In this episode, Ken Shuman speaks with Mario Ramos, a retired pastor and professor from San Antonio, TX, and a Faithwalking coach, facilitator, and board member. In it Mario tells a powerful story of personal and relational transformation as a result of the work he has done through Faithwalking. He speaks of a need for acceptance, love, and affirmation so vast "it was like the Grand Canyon - it was so deep and wide, nothing could fill it." As a result of this unmet need, Mario developed a way of being in the world that pushed others away. This caused his family a great deal of pain and damaged his relationships with his wife and children, among others.
Mario shares that he did not realize any of this until he began to do the work of Faithwalking - he was "like a bull in a china closet," not really understanding the damage he was doing. "It wasn't until Faithwalking that I became aware of the dynamics that caused so many problems in my life." He was then able to address these issues and the wounds that caused them, and today he reports he is happily married and has a great relationship with his 3 grown children! He became more whole, his wife (who is also a Faithwalker) became more whole, his marriage became more whole, and his relationship with his kids became more whole. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, Faithwalking makes wholeness possible. Tune in for more of Mario's story!

This episode was recorded in May 2025.

In this episode, Ken Shuman talks about pursuing the practice of curiosity. He states that curiosity is foundational to developing healthy relationships, to developing extraordinary relationships, and to our growth in emotional maturity. He posits that shame is what often stands in the way of curiosity, along with our triggers and wounds.

This episode was recorded on June 27th, 2025.

In this episode, Ken Shuman speaks with Stacey DeLaney, a Faithwalker, FW coach, and children's book author who is retired from public education and lives in upstate NY. Stacey shares that Faithwalking pulled her out of a "deep hole" and dramatically changed how she perceives the world and her relationships and how she interacts in her relationships - and that it has had a particularly profound impact on her relationships with her husband and her adult children. She celebrates that she is no longer fragmented into "very different" public, private, and secret selves and no longer feels the need to wear a mask!

To the question, "Why sign up for Faithwalking?" Stacey replies, "Sometimes we don't even know what we're holding on to from our pasts...what is keeping us from living this wholehearted life that we want to live. If you want to live that life - that wholehearted life - Faithwalking is the way to do it."

This episode was recorded in May 2025.

In this episode, our guest speaker Lou Huesmann (who is a regular participant in our Keep Calm weekly gatherings) grapples with the question, "What role does faith play in Faithwalking?" as well as how faith fits in with the five components of emotional maturity that Ken has been teaching us about - self-awareness, self-definition, self-regulation, personal responsibility, and self-differentiation.

This episode was recorded on June 20th, 2025.

In this episode, Ken Shuman speaks of the deep Faithwalking value of offering a safe space for everybody, and the challenge that presents in the midst of so much diversity and polarization in our world. He shares the critical building blocks for creating a safe place and describes the kind of safe people he hopes Faithwalkers become.

This episode was recorded on June 13th, 2025.

In this episode, Ken Shuman speaks with John Reasons, a pastor and Faithwalking coach from Texas, about the authenticity and safety of the FW process and the gift of experiencing people's stories of change and transformation as a coach journeying with them through the process. John shares that the process of Faithwalking allows people to begin to experience the "fully alive life," the abundant life of which scripture speaks. Through it the light of Christ shines in the dark places of our hearts and souls and brings healing in tangible ways. He invites Faithwalking graduates to become coaches because "that's when it gets good! I've loved being a coach even more than I've loved going through it!"

This episode was recorded in May 2025.

In this episode, Ken Shuman talks about another component of self-regulation - managing our anger. He speaks about the root causes of anger and getting clear about what our triggers are, then what we can do to respond to our anger without sinning. Ken distinguishes between reactive anger and assertive differentiation and reminds the group of the concept of sin as shalom (or wholeness) breaking, then addresses the question, "How can we be angry without breaking the wholeness?"

This episode was recorded on June 6th, 2025.

In this episode, Ken Shuman states that learning to regulate ourselves is a big piece of growing in emotional maturity, and that one way we can do this is to learn how to manage ourselves when we are triggered. Part of learning to manage ourselves in this way involves taking responsibility for getting healing for the wounds of our past. In this episode, Ken shares 10 ways we can begin to tackle this.

This episode was recorded on May 30th, 2025.

In this episode, Ken Shuman has a conversation with Dawn Bird, Faithwalking coach, facilitator, board chair, and manager of our coaching area, about what Faithwalking has meant to her and why she invests so much in it. As she shares about her journey with this work and the powerful impact it has had on her relationship with her adult children, among others, Dawn states that she has yet to find any other process so impactful, so comprehensive, and with so much potential for transforming a person's life and relationships. She shares that the fruit of Faithwalking is so profound that she wants as many people as possible to be able to experience it. "I can't think of anything we need more in our world right now" she says, "than for people to grow in their emotional maturity."

This episode was recorded in May 2025.

In this episode Ken and a group of Faithwalkers discuss how to respond when we are triggered. Ken states that the goal is not to never be triggered - the goal is to manage ourselves as well as we can in the midst of being triggered, taking full responsibility for our part in the triggering. Ken encourages the group to go deeper, to drill down into what is behind the triggering. He offers some key questions we can ask ourselves that will help us in that process.

This episode was recorded on May 23, 2025.