🎙 Episode Title: Unwanted

🧩 Season Theme: Hungry
This season explores different kinds of hunger both literal and metaphorical. From struggles with food to deeper cravings for purpose, fulfillment, and connection, we’re diving into stories that truly nourish the soul.

👣 Guest Introduction:
I’ve got to admit when I first heard that today’s guest, Christi Kelsey, had a connection to Duke University (her husband works at the Duke Cancer Center in Durham, North Carolina), I hesitated.
If you know me, you know where my loyalties lie. Around here, Duke and UNC aren’t just schools they’re archenemies. The rivalry runs deep, and sometimes, honestly, it can cloud how we see people on the “other side.”

But as I sat with it, I realized something: the greatest rivalries often happen much closer to home. Sometimes the fiercest opponent isn’t wearing a different shade of blue it’s the face staring back at us in the mirror.

That’s what this episode is really about.

Christi is a nutrition coach, cancer survivor, and women’s health advocate who knows what it feels like to feel unwanted—by your body, your circumstances, or your reflection. After two cancer diagnoses and years of fighting her body, Christi learned how to stop seeing herself as the enemy and start treating her body as an ally.

Now she helps women over 40 break free from the guilt, restriction, and all-or-nothing mindset that keep them stuck. Her approach isn’t about diets it’s about dignity, strength, and learning to make peace with yourself.

💡 Episode Highlights:

How cancer transformed Christi’s relationship with her body

The connection between rivalry, identity, and self-image

Why guilt and restriction never lead to freedom

How to build sustainable habits that actually last

What it means to nourish yourself instead of punish yourself

How to make peace with your body no jersey required

🔗 Connect with Christi Kelsey:
🌐 Website
📸 Instagram

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👟 Website
🩵 Instagram
👍 Facebook
🐦 X (Twitter)
📺 YouTube

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If this episode hit home if you’ve ever looked in the mirror and felt like you were facing your toughest rival leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Tell us how stepping into Christi’s shoes helped you see yourself a little differently.

🎙 Golden Ticket

🧩 Season Theme: Hungry
This season, we’re exploring what it means to be hungry not just for food, but for purpose, meaning, connection, and identity. Hunger can drive us, define us, and sometimes destroy us. But it also reveals what truly satisfies the soul.

👣 Guest Introduction:
Remember Charlie Bucket from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory the kid who found the Golden Ticket and got a glimpse behind the gates of wonder? This episode plays with that same idea, but through the story of Charles Fernández, a two-time Olympian from Guatemala who discovered that the real “golden ticket” isn’t found on a candy bar wrapper it’s discovered within.

Charles grew up doing humanitarian work with his family in the mountains of Guatemala before rising to become a world champion in modern pentathlon. He’s competed at two Olympic Games, won gold at the Pan American Games, and stood among the world’s best. But after the applause faded, Charles faced a deeper challenge: Who was he when the medals and titles weren’t enough?

Today, Charles leads IMPACTA, a high-performance coaching company helping leaders, athletes, and changemakers align identity, mindset, and purpose. His story is one of hunger for integrity, for presence, and for the kind of success that isn’t just seen, but felt.

💡 Episode Highlights:

What it really takes to compete and win on the world stage

The crash that comes after achieving your biggest dream

Redefining integrity: living in alignment with who you are

The difference between performing and being present

How to pursue excellence without losing yourself in the process

Why the “golden ticket” might not be what you think it is

🔗 Connect with Charles Fernández:
Website: Coach Compare Profile

🎧 Listen & Follow Other People’s Shoes:

👟 Website

🩵 Instagram

👍 Facebook

🐦 X (Twitter)

📺 YouTube

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If this episode gave you something to think about—or reminded you what your own golden ticket might be—share that with us! Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and let us know how stepping into Charles’ shoes inspired you.

🧩 Season Theme: Hungry
What does it really mean to hunger for something deeper something more than routine, more than the surface-level faith that just gets us through the day? This season invites us to pay attention to what our souls crave and how we’re feeding that hunger.

👣 Guest Introduction:
How comfortable are you in the seat you’re sitting in right now? Not just physically but spiritually, emotionally, and mentally?

This week, I’m joined by Tera Elness, speaker, writer, and author of Sitting with Jesus a 365-day devotional born out of her own mornings spent literally “sitting with Jesus.” Tera invites us to pull up a chair and stay a while: to hear the small, life-changing words “I love you”, to feed our souls daily the way we feed our bodies, and to notice the small details like the sandals people wore in Bible times that reveal surprisingly big spiritual truths about how we walk through life.

💡 Episode Highlights:

How comfortable are you in the “chair” you’re sitting in today?

Why hearing “I love you” from God can change everything

The sandals of Bible-time people what their footwear teaches us about humility, journey, and how we actually walk in faith (Tera shares a memorable story about this)

The daily rhythm that deepened Tera’s relationship with Jesus

How to move from surviving to truly living

🔗 Connect with Tera Elness:
🌐 Website
📘 Sitting with Jesus on Amazon
💬 Facebook Group

🎧 Listen & Follow Other People’s Shoes:

👟 Website

🩵 Instagram

👍 Facebook

🐦 X (Twitter)

📺 YouTube

📣 Leave Us a Review:
If this episode stirred something in you if it made you think about where you’re sitting and what you’re truly hungry for leave a review and tell us what spoke to you most.