The B-Sides

[This episode has Amy Alderman, Stoy Prioleau, and Joey Svendsen] Joey brought up his lack of interest in the WNBA as well as his unmatched preference for women's gymnastics over men's gymnastics as an ice breaker in this episode; but the conversation evolved and carried on into what "being a boy" and "being a girl means," as well as the impact of nature verses nurture in such matters. Joey shares a bullying situation from middle school and Joey and Amy try to understand what Stoy means...

Steadfast Summit Conference (March 28th & 29th, Charleston Southern University) Jessie Evans, M.Ed., LPC joins the podcast to discuss her work of bridging professional counseling with faith. Her and Joey discuss experiences (good and bad) they've encountered in how the church handles mental health issues. They also reflect on personal struggles in their own mental health and in the process discuss EMDR therapy, the importance of sleep, perinatal OCD, Internal Family Systems (I...

[This episode has Hayne Griffin, Stoy Prioleau, and Joey Svendsen in it] Stoy is quiet and usually disregarding of politics but the recent "meeting" with Trump and Zelensky has his head swirling, motivating him to "talk politics" with some fervor on this one. Hayne is very distrustful of politicians, the media, the church, and people who are "bought." He also reminds us all of some ancient wisdom about fear. And Joey just had to use this episode to get Stoy's reaction on hea...

[This episode has Chip Judd, Roy Jacques and Joey Svendsen in it. It originally aired on Mental Health + Mission of the Church Podcast] Chip Judd, friend of this podcast having made numerous appearances on it through the years, has had quite the recent life journey that could have ended his life, given his lungs were failing him. It's a story of a tragic loss of life with some redemption in it. Chip's life is no longer in danger, at least no more than the rest of us, bu...

[This episode has Amy Alderman, Hayne Griffin, Jed Payne and Joey Svendsen in it] Is pledging allegiance to a flag weird or even creepy? If one believes in hell, is it kind of psycho to make jokes about people going there? Just how much does God intervene in the affairs of humanity and work on behalf of people's prayers? And if God intervenes in more important "life or death" matters, why does God only stop a few? These questions discussed and no answers were establish...