It's that time of hear again, when Chris discusses the ups and downs of the last year in podcasting, and confronts where and how the show is moving forward in the future. Find out more about the podcast at www.misfit-heroes.com and www.beacons.ai/misfitheroes Check out the new patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Misfitheroes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/misfitheroespod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/misfitheroes/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/misfitheroes1 Tiktok: https://www.tikt...
Feb 13, 2022•10 min
Dr. Glenn & Phyllis Hill are the authors of the new book "The Connection Codes: The Blueprint & Tools for Creating the Relationships You Crave" out now on Amazon and wherever books are sold. Dr. Glenn has been a certified sexologist and family therapist for over a decade, and his practice has healed relationships in over 40 countries. His wife Phyllis co authored the book with him, and they have been married for 40 years. Together they created and implemented what they call the Connectio...
Jan 30, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Kyria Whisenhunt is the executive director of Paws4People, a North Carolina based nonprofit that aims to educate and empower people through the use of assistance dogs to transform people's lives. The nonprofit was formed in 1999, when Kyria was just 12 years old, with the purpose of using dogs to help people. Over the last 22 years, the organization has helped veterans, people with disabilities, and children and adolescents with physical, neurological, psychiatric, and/or emotional disabilities ...
Jan 16, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Robert Hayes is a nuclear engineering professor at North Carolina State University, a certified health physicist, and a fellow of the American Physical Society. Robert was raised in Salt Lake City, UT by a single mother who had an atheist world view, and was exposed to Mormon religious beliefs through his father. Robert explains Nuclear Energy and Engineering. To many, that is a fairly difficult topic to digest, but he does so in a way that is fun and engaging via TikTok and social media channel...
Jan 02, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Mickey Desai is the host of the Nonprofit Snapcast, a weekly podcast about the issues and challenges affecting nonprofit businesses. A car aficianado, he is also the host of The Thing About Cars podcast. Mickey has recently created The Nonprofit Snapshot, a development and analytical toolset for nonprofit companies to examine where their business needs lie, and where they may be overlooking issues in their business operations. He is currently developing a smartphone app for the Nonprofit Snapsho...
Dec 19, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Adthe Theo Trepca is the diretor of "Are You Happy?", a new docu-series that looks at people's relations with their happiness and what makes them happy. The documentary has recently finished filming and is scheduled for release in early 2022. Adthe travels the world and asks random people if they are happy, what the source of their happiness is, and if they had a message to the world, what that would be. The series has morphed from an idea Adthe proposed for a single story into a complex, growin...
Dec 05, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Jeremy Simon is one of the cofounders of E-nable, an online community that connects those needing prosthetics with the 3D printing community. The Enable3D community provides free 3D printed prosthetics and orthopedic devices for anyone who needs them, completely free of charge. The files to download are available under a community creative license for anyone to download and print them, and volunteers are encouraged to create a friendly relationship with the recipients, bridging the gap between t...
Nov 21, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Chris Randall is a christian tiktok influencer who goes by the name CrazyGodStory. In 2008, his life was changed when he decided to accept Jesus, and create Affordable Auto Repair, a mobile mechanic nonprofit, where he fixed people's cars for free. His talent for fixing cars for the less fortunate led him to speak the gospel to many of the people he helped fix automobiles for, and he has some pretty crazy stories about it. He has recently written a book, "CrazyGodStory: Faith Isn't Blind", and h...
Nov 07, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Rodney Smith jr. is the executive director of Raising Men & Women Lawncare Service, and creator of the 50 yard challenge, a campaign designed to get kids to inspire change in their communities by mowing the lawns of the elderly, veterans, law enforcement, and the disabled. When kids mow 50 lawns in their community, Rodney personally delivers them a new lawnmower and lawncare equipment, and helps them mow a yard. Rodney has had kids in all 50 states and 7 countries complete the challenge, and...
Oct 24, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Stephanie Olsen is the creator of the set me free project, an organization that educates students in as young as third grade about the dangers of sexual predators online and the ways that sex trafficking can happen.
Oct 10, 2021•55 min
Jen Yarbrough is a specialist in the nonprofit and not for profit work spaces, and has been affectionately referred to as “The Grant Guru” because her mission is toward all nonprofit leaders out there who have responded to their calling—to provide a solution to their community’s problem. Her mission is to help you turn your vision of helping others to a sustainable reality. For over 30 years, she has worked with a variety of nonprofits as a grant writer, fundraiser, coach, strategic planner, pro...
Sep 12, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Terrance Wren is the creator of We Are Human and United BBQ, a free and open to attend fellowship event that everyone is welcome to attend, regardless of race, gender, sexual identity, political or religious views. In June of 2020, during the height of the covid-19 pandemic, We Are Human began holding BBQ events across the United States Of America. He started live streaming the events on TikTok, and has gained nearly 6 million likes and nearly half a million followers. Terrance wants to grow the...
Aug 29, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 28
In this episode, Chris details the next steps in his journey. We're going to be starting a nonprofit, and I go over 6 steps to creating a non-profit. www.misfit-heroes.com
Aug 15, 2021•8 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Elizabeth Fisher Good is the co-founder and CEO of Selah Freedom and The Selah Way Foundation, an organization that helps free women from the sex trade and provide a safe housing environment for the victims of this life. Since 2010, Her work with the organization has freed over 10,000 women from sex work and prostitution, and has created demonstrable change in laws across the country, as well as around the world. Nearly half a million children every year are sold into sex trafficking. 1 out of e...
Aug 01, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Jeff Deskovic is the creator of the Deskovic Foundation, an organization that works to exonerate people falsely accused and.convicted of crimes. At the age of 16, Jeff was tried and convicted of the rape and murder of one of his high school classmates, even though DNA evidence and proof of a coerced confession by police should have proclaimed his innocence. After serving 16 years in a maximum security prison, 7 failed appeal attempts, and teaching himself how to appeal his own defense in the pri...
Jul 18, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Rick Bateman is the owner of Outer Banks Mixed Martial Arts, a combat sports gym in Nags Head, NC. He was recently ranked 18th in the international Brazilian jiu-jitsu foundation (IBJJF), and has been a martial artist for nine years, and was a combat veteran in the 101st airborne in the United States Army. After being shot in a turret position during service in Afghanistan, he was awarded the purple heart medal for being wounded in service of his country. Upon returning home, after an extended s...
Jul 04, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Sara Canizales is a mother, a wife, and children's pastor at Coastal Family Church in Nags Head, NC. Since 2008, she has created and led her passion project Children's Fest, a yearly celebration of Jesus on Halloween. The event has grown from a small event on a street corner to a yearly celebration with over five thousand attendees. We discuss how the event started, her passion for children that led to the creation fo this event, and how one person's passion.can create a massive impact on their ...
Jun 20, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 22
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Jun 19, 2021•1 min
Bilal Markis is the creator of MCB, Miracle Come Back, a global nonprofit that holds blood drives across america and the entire world. As a single father, fearing his children’s entry into gang life, he moved to a new township. During the move, his son was run over on his bicycle by two SUVs. After surgery, a coma, and various injuries from the accident, Bilal’s son Rasheed was a stronger student, fully recovered, and inspires Bilal to start MCB and organize blood drives in over 30 countries.
Jun 06, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Naomi Lambert is the creator of the cool to be kind project, a global social enterprise that uses kindness cards left in random spots to inspire acts of kindness in others and log them on a website to share with the world. She is also an author, and her new children's book, "One Kind Day", is available wherever books are sold. Her story leads her from being paralyzed from a spider bite to creating a global kindness initiative and pursuing her passions to instill kindness in everyone she meets. W...
May 23, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Jenasa Staples is the creator and host of the #createyourearthlife podcast, a Christian podcast that documents and chronicles jenasa’s journey with her walk in the Christian faith. She is a mother, a podcaster, and recently started a new blog of the same name. She speaks about her journey through being a surrogate mother to twin babies for a Singaporean couple during the COVID pandemic, and her journey that has led her from runes and tarot cards to the Christian faith, and how Christ has led her...
May 09, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Matt Wenger is lead therapist at the Begin Again Institute and Boulder Recovery in Boulder, Colorado. His office has released a new book, “TINSA: Trauma Induced Sex Addiction”, and he is leading the way in helping Christian men deal with sex and porn addictions and intimacy issues. We discuss sex and porn addiction and the stigmas surrounding them, how the adult entertainment industry is targeting younger and younger audiences through technology, hyper sexualization in the media, and how we as b...
Apr 25, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Donovan Brooks is host of The Building Stewards Podcast, a podcast about how our finances affect our faith walk. He is also an author, father, and a financial planner, and owner of storyline financial planning. He has been featured on investopedia, credit karma, bankrate, and the Wall Street journal. We discuss the Robinhood investment app debacle, GameStop and other meme stocks, and what it means to be a good steward both financially and in your family life. Donovan can be found online at www.d...
Apr 11, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Shannon Bray ran for senate in the 2020 election in North Carolina, and will be running again in 2022. With a campaign party consisting of himself and his wife, he received 3% of the popular vote in the state of North Carolina, and over 171,000 votes total. He is also a speaker, author of several books, free diver, and one of the top cyber security professionals in America. We discuss the need for cyber security in congress, his path through the 2020 election, and how he plans to change congress...
Mar 28, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Matt Hayes is the co-founder and COO of Engiven, a giving platform that allows cryptocurrency donors to donate different forms of cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and ethereum to nonprofits and receive US dollars. As the former Chief Technology Officer (the “Pastor of Innovation”) of the Rock Church in San Diego, CA, he developed a passion for technology and his previous company, Mogiv, was the first to offer text-based (text to give) giving to churches. Matt speaks about blockchain, Bitcoin, tithing...
Mar 14, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 15
James Franchise is the lead singer of This Surrender, a Christian Lifecore metal band from New York, NY. He has gained notoriety on TikTok as the metal worship leader, performing covers of modern worship songs and hymns with a hard rock theme. His band This Surrender is releasing their first full length album in March of 2021, and planning shows across the country later this year. We discuss the meaning and intent behind his music, the impact his songs have had on Christians and non-believers, a...
Feb 28, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Ashley Henriott is an author, social media influencer, and a mom of 4 wonderful kids. She is also host of the Motherhood Unfiltered podcast about moms, parenting and the imperfect situations that arise in mom life. We discuss parenting your children during a pandemic, imperfection in a perfect social media world, and how creating tiktok videos has brought her family closer together. Ashley can be found online at: www.Instagram.com/ashley.Henriott https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMe8gUjMT/ www.ashleyHenrio...
Feb 14, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Quincy Carr is a standup comedian and television personality from Virginia Beach, VA. He is the host of the Quality Comedy Series, a laugh-out-loud clean stand up comedy show, as well as an on-air personality for Mainstreet Living and Living 757, a nationally televised morning show. We speak about what it takes to be an entertainer in 2021, Free speech and cancel culture, and why the world needs clean comedy now more than ever. Quincy can be found online at www.quincycarr.com
Jan 31, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 12
In this episode, Chris details where the podcast has been, where the podcast is at, and where the podcast is going in the future. We discuss our successes and failures, the goals we have met, and the next accomplishments we want to strive for.
Jan 17, 2021•8 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Jeff Thompson is the lead outfitter for the Outer Banks chapter of Cross Trail Outfitters. Cross trail outfitters is a sportsman’s group whose goal is to lead the next generation to Christ through the outdoors. We speak about what CTO does, the misconceptions around hunting and fishing, how a sportsman’s lifestyle affects a child’s mindset, and how social media is changing the way kids interact with the outdoors. Cross Trail Outfitters can be found online at www.teamcto.org instagram: https://in...
Jan 03, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 10
