After leaving recovery too early, falling back into addiction, and eventually ending up on the run again, Lyon reached a point he describes simply: sick and tired of being sick and tired.

In this episode of The Redemption Project, he explains how fentanyl, cocaine, repeated arrests, and years of instability kept pulling him backward until he finally returned to Men of Valor, this time ready to stay.

He talks openly about losing multiple family members within weeks of each other, resisting the urge to run back to old habits, leaning on faith instead of addiction, and finding strength through structure, brotherhood, and accountability.

Now preparing for graduation, writing Christian hip-hop, and hoping to stay involved helping others, Lyon explains what changed between the first time he entered recovery and the second.

The Redemption Project shares real stories of accountability, faith, recovery, and the difficult path back.

Years after being robbed at gunpoint, Susan Stoner found herself drawn toward a place many people would never choose to enter voluntarily: a county jail.

In this episode of The Redemption Project, she explains why that traumatic experience did not harden her, but instead deepened her desire to serve women behind bars through Jesus Is the Way Ministries, where she now helps lead weekly Bible teaching, prayer, worship, and encouragement inside the jail.

Susan talks about what she has witnessed over the past year: women helping each other through Scripture, tears during testimony, first-time decisions for Christ, and the quiet reality that many incarcerated women are carrying deep wounds long before they ever enter a cell.

The conversation also explores why ministry inside correctional settings matters, what volunteers see that many outside never do, and why second chances often begin with someone simply showing up consistently.

The Redemption Project shares real stories of accountability, faith, recovery, and the difficult path back.

A special political interview edition of The Redemption Project.

In this episode of Candidate Conversations, Lauren Pinkston joins me for a long-form discussion on Tennessee’s future through the lens of energy, infrastructure, education, and independent politics.

We discuss her proposal for underground data centers, grid modernization, TVA policy, nuclear energy, water use, farmland preservation, rural development, school vouchers, public education reform, ranked-choice voting, gun policy, and what she believes an independent path to statewide victory looks like in Tennessee.

The conversation also explores how an independent candidate builds a coalition in a state often described as deeply partisan, why she argues Tennessee’s political middle is larger than many assume, and why she believes governance should focus more on practical solutions than party identity.

This episode also includes rapid-fire voter questions, short-answer policy responses, and a closing discussion on faith, leadership, and political culture in Tennessee.

More candidate conversations are coming.