Michelle Van Loon was "getting around," doing drugs and acting 'a fool as a Jewish teenager but when a friend introduced and evangelized her to Jesus (may or may not have been over some weed), her life has never been the same. Michelle, author of numerous books, recently wrote "Downsizing: Letting Go of Evangelicalism's Nonessentials," and joins Joey to discuss the contents. Could "downsizing" be the only hope for unity in the church? Among the many topics discussed, the two talk whether "spirit...
Jul 28, 2025•55 min
My dad went to be with the Lord at around 9PM on Tuesday night of last week. This episode is a reading of the eulogy i gave at my dad's memorial service and also includes a replay of an episode I did with my dad, on this podcast, about his lived experience of helping me through my mental health crisis 6 years ago. E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) Theme Song by Stoy Prioleau (aka: Riggy Roc ): Apple Music...
Jul 22, 2025•1 hr 26 min
[The episode has three friends in it: Joey Svendsen , Amy Alderman , and Hayne Griffin and Stoy Prioleau ] Joey stands up for himself when a peer calls him a "fake pastor" for not having time to engage in a conversation, uncharacteristically responding to this guy with a bit of abrasiveness. Joey ponders with his friends whether the confrontation was necessary, helpful or good. Amy, Hayne, Stoy and Joey discuss confronting others as well as their personal comfort levels with times when it's nece...
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr 1 min
[The episode has three friends in it: Joey Svendsen , Amy Alderman , and Hayne Griffin ] Joey read a book that captures the American history of adolescent girls' commitment to having the best possible body. You can check out "The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls" here . With some of the book's contents as the context, Joey, Hayne and Amy talk through women's arduous struggle toward gender equality and how far along society has come, while Joey now having read this book, admits...
May 27, 2025•1 hr 5 min
[This is an episode of a new podcast called "Roster Music Club Podcast." traditional PWNA Episodes coming back soon to this feed] Please go listen to this episode on: Spotify / Apple Music / Amazon Go join the Roster Music Club now by going to RosterMusic.Club. (TRY FIRST MONTH FREE) E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) Theme Song by Stoy Prioleau (aka: Riggy Roc ): Apple Music...
May 16, 2025•1 hr 22 min
Go subscribe to the Roster Music Club's Podcast Feed and listen to this episode there: Spotify I Apple Music I Amazon Hey, PWNA Listeners, My brother and I, alongside Jeremy Gould of Rumors Are True Podcast, are starting a new music club, Roster Music Club. You can join today for a discounted price, official start is May 1st. E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) Theme Song by Stoy Prioleau (aka: Riggy Roc ): Apple Music...
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 26 min
[This episode has Amy Alderman , Stoy Prioleau , and Joey Svendsen ] Joey brought up his lack of interest in the WNBA as well as his unmatched preference for women's gymnastics over men's gymnastics as an ice breaker in this episode; but the conversation evolved and carried on into what "being a boy" and "being a girl means," as well as the impact of nature verses nurture in such matters. Joey shares a bullying situation from middle school and Joey and Amy try to understand what Stoy means in hi...
Apr 08, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Steadfast Summit Conference (March 28th & 29th, Charleston Southern University) Jessie Evans, M.Ed., LPC joins the podcast to discuss her work of bridging professional counseling with faith. Her and Joey discuss experiences (good and bad) they've encountered in how the church handles mental health issues. They also reflect on personal struggles in their own mental health and in the process discuss EMDR therapy, the importance of sleep, perinatal OCD, Internal Family Systems (IFS) and what ca...
Mar 20, 2025•55 min
[This episode has Hayne Griffin , Stoy Prioleau , and Joey Svendsen in it] Stoy is quiet and usually disregarding of politics but the recent "meeting" with Trump and Zelensky has his head swirling, motivating him to "talk politics" with some fervor on this one. Hayne is very distrustful of politicians, the media, the church, and people who are "bought." He also reminds us all of some ancient wisdom about fear. And Joey just had to use this episode to get Stoy's reaction on hearing the doctrine o...
Mar 12, 2025•1 hr 5 min
[ This episode has Chip Judd , Roy Jacques and Joey Svendsen in it. It originally aired on Mental Health + Mission of the Church Podcast ] Chip Judd, friend of this podcast having made numerous appearances on it through the years, has had quite the recent life journey that could have ended his life, given his lungs were failing him. It's a story of a tragic loss of life with some redemption in it. Chip's life is no longer in danger, at least no more than the rest of us, but this new health statu...
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 3 min
[ This episode has Amy Alderman , Hayne Griffin , Jed Payne and Joey Svendsen in it] Is pledging allegiance to a flag weird or even creepy? If one believes in hell, is it kind of psycho to make jokes about people going there? Just how much does God intervene in the affairs of humanity and work on behalf of people's prayers? And if God intervenes in more important "life or death" matters, why does God only stop a few? These questions discussed and no answers were established. Just another episode...
Feb 17, 2025•1 hr 7 min
[This episode has: Amy Alderman , Hayne Griffin , Stoy Prioleau , and Joey Svendsen ] Amy's husband goes by "Dick." After getting through some jokes and reverting back to being middle school kids, three "Gen-X-ers" talk parenting, including differing opinions on tough love, the prospect of out-living one's child and what age-appropriate discipline may look like. Are we now raising a soft generation? Stoy gives updates on his "NBA bound" son and the four reflect on teen suicide and how sex cultur...
Feb 06, 2025•1 hr 4 min
[This episode has Robbie Madison , Jed Payne and Joey Svendsen in it] Feels like a chill time of encouragement amongst three friends, like it's a church small group. Robbie sheds some light on the fallacy that "only good things should happen because of God," Jed still struggles with the concept of a "tit for tat" God, and Joey tries to encourage Jed with his own journey along the same lines after he shuts up about a recent UFO sighting of his. E-mail the PWNA team here. Theme Song by Stoy Priole...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 3 min
On this episode, Joey goes through his favorite books of 2024 and shares an episode he put together on a different podcast in which he crammed his whole mental health crisis story of 2019 into a 45-minute episode (quite the feat, hell to the yeah). Special thanks to John Mark McMillan for narrating this one. E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) Theme Song by Stoy Prioleau (aka: Riggy Roc ): Apple Music...
Jan 09, 2025•1 hr 2 min
[Produced by Hayne Griffin , this episode has Hayne, Robbie Madison and Joey Svendsen ] Christmas Playlist Apple Music I Spotify For the final episode of the year, Hayne rounds Joey and Robbie up for some Christmas talk, picking up where they left off last year in "Baby, It's Cold Outside (EP13)," the last episode these three talked Christmas for an hour. Today they talk whether or not the brilliance of the movie Four Christmases is all due to Vince Vaughn's humor. They deliberate on whether San...
Dec 19, 2024•1 hr 20 min
[This episode is with Amy Alderman , Matt Oxley , Jed Payne , Joey Svendsen ] Joey had a kidney stone that worked through him like clockwork. It made him very happy. Jed educates everyone on Kratom. Matt, Jed and Amy school Joey on the true definition of a "furry," and Amy doesn't think any one belongs with a tail, even if they are looking for belonging. Be a Patron / Tip the Host (Venmo) E-mail the PWNA team here. Theme Song by Stoy Prioleau (aka: Riggy Roc ): Apple Music E-mail Joey here. Supp...
Dec 11, 2024•55 min
[This episode is Joey Svendsen joined by five friends from his youth group days: Jon Bazzle, Gail Santavicca , Billy Jones , Mike Colon , Penny Sharp , and B.J. Slotkin ] Part 1 can be listened to here or viewed on YouTube . Part 2 can be listened to here . Joey, Jon, Gail, and Billy have talked twice and now they (and you) get to hear from some of their friends from youth group, peers who've listened in on those other episodes. Mike Colon, one of Joey's best friends in high school, shares an ex...
Nov 23, 2024•1 hr 3 min
[This episode was produced by Joey Svendsen and is joined by three friends from Joey's youth group days: Jon Bazzle, Gail Santavicca , and Billy Jones ] Part 1 can be listened to or viewed on YouTube . Joey shares how his "pure lifestyle" was celebrated amongst parents of other kids in youth group while inside, he felt overburdened by a never- ending, dark spiritual season, years on end. Jon wants to know what Joey actually cherishes from the old youth group days, Billy concurs that the guilt wa...
Nov 04, 2024•1 hr
[Produced by Stoy Prioleau, with Hayne , Stoy , Amy and Joey ] On Part 1 of this conversation, "Firefighter Hayne, Doing the Lord's Work in Ravaged North Carolina," listeners heard stories of Helene's destruction in Western North Carolina through the personal story of our firefighting friend, Hayne Griffin, recounting that dreadful night that took his whole community by surprise. As the conversation carried on during the recording, the hosts got into some theology about God and prayer, in the co...
Oct 29, 2024•44 min
[Produced by Joey Svendsen, this episode is a collection of clips from a recent Seacoast Church Podcast, link to full episode RIGHT HERE ]. Regular to the PWNA Podcast through the years, here's an update on our good friend and Pastor, Chip Judd's physical health, as well as some talk (from the Seacoast Podcast) on how the church has dropped the ball in many ways on truly helping people change for the better, due to its rejection of science and cold shoulder through the years to the professional ...
Oct 25, 2024•45 min
[Honoring our brother, Hayne Griffin, who's been doing the Lord's work, with Hayne , Stoy , Amy and Joey ] During the night of the 26th of September, Hurricane Helene took western North Carolina by storm, pun intended. What would follow is complete devastation of houses, businesses, electricity, dependable water supply, roads, and human life. Hear Hayne's story of that night on duty as a firefighter, 16 years experience in his field, as he went to bed anticipating a busy night. He just never in ...
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 7 min
[This episode was produced by Joey Svendsen and is joined by three friends from Joey's youth group days: Jon Bazzle, Gail Santavicca , and Billy Jones ] you can watch this conversation on YouTube here . Joey joins three old friends from the old youth group, all but one are still Christians but you'll never guess; all four contributors have changed much. Joey shares with his friends on this episode that, due to his current beliefs, the old church family, or at least many of them, would probably h...
Oct 09, 2024•1 hr 17 min
[This episode, produced by Joey Svendsen, has Ellen Mauro , Jed Payne , Joey Svendsen , and special guest and original host to the show, Jared Svendsen] Televangelists like Kenneth Copeland's behavior don't appear reflective of God by any means, and it certainly seems as if people are being led astray by the sort of prosperity gospel teaching he espouses. However, there seems to be more to Mr. Copeland's story and it's difficult ruling out just plain 'ol evil. Thus, Ellen, Jed, Jared and Joey do...
Oct 01, 2024•1 hr 13 min
This episode was originally recorded in July of 2016, shortly after Donald Trump became the Republican Party's presidential candidate. Little did we know at the time of this conversation, that in 5 short months, he would be the next president of the United States of America. [show-notes from episode 40] We talk to non-trump supporter Jack Hoey (the father) and Trump-Supporter, Kerry Haplin about how Trump pulled off the miracle of being a frontrunner in the presidential race, we discussed his ch...
Sep 24, 2024•1 hr 4 min
[This episode with Amy Alderman, Matt Oxley , Stoy Prioleau and Joey Svendsen was produced by Joey Svendsen] The host crew talk morals and parenting in the context of " Grand Theft Auto, " a video game not allowed in the Svendsen household, in which the player goes around society committing egregious crimes for pure entertainment. Joey explains his disdain for the "Karen" label and believes it exposes some of the deeper roots of what's wrong with the current "judgmental state" of today's society...
Sep 18, 2024•1 hr 8 min
[This episode is produced by Joey Svendsen, having contributions from Ellen Mauro , Robbie Madison , Amy Alderman , Joey Svendsen , Jared Svendsen, Stoy Prioleau , and Michael Sweet , courtesy of Seacoast Podcast ] Check out Robbie's single "Lost My Best Friend" / Spotify / Apple A lot is on the table for this one. From a discussion on the rapid transition of the 1980s glam metal scene, to a complete Seattle Grunge-takeover in the early 1990s, to a reading of journal entries about my (Joey) ment...
Sep 10, 2024•47 min
[This episode is with hosts Stoy Prioleau , Joey Svendsen and "fam" to the show, Heather Zastrocky & Dick Alderman. Produced by Joey Svendsen] Joey is all "grandpa softy" on this one, wanting everyone to learn how to enjoy the great world of sports without the torture from losses, including some "cheesy mush" about how the real fun of sports, is in being a fan of "your team." Congrats to Joey on his newly found maturity. Amidst Joey's "freedom talk" to sports fans is "favorite athletes" and ...
Sep 04, 2024•1 hr 41 min
[This episode with Joey Svendsen, Amy Alderman, Hayne Griffin, Robbie Madison, and Stoy Prioleau, was produced by Joey Svendsen] The three videos discussed in this episode can be found here: video , video 2 , video 3 . Some deep sharing on this episode, Hayne talks about the anger he lives with and Robbie shares how as a child he was discouraged from being proud of anything. The five talk about standup comedians, Hayne likening them to modern-day prophets, highlighting their importance in societ...
Aug 27, 2024•1 hr 34 min
[This episode is produced by Hayne Griffen and hosted by Joey Svendsen , Hayne Griffen , Robbie Madison , and Matt Oxley ] Robbie became a father [thrice] recently and the four reflect on parenting in the context of faith, Joey sharing seasons in which he didn't have the tools to guide his kids spiritually, given his own confusion and angst about the deeper things, at those points in his life. Joey also processes out loud a situation in which an adult with leadership position over one of his kid...
Aug 20, 2024•59 min
Stoy Prioleau, one of the hosts of the show was asked to conduct the wedding ceremony of his son, Darion Prioleau and daughter-in-law, Jyree Savoy. A step in this greater process is sitting down for a 1 on 2 to get a feel for the current climate of his kids' relationship, assess their current expectations of a future together and offer any piece of advice or encouragement along the way. Well, the listenership gets to listen in because Stoy, Darion and Jyree agreed to "hit record." With some prop...
Aug 15, 2024•1 hr 4 min
