The Elisha Show: Purpose Driven Life & Mastery

What happened when rebellion first entered heaven, and what can the story of the angels teach us about spiritual warfare today? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Rick Norris about his faith journey, Bible teaching, musical novels, angelic warfare, human struggles, and the unseen battle for the soul.

✅ How Rick’s childhood experience with his father’s departure introduced him to faith and shaped his journey

✅ What inspired Rick to create the musical novel, a unique combination of storytelling, music, and interactive technology

✅ How his Angelic Wars trilogy explores Lucifer’s rebellion, the angels, and the spiritual battle surrounding humanity

✅ Why Rick combines his Bible teaching with fiction while using Scripture throughout his stories and songs

✅ How teaching the Bible to people around the world, including communities in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Uganda, has shaped his understanding of faith

✅ Why spiritual warfare can be misunderstood when we focus only on what we can see and experience with our physical senses

✅ How pride, temptation, rationalization, and human choices can become part of the spiritual battle within us

✅ What writing about angels, human emotions, and spiritual conflict has taught Rick about God and even about himself

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What happens when life changes in an instant and the future you imagined no longer looks possible? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Ayis Caperonis about surviving a life threatening medical emergency, living through years of depression, faith, family, resilience, and finding light in the darkest seasons of life.

✅ How a childhood brain tumor and emergency surgery changed the direction of Ayis’s life

✅ The devastating impact of losing his motor skills and returning to a life that suddenly looked completely different

✅ How working alongside children with disabilities became a turning point that inspired Ayis to keep fighting

✅ Why pity from others can sometimes make depression harder and what people can do instead to support someone who is struggling

✅ How Ayis’s journey through twenty years of clinical depression eventually led him to a different understanding of his goals and purpose

✅ The role his wife, children, faith, friends, music, sleep, food, and other sources of support played in his journey

✅ The story of how Ayis met his wife online and why he believes God’s timing played a major role in their relationship

✅ Why he wrote Staring Down Depression and how sharing stories of people who overcame difficult circumstances can help someone begin to see light again

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Why can weight loss feel harder after 30, and what if sustainable transformation is about much more than becoming smaller? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Ashley Perry Lambert about women’s health, strength training, nutrition, faith, identity, and creating a healthier life that supports your purpose.

✅ Why weight loss can become more challenging after 30 and why building and preserving muscle matters

✅ Why Ashley believes fitness should fit into your life rather than take you away from it

✅ How faith can anchor your identity beyond your appearance, weight, or physical body

✅ The biggest mindset, nutrition, and training mistakes women over 30 can make when trying to lose body fat

✅ Why Ashley encourages women to work with their bodies instead of constantly fighting against them

✅ How customized, practical workouts can help busy mothers, wives, and entrepreneurs make progress with limited time

✅ Why gratitude, scripture, mobility, and intentional preparation are part of Ashley’s approach to fitness

✅ What to measure when you feel like you are doing everything right but still aren’t seeing results

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What if the ordinary moments of parenting could become some of your child’s most treasured memories? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Craig Parks about parenting, connection, autism, creating meaningful childhood memories, and using what parents already have to build deeper relationships with their children.

✅ How raising a son on the autism spectrum transformed Craig’s understanding of love, connection, and parenting

✅ Why children need to feel seen, understood, and connected, and how parents can create that through everyday moments

✅ How using your body, voice, facial expressions, and physical touch can make simple activities more engaging and memorable

✅ What Parenting A to E teaches parents about affect, music, games, rituals, and creating joyful childhood experiences

✅ Why music and repeated rituals can turn ordinary moments into lifelong memories

✅ The story behind Parks Party Central, the family variety show Craig created with his young daughter during the pandemic

✅ How parents can create screen free fun and connection without spending money or planning elaborate activities

✅ The powerful parenting lesson Craig learned from a stranger before his son was born

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What can a cancer diagnosis teach us about the value of time, relationships, and everyday life? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Andy Nelson about surviving cancer, faith, gratitude, leadership, clarity, and using difficult experiences to help others live with greater perspective.

✅ How a stage four cancer diagnosis changed Andy’s perspective on time, energy, and relationships

✅ Why he describes clarity as a light that can guide you when the path ahead is uncertain

✅ How faith and years of silent retreats helped Andy navigate his cancer journey

✅ Why every person alive today can consider themselves a survivor of everything they have already been through

✅ How gratitude can be found in both major life moments and the smallest details of everyday life

✅ Why asking how important a problem will be years from now can help leaders gain perspective

✅ How Andy uses his experiences to help leaders identify what truly matters and focus on meaningful goals

✅ Why giving yourself grace and gratitude can help you extend the same to the people around you

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What happens when mothers spend so much time caring for everyone else that they forget to care for themselves? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Tammy Powder about motherhood, self-care, asking for help, shame, compassion, and why caring for yourself can strengthen the people you love.

✅ Why mothers often put everyone else’s needs ahead of their own

✅ The “red juice” analogy and how accumulated stress can eventually spill over onto everyone around you

✅ Why asking for help can feel like failure and how mothers can begin to see support differently

✅ The “ladder” analogy for supporting loved ones without trying to climb the ladder for them

✅ How connection, listening, and simply being a light can help mothers feel less isolated

✅ Why mothers should stop viewing their entire past through the small “rearview mirror” of their mistakes

✅ How self-forgiveness and compassion can help ease guilt and create room to do better

✅ The powerful reminder that every mother is doing motherhood for the first time and deserves the same compassion she gives to others

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What happens when the things God gave you begin to control you instead of serving their purpose? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha explores stewardship, identity, possessions, and what changes when we understand that God is King and everything we have is entrusted to us for His purposes.

✅ Why recognizing God as King changes the way we view everything we have

✅ How money, possessions, careers, abilities, and influence can become masters instead of resources

✅ The childhood experience that taught Amb. Elisha that he owns nothing and is only a steward of God’s resources

✅ How giving away his bicycle after the Holy Spirit’s instruction led to an unexpected opportunity to learn how to drive

✅ Why we should ask, “What did God give this to me for?” instead of only asking, “What can this do for me?”

✅ How stewardship changes the way we view our money, homes, abilities, influence, and possessions

✅ Why you can enjoy what God has given you without allowing it to become your identity or enslave you

✅ Why knowledge only becomes wisdom when you learn how to apply what you have learned

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Can you really buy a business without having millions of dollars, perfect credit, or years of experience? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Curtis Brown about creative business acquisition, leveraging relationships, ownership, mindset, and finding opportunities where others see limitations.

✅ How Curtis went from driving a taxi to becoming a real estate broker and business owner

✅ The creative financing strategy he used to acquire a $3 million self-storage business

✅ How he leveraged an experienced employee to solve the experience and credit challenge

✅ Why competitors can sometimes become strategic allies instead of obstacles

✅ How existing businesses can grow by acquiring businesses that serve the same customers

✅ Why ownership and operations are two different roles

✅ How to approach business opportunities when you lack money, credit, or experience

✅ Why Curtis believes changing your identity and mindset can change the way you approach success

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What happens when reaching the top leaves you feeling empty? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with James Miller II about the loneliness of leadership, identity, failure, rest, faith, and learning to lead without losing yourself.

✅ Why success and leadership can sometimes create unexpected loneliness

✅ How leaders can lose their personal identity behind their professional roles

✅ What failure, bankruptcy, and divorce taught James about leadership and vulnerability

✅ The powerful lesson James learned when his daughter simply wanted his attention

✅ The 5R Framework: Reflect, Reconnect, Replenish, Reframe, and Rebuild

✅ Why rest should be treated as a strategy rather than a weakness

✅ How stepping away from work can help leaders reconnect with themselves, nature, and their Creator

✅ Why leading with faith requires learning to loosen your grip and recognize you cannot carry everything alone

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What if understanding how people think could transform the way we communicate and relate to one another? In this episode of The Elisha Show, Amb. Elisha speaks with Sheila N. Glazov about brain colors, personality, communication, relationships, and the importance of understanding ourselves and others.

✅ What the “brain bow” means and how the four brain colors work together

✅ How understanding different personality styles can improve communication

✅ What inspired Sheila to create What Color Is Your Brain?

✅ Why curiosity and self-awareness can help us understand ourselves better

✅ The “Wet Paint” approach and how giving people space can prevent unnecessary conflict

✅ Why soulmates can sometimes become “cellmates” and how understanding differences can help relationships

✅ How Sheila uses brain colors when coaching individuals, teams, and organizations

✅ How her approach can help children build self-esteem and understand their differences

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