Arryanah grew up carrying responsibilities no child should ever have to bear.

Born out of wedlock to young parents, she experienced instability, abandonment, and trauma at an age when most kids are just learning how to be kids. She became a caretaker before she could fully speak, witnessed abuse inside her home, and learned survival long before safety.

As she got older, the pain didn’t disappear — it went quiet.

During the COVID years, unexplained medical issues led to countless doctors and misdiagnoses until she was finally told she had an incurable condition. Later, that diagnosis was reversed. What followed was not relief, but the resurfacing of deeply buried childhood trauma, including abuse she had never spoken about until high school.

In the middle of confusion, grief, and unanswered questions, Arryanah chose to seek God — not for easy answers, but for truth, healing, and peace. Through faith, forgiveness, and resilience, she has defied medical limits, healed emotionally and physically, and learned to trust God’s sovereignty over her life.

This episode is a raw and gentle conversation about childhood trauma, chronic illness, forgiveness, and what it looks like to heal without minimizing the pain.

If you grew up too fast…

If you learned to survive instead of being cared for…

This episode is for you.

Your trauma may explain you — but it does not get to define you.

You are chosen to change.

This episode includes discussion of childhood abuse, illness, and trauma. Listener discretion advised.

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Breaking Chains Through Surrender

In Episode 12 of Chosen 2 Change, we sit down with Zach Valdez to talk about grief, identity, addiction, and the moment surrender changed everything.

Raised by a single mother, Zach lost the brother who became his father figure to cancer at just 17 years old. As a teenager, he was forced to navigate grief while supporting a grieving mother, watching addiction impact his family, and trying to make sense of life without guidance.

Those early years were marked by pain, bad decisions, and repeated failures — until Zach made the decision to surrender his life to Christ. What followed wasn’t instant change, but a commitment to discipline, purpose, and breaking generational chains one step at a time.

This episode is a raw and honest conversation about choosing responsibility over excuses, faith over control, and growth over comfort.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in your past, overwhelmed by loss, or unsure how to move forward — this episode is for you.

Chains don’t break overnight.

They break when you choose change.

• Growing up without a father figure

• Losing a brother to cancer

• Grief and addiction in the family

• Identity, failure, and early adulthood

• Surrendering to Christ

• Discipline, faith, and breaking generational cycles

  
  

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In this episode of Chosen 2 Change, we sit down with Brandon to unpack a story marked by loss, failure, and hard choices—and the discipline it took to rise anyway.

Brandon opens up about being discharged from the Army just one week before basic training, getting fired from his HVAC job, and losing two brothers—one to mental illness and another to addiction. Moments that could have ended his story instead became the pressure that forced him to take responsibility for his life.

At 26 years old, after losing his oldest brother, Brandon made a decision that would change everything: to stop running, stop making excuses, and start building. That choice led to the creation of NCB Mechanical, a company now on pace to surpass $3 million in revenue in under five years.

This conversation isn’t about overnight success. It’s about accountability, discipline, grief, and choosing to build when life feels unfair.

If you’ve ever felt behind, written off, or stuck in the weight of your past—this episode is for you.

Your past explains you. It does not excuse you. You are chosen to change.

• Army discharge and identity loss

• Getting fired and hitting rock bottom

• Losing brothers to mental illness and addiction

• Choosing responsibility over excuses

• Building a business with purpose and integrity

• Redefining success beyond money

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In this episode, we sit down with Richard, a military veteran who served three tours and returned home carrying a war no one could see. What followed was anger, broken relationships, loss of identity, and a battle with his own mind that nearly cost him his life.

Richard opens up about the moment he hit rock bottom — sitting in his living room, attempting to take his life, and pulling the trigger… only for the gun not to fire. As someone who had been around firearms his entire life, he knew this wasn’t a malfunction. It was divine intervention.

From that moment forward, everything began to change.

This conversation walks through Richard’s journey from military service to trauma, from destructive patterns to healing, and ultimately to surrendering his life to Christ in 2015. He shares how faith reshaped his identity, how his marriage became a place of growth instead of pain, and how discipline, community, and accountability keep him grounded today.

This episode is for anyone silently fighting battles no one else knows about. For anyone who feels broken, angry, or beyond repair. Richard’s story is proof that God can step in at the darkest moment and turn what should have been the end into a new beginning.

Life gives you two paths — and both are hard.

It’s hard to stay disciplined.

It’s hard to stay stuck.

It’s hard to follow Christ.

It’s hard to walk alone.

It’s hard to chase success.

It’s hard to keep struggling.

This episode breaks down what it really means to pick your hard and how the choices you make today shape the person you become tomorrow. This isn’t about hype — it’s about truth. A reminder that every hard thing you face is either pushing you closer to purpose or deeper into pain.

If you’ve been feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or drifting through life… this message is for you.

This is the moment you stop letting life happen to you and start choosing the version of yourself you want to become.

Episode 8 is here, and this one hits deep.

Today’s guest shares a childhood that mirrors a lot of what I went through — growing up fast, carrying pain in silence, and trying to build a life without the tools you should’ve had as a kid.

As an adult, he found himself in a marriage that was falling apart, convinced divorce was the only option… until life hit him with something he never expected: a cancer diagnosis.

What makes this story powerful is the loyalty and love his wife showed during the hardest season of his life — even when he was the one ready to walk away. God used that moment, that diagnosis, to break him open and force him to confront the parts of himself he’d been running from for years.

In this episode, we dive into:

• Growing up in similar childhood circumstances

• The struggles that shaped his adulthood

• His marriage reaching the breaking point

• The life-changing moment he was diagnosed with cancer

• How God used the storm to soften his heart

• His Chosen 2 Change moment

• Where he’s at today — mentally, emotionally, spiritually

• Faith, grace, and the verses that carried him through

This is a story of pain, loyalty, surrender, and the kind of healing only God can orchestrate.

If you’ve ever felt lost, unworthy, or stuck in the same patterns — this episode is your reminder that God can use the hardest seasons to rebuild you from the inside out.

Today we sit down with Darren — a young man fresh out of heartbreak, standing at one of the biggest crossroads of his life. After his high-school relationship ended, he felt lost, unsure whether to join the military or chase a new path in sales. He chose sales… and learned more than he expected.

But this episode isn’t a comeback story.

This is a setup story.

We talk about what it looks like to build your future before life hits, how to handle heartbreak as a young man, why discipline matters early, and the advice we wish someone would’ve given us at his age.

If you’re a young man trying to find direction, purpose, and identity — this one is for you.

Topics we cover:

• Heartbreak & identity

• Choosing the right path

• Military vs. sales

• Discipline, routine, and purpose

• What we wish we knew at 18

• Building a foundation before the comeback

• Faith, character, and slowing down your life

This episode is about becoming — not arriving.

Welcome to the journey.

Episode 6 features Zach, Rob’s childhood friend, as they revisit their early years and discuss the silent battles they were both facing without knowing it. From hidden anxiety and depression to the moment Zach chose to change, this conversation is raw, honest, and filled with faith.

Josh also shares his own experiences with childhood anxiety, connecting all three of their stories into a powerful reminder that healing begins when you stop fighting alone.

The episode closes with some of favorite bible verses bringing deep reflection and real conversations about faith, growth, and becoming who God called you to be.