Unmasked With Neil Getzlow

Today's interview focuses on a topic that's very personal to my family. Alzheimer's Disease.

My Mom has been suffering with Alzheimer's for the past three years. That's why I am so blessed to talk with caregiver and author Leah Stanley. Leah says she's an ordinary person who went through an extraordinary experience. She became a caregiver at 29 when her grandparents were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and an unspecified dementia, respectively. Leah, shares her caregiving story in her book Goodnight, Sweet: A Caregiver’s Long Goodbye and she has been a featured speaker with medical professionals and family caregivers alike.

We come at this discussion from a faith based perspective and I get a chance to ask her a lot of questions about my Mom's illness. I hope this conversation helps you if you have family suffering - and I hope it brings you encouragement like it does me.

Be sure to check out neilgetzlow.com to learn more about Neil's journey.

This week, I am honored to welcome back Andrea Heinz to the Unmasked podcast. Andrea is now 10 years out of the sex trafficking and exploitation industry and is an activist and advocate for women in Canada.

You can check out Andrea’s first appearance on Unmasked here.

Today, we talk about Andrea’s new book that is coming out later this year that moves the conversation from the selling side of exploitation to the demand side of the industry. We also get into the legal landscape around prostitution, how the term sex work has turned into propaganda, and we talk about the impact the movie Sound of Freedom has had on the conversation around trafficking and exploitation.

I also have a chance to share a quick recap up front about the opportunity I recently had to participate in a recent anti-sex trafficking conference in Topeka. A very humbling experience.

Be sure to check out neilgetzlow.com to learn more about Neil’s journey.

I went to school to be a sports broadcaster and actually had a chance to call some basketball and football games at the University of Kansas on KJHK-FM before realizing that sports play-by-play was not going to work for me. That's why I am so excited this week to interview Dan Scott.

If you don't know Dan, you might know him by this call from March Madness earlier this year when Furman upset Virginia in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

I love that call and I love Dan's testimony and his story. In fact, I'm not sure why, but I was overcome with emotion listening to Dan talk about his redemption. Maybe it was because our testimonies are similar in some ways. For Dan, God took him from the top of the mountain, humbled him on the way down the mountain, only to lift him back up, and he handled that rise back up with so much humility as you will hear. In addition to being Director of Broadcasting for Furman University, Dan is also the founder of Grand Slam Ministries where he hosts his own radio show - the Dan Scott Show.

And make sure you stay to the end of the interview as Dan and I talk about his recent visit to Buc-ee's truck stop - a place that I am counting down the days to visiting when it opens in 2024 in Springfield, Missouri.

Check out my appearance on Dan's show here.

And be sure to visit neilgetzlow.com to learn more about Neil's journey and book, UNMASKED.

This week, I am blessed to interview Tim Reigle. Tim is the founder of Into The Wilderness ministry. His mission is about leading men to overcome sexual addiction and transform their lives by renewing their faith, re-energizing their families, and restoring their masculinity. Tim draws on his own experience of overcoming a 15-year porn addiction to work with men through Bible study, writing, and coaching to overcome pornography addiction and become better men. Such an encouraging conversation with Tim and I appreciate his transparency in sharing his own struggles.

You can learn more about his ministry here: https://intothewildernessblog.com/

Be sure to check out and subscribe to Neil's Substack for more content:

https://substack.com/@neilgetzlow

This week on Unmasked, the very first NFL player to appear on the show. I'm blessed to be joined by former NFL player Sterling Harris. Sterling played college football at SMU and signed with the Cleveland Browns after college. He hit the mountain top and yet there was still no peace for him. Even though he worked for years to achieve this dream, it was not what he thought it would be. Ultimately, a broken foot took away his career, his dream and his identity. For Sterling, playing football turned into an idol. It caused him to act out and he found himself in federal prison due to a business deal gone bad. But God. He found his identity in Jesus while locked up and turned his life around.

Today, Sterling is founder of Sterling Harris Ministries and author of the book How to Hear God, 10 Ways God Speaks. He equips people around the world to hear God's voice and helps move people from a religion to relationship with Christ. We talk about journey and how today he is letting God's voice lead him in every single thing he does. Sterling has a big personality so I hope you enjoy this one.

Learn more about Neil's journey at https://neilgetzlow.com/

This week, I have the honor of talking to another Neil, Neil Matthews. Neil is the host of the podcast, Other Peoples Shoes. Neil created this show as a space that allows people to hear each other's points of view – something that is desperately needed in today’s  world.

His podcast actually was born during a redemption moment in his life – when he was forced to walk away from a youth ministry gig to deal with his pornography use more than four years ago. In addition to sharing his encouraging testimony,  we talk about what it’s like to produce a podcast, his favorite guests, and whether or not he considers his podcast to be a Christian show.

I also appeared on Neil’s show this week. After you get done listening to Unmasked, please go check out my interview with Neil on Other

https://www.opspodcast.com/finally-unmasked/

We discovered that not only we share some commonalities in our faith and testimony, but we share a love of college basketball and coaching legend Roy Williams.  

You can learn more about Neil and his book at https://neilgetzlow.com/

This week, I start the show spending a few minutes talking the new phone I purchased (don’t worry, it ties into today’s episode) that simply lets me text and call people. A brave new world for me in my attempt to defeat distractions in my life.

Those distractions can often lead to anxiety when scrolling social media. That’s why I am so blessed to have Jordan Daniel Chitwood back on

You can learn more about Jordan’s and his book here.

And be sure to visit neilgetzlow.com to learn more about Neil and his journey.

$200,000 a year. That’s how much one sex trafficked woman can bring in for her trafficker. On this week’s Unmasked, we talk to Dan Nash. Dan is the co-founder of the Human Trafficking Training Center and a retired Missouri State Trooper. Over his nearly three-decade career, Dan was responsible for creating the Human Trafficking Unit and was the enforcement supervisor of the Missouri Attorney General’s Office Statewide Anti-Human Trafficking Statewide Task Force.

Through the Human Trafficking Training Center, Dan, and his business partner Alison Phillips bring a different approach in training law enforcement

You can learn more about The Human Trafficking Training Center here: https://humantraffickingtrainingcenter.com/

Check out my interview with HTTC co-founder Alison Phillips here.

Visit https://neilgetzlow.com/ to learn more about my journey and book, UNMASKED: Conquering Sexual Sin and Walking in Victory.

On today’s UNMASKED, I talk to new author Matt Turner. Matt is a successful businessman with a $20 million per year construction business. And he has an incredible testimony. At the age of 22, Matt lost both of his hands in an electrical accident. That left Matt feeling like he lost his identity and purpose in life. And despite being clinically dead for 20 minutes, he was still far away from God. In reality, Matt had lost his identity a long time ago thanks to a generational curse that passed down brokenness, unforgiveness, sexual sin and anger. But what Matt learned over the course of his life is that God has taken everything that was against him from the start, everything that should have destroyed him and caused it all to work out for his good. This is a wild and encouraging testimony.

Learn more about Matt and his books here: https://www.mattstormyturner.com/

Be sure to check out neilgetzlow.com to learn more about Neil’s book, UNMASKED: Conquering Sexual Sin and Walking In Victory.

Today’s guest is Jen Morgan. Jen is author of the book Bring it On. We actually met at the NRB Convention in 2021 when we were both releasing our books at the same time. We have a great conversation about having a Godly marriage, growing her relationship with Jesus later in life as her faith matured vs. following religious routines. And she encourages women to take off their masks (which I love of course), dive into the ditches, and lift each other up and encourage their fellow sisters in Christ.

You can learn more about Jen here: https://jenmorganinspires.com/

And be sure to check out and subscribe to Neil’s new Substack page here: https://neilgetzlow.substack.com