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What happens when you spend so much time taking care of everyone else that you forget how to take care of yourself?

On this episode of Peace, Love, and Bring a Bat, Uncle Dave welcomes Ashly Balza, known as The Self-Renewal Coach, founder and CEO of Arise & Ascend Coaching, entrepreneur, wife, mother of seven, grandmother of two, and homeschool mom.

Ashly’s journey into self-renewal began after the birth of her sixth child, when a life-threatening septic infection landed her in the hospital. That experience forced her to confront a difficult truth:

She could not keep putting everyone else ahead of herself.

In this episode, you will discover:

• Why Ashly stopped chasing “balance” and started seeking harmony

For years, Ashly put everyone else first.

Then her body forced her to listen.

After developing a severe septic infection, she found herself in the hospital confronting the possibility that she might not be there to watch her children grow up.

That changed her perspective.

Taking care of herself was no longer optional.

It was necessary.

Ashly does not believe life needs to be perfectly balanced.

With family, homeschooling, businesses, relationships, and coaching, different areas will require more attention at different times.

She prefers the word:

Harmony.

The goal is not giving everything equal time.

It is creating alignment without losing yourself.

When you always answer immediately, always say yes, and always make yourself available, people begin expecting constant access.

Eventually, your cup runs dry.

Ashly learned that boundaries can sound as simple as:

“That doesn’t work for me.”

You do not always need an excuse.

You do not need permission.

And you do not need to explain every decision.

Ashly believes self-trust develops through the small decisions we make every day.

Every time you make a healthy choice and honor it, you reinforce:

I can trust myself.

That confidence eventually carries into bigger decisions involving relationships, business, parenting, and purpose.

Self-care does not have to mean a spa day or an expensive vacation.

It might be:

A hot cup of coffee.

Prayer.

Worship music.

Journaling.

A walk outside.

Talking with trusted friends.

Taking a day off.

Or simply stopping long enough to breathe.

Ashly’s reminder is simple:

You can’t pour from an empty cup.

When you are depleted, everyone around you experiences that version of you too.

Stress makes reaction easy.

Ashly recommends something incredibly simple:

Breathe.

Slow down.

Reset your nervous system.

Then decide how you want to respond.

That small pause can change an entire conversation.

Ashly Balza’s seed is:

Find who you are. Find what you enjoy doing.

What lights you up?

What could you talk about for hours?

What makes you want to serve and help others?

Those answers may be pointing toward your purpose.

Know yourself.

Trust yourself.

Renew yourself.

And fill your own cup so you can show up fully for the people who matter most.

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Founder & CEO: Arise & Ascend Coaching

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What does it mean to survive history—and then spend the rest of your life making sure the next generation learns from it?

On this episode of Peace, Love, and Bring a Bat, Uncle Dave welcomes Sami Steigmann, Holocaust survivor, Israeli Air Force veteran, motivational speaker, educator, and advocate against Jew hatred.

Sami was born in 1939 and, as a young child, was deported with his family to a labor camp in the former Soviet Union. He later learned that he had been subjected to medical experimentation—something he says contributed to lifelong physical pain.

But Sami is very clear:

“I am not what happened to me.”

What defines him is what he does with his life now.

In this episode, you will discover:

• Why Sami believes Holocaust stories must continue to be told

Sami’s guiding philosophy is:

“I am not what happened to me.”

The Holocaust.

Homelessness.

Pain.

Loss.

Those experiences are part of his story, but they are not his identity.

His identity comes from what he chooses to do now.

That mission is captured in EMET, the Hebrew word for truth:

E — Educate

For Sami, tolerance does not mean accepting harmful behavior. It means respecting other people’s cultures and opinions while refusing to remain silent in the face of hatred.

Sami explains that Jewish life does not simply view the Holocaust as history.

The word Zachor means remember.

It means bringing the past into the present so future generations understand what happens when hatred grows without consequences.

His message is:

Learn what happened. Understand how it happened. Recognize the warning signs.

Sami uses a famous line about getting to Carnegie Hall:

Practice, practice, practice.

His answer to fighting ignorance is similar:

Education, education, education.

You cannot force someone to change.

But you may be able to change their perspective.

And to do that, you must know what you are talking about.

Sami also shares how becoming homeless forced him to examine his own decisions.

He had trusted the wrong people, given them cash, and failed to put agreements in writing.

Eventually, he stopped focusing only on what others had done and asked:

“What did I do that brought me here?”

That led him to two important lessons:

Forgive yourself.

And:

Be kind to yourself.

Learn from the mistake.

Then move forward.

Sami deliberately uses Jew hatred instead of anti-Semitism.

Why?

Because he believes the language should be direct and impossible to misunderstand.

Words shape perception.

Clear language creates clearer conversations.

Sami Steigmann’s seed is:

Don’t just exist. Live.

Talk.

Ask questions.

Educate yourself.

Stand up.

Become an upstander instead of a bystander.

Be proud of who you are.

And use your life to help create a more compassionate, loving world.

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What does “Never Forget” really mean 25 years after September 11, 2001?

On this episode of Peace, Love, and Bring a Bat, Uncle Dave welcomes Gary Marlon Gere, New York City playwright, actor, screenwriter, and civilian volunteer who spent seven months working at the World Trade Center site after 9/11.

Gary did not arrive as a firefighter, police officer, journalist, or photographer. Like thousands of others, he simply wanted to help. That decision placed him inside one of the most devastating chapters in American history—and ultimately changed the direction of his life.

In this episode, you will discover:

• Why Gary volunteered at Ground Zero

Gary says he was no different from countless people after the attacks.

Some donated supplies.

Some cooked meals.

Some supported firefighters.

Gary asked:

“How can I help?”

Through a friend in the fire department, he was eventually given the opportunity to work alongside recovery crews.

What began as volunteering became seven months of digging, searching, witnessing, listening, and learning.

Months after the attacks, Gary was granted access to PATH subway tunnels beneath the site.

He describes discovering a train frozen in time from the morning of September 11—newspapers, coffee cups, personal belongings, and signs that passengers had fled suddenly.

When Gary returned one night, a train he had previously walked through had been crushed by a structural collapse.

His reaction was immediate:

“If I was on that train, I’m dead.”

That was his final underground visit.

Gary explains that surviving Ground Zero emotionally often required shutting feelings down temporarily.

Later came PTSD treatment through Columbia University and the Mount Sinai World Trade Center program.

Gary says PTSD no longer controls his life.

But it does not simply disappear.

You learn how to coexist with it.

Gary kept extensive journals during his time at Ground Zero.

Those writings eventually inspired Recovery, his off-Broadway play centered on an FDNY lieutenant struggling with survivor’s guilt after losing his brother on 9/11.

The production incorporated actual clothing, helmets, and digging tools loaned by people who worked at Ground Zero.

For Gary, it was never simply theater.

It was preservation.

It was testimony.

It was memory brought back to life.

Gary is also developing Below Zero, a feature screenplay about a journalist who enters Ground Zero searching for the story of a lifetime, becomes trapped beneath the site, and suddenly becomes the story himself.

The fictional story grew from situations Gary personally witnessed and locations he explored.

Twenty-five years later, an entire generation knows September 11 primarily through history books, videos, and stories from others.

That makes firsthand testimony even more important.

Gary believes writers, survivors, recovery workers, families, and witnesses need to continue telling these stories.

Because Never Forget cannot simply be something we say once a year.

It requires remembering the people.

Remembering the sacrifice.

And remembering what happened.

Gary’s journey leaves us with a powerful message:

Show up. Tell the story. Keep the memory alive.

You may not consider yourself a hero.

You may simply believe you did what needed to be done.

But sometimes showing up when people need you most becomes part of history.

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What happens when your earliest memories are filled with abuse, fear, and survival—but you refuse to let those experiences write the ending of your story?

On this episode of Peace, Love, and Bring a Bat, Uncle Dave welcomes Joanna Pixley, mother of four, entrepreneur, former ministry leader, wellness coach, author, and speaker whose testimony is rooted in trauma, resilience, forgiveness, healing, and faith.

Joanna shares an intensely personal journey that began with severe childhood abuse and eventually led her through addiction, family estrangement, ministry, marriage, divorce, serious illness, single motherhood, homelessness, entrepreneurship, and a completely different understanding of God.

In this episode, you will discover:

• How childhood abuse shaped Joanna’s ability to trust

Joanna describes becoming emotionally numb as a child after years of violence and abuse.

She stopped trusting people.

She stopped trusting God.

Eventually, she says a spiritual experience forced her to confront questions she had spent years avoiding.

Days later, a sister she had barely spoken with invited her to church.

That decision became the beginning of a completely different life.

One of Joanna’s greatest battles was forgiving the stepfather she says caused enormous trauma in her childhood.

She did not pretend the abuse was acceptable.

She did not erase what happened.

Instead, she describes reaching a point where she could finally release the hatred she had carried.

As she prayed:

“I forgive him.”

Joanna says years of bitterness began giving way to something she had barely experienced before:

Joy.

Years later, a severe medical crisis sent Joanna into surgery without knowing whether she would survive.

She remembers praying:

“Whether I live or die, I belong to You.”

But she also asked for enough life to raise her children.

That moment gave Joanna another realization:

She had spent years surviving.

She had not truly been living.

So she made a decision:

Do it scared.

Face the fear.

Take the step.

Stop waiting for life to feel perfectly safe.

Marriage ended.

Ministry ended.

Financial security disappeared.

At one point Joanna says she was sleeping in her car while getting hotel rooms when her children were with her.

In one of her darkest seasons, she held onto a message she believed God gave her:

“Don’t forget in the dark what I told you in the light.”

She kept rebuilding.

Today, her children are grown, her health has dramatically changed from those crisis years, and Joanna is finally sharing the testimony she once wanted to keep private.

Joanna’s seed is about becoming the person you were created to be.

Your time is limited.

Your story matters.

The goal is not pretending your past never happened.

It is refusing to let the past keep you from becoming fully you.

Let the work happen.

Heal.

Forgive.

Grow.

And use the time you have.

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What happens when life takes away what you prayed hardest to keep—and then years later gives you a moment that feels impossible to explain?

On this episode of Peace, Love, and Bring a Bat, Uncle Dave welcomes Owen Wilson, New Zealand Air Force veteran, aircraft mechanic, pilot, husband, father, and man of deep faith.

Owen grew up in the Solomon Islands as the son and grandson of missionaries. His life has been shaped by faith from childhood—but also by devastating loss, answered prayers, miraculous timing, and one terrifying flight that could have ended very differently.

In this episode, you will discover:

• What it was like growing up in the Solomon Islands

Owen and his wife were expecting their first child when complications forced an emergency delivery.

Their premature son died shortly after birth.

Owen admits he was angry with God.

He questioned everything.

But eventually, he says he felt challenged to trust God even when the answer was not the one he wanted.

Years later, Owen and his wife became pregnant again.

Before the first scan, Owen told her:

“Don’t be surprised if it’s twins.”

It was.

Their twins arrived at 28 weeks and became what Owen calls miracle children.

A year later, Owen returned to Canada.

While driving the same road where he had once prayed desperately for a sign during his first child’s crisis, he again quietly prayed.

Then his father-in-law asked:

“Have you ever seen the Northern Lights?”

Owen looked outside.

The entire sky was alive.

For him, the message was unmistakable:

“I haven’t forgotten.”

Years later, Owen took his friend Grant for a flight in a small microlight aircraft.

The engine suddenly stopped.

They were over steep mountains and deep water with nowhere safe to land.

Owen told Grant:

“Pray hard, because we’re going down.”

The engine briefly restarted, giving them just enough altitude to clear a ridge.

Then it died again.

Directly below them was an airstrip Owen says he had never seen despite years of flying the area.

They landed safely.

Nearby stood a windmill with the words:

“Jesus Is Lord.”

Then they met a young couple named Truth and Grace.

Investigators later discovered the aircraft’s fuel gauge had been installed incorrectly.

The plane contained significantly less fuel than Owen believed.

He says if the engine had stopped only a little earlier—or later—they likely would have ended up in the ocean or mountains.

For Owen, the miracle was not simply finding land.

It was being in exactly the right place at exactly the right time.

Owen’s seed is:

Get to know your Maker before you desperately need Him.

Build the relationship now.

Talk.

Listen.

Trust.

Owen’s journey has taught him that God does not always answer the way we want.

But he believes:

God provides. God remembers. And God does not forget a promise.

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What if the hardest moments of your life became proof that hope can survive even when everything feels impossible?

On this episode of Peace, Love, and Bring a Bat, Uncle Dave welcomes Daniel Fazzina, author, radio host, publisher, and creator of the Divine Intervention book series.

A native Long Islander, Daniel grew up in the Lutheran church and made his faith personal as a teenager. Years later, that faith would be tested through chronic pain, a life-threatening cancer diagnosis, family hardship, and seasons when his world seemed to fall apart.

In this episode, you will discover:

• How Daniel’s faith became personal at age 14

At 27, Daniel was diagnosed with a massive tumor pressing against his pulmonary artery and restricting his oxygen.

He pursued medical treatment, but one night in the hospital he reached complete surrender.

His prayer became simple:

If You want to take me, I’ll go. If You want me to live, I’ll serve You.

Three months into treatment, Daniel says his follow-up scan showed the tumor was completely gone.

A cardiologist later told him there was no scar tissue left behind.

For Daniel, it became more than recovery.

It became a calling.

After returning to work, Daniel began sharing his story. Coworkers encouraged him to collect other extraordinary testimonies too.

That eventually became Divine Intervention: 50 True Stories of God’s Miracles Today, featuring stories of healing, near-death experiences, conversions, answered prayer, and other remarkable events.

Daniel says he included scans, medical records, and other documentation where possible—not to force belief, but to invite people to consider what happened.

Daniel emphasizes that faith does not make anyone immune to pain.

His life continued to include divorce, family struggles, caring for his father through cancer, and rebuilding after major personal loss.

Sometimes the miracle is healing.

Sometimes it is finding enough strength to keep moving.

Daniel also shares how the Power of Testimony event on Long Island came together, bringing people from his book together to tell their stories live.

The purpose:

Encourage believers.

Challenge skeptics.

Give people hope.

Daniel’s seed is:

Ask God if He is real.

Be open.

Ask honestly.

Pay attention.

Daniel believes God knows how to meet people personally. You may not receive the answer you expect—but the first step is being willing to ask.

Book: Divine Intervention: 50 True Stories of God’s Miracles Today

Look for Daniel’s Divine Intervention radio show, books, and Power of Testimony events.

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What happens when your heart stops, doctors pronounce you dead—and somehow your story is not over?

On this episode of Peace, Love, and Bring a Bat, Uncle Dave welcomes Jeff Markin, whose extraordinary testimony begins with a massive heart attack and a medical crisis that completely changed the direction of his life.

Jeff grew up on Long Island with faith mostly limited to Christmas and Easter. He faced learning challenges, family trauma, the loss of his father, business pressures, divorce, and years of putting work ahead of almost everything else.

Then, on September 20, 2006, everything changed.

In this episode, you will discover:

• Why Jeff struggled with faith growing up

Jeff collapsed after walking into the emergency room.

Medical personnel worked to revive him for more than 20 minutes. His body had become cyanotic, and he says he was eventually pronounced clinically dead.

Dr. Crandall left the room—but Jeff recounts that the doctor felt compelled by the Holy Spirit to return and pray for him.

After the prayer, the medical team shocked Jeff one more time.

A heartbeat returned.

Jeff later underwent stents and quadruple bypass surgery.

When Jeff woke four days later, he had no idea what had happened.

Over time, he began hearing the story of the emergency room and asking deeper questions.

Why was he still alive?

Why him?

Who was Jesus?

What did faith actually mean?

Jeff says it took nearly two years of church, Bible study, men’s groups, retreats, questions, and learning before he truly developed the relationship with Christ he had never known.

For Jeff, that became the greater miracle.

Years later, Jeff met his wife Tricia through Bible study.

Then came an astonishing discovery.

Tricia had been working as a nurse at Palm Beach Gardens Hospital the morning Jeff died.

Whenever the emergency alarm sounded, she and her coworkers stopped and prayed for the patient.

She had prayed for Jeff years before she ever knew his name.

Jeff’s faith did not remove every tragedy.

Years later, his four-year-old granddaughter Emmy died from brain cancer.

Jeff describes moments like these as storms that force us to decide where our anchor is.

For him, that anchor is Jesus Christ.

Faith does not always explain why something happened.

Sometimes it gives you the strength to keep walking when there is no explanation.

Jeff’s seed is simple:

Don’t wait until your deathbed. Start now.

Find a community.

Ask questions.

Read.

Learn.

Show up.

Build the relationship before the crisis arrives.

You do not have to understand everything on day one.

You simply have to begin.

Jeff’s testimony is also featured in Angel Studios’ Miracle, Episode 8.

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What happens when everything you were taught to believe collides with an experience of unconditional love?

On this episode of Peace, Love, and Bring a Bat, Uncle Dave welcomes Kamal Saleem, author, speaker, president of Koome Ministries, and former Muslim who shares an extraordinary personal testimony of radicalization, violence, faith, transformation, and reconciliation.

Kamal describes growing up in a Sunni Muslim family in the Middle East, being recruited into extremist activity as a child, and eventually coming to America with beliefs centered on conflict and ideological warfare.

But a catastrophic car accident—and the unexpected compassion of strangers—challenged everything he thought he knew.

In this episode, you will discover:

• Kamal’s distinction between everyday Muslims and extremist ideology

After being seriously injured in a car accident, Kamal says he expected Christians and Jews to hate him.

Instead, people cared for him.

A surgeon brought him into his home.

Families prayed for him.

People helped with his medical and financial needs.

They even helped him replace his car.

Kamal describes this as the moment his worldview began to break apart.

He had been prepared to fight hatred.

He was not prepared for unconditional love.

One of the most important distinctions in the conversation is between individual Muslim people and extremist interpretations of Islam.

Kamal repeatedly emphasizes his love for Muslim people today.

His mission is not simply to criticize what he once believed—it is to reach people he believes may be trapped in fear, extremism, or oppression and show them another path.

His message:

Love people enough to see them as people first.

Kamal shares a deeply personal Christian conversion testimony, including what he describes as a spiritual encounter after reaching a point of despair.

The transformation changed the direction of his life.

He says:

“I don’t want to take life. I want to give life.”

The warrior mentality that once defined him became a mission centered on teaching, testimony, outreach, and reconciliation.

Uncle Dave and Kamal discuss their different religious backgrounds—Jewish and Christian—and the shared connection to Abraham.

Rather than using those differences as weapons, they ask a larger question:

How can the children of Abraham sit at the same table?

For Kamal, peace requires honesty about extremism while still refusing to dehumanize entire communities.

Kamal’s seed is ultimately about unconditional love.

People may carry different religions, histories, cultures, wounds, and political beliefs.

But hatred does not have to be the final chapter.

Show people who you are through your actions.

Choose life.

Choose compassion.

Build bridges where others expect walls.

And become a light strong enough to help someone else find their way out of darkness.

Koome Ministries:

Books include:

The Blood of Lambs

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What if the goal isn’t to eliminate stress—but to learn how to work with it?

On this episode of Peace, Love, and Bring a Bat, Uncle Dave welcomes John Hollway, senior advisor at the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and senior fellow at Penn’s Positive Psychology Center.

John works at the intersection of law, criminal justice reform, psychology, resilience, and human performance. His work examines how individuals and organizations can learn from tragedy without immediately falling into blame.

In this episode, you will discover:

• What positive psychology actually means

John uses a Peanuts image to explain toxic positivity:

A smile makes a lousy umbrella.

If it is raining, pretending everything is wonderful does not make the storm disappear.

Positive psychology is not about ignoring adversity.

It is about developing tools, relationships, meaning, purpose, and resilience that help us navigate difficult circumstances without pretending they do not hurt.

When something unexpected happens, our bodies can quickly shift into threat mode.

John’s first tool is simple:

Breathe.

Slow down.

Make your exhale longer than your inhale.

That physical act can help communicate safety to your nervous system and create enough space to think clearly again.

You cannot always control what happens.

But you can create a pause before deciding what happens next.

John’s criminal justice work includes sentinel event reviews—examining tragedies such as wrongful convictions, officer-involved shootings, or deaths in custody.

Instead of beginning with:

“Whose fault is this?”

The process asks:

“Nobody wanted this outcome. So how did it happen anyway?”

That change creates room for honesty, learning, and system improvement.

John compares it to football teams reviewing film after an interception.

The goal is not simply to blame the quarterback.

Study the entire play.

Understand what everyone saw.

Then design a better response for next time.

Wrongful convictions have taught John an important lesson about certainty.

Jurors can sincerely believe they reached the correct decision based on the information available—and later discover new evidence that changes everything.

That reality requires intellectual humility.

Be confident enough to act.

But humble enough to admit:

I may not have the whole picture.

John discusses fundamental attribution error.

When we make a mistake, we usually have an explanation.

When someone else makes one, we may decide they are careless, lazy, stupid, or malicious.

Instead, ask:

Why might this make sense from their perspective?

Understanding does not require agreement.

It creates the possibility of solving a problem together.

John’s seed is:

Create more space before you dehumanize someone who sees the world differently.

Take a breath.

Ask why.

Listen to their reasoning.

Most people believe they are trying to make life better for the people they care about—even when their approach differs dramatically from yours.

Before jumping immediately to blame, see whether curiosity can move the conversation forward.

Find John Hollway through the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice.

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What if the hardest part of reaching a goal isn’t crossing the finish line—but convincing yourself to start?

On this episode of Peace, Love, and Bring a Bat, Uncle Dave welcomes William Thomas, executive coach, leadership educator, retired U.S. Air Force officer, author, and marathon runner based in Singapore.

William spent 21 years in the Air Force before moving into higher education, corporate leadership, coaching, and entrepreneurship. At 42, he ran his first marathon thinking it would be a one-time bucket-list accomplishment.

Nearly 50 marathons later, running has taken him across 17 countries, all seven continents, the North Pole, and even the Mount Everest Marathon.

In this episode, you will discover:

• Why William started running at 42

William Thomas learned one of his most useful life lessons through marathon running:

Run the mile you’re in.

If you are at mile four, worrying about mile 25 will not help you.

You need to handle what is directly in front of you.

The same applies to business, relationships, career transitions, and personal growth.

Know where you ultimately want to go—but focus your energy on the next step.

William learned another lesson the hard way during the Berlin Marathon.

He started too quickly.

By 16 kilometers, his legs were already giving out.

The experience taught him that excitement can cause us to burn energy too early.

Whether you are starting a business, taking on a new leadership role, or chasing a personal goal, pace matters.

You need enough left in the tank for the difficult miles ahead.

The Mount Everest Marathon became the most physically difficult challenge William had ever attempted.

He completed it in more than 14 hours, finishing the final portion in darkness.

And he finished last.

But that produced one of his most powerful lessons:

The last-place finisher is still a finisher.

William was not there to win.

He was there to complete what he started.

Success depends on knowing what your real goal is.

William believes people spend enormous energy thinking about the finish line.

But often the most difficult line to cross is the first one.

Getting off the couch.

Starting the business.

Applying for the job.

Taking the class.

Making the change.

Once you begin, you can learn, adjust, and grow along the way.

William Thomas’s seed is:

Don’t hold yourself back.

He did not begin running until he was 42.

Today, marathon running is part of his identity.

His reminder is that just because you cannot do something today does not mean you can never do it.

There are already enough people and circumstances in life capable of holding you back.

Don’t be one of them.

Connect with William Thomas, PhD on LinkedIn.

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