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.

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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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• Integrity when doing the right thing comes with a cost
• What you do when nobody is watching
• The pressure to compromise and fit in
• How your identity shapes your decisions
• Why knowing who you are matters
• Choosing the harder right over the easier wrong
• Faith, identity, and following Jesus
• Building your life on a foundation that won't move

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What if the thing you’re trying to make bigger is actually making your life smaller?

We live in a world obsessed with more—more money, more followers, more success, bigger businesses, bigger homes, bigger muscles, bigger platforms.

But somewhere along the way, we started believing that bigger automatically means better.

In this episode of Meant To Live, Nathan Weaver and Paulo Cardoso have an honest conversation about what happens when we stop chasing “more” and start paying attention to what really matters.

They talk about the trap of comparison, the pressure to look successful on social media, why we can struggle to appreciate the blessings we’ve already received, and how easily our identity can become tied to what someone else has.

But the conversation goes even deeper.

Jesus talked about the Kingdom of God using something incredibly small: a mustard seed.

Nathan and Paulo explore why God isn't afraid of small beginnings—and why the small things we often overlook can carry far more potential than we realize.

A small act of kindness.
A real conversation.
A relationship.
A seed of faith.
One person whose life is changed.

Maybe you don't need more.

Maybe you need to recognize the significance of what you already have.

And maybe your responsibility isn't to control how big it becomes.

Maybe your job is simply to plant the seed and trust God with the growth.

If you've been feeling behind, comparing your life to everyone else's, or wondering why you haven't achieved more by now, this conversation offers a different perspective on success, faith, purpose, and what it means to live fully.

What if smaller is actually better?

Listen and decide what that question means for your life.

This is Meant To Live—real conversations about Spirit, Mind, and Body, and what it means to live fully in the life God created you to live.

What do you do when you trust Jesus—but you still don’t know what’s going to happen?

When the money is tight. When your prayers seem unanswered. When you’re anxious about your family, your future, or what comes next. When you desperately want God to show you the entire plan.

In this episode of Meant To Live, Paulo Cardoso gets practical about what it actually looks like to trust Jesus every day.

Because faith isn’t always about knowing where the road leads. Sometimes, it’s simply trusting God enough to take the next step.

Paulo shares five practical ways to build daily trust in Jesus:

• Put Jesus before your phone, social media, and the noise of the world
• Be completely honest and vulnerable with Jesus
• Remember who you are and make sure your roots are planted in Him
• Stop asking God for the entire map and take the next turn
• Stop living tomorrow today and give God what you cannot control

Along the way, Paulo talks about anxiety, unanswered prayers, identity, obedience, vulnerability, and the pressure we put on ourselves trying to control things that haven't even happened yet.

You don't need to understand everything before you trust God.

You don't need to see the whole road.

You just need to know who you're walking with.

If you're in a season where you don't know what's next, this conversation is for you.

Jesus, I don't understand what's happening. But I know I'm Yours. Help me trust You today.

00:00 — How do we actually trust Jesus every day?
02:29 — 5 practical ways to trust Jesus
03:00 — Put Jesus before your phone
06:25 — It's about a relationship, not religion
07:40 — Be real with Jesus
12:28 — Jesus already knows what you're carrying
16:00 — Remember who you are and where your roots are
19:00 — Are you working on your outward life but ignoring your inward life?
24:00 — Stop asking Jesus for the whole Google Map
27:00 — Take the next turn
29:00 — Faith means obedience before understanding
31:00 — Stop living tomorrow on Monday
33:00 — How much of our anxiety comes from trying to control tomorrow?
36:00 — The five takeaways
40:00 — You don't need to see where you're going—you need to know who you're walking with

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What do you do when life gets hard and you feel like you can't handle what’s in front of you?

In this episode of Meant to Live, Nathan Weaver shares a personal story about cancer, fear, faith, and one powerful lesson he learned from Joshua 3: remember what God has already brought you through.

When the Israelites crossed the Jordan River, God told them to take stones from the middle of the river and build a monument on the other side. Those stones were a reminder of what God had done—so when another difficult season came, they wouldn't forget His faithfulness.

Nathan shares how that story changed the way he looks at the hard things in his own life, including the moment he was facing the possibility of death after being airlifted to San Francisco.

Hard seasons don't always mean you're on the wrong path. Sometimes the challenges you face are building the strength, character, faith, and resilience you'll need for what comes next.

If you're facing something difficult right now, remember this:

You've overcome hard things before.
You are not alone.
God has been faithful before.
And you can face what's next.

In this episode:

• Why we forget what we've already overcome
• How difficult experiences build resilience
• The lesson Nathan learned from Joshua 3
• Why we need our own "stones of remembrance"
• How faith changes the way we face adversity
• Why challenges can be part of growth
• Why you shouldn't face hard things alone

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What if one word is keeping you trapped... and one decision could set you free forever?

Most people think forgiveness is about letting someone else off the hook. It's not. It's about breaking the chains that have been holding you back.

In this powerful episode of the Meant To Live Podcast, Nathan Weaver and Paulo Cardoso unpack the F-Word—Forgiveness—and why it may be the most life-changing decision you'll ever make.

Nathan shares the heartbreaking story of the accident that permanently changed his father's life and the years of anger that followed. Paulo opens up about overcoming childhood trauma, abuse, and resentment—and how forgiveness completely transformed his life.

You'll also discover:
✔ Why forgiveness doesn't mean trusting someone again
✔ Why you can forgive someone without ever speaking to them
✔ How unforgiveness affects your mental, emotional, and physical health
✔ What scientific research says about forgiveness
✔ Why forgiving yourself can be even harder than forgiving others
✔ Practical steps to begin your own journey toward freedom

Whether you've been betrayed, abandoned, abused, rejected, or you're simply carrying years of hurt, this conversation could be exactly what you need.

Freedom starts with one word.

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What's one thing you've had to forgive—or are still learning to forgive?

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