In this episode, Scott is joined by Greg Snow, Sergine, and first-time guest Red Lion to talk about Ripe Poetry’s week-long trip to Houston Texas to perform spoken word as a team. The episode focuses mainly on the crew's performance at WeGoLive on Friday, May 24th, 2024.

The episode begins with telling the backstory of how Red Lion and Scott connected at WeGoLive in 2023 through Houston-based curators Scott Free & Courtney B. The conversation continues by sharing how Red Lion became a bit of a mentor to the entire Ripe Poetry collective over the past year.

As the episode picks up the team shares briefly about their experience at WAN (Write About Now) on Wednesday, May 22nd where Miss Spoken Poet was featured. Throughout the episode personal stories are shared that give honor and encouragement to all the five Ripe Poets who made the trip.

Towards the second half of the episode, the team focuses heavily on the WeGoLive event exclusively. Greg shares the rundown of the night's flow and each guest talks about the overlapping Ripe Poetry set. As we’re wrapping up the episode the crew chats about the impact of the trip overall and ways that our relationship with Red Lion has served a greater purpose.

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Song: "Joyride" by Aable

In this episode, Scott is joined by Jarrett, Leah Wrenne, and Anh Thai to talk about the Creatives’ Concert Co-Bill event that featured the two guest artists and Emma Nissen. The event was hosted at The Story Factory PHL on Tuesday, May 14th, 2024.

The episode begins with telling the backstory of the success of previous Concerts, reaching out to Emma Nissen, and why the team chose to do three artists instead of the usual two. The conversation continues by sharing the story of how a friend’s generosity opened the door for the event to even happen.

In the middle of the episode, Jarrett shares about the promotional campaign that predated the show itself and some of the advances we made on the production side.

Towards the second half of the episode, we talk mostly about the day of the event, focusing heavily on each of the artists’ sets. As we wrap up the episode, the crew chats about how the event impacted Leah and Anh and encouraged them in their individual journeys as singer-songwriters. We hope you enjoy this episode!

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Song: "I Already Love You" by Anh Thai

In this episode, Scott is joined by Jarrett and first-time guest Meghan DeHaven to talk about InFaith’s annual conference called “Refresh.” The three-day conference took place at a camp located just outside of San Francisco, California. The event took place April 22nd-April 24th, 2024.

Meg and her husband Mike DeHaven are both on staff with InFaith and are responsible for leading Refresh. Scott had the unique opportunity to be one of the speakers for this year’s conference.

This unique episode focuses mainly on the decade-long ministry relationship between Megs and Scott. They share how they first met and subsequently, multiple stories where their shared passion to reach young people have overlapped.

In the episode, the trio talks a lot about the Breakaway Middle School Retreat which is also led by Meg and Mike DeHaven each fall. Jarrett joins the convo mainly through the lens of the Breakaway Retreat.

At the very end of the episode, Scott & Meg talk about the Refresh conference hosted in California. There is quite a bit of focus on empowering young people and how God moved throughout the event.

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Song: "Ripe Takeover" by Rick Harmoney and Aable