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Randy Hain has mentored hundreds of leaders. He's been doing it for over a decade. And he'll tell you straight up - most mentorship is broken.
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Seamus Harvey is back with the BeatiDudes for the Friday bonus episode, and this one hits differently.
The round-robin questions start fun (would you fix all your mistakes or take a million bucks right now?) and quickly go somewhere real. The guys talk about some of their greatest mistakes in life. A security vest stolen in college. A night that ended in handcuffs. A close call with firecrackers in 8th grade. Seamus Harvey joins Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein -- each bringing something personal to the table. The conversation turns toward the grace hidden inside the worst moments. The mistakes you'd most want to erase are sometimes the ones most worth keeping and learning from.
Then they close with prayer intentions. A baby who won't survive long after birth. A young man diagnosed with stage two brain cancer right after becoming Catholic, getting married, and buying a house. A freak accident at a track meet that has a family holding their breath.
Short episode. But the kind that stays with you.
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70 million views. Playing 6 different characters. On a fake Zoom call. About nothing.
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Peter Cooney came back for the Friday episode. And it got personal fast.
His youngest brother Christopher has Down syndrome. His oldest sister is a Dominican sister. And somewhere in between, Peter and his brother Thomas found time to build one of the most talked-about Catholic tech startups of the year.
Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein go deeper with Peter on the stuff that doesn't make it into the pitch — what it's actually like growing up in a family shaped by a sibling with Down syndrome, the dinner table tradition Christopher refuses to skip, and why Peter says Christopher has been one of the best things to ever happen to his family.
Also: Christopher once told his dad his guardian angel personally gave him permission to eat ice cream at 6am. That story alone is worth the watch.
This one is funny. This one is real. This one will make you think about your family differently.
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A team of moral philosophers is deciding what your kids believe about gender, identity, and right and wrong. You didn't vote on it. Your kids didn't either. They're just online, asking questions, and getting answers shaped by people in Silicon Valley who don't share your values.
Peter Cooney noticed. And then he did something about it.
He's a college junior. He and his brother started building Acutis AI in December — a Catholic-values-based AI platform with parental controls and answers rooted in Church teaching, not groupthink. By April, the Cooney brothers appeared on Fox News.
Jeff Schiefelbein, Paul Kolker, and Nick Bezner sit down with Peter to talk about what it actually takes to build something from nothing while you're still in school, why the AI conversation is a parenting crisis hiding in plain sight, and what happens when your faith is the product.
If you're a parent, this is the conversation you didn't know you needed to hear.
If you've had an idea sitting in the back of your head for two years, this one might be the push.
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Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers – known around the world as the “Dynamic Deacon” – is one of the most sought-after speakers in the Church today. He is a powerful and passionate evangelist and preacher whose no-nonsense approach to living and proclaiming the Catholic faith will challenge and inspire those who hear him.
Deacon’s newest book, Building a Civilization of Love – A Catholic Response to Racism, dives deep into the void in our culture today that is being filled by people using racism as a vehicle to push a different agenda. The conversation starts with an academic separation of prejudice and racism and a review of slavery in the scriptures. Deacon goes on to highlight that the only antidote to racism is Jesus.
In addition to appearing on The BeatiDudes, Deacon Harold also travels across the United States and around the world, speaking to everyone who desires to know Jesus intimately and enjoy a deeper personal relationship with Him. His areas of expertise include marriage and family life, discerning the will of God, the sacraments, male spirituality, evangelization, prayer, and many others.
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Fr. Zach Burns joins The BeatiDudes for a hilarious and deeply moving conversation that starts with red beards, Franciscan height rankings, and the possibility that Fr. Zach may be the tallest friar in the world. Fr. Zach shares about growing up in a faithful Catholic family where Mass was non-negotiable, even if deep catechesis and prayer were not fully part of the family rhythm. With Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein guiding the conversation around the Tiny Table, the episode quickly becomes a story about the seeds of faith, family formation, athletic identity, and the surprising ways God prepares a vocation long before a person recognizes it.
Fr. Zach then walks The BeatiDudes through his path from college athlete and aspiring teacher to a young man feeling like everything in life had fallen apart. After a disappointing athletic career, a painful breakup, difficulty landing a teaching job, and a stretch of weekend partying, he found himself spiritually exhausted and wondering what his life was really about. Then, in a moment sparked by a text about Pope Benedict’s resignation, Fr. Zach began asking whether holiness was something he could actually train for. His athlete’s mindset turned into a grace-filled opening: “I’m not holy, but I could be.”
What follows is a powerful vocation story rooted in the Lord’s mercy. Fr. Zach describes sensing God telling him that he was not seen as a failure and that God had something for him. The next morning, he woke up with a surprising clarity that he was going to become a Franciscan friar. From there, the doors seemed to open through spiritual direction, a return to Mass, the example of joyful friars, his parents’ unexpected encouragement, and a first experience of Eucharistic adoration that helped him truly pray for the first time. It is a funny, honest, and hope-filled reminder that God can turn perceived failure into a path of holiness, purpose, and joy.
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Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow is back with the BeatiDudes to share the story behind Lettie, a new documentary from Mary’s Meals that follows one young woman whose life was transformed through the simple gift of a daily meal at school. Magnus reflects on the danger of letting a mission as large as Mary’s Meals become only about numbers, targets, and scale, when the heart of the work is always the life of an individual child. Letty was first encountered in Malawi as a 12-year-old orphan caring for her younger brothers in heartbreaking poverty. Years later, after being enrolled in a school served by Mary’s Meals, she became an excellent student, went on to college, and now works for Mary’s Meals as a gifted communicator and leader.
The conversation also explores how the documentary gives Lettie the agency to tell her own story, including her first trip outside Malawi to Medjugorje, where she speaks to a massive youth festival about her life, her faith, and the impact of Mary’s Meals. Magnus describes Lettie as one of many young people in “Generation Hope,” the thousands of former Mary’s Meals recipients who are now working, leading, starting businesses, and giving back. For Magnus, the story of Lettie is evidence that this work is not merely a feeding program, but a work of love rooted in relationship, dignity, and hope.
Along with Magnus, Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein also talk about the power of films and storytelling to bring people together, especially in parishes, schools, and youth groups, where shared experiences can lead to deeper conversation, prayer, and action. With plenty of Scottish accents, St. Ann parish jokes, Loch Ness monster stories, and Tiny Table chaos, the episode invites listeners to visit marysmealsusa.org, watch the trailer, host a screening, and help bring daily meals and lasting hope to more children around the world.
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Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow joins The BeatiDudes to share the extraordinary story of Mary’s Meals. This global movement began with two brothers, a pint of beer, and a desire to help those suffering during the war in Bosnia. What started as a single aid delivery from Scotland eventually grew into an international mission that feeds more than 3 million children every school day in 16 countries. Magnus explains how the work was never really his “plan,” but a gift from God that he is still unwrapping more than 30 years later.
In this conversation with Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein, Magnus reflects on the founding principles of Mary’s Meals: local ownership, buying food locally when possible, and entrusting the work to Mary, the mother of Jesus. He shares the story of Edward, a 14-year-old boy in Malawi whose only hopes were to have enough food to eat and to go to school one day. That simple statement helped ignite the vision behind Mary’s Meals: one daily meal in a place of education, meeting both an immediate need for food and a long-term need for hope.
The episode also explores prayer, providence, family vocation, humility, and the strange experience of receiving public recognition for hidden acts of service. From the famous “shed” that still serves as the symbolic headquarters of Mary’s Meals to the miraculous £4,200 check that arrived at exactly the right moment, Magnus reminds listeners that God’s work often begins in small, ordinary acts of generosity. The BeatiDudes challenge listeners not just to be inspired, but to do something: pray, give, share the story, and help feed the next child waiting for hope.
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Silas Mahner returns to the Tiny Table with the BeatiDudes for a lively Friday conversation full of big laughs, surprisingly deep questions, and a few strong breakfast-food opinions. Silas joins Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein as they trade updates on what they are excited about right now, from family milestones and comedy work with the Texas Rangers to Jeff’s upcoming trip to the Fearless Congress in Guadalajara. Silas also shares the joyful news that he and his wife are expecting their second child, which naturally leads the table into jokes about family size, “family buffering,” and the dangers of looking up obscure pregnancy facts.
The conversation takes a meaningful turn when Jeff asks everyone to name two specific things they hope people say at their funeral. The answers reveal the heart behind the humor: a desire to be remembered for great faith, loving God with everything, being pro-life for all of life, bringing others closer to God, and leaving nothing in reserve. From there, the group reflects on defining life moments, including apparent failures, unexpected providence, consequences that became graces, and the mysterious way God prepares the future long before we can see it. Silas shares how a chain of unlikely events led from Wisconsin to New York City, then to meeting and marrying his wife from Uganda, giving him a deeper trust that God is always arranging what we cannot yet understand.
The episode wraps with a lighter round on favorite breakfast foods, including biscuits and gravy, breakfast burritos, chocolate croissants, crispy bacon, over-medium eggs, and hash browns. Somewhere between funeral virtues and breakfast tacos, the BeatiDudes find the sweet spot of this Friday format: friendship, faith, absurdity, and the reminder that God is at work in both the major pivots and the small, hilarious details of life.
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