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446: When Burnout Hits Blindside. Levi Lusko on Trauma, His Midlife Crisis, and the Myth of Authenticity Culture

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

Release Date: 06/18/2025

456: When “Safe Spaces” Sabotage Growth. Katie Davis Majors on False Cliché Christianity, Preventing Bitterness in Your Heart, and When Empathy Hinders Transformation show art 456: When “Safe Spaces” Sabotage Growth. Katie Davis Majors on False Cliché Christianity, Preventing Bitterness in Your Heart, and When Empathy Hinders Transformation

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

We say we want transformation, but often we create environments that protect people from pain instead of preparing them for growth. In the process, we enable spiritual stagnation, emotional fragility, and shallow discipleship. This week on Win Today, Katie Davis Majors exposes the hidden dangers of well-meaning empathy, the false security of “safe spaces,” and the clichés that erode authentic faith. In this conversation, we’ll also tackle how to live faithfully in the tension between what God has promised and what we see right now. If you’ve ever found yourself numbing pain...

info_outline 455: You Don’t Get a Hall Pass from Pain. ESPN’s Lauren Sisler Exposes “Rah-Rah” Christianity, Why Avoidance Costs Us More Than Facing Pain Head-On, and Curating Our Image as Armor show art 455: You Don’t Get a Hall Pass from Pain. ESPN’s Lauren Sisler Exposes “Rah-Rah” Christianity, Why Avoidance Costs Us More Than Facing Pain Head-On, and Curating Our Image as Armor

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

We all want to overcome, but too often, we curate our pain out of view—tidy it up, slap a spiritual platitude on top, and hope time heals what we never confronted. This week on Win Today, ESPN’s Lauren Sisler reveals what happened when her life fell apart at 18. She buried both of her parents just hours apart. And in the wake of that trauma, she didn’t get a “hall pass” from grief. She didn’t get a spiritual fast-forward button. She had to live every moment of it, raw and real. In this powerful conversation, we take on the lies of “rah-rah Christianity,” the...

info_outline 454: Comfort Is KILLING You. Tim Timberlake on The Crisis of Convenience, Why God Doesn’t Live Up to Our Expectations, The Problem with Rushing Through Grief, Why God Doesn’t Live Up to Our Expectations, and Manufacturing Breakthrough show art 454: Comfort Is KILLING You. Tim Timberlake on The Crisis of Convenience, Why God Doesn’t Live Up to Our Expectations, The Problem with Rushing Through Grief, Why God Doesn’t Live Up to Our Expectations, and Manufacturing Breakthrough

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

There’s a kind of rest that is still ravenous, and comfort alone is costing your soul more than you think. This week on Win Today, Tim Timberlake joins me to name the central lie of our era: that convenience equals progress. God rarely fits into the narrative designed by self‑help culture, and grief is rarely the speed bump we’re told. When breakthrough is packaged and delivered, it disconnects you from the transformative power of pain. Tim unpacks why immediate comfort doesn’t heal—it anesthetizes. Why rushing through grief doesn’t preserve strength—it fractures your...

info_outline 453: You’re Not Humble, You’re Hiding. Dr. Les Parrott and Judah Smith Unpack How Humility Becomes Self-Hatred, The Nuclear Power of Spiritual Bypassing, and Why Your Job is Not to Heal Publicly show art 453: You’re Not Humble, You’re Hiding. Dr. Les Parrott and Judah Smith Unpack How Humility Becomes Self-Hatred, The Nuclear Power of Spiritual Bypassing, and Why Your Job is Not to Heal Publicly

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

There’s a humility you carry like baggage, and it’s slowly wearing you down. This week, Dr. Les Parrott and Judah Smith join me to dismantle the false humility that masquerades as godliness while laundering shame. Humility becomes self-hatred when vulnerability is avoided and spiritual high-mindedness is mistaken for healing. Layer on top the epidemic of spiritual bypassing—pretending everything is okay—and you get a reluctance to ever speak pain. We unpack why your job is not to heal publicly, how real accountability looks different than performance, and why refusing to stay in...

info_outline 452: STOP GASLIGHTING YOURSELF. Toni Collier on Emotional Infidelity, Spiritual Manipulation, and the Prison of Isolation show art 452: STOP GASLIGHTING YOURSELF. Toni Collier on Emotional Infidelity, Spiritual Manipulation, and the Prison of Isolation

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

There’s a lie you’ve turned into identity—that you must perform vulnerability to earn belonging. This week, Toni Collier joins me to pull the veil off emotional infidelity hidden in silence, the orphan wounds we carry in isolation, and the spiritual manipulation we excuse as authenticity. She’s walked through heartbreaking betrayal, spiritual misuse, and the long deconstruction of self‑worth in ministry circles. And she has found that true vulnerability isn’t performative—it’s sacred, grounded, sacrificial, and healing. In this episode, we dismantle the theology of emotional...

info_outline 451: What’s Breaking You Isn’t the Pain, It’s the Pattern. Ed Latimore on Emotions, Distorted Thinking, and Toughness That Won’t Heal You show art 451: What’s Breaking You Isn’t the Pain, It’s the Pattern. Ed Latimore on Emotions, Distorted Thinking, and Toughness That Won’t Heal You

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

There’s an architecture to dysfunction. It starts with broken beliefs about who you are, and it becomes lifestyle chaos. This week, Ed Latimore joins me to dismantle that architecture from the inside out. A former heavyweight boxer turned Stoic philosopher, physicist, and master of emotional discipline, Ed knows what happens when discipline outruns self-awareness and toughness becomes armor, not healing. We go deep on how distorted thinking drives destructive behavior; how emotional regulation isn’t about feeling control—it’s predictive science; and why optimism without realism becomes...

info_outline 450: You’re Talking Too Much. Jefferson Fisher on Ending Arguments, Spotting Manipulation, and Reclaiming Authority in Conversations show art 450: You’re Talking Too Much. Jefferson Fisher on Ending Arguments, Spotting Manipulation, and Reclaiming Authority in Conversations

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

This week, Jefferson Fisher—a trial lawyer turned communication expert—walks us through why the art of slowing down a conversation is more powerful than shouting louder. He unpacks the truth about overexplaining, reveals why emotional manipulation often hides in plain sight, and shows how minor shifts can resolve arguments faster than any volume ever could. Jefferson also challenges the lie that talking proves knowledge. Instead, he shows why restraint builds trust, clarity, and real influence. If you’ve ever found yourself talking in circles, replaying conversations in your head, or...

info_outline SUMMER BREAK: Jamie Winship on Why Separation Creates Suffering, The Necessary Practice of Self-Emptying, and a Right View of God show art SUMMER BREAK: Jamie Winship on Why Separation Creates Suffering, The Necessary Practice of Self-Emptying, and a Right View of God

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

This week, we're concluding a special encore series with Jamie Winship, one of the most powerful voices we’ve ever featured. These conversations aren’t just interviews; they’re invitations. Each episode is a call to trade fear for peace, performance for identity, and isolation for union with the Lord. If you’ve been wrestling with pain, confusion, or the ache to live from truth instead of striving, don’t miss this mini-series. It’s time to unlearn the lies that keep you stuck and rediscover the wholeness you were made for. July 16: July 23: July 30: Then join me August 6 for a...

info_outline SUMMER BREAK: Jamie Winship on Getting Unstuck, The Lie of Being Alone, Radical Individualism, and Why Pain is Good show art SUMMER BREAK: Jamie Winship on Getting Unstuck, The Lie of Being Alone, Radical Individualism, and Why Pain is Good

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

We’re continuing a special encore series with Jamie Winship, one of the most powerful voices we’ve ever featured. These conversations aren’t just interviews; they’re invitations. Each episode is a call to trade fear for peace, performance for identity, and isolation for union with the Lord. If you’ve been wrestling with pain, confusion, or the ache to live from truth instead of striving, don’t miss this mini-series. It’s time to unlearn the lies that keep you stuck and rediscover the wholeness you were made for. July 16: July 23: July 30: Then join me on August 6 for a...

info_outline SUMMER BREAK: Jamie Winship on Turning Chaos into Opportunity in Every Area of Life show art SUMMER BREAK: Jamie Winship on Turning Chaos into Opportunity in Every Area of Life

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

For the next three weeks, we’re diving into a special encore series with Jamie Winship, one of the most powerful voices we’ve ever featured. These conversations aren’t just interviews; they’re invitations. Each episode is a call to trade fear for peace, performance for identity, and isolation for union with the Lord. If you’ve been wrestling with pain, confusion, or the ache to live from truth instead of striving, don’t miss this mini-series. It’s time to unlearn the lies that keep you stuck and rediscover the wholeness you were made for. July 16:  July 23: July 30: Then...

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You’ve been sold a lie: that authenticity means spilling everything and bleeding on everyone. That your pain validates your platform and makes you more mature. This week, Levi Lusko joins us to dismantle that fallacy. He’s faced the brutal shock of grief and the hidden ruins of unsurfaced trauma. He’s walked through the disillusionment of midlife irrelevance. And he’s learned the hard truth: healing doesn’t include weaponizing your pain, and authenticity doesn’t mean emotional anarchy.

In this episode, Levi pulls back the curtain on what happens when grief blindsides you, why trauma must be surfaced before it surfaces on others, and how midlife loss of relevance can become the birthplace of greater purpose. We talk about the toxicity of “authenticity culture”—why sharing pain doesn’t always lead to healing, and why containment, resilience, and sacred boundaries are essential. If you’ve ever bared your struggle and felt worse… if you’re deep in grief or navigating a midlife low… this conversation will give you clarity, grace, and a restoration plan.

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