The Holistic Man Podcast: Ordinary Men, Extraordinary Gifts

Fix the Leak or Keep Mopping | The Construction Part 1

Most men spend years managing the symptoms of their thinking — fighting the same anxiety, the same insecurity, the same ceiling — without ever asking the most important question: Where did this belief come from? This is Part 1 of The Construction — the first tool in building a God-aligned, biblical mindset from the inside out. Before you can rebuild, you have to locate the source.

Hearing What Others Miss: A Sound Engineer’s Journey to Becoming a Whole Man | James Sutton

In this episode of The Holistic Man Podcast: Ordinary Men, Extraordinary Gifts, I sit down with James Sutton, an aspiring audio engineer, devoted husband, father, and man of faith, to discuss his journey of identity, purpose, and personal transformation. Growing up without a biblical father figure, James spent years searching for direction, validation, and belonging. Through music, faith, and life's challenges, he learned how to hear what others miss—not just in sound, but in his calling as a man, husband, and father.

The Enemy Wants Fathers To Quit

Being a father in today’s world is spiritual warfare.
This message is for every Christian father who feels tired, discouraged, or like he’s not doing enough.
As a divorced dad, I’ve had days where I felt like I was winning — and days where I felt like I was failing. But God showed me something powerful about fatherhood, spiritual leadership, and how the little things we do as dads are shaping our children more than we realize.

The Boy You Never Got to Be Is Still Controlling You | Apostle Jabez Ball

What happens when grown men are still carrying the wounds of little boys? In this deeply powerful episode of The Holistic Man Podcast, Jeffery C. Smith II sits down with Apostle Jabez Ball for an honest, prophetic, and transformational conversation about: • hidden pain in men • healing childhood wounds • pride, shame, and identity • mentorship and accountability • counseling and emotional healing • prophecy and the voice of God • spiritual warfare • becoming whole through Christ • and why so many men are silently hurting. This conversation goes beyond surface-level masculinity and dives into the heart of what it means to become a man healed by God instead of hardened by life.

From Entitled to Entrusted: The Noble Mindset God Rewards

In this episode of The Holistic Man Podcast, we close out the TRAIN Framework with N = Noble — rising above Entitlement, Ego, and Retaliation. We also recap the full TRAIN series and introduce what's coming next: the Construction phase.

38 YEARS LATER… HERE’S WHAT I LEARNED

38 years later… and God is still faithful. This birthday reflection is more than a celebration. It’s a testimony. Over the last 3 decades, I’ve learned lessons about faith, healing, discipline, purpose, spiritual warfare, brotherhood, peace, leadership, grief, and becoming the man God created me to be.

When Men Give God a Fresh Yes | DeMarcus Merritt, SR.

What does it mean to give God a fresh yes? Not your leftovers. Not expired praise. A full, surrendered, all-in yes — even when it costs you something. DeMarcus Merritt has lived this. From growing up without his father in Emporia, Virginia — to meeting him for the first time at 25. From walking away from God in college — to a Sallie Mae bill that brought him to his knees and back to the Lord. From losing his first daughter in 2014 — to trusting that God was never absent, just already in it with him.

Your Private Thoughts Reveal Your Real Character

Your private thought life is not separate from your real life — it is building it. In this episode of The Holistic Man Podcast, we continue the TRAIN Framework by exploring the letter I: Integral. That means clean motives, clean imagination, and integrity of the mind.

Your Mindset Is Costing You More Than You Think

I’m going to be honest… I felt like I was losing my mind. But what I realized is— I wasn’t losing my mind in the way I thought… I was being confronted with the reality that my thinking was off. In this video, I open up about how avoiding my thoughts, my emotions, and my internal struggles caused me to mishandle something that actually mattered. Because of past wounds, hurt, and unresolved issues, I didn’t have the capacity to receive what God was trying to place in my life. And the truth is… it cost me. But through that loss, God showed me something powerful: You have to lose your mind… to gain the mind of Christ. We often think “losing our mind” means we’re breaking down—but what if it actually means we’re being rebuilt?

God Called Me to Build Men, Not Win Games | Tirrell McIver

What does it look like when a christian coach decides that winning games is secondary to winning lives? Tirrell McIver is an educator, football coach, and a man on assignment. In this conversation, he shares how God redirected his passion for football into a ministry, one player, one life at a time.This isn't a sports story. It's a story about what happens when a man of god stops chasing titles and starts building kingdom men.