Vocation Care

Episode 76 -A Covid Christmas Blessing

Episode 76 -A Covid Christmas Blessing

Christmas will be different this year - the lights, the festivities… they've all been canceled. Our plans, our gatherings… it's all going to be different. And yet there's something deep in this advent, in this pandemic, that is for us to understand.

Grab a cup of warm, soothing tea and join Steve as he takes the story of Mary and Joseph and how to live in the blessing of what might be called a Covid Christmas Blessing.

Episode 75 - The TRUE State of Your Soul

Episode 75 - The TRUE State of Your Soul

Steve sits down with Peter Ivey and together they talk about The State of the Soul---and how to use the brand new tool they developed for you.

Today’s episode is far more than a podcast: it's the distillation of what Steve and Peter both know about the soul, and how to try to get our hands around our souls--if that is even possible.

Episode 74 - Recharging Your Inner Battery: Soul Care in Depleting Times

Episode 74 - Recharging Your Inner Battery: Soul Care in Depleting Times

Today’s message is vital and central. It's about how to recharge your inner batteries. In so many ways, it's urgent to just listen and reflect upon this conversation. That's why I'm asking you to just stop what you're doing and schedule a time right now to just listen.

Episode 62 - Soulcare in Exhaustion

Episode 62 - Soulcare in Exhaustion

Today is the start of our fourth season, and we are changing things up a bit with a new format that will be more reflective, personal, and focused on Soul Care in Anxious Times. This week’s episode is Steve sharing his recent struggles with exhaustion… that deep in the heart, soul weary exhaustion that many of us are struggling with now. It’s a beautiful episode that will speak to your heart and soul and help you find the unforced rhythms of grace.

"Best of" Conversations: Episode 19 - The Rhythm of Life

"Best of" Conversations: Episode 19 - The Rhythm of Life

What is the rhythm of our life/the speed in which we live in? This week’s podcast will help you look at your own rhythm and how the urgency in today’s world should not dictate how you manage and care for your own soul. Steve will take you through the scriptures mentioned below and will then lead us in a reflection on Matthew 11:28-30.

Episode 61 - The Resilient Life, Part 3: Rebuilding a Life of Resilience

Episode 61 - The Resilient Life, Part 3: Rebuilding a Life of Resilience

Today is our final part on "The Resilient Life” (Listen to Part 1, The Resilient Life: In The Wilderness and Part 2, The Resilient Life: Living and Leading the Resilient Life)

It’s a conversation between Steve and Kelley Mossburg, a market leader, on how he learned to rebuild his life with resilience. It's such an honest witness to how a man hit a wall--then learned to rebuild his entire life. You will not want to miss this.

Episode 42 - Redefining Success through Doing Your Inside Job

Episode 42 - Redefining Success through Doing Your Inside Job

Effective leaders work very hard to succeed, but often at the cost of their own souls. They are challenged to keep themselves emotionally and spiritually healthy in order to survive success to keep their humanity intact. This is the work within the work, and the topic of today’s podcast.

Today we turn the tables as we re-air an interview Steve gave to Warren Smith, publisher of "WORLD "magazine, and producer and host of the nationally syndicated radio program "Listening In."

Episode 25 - Spiritual Identity: Exploring the Three Core Lies

Episode 25 - Spiritual Identity: Exploring the Three Core Lies

We struggle to identity ourselves, but what is the real truth about our Identity?

Today Dustin is talking about Identity with David Sachsenmaier, a trained and certified executive coach whose identity was challenged by a family crisis as a child and now focuses on identity as a cornerstone in his work with others.

Episode 19 - The Rhythm of Life

Episode 19 - The Rhythm of Life

What is the rhythm of our life/the speed in which we live in? This week’s podcast will help you look at your own rhythm and how the urgency in today’s world should not dictate how you manage and care for your own soul. Steve will take you through the scriptures mentioned below and will then lead us in a reflection on Matthew 11:28-30.

Episode 17 - The Critical Journey, Part 1

Episode 17 - The Critical Journey, Part 1

How do we determine where we are on the spiritual journey? It can be 1 step forward, 2 steps back! This is what we call the Critical Journey, a model that includes 6 stages in our journey in Soul Care. Today we will be discussing the first three stages (next week we will discuss the final three stages):

1.      The Recognition of God

2.      The Life of Discipleship

3.      The Productive Life

Episode 11 - Discernment: The Journey to Discover God’s Will

Episode 11 - Discernment: The Journey to Discover God’s Will

All of us are looking to discover God’s will. We all need clarity in making decisions. This exciting conversation between Steve and Father Tim Corbley unpacks spiritual discernment, defined as the art of finding clarity. Through discernment, our goal is to “find God in all things.”  Father Tim was Steve Smith’s spiritual guide for year long journey Steve took in 2017, called The Ignatian Exercises. This conversation is like listening to two seasoned souls talk of deep things. 

Episode 1 - Introducing Potter’s Inn Soul Care Conversations

Episode 1 - Introducing Potter’s Inn Soul Care Conversations

Our team is excited to launch this Pilot Episode of the new podcast from Potter’s Inn! Listen now as we gathered around the lunch table to discuss our hopes and dreams for this podcast. Then, hear a excerpts of conversations we had in making future episodes: Kaylene and Gwen talk about Sabbath Keeping, Gwen discussed the importance of our individual story, Steve and Gwen interview Dr. Randy James about the Body-Soul connection, Steve sits with Scott Stearman, a sculpture, as they unpack the shaping of our souls, and Dustin chats heart-to-heart with Kevin Miller, a friend and host of the Ziglar Show Podcast. Finally, we introduce a “Moment to Breath,” which will be contemplative opportunity in each episode to listen to a poem, story, or reading to reflect on. Today, Joe Chambers reads the poem Fire by Judy Brown.