounter with two teenagers caught stealing from a store.

Both stories lead to the same question:

Who are you when nobody is watching?

The conversation goes deeper from there. What actually determines our definition of right and wrong? How do we make difficult choices when the wrong choice seems easier? And what happens when our identity is built on something deeper than our circumstances, our culture, our success, or other people's opinions?

For Nathan and Paulo, that foundation is Jesus.

They talk about what it means to know your identity as a child of God, resist simply conforming to the culture around you, and allow your faith to shape the way you live when the choice isn't easy.

Because integrity isn't just about the big moments.

It's about the choices you make when nobody is watching.

The question is: Would you still do the right thing if nobody would know?

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