The Mentally Shredded Show

Sometimes the strongest thing you can do is keep going. If today feels heavy, this is your reminder that your story isn't over, your dreams still matter, and better days are still ahead.

Take a deep breath.

One step at a time. Keep believing. 🤍

This is our new motivational episode. Each episode takes the words of our guests and turns them into motivation that will uplift you and remind you that you are enough!

Some losses change the entire direction of your life. They force you to confront the pain you have been avoiding and invite you to rebuild yourself with honesty, intention, and courage. In this powerful conversation, Christopher Whedon sits down with John Kammer to explore how grief can become a catalyst for healing and purpose.

This episode is for anyone carrying the weight of loss, anyone searching for structure in their healing journey, and anyone curious about how technology can support emotional resilience in a deeply human way.

John Kammer is the founder of Guardian Angel, an AI-powered grief journaling platform created from his own experiences with profound loss. His work blends personal healing, mental health collaboration, and responsible technology design to help people begin processing grief in a safe and structured way.

🔹 Key Takeaways

🔹 How losing three close friends pushed John toward building a grief-focused platform

🔹 Why avoidance, drinking, and emotional shutdown often mask deeper pain

🔹 How Guardian Angel evolved from comforting messages to an authentic grief journaling companion

🔹 Why Worden’s Four Tasks of Mourning became the backbone of the platform

🔹 How sharing memories and telling the story of the person you lost can support emotional healing

If this episode resonates with you, share it with someone who may need encouragement today. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and help us continue spreading conversations that support mental health, personal growth, and emotional resilience.

🔗 Guest Website: https://guardianaingels.ai/

🔗 Guest Instagram: @guardian_aingels

Some stories shake you awake because they reveal how quickly life can unravel and how powerfully it can be rebuilt. This conversation invites listeners into a journey marked by health challenges, binge drinking, and a moment that changed everything. It is a raw and inspiring look at what happens when you reach the end of yourself and discover that surrender can become the beginning of healing. Sara’s story reminds us that recovery is not only about breaking harmful patterns. It is about rediscovering purpose, rebuilding identity, and choosing emotional resilience one honest step at a time. Today’s guest, Sara Kelsey, is a woman whose life reflects courage, faith, and the determination to rise after profound setbacks. Her experiences with sobriety, chronic illness, and rebuilding after loss have shaped her into a voice of hope for anyone navigating personal growth or spiritual renewal.🔹 Key Takeaways

🔹 How a health crisis and a drunk-driving incident became turning points that reshaped Sara’s future

🔹 Why community support and faith practices can anchor emotional resilience during recovery

🔹 How journaling, exercise, and healthier relationships helped Sara rebuild her mindset

🔹 What living with gastroparesis and a permanent feeding tube taught her about surrender and strength

🔹 Why recovery is not only about stopping a destructive habit but about creating a new life rooted in purpose If this episode encourages you, share it with someone who needs a reminder that healing is possible. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and help us continue spreading conversations that support mental health, personal growth, and holistic wellness.🔗 Guest Website: SaraKelsey.com🔗 Guest Instagram: @sarafitover40🎧 New episodes drop every Wednesday. Subscribe and stay connected.

Some people stop the moment life gets heavy, but others choose to rise. This episode is a raw and powerful look at what happens when pain becomes purpose and faith becomes fuel. If you have ever felt held back by your own doubts or wondered how to keep moving when your body hurts and your mind wants to quit, this conversation will speak directly to your season. It is an invitation to rethink resilience, redefine discipline, and remember that your next step might be the one that changes everything.

Today’s guest, Chris Avery, is a husband, father, and endurance athlete who has transformed struggle into a mission. His journey includes a running streak of more than fourteen hundred days and a bold plan to run the entire perimeter of the United States with his family beside him.

🔹 Key Takeaways

🔹 How a single mile became the beginning of a multi year calling rooted in faith and identity

🔹 The think, say, act framework Chris uses to break mental barriers and stay in motion

🔹 Why drive, determination, and dedication must come before discipline

🔹 How running became a spiritual practice that shaped prayer, trust, and emotional resilience

🔹 Why suffering and setbacks can become fuel for purpose instead of proof of failure

If this episode inspires you, share it with someone who needs a reminder that growth often begins in the hardest seasons. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and help us spread conversations that support mental health, personal growth, and holistic wellness.

🔗 Guest Instagram: @chrisaverycoaching

Some journeys begin with a whisper, but others start with a breaking point, the moment you realize the pain you’ve been carrying is no longer sustainable. In this powerful conversation, we explore what it looks like to rise from addiction, abuse, shame, and survival mode and step into a life built on worth, healing, and conscious transformation. This episode is an invitation to anyone who has ever felt stuck, small, or disconnected from their own value. It’s a reminder that even the most imperfect step forward can become the beginning of a completely new chapter.

Today’s guest, Deborah Yager, is a transformational coach and trainer who rebuilt her life from the ground up. Her work blends personal development, conscious language, belief systems, and spiritual intuition to help people reclaim their identity and step into emotional resilience.🔹 Key Takeaways

🔹 How hitting a crisis point can become the catalyst for healing, clarity, and self-worth🔹 Why doing things imperfectly is often the most powerful way to begin personal growth🔹 How shame, old patterns, and fear can be released through conscious language and belief work🔹 The role of spirituality, intuition, and compassion across different faiths in emotional healing🔹 Why protecting your mental and emotional consumption is essential for long-term wellness

If this episode speaks to you, share it with someone who needs encouragement today. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and help us spread conversations that support mental health, personal growth, and emotional resilience.

🔗 Guest Instagram: @deborahyager

🔗 Guest Business Instagram: @yourtruealchemy🔗 Guest YouTube: @yourtruealchemy

Your mindset, language, and self-talk may be the hidden ceiling keeping you from more money, better relationships, and real freedom.

Brandon Yager reveals how he went from watching his father lose job security to building a life around entrepreneurship, NLP, and the kind of emotional resilience most people never learn. Brandon’s story is a wake-up call for anyone who feels stuck repeating the same year over and over. He shares how early lessons from his grandfather, hours of daily cassettes and business articles, and a brutal real estate setback shaped the way he thinks about success, discipline, and identity. But this conversation goes far beyond motivation—it gets into the exact mental patterns that keep people working harder without getting ahead.

You'll discover:

🔹 Why “away from” motivation keeps people trapped in fear, and how “toward” motivation changes everything

🔹 The difference between making money and actually keeping it

🔹 How limiting beliefs create a glass ceiling in business, health, and relationships

🔹 Why your self-talk may be sabotaging your results before your strategy ever gets a chance

🔹 How NLP, hypnosis, and breathwork can help rewire the subconscious patterns running your life

Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it.

Connect with Brandon:

Instagram: @brandon.yager

Brandon's YouTube Channel: ⁠@yourtruealchemy

What happens when the identity you spent your entire lifebuilding suddenly disappears? And what if the next version of you can only emerge when you stop running from the things you have been avoiding?

Former professional footballer Matt Young knows what itfeels like to lose the identity that once defined him. When his football career ended, Matt found himself confronting anxiety, fear, uncertainty, and the difficult question of who he was without the game. That season eventually became the catalyst for rebuilding his mindset, understanding his emotionalpatterns, and discovering a deeper sense of purpose. 

Today, Matt helps people break through limiting beliefs andemotional barriers that keep them stuck. His own pursuit of growth has taken him from professional football to completing 18 marathons and 17 ultramarathons, including five races of 100 miles or more. But as Matt explains, the real transformation was never about the miles. It was about learning to stop running from something and start running toward something. 

In this episode, we unpack identity, mental health, emotional resilience, personal growth, and what it really takes to reclaimownership of your life.

🔹 How limiting beliefs gain power and howto stop feeding them

🔹Why the meaning you give adversity can shape your life

🔹How to separate your identity from your achievements
🔹Why radical transparency can unlock real change

🔹How one small action can become the beginning of your breakthrough

If you have ever felt stuck, lost after a major life transition, or unsure of who you are becoming, this conversation is for you.

Share this episode with someone who needs to hearit, and leave a review to help us continue spreading the Mentally Shredded message.

Connect with Matt:

🔗 Instagram and social: @MattYoungLC
🔗Website: MattYoungLC

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What if the thing you hated most about yourself became theplatform for your greatest purpose? Elyse Tilley spent years battling anorexia, addiction, and deep emotional pain until she found freedom through faith. This episode is a raw and redemptive look at what it means to heal from the inside out and finally become who you were created to be.

👤 Meet the Guest:
Elyse Tilley is a recovery coach and founder of Freed by Faith, afaith-based program that helps others overcome eating disorders and emotional struggles with spiritual and practical tools. Her story is one of resilience, restoration, and radical honesty.

🔹 Key Takeaways:
🔹 An eating disorder is not about food. It’s a cry for control, safety, and identity
🔹 True recovery began when Elyse stopped trying to change for others and chose to heal for herself
🔹 Her faith journey transformed her relationship with her body, emotions, and past pain
🔹 Community and connection were the keys to breaking shame and isolation
🔹 Her new program Nourished by Faith helps others rebuild their lives with God at the center

📢 Call to Action + Guest Links
If you were impacted by this episode, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone on their healing journey.

🔗 Email Elyse - [email protected]

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What if the pain you've carried could become your greatest source of power?

In this raw and deeply inspiring episode, we sit down with veteran, entrepreneur, and business coach Jim Shields, a man who transformed childhood trauma and military discipline into a mission of impact, purpose, and human-centered leadership. From food stamps to Fortune 500, Jim’s journey is one of resilience, forgiveness, and the belief that who you are matters more than what you do.

Jim shares how embracing faith, fatherhood, and emotional healing led him to build a life and business rooted in integrity. Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur or someone on a personal growth journey, this conversation will shift your perspective and challenge you to show up fully, scars and all.

Guest Spotlight:

Jim Shields is a multi-branch military veteran, business owner, and coach helping leaders build sustainable companies with values that last. His core message? Lead with humanity or don’t lead at all.

🔹 Jim’s 3-part recipe for growth: Grit, gratitude, and great people  

🔹 How trauma shaped his mindset and business philosophy

🔹 Why forgiveness is the most powerful form of freedom

🔹 The myth of military discipline and what veterans really learn

🔹 Building a business that thrives without you

If this episode sparked something in you, please share it with someone who needs it. Subscribe, leave a review, and keep the movement going.

🔗 Jim’s Website – jimshieldscoach.com

🔗 Instagram – @coachjimshields

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Before the ball drops, before the resolutions rush in, pause.
This episode is your space to reflect, release, and realign. It’s a gentle, soul-centered meditation designed to help you honor everything this year held…and powerfully choose what you're calling in next. The people. The energy. The doors. The you that’s ready to rise.

In this special solo episode, your host guides you through a7-minute meditation to help you close out the year with peace and step into the new one with grounded clarity and fresh intention.

🔹 Key Takeaways:

🔹 Reflect on what this year taught you, and what you're ready to release
🔹 Get clear on the people, energy, and environments you want in your next chapter
🔹 Set heart-centered intentions without pressure or perfection
🔹 Use your breath to anchor into possibility and peace
🔹 Start the new year from a place of presence, not hustle

📢 Call to Action + Guest Links:

If this meditation moved you, share it with a friend whoneeds a moment of stillness.
Be sure to subscribe, leave a review, and come back to this practice anytime you need a reset.

🔗 Instagram: @wearementallyshredded
🔗Website: mentallyshredded.org

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