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We Take the Stairs Podcast

We Take the Stairs Podcast

Di: Rachael Sher and Jackson Young
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 The two hosts of We Take the Stairs, Rachael and Jackson have a mission to help change the lives of men. They aim to do this through authentic storytelling, personal growth, faith, and transformative dialogue. Their rich tapestry of experience from different backgrounds and life experiences create a podcast that resonates with honesty, empathy, and hope. As co-hosts, they bring to the table a deep belief in the power of connection, whether through conviction, kindness, or shared stories, to inspire change and build bridges between people. Their discussions are grounded in sincerity and an openness to learn from one another. With a commitment to honesty, humility, and empowerment, they invite listeners into a space where vulnerability meets transformation, encouraging everyone to take the stairs—one meaningful step at a time.© 2026 Rachael, Jackson Catechesi ed evangelismo Cristianesimo Spiritualità Successo personale Sviluppo personale
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  • He Tried to Disprove the Bible. It Changed His Life. | Ft. Josh

    He Tried to Disprove the Bible. It Changed His Life. | Ft. Josh
    Sep 19 2026
    Episode SummaryMost men aren't failing because they're weak — they're failing because they've been lied to. Red pill masculinity, New Age philosophy, self-help culture, social media success gurus — Josh has tried all of it. He spent a decade as an atheist, went deep into psychedelics and New Age spirituality, built a business, got married — and still hit rock bottom. Then he picked up the Bible to disprove it, and read the whole thing in a year and a half.What follows is one of the most honest testimonies We Take the Stairs has recorded. Josh doesn't preach. He maps it — the deception, the breakdown, the surrender, and what the other side actually looks like. And he leaves every man listening with one clear challenge: you can't get the promotion without the preparation, and you can't skip the painful season to get there.Guest Josh — Entrepreneur, faith leader, and man of faith based in West Palm Beach, Florida. Josh grew up without a father, spent a decade searching through atheism, New Age, and psychedelics before encountering Jesus two years ago. He now leads men and serves in his local church community, working to break generational cycles and build the kind of brotherhood he never had growing up.Chapters00:00 — The One Question: Men Are Deceived00:53 — No One's Coming to Save You — The Lie That Destroys Men01:47 — Boys in Men's Bodies — The Rite of Passage Nobody Gives Anymore02:39 — Don't Blame Jesus When Men Play Him Badly04:39 — A Decade of Atheism, New Age & Psychedelics — Still Empty06:25 — Two Conversations: Men in the World vs. Men in the Church07:44 — I Loved My Conditions, Not Myself — The Marriage Breakdown28:56 — You Can Glorify God in All Things — Even the Fight33:19 — Find a Mentor. The Greatest One Is the Holy Spirit.44:08 — The Push-Up Story: Correction With Love46:44 — Grace as a Permission Slip — The False Version of Christ47:27 — Fear of God Isn't Fearing His Presence — It's Fearing His Absence57:26 — Suffering Is God's Preparation for PromotionKey Topics CoveredMen Are Deceived — Josh's immediate answer: men aren't weak — they're deceived. By red pill culture, by manifesting, by the no-one's-coming-to-save-you narrative that turns men inward and isolates them from the one relationship that can actually help.Boys in Men's Bodies — One of the most piercing observations of the episode. Most men were never initiated into manhood. There was no rite of passage. No father to look them in the eye and say, this is who you are now. The result is a generation of boys navigating adult lives with no framework for what a man is supposed to be.Don't Blame Jesus When Men Play Him Badly — Josh's father was on his fourth marriage, abusing his family, and professing Christianity — and it kept Josh from Jesus for 28 years. His reframe: don't blame Mozart if someone plays him badly. The failure is in the player, not the composer.A Decade of Searching — And Still Empty — Atheism. New Age. Psychedelics. Business success. Marriage. Josh had everything the world said would make him whole — and was still crippled with depression and anxiety. It took his marriage nearly collapsing before he dropped to his knees and found out the difference between loving himself and loving his conditions.He Read the Bible to Disprove It — One of the most compelling conversion stories this show has heard. Josh didn't come to faith gently. He came to it as a skeptic, Bible in hand, trying to find the holes. Two years later, his life is unrecognizable.The Push-Up Story — A social media video Josh shares that stops the conversation cold. A six-year-old boy talks back to his mother. The father corrects him — push-ups, tears, and then a full embrace: we do not talk to your mom that way. I love you so much. Correction with love. Both sides. That's what men need and most never had.Grace as a Permission Slip — Josh names one of the most dangerous distortions in the modern church: using Jesus's grace as a green light to keep sinning. He draws a clear line — if you love him, you do what he says. Grace isn't permission. It's power.Suffering Is Preparation for Promotion — The closing framework that ties everything together. God's seasons of pruning, wilderness, and refining fire aren't punishment. They're preparation. You can't have authority over something you haven't battled. You can't be promoted to something you haven't been prepared for.Scriptures ReferencedJohn 15 — Abide in me, I am the vine and you are the branches2 Corinthians 12 — My grace is sufficient for youProverbs — A wise man seeks many advisorsJob — Everything taken away, faith made pure, blessed with doubleMatthew 19:26 — With God all things are possibleKey Quotes"Men are deceived — by culture, by society, by the lie that no one's coming to save you." — Josh"Don't blame Mozart if someone plays Mozart badly. A lot of people blame Jesus when people play Jesus badly." — Josh"I ...
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    59 min
  • Stop Hiding It. It's Growing in the Dark. | Ft. Caleb Read

    Stop Hiding It. It's Growing in the Dark. | Ft. Caleb Read
    Sep 12 2026
    Episode SummaryThe wisest man who ever lived fell to it. The strongest man who ever lived fell to it. And today, at 20 years old, Caleb — a camp counselor, youth ministry leader, and man who was first exposed to pornography by a family member at age 10 — is one of the most honest voices on this show about what the oversexualization of culture is actually doing to men.This episode doesn't flinch. Caleb names the problem, traces it back to its roots, shares what happened when he started having the conversation in a room of high school boys, and explains the one framework that actually moves the needle — not willpower, not avoidance, but accountability dragged into the light.Guest Caleb — 20-year-old youth ministry leader, camp counselor, and man of faith based in West Palm Beach, Florida. Caleb serves high school men weekly, leads a lust accountability group, and is engaged to be married. He has been on the front lines of this issue since childhood and brings a rare combination of personal testimony and practical ministry experience.Chapters00:00 — The One Question: Oversexualization of Culture00:59 — Samson and Solomon: The Wisest and Strongest Men Both Fell01:50 — You Can't Just Avoid the Street Anymore — It's Everywhere04:12 — How Caleb Was Raised: Homeschool, Church, and Passport to Purity06:02 — Exposed at Age 10 — And What Those Two Years Did to His Mind08:21 — The Perception Was Already Skewed Before the Conversation32:47 — Over 80% of Men Are Experiencing Porn — It's Not If, It's When38:45 — Nine Out of Ten Boys at Camp: "I Have a Porn Addiction"41:41 — Greater Exposure Requires Greater Self-Control — Not Less Standard45:19 — The Solution: Purposeful, Intimate Accountability With Other Men47:54 — The Group Chat: Free or Not Free — Every Morning50:03 — The Bird You Can't Stop and the Second Look You CanKey Topics CoveredThe Oversexualization of Culture — Caleb's answer is immediate and unambiguous: the sheer abundance and unavoidability of sexual content is the defining crisis for men today. It's not the beach anymore. It's school, the mall, Pinterest, YouTube. Boys aren't seeking it out — it's finding them.Samson and Solomon — One of the most powerful biblical anchors of the episode. If the strongest man and the wisest man in Scripture both fell to lust, what does that say about the standard required today — and the humility required to admit you need help?Exposed at Age 10 — Caleb's personal story is told with remarkable honesty. A family member introduced him to pornography at age 10. By the time his father took him through Passport to Purity at 12, the damage was already done. He felt guilt — but not freedom. That gap between knowing it's wrong and being free from it is where millions of men live permanently.Nine Out of Ten Boys at Camp — After serving as a camp counselor, Caleb sat across from boy after boy from his own church who said the same thing: I have an addiction to pornography. Not a handful. Not a few. Nine out of ten. His response wasn't despair — it was a group chat.The Group Chat: Free or Not Free — One of the most practically powerful moments of the show. Caleb leads a group of 20+ high school guys who text one word every morning: free or not free. No judgment. No lectures. Just honesty in community. And that honesty is what strips the addiction of its power.Leave It in the Dark, It Grows Like Mold — The core framework Caleb returns to throughout: pornography is designed to isolate. It tells you you're the only one. The moment you drag it into community, it starts to lose its grip. Don't hide sin under the rug — what's left in the dark grows.The Bird and the Second Look — Caleb's practical teaching for his guys: you can't stop the first thought — your brain has been rewired. But you can stop the second look. You can make a decision in that moment: that's God's daughter. That's where the battle is actually fought.Identity in Christ, Not in the World — The closing challenge Caleb gives to anyone still searching: stop looking for value in the world. The world will never give you enough. Christ already told you what you're worth — and the standard he set doesn't shift based on what's trending.Scriptures ReferencedProverbs — Don't walk down the prostitute's roadEcclesiastes 1:9 — Nothing new under the sun1 Corinthians 6 — Flee sexual immoralityThe stories of Samson and Solomon — strength and wisdom defeated by lustKey Quotes"The wisest man and the strongest man were both defeated by lust — and they had far less access to it than we do today." — Caleb"You keep leaving your addiction under the rug — it's going to keep growing like mold." — Caleb"Porn is meant to isolate you. Bringing community into it makes it lose its power." — Caleb"You can't stop the bird from flying over your head — but you can keep it from making a nest there." — Caleb"You can't stop the first thought. But you can stop ...
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  • The Tower You Built Around Yourself | Ft. Toby DeMoss

    The Tower You Built Around Yourself | Ft. Toby DeMoss
    Sep 12 2026
    Episode SummaryMost men aren't just disconnected from others — they're disconnected from themselves. And according to Toby DeMoss — musician, artist, and a man who survived a traumatic brain and neck injury, a devastating breakup, disability rejection, and a panic attack alone in a shower — the word that sits at the root of every problem men are facing today is one: isolation.Not the kind you notice. The quiet kind. The kind where you're still showing up, still functioning, still looking good in the glass — but rotting on the inside like a dead turtle in a mason jar. Toby tells three of the most vivid, honest, and unexpectedly funny stories this podcast has ever heard. And by the end, the diagnosis is clear — and so is the cure.Guest Toby DeMoss — Musician, artist, storyteller, and man of faith based in West Palm Beach, Florida. Toby has walked through chronic pain, identity collapse, and deep isolation — and come out the other side with a framework for honesty that is both clinically wise and spiritually rooted.Chapters00:00 — The One Question: Isolation00:43 — The Three-Headed Problem — Three Stories to Explain It01:25 — Story 1: The Half-Truth Journal — Lying to Yourself05:38 — Story 2: Bruno the Turtle — Looking Fine Until Someone Gets Close08:35 — The Brain Injury Nobody Knew the Extent Of33:37 — God, I Give You One Week — Isaiah 1 and the Turning Point37:57 — Suffering Is the Bridge From Immaturity to Maturity41:50 — Story 3: Rapunzel — The Panic Attack in the Shower45:33 — The Roommate Who Didn't Wait to Be Invited In01:04:26 — The Victor Hugo Move: Get Alone and Get Honest01:06:36 — Isolation From God — What Communion Actually MeansKey Topics CoveredIsolation From Self — The first head of the problem. Men are so schedule-maxed and scroll-addicted that they never give themselves blank space to be honest about how they're actually doing. Toby calls it lying to your journal — telling yourself the story you want to be true instead of the one that is.Bruno the Turtle — One of the most memorable analogies this show has ever had. A dead turtle Toby found on the beach looked beautiful in a glass jar — right up until someone got close enough to tap on it. Men do the same thing. They look fine from the outside. But if no one ever gets close enough to check, the decay goes unnoticed until it's too late.Isolation From Others — The second head. Men suffer alone because they believe no one will understand. Toby names this as the lie of Mother Gothel — the voice that says it's safer in the tower. The cure isn't going to therapy. Sometimes it's a roommate who doesn't wait to be invited in.The Traumatic Brain Injury and Identity Collapse — Toby's personal story is raw and gripping. A neck and brain injury took away his photography business, his athletics, and his sense of self — all at once. He gave God one week. He opened to Isaiah 1. And something broke open.Suffering Is the Bridge — Romans 5 lived out in real time. Toby traces how suffering produces perseverance, which produces character, which produces hope. Not as a platitude — as a testimony from someone who had to live it in a dark room with a noise machine on.Isolation From God — The third and deepest head. Communion with God isn't a structured quiet time. It's honest conversation. Toby's definition of communion — the sharing and exchanging of intimate feelings — reframes what prayer is actually supposed to look like for men.The Victor Hugo Move — Victor Hugo locked himself in a room with nothing but a gray shawl and wrote Les Misérables. Toby applies the same principle: create margins on the page, get alone with Jesus, and let honesty do its work.Scriptures ReferencedIsaiah 1:18 — Come now, let us reason togetherPsalm 25 — The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear himPsalm 62 — Pour your hearts out to the LordPsalm 19 — The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soulGalatians 6:2 — Bear one another's burdensJohn 15 — No longer servants but friendsRomans 5 — Suffering produces perseverance, character, hopeKey Quotes"The problem is isolation. The answer is honesty." — Toby"Are you lying to your journal? Telling stories to yourself that aren't true?" — Toby"You might look amazing from the outside — but someone needs to get close enough to tap on the glass." — Toby"Safety breeds honesty and creativity." — Toby"Suffering is a bridge from immaturity to maturity." — Toby"Get alone with Jesus more often. Create some margins on that page." — Toby"Plans fail for lack of counsel — but with many advisors they succeed." — Toby (Proverbs 15:22)Practical TakeawaysCreate white space in your day — blank, unscheduled time to be honest with yourself about how you're actually doingIf you're in a good place right now, go find someone who seems down and tap on the glassGet alone with God and pour it all out — not trickles, not formalities, the real stuff
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    1 ora e 9 min
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