For many believers, recent conversations around church leadership, prophetic ministry, and spiritual authority haven't just felt theological — they've felt deeply personal.

In this episode, Spencer Robbins and Josh Straub sit down to talk honestly about what surfaces when trust is broken, leaders fall, and faith feels shaken — especially in light of the growing discussion around Shawn Bolz and Bethel Church.

This isn't a reaction episode or an online takedown. It's a grounded, compassionate conversation about how to walk through church hurt, leadership disappointment, and spiritual grief without partnering with cynicism, accusation, or walking away from God altogether.

Together, they explore why we place leaders on pedestals, how wounds quietly shape our view of God, and what it looks like to hold justice and compassion at the same time. They also share practical ways to grieve well, rebuild trust, and process pain honestly instead of spiritually bypassing it.

This episode is for anyone who:

• Feels unsettled or faith-shaken by recent events
• Has experienced church hurt or leadership betrayal
• Wants healthy discernment without becoming cynical
• Is carrying anger, confusion, or grief beneath the surface
• Desires to reconnect with God after disappointment

At its heart, this conversation invites you to bring your pain into the light, remove people from pedestals, and rediscover a faith rooted in relationship — not performance or platforms.

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Many Christians long for freedom, healing, and intimacy with God—yet remain exhausted, anxious, or stuck in cycles of striving and self-effort.

In this episode, Spencer Robbins and Josh Straub explore what happens when faith quietly shifts from relationship to performance. They talk honestly about burnout, the hidden addiction to significance, and why shame—not sin—is often the real barrier to transformation.

Together, they unpack the difference between guilt and shame, why grace must come before truth can be lived, and how control disguises itself as faithfulness. This conversation invites listeners to examine whether they are pursuing freedom—or merely managing behavior to feel safe.

This episode is for anyone who:

• Feels tired of trying harder spiritually

• Struggles with shame or fear of being exposed

• Knows the gospel intellectually but doesn't feel free emotionally

• Wants a faith rooted in union, not performance

At its core, this is an invitation to trade control for trust—and discover the freedom that comes from being loved before you change.

To find freedom, healing, and emotional wholeness, check out the Alive & Free Collective:
👉 www.aliveandfreeconsulting.com

To become a life coach and learn how to help people get free emotionally while building a meaningful business, watch our Coach Training:
👉 www.aliveandfreeconsulting.com

You might call it ambition. Work ethic. Faithfulness. Discipline.
But sometimes "busy" is just pain avoidance with better branding.

In this episode, Spencer and Sammi unpack what they call hustloin—the cycle where hustle and busyness become a way to outrun what you don't know how to feel. From the tension of motherhood and autonomy, to entrepreneurship, provision pressure, and the subtle addiction to significance… we get honest about what's really driving you when you can't slow down.

We talk about:

• The difference between purposeful work and pain-driven hustle

• How "I have to do it all" creates chronic overwhelm

• Why you can't problem-solve well while you're triggered (and what to do first)

• The motherhood tension: impact and autonomy vs presence and slow living

• The "10x version of you" high—and how it can become a form of self-medication

• Integrity, impostor syndrome, and why connection has to come first

If you've been calling it productivity but it feels like pressure… this conversation will put language to what's happening inside you—and give you a path back to peace without quitting your life.

If this hit home, share it with a friend who's "always busy."
And if you want to go deeper into emotional health, wholeness, and building a life from connection, stay close—we're bringing you into the real conversation.

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