🎙 Plant & Grow 🌱

Thanksgiving isn’t just about full plates 🦃🍽️
it’s about roots the kind we grow on purpose 🌾

The soil remembers every hand that turned it 🤲
every hope tucked beneath chilly November ground 🍂

Some seasons feed us 🥕
Some seasons stretch us 🌿
And hunger?
It’s not always a rumble in the stomach
sometimes it’s the deep ache to become
who we’re meant to be 🌱✨

In backyards and borrowed plots 🏙️🪴
growth insists on showing up
even where concrete thought it had the last word.

One seed can feed a home 🌰🏡
One tree can shade generations 🌳👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
And one hungry heart
can shift a broken system,
starting right where it stands 💪🌍

So this Thanksgiving 🍁
as we pass the mashed potatoes and gratitude 🥔❤️
may we plant new stories too
for the selves we’re becoming
and the gardens waiting to rise 🌷🙌

👣 Guest Introduction:
Meet Greg Peterson The Urban Farmer 🌿🏡
For over 32 years, Greg turned a simple quarter-acre yard in Phoenix into a flourishing food forest 🌳🥭🍊
He has taught thousands to grow food, save seeds, and rebuild their connection to the earth 🌎💧

His question changes everything:
“What if there was a garden and fruit tree in every yard?” 🍎🌳✨

Today we talk soil, seeds, identity, and why growing food might just be the most hopeful thing you can do.

💡 Episode Highlights:

Hunger beyond food — what really fills us 🍽️➡️❤️

Greg’s early love for growing things 🐟🌱

The wake-up call about our fragile food system ⚠️🥫

Turning a yard into a food forest 🌳🌻

Permaculture + changing how we see the world 🔄🍃

Why seeds and community matter 🌾🤝

Easy steps to start growing today 🚿🪴🌞

🔗 Connect with Greg Peterson:
🌐 Website: https://www.urbanfarm.org
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/urbanfarmu/
🎧 Podcast: UrbanFarmPodcast.com
🌱 Seeds: GreatAmericanSeedUp.org

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🎙 Episode Title: Unwanted

🧩 Season Theme: Hungry
This season explores different kinds of hunger both literal and metaphorical. From struggles with food to deeper cravings for purpose, fulfillment, and connection, we’re diving into stories that truly nourish the soul.

👣 Guest Introduction:
I’ve got to admit when I first heard that today’s guest, Christi Kelsey, had a connection to Duke University (her husband works at the Duke Cancer Center in Durham, North Carolina), I hesitated.
If you know me, you know where my loyalties lie. Around here, Duke and UNC aren’t just schools they’re archenemies. The rivalry runs deep, and sometimes, honestly, it can cloud how we see people on the “other side.”

But as I sat with it, I realized something: the greatest rivalries often happen much closer to home. Sometimes the fiercest opponent isn’t wearing a different shade of blue it’s the face staring back at us in the mirror.

That’s what this episode is really about.

Christi is a nutrition coach, cancer survivor, and women’s health advocate who knows what it feels like to feel unwanted—by your body, your circumstances, or your reflection. After two cancer diagnoses and years of fighting her body, Christi learned how to stop seeing herself as the enemy and start treating her body as an ally.

Now she helps women over 40 break free from the guilt, restriction, and all-or-nothing mindset that keep them stuck. Her approach isn’t about diets it’s about dignity, strength, and learning to make peace with yourself.

💡 Episode Highlights:

How cancer transformed Christi’s relationship with her body

The connection between rivalry, identity, and self-image

Why guilt and restriction never lead to freedom

How to build sustainable habits that actually last

What it means to nourish yourself instead of punish yourself

How to make peace with your body no jersey required

🔗 Connect with Christi Kelsey:
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🎙 Golden Ticket

🧩 Season Theme: Hungry
This season, we’re exploring what it means to be hungry not just for food, but for purpose, meaning, connection, and identity. Hunger can drive us, define us, and sometimes destroy us. But it also reveals what truly satisfies the soul.

👣 Guest Introduction:
Remember Charlie Bucket from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory the kid who found the Golden Ticket and got a glimpse behind the gates of wonder? This episode plays with that same idea, but through the story of Charles Fernández, a two-time Olympian from Guatemala who discovered that the real “golden ticket” isn’t found on a candy bar wrapper it’s discovered within.

Charles grew up doing humanitarian work with his family in the mountains of Guatemala before rising to become a world champion in modern pentathlon. He’s competed at two Olympic Games, won gold at the Pan American Games, and stood among the world’s best. But after the applause faded, Charles faced a deeper challenge: Who was he when the medals and titles weren’t enough?

Today, Charles leads IMPACTA, a high-performance coaching company helping leaders, athletes, and changemakers align identity, mindset, and purpose. His story is one of hunger for integrity, for presence, and for the kind of success that isn’t just seen, but felt.

💡 Episode Highlights:

What it really takes to compete and win on the world stage

The crash that comes after achieving your biggest dream

Redefining integrity: living in alignment with who you are

The difference between performing and being present

How to pursue excellence without losing yourself in the process

Why the “golden ticket” might not be what you think it is

🔗 Connect with Charles Fernández:
Website: Coach Compare Profile

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🧩 Season Theme: Hungry
What does it really mean to hunger for something deeper something more than routine, more than the surface-level faith that just gets us through the day? This season invites us to pay attention to what our souls crave and how we’re feeding that hunger.

👣 Guest Introduction:
How comfortable are you in the seat you’re sitting in right now? Not just physically but spiritually, emotionally, and mentally?

This week, I’m joined by Tera Elness, speaker, writer, and author of Sitting with Jesus a 365-day devotional born out of her own mornings spent literally “sitting with Jesus.” Tera invites us to pull up a chair and stay a while: to hear the small, life-changing words “I love you”, to feed our souls daily the way we feed our bodies, and to notice the small details like the sandals people wore in Bible times that reveal surprisingly big spiritual truths about how we walk through life.

💡 Episode Highlights:

How comfortable are you in the “chair” you’re sitting in today?

Why hearing “I love you” from God can change everything

The sandals of Bible-time people what their footwear teaches us about humility, journey, and how we actually walk in faith (Tera shares a memorable story about this)

The daily rhythm that deepened Tera’s relationship with Jesus

How to move from surviving to truly living

🔗 Connect with Tera Elness:
🌐 Website
📘 Sitting with Jesus on Amazon
💬 Facebook Group

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🎙 Access Pass

🧩 Season Theme: Hungry
This season, we’re exploring what it means to be truly hungry not for food, but for purpose, belonging, and meaning. Sometimes, that hunger shows up when the door won’t open and we’re left wondering if we even have the right password.

👣 Guest Introduction:
Ever typed in a password that should have worked… and it just didn’t? That locked-out feeling hits deeper than tech frustration it’s about access, belonging, and opportunity. My guest today, Vinnie Potestivo (or “Vin,” as I call him), knows that world well.

Vinnie is an Emmy Award-winning Media Advisor and Creator Economist, known for helping people unlock their potential and turn moments of creativity into legacy. As the Editor-in-Chief of I Have A Podcast® a Google News-verified platform amplifying independent voices Vin’s mission is to open doors for storytellers everywhere.

Before that, he spent nearly a decade at MTV Networks (1998–2007), where he helped discover and develop talent behind iconic shows like Punk’d, The Osbournes, TRL, Wild ‘N Out, and Laguna Beach. His fingerprints are all over the pop culture that shaped a generation.

💡 Episode Highlights:

The power of access and what to do when it’s denied

How Vinnie discovered and developed talent at MTV

Why storytelling is the real “password” to connection

The creative hunger that drives lasting impact

What it means to open doors for others in a world obsessed with gatekeeping

Why Cass Elliot’s “Make Your Own Kind of Music” still rings true today and how it connects to the freedom of owning your creative voice

🔗 Connect with Vinnie Potestivo:
Website: vpetv.com
Podcast: I Have A Podcast®
Instagram: @vinniepotestivo
🎁 Free Resource: vpe.tv/gift

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🎙 Discomfort

🧩 Season Theme: Hungry
The season theme Hungry explores the ache for something more the hunger for fulfillment, meaning, and a life that actually feels like our own.

👣 Guest Introduction:
We’ve all heard the phrase about the ostrich sticking its head in the sand. But what happens when we live that way avoiding, numbing, or ignoring what’s right in front of us?

Today’s guest, Megan Warren, knows this tension firsthand. Once a single mom working full-time in a foreign country while raising her son with autism, Megan wore the mask of success while quietly wrestling with people-pleasing, emotional suppression, and burnout. At 40, she made the courageous choice to stop hiding and start living differently.

Now, as an inner development coach and founder of Extraordinary Lives, Megan helps high-achieving women stop checking society’s “should” boxes and start creating a life that’s actually aligned with what they’re hungry for. She believes transformation doesn’t come from the outside it starts within.

💡 Episode Highlights:

What it really means to “put your head in the sand”

The hunger behind high-achieving women who ask: “Is this all there is?”

Megan’s journey of breaking patterns of suppression, people-pleasing, and numbing

The turning point of rebuilding life from the inside out at age 40

The five pillars of her Extraordinary Lives process:

Radical Self-Connection 💞

Keep it Lit Mastering Glo Mode 🔥

BOSS Energy Activation ⚡

Emotional Ninjas 🥷

BIG Magic ✨

Why letting go is the key to welcoming what’s truly meant for you

How fulfillment isn’t “out there” it’s already within you

🔗 Connect with Megan Warren:
Website: meganwarrencoaching.com
Extraordinary Lives: subscribepage.io/extraordinary_lives

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🎙 Corner Booth

🧩 Season Theme: Hungry
This season we’re exploring what it means to be hungry not just for food, but for belonging, for meaning, for God himself. Maybe you’ve walked into a room and wondered if there was a place for you. Today, consider this your invitation: there’s a spot at the corner booth waiting, and you don’t have to sit alone.

👣 Guest Introduction:
My guest today is Brandon Booth, President and Spiritual Director of Signpost Inn and host of The Signpost Inn Podcast. Brandon and his team walk alongside people in the middle of life’s chaos, offering friendship, compassion, and spiritual direction. Their mission is simple but deeply needed: to lift weary eyes toward Jesus and help people discover his steady presence in the mess.

💡 Episode Highlights:

What it feels like to show up at church and feel like you’re not one of the “cool kids at the cool table”

Why hospitality and belonging are essential to the life of faith

How Signpost Inn helps people reconnect with God when he feels distant

Brandon’s own journey into spiritual direction and why slowing down matters

What it means to “be still and know” in a distracted, noisy world

🔗 Connect with Brandon Booth & Signpost Inn:
Website: signpostinn.org
Podcast: The Signpost Inn Podcast

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🎙 Sugar-Free

🧩 Season Theme: Hungry
This season we’re talking about hunger physical, emotional, and spiritual. What do we crave? What fills us? And what leaves us empty?

👣 Guest Introduction:
Dr. Cali Estes knows firsthand the dangers of quick fixes and hidden addictions. Early in her life, she was prescribed the now-banned weight-loss drug Fen-Phen a combination that promised results but came with devastating risks like heart valve disease and pulmonary hypertension. That experience, paired with her own journey, fueled her mission to expose the hidden dangers in substances we consume every day including one of the biggest culprits: sugar.

Known as “The Female Dr. Drew” and “The Battery Recharger,” Cali is a global leader in addiction recovery, mental health, and performance optimization. She’s the founder of Sober On Demand®, and she’s spent over 25 years helping CEOs, athletes, creatives, and everyday people reset their brain chemistry, break free from burnout and addiction, and reclaim their lives.

💡 Episode Highlights:

Cali’s personal story of being prescribed Fen-Phen and the fallout when it was banned.

The dangers of sugar and why it’s one of the most addictive substances we face daily.

How sugar impacts not just physical health but also mental clarity and emotional stability.

Why high-performers are especially at risk of hidden addictions.

Tools Cali uses from neurofeedback to biohacking to help clients heal and thrive.

👉 Your Challenge This Week:
Go sugar-free for seven days. Notice how your body, mind, and mood respond. Hungry isn’t always about food it’s about what we run to when we’re empty.

🔗 Connect with Dr. Cali Estes:
Website: Sober On Demand®
X (Twitter): @caliestes

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