Friends! This is it. The final episode of Season 3. Let's call it an Epilogue, but it's really a conclusion with a ton of "what do we do now" kind of stuff.  It's a wrap-up, so in many ways, it could have made a great intro episode...

Season 3, episode 8: "Parenting in the You Do You Era."This episode is our attempt at re-focusing parenting on raising disciples of Jesus.To that end, we draw from parenting "fails" that stem from the junk values of the YDYE, an...

Season 3, episode 7: "Love and Marriage in the You Do You Era."When relationships are simply an additional tool for you to be "your best self" or to find who you are...then you know you're living in the You do You Era. Today we ...

Season 3, episode 6: "Technology is Forming You and Failing to Transform You."Your phone is not a tool.  It is not neutral.Your phone is a cash-cow device designed to get you to pick it up, use it,  never put ...

Season 3, episode 5: "Depression thrives on the You Do You Era's narrative."Humans have never had more access to self help media and mental health drugs than right now.  And yet, depression and anxiety are the hallmark pat...

Season 3, episode 4: "The World has Lost its Enchantment."Key to the You Do You Era's self-focused ideas for what it means to be a human is this: The world is disenchanted; everything has a natural explanation; God is ...

Season 3, episode 3: "How the Concept of Faith has been Distorted and Makes us More Selfish."Friends! Faith is a private matter, and God just wants you to do what feels good, be the best version of yourself, and be a good dude, ...

Season 3, episode 2: "Seeing Yourself in God's Story...not the other way around."Friends: To be fully human is to be authentic to yourself and your inner voice above all others...That's the mantra of the You Do You Era...

Following Jesus in the You Do You Era.Season 3 is here!Be true to yourself...Follow your heart...Be authentic to yourself...Live your best life...You are the captain of your fate...Chart your own pat...

Nick and Dairus team up to talk about "When Things in Life Just Don't Work out." - When you move the chess pieces of your life the right way, but you still don't get the job or assignment or position.- When you marry the right ...

Welcome to Dr. Matthew Sleeth!Dr. Sleeth:- Former ER physician and Chief of Medical Staff.- Resigned to teach about faith and health.- His uncle wrote a book with J.R.R. Tolkein!!- His first religion was the America...

Dairus sits down with John Garland, pastor in San Antonio, TX.John has spent his entire career in ministry serving in places with extreme poverty and suffering, notably along the southern border.They talk about:- Suffering a...

Hello friends! Nick sits down with senior chaplain for U.S. Special Operations Command, Dave Bowlus.He and I reflect on the low points and high points of his ministry over the last 20 years, and chat about how families might “keep the w...

Dairus sits down with 3x CrossFit Games athlete, former Army Officer, former West Point collegiate wrestler, and all-round INCREDIBLE human being, Chandler Smith.We chat about set backs...how they surprise us, and  how an active re...

Welcome Mike Sanders, former Strength and Conditioning coach at the University of Denver, and current Human Performance Coach for U.S. Special Operations Forces.  Mike's an OG. He's been around. I absolutely love his wisdom, probab...

“Behind every act of valor, there is love.” Dairus talks with award winning documentary producer Justin Roberts. While serving in Afghanistan as an Army Chaplain in the 101st Airborne Division’s “NO SLACK” battalion, Justin armed h...

We are talking all things Parenting and Self Awareness.Madeleine is a multiple #1 international best selling author, a TedX speaker, and the founder of Fast Results Now Training and Coaching Solutions. She has over 30 years experience i...

Longtime friend, Duke Th.D candidate, Purple Heart recipient, author, and fellow chaplain Adam Tietje is here.Adam served for ten years as an active duty army chaplain, in 3rd Special Forces Group, 101st Airborne, and as a Hospital Chap...

“I gave my life to God in Mogadishu.”From basic training to Airborne School, from Ranger School to the Ranger Regiment, and then… to Mogadishu, Somalia: That’s how Brian McCroskey’s military career started.He was a young enlisted ...

Dairus sits down with our friend Tim Spayd!Tim shares his experiences as a young Ranger with JTF 1-79, Operation Eagle Claw, Charlie Beckwith (founder of Delta), touring and playing with the band Foreigner (“I wanna know what love is!”)...

Christianity, in its best form and most mature traditions, teaches you how to die-in-life, how to see, and how to come alive.Death, sight, and life.In the ancient traditions, these experiences are called the Desert, the Mountain...

Dairus Barnes sits down with his friend and former colleague, CSM(R) Chris Fields.  Chris served 30 years in the Army as an Infantryman, and is now a licensed counselor who works in full time ministry at a local church in Clarksvil...

Two friends interview each other. It feels like a bro session (it is), but instead of lifting weights and yelling “light weight baby!!” we’re discussing the things that have form...

Are you literally waiting for 2020 to be over? Do you find yourself hoping for 2021 to bring something new? We are all in a season... a very long season, of waiting, wanting, and hoping. Listen and discove...

Let's talk about March 4, 2002, merely six months after 9/11/01:  The day Nate Self led a platoon of Rangers in a 15 hour battle on the top of a 10,000 ft. mountaintop in Afghanistan called Takur Ghar. From that battle, two pe...