STP 1200 Club Spotlight with Sean Moran of Red Barn Financial 💼🙏
Release Date: 04/22/2025
Building Character with Josh Chapman
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Josh Chapman was born 3 months early and breathed through a straw. He now fixes chainsaws and works at Home Depot. Trent sits down with Josh and his sister Katie taking it all the way back to expand his airway. Katie explains why that matters today: Josh's normal breathing is basically breathing through a straw, so physical activity is hard, but you would never know it watching him work. From there it turns into pure Josh. He talks about the weed eater he found broken, how he took it home, and how he fixed it. He lays out the Josh Method, which is simpler than Marie Kondo: if it...
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Success Starts with Skills, Not Circumstances
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Alex Piedra, pediatric dentist, entrepreneur, and Harvard education graduate, joins us at Spread The Positive to share the mindset that helped him overcome poverty, family hardship, and setbacks to build a life centered on service. From immigrating to the United States as a young child to treating more than 60 patients a day, Alex explains why your circumstances don't define your future—your skills do. Katie and Alex talk about growing up below the poverty line, the way the 2008 recession affected their childhoods, choosing dentistry over medicine, and leading with...
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You Don't Have to Do This Alone with Therapist Sarah Amos on Grief & Trauma
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Licensed therapist Sarah Amos on when you actually need therapy, EMDR, and grief. Stephanie sits down with Sarah Amos, owner and lead therapist at Sparrow Creek Counseling in Nashville, for a full conversation about mental health. Sarah explains the name behind her practice: sparrows know how to protect themselves, so when a storm rolls in or food gets scarce, they find a cool dry place to rest and preserve their energy instead of powering through. That's how she sees therapy, a creek where you rest before you go back out to fly. They get into the real stuff. Sarah gives the...
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From Dreams To Reality With Annlee Head and Rachael Jarman
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Annlee Head and Rachael Jarman on their experiences in the 2026 MTSU Truck/ Bonnaroo course offered by the university. Both Juniors, the two have a strong passion for live video production and were determined to make this year's road crew for Bonnaroo. While in the program the two learned valuable skills for running a broadcast on stage at festivals, working on the 2026 “This Tent” with Hulu. Rachael and Annlee reminisce on their younger selves while naming all the artists they were able to work with. Naming notable artists like Mother Mother, Modest Mouse, and...
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The Family Business That Kept Murfreesboro's Square Standing
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Contractor Justin Edwards on 50 years building Murfreesboro's square, from horsehair plaster to a hidden room full of Civil War boxes. Justin grew up going to job sites with his dad, who started the business back in 1979. He went to MTSU thinking he might do something else, but he always kept one foot in construction, and now he and his dad meet every single day to run the company together. As he puts it, they've learned how to argue and still get along. Working on the square means no bid ever really holds, because you never know what's inside a 100-year-old wall. Justin has found plumbing...
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Why "I Don't Know" Is a Good Answer With Jaylene Hall
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Jaylene Hall on pivoting from music business to tech, starting a design TikTok, and leaving it all to move to Charleston. Jaylene graduated college in 2020 with a music business degree and a touring internship that Covid wiped out, and for the first time she felt relief instead of disappointment. She picked up a design certification, messed around in Figma building app mockups, and realized tech was pulling at her. Four plus years later at Asurion, she had stability, mentors, and good income, and she's now stepping away from it to start over by the beach. At 25 she bought her first rental,...
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Jamie Steelman on August 1st at the Fountains: Give Blood 4 Ryan
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Mortgage lender opens up about losing his oldest son, the blood drive he runs in his memory, and why donated blood gave their family 21 years. He grew up a sports nut, became a church league legend, and tried to walk on at Western Kentucky before reality hit. Then he had his first son at 20, walked into the hospital one person and walked out a different one. He learned mortgages in 1995 by getting handed a phone book and told to start calling, ran batting cages in La Vergne before the timing was right, coached a dead-last team to beating the Tigers, and eventually started his own branch. The...
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How Chase Hartwell Productions Got Booked and Blessed
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Chase Hartwell left a 10-year Google career to build a Nashville photo and video company with nearly 500 clients. The business started with him photographing 13-inch Star Wars figures in front of his TV to wake his passion for photography back up. That turned into real estate gigs on Fiverr, then restaurants, then food, then video, then filming Chris Kirkpatrick from NSYNC for American Dream TV. Along the way he learned to run a cinema camera in a week for a documentary gig, talked his way into being the only photographer invited to a 2,000-person food event, and figured out that email and...
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Lindsay Fitz on Saving Animals and Saying Yes!
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Lindsay Fitz spent 20 years crushing it in TV, won an Emmy at the Beijing Olympics, and now gets to do her dream job running celebrity partnerships at Best Friends Animal Society. She grew up in Oklahoma, went to Oklahoma State, and chased the New York dream right after graduation. She landed the legendary NBC Page Program, hung with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, covered politics during one of NBC News' biggest eras, and spent 10 incredible years at NBC Sports helping launch Sunday Night Football. From there she jumped to Discovery for the Alaska shows, then built something amazing at...
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Advocating for Alzheimer's: Luke Wilson on Showing Up for the Cause
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Luke Wilson, two months into his new role at the Alzheimer's Association, gets into Paint the Town Purple, the new diagnostic tests, and why caregivers carry the load nobody sees. Luke grew up in Colorado with a pastor dad and a grandma who ran a PBS workout show for seniors. He came to Nashville through tech sales, did two years in corporate, and figured out it wasn't the life. What's wild is the timing. Luke's catching the cause at a real turning point. Ten years ago the conversation around Alzheimer's was dark and didn't have a lot of hope. Now there are blood screening tests for both...
info_outlineIn this episode of the Spread The Positive Podcast, we shine a spotlight on one of our newest STP 1200 Club Members, the incredible Sean Moran, founder of Red Barn Financial.
Sean is a husband, father, faith-based independent financial advisor, and a proud member of the Middle TN community. His journey into the world of financial advising is both inspiring and deeply personal. Tune in as Sean shares his motivating story, what led him to pursue his dream career, and why he’s so passionate about helping others achieve financial peace and long-term success.
Sean’s commitment to service, his love for people, and his deep-rooted faith are at the center of everything he does — and it shows. We are truly honored to welcome him to the STP 1200 Club, and we’re grateful for his belief in our mission to make positivity louder.
📲 Learn more: redbarnfinancial.com
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