💔 Sometimes the hardest relationships to leave are the ones you once prayed for.

In this episode of The Life Stories Podcast, Tori steps in as guest host 🎙️ and sits down with David’s younger sister, Alyssa, for an honest conversation about love, relationships, faith, and what happens when you slowly begin to lose yourself trying to hold on to someone else.

Alyssa shares her story of a relationship that was supposed to lead to forever 💍 — but instead became filled with control, isolation, manipulation, and constantly moving goalposts.

She opens up about the pressure to change who she was, the ways Scripture and the idea of “submission” were used within the relationship, and the incredibly difficult decision to call off her engagement and walk away from the future she thought she was going to have. 💔➡️❤️‍🩹

Tori and Alyssa also get REAL about faith and relationships. 🙏

Everyone talks about wanting a Proverbs 31 woman… 👀

🔥 But what about becoming a Proverbs 1–30 man?

What does a healthy, God-centered relationship actually look like? What happens when Scripture is used to control instead of love? And how do you recognize when you’ve lost pieces of yourself trying to become who someone else wants you to be?

This conversation is about so much more than one relationship.

✨ It’s about finding yourself again.
❤️‍🩹 It’s about healing.
🙏 It’s about faith.
💪 It’s about having the courage to walk away.
🌱 And it’s about realizing that the end of the future you planned can become the beginning of something new.

You are NOT stuck. ❤️

There is hope on the other side.
There is healing.
There is restoration. 🙌

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❤️ Everyone Has A Story.

This is Alyssa’s.

Faith doesn’t always begin with one huge moment. Sometimes it’s built through the people God places around us, the questions we’re willing to ask, and the moments when He reminds us that He’s been there all along.

For CBC Student Edition Vol. 2, recent graduates Adan Castro and Hudson Kyle sit down to share the stories behind their faith and how their years at CBC Students helped shape the young men they are becoming. Returning guest Jackson Kyle joins David as co-host for a conversation filled with faith, memories, and plenty of laughter.

Adan shares how his relationship with God began becoming his own and how finding a community of people who genuinely wanted to follow Jesus changed him. From CBC Students to starting a Bible study at his school, his story is one of learning to trust where God is leading—even when he can’t see every step ahead.

Hudson grew up around church and knew about Jesus, but his faith became personal during an unexpected moment before a school concert. Surrounded by Bibles inside the church where his school was meeting, he decided to open one and landed on Luke 12:22. For someone who had spent so much time worrying and overthinking, those words hit differently. It was a moment that reminded him that God sees him, hears him, loves him, and is still looking out for him.

But this episode tells another story without really trying to.

Listen long enough and you’ll hear it in the laughter, the roasting, the interruptions, the old memories and the comfort they have with one another. Years spent together through CBC Students, camp, serving and life have created a bond between David, Jackson, Adan and Hudson that feels less like four people recording a podcast and more like brothers who happened to turn the microphones on.

Now Adan and Hudson are stepping out of high school and into college, carrying with them the friendships, lessons and faith that helped get them here. They don’t have every answer or know exactly where life will take them—and that’s part of the story.

Sometimes following God is simply trusting that He knows where you’re going and being willing to take the next step.

Everyone has a story. This is Adan and Hudson’s.

What happens when the life you’ve always known no longer fits the person God is calling you to become?

In this episode of The Life Stories Podcast, we hear a powerful story of transformation—from a life involving drugs, OnlyFans, depression, and destructive choices to discovering a genuine relationship with Jesus and becoming a man determined to live differently.

But leaving an old life behind isn’t always easy.

We talk about what it means to recognize the “elevators and anchors” in your life—the people who encourage you toward who God is calling you to be and the people who keep pulling you back toward who you used to be. Sometimes following Jesus means walking away from relationships, environments, and habits that no longer belong in the life God is leading you toward.

This conversation also dives into fatherhood, worship, learning to love people from a distance, and what happens when your relationship with Jesus becomes more than simply going to church. It’s an honest conversation about the uncomfortable side of transformation—the closed doors, difficult goodbyes, setbacks, and the ongoing process of becoming someone new.

His story is proof that your past does not have to determine your future and that God is still transforming lives today.

Everyone has a story. This is Greg's story.