Preach Where You Reach®
Preach Where You Reach is a podcast for everyday professionals navigating purpose, leadership, burnout, and integrity in the real world of work. Each episode features honest conversations with people living out their Christian faith where it matters most, not on a stage, but in meetings, decisions, and relationships.
Preach Where You Reach®
E171: Linda Hansen and Raymond & Leslie Funk (Double Feature)
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These special, condensed conversations were recorded at the 2026 U.S. Christian Chamber of Commerce SWC Conference in Orlando.
Linda Hansen - political strategist, #1 best-selling author, speaker, and podcast host - shares her faith story and her work including growing up in a loving home; Christ becoming more real at the birth of her first child; seeking Jesus beyond the ritual of church; Jesus became very real, but so did Satan; the importance of being patient with new believers; diving into the living word of God; the genesis of her political journey; understanding “freedom” as it relates to a believer; God, Family, Country; the importance of understanding the connection between policy and paycheck; the “mountains of culture”; and much more!
Raymond & Leslie’s episode starts at 26:07 mark
Raymond & Leslie Funk - founders of Three Cord Marriage - shares their faith, their honesty, and their calling including Raymond initially being offended by God; how an encounter while doing dishes was his Saul to Paul-type transition; Leslie being saved as a child but walked away in her teen years; how going to a Pentecostal church was so different but exciting for Raymond; the beginnings of their Three Cord Marriage ministry; choosing abstinence in their pre- marital relationship; Raymond’s affairs during marriage; feeling God calling them to this ministry; deciding to have the marriage God intended for you; and much more!