It is impossible to make a long journey whether via walking or driving without taking a break or pausing. In this challenging season, where we are dealing with sickness and disease all across the world, this is the opportunity for the healthy to pause. In this episode, Host Rev. Matthew Shannon shares how to be authentic in the pause. He refers to the story of Elijah stopping and pausing at a broom brush in 1 Kings 19:3-8. He answers the question, How do we still be authentic and live in the midst of the pause?

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Have you accomplished a good work but no one saw it? Do you cover up the light within you with fear, jealousy, or procrastination? In this episode, Host Rev. Matthew Shannon highlights several spiritual bushel baskets that we place over our light. He shares some of the information that is in his just released Devotional, Keep your Life Lit: Motivational Strategies & Principles to Keep your Light Shining. Being authentic together requires us to show our light to others. Don’t Hide your Light.

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Have you ever been in a conversation with someone and the person shared information with you that shouldn’t have been told? In this episode, Host Rev. Matthew Shannon will explain how oversharing information is not a sign of authenticity. He will look at the story of Samson and Delilah in Judges 16. Being real is not telling too much information. Don’t overshare!

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/amymorin/2016/10/22/there-is-a-clear-line-between-oversharing-and-being-authentic-heres-how-to-avoid-crossing-it/#253d939e56e3

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Our hearts are broken and our souls are shocked at the sudden passing of NBA Legend, Husband, Father, Basketball Coach Kobe Bryant, his daughter- Gianna, former baseball coach John Altobelli , his wife Keri, their daughter Alyssa, elementary school coach Christine Mauser, and two others.

In this special episode, Host Rev. Matthew Shannon remembers and reflects on the life of Kobe Bryant, his legacy and answers the question, What Now?

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Do you constantly stare in the mirror and judge yourself? Do you have judgmental thoughts in your mind that you listen to everyday? In this episode, Host Rev. Matthew Shannon lists and explains the three causes of judgmental thoughts and offers four strategies that you can use to defeat those judgmental thoughts. Self-Judgmental thoughts prevent us from being authentic. We are constantly hiding the authentic us, while listening to the self-judge in our mind.

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Have you ever worried about someone or something? Life tells us to worry over just about anything. We worry about our finances, our families and relationships, the world, food, and clothing. Worrying prevents us from being authentic, especially when we worry that we are not good enough, or when we worry about what people think. Host, Rev. Matthew Shannon shows us how our faith tells us not to worry and explains the ways in which we can choose action instead of worry.

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Are you afraid of something? Fear paralyzes you. Fear stops you from becoming who God created you to be. You have a decision to make. Choose faith over fear. In this episode, Host Rev. Matthew Shannon will help motivate you to choose faith over fear by using the story of Mary & Joseph in Matthew 1:18-25, and share definitions of fear and faith. Will you choose faith over fear?

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Have you ever been disappointed by a person who promised you something, but they never came through? In this episode, Host Rev. Matthew Shannon discusses Matthew 7:15-20 and he explains five ways that we can back up our words. It’s easy to fool people with our words, so words should not be a foundation in building an authentic, trustful relationship.

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What does it mean to be authentic, especially in front of people we don’t know or we aren’t close to? In this episode, Host Rev. Matthew Shannon teaches us how we can have an authentic spirit and express it to others.

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It’s difficult to maintain a relationship with a fake person. Here on the Being Authentic Together Podcast, join Rev. Matthew Shannon, a motivational preacher, teacher, writer, and author, share how we can live authentically and be true to ourselves and with others. The world tempts us to show a false self everyday. Each episode will feature a conversation using faith, experts, research, or community to help us be authentic together. Join us and let’s be authentic together!

1st Episode Coming in Mid-November 2019