The Plain Values Podcast EP #20 – From Castro’s Cuba to the Operating Room: The Extraordinary Life of Dr. Roberto Matthew
In this remarkable conversation, we sit down with Dr. Roberto Matthew — born in Cuba, shaped by revolution, exile, poverty, and perseverance to trace a life marked by danger, resilience,…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #19 – From Atlanta Highways to New York Hayfields: Buck Alford’s Unlikely Journey
In this episode, we sit down with Buck Alford, an Atlanta native who traded suburban life for the wide-open fields and beauty of upstate New York. Buck shares the unexpected…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #18 – Kent Ernsting’s 35-Year Calling to Walk With the Wounded
In this week’s conversation, we sit down with therapist Kent Ernsting, a man shaped by a lifetime of caring for wounded hearts. Trained in Marriage and Family Therapy and Theology…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #17 – How Dave Sims Found His Calling After Losing Everything
In this week’s episode, we spend time with Dave Sims, a man whose life was split cleanly in two by a single moment. In 1998, a slow family bike ride…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #15 – Julie Kerby’s Mission to Wrap Foster Families in Care
Julie Kerby, founder of Hope’s House Foster and a woman who has spent nearly two decades on the front lines of foster care. Julie and her husband fostered for over…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #14 – Chad and Kyla Kethcart on Healing, Art, and the Homestead
Chad and Kyla Kethcart’s journey began in the creative pulse of Chicago … he a musician, she an artist … bound by both love and struggle. When life’s storms hit…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #13 – Pam McCue on The Shroud of Turin
After a distinguished 30-year career as a senior executive in the U.S. Department of Defense, Pam McCue could have easily settled into a quiet retirement. Instead, she turned her lifelong…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #12 – Griffin Long on God’s Work Through Special Needs
Griffin and his wife Rachel live in Canton, OH with their three children Isaiah, Thomas, and Ely. Griffin is a founder and Executive Director of Sacred Ground, a faith based…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #11 – Josh Thomas on Building a Healthy, Free, and Secure Life
As Co-Founder of The Homesteading Family and School of Traditional Skills, Josh partners with experts in the homesteading world to help people learn the skills they need to create a…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #10 – Gabe and Mandy McCauley on Work, Play, and the Miracle of Children
Gabe McCauley is an actor and film director as well as the founder of the production companies, Soul Feather Studios and lilDRAGON. He has directed over eight seasons of television,…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #09 – Ryan and Sara Heckert on Adoption and The Good Life
Ryan Heckert is first and foremost a Jesus follower, husband, and father. He’s also CEO at TWi and lover of photography, bigfoot lore, baseball, golf and fantasy football. Welcome to…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #08 – Sam Burchfield on Sacred Music, Sacred Life
Sam Burchfield is a musician. But wait, that’s an understatement … Rooted in South Carolina and tempered by years of chasing and then rejecting “sparkly” offers from TV and major…










