The Intentional Encourager Podcast

Episode 202 with Author, Speaker and Coach Lauren Roskilly

Author, Speaker and Coach Lauren Roskilly joins this episode and talks about:

• Being mindful of each other. 
• The boundary of our responsibilities. 
• The struggles of overthinking. 
• God's prompting to write her latest book. 
• Less Jonah, More Job. 
• Going from grief to depression. 
• Turning your mindset around. 
• What is your mind full of?
• Crying out to God for help. 
• Giving God all the areas of life. 
• Having fainting issues starting at 14 but actually getting a diagnosis in 2018. 
• Feeling the "Here We Go Again" feeling when having a fainting episode. 
• Concussing herself after each fainting episode. 
• Overcoming the mental part of her condition before physical healing came and the healing process the Lord took her through. 
• Learning how to deal with your circumstances as they are. 

Connect with Lauren on her Mindful of Christ Facebook page and YouTube Channel and www.mindfulofchrist.net

Find Lauren's books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=lauren+roskilly

Watch this episode on The Intentional Encourager Podcast YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/U76_idJ2BKM

Episode 201 with Director of Foster Care at Chestnut Mountain Ranch Greg Clutter

Director of Foster Care at Chestnut Mountain Ranch, in Morgantown, West Virginia, Greg Clutter joins this episode and talks about:

• Homeschooling his twin sons and the opportunities they created.
• Keeping his boys encouraged in different ways. 
• The toll of the opportunities they pursued for his boys was taking on him.
• The encouragement of his sons' High School basketball coach.
• The simple conversation he had with his sons from the time they were young. 
• What would happen to kids they serve without Chestnut Mountain Ranch. 
• Pointing boys to the true source of hope. 
• The startling statistics of their program and the shift in families in West Virginia.
• The instability of Foster Care. 
• Being on the original board of Chestnut Mountain Ranch and coming full circle. 
• Having emergency surgery and stopping to re-think things in his life.
• Losing a family friend suddenly.
• Who are you and what are you doing here?
• Looking at yourself and knowing your purpose. 

To find out more about Chestnut Mountain Ranch, go to www.cmrwv.org

Watch this episode on The Intentional Encourager Podcast YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/vf4YDjlko4E 

Episode 200 with Author and Counselor Evelyn Leite

Author and Counselor Evelyn Leite joins this episode and talks about: 

• Having a stroke caused by COVID and living with Brain fog and confusion. 
• Learning to compartmentalize. 
• Having a Photographic memory. 
• Sending her first manuscript to a company that owned a Treatment center. 
• 41 years of sobriety. 
• Working in a Treatment center before she got sober. 
• Knowing everything there was to know about alcoholism. 
• The message her father imbedded in her.
• Surrendering to the idea that God loved her. 
• Surviving a molestation attempt at age 9. 
• Whatever anyone says to you isn't about you. 
• The "3 Times" Rule. 
• Her Mother's example to her and how it shaped her. 
• How alcohol and drugs changes someone's personality. 
• The truth of Romans 8:28.

Connect with Evelyn and get her books at her website: www.evelynleite.com

Watch this episode on The Intentional Encourager Podcast YouTube Channel:  https://youtu.be/UhQxI4wezzQ

Bonus Episode Super Bowl and Sales with the Co-Host of The Surf and Sales Podcast Scott Leese and the Host of the Quarterback Dad Podcast

The Co-Host of the Surf and Sales Podcast Scott Leese and the Host of the Quarterback Dad Podcast Casey Jacox join this special Super Bowl and Sales episode and talk about:

 

• The power of belief and poise under pressure.
• Acting like the score is 0-0.
• The one thing we can do to create momentum. Having fun in the huddle.
• Finding little wins along the way.
• The one word Sales people don't like.
• Going internal to have the best performance.
• Turning off the distractions.
• Being Audible-ready.
• Game planning to be a buyer.
• The process of buying and selling.
• The film never lies and the power of Self-scouting.
• Never betting against a confident seller.

Connect with Scott and Casey on Linkedin; Twitter @thescottleese and @caseyjacox and find The Surf and Sales Podcast and The Quarterback Dad Podcast wherever you get podcasts.

Watch this episode on The Intentional Encourager Podcast YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/ZGM2mnZGwBU

Episode 199 with the EQ Gangster Noble Gibbens

The EQ Gangster Noble Gibbens joins this episode to talk about:

• The power of an emotional fitness program. 
• The book he used to help himself and others. 
• How hard it is to learn emotions. 
• Becoming fundamentally disfunctional. 
• The uncomfort and unknown of EQ. 
• Re-defining the word Gangster. 
• The three things his wife said to him after 20 years of marriage. 
• Turning the little monkey into an 800-LB gorilla. 
• Things to do to help your emotions. 
• Going into Army Ranger and Airborne school. 
• Being in a 20-year Business cult. 
• The episode his daughter had at 10 and how it changed him.
• Emotionally healthy people help heal others emotionally. 

Connect with Noble on Facebook and Linkedin and at www.eqgangster.com

Watch this episode on The Intentional Encourager Podcast YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/wpvppdlEj1s

Episode 198 with Writer, Blogger and Author of ”A Perfect Storm: Devotions During a Crisis” Sarah Nelson

Writer, Blogger and Author of "A Perfect Storm: Devotions During a Crisis" Sarah Nelson joins this episode and talks about: 

• Everyone understanding the impact of COVID. 
• Having a "V-8 Moment" with a friend. 
• The hope of the Scripture.
• Engaging in community. 
• Taking 7 years to write her book. 
• Never aspiring to be an author. 
• Her husband being an encourager in the process and his confirmation of her book idea.
• What she would have told herself in the writing process and the two big moments in her writing journey. 
• The time and place she cried out to God and the confirmation He provided three days later. 
• Having a fear of speaking before Moms. 
• The 2014 Ski Trip her family took and the traumatic event that happened on it. 
• Caring for a sick child 1000 miles from home. 
• The Medical community being baffled at the cause of her daughter's illness. 
• The conversation she had in the Utah ICU about her daughter and praying that her daughter would run. 
• Seeing mind over matter in person. 
• God is always with us. 

Connect with Sarah on Facebook or through her blog www.sarahnelsonblog.com and find her book on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Storm-Devotions-During-Crisis

Watch this episode on The Intentional Encourager Podcast YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/jgdMFWHIgUM

Episode 197 with The Strengths Encourager Wendy Willard

It's an Encourager Team-Up with The Strengths Encourager Wendy Willard joining this episode and talks about:

• Foster parenting 2 new children and working them into a "normal" life.
• Creativity improving Mental health. 
• Broken people coming together and the things that come from it.
• The 12 things that keep her anchored to truth. 
• The "Me" thing she has to do every day.
• The one piece of Intentional Encouragement she learned in the last year. 
• The prescription her friend gave her. 
• Using singing to change her thinking. 
• The ratio of things that energize you. 
• Descriptive vs. Perspective Strengths.
• The word she created. 
• Going to Nicaragua in 2005 and visiting a mission. 
• Parenting 24 Foster children. 
• The 5 Buckets of Needs. 
• The ABC's of Love. 
• The language we can use in the workplace. 

Connect with Wendy on Linkedin or at www.slathy.com

Watch this episode on The Intentional Encourager Podcast YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/ui1sKIq8wl8

Episode 196 with Entrepreneur and Preacher Jerry Touchstone

Entrepreneur and Preacher Jerry Touchstone joins this episode and talks about: 

• Being sensitive to what others around you are feeling. 
• Working at night to avoid the hustle and bustle and the peace he gets from working at night. 
• Having a quicker connection to the Lord. 
• His life as a Paramedic and the conversation that changed his life. 
• Keeping his employees mentally safe and not overreacting in his business. 
• Everyone being on the same page. 
• Being a leader rather than a boss. 
• Seeing two of his Pastors commit adultery. 
• The suicide note he found on his first call as an EMT.
• Becoming a Pastor and trying to suppress the feelings he was having over things he'd seen. 
• Resigning his church and stepping away from ministry. 
• The PTSD that developed from his life and career. 
• The conversation with his uncle and working the accident involving the uncle 2 hours later. 
• Diving into gaming to escape his PTSD feelings. 
• Getting to the end of his rope and beating back suicidal thoughts.
• Knowing he needed to be back in church and being desperate for a change. 
• Getting his healing from his PTSD. 
• God will help you. 

Connect with Jerry on Twitter @JWTouchstone and his group Apostolic Bread on Facebook

Watch this episode on The Intentional Encourager Podcast YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/Bfo-5QlGMQc

Episode 195 with Pastor and the Author of Forgiving the Nightmare Mark Sowersby

Pastor and the Author of Forgiving the Nightmare Mark Sowersby joins this episode and talks about:

• The 3 things he's always known and been reminded.
• The ways people celebrate, forms of celebration, seasons of celebration and how it impacts people. 
• The different expressions of life. 
• Having Dyslexia and writing a book.
• The moment God put on his heart to write a book and the person who gave him the title. 
• The encouragement he got to go to Bible college and the woman there who changed his life.
• Leading by serving. 
• The nightmare and the scars of his child abuse. 
• Coming across "religious" people who told him not to tell his story. 
• Wanting to feel a certain way about his abuse and abuser and feeling another. 
• The day the abuse stopped and the person who became his defender. 
• The right time in his life to meet his Biological father.
• What he felt after becoming a father and trusting the Lord through it. 

Connect with Mark on Facebook; the Facebook group Forgiving the Nightmare and www.forgivingthenightmare.com

Watch this episode on The Intentional Encourager Podcast YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/5sPhyAQPOTY

Episode 194 with the Authors of ”Journey Well: You Are More Than Enough” Byron and Mariah Edgington

The Authors of "Journey Well: You Are More Than Enough" Byron and Mariah Edgington join this episode and talk about:

• Living in South American and moving back to Iowa to care for Mariah's mother. 
• Being "We" instead of "Me."
• "No Mas Nieve" and the deep meaning behind it.
• Awareness being a critical advantage. 
• Having a choice and the opportunity of the choice. 
• Being in tune with your own belief system. 
• The underlying thought Byron had during his career. 
• Never knowing the people they would help after the intersection of the moment of time. 
• Finding lessons from negative moments in life. 
• The value of preparation, not being able to eliminate risk and the elusiveness of perfection.
• Learning to live with negative outcomes. 
• The reason their book needed to be published now. 
• Ignoring the Inner Critic. 
• Gaining and harvesting the gems from past experiences. 
• Allowing ourselves the grace to remember that we are all human.

Connect with Byron and Mariah on Linkedin or at www.mariahedgington.com 

Watch this episode on The Intentional Encourager Podcast YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/OSn9lTbnpKA