What if faith didn’t stop at inspiration and actually changed the way we live, decide, and love? We sit down with Reverend Simone Oliver—author, educator, minister, and life coach—to explore how practical discipleship turns belief into daily action. From a career in interior design to the classroom and then seminary, Simone’s story shows that callings can emerge in chapters, each one clarified by obedience and the steady work of the Holy Spirit.

We dig into the mechanics of thinking like Christ: pausing before reacting, managing emotions with spiritual discernment, and asking the unglamorous, vital question—what would Jesus do here? Simone reframes the Holy Spirit as comforter, advocate, and strategist, not merely a spark for Sunday excitement. The conversation moves into her book The Pearl of God’s Eye, where she gives women in Scripture a fuller voice and connects their stories to modern realities: domestic violence, sexual assault, single motherhood, and the silencing many encounter in church life. Her approach is restorative and disruptive in the best way, inviting communities to make room for gifts that often go overlooked.

With unflinching honesty, Simone shares survivor wisdom on safety, leaving abuse, and why it can take multiple attempts to break free. We pair that with a nurse’s lens on compassion with boundaries—how truth, accountability, and care can coexist. You’ll hear how to cultivate safe spaces, use spiritual practices that heal, and build rhythms of reading, prayer, and action that hold when emotions surge. We close with resources: her books and workbook, where to find her online, and upcoming events focused on Bible-rooted responses to domestic violence and moving from healing to wholeness.

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A rotating blue star on Birmingham’s skyline. A nurse walking into night shift with steady hands and a pen that won’t sleep. Kathleen Fentry joins us to share how a life in emergency rooms, ambulances, and volunteer firetrucks turned into poems that honor grief, grit, and everyday grace.

We trace the path from her first EMT classes in the early 90s to the front nozzle on a training burn, where a fire chief taught her to feel the split between safety and danger with one ungloved hand. Kathleen opens up about the family she found at Caraway Hospital, why that iconic blue star became a beacon for tired night-shifters and homebound travelers, and how closing those doors reshaped a community. She reads the heart of her Caraway poem and explains why nurses aren’t just task-doers but advocates, translators, and witnesses who hold a family together when the room starts to tilt.

Kathleen also takes us behind the lines of her book, Inspired Thoughts: waking in the night to write, turning a coal miner’s lost sunlight into a prayer, and capturing a great-granddaughter “chasing mommy’s feet” across the kitchen floor. We talk about her recognition at the International Society of Poets in Las Vegas, the next poetry collection on the way, and outlines for new novels and short stories—including a nudge to help a grandson publish his own. Along the way, we explore resource gaps between hospitals, why she trained for field medicine after a head-on crash, and how first responders learn to compartmentalize without going numb.

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A Navy uniform in a mall window set off a chain of choices that led from boot camp to med school—and then to a new kind of healing grounded in prevention, food, and steady habits. We sit down with Dr. Chi Chi to unpack how a hypertension scare, the grind of residency applications, and stories of physician burnout reshaped her approach to care and to her own life. The result is a practical playbook for anyone who’s tired of feeling overprescribed and under-supported.

We get specific about the hidden traps in modern care: rushed visits, fragmented charts, and the ease of piling on duplicate medications. Real cases—triple beta blockers from three clinics, years of NSAID use quietly harming kidneys—show why self-advocacy and medication literacy matter. From there, we shift to what works: co-created goals, tiny wins, and strength training to protect muscle as we age. Dr. Chi Chi shares how a trainer can double your perceived limits, why hydration needs to be personalized, and how to design routines that are too simple to skip.

Food takes center stage. We talk about herbs that reduce sodium dependence, the difference between fueling recovery and inflaming your system after a workout, and why the “I exercised, so I earned fast food” mindset backfires. The sugar segment is candid: craving is real, cancer cells love glucose, and vague advice to “eat whatever” during treatment can hurt more than help. We also explore her morning celery juice practice—fresh-pressed, simple, sometimes softened with green apple—and the community challenges that make it stick. Listeners will leave with clear steps, from bringing every pill bottle to appointments to trying a 7-day reset that builds momentum without overwhelm.

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