Seemingly Ordinary

Matthew Newkirk is a sophomore at Mizzou. He is also going into a really tough field: journalism. With newsrooms shrinking, how can a student get ahead? Matthew is doing everything possible.

Erin Forbes is the author of "The Elementals," "The Lost Dreamer," and "The Kindred Woods," available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and everywhere books are sold. It’s an epic fantasy trilogy, and the covers are gorgeous. Erin is also a graphic designer, and gives advice to aspiring authors on Instagram.

One other cool thing: she finished her first novel when she was 16!

(This episode was recorded in July 2021.)

Christy Dalke is a psychologist who works for the Veterans’ Administration. She knows a lot about PTSD, Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, Skills Training in Affect and Interpersonal Regulation (STAIR) Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE). 

We start with a story that hit a little too close to home for her.

(This episode was recorded on July 25, 2021.)

Wilder than the Wild West.

Reed Wilkinson, 22, is a deep thinker who just passed the LSAT. In this wide ranging episode, we discuss life's ultimate questions, including: Is there a God? If so, why does God allow evil to proliferate? And what is driving the rampant anxiety that many people under 25 suffer from, today? We discuss these questions, and more, through the lens of books like "Man's Search for Meaning," "The Coddling of the American Mind," "The Law of Self-Defense," "The Case for Faith," and novels like "Notes from Underground," "Crime and Punishment," and "The Alchemist." And we tell personal stories.

Note: I mark this episode explicit because, when discussing life's biggest questions, we touch on the worst events of the 20th Century, like the Holocaust and the gulags.

(This episode was recorded on Feb. 3, 2022.)

Zoe Schierts has one of the most inspiring stories you can imagine--and despite all of the hardships she has had to work through, her attitude a blend of optimism and realism that has to be heard to be believed. But once you understand this heartening young woman's philosophy of life, you'll want to enact, too, and get Zoe's outsized results, generosity, and happiness.

Jaime Cailteux reflects on a lifetime of nursing and its best moments, and how family changes everything.

The 1930s through the 1950s were a different world. Travel back in time to see what it was like, growing up in two big families of eight kids each. This episode features my parents, Bill & Colleen Wuebker.

Molly, Abby, and I got caught up on December 20, 2021. With these two bright, philosophical, and deeply Christian ladies, it's always a mystical ride. Both ladies demonstrate what it means to try to figure out what life is all about, and to live with the highest ethics possible.

Dave Ramsey is controversial for some, but Tracy Gay and her family loves his philosophy, and they credit him with turning themselves completely around! Her inspiring story is the fusion of entertainment and inspiration.