Unleashed

There’s nothing quite like walking to your tree stand in the dark on a morning you’ve waited for all year. Every step matters. Every sound gets your attention. You settle in, bow ready, wondering what might step out as the rising sun slowly reveals the woods around you.

This week on Unleashed, Brent Henderson returns to the Indiana woods for his first hunt back since heart surgery. A bow mishap nearly ends the trip before it starts, an owl gets a little too close for comfort, and a quiet morning eighteen feet up gives him something he’ll need when life hits back the following day.

In Episode 171, “Lessons from a Tree Stand: Where Are Your Roots Planted?” Brent shares the anticipation, humor, and gratitude of getting back into the stand, along with a lesson that followed him home. Just as daylight reveals what we couldn’t see in the woods, God can reveal His presence and truth in our darkest moments when we seek Him.

Whether you’re listening on the drive to deer camp or wishing you were in the woods, join Brent for a conversation about what holds us steady when disappointment knocks the wind out of us.

Scripture: Jeremiah 17:7–8; Luke 6:43–45

Episode 170: Searching for Jesus: What If He Is Who He Says He Is?

Some intriguing recent findings are drawing fresh attention to Jesus and the biblical accounts. Could they strengthen the case for Christianity and the historical reliability of Scripture?

Brent explores these questions alongside personal stories, honest curiosity, and a deer-season comparison hunters will recognize: When evidence points to something we’ve been searching for, we decide whether to pursue it.

What if Jesus really is who He says He is?

That deserves a closer look. And if it’s true, the question becomes more than whether we find Him interesting: What are we going to do with Jesus?

A conversation about searching honestly, examining what we believe, and the choice that comes with what we discover.

Listen with your questions. Share it with someone who’s searching.

What if the biggest thing standing between you and your God-given purpose isn't a lack of preparation—but your unwillingness to take the first step?

Too many men spend their lives getting ready. They read the books, attend the conferences, make the plans, and wait for the perfect moment. But preparation without action can become another way of avoiding the life God created them to live.

In this episode of the Unleashed Podcast, Brent Henderson explores the extraordinary power of taking action through the illustration of the first domino. One small move can trigger something far greater than you ever imagined—but nothing happens until you knock that first domino over.

Drawing from his experiences in the outdoors, his work coaching men, and biblical teaching, Brent challenges you to examine your priorities, confront the excuses keeping you stuck, and stop confusing information with transformation.

You'll discover why knowing your purpose isn't enough, how to identify what matters most, and why faith requires more than good intentions.

Are you spending your life preparing to live it?

It's time to stop waiting, take the first step, and start living with purpose.

READY. AIM. FIRE!

Learn more about Brent Henderson, his books, and Unleashed Plus at https://unleashed.men.

Episode 168: Carry It Forward — Your Story Was Never Meant to End With You

Your story matters—but it was never meant to end with you.

In this episode of the Unleashed Podcast, Brent Henderson challenges men to recognize the story God has been writing through their lives, discover their purpose and identity in Christ, and carry their faith, wisdom, and legacy forward to the next generation.

After speaking at a sportsman’s banquet, Brent realized the most meaningful part of the night wasn’t the laughter, the tears, or the applause. It was what happened afterward. Men stayed to share their struggles, their faith, their search for purpose, and what God was stirring in their hearts.

Brent traces the men who helped shape his own story—from watching Wild Kingdom as a boy and meeting legendary bowhunter Fred Bear, to meeting his longtime friend Wade Nolan in Alaska in 1984. Years later, Brent can see how those men influenced his life without God ever calling him to become a copy of them.

Using Ephesians 2:10, Brent reminds listeners that we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works He prepared in advance for us. Your greatest success doesn’t define you. Your greatest failure doesn’t define you. Jesus does.

Brent also shares the deeply personal legacy he hopes to leave his son: a sword his son gave him that Brent wants placed in his casket someday—but removed before the casket closes and handed back to his son with one charge:

Carry it well. And carry it forward.

This episode is a challenge to fathers, sons, hunters, outdoorsmen, leaders, and men searching for purpose: stop comparing your story to someone else’s. Get alone with God. Write down your story. Find His fingerprints in the victories, failures, wounds, relationships, and redemption—and then ask who needs what God has taught you.

Because an inheritance is something you leave for someone. A legacy is something you leave in someone.

Episode 167 — The Way of the Wise Warrior

What does it mean to become a Wise Warrior?

In Episode 167 of Unleashed, Brent Henderson explores what happens when a man stops trying to prove his strength and begins using everything God has taught him to serve, lead, mentor, and leave a legacy in others.

From watching legendary guitarist Dann Huff practice the fundamentals in a Nashville recording studio, to men whose lives have been changed through mentoring and discipleship, Brent examines why wisdom takes time—and why even our scars can become someone else’s roadmap.

But the heart of this episode is deeply personal. Brent shares the final days of his father’s life, the difference between an inheritance and a legacy, and a childhood memory of jumping from the steps into his dad’s arms. Decades later, those same steps take on a very different meaning as he watches his father’s casket being carried away.

“We never graduate from trust. The steps just get higher.”

This is an episode about Christian manhood, fatherhood, faith, purpose, mentorship, aging well, finishing well, and trusting God with whatever part of the trail remains.

Plus, Brent challenges men to stop waiting for the perfect circumstances to live the life God has given them:

Pick up your sword. Trust your Father. And brother—let’s light this candle.

Resources: The Big Five Man Killers and the free Facilitator’s Guide are available at WarnerPress.org.

What happens when you think you’ve blown your opportunity?

Brent watched a mature whitetail standing forty yards away and wrestled with whether to take the shot. He waited. He hesitated. And eventually, the opportunity walked away.

He thought it was over.

The next evening, Brent made one decision that changed everything: he showed up again.

In Episode 166 of Unleashed, Brent shares the story behind a buck that still hangs on his wall today—and why that hunt has become a reminder of something much bigger than deer hunting.

Sometimes relationships get wounded. Words are spoken. People are misunderstood. Pride gets involved, and what once mattered to us can begin to look beyond repair. Brent shares an unexpected update to the personal story he told last week and what happened when grace became more important than keeping score.

Then he turns to Jesus’ story of two very different sons and the Father who loved them both. One son was lost in rebellion. The other was lost in self-righteousness. But the Father went after both of them because He wanted both of His boys at the party.

Showing up doesn’t guarantee the outcome. You can’t control what someone else does with your apology, your forgiveness, or your outstretched hand. But as Romans 12:18 reminds us, “If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.”

Maybe you think you’ve already blown your chance.

Maybe the story isn’t over.

Don’t quit. Show up again. GAME ON.

Dangerous for Good: When the Tide Changes

What does it really mean to be dangerous for good? In Episode 165 of Unleashed, Brent Henderson shares a harrowing story from Alaska’s Cook Inlet and a recent experience of being misunderstood to explore what biblical manhood looks like when the tide changes. Sometimes strength isn’t fighting back, proving you’re right, or pushing harder—it’s listening, extending grace, understanding what’s beneath the surface, and being willing to take a different route.

Discover why men need brotherhood instead of trying to be Rambo, how our experiences shape our beliefs, and why a dangerous-for-good man becomes dangerous to the anger, lust, shame, fear, pride, and lies that threaten the people God has called him to love.

Episode 164: Practice Forges the Man | Discipline, Purpose & Becoming the Man God Created You to Be

You don’t become the man you were created to be by accident. You become that man through practice.

In Episode 164 of the Unleashed Podcast, Brent Henderson tackles one of the most overlooked parts of becoming a stronger man: doing the right things over and over again until they become part of how you live.

Whether it’s learning an instrument, becoming a better archer, growing as a husband and father, strengthening your faith, or simply becoming more disciplined, growth requires repetition. Nobody picks up a bow for the first time and shoots like a pro. Nobody sits down at a piano and skips the scales. And nobody becomes a godly, purposeful man without putting what he believes into practice.

Brent shares personal stories from music, archery, fatherhood, and his own life to show why practice isn’t about perfection—it’s about preparation. The things you repeatedly practice today are shaping how you live tomorrow.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why knowing your purpose isn’t enough—you have to practice it • How repetition builds confidence, character, and discipline • Why failure is part of getting better • What archery, music, and breaking boards can teach us about becoming stronger men • Why spiritual growth requires more than good intentions

You don’t rise to the man you hope to become. You practice becoming him.

Because when a man knows who he is in Christ, knows what he was created for, and starts putting it into practice—he’s become unleashed for good.

What does it really mean to love your wife well?

It’s more than flowers, date nights, notes by the coffee pot, or saying the right words. Sometimes love looks like sleeping on an uncomfortable hospital couch. Sometimes it means sitting on the floor with her when life feels like too much. Sometimes it means listening when everything inside you wants to defend yourself.

In this deeply personal episode of Unleashed, Brent talks honestly about what he’s still learning in his own marriage: how to show up, how to listen without trying to fix everything, why a husband should never stop pursuing his wife, and the principle of “Love More. Need Less.”

You’ll also hear three questions every husband should be willing to ask himself—and a reminder that loving well isn’t something we do only when our marriage is struggling.

It becomes a way of life.

And stay through the end for Brent’s new song, “Put Your Hand in Mine,” a song born out of his and Stacy’s own story of holding on to each other through the highs, the lows, and everything in between.

“Put Your Hand in Mine” — written and composed by Brent Henderson; recording produced with AI-assisted music tools.

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda

What happens when life reminds you that you're not in control?

After historic flooding devastated communities across central Indiana, this episode wrestles with a question that reaches far beyond the floodwaters:

Do we really trust God—or do we only trust Him when life is going where we think it should?

We say, “Here am I, Lord, send me,” but too often we add our own conditions. We say, “Jesus, take the wheel,” but then we start steering with our knees.

In this episode of Unleashed, we talk about trusting God, surrendering control, following the leading of the Holy Spirit, and learning to stop “shoulding” on ourselves.

What's the difference between faith and passivity? Between wisdom and fear? How do we do what's ours to do while trusting God with what isn't?

Faith isn't doing nothing and calling it trust. Faith is doing what God has put in your hands—and trusting Him with what He hasn't.

You can't control tomorrow, so stop sacrificing today trying to.

You go. You do. You live. No more shoulda, woulda, coulda.

And for those of you who remember me from my years in music, I've put together a brand-new original song specifically for this episode. Stay through the end to hear “Shoulda Woulda Coulda.”

Scripture: Isaiah 6:8, Isaiah 43:2, John 10:10