March 10, 2025 • 26 mins
Joseph Habedank opens his heart about the journey from addiction to redemption in this candid and inspiring conversation. The acclaimed Southern Gospel artist shares how his struggle with prescription drug dependency—and subsequent recovery nearly twelve years ago—transformed his understanding of God's grace and erased the shame that once defined him.
At the center of our discussion is Joseph's powerful song "No Shame," which perfectly captures the essence of Joy FM's upcoming spring fundraiser theme: "Made for More." The lyrics reflect his personal testimony: "I'm saved by the blood of the Lamb, I'm free, I've been born again, I'm forgiven, I'm a child of the King. There ain't no shame on me." Joseph reveals how a visit from gospel legend Russ Taff during rehabilitation changed everything when Taff told him, "God loved you when you were using drugs. He still loved you, but he's crazy about you now." This revelation helped Joseph grasp the depth of God's affection that sees beyond our failures.
With refreshing authenticity, Joseph discusses the tension between professional success and personal humility. He credits his wife Lindsay with keeping him grounded, sharing a powerful story of how she confronted him after winning multiple awards to remind him what truly matters. "What I want more than anything," Joseph confesses, "is for people to say he was a good guy, a good man who had integrity and took the worst thing that ever happened to him and let God make it into the best thing." Though celebrated for his music, Joseph emphasizes that he's "not a struggling artist, but an artist who struggles"—facing the same challenges as everyone else.
Want to support the ministry that brings you music with messages like Joseph's? Consider giving during Joy FM's spring fundraiser and help spread the good news that we're all made for more than our mistakes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Melody and I'm Candy and you're listening
to Quirks, bumps and Bruises.
I have such a great friend thatI love so much, known such a
long time and just thrilled thathe's here on the Joyride with
us this morning.
It's Joseph Habedank, and youknow what I call you right.
You probably hate it, but I doit anyway Habedank-a-do Well it
(00:23):
was funny.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
When you just said my name, I was like she's not
saying it correctly.
You have to say have a dankadoo.
I mean, that's your thing, youknow.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
It is.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You've called me that for 20 years.
How long have you been at JoyFM?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Oh, my goodness, I've actually been with the ministry
of Joy FM for 21 years, but onthe air we're working on well,
I'm working on year 18, so soyou've been, yeah, almost two
decades you've been calling methat I have did you like how?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I hope you enjoyed how I turned the interview on
you.
That's called deflection.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yes, yeah, I saw what you did there.
I got you.
I got you.
Uh well, jose, you're so kindto be on the phone with us today
and talking about somethingthat's coming up for Joy FM and
it is our 2025 spring fundraiserand kind of the theme of our
fundraiser is made for more, andso, as we were talking through
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that theme, everybody was onboard that your song and it's an
older song, I mean consideringwhat we're playing now but your
song no Shame was the song thatwe just felt would be so perfect
for kind of the theme songaround that made for more.
So, with that said, how has Godshown you that you are not what
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the world has said you were,but that you were made for
greater things.
You were made for more.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, you know, I love the verse in the Bible that
says there is no condemnationin Christ Jesus.
I was raised in a veryconservative Christian home,
which I'm so grateful for.
But sometimes when you'reraised with kind of a lot of
rules and regulations, if youwill, you kind of get this
picture of God that he's thisjudge, that he's this ruler and
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he is all of those things.
But as I grew older and wentthrough my addiction and
recovery which a lot of youdon't know my story I was hooked
on drugs for several years andgot clean about 12 years ago.
When I went through thatexperience, I kind of saw a
different Jesus.
I mean, for me it was this Godthat loved me, regardless of who
I had been, what I had done,and that didn't really define
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who I was.
What defined who I was wasJesus and the blood of Jesus.
And once that blood was appliedto my life and when I asked for
forgiveness for my addictionand what I walked through, there
was no longer any shame becauseI walked in this freedom and
this liberty of forgiveness andgrace and mercy.
And I think the grace of Jesusis what sets us apart, that's
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what makes us more, that's whatmakes us different, and because
of the blood and the grace andthe mercy that he's extended to
us as sinners and now childrenof God.
I mean man, where would we bewithout it?
You know?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
The chorus, so to speak, is I'm saved by the blood
of the Lamb, I'm free, I'vebeen born again, I'm forgiven,
I'm a child of the King.
There ain't no shame on me.
So, with those lyrics in mind,did those lyrics come from being
taught about the grace of Godthrough that experience for you?
I mean, did that just kind ofbubble up those lyrics through
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that process that you wentthrough, where you flat on felt
heard the grace of God in yourlife?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Absolutely.
I mean, I think one of the mostpowerful things that happened
to me is while I was in rehab,Russ Taft came and visited me.
For those of you who don't knowwho that is, he's a kind of a
gospel music legend andeight-time Grammy winner and he
just shows up at the rehab I wasat and just literally sits down
with me and he said somethingso powerful.
He said you know, god loved youwhen you were using drugs.
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He still loved you, but he'scrazy about you now.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I thought I never heard anybody tell me that Jesus
was crazy about me and he is.
I mean he's crazy about us.
I mean you have to for those ofyou that have kids, and I don't
even have kids, so I can't evenfathom this.
Think about how much you loveyour kids, think about how much
you love your grandkids, and howmuch more does Jesus love us
when he looks down.
You know, when you think aboutyour kids, you don't think about
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their faults and their failuresand their shortcomings and all
the bad things about them.
You look at your kids and youthink, man, that's my kid, I
love them, I would die for them.
And Jesus literally did die forhis children and for the world.
And I think the coolest thingabout this song is that I tend
to write songs that are a littlemore complicated.
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Songs like Judas or ReligionIsn't Working.
And this particular song I feltchallenged to like make it
simple.
Make it simple, you know, talkabout being saved.
And that's hard for me as awriter, because I want to write
something that's so fresh andoriginal and new.
And when we wrote Shame on Me,I actually wrote it with a guy
named Jason Cox and MichaelBoggs at First Baptist in
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Nashville, tennessee, where welive, we sat down and just wrote
this simple chorus and thething that kind of made it
artistic was the hook there's noShame on Me, and so this song
has always been very special tome.
It was actually my first numberone song as a solo artist about
six years ago, so I've alwaysloved this song.
But more important than all ofthat is just the message that
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there really is no shame on usbecause of the blood of Jesus.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Let me ask you this, Joseph what advice would you
give to a fellow Christian whohas struggled with their
identity as a child of Christ,knowing that we have all fallen
short of the glory of God?
Is there some advice you couldgive to someone that may be
struggling hard with that rightnow?
What would you say to them?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Well, I think something that God's been kind
of teaching me lately is aboutseeking Him, and it sounds kind
of like simple, like okay, justseek God.
Well, that's easy to say, butwhat does that look like?
And I think for me, beingcognizant of every aspect of my
life, what can I do to seek God,like every day?
Now, when I wake up, it'sactually my manager that came to
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me and was like, hey,no-transcript, but what does it
look like to seek God in everyaspect of your life, every
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single day?
And so I've been waking up andgoing, okay, god, help me, teach
me how to seek you today.
How can I seek after you whatyou know?
I want to know the heart of Godand what he wants for my life,
and I think the more that you dothat, the more that you'll see
the heart of God about the lovefor his children love for people
, love for the sinners and theoutcasts, and one of my favorite
things about Jesus, and I saythis there's a song called Judas
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I talked about it just a fewminutes ago that I wrote and out
of all the people that he met,he chose Judas.
He knew what Judas was going todo because he was God, he was a
man, he was all man and all God.
He knew that Judas was a liarand a fraud and a fake and he
chose him and he loved him.
So if we look at that and we go, okay, if Jesus loved Judas,
why in the world would he notlove me?
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You know what I mean.
Like it's pretty simple.
So I think once you seek theheart of God, you'll find
everything you need to knowabout who you are in Christ and
what he thinks about you.
And what he thinks about you isnot what, like you said earlier
, it's not what the world says,it's not even what the church
says.
What he thinks about you iswhat he says in his word and
what he says as we seek him.
And so I think seeking God isprobably the best advice I could
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give anybody, because the moreyou seek him, the more you'll
find him.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
There's no shame on us because of the blood of Jesus
.
I think of Isaiah 43 when hisword says to us fear not, for I
have redeemed you, I have calledyou by name, you are mine, and
I think people today and I knowyou, especially artists like you
and that kind of thing,probably get this so much.
But they define one another bytitles and successes and the
roles they play and how muchmoney they have, and if they're,
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I've made it to the top of thesuccess ladder and they're a CEO
now or whatever, and sadly theyalso are labeled by their
failures.
So, with Isaiah 43 in mind andwhat we just said, how do you
kind of define yourself in aworld that we live in today that
is literally obsessed withlabels and I guess maybe you
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answered that by what you saidabout seeking God but is there
anything else that kind of keepsyour feet grounded Because you
know what?
It is hard to do that whenyou're an artist.
I'm just going to say, joseph,you're extremely talented and
one of the best voices I've everheard one of the greatest
songwriters, I think, inSouthern gospel music and music
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in general and it is hard tostay grounded when people are
kind of I don't want to sayworshiping you, because that's
just too broad of a term there,but when they're just they're
clapping and you know how do youstay grounded?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I think the best.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Thing that's happened for me is.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
My wife Lindsay, travels with me and it's funny.
You talk about successes.
I mean, let me just.
I want to be completelyvulnerable with you and your
listeners right now.
I have not had a number onesong in over two years.
I've not been nominated for aGrammy in five years.
That kind of stuff messes withme and it's so silly because but
if I'm just going to beingcompletely honest, I look and go
.
I talked to my record companyabout it recently.
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I was like man, I just feellike you know, these are the
things that used to happen andthey're not really happening
anymore.
And what am I doing wrong?
And you know, it's not aboutthat stuff.
And I think once I shift myfocus on back to seeking God,
that's where the true blessingscome in.
And I don't want to seek Godjust for success.
I don't want to seek God justfor the blessings.
I want to seek God becausethere is no greater thing that I
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can do in my life than to seekafter the heart of God.
But I have to tell you that theway that I stay grounded last
October we talked about that's alittle bit about failure.
I'll talk a little bit aboutsuccess.
Last October I had just come offthe Dove Awards.
I had won a Dove Award.
I performed on the Dove Awardsthe week before that.
I'd won a Singing News FanAward for like the seventh year
in a row for Soloist of the Year, and Lindsay saw a shift in me
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that I didn't even see and shetook me and she doesn't like
this story, but this is whathappened.
She took me outside.
We were in Winston-Salem,believe it or not.
She took me outside and I knewsomething was bothering her and
I said what's going on?
And she's like let's go outsidefor a second.
And she looked at me and shesaid you're not a celebrity and
you're not famous.
And people that are listeningare going.
Yes, he is.
No, I'm really not.
I don't go into the to Walmartor I'm getting ready to go into
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Walgreens and get a card for mywife.
You know I don't get recognizedvery often at all, but she kind
of grounded me in that moment,said I know you've had a big
month, but let's rein that inand let's realize that we are
nothing without Jesus, thatwe're not too good to load in,
you know sound equipment andwork hard and keep serving God,
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you know, and that's the kind ofthing that and I didn't even
notice it in myself, butapparently I was acting-
differently because Lindsay'swith me out on the road and she
sees these things, you know.
And it kind of brought me backdown to earth and went OK, dove
Awards are great and SingingNews, fan Awards are sweet, and
so you know, so kind.
But at the end of the day, whatam I doing to be a good husband
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?
What am I doing to be a goodman?
What am I doing to be a goodboss to my band and my team?
So you know, to answer a simplequestion with a long answer, I
think Lindsay is the reason I'mable to stay grounded, and
obviously Jesus.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Wow, could you feel yourself being different, or did
she have to point that out toyou?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
No, in fact I argued it.
I was like, like I'm not there,I've been changed, you know I'm
the same.
But I think what I was writingwas kind of like this, for lack
of better word, a kind of asuccess high um man, things are
going really well right now andpeople are acknowledging.
You know all the hard work andand um, and then the devil works
.
Performance.
I performed a song called tellthe Devil and it really went
well, I mean they saw it.
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I mean, the contemporary worldwas with me and I didn't really
get any flack from the southernworld because it was a little
edgy.
My performance was a littleedgy and I didn't, but you know,
everybody was just, it wasreally.
It went really well and I feltlike God was, you know, honored
in it and so you know, maybe Iwas riding this high of success
for a few weeks there and shewas able to go.
Hey, let's not focus on thepraise.
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And one thing I love about myteam whether it's my secretary
or my band or my wife or anybody, they don't it's.
I've told them I don't want manworship.
I'm not interested in manworship.
I don't want you all.
They'll call me.
I had a guy come up the othernight at an event and then call
me a superstar and my guitarplayer literally laughed at it
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and I thought, ok, I hired theright guy because he just
thought that was so funny.
You know that somebody wouldcall me that and I love that.
I love that they don't look atme as this.
You know, I'm fallible.
I'm a man.
I'm not even close to what I.
You know what I want to be andwhat I need to be, and God has
blessed me tremendously with notjust my recovery but you know,
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my, our ministry, and I'm sograteful for that.
But I never want it to be athing where it's about me.
It's about what Jesus has donein my life.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Well, you can see why that God put Lindsay in your
life right Because he knew thewhole story from beginning to
end of your life, and he wouldknow the failures and he also
knew who you would need as yourlife partner to guide you
through those.
I think that's an amazing andkudos to Lindsay for just having
you back and saying okay, buddy, he's going to say you got to
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go home and clean the toiletjust like everybody else, so get
over yourself.
Exactly right.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Take out the trash.
One of my favorite stories isthere's a guy named Larnell
Harris, an amazing artist.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
He won a Grammy and they had this big award.
And the next morning he woke upand there was a note on the
table from his wife that saidcongratulations, I'm so proud of
you, but please don't forget totake out the trash.
It was kind of that moment ofthat's Lindsay, like she's like,
hey, congrats, happy for you,but you're not special, that's
great.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Let me ask you this, Joseph what would you want
people to know about you?
Not Joseph Habedank, the artist, but the person who exists away
from the music.
Who is he and what is he like?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I would say I'm pretty boring.
I mean, I think in a lot ofways, you know, when I get home
I'm very normal.
I just I go to the gym everyday and you know that's the most
exciting thing I do.
I'm in the studio a lot, butit's funny.
You know that's the mostexciting thing I do.
I'm in the studio a lot, butit's funny, you know.
I just think what I want peopleto know about me is that I'm
probably a lot like you.
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Some days I do really well and Ihave great days and I have bad
days.
I have days where I fail anddays when I wake up and don't
really, you know, I'm tired anddon't really want to get out of
bed.
And there's days that, you know, I feel like God blesses, and I
have good days and bad days.
I think the biggest thing forme is I'm broken, just like
everybody else, obviously, withmy story, and I've been sober
for almost 12 years and I stillfeel like in a lot of ways, I'm
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still learning how to be a goodman.
And somebody asked me the otherday it was like what do you
want your legacy to be?
And I said, if you'd asked methat 10 years ago I probably
would have said I want to be thegreatest artist that Southern
Gossip Music's ever had.
I want to be the bestsongwriter and the best singer.
And now it's kind of like boy ifthey just say he was a good guy
you know he's a good man and hewas honest and he was fair and
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he had integrity and he took,you know, the worst thing that
ever happened to him, and letGod make it into the best thing
that ever happened to him, whichis pretty much my story.
That's what I want more thananything, and so what to know
about me is that I'm a lot likeyou.
I just, yeah, people clap whenI sing and people sometimes
stand up when I go to work anddo my thing, but that doesn't
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make me any different than you.
I still have those tough daysand I still struggle a lot to
get through life.
I told my guys the other nighton the bus we were riding down
the road and I said you know,I'm not a struggling artist, but
I am an artist who struggles.
And that's true.
I think we all struggle andit's really easy to look at
somebody in the music business,any sort of aspect of life, and
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go, man, I thought they had sucha good life and they got it all
together.
And the truth is, you know,some days, yeah, I have good
days, but there's days when Ifail miserably and just like
anybody else.
So I'm a common guy.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I think in a lot of ways I just have a baby, just
have a better spray tan.
Oh, that's funny.
This is kind of a transparentquestion because I know the
enemy works so hard.
I mean, he just works so hard.
So I know your story and I knowthat you have such a fantastic
redemption story to tell and youtell it beautifully and you
tell it often and you're veryhonest.
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Like the first time I heard youtell it I was like wow, you
know, that is being totallyhonest with his audience and I
was so impressed by that becauseyou could have danced around it
and you didn't.
But do you ever have times,joseph, where you've gotten
through that?
You know you're forgiven, youabsolutely know you're forgiven,
but you just have those dartsat times where you can kind of
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feel that shame coming back onyou a little bit.
Do you ever have that, or haveyou really let that go?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You know it's funny.
You mentioned this.
I'm always very honest and Itry to be very honest and
vulnerable.
But I actually had a guy theother night text me a friend of
mine and I posted something onFacebook and he in a way kind of
questioned my sobriety andbecause it was goofy or funny,
he's like how does a sober mindthink of this?
And it kind of hurt my feelingsbecause I was like well, I know
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I'm sober, you know I've beensober for I think today's been
4,280 days or something likethat, but it made me go.
I have to be so vigilant abouteven 12 years later.
I mean sober for 12 years,continually, and we call that
continuous sobriety, which meansI haven't relapsed, by the
grace of God in almost 12 years.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Praise God.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
And yet I still have to be a little bit like cautious
because I think people stillwatch and they go.
Man, is he good?
You know, and I get that that'spart of the consequences of my
sin and what I walk through andbeing an addict, and so while it
, you know, it's kind of toughfor me to somebody to go.
Hey, how do you, how does asober person even think of this?
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I was kind of like, well youknow, I promise I'm still sober.
But, you know, I think thebiggest thing for me is the
trust aspect.
I mean, I think trust is like awall you build and it can be
torn down in a second, and itcan take literally years to
build it back.
That's what trust is like, andso I think what I love, though,
is that the people have been sogracious to me and they've
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allowed me to explore musicallyI think, maybe more so than most
artists and I.
Somebody asked me this like howdo you get away with recording
this music that really isn'tbefore?
Being completely candid andhonest, is not extremely
Southern Gospel.
It's very different.
They call me Southern Gospel,but musically it's kind of a
different thing, and I said Ithink the people are just glad
that I'm sober.
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That makes sense.
I mean, I think they've givenme so much lead way.
You know what?
At least he's not using drugs.
We love what he does.
There's a great story there,and they've been so gracious and
they've allowed me to be anartist, and I'm so grateful for
that I really am.
I can't tell you how I veryrarely get any negative comments
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from the people that support meabout my music or the band, or
the way I dress, or whatever itmay be, they just want me to be
their friend and love on themand record music about Jesus.
And so I think, to answer yourquestion, yeah I still deal with
some shame, but I'm also soproud of what Jesus has done in
my life and I love being inrecovery Like I love talking
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about it.
I helped a guy, a couple guys,get rehab in the last month.
I mean I love doing that stuffbecause it helps me stay sober
Right.
So yeah, I think I still dealwith the shame aspect of it, but
I try not to let thatovershadow the redemption and
the forgiveness and the recovery.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Well, I think another reason why you can kind of get
by with different kinds of musicis that, first of all, what
you're presenting has such amessage.
You know it's not just fluff,it's got a message.
It's got a message.
But secondly, I would say thatprobably 99.9% of those that are
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sitting out there listening toyou they may not have been
addicted to drugs, but they'vehad a failure.
You know they've had a toughfailure and they understand and
know what it feels like to gothrough that failure, to be
forgiven for that failure andthen to come out on the other
side looking back in and going.
It is only by the grace of Godthat that happened, that I'm
able to get up every morning,take a breath, take a few steps,
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get my day started withouthaving that cloud of shame just
hanging over me each and everyday.
So I think it's a lot aboutwhat you're presenting there and
how you're making people feelthrough your transparency, your
vulnerability and just thehonesty in which you tell your
story.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
So in a world of fake and artificial intelligence,
literally, I think people arejust looking for something real.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
And I think the more real you can be.
I tell my guys that all thetime on the bus I'm like just be
who you are and some people aregoing to like you and some
people aren't.
But just be who you are, be whoGod made you to be and don't
try to be somebody else.
And I think authenticity is soimportant.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Our tagline here at Joy FM is real music, real life,
and so we share.
You know the good times here.
We have laughs here on the air,but, man, when we blow it, we
talk about that as well, andit's in those times that we get
so much feedback, because we geta lot of well, that's me too.
Well, I feel just like that too, or you know that kind of thing
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.
So I agree, in a world where itis just, you don't know what's
true and what isn't, thatrealness, honesty, is absolutely
key, and you do thatbeautifully.
So let me ask you one morequestion before we head out, and
it's this why do you think itis important that those who
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listen to radio ministries likeJoy FM, why is it important that
they give to a station like JoyFM that is 100% listener
supported?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Well, I think the first thing is pretty obvious.
I mean, if you want this musicon your radio, you need to
support it, because you'reliterally taking advantage of
something that's free to you andthat's the common logical
response to that.
But I would also say, moreimportantly than that is you're
literally supporting somebodywho's sharing the gospel.
I think radio is so powerfulbecause there's usually a little
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DJ in a little room in a littletown and they're playing music
for thousands, sometimes tens ofthousands of people and
nobody's ever going to reallyrecognize, for the most part,
what they do.
I think that this jockey, orthe DJ, if you will, is the most
underappreciated person in anygenre of music.
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But they're literally,especially obviously in
Christian music they'reliterally spreading the good
news of Jesus to thousands andtens of thousands of people,
maybe even hundreds of thousandsof people, because of the
internet now, and I think we Ilove Joy FM.
I think Joy FM station did notbe the greatest station in our
genre and I would love toencourage you all to give to the
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ministry.
I love that you all use theword ministry, because it is a
ministry.
I mean it's really aboutreaching people, and the Bible
says to go into all the worldand preach the gospel to every
creature, and I know that's whatI'm trying to do, and I know
that's what you all are tryingto do, and so they just you all
can't do it without thelistener's support, and so if
you all would do me a favor, itwould mean so much to me if you
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would help support this station,because without stations like
Joy FM, I would not have placesto sing or people to sing to,
and I'm just so grateful foreverything that you all do and
for the kingdom of God.
I think a great opportunity forthe listener is this spring
fundraiser that's coming up.
First of all, pray about whatGod would want you to do and
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then go to joyfmorg and give.
I want you to do it todaybecause I think it's so
important to support Joy FM thatare literally sharing the good
news of Jesus.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
So, joseph, thank you for hanging out with me today
sharing the good news of Jesus.
So, joseph, thank you forhanging out with me today.
And while we were sitting here,I looked over at I can click on
the computer screen here ourlibrary and you have over 20
songs playing on our station now.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Wow, we may need to change the name to Joy FM to
Joseph Habedank FM.
Hey, I'm just so grateful,thank you so much, I think I
don't even.
I think that's about as manysingles as I've had.
Yeah, so you might be playingevery single it is.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I was looking at, wow , it was so many that I had to
go like down to the next page onthe computer to see them all.
And I will tell you, though,that we are playing now, you and
Chris Blue.
Jesus Walked In Jesus.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Walked In.
Yeah, I love that song so much.
Thank you so much for playingit.
Yeah, and a shout out to ChrisIf you've never heard Chris Blue
, you've got to go.
This guy's amazing.
I'm so honored he sang thissong with me.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Well, Joseph, thank you again.
You know I love you to pieces.
You know I've always loved you.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I love you too and I'm so grateful that you chose
me to be a part of this greatfundraiser coming up and thank
you for using my song andplaying my music and being my
friend.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Thank you, joseph.
Thanks for listening to theQuirks, bumps and Bruises
podcast with Candy and Melody.
If you enjoyed the show, pleasetake a moment to subscribe,
rate and share the podcast.
You can learn more at joyfmorg.
Hi, I'm Melody and I'm Candy and you're listening
to Quirks, bumps and Bruises.
I have such a great friend thatI love so much, known such a
long time and just thrilled thathe's here on the Joyride with
us this morning.
It's Joseph Habedank, and youknow what I call you right.
You probably hate it, but I doit anyway Habedank-a-do Well it
(00:23):
was funny.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
When you just said my name, I was like she's not
saying it correctly.
You have to say have a dankadoo.
I mean, that's your thing, youknow.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
It is.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You've called me that for 20 years.
How long have you been at JoyFM?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Oh, my goodness, I've actually been with the ministry
of Joy FM for 21 years, but onthe air we're working on well,
I'm working on year 18, so soyou've been, yeah, almost two
decades you've been calling methat I have did you like how?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I hope you enjoyed how I turned the interview on
you.
That's called deflection.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yes, yeah, I saw what you did there.
I got you.
I got you.
Uh well, jose, you're so kindto be on the phone with us today
and talking about somethingthat's coming up for Joy FM and
it is our 2025 spring fundraiserand kind of the theme of our
fundraiser is made for more, andso, as we were talking through
(01:18):
that theme, everybody was onboard that your song and it's an
older song, I mean consideringwhat we're playing now but your
song no Shame was the song thatwe just felt would be so perfect
for kind of the theme songaround that made for more.
So, with that said, how has Godshown you that you are not what
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the world has said you were,but that you were made for
greater things.
You were made for more.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, you know, I love the verse in the Bible that
says there is no condemnationin Christ Jesus.
I was raised in a veryconservative Christian home,
which I'm so grateful for.
But sometimes when you'reraised with kind of a lot of
rules and regulations, if youwill, you kind of get this
picture of God that he's thisjudge, that he's this ruler and
(02:12):
he is all of those things.
But as I grew older and wentthrough my addiction and
recovery which a lot of youdon't know my story I was hooked
on drugs for several years andgot clean about 12 years ago.
When I went through thatexperience, I kind of saw a
different Jesus.
I mean, for me it was this Godthat loved me, regardless of who
I had been, what I had done,and that didn't really define
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who I was.
What defined who I was wasJesus and the blood of Jesus.
And once that blood was appliedto my life and when I asked for
forgiveness for my addictionand what I walked through, there
was no longer any shame becauseI walked in this freedom and
this liberty of forgiveness andgrace and mercy.
And I think the grace of Jesusis what sets us apart, that's
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what makes us more, that's whatmakes us different, and because
of the blood and the grace andthe mercy that he's extended to
us as sinners and now childrenof God.
I mean man, where would we bewithout it?
You know?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
The chorus, so to speak, is I'm saved by the blood
of the Lamb, I'm free, I'vebeen born again, I'm forgiven,
I'm a child of the King.
There ain't no shame on me.
So, with those lyrics in mind,did those lyrics come from being
taught about the grace of Godthrough that experience for you?
I mean, did that just kind ofbubble up those lyrics through
(03:33):
that process that you wentthrough, where you flat on felt
heard the grace of God in yourlife?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Absolutely.
I mean, I think one of the mostpowerful things that happened
to me is while I was in rehab,Russ Taft came and visited me.
For those of you who don't knowwho that is, he's a kind of a
gospel music legend andeight-time Grammy winner and he
just shows up at the rehab I wasat and just literally sits down
with me and he said somethingso powerful.
He said you know, god loved youwhen you were using drugs.
(04:03):
He still loved you, but he'scrazy about you now.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I thought I never heard anybody tell me that Jesus
was crazy about me and he is.
I mean he's crazy about us.
I mean you have to for those ofyou that have kids, and I don't
even have kids, so I can't evenfathom this.
Think about how much you loveyour kids, think about how much
you love your grandkids, and howmuch more does Jesus love us
when he looks down.
You know, when you think aboutyour kids, you don't think about
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their faults and their failuresand their shortcomings and all
the bad things about them.
You look at your kids and youthink, man, that's my kid, I
love them, I would die for them.
And Jesus literally did die forhis children and for the world.
And I think the coolest thingabout this song is that I tend
to write songs that are a littlemore complicated.
(04:49):
Songs like Judas or ReligionIsn't Working.
And this particular song I feltchallenged to like make it
simple.
Make it simple, you know, talkabout being saved.
And that's hard for me as awriter, because I want to write
something that's so fresh andoriginal and new.
And when we wrote Shame on Me,I actually wrote it with a guy
named Jason Cox and MichaelBoggs at First Baptist in
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Nashville, tennessee, where welive, we sat down and just wrote
this simple chorus and thething that kind of made it
artistic was the hook there's noShame on Me, and so this song
has always been very special tome.
It was actually my first numberone song as a solo artist about
six years ago, so I've alwaysloved this song.
But more important than all ofthat is just the message that
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there really is no shame on usbecause of the blood of Jesus.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Let me ask you this, Joseph what advice would you
give to a fellow Christian whohas struggled with their
identity as a child of Christ,knowing that we have all fallen
short of the glory of God?
Is there some advice you couldgive to someone that may be
struggling hard with that rightnow?
What would you say to them?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Well, I think something that God's been kind
of teaching me lately is aboutseeking Him, and it sounds kind
of like simple, like okay, justseek God.
Well, that's easy to say, butwhat does that look like?
And I think for me, beingcognizant of every aspect of my
life, what can I do to seek God,like every day?
Now, when I wake up, it'sactually my manager that came to
(06:13):
me and was like, hey,no-transcript, but what does it
look like to seek God in everyaspect of your life, every
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single day?
And so I've been waking up andgoing, okay, god, help me, teach
me how to seek you today.
How can I seek after you whatyou know?
I want to know the heart of Godand what he wants for my life,
and I think the more that you dothat, the more that you'll see
the heart of God about the lovefor his children love for people
, love for the sinners and theoutcasts, and one of my favorite
things about Jesus, and I saythis there's a song called Judas
(06:59):
I talked about it just a fewminutes ago that I wrote and out
of all the people that he met,he chose Judas.
He knew what Judas was going todo because he was God, he was a
man, he was all man and all God.
He knew that Judas was a liarand a fraud and a fake and he
chose him and he loved him.
So if we look at that and we go, okay, if Jesus loved Judas,
why in the world would he notlove me?
(07:19):
You know what I mean.
Like it's pretty simple.
So I think once you seek theheart of God, you'll find
everything you need to knowabout who you are in Christ and
what he thinks about you.
And what he thinks about you isnot what, like you said earlier
, it's not what the world says,it's not even what the church
says.
What he thinks about you iswhat he says in his word and
what he says as we seek him.
And so I think seeking God isprobably the best advice I could
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give anybody, because the moreyou seek him, the more you'll
find him.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
There's no shame on us because of the blood of Jesus
.
I think of Isaiah 43 when hisword says to us fear not, for I
have redeemed you, I have calledyou by name, you are mine, and
I think people today and I knowyou, especially artists like you
and that kind of thing,probably get this so much.
But they define one another bytitles and successes and the
roles they play and how muchmoney they have, and if they're,
(08:09):
I've made it to the top of thesuccess ladder and they're a CEO
now or whatever, and sadly theyalso are labeled by their
failures.
So, with Isaiah 43 in mind andwhat we just said, how do you
kind of define yourself in aworld that we live in today that
is literally obsessed withlabels and I guess maybe you
(08:31):
answered that by what you saidabout seeking God but is there
anything else that kind of keepsyour feet grounded Because you
know what?
It is hard to do that whenyou're an artist.
I'm just going to say, joseph,you're extremely talented and
one of the best voices I've everheard one of the greatest
songwriters, I think, inSouthern gospel music and music
(08:52):
in general and it is hard tostay grounded when people are
kind of I don't want to sayworshiping you, because that's
just too broad of a term there,but when they're just they're
clapping and you know how do youstay grounded?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I think the best.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Thing that's happened for me is.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
My wife Lindsay, travels with me and it's funny.
You talk about successes.
I mean, let me just.
I want to be completelyvulnerable with you and your
listeners right now.
I have not had a number onesong in over two years.
I've not been nominated for aGrammy in five years.
That kind of stuff messes withme and it's so silly because but
if I'm just going to beingcompletely honest, I look and go
.
I talked to my record companyabout it recently.
(09:30):
I was like man, I just feellike you know, these are the
things that used to happen andthey're not really happening
anymore.
And what am I doing wrong?
And you know, it's not aboutthat stuff.
And I think once I shift myfocus on back to seeking God,
that's where the true blessingscome in.
And I don't want to seek Godjust for success.
I don't want to seek God justfor the blessings.
I want to seek God becausethere is no greater thing that I
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can do in my life than to seekafter the heart of God.
But I have to tell you that theway that I stay grounded last
October we talked about that's alittle bit about failure.
I'll talk a little bit aboutsuccess.
Last October I had just come offthe Dove Awards.
I had won a Dove Award.
I performed on the Dove Awardsthe week before that.
I'd won a Singing News FanAward for like the seventh year
in a row for Soloist of the Year, and Lindsay saw a shift in me
(10:16):
that I didn't even see and shetook me and she doesn't like
this story, but this is whathappened.
She took me outside.
We were in Winston-Salem,believe it or not.
She took me outside and I knewsomething was bothering her and
I said what's going on?
And she's like let's go outsidefor a second.
And she looked at me and shesaid you're not a celebrity and
you're not famous.
And people that are listeningare going.
Yes, he is.
No, I'm really not.
I don't go into the to Walmartor I'm getting ready to go into
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Walgreens and get a card for mywife.
You know I don't get recognizedvery often at all, but she kind
of grounded me in that moment,said I know you've had a big
month, but let's rein that inand let's realize that we are
nothing without Jesus, thatwe're not too good to load in,
you know sound equipment andwork hard and keep serving God,
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you know, and that's the kind ofthing that and I didn't even
notice it in myself, butapparently I was acting-
differently because Lindsay'swith me out on the road and she
sees these things, you know.
And it kind of brought me backdown to earth and went OK, dove
Awards are great and SingingNews, fan Awards are sweet, and
so you know, so kind.
But at the end of the day, whatam I doing to be a good husband
(11:21):
?
What am I doing to be a goodman?
What am I doing to be a goodboss to my band and my team?
So you know, to answer a simplequestion with a long answer, I
think Lindsay is the reason I'mable to stay grounded, and
obviously Jesus.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Wow, could you feel yourself being different, or did
she have to point that out toyou?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
No, in fact I argued it.
I was like, like I'm not there,I've been changed, you know I'm
the same.
But I think what I was writingwas kind of like this, for lack
of better word, a kind of asuccess high um man, things are
going really well right now andpeople are acknowledging.
You know all the hard work andand um, and then the devil works
.
Performance.
I performed a song called tellthe Devil and it really went
well, I mean they saw it.
(12:05):
I mean, the contemporary worldwas with me and I didn't really
get any flack from the southernworld because it was a little
edgy.
My performance was a littleedgy and I didn't, but you know,
everybody was just, it wasreally.
It went really well and I feltlike God was, you know, honored
in it and so you know, maybe Iwas riding this high of success
for a few weeks there and shewas able to go.
Hey, let's not focus on thepraise.
(12:28):
And one thing I love about myteam whether it's my secretary
or my band or my wife or anybody, they don't it's.
I've told them I don't want manworship.
I'm not interested in manworship.
I don't want you all.
They'll call me.
I had a guy come up the othernight at an event and then call
me a superstar and my guitarplayer literally laughed at it
(12:50):
and I thought, ok, I hired theright guy because he just
thought that was so funny.
You know that somebody wouldcall me that and I love that.
I love that they don't look atme as this.
You know, I'm fallible.
I'm a man.
I'm not even close to what I.
You know what I want to be andwhat I need to be, and God has
blessed me tremendously with notjust my recovery but you know,
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my, our ministry, and I'm sograteful for that.
But I never want it to be athing where it's about me.
It's about what Jesus has donein my life.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Well, you can see why that God put Lindsay in your
life right Because he knew thewhole story from beginning to
end of your life, and he wouldknow the failures and he also
knew who you would need as yourlife partner to guide you
through those.
I think that's an amazing andkudos to Lindsay for just having
you back and saying okay, buddy, he's going to say you got to
(13:43):
go home and clean the toiletjust like everybody else, so get
over yourself.
Exactly right.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Take out the trash.
One of my favorite stories isthere's a guy named Larnell
Harris, an amazing artist.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
He won a Grammy and they had this big award.
And the next morning he woke upand there was a note on the
table from his wife that saidcongratulations, I'm so proud of
you, but please don't forget totake out the trash.
It was kind of that moment ofthat's Lindsay, like she's like,
hey, congrats, happy for you,but you're not special, that's
great.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Let me ask you this, Joseph what would you want
people to know about you?
Not Joseph Habedank, the artist, but the person who exists away
from the music.
Who is he and what is he like?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I would say I'm pretty boring.
I mean, I think in a lot ofways, you know, when I get home
I'm very normal.
I just I go to the gym everyday and you know that's the most
exciting thing I do.
I'm in the studio a lot, butit's funny.
You know that's the mostexciting thing I do.
I'm in the studio a lot, butit's funny, you know.
I just think what I want peopleto know about me is that I'm
probably a lot like you.
(14:51):
Some days I do really well and Ihave great days and I have bad
days.
I have days where I fail anddays when I wake up and don't
really, you know, I'm tired anddon't really want to get out of
bed.
And there's days that, you know, I feel like God blesses, and I
have good days and bad days.
I think the biggest thing forme is I'm broken, just like
everybody else, obviously, withmy story, and I've been sober
for almost 12 years and I stillfeel like in a lot of ways, I'm
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still learning how to be a goodman.
And somebody asked me the otherday it was like what do you
want your legacy to be?
And I said, if you'd asked methat 10 years ago I probably
would have said I want to be thegreatest artist that Southern
Gossip Music's ever had.
I want to be the bestsongwriter and the best singer.
And now it's kind of like boy ifthey just say he was a good guy
you know he's a good man and hewas honest and he was fair and
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he had integrity and he took,you know, the worst thing that
ever happened to him, and letGod make it into the best thing
that ever happened to him, whichis pretty much my story.
That's what I want more thananything, and so what to know
about me is that I'm a lot likeyou.
I just, yeah, people clap whenI sing and people sometimes
stand up when I go to work anddo my thing, but that doesn't
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make me any different than you.
I still have those tough daysand I still struggle a lot to
get through life.
I told my guys the other nighton the bus we were riding down
the road and I said you know,I'm not a struggling artist, but
I am an artist who struggles.
And that's true.
I think we all struggle andit's really easy to look at
somebody in the music business,any sort of aspect of life, and
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go, man, I thought they had sucha good life and they got it all
together.
And the truth is, you know,some days, yeah, I have good
days, but there's days when Ifail miserably and just like
anybody else.
So I'm a common guy.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I think in a lot of ways I just have a baby, just
have a better spray tan.
Oh, that's funny.
This is kind of a transparentquestion because I know the
enemy works so hard.
I mean, he just works so hard.
So I know your story and I knowthat you have such a fantastic
redemption story to tell and youtell it beautifully and you
tell it often and you're veryhonest.
(16:54):
Like the first time I heard youtell it I was like wow, you
know, that is being totallyhonest with his audience and I
was so impressed by that becauseyou could have danced around it
and you didn't.
But do you ever have times,joseph, where you've gotten
through that?
You know you're forgiven, youabsolutely know you're forgiven,
but you just have those dartsat times where you can kind of
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feel that shame coming back onyou a little bit.
Do you ever have that, or haveyou really let that go?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You know it's funny.
You mentioned this.
I'm always very honest and Itry to be very honest and
vulnerable.
But I actually had a guy theother night text me a friend of
mine and I posted something onFacebook and he in a way kind of
questioned my sobriety andbecause it was goofy or funny,
he's like how does a sober mindthink of this?
And it kind of hurt my feelingsbecause I was like well, I know
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I'm sober, you know I've beensober for I think today's been
4,280 days or something likethat, but it made me go.
I have to be so vigilant abouteven 12 years later.
I mean sober for 12 years,continually, and we call that
continuous sobriety, which meansI haven't relapsed, by the
grace of God in almost 12 years.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Praise God.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
And yet I still have to be a little bit like cautious
because I think people stillwatch and they go.
Man, is he good?
You know, and I get that that'spart of the consequences of my
sin and what I walk through andbeing an addict, and so while it
, you know, it's kind of toughfor me to somebody to go.
Hey, how do you, how does asober person even think of this?
(18:26):
I was kind of like, well youknow, I promise I'm still sober.
But, you know, I think thebiggest thing for me is the
trust aspect.
I mean, I think trust is like awall you build and it can be
torn down in a second, and itcan take literally years to
build it back.
That's what trust is like, andso I think what I love, though,
is that the people have been sogracious to me and they've
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allowed me to explore musicallyI think, maybe more so than most
artists and I.
Somebody asked me this like howdo you get away with recording
this music that really isn'tbefore?
Being completely candid andhonest, is not extremely
Southern Gospel.
It's very different.
They call me Southern Gospel,but musically it's kind of a
different thing, and I said Ithink the people are just glad
that I'm sober.
(19:10):
That makes sense.
I mean, I think they've givenme so much lead way.
You know what?
At least he's not using drugs.
We love what he does.
There's a great story there,and they've been so gracious and
they've allowed me to be anartist, and I'm so grateful for
that I really am.
I can't tell you how I veryrarely get any negative comments
(19:30):
from the people that support meabout my music or the band, or
the way I dress, or whatever itmay be, they just want me to be
their friend and love on themand record music about Jesus.
And so I think, to answer yourquestion, yeah I still deal with
some shame, but I'm also soproud of what Jesus has done in
my life and I love being inrecovery Like I love talking
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about it.
I helped a guy, a couple guys,get rehab in the last month.
I mean I love doing that stuffbecause it helps me stay sober
Right.
So yeah, I think I still dealwith the shame aspect of it, but
I try not to let thatovershadow the redemption and
the forgiveness and the recovery.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Well, I think another reason why you can kind of get
by with different kinds of musicis that, first of all, what
you're presenting has such amessage.
You know it's not just fluff,it's got a message.
It's got a message.
But secondly, I would say thatprobably 99.9% of those that are
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sitting out there listening toyou they may not have been
addicted to drugs, but they'vehad a failure.
You know they've had a toughfailure and they understand and
know what it feels like to gothrough that failure, to be
forgiven for that failure andthen to come out on the other
side looking back in and going.
It is only by the grace of Godthat that happened, that I'm
able to get up every morning,take a breath, take a few steps,
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get my day started withouthaving that cloud of shame just
hanging over me each and everyday.
So I think it's a lot aboutwhat you're presenting there and
how you're making people feelthrough your transparency, your
vulnerability and just thehonesty in which you tell your
story.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
So in a world of fake and artificial intelligence,
literally, I think people arejust looking for something real.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
And I think the more real you can be.
I tell my guys that all thetime on the bus I'm like just be
who you are and some people aregoing to like you and some
people aren't.
But just be who you are, be whoGod made you to be and don't
try to be somebody else.
And I think authenticity is soimportant.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Our tagline here at Joy FM is real music, real life,
and so we share.
You know the good times here.
We have laughs here on the air,but, man, when we blow it, we
talk about that as well, andit's in those times that we get
so much feedback, because we geta lot of well, that's me too.
Well, I feel just like that too, or you know that kind of thing
(21:58):
.
So I agree, in a world where itis just, you don't know what's
true and what isn't, thatrealness, honesty, is absolutely
key, and you do thatbeautifully.
So let me ask you one morequestion before we head out, and
it's this why do you think itis important that those who
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listen to radio ministries likeJoy FM, why is it important that
they give to a station like JoyFM that is 100% listener
supported?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Well, I think the first thing is pretty obvious.
I mean, if you want this musicon your radio, you need to
support it, because you'reliterally taking advantage of
something that's free to you andthat's the common logical
response to that.
But I would also say, moreimportantly than that is you're
literally supporting somebodywho's sharing the gospel.
I think radio is so powerfulbecause there's usually a little
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DJ in a little room in a littletown and they're playing music
for thousands, sometimes tens ofthousands of people and
nobody's ever going to reallyrecognize, for the most part,
what they do.
I think that this jockey, orthe DJ, if you will, is the most
underappreciated person in anygenre of music.
(23:14):
But they're literally,especially obviously in
Christian music they'reliterally spreading the good
news of Jesus to thousands andtens of thousands of people,
maybe even hundreds of thousandsof people, because of the
internet now, and I think we Ilove Joy FM.
I think Joy FM station did notbe the greatest station in our
genre and I would love toencourage you all to give to the
(23:36):
ministry.
I love that you all use theword ministry, because it is a
ministry.
I mean it's really aboutreaching people, and the Bible
says to go into all the worldand preach the gospel to every
creature, and I know that's whatI'm trying to do, and I know
that's what you all are tryingto do, and so they just you all
can't do it without thelistener's support, and so if
you all would do me a favor, itwould mean so much to me if you
(23:57):
would help support this station,because without stations like
Joy FM, I would not have placesto sing or people to sing to,
and I'm just so grateful foreverything that you all do and
for the kingdom of God.
I think a great opportunity forthe listener is this spring
fundraiser that's coming up.
First of all, pray about whatGod would want you to do and
(24:18):
then go to joyfmorg and give.
I want you to do it todaybecause I think it's so
important to support Joy FM thatare literally sharing the good
news of Jesus.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
So, joseph, thank you for hanging out with me today
sharing the good news of Jesus.
So, joseph, thank you forhanging out with me today.
And while we were sitting here,I looked over at I can click on
the computer screen here ourlibrary and you have over 20
songs playing on our station now.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Wow, we may need to change the name to Joy FM to
Joseph Habedank FM.
Hey, I'm just so grateful,thank you so much, I think I
don't even.
I think that's about as manysingles as I've had.
Yeah, so you might be playingevery single it is.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I was looking at, wow , it was so many that I had to
go like down to the next page onthe computer to see them all.
And I will tell you, though,that we are playing now, you and
Chris Blue.
Jesus Walked In Jesus.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Walked In.
Yeah, I love that song so much.
Thank you so much for playingit.
Yeah, and a shout out to ChrisIf you've never heard Chris Blue
, you've got to go.
This guy's amazing.
I'm so honored he sang thissong with me.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Well, Joseph, thank you again.
You know I love you to pieces.
You know I've always loved you.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I love you too and I'm so grateful that you chose
me to be a part of this greatfundraiser coming up and thank
you for using my song andplaying my music and being my
friend.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Thank you, joseph.
Thanks for listening to theQuirks, bumps and Bruises
podcast with Candy and Melody.
If you enjoyed the show, pleasetake a moment to subscribe,
rate and share the podcast.
You can learn more at joyfmorg.
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