The UnlearnT Podcast
The UnlearnT Podcast is designed to help you gain the courage to change your mind about things you never thought you would change your mind about. Our hope is that you will begin to move towards a life of freedom after hearing stories from individuals who have chosen to unlearn some things in their lives.
Episodes
199 episodes
Mulan And The Courage To Be Yourself
We use Mulan as a lens for identity, leadership, and what it costs to grow into who we really are when the people closest to us expect someone else. We pull out the lessons hiding in the matchmaker scene, the training ground, and the palace to ...
Ain’t Nobody Coming To See You Otis
We rewatch The Temptations miniseries and pull out the leadership, faith, and real-life lessons hiding inside a classic story about talent, brotherhood, and fame. We wrestle with what it costs to build a legacy and how unhealed wounds, weak bou...
God's Plan vs. Your Process - Summer Movie Series "David"
We review the newly released "David" movie, and use his long road from shepherd to king to talk about freedom, process, and what it costs to change in middle adulthood. We contrast David’s worship-centered leadership with Saul’s insecurity and ...
“ I, Robot” And The Real Risks Of Outsourcing Our Humanity
We use iRobot to talk about how AI and robots shift from helpful tools into authorities we trust with truth, decisions, and even identity. We challenge ourselves to notice where convenience is quietly replacing discernment, community, and conne...
Summer Movie Series: Coming To America
We laugh our way through Coming To America while pulling out real lessons about tradition, identity, and what it takes to build a life that actually fits. We talk about self-worth, the environments we choose, and why timing and readiness matter...
Stop Arguing and Start Listening: Let's FINALLY Fix Our Communication!
We connect communication to the way people think, feel, and act, then show why relationships break when we assume everyone hears words the same way. We use the Life Languages framework to help you soften impact, build safety, and stop turning d...
You Got What You Prayer For, Now What?
We talk about what happens after you finally get the opportunity you prayed for and why the real work starts once you’re inside the door. We break down the mindset shifts that help us lead with humility, learn the culture, and grow into the com...
Free Game From Jill Scott!
We use Jill Scott’s decade framework to get honest about what work is supposed to teach us across our 20s, 30s, and the years ahead. We talk burnout, alignment, leadership, and the courage it takes to stop dragging old obligations into a new se...
It’s Time To Level Up: Negotiate Your Worth
We get practical about salary negotiation by breaking down how leaders think about budgets, value, and long-term plans, then show how to bring your rare strengths into the interview and the ask. We also zoom out to talk culture, wellness, and f...
Are You REALLY Ready for The Next Level?
We kick off a Level Up Series for anyone feeling the tension of transition and wanting more freedom through real growth. We talk as leaders and employees about trust, boundaries, blind spots, and the skills that actually prepare you for the nex...
Stop Running Towards Comfort… It’s Keeping You Stuck!
We talk about why comfort is more than a luxury and how it can turn into a survival system that keeps us from growing. We use marriage, leadership, relationships, and real-life seasons of change to push ourselves toward trust, alignment, and th...
Learn to Design YOUR “Soft Life”
We unpack what the “soft life” really means beyond the Instagram snapshot and why culture cannot be the author of our future. We talk alignment, seasons, mentorship, and the kind of foundation that makes abundance sustainable when life stops fe...
Your Desire To Be Motivated is Holding You Back!
We talk about why middle adulthood changes what leadership looks like and why our old sprinting habits leave us tired and stuck. We map a practical pathway from inspiration to real momentum by shifting mindset, taking the first step, then build...
It’s Time To Reclassify Your Friends
We talk about why middle adulthood forces change and why unlearning old mindsets creates more freedom and peace. We unpack how relationships and identity get rebuilt when old coping systems can no longer carry the weight of your life. ...
How to stop your public life from impacting your private love
We talk candidly about leading while single, dating without performance, and building relationships that honor the private self as much as the public role. We share how marriage reshaped leadership boundaries, why fans make poor partners, and h...
Your Leadership Style is Effecting Your Dating Life!
We map real leadership styles onto real relationships, from first dates to family life, and show how to keep strengths from turning into blind spots. We trade hype for honesty, outlining how service, vision, collaboration, and adaptability actu...
Stop Pausing Your Life While You Wait For Marriage
We unpack how single leaders can stop pausing life for marriage, ditch social media comparison, and embrace vulnerability and contentment now. We share money truths, healing tools, and stories that free us from performing a smaller self.
Single In Leadership: I Swiped the Wrong Way And Met My Husband
We share how choosing a partner as a leader starts with self-knowledge, honest community, and shrinking the list to core values. Ruth Abigail walks through leaving a Velcro situationship, reframing online dating, and finding a partner who frees...
If God Is Enough, Who Are You Without Your Resume?
We question why middle adulthood feels less free and unlearn the idea that single leaders must prove worth through nonstop achievement. We reframe purpose from output to identity, practice shared leadership, and learn to pray like children who ...
Escapism, Burnout, and the Unlearning of Rest as a Single Leader
We dig into the rhythms of rest for single leaders, why “always on” culture masks pride and fear, and how Sabbath realigns identity from performance to presence. We name escapism and avoidance, and we offer practices and people that help you ta...
Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Building Relationships that Endure (The Second Act)
A faith-filled love story moves from a college class pairing to a covenant tested by recession, a house fire, and an autism diagnosis, and rises into purpose as two attorneys build a family and a firm rooted in prayer. We close our season with ...
Second Act: Pressing Into Purpose and How to Navigate Changing Seasons
We map the journey from porch rules and legacy expectations to a crash that rewrote the plan, then to a comeback that finished the old vision and opened a bigger calling. Faith reframes pressure as privilege, and mentorship becomes a lifelong v...
The Second Act: When God’s Light met my Darkness
We trace Mikayla’s journey from crowns and depression to surrender, purpose and a swift second act marked by peace, service and marriage. A locked door opens, a pill bottle vanishes and a new life begins as we unpack belonging, exposure and the...
Second Act: What To Do When You’re Called Up Front!
We trace Catina Parrish Clark’s journey from insurance to education to chaplaincy and pastoring, exploring how obedience, formation, and care shape a faithful second act. We share honest lessons on leaving the familiar, guarding your soul, and ...