We Do Real

Suffering, Surrender, and Showing Up: Keith Phillips grew up in Medford, Massachusetts, got tangled up in the wrong crowd, spent time in prison, and spent decades trying to get sober. His road included multiple treatment attempts, a suicide attempt, two heart attacks, and a cardiac arrest on a golf course in Falmouth, Maine. In the middle of all of it, he heard a voice in a hospital room: “You’re not alone. I’ve been with you your whole life.” Keith was baptized at Lake Winnipesaukee at Centerpoint’s fall retreat. His story is one of the most raw, honest, and hope-filled conversations of the season.

Identity, Calling, and What God Does With a Life: Ben Graffius has worked oil rigs, handled weapons systems, and captained a high-speed ferry across Casco Bay. His life has taken him places most people never go, and into work where most people would never think to look for God. In this episode, Ben talks about what it means to build an identity in the unglamorous corners of life, where faith showed up in the middle of all of it, and what it looks like to carry his story into his role as a husband, father, and deacon at Centerpoint.

Identity, Calling, and What God Does With a Life: Chris Grant had a Division I baseball career, a road that went sideways, and years of addiction before he found his footing. Today he runs Dirigo Sober Living in Portland, Maine, walking alongside men fighting the same battles he once fought. In this episode, Chris tells the real version of his story, not the highlight reel, and talks honestly about what sobriety looks like day to day, the wife who stayed, and the faith that finally became a foundation instead of a fallback.

Identity, Calling, and What God Does With a Life: Kendrick Ballantyne grew up in Gorham, Maine, played Division I football, and spent time on the Baltimore Ravens roster, then watched the identity he'd built around athletics quietly dissolve. In this first-ever episode of We Do Real, Kendrick unpacks what it took to go from self-consumed competitor to husband, father, business leader, and deacon. A conversation about identity death, the emptiness of arrival, and what it actually looks like when God builds a man back up.