FROM GRIEF TO SURRENDER | Zach Valdez

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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