Addiction Recovery Podcast: Rebuilding Life After Addiction

Dec 20, 2025

Why Sobriety Isn't the Same as Peace

with Robert Grant

Most people didn't turn to drugs to party. They were searching for peace. But what the world offers as peace is often just escape, just numbing the noise long enough to get through another day. Sobriety takes away the substance, but it doesn't automatically give you rest. If you're clean but still restless, still waiting for your mind to stop racing, still wondering why freedom feels so heavy, this episode is for you. We talk about why chaos can feel normal after addiction, the difference between the world's version of peace and what God actually promises, and what Philippians 4 has to say about renewing your mind. Peace isn't the absence of problems. It's the presence of something deeper.

Mar 12, 2025

Ben Fuller Testimony: Addiction, Recovery, and Finding God in Nashville

with Ben Fuller

Ben Fuller's story isn't a clean testimony. It's generational pain, father wounds, and addiction that became an escape from a world that felt too broken to face. Now a Christian recording artist reaching millions, Ben opens up about the loneliness that came after salvation, the unexpected power of prison ministry, and the moment in church that changed everything. He talks about losing his best friend to addiction, why surrender became the foundation of his freedom, and how God used his darkest moments to birth something beautiful. His music isn't entertainment. It's ministry. If you're wondering whether God can really use a broken past, whether you're too far gone, or whether there's purpose on the other side of the wreckage, Ben's been where you are.

Mar 20, 2024

One "Yes" at a Time: How Ministry Shaped Our Marriage

with Ashley Franich

Ashley shares our story. How we met. How God called us into Teen Challenge. What it looked like to say "yes" one step at a time when the path wasn't clear and the cost wasn't small. Ministry didn't come with a roadmap. It came with a basement full of women in recovery while we were raising young kids upstairs. It came with long days, tight budgets, and learning to trust God when the math didn't work. This conversation is for anyone navigating faith and marriage through a season of calling or transition. It wasn't always easy. Looking back, it wasn't always clear either. But every "yes" made sense eventually. If you're wondering how to follow God together when the road keeps shifting, Ashley's been living that question for over 15 years.

Jan 22, 2026

What I'm Learning About Letting Go (And What You Might Need to Hear)

I recorded this sitting in an empty building that held Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge for 16 years. No noise. No people. Just memories. This is about the kind of letting go that feels like grief. The kind where you're closing a chapter you didn't think would end like this. Three steps: acknowledge the good that was, release what's ending, and trust God for what's next. One of the biggest dangers in ministry is idolizing a method. You honor the mission, not the method.

Jan 20, 2026

Dad, in His Own Words - A Memorial Tribute to Rev. John Franich

with Rev. John Franich

You're hearing the voice of my dad, Rev. John Franich, the founder of Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge. Not a highlight reel. His real story. In his own words. Dad spent 17 years in the car business and then lived 30 years away from the church. A life-threatening leg infection forced him out of work. That setback became the doorway. He earned a psychology degree from Liberty University and God marked him during a Teen Challenge presentation from Philadelphia. He knew in that moment what he was supposed to do.

Jan 7, 2026

Going Back to Where We Started: The Future of SVTC in 2026

with Justin Franich

Shenandoah Valley Teen Challenge is transitioning in 2026. After 16 years in our current building, we're selling the property and stepping away from the 12-month residential model to focus on community-based recovery. My dad didn't start this ministry with a building dream. He started it with a burden. Helping a few people get their lives back together. This new model is built on three lanes: content, community, and mentoring. Same Gospel. Same mission. New strategy.

Jan 7, 2026

You Can Win at Life and Still Feel Lost: Aaron Gordon

with Aaron Gordon

Aaron Gordon beat the odds - graduating from West Point, building a successful military career - but at 54 he's still wrestling with the question most people avoid: Who did God actually create me to be? A conversation about identity, purpose, and the subtle lies that derail even "successful" lives.

Dec 24, 2025

If You’re Sober but Still Struggling, Hear This

with Justin Franich

You stopped using. You're technically clean. But you're still empty. Still white knuckling it. Still wondering why sobriety doesn't feel like freedom. The drugs were never the real problem. They were covering the soul wounds underneath. Betrayal. Abuse. Loss. The only thing that fills the void is the presence of Christ and the hard work of forgiving the people who hurt you.

Dec 19, 2025

The Biggest Mistake People Make Waiting for the Storm to End

with Justin Franich

Looking back like Lot's wife will freeze you in place. The old identity, the old chaos, the old lies. They want to pull you back. This episode is about choosing to believe in your future redemption instead of dwelling on who you used to be. It's about evicting chaos from your life so the peace of God has room to grow. Philippians 4:8 gives you the blueprint.

Dec 18, 2025

He Couldn't Be With His Wife Without Watching It First

with Justin Franich

A man hid his pornography addiction so well that on his wedding night he couldn't be intimate with his wife without watching it first. That's what porn does. Rewires your brain until the real thing doesn't work anymore. We dig into the science of how pornography fries your dopamine receptors and the spiritual damage it causes to marriages. The devil only shows you the front of sin. He doesn't show you the cirrhosis, the broken marriages, the isolation.

Dec 17, 2025

You’re Clean But Life’s Still a Mess - Here’s Why

with Rob Reynolds

You're sober but everything still feels chaotic. That's because you were programmed for chaos. Peace feels unfamiliar. Uncomfortable. Almost suspicious. Rob Reynolds and I talk about shame, identity, and why trauma keeps pulling you back even when you're not using. Rob shares his struggle with feeling inadequate because he never went to college. Sobriety is the start. It's not the finish line.

Dec 16, 2025

How Porn Creates Strongholds (And How to Break Them)

with Wade McHargue

Where does the struggle with lust and pornography actually begin? Not when you click the link. Long before that. Early exposure shapes the mind in ways most people never unpack, and years of trying harder doesn't touch the root. This conversation goes deeper than behavior modification. We talk about how strongholds take root over time, the spiritual and mental dynamics behind lust, why willpower alone keeps you stuck in the same cycles, and what it actually looks like to renew your mind with God's Word. Freedom isn't found in trying harder. It begins with truth, surrender, and transformation from the inside out. If you're tired of the secrecy and shame, tired of white-knuckling it through another week, this one's for you. You're not alone and you're not beyond hope.