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  From Fear to Faith: Finding Courage in a Divided World w/ Aaron Graham 17.09.2026 49min

  Pastor Aaron Graham joins me to discuss Unshakeable Faith and how we can work through grief, fear, and doubt without losing our convictions. We also explore racial justice, political division, online outrage, and the importance of leading with both courage and compassion.
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  Wise as Serpents: How to Deal With the Snakes in Your Life 09.09.2026 25min

  You already know their name. The colleague who smiles in the meeting and sharpens the knife in the hallway. The friend who only shows up when you're winning. The leader who mistakes your loyalty for a leash. You've felt the bite, and then spent months telling yourself you imagined the fangs. In this solo episode, Jahmaal names what most people are too polite to say out loud: there are snakes in your life, personally and professionally, and pretending otherwise isn't grace; it's self-abandonment. But this isn't a revenge episode. It's a wisdom episode. Because the goal was never to hate the snake. The goal is to stop feeding it, stop being surprised by it, and stop building your life inside its reach. "Be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves." - Matthew 10:16 Jesus didn't tell us to be naive as doves. He told us to be innocent (pure in motive) while being shrewd enough to see what's actually slithering in the room. That tension is the whole episode.
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  Why Rejection Is Protection: When God Closes a Door, Stay Out of the Room 31.08.2026 19min

  High-achievers are trained to treat every "no" as a "not yet", but that chasing is exactly what's burning you out. In this episode, Jahmaal Marshall reframes rejection as protection, unpacks the difference between being rejected and being removed, and shows why some of the rooms you're fighting to re-enter are the ones God locked for your good.
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  The Blessing Buried in the Betrayal: How to Recover From Burnout That Rest Won't Fix 22.08.2026 16min

  Most high-achievers think burnout is a workload problem. It isn't. In this episode of Listen Then Speak, executive coach and certified counselor Jahmaal reframes burnout and betrayal as two sides of the same wound, and reveals why no vacation, boundary hack, or productivity system fixes exhaustion that lives at the belief level. If you've ever come back from time off and felt depleted by Tuesday, this one names what's really happening: you've been over-functioning to avoid grieving a betrayal you never processed. Here you'll learn the difference between betrayal as destruction and betrayal as revelation, walk through the L.I.S.T.E.N. Method applied to betrayal, and get practical steps to recover personally and professionally.
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  Why You Can't Accept a Compliment -- And What It's Doing to Your Brain Chemistry 13.08.2026 16min

  You call it humility. Your nervous system calls it a threat response. Jahmaal Marshall unpacks the root-cause belief behind compliment deflection, high-functioning codependency, and the burnout it quietly manufactures; plus the empathy that's actually self-abandonment in disguise.
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  Frozen Grief and the Nervous System: The Nolan Wells Episode | Listen Then Speak 04.08.2026 25min

  Nolan Wells was an 18-year-old from Ocean Springs, Mississippi who went missing after a Fourth of July gathering on a Gulf Coast barrier island and was later found deceased. As of this episode's recording, his cause of death was officially undetermined and under investigation. This episode does not speculate on the case; it uses the public grief around it to explore how unresolved loss affects the body. Editorial note: This episode references an active, developing case. Details reflect what was publicly known at the time of recording; nothing here speculates on cause of death or assigns blame.
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  When People Think They Can Afford to Lose You, They Mishandle You | A Solo Episode on Betrayal & Boundaries 26.07.2026 30min

  Your betrayal didn't catch God by surprise. Learn how betrayal reveals character, why disordered boundaries fuel burnout & how to guard your heart.
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  How to Increase Impact and Magnify Success with Brandee Brown 02.07.2026 33min

  In this episode of Listen Then Speak, Jahmaal sits down with Brandee Brown, founder of Magnify Success, for a powerful conversation about resilience, leadership, and turning pain into purpose.
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  She Built a Top Earning Agency After a Major Life Setback — Brynne Krispin on What Nobody Tells You About Starting Over 25.06.2026 42min
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  The Betrayal That Built You: Why Being Left Behind Might Be the Thing That Levels You Up 07.06.2026 30min

  In this solo episode, Jahmaal walks through one of the most layered stories of betrayal in all of scripture: the life of Joseph. Thrown into a pit by his own brothers, sold into slavery, falsely accused by Potiphar's wife, and forgotten in prison, Joseph had every reason to be defined by what was done to him. Instead, he became second-in-command of the most powerful nation on earth, and used that position to save the very people who betrayed him.
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  Growing Up in Chaos Can Make Peace Feel Suspicious w/Jahmaal Marshall 28.05.2026 23min

  What This Episode Is About What happens when the very thing you’ve been praying for finally shows up, and your first instinct is to run from it, ruin it, or convince yourself you don’t deserve it? In this deeply personal and powerfully honest solo episode, Jahmaal Marshall pulls back the curtain on one of the most overlooked cycles holding people back: the inability to distinguish between peace and chaos when chaos is all you’ve ever known. Growing up in unpredictable, unstable, or emotionally chaotic environments doesn’t just shape your childhood, it rewires your nervous system. It trains your brain to see dysfunction as familiar, and familiarity as safe. So when peace, consistency, or genuine opportunity arrives, your subconscious goes on high alert. Something must be wrong. And if nothing is wrong… you’ll create something. Jahmaal goes deep into how unprocessed childhood wounds quietly sabotage great relationships, promising careers, and life-changing opportunities in the present; not through dramatic blow-ups, but through subtle, patterned behaviors: hyper-guardedness, manufactured drama, emotional escapism, and the haunting habit of settling for less than you’ve been built to receive. This episode is especially critical for leaders. When unhealed wounds sit in the driver’s seat of leadership, the impact doesn’t stay personal, it shapes team culture, drives decisions, and quietly communicates to the people around you what’s possible… and what’s not. If you’ve ever wondered why you keep finding yourself back in familiar chaos after finally getting something good, this episode is the mirror you didn’t know you needed.
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  How Growing Up in Chaos Can Make Peace Feel Suspicious - Jahmaal Marshall 16.05.2026 27min

  What happens when the very thing you’ve been praying for finally shows up, and your first instinct is to run from it, ruin it, or convince yourself you don’t deserve it? In this deeply personal and powerfully honest solo episode, Jahmaal Marshall pulls back the curtain on one of the most overlooked cycles holding people back: the inability to distinguish between peace and chaos when chaos is all you’ve ever known. Growing up in unpredictable, unstable, or emotionally chaotic environments doesn’t just shape your childhood, it rewires your nervous system. It trains your brain to see dysfunction as familiar, and familiarity as safe. So when peace, consistency, or genuine opportunity arrives, your subconscious goes on high alert. Something must be wrong. And if nothing is wrong… you’ll create something. Jahmaal goes deep into how unprocessed childhood wounds quietly sabotage great relationships, promising careers, and life-changing opportunities in the present not through dramatic blow-ups, but through subtle, patterned behaviors: hyper-guardedness, manufactured drama, emotional escapism, and the haunting habit of settling for less than you’ve been built to receive. This episode is especially critical for leaders. When unhealed wounds sit in the driver’s seat of leadership, the impact doesn’t stay personal, it shapes team culture, drives decisions, and quietly communicates to the people around you what’s possible… and what’s not. If you’ve ever wondered why you keep finding yourself back in familiar chaos after finally getting something good, this episode is the mirror you didn’t know you needed.
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  "Know Your Worth. Watch What Leaves." 30.04.2026 24min

  You've heard "know your worth" so many times it's lost its edge. But what if the real problem isn't that you don't know your worth, it's that you've never gotten genuinely curious enough about who you actually are to discover it? In this solo episode, Jahmaal Marshall dismantles the gap between self-worth as a slogan and self-worth as a lived frequency. He traces the direct line between untapped self-curiosity and the toxic dynamics that seem to keep finding you, and walks through the four-stage process of how clarity doesn't just repel what drains you, it actively begins to attract people who lead with value. This episode is for the person who has enough insight, and is ready for implementation.
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  How to Turn Your Passion into Profit 16.04.2026 37min
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  The Keys to How Clarity Reduces Stress and Burnout w/ Steve Woodruff 09.04.2026 29min
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  Chemistry Can Lie. Character Always Tells the Truth 02.04.2026 24min
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  Building Legacy After Losing Everything w/ Terry Rice 26.03.2026 45min
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  Waiting for Closure Is Costing You Everything 19.03.2026 27min

  In this solo episode, Jahmaal Marshall gets direct about one of the most quietly destructive habits holding people back in both their personal and professional lives: waiting for closure that will never come. Most of us were taught that closure is something another person gives us a final conversation, an apology, an explanation. But what happens when that conversation never comes? Jahmaal breaks down the psychological reality of unresolved pain, how it quietly transfers from one situation to the next, and how the self-protective strategies we build in response become the very walls that block our growth, our relationships, and our next-level opportunities. This episode is for the person who is intelligent, self-aware, maybe even well-resourced and still cannot figure out why they keep getting in their own way.
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  Sustainability on the Front Lines - How to Live in a State of Overflow in High Stress Environments w/ Dr. Gwendolyn Oglesby-Odom 12.03.2026 37min
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  Boundaries Without Bitterness: The Discipline That Protects Your Peace and Elevates Your Life 05.03.2026 23min