Inspired Human Podcast

Season 3, episode 8: "Parenting in the You Do You Era."

This episode is our attempt at re-focusing parenting on raising disciples of Jesus.

To that end, we draw from parenting "fails" that stem from the junk values of the YDYE, and ultimately encourage Christian parents to help their children see themselves in God's story. Helping our kids see themselves in God's story allows us to  h...

Season 3, episode 7: "Love and Marriage in the You Do You Era."

When relationships are simply an additional tool for you to be "your best self" or to find who you are...then you know you're living in the You do You Era.

Today we chat about how love, and marriage itself, has been influenced by the junk values of the YDYE. But, we don't just whine and complain. We also turn to the New ...

Season 3, episode 6: "Technology is Forming You and Failing to Transform You."

Your phone is not a tool.  It is not neutral.

Your phone is a cash-cow device designed to get you to pick it up, use it,  never put it down, and in the process, make other people lots and lots of money.

Friends, we are being formed by an algorithm, created by neuroscientists and computer programmers in California, on ...

Season 3, episode 5: "Depression thrives on the You Do You Era's narrative."

Humans have never had more access to self help media and mental health drugs than right now.  And yet, depression and anxiety are the hallmark pathologies of the You Do You Era.  All the statistics show the same thing: We're more depressed, more anxious, and less happy, even though we have more creature comforts than ever in hu...

Season 3, episode 4: "The World has Lost its Enchantment."

Key to the You Do You Era's self-focused ideas for what it means to be a human is this: The world is disenchanted; everything has a natural explanation; God is cool and all, but he can't be involved in the world and in our lives because it sounds dumb to say it out loud.

How do we talk about God in light of scientific discoveries?

Season 3, episode 3: "How the Concept of Faith has been Distorted and Makes us More Selfish."

Friends! Faith is a private matter, and God just wants you to do what feels good, be the best version of yourself, and be a good dude, as long as you aren't hurting anyone.  Right? 

These are the claims about FAITH that the You Do You Era preaches. And these claims are shallow, unfulfilling, erase the need for a Mes...

Season 3, episode 2: "Seeing Yourself in God's Story...not the other way around."

Friends: To be fully human is to be authentic to yourself and your inner voice above all others...That's the mantra of the You Do You Era.  But, this way of being human overpromises (that you'll be happy and whole!), and it under delivers (we end up unfulfilled).

One way we attempt to break free from the You ...

Following Jesus in the You Do You Era.

Season 3 is here!

Be true to yourself...
Follow your heart...
Be authentic to yourself...
Live your best life...
You are the captain of your fate...
Chart your own path...
Walk your own way...
Live your life for yourself...

Friends-  Welcome to the You Do You Era: Where listening to your own voice above all others, and expressing yourself ...

Nick and Dairus team up to talk about "When Things in Life Just Don't Work out." 

- When you move the chess pieces of your life the right way, but you still don't get the job or assignment or position.
- When you marry the right person and have a great family, but you still find yourself lonely and tired and wondering if life is supposed to feel this way.
- When you find out that the ancient chu...

Welcome to Dr. Matthew Sleeth!

Dr. Sleeth:
- Former ER physician and Chief of Medical Staff.
- Resigned to teach about faith and health.
- His uncle wrote a book with J.R.R. Tolkein!!
- His first religion was the American Dream.
- Then, after embracing Christian faith, he and his family sold their huge house and moved to a place the same size as their old garage and started a new life.

Dairus t...

Dairus sits down with John Garland, pastor in San Antonio, TX.

John has spent his entire career in ministry serving in places with extreme poverty and suffering, notably along the southern border.

They talk about:
- Suffering as a pit.
- The Gospel as a path.
- Using the Psalms in your prayers.
- The difference between trauma management and stress management. 
- Why and how Christianity has tra...

Hello friends! Nick sits down with senior chaplain for U.S. Special Operations Command, Dave Bowlus.

He and I reflect on the low points and high points of his ministry over the last 20 years, and chat about how families might “keep the wheels on the bus” in the midst of military life. 

As a reminder: The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speaker(s), and do not necessarily represent the views of the ...

Welcome Mike Sanders, former Strength and Conditioning coach at the University of Denver, and current Human Performance Coach for U.S. Special Operations Forces.  

Mike's an OG. He's been around. I absolutely love his wisdom, probably even more than his feats of strength.

We chat about human potential, that feeling we get after accomplishing something great and assuming it was going to do more than it pr...

“Behind every act of valor, there is love.” 

Dairus talks with award winning documentary producer Justin Roberts. While serving in Afghanistan as an Army Chaplain in the 101st Airborne Division’s “NO SLACK” battalion, Justin armed his Soldiers with Go Pro cameras. He wanted to capture their experiences.

But the war was far more intense than he imagined it would be.

And their experiences needed to be share...

We are talking all things Parenting and Self Awareness.

Madeleine is a multiple #1 international best selling author, a TedX speaker, and the founder of Fast Results Now Training and Coaching Solutions. She has over 30 years experience in the areas of parenting and life solutions strategies.

We discuss:
- Why parenting starts with actually knowing what you want.
- Why joy can be elusive for parents with yo...

Longtime friend, Duke Th.D candidate, Purple Heart recipient, author, and fellow chaplain Adam Tietje is here.

Adam served for ten years as an active duty army chaplain, in 3rd Special Forces Group, 101st Airborne, and as a Hospital Chaplain in the DC area. He's now at Duke pursuing a Th.D. 

Stuff we explore:

- Why is it that in the first few hundred years of Christian literature, no author is endors...

“I gave my life to God in Mogadishu.”

From basic training to Airborne School, from Ranger School to the Ranger Regiment, and then… to Mogadishu, Somalia: That’s how Brian McCroskey’s military career started.

He was a young enlisted Ranger in the battle of Mogadishu, where he earned the Purple Heart. He was forced to medically separate from the military as a result of those wounds, but eventually returned as an Infantry officer. As an...

Dairus sits down with our friend Tim Spayd!

Tim shares his experiences as a young Ranger with JTF 1-79, Operation Eagle Claw, Charlie Beckwith (founder of Delta), touring and playing with the band Foreigner (“I wanna know what love is!”), how he became a Christian, and living with Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS).  

Tim is in the Army Ranger Hall of Fame. He continues to support chapel services and ranger patrols at 6th...