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Why is it sometimes so difficult to face the truth about ourselves?

In this episode of the Life’s Deceit Podcast, Jen sits down with Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards for an honest and thought-provoking conversation about self-worth, personal responsibility, fear, and the choices that shape who we become.

We often spend so much time focusing on our circumstances, the people around us, and the things that have happened to us that we forget to look within. Sometimes, the hardest truths to confront are the ones we carry about ourselves. Fear, perfectionism, and the desire to appear strong or successful can keep us from acknowledging where we are struggling and what needs to change.

Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards explores the importance of looking honestly at ourselves, questioning the beliefs we hold, and recognizing the role our choices play in our personal growth. Together, Jen and Dr. Edwards unpack why we sometimes place others on pedestals, how our perceptions of self-worth influence our lives, and why authenticity matters more than trying to appear as though we have everything figured out.

This conversation invites you to look beyond the surface, take ownership of your choices, and consider what becomes possible when you stop avoiding the mirror within.

In this episode, we explore:

Why facing yourself can be one of the hardest parts of personal growth

The difference between making excuses and taking responsibility for your choices

How fear can keep you from discovering who you truly are

The connection between self-worth, perfectionism, and the need for validation

Why placing others on pedestals can affect how you see yourself

The importance of authenticity and being honest about your struggles

How self-awareness can become a starting point for meaningful change

Season 4 of Life’s Deceit, Legacy by Choice, explores what it means to take an active role in shaping your life story rather than allowing old patterns, limiting beliefs, or past experiences to define your future.

Because growth begins when we are willing to look within.

And the choices we make today help shape the legacy we leave tomorrow.

This is Part 1 of the conversation.

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Have you ever stopped to question whether the person you are today is who you've always been, or who life taught you to become?
In this deeply personal solo episode of Life's Deceit Podcast, Jenelle Simpson explores how childhood experiences can shape our identities, relationships, independence, parenting, and understanding of love.
Following her powerful conversation with Dr. Jen Hewson, Jenelle reflects on the difference between surviving and living, the behaviours we develop to protect ourselves, and the difficult but necessary work of recognizing what we no longer want to carry into our future.
From friendships and motherhood to faith, surrender, accountability, and generational healing, this conversation challenges us to look beyond what happened to us and examine who we are becoming.
Because breaking generational cycles isn't only about what we refuse to repeat. It's about what we intentionally choose to create.

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Have you watched Part 2 of @takebackyourhealthwithdrjen’s story yet? 

The journey continues as Jen opens up about the moments that challenged her to surrender control, confront old wounds and let go of the belief that she had to prove her worth to be loved.

Through her deeply personal journey of faith and healing, she shares how her relationship with Jesus helped her discover a truth that changed everything: she was loved all along. 🙏🏽

This conversation is a powerful reminder that sometimes healing begins when we put down our armor, release the need to control everything and allow ourselves to receive the love we never had to earn.

🎧 The audio podcast is NOW UP! Listen on your favourite podcast streaming platforms, and head over to YouTube to watch the full conversation.

If you haven’t watched Part 2 yet, go and start from the top. You don’t want to miss this part of her story! 🎙️

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What happens when you spend years surviving a life you were never meant to stay trapped inside?

In this deeply personal episode of Life’s Deceit™, I sit down with Dr. Jen Hewson, author of Gut Instincts: Listening to the Gut — A Journey of Breaking, Healing, and Returning Home to God, for a conversation about trauma, survival, forgiveness, faith, and finding your way back to yourself.

Dr. Jen takes us back to the little girl who learned far too early what it felt like to be unseen and unwanted. She opens up about growing up around alcoholism and abuse, running away as a teenager, searching for love and belonging, and the years she spent numbing what she had never learned how to heal.

But this conversation is not only about what happened to her.

It is about what happened inside of her because of it.

We talk about the moment survival stops protecting you and starts imprisoning you. We unpack radical forgiveness, the emotions we bury, the ways unresolved pain can affect how we experience our bodies, and why healing sometimes requires us to revisit the parts of ourselves we thought we had already moved beyond.

Dr. Jen also shares how her relationship with God transformed her understanding of her past, her mother, forgiveness, and ultimately herself. Her journey reminds us that healing is not a destination. There can always be another layer, another truth, another part of ourselves asking to be seen.

This episode asks a difficult question:

How much of the life you are living today was built by the version of you who was simply trying to survive yesterday?

This is a conversation about breaking, healing, forgiving, becoming, and choosing what gets carried forward.

Because sometimes finding your way home has nothing to do with a place.

Sometimes, home is the person you were always meant to become.

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Season 4: Legacy By Choice — Chosen, Not Inherited

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You don’t have to be fully healed to move forward.

You can still be healing and building.
Still have triggers and be growing.
Still have questions and trust God.
Still be figuring yourself out and walk in purpose.

Healing was never supposed to mean putting your life on hold.

🎙️ NEW SOLO EPISODE Wednesday, September 30th @ 6pm 

I’M STILL HEALING, BUT I’M NOT HIDING ANYMORE

This one is personal. No guest. No interview. Just me, you, and a conversation I believe somebody needs to hear.

Life’s Deceit™ Podcast
Season 4: Legacy By Choice — Chosen, Not Inherited.

Because I didn’t choose everything that happened to me — but I get to choose what happens through me.

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Last week, Simone Swartz shared the story of what happened to her. In Part 2, the conversation continues with what came after.

In this episode of Life’s Deceit™, Jenelle Simpson and Simone talk about the long road of living with PTSD, finding the right support, learning to speak up, and discovering that healing can take many different forms.

Simone also shares how she turned her experience into purpose through her work as an author, mental health advocate and advocate for service dogs. Her story is a reminder that what happened to you can be part of your story without becoming the end of it.

This is a conversation about healing, faith, recovery, purpose, finding your voice and choosing what comes next.

The assault wasn’t the end of her story.

🎙️ Watch Part 2 now on Life’s Deceit™.

Legacy by Choice. Chosen, Not Inherited.

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At just 19 years old, Simone Swartz joined the military with dreams, purpose and a desire to serve. Her experience would take her through military sexual assault, harassment, isolation and years of living with PTSD before she fully understood what she was experiencing.

In this powerful episode of Life’s Deceit™ Podcast, Simone shares her story with honesty and vulnerability.

We talk about the assault, what happened afterward, the impact of trauma, shame, addiction, finding the right support, faith, service dogs and the decision to finally use her voice.

Simone is now a veteran, author and mental health advocate. Through her book PTSD and What Helped Me and her advocacy for sexual assault survivors and service dogs, she is helping others understand that PTSD is treatable and that healing is possible.

This conversation is difficult at times, but it is also a story about resilience, purpose and reclaiming the power that was there all along.

Because sometimes legacy isn’t what happened to you. It’s what you choose to build after it.

Legacy by Choice | Chosen, Not Inherited

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After an unexpected pause, Life’s Deceit™ Podcast is returning to the mic—and this episode isn’t about pretending the interruption never happened.

It’s about what happens when life interrupts the plan. When something you’ve built is suddenly challenged. When you’re forced to pause, reassess, reposition, and decide whether the setback will silence you or strengthen you.

In this first episode back, Jenelle gets real about the pause, what it taught her, and why sometimes what feels like an interruption is actually repositioning.

Because purpose doesn’t disappear when the platform changes.
Your assignment doesn’t end when you encounter resistance.
And sometimes, coming back isn’t about picking up where you left off—it’s about returning different.

Season 4 continues: Legacy by Choice — Chosen, Not Inherited.

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Real stories. Real conversations. Real transformation.

We’re back. And we have something to say.

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She survived a brain tumor the size of a tennis ball. But the greatest miracle wasn't just surviving it was discovering that God wasn't finished with her.

What do you do when doctors tell you there's nothing more they can do? How do you keep believing when pain, disappointment, and uncertainty become part of your daily life?

In this deeply moving episode of Life's Deceit Podcast, Jenelle Simpson sits down with Linda Plunkett—author, speaker, counselor, and founder of Hope for the Hurting—to explore a journey marked by childhood wounds, betrayal, chronic illness, brain surgery, and unwavering faith. Through every trial, Linda shares how God's presence became her greatest source of strength and why healing begins with surrender, forgiveness, and hope.

In this episode, you'll discover:

Why God isn't finished with you yet.
How childhood wounds can shape your self-worth and relationships.
The power of forgiveness in breaking cycles of pain.
What it truly means to be equally yoked.
How to trust God when doctors give discouraging news.
Why your diagnosis is not your identity.
Practical ways to choose faith over fear every day.
How your greatest pain can become someone else's greatest hope.

If you've ever questioned God's plan, battled fear, carried emotional wounds, or wondered if your best days are behind you, this conversation will remind you that your story isn't over.

Legacy isn't inherited. It's chosen.

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📚 Books: Supernatural Rescue: From Broken to Beautiful & Living Positive in a Negative World (Available on Amazon)

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Gospel artist Kevin Downswell joins Jen Simpson for an honest conversation about faith, purpose, obedience, and what it means to stay steady when life doesn't go according to plan.

Every generation reaches a moment where it must decide...

Will we compromise?
Or will we remain steady?

In one of the most powerful conversations of Season 4 of Life's Deceit, Jen Simpson sits down with gospel recording artist Kevin Downswell for an honest discussion about faith, purpose, obedience, identity, family, mentorship and what it truly means to answer God's call.

This isn't simply a conversation about music.
It's about becoming the person God already sees.

Kevin opens up about:

• Why obedience costs more than people realize
• The opportunities he refused for the sake of God's calling
• Why God's voice must become your first mentor
• The story behind his powerful song "Steady"
• Ministry while carrying personal struggles
• Family, leadership and staying grounded
• How to recognize God's voice in a noisy world

If you've been questioning your purpose...
If you've been feeling spiritually exhausted...
If you're wondering whether to keep going...
This conversation was made for you.
Watch until the very end.
One sentence could change your life.

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