Your Journey, Your Growth

What happens when the person you love feels caught between you and their family? Can a marriage remain united when cultural expectations, family loyalty, and outside pressure begin to create conflict?

In this episode of Your Journey, Your Growth, we welcome Pesa Shayo, author and co founder of Live Your Best Marriage. Drawing from his own cross cultural marriage and his work helping Christian couples, Pesa shares practical, faith rooted insights on communication, boundaries, loyalty conflicts, and marital unity.

We explore how couples can navigate differences without turning against each other, honor their families without compromising their marriage, and build a united front when outside pressures threaten their relationship.

Does living a healthier life really mean buying more products, following every wellness trend, or believing every health claim we hear?

In this episode of Your Journey, Your Growth, we welcome Britney Shayo, a health and wellness enthusiast interested in the connections between nutrition, everyday products, and environmental exposures. Through her curious consumer perspective, Britney encourages us to question popular health claims, examine wellness marketing, and think more carefully about the products we use every day.

We explore how to evaluate health information, approach natural remedies and conventional treatments thoughtfully, and make healthier choices without becoming overwhelmed by conflicting advice. This conversation challenges us to look beyond marketing promises and recognize that healthier living can begin with simple, informed everyday decisions.

What if the way you think, feel, and respond to pressure is not simply who you are, but something you can train?

In this episode, Arnold Beekes introduces the concept of Brain Fitness and Brain Athletes, exploring how we can train the brain and nervous system to think more clearly, respond more effectively, and become better leaders.

We discuss neuroplasticity, un conditioning, mental wellness, brain health, digital dementia, and what it means to become Better for All Leaders.

What if taking better care of yourself does not have to be a journey you take alone?

In a world where self care is often presented as an individual responsibility, Dr. Maria Van Der Maaten challenges us to explore the power of community in building healthier, more fulfilling lives. As a sociologist, community development practitioner, and author of the upcoming book Even Monks Meditate Together, Maria brings a fresh perspective on how connection, belonging, and collective empowerment can transform personal wellness.

In this episode, we explore how supportive relationships can strengthen healthy habits, why community matters for emotional well being, and how we can create circles of care that help individuals and communities thrive.

What if some of the exhaustion in your life is not coming from what you are doing, but from what you have never finished?

Today on Your Journey, Your Growth, we explore the hidden commitments, unresolved conversations, broken promises, unspoken boundaries, and swallowed resentment that Robin Quinn Keehn calls Open Loops. As a Human Dynamics Specialist, Certified Mediator, author of Stop Stealing From Yourself, and creator of Debate Without Hate, Robin helps people recognize what is quietly draining their time, energy, and peace and learn how to close those loops with clarity and calm.

Jeff Dalton, author, poet, and speaker, shares his journey from struggling with depression and low self esteem to discovering a deeper and more honest relationship with Jesus. Drawing from 38 years of following Christ and his personal experiences with rejection, mental health struggles, and disappointment, Jeff challenges the idea that authentic faith requires Christians to hide their pain. He explains why acknowledging our struggles can become the beginning of healing and explores the difference between religious performance and a transparent, conversational relationship with Jesus.

Brian Parana, health and lifestyle coach with more than two decades of experience, shares practical strategies for busy men over 40 who want to lose fat, improve their health markers, regain their energy, and feel like themselves again. Drawing from years of coaching thousands of clients, owning gyms, working with elite athletes, and coaching successful professionals remotely, Brian explains why knowing what to do is often not enough. This conversation explores sustainable nutrition, strength training, consistency, discipline, travel, stress, accountability, and why taking care of your health can influence how you lead at home and at work.

Lisa Haynes, certified executive and retirement coach and author of Retired and Killin’ It, shares why preparing for retirement requires much more than financial planning. After decades as a CFO, Lisa discovered the importance of purpose, connection, identity, and joy after work. In this conversation, she shares practical insights from her KILLIN’ IT formula and explains how intentional reinvention can help us navigate retirement and every major transition in life.

In this powerful episode of Your Journey, Your Growth, we sit down with Dr. Zafra Lerman, a world renowned chemist, educator, and peacebuilder whose work has brought science and diplomacy together in some of the world’s most challenging regions.

Through the Malta Conferences Foundation, Dr. Lerman has brought scientists from countries in conflict together to collaborate on scientific challenges that affect humanity as a whole.

We explore science diplomacy, human rights, education, courage, women in STEM, and the power of using knowledge to build bridges where conflict has created division.

‎In this episode of Your Journey, Your Growth, we explore one of the most challenging transitions many families eventually face: caring for aging parents.

‎Kim Brant Lucich and Alexander Nury, co authors of Survival Guide to Caring for Aging Parents, bring more than 50 years of combined healthcare experience, along with their personal experiences caring for their own parents and in laws.

‎We discuss recognizing when a parent needs help, making difficult caregiving decisions, choosing the right living situation, protecting aging parents from financial scams, preparing important legal documents, and caring for yourself while caring for someone else.