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In this powerful and deeply honest conversation, JD sits down with Athena Dean Holtz, founder of Redemption Press and author of eight nonfiction books, to explore what it truly means to guard your heart in a world full of competing voices.

Athena draws from her personal journey out of New Age spirituality and years of experience in Christian leadership to unpack how subtle deception, unresolved wounds, and spiritual counterfeits can quietly influence our decisions, relationships, and faith. Together, JD and Athena discuss discernment, suffering, surrender, and why Scripture—read in proper context—must be the plumb line for every believer.

This episode tackles hard but necessary topics, including:

• How unhealed wounds make us vulnerable to the wrong voices
• The difference between surrendering to God and simply giving up
• Why suffering is often essential to spiritual maturity
• Filtering spiritual input through Scripture, not emotion or experience
• Generational patterns, responsibility, and personal accountability
• Leadership, emotional health, and spiritual warfare in everyday life

If you’ve ever struggled to discern God’s voice, felt overwhelmed in a season of suffering, or sensed the need to recalibrate what you allow into your heart, this conversation will challenge and steady you.

🎧 Listen in and be reminded: guarding your heart isn’t optional—it’s essential.