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Several recent episodes have featured guests who are helping enable parents to engage in healthy conversations with their kids about sex. These are some of the hardest parts of parenting, but also some of the most critically important.

Someone who has contributed a lot of helpful resources is John Fort. An author who is also on staff with BeBroken Ministries, John has been equipping parents to have ongoing healthy talks with their kids about sex and sexuality. He has modeled it in his own home, even co-authoring a book with his son Lucas, called Father/Son Accountability.

John has just released a new book called Don't Stress Talking Sex: Starting Honest, Healthy Conversations with Your Kids. The book seeks to help parents know how to lay a good foundation, understand and communicate God's design for sex, recognize counterfeits, and be ready to answer questions.

John lives in Oregon with his wife Anna. They have two grown children.

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Nobody is out there searching for grief. None of us asks for it. But grief comes into our lives anyway. How do we experience and navigate grief in a way that not only doesn't destroy us, but actually helps us live more genuine, dependent, and connected lives?

Ross King is learning about all of this. And he doesn't want to.

For over 30 years, Ross has been writing and singing songs that have encouraged and challenged people of faith. He's always been one to say what's on his mind, not tip-toeing around difficult topics. But the past two years have taken him into deeper and more painful places than he ever imagined.

In 2024 Ross' wife Staci was diagnosed with cancer, and after almost a year of battling it, she passed away in August 2025. To say it rocked the world of Ross and their four kids would be a huge understatement. Ross questioned everything, sometimes in ways that were painful and uncomfortable to witness. But he's wrestled with God, genuinely. And wrestling automatically pulls us in closer to our "opponent."

In the midst of his continued grief, Ross is writing new music that invites listeners to walk with him and to ask important questions about what we believe. He says, "I don’t have answers, and the songs are raw and vulnerable and messy, but as I’ve started to share them, it’s been beautiful to see not only how others are comforted, but also how life-giving it is for me. I don’t have a 5-year plan. I’m just living day by day, trying to push back the darkness with a little bit of creative light."

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For men who want to recover from porn addiction, what does the relationship between doing and understanding need to look like? How much of recovery and healing involves developing new skills vs. deep heart change?

These are important questions, and ones our guest has worked through with thousands of men. Sathiya Sam is an author, speaker, host of the "Man Within" podcast, and founder of coaching community Deep Clean. Sathiya seeks to utilize timeless principles and cutting-edge science to help guide his clients through in-depth transformational processes.

Because it's so easy for recovering people to have an unhealthy relationship even with the concept of sobriety, our conversation is timely and important.

Sathiya lives in Canada with his wife Shaloma and their kids.

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