Best Tim Howe Podcasts (2025)

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How the ECFA Is Redefining Care for Church Leaders (featuring Jake Lapp) 41:08

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Behind every thriving ministry is a foundation you can’t always see - standards, accountability, and trust. Without them, the most passionate vision can unravel overnight. In this episode of Life After Ministry, ECFA’s Jake Lapp explains why accountability matters not just for auditors and boards but for pastors, leaders, and anyone entrusted with …

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Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach 57:48

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Pigs with human kidneys. Iron lungs. Bionic prostheses. And bendable genitals. Mary Roach is here, and Alie is freaking out. Over the last two decades, this science icon has written seven New York Times bestsellers, including Stiff, Bonk, Gulp, and Packing for Mars. Her latest release, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy is all about Human…

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Why Ministry Needs a Mental Health Strategy (featuring Laura Howe) 44:40

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What happens when the very act of caring for others leaves you depleted? Laura Howe, founder of Hope Made Strong, knows firsthand the toll of compassion fatigue. From her own season of burnout came a global movement equipping churches to address mental health with wisdom and grace. In this conversation, Laura shares her personal journey from exhaus…

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Episode 454: Dan Halsted (Hollywood Theatre) 1:30:28

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Dan Halsted is the head programmer at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon. The Hollywood Theatre has a national reputation for its award-winning film programming, innovative educational programs, and providing fiscal support for local filmmakers. We show classic and contemporary films, host live performances and special guests, and produce in…

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Ceramology (POTTERY) with Potted History’s Graham Taylor & Sarah Lord Taylor 1:12:52

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Porcelain. Earthenware. China. Archaeology. Stoneware. Anthropology. Amphora. Throwing wheels. We got it all. Master potters, history aficionados and Potted History’s icons Sarah Lord Taylor and Graham Taylor are here for our 8th anniversary episode. We get the dirt on ceramics versus pottery, where clay comes from, if there’s enough in the world, …

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Deeply Loved: Why Empathy Is Oxygen for the Soul (featuring Bill & Kristi Gaultiere) 47:31

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What if the missing piece in your leadership is not more strategy but more empathy? Bill and Kristi Gaultiere say empathy is oxygen for the soul, and many leaders are gasping without realizing it. They join Matt to unpack how Jesus models secure attachment with the Father and how we can receive and reflect that love in daily life. Bill and Kristi n…

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Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster 1:37:01

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Neurons. Immune systems. MRIs. Weed gummies? One of the greats in neurology, Dr. Aaron Boster, takes time to chat all about Multiple Sclerosis, a neurological autoimmune disease close to our hearts. Alie’s mom, your grammapod a.k.a. Fancy Nancy, was diagnosed with MS over two decades ago, and this episode explores in depth the factors that can caus…

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Reflecting on Season Four: A Journey of Growth 17:29

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Sixty episodes. More than 70,000 downloads. And countless stories of leaders who’ve walked through suffering, loss, and transition - and discovered God’s faithfulness in the middle of it all. In this season finale, Matt Davis pauses to look back on the lessons of Season Four. From transformational suffering to leadership in crisis, from the wildern…

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Episode 453: Domo Branch 1:33:10

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Domo Branch is a NYC/Portland based drummer, producer, and composer.I chatted with Domo about how his work ethic as a musician has developed, not taking opportunities for granted, developing his ear and his chops, tapping into complete presence int the live show, and more!To keep up with Domo Branch, the Dan Cable Presents Podcast, and the sponsors…

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Lutrinology (OTTERS) Encore with Chris J. Law 1:02:42

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YOU’RE NOT READY. But it’s time. Otters. Sea otters. River otters. Big beefy otters. Tiny otters. Giant river otters. Otters chasing you down the street. Dr. Chris J. Law, a professional Lutrinologist, shares tales about coastal vs. inland otters, otter terrorism, magical teeth, lustrous fur, rock pockets, kelp naps, otter terrorism, cautionary mot…

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Starting Scared: Why You're More Ready Than You Think (featuring Holly Tate) 33:32

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What if waiting until you’re ready keeps you from ever starting? In this episode of Life After Ministry, Matt Davis sits down with Holly Tate, founder of The Ready Network, to talk about leadership, courage, and stepping into the unknown. Holly shares her own story of transition - from years at Vanderbloemen, to joining Leadr, to launching her own …

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Trolleyology (MORAL DILEMMAS + THE TROLLEY PROBLEM) with Joshua Greene 1:22:19

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Train tracks. Split decisions. And a philosophy humdinger worth debating. Dr. Joshua Greene is a Harvard Psychology professor, neuroscientist, and *actual* Trolleyologist. The moral humdinger that has been used in everything from Supreme Court decisions to board games looks at: What makes you a good person? How do you reason with people who make yo…

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Ministry Transitions Nobody Prepares You For (featuring Tim Stevens) 36:10

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Every ministry transition comes with both a push and a pull. Sometimes you’re drawn toward a new calling. Other times you simply know you can’t stay. For Tim Stevens, those moments have shaped four decades of leadership in the church - and given him a front-row seat to hundreds of leaders navigating their own endings and beginnings. In this convers…

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Episode 452: Noah Bernstein 2:27:22

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Noah Bernstein is a Portland, Oregon based saxophone player, and co-owner of Bernstein's Bagels, a bagel shop in North Portland. I chatted with Noah about his dedicated time as a jazz saxophonist, how he got interested in playing jazz, going to college at Oberlin, touring with the Tune Yards, as well as co-owning Bernstein's Bagels, an endeavor tha…

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Tempestology (HURRICANES) Part 2 with Dr. Kim Wood & Matt Lanza 1:01:45

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The info storm continues! Part 1 covered the anatomy of a cyclonic storm, the bizarre histories behind the category system, and where hurricanes come from, but this week’s conclusion with Matt Lanza and Dr. Kim Wood gets you covered on emergency preparation for any disaster occasion, climate change trends and despair, the latest on the government f…

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Absolute Best Practices of Nonprofit Boards (featuring Dr. Michael Anthony) 1:01:20

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What if the health of your ministry depends more on your board than you think? Dr. Michael Anthony has spent 40 years in boardrooms - as a member, chair, consultant, and C-suite leader - and he’s seen what works and what breaks ministries apart. In this candid conversation, Dr. Anthony unpacks common mistakes boards make, the unseen cost of poor go…

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Tempestology (HURRICANES) Part 1 with Matt Lanza & Dr. Kim Wood 1:11:14

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Hurricanes. Typhoons. Cyclones. Tropical storms. Tropical depressions. What does it all MEAAAN? Let’s dive in. Career meteorologists Dr. Kim Wood of the University of Arizona and Space City Weather’s Matt Lanza join for a two-guest two-parter to address the “deadlier” female-named hurricanes, why hurricane season happens, the category system, where…

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Episode 451: Laska 1:25:10

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Laska is a Portland, Oregon based band originally from Minnesota. The band is fronted by sisters Mookie and Hannah Morton. We chatted about their early memories of singing and learning how to play music with each other, sisterhood, what they love about playing music together, their new record LONG LONG HALLWAY, and more!To keep up with Laska and th…

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Positioned for This: Succession, Calling, and the Next Chapter (featuring Ron Henry) 29:52

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What happens when a leader transitions not just into a new role - but into their calling? In this episode, Matt Davis introduces Ron Henry, the newly appointed Chief Succession Officer at Ministry Transitions. Ron brings decades of experience in executive placement and career development, but his deeper calling? Helping leaders find where God wants…

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Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION) 51:07

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When were glasses invented? What happened back then if your horse stepped on them? How is the digital age changing adults’ and kids’ vision? The first half of this special bonus episode about Optical Technology features the charmingly hilarious director of the Museum of the Eye in San Francisco, Jenny Benjamin. Then we bop over to Houston, Texas fo…

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Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks 1:19:37

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Smell and culture. Scent descriptions in novels. Fragrances and class. Stink and stigmas. We cover it all. Scholar, author, and Literary Olfactologist Dr. Ally Louks burst into the zeitgeist in 2024 with her PhD thesis “Olfactory Ethics: The Politics Of Smell In Modern And Contemporary Prose” and we finally got to sit down and talk about the inters…

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Balancing the Business Brain and the Pastoral Heart (featuring Dave Fletcher) 35:27

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What do scuba diving, salary spreadsheets, and severance packages have in common? According to David Fletcher - everything. In this episode, Matt sits down with the founder of xPastor and longtime executive pastor, David Fletcher, to talk about the messy, complicated, and deeply human work of leadership transitions in the church. They unpack the re…

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Bonus Episode: The OCD Experience with Neurobiologist Uma Chatterjee 48:38

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This one’s all about lived experience: What's it like to have OCD? What’s the therapy all about? How do you support people with it? And how to accept the darkest thoughts that might haunt you. As a bonus to last week’s OCD Neurobiology episode with Dr. Wayne Goodman, the wonderful neuroscientist, board-certified mental health peer specialist, and s…

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S9 Ep. 13: Telepathy and The Remembering with Nicole and Lizzie 1:00:11

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Telepathy may sound like a sci-fi, futuristic concept to some. What if telepathy is simply one of our soul gifts that we’ve forgotten? Over the past few months, we've been following a thread - one that started with The Telepathy Tapes and unfolded into unexpected connections, channelings and shared transmissions. This final episode of season 9 brin…

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Obsessive-Compulsive Neurobiology (OCD) with Wayne Goodman 1:19:49

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Ruminations and reassurances. Checking and counting. Suffering and stigmas. It’s OCD, babes! OCD is now considered one of the most common psychiatric conditions, afflicting 2% to 3% of the general population, and this episode is among our top-requested topics. So we snagged a top-shelf ologist: psychiatrist, researcher, advocate and OCD Neurobiolog…

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"Ministry Didn't End, It Just Moved" (featuring Josh Taylor) 36:06

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What if the scariest thing about leaving ministry wasn’t the loss of your job - but the loss of your identity? In this episode, Matt sits down with Josh Taylor, former executive pastor turned chief marketing officer, who opens up about what it’s really like to step off the platform and into the unknown. From twelve years of trusted leadership in a …

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Episode 450: Jakki and the Pink Smudge 1:24:29

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Jakki and the Pink Smudge is a Portland, Oregon based band. I chatted with Jakki Wise, who fronts the band and writes the songs. We chatted about how Jakki got into playing music, her vision for creating art, capturing raw emotion, creating an engaging live show, making records, and more! To keep up with Jakki and the Pink Smudge, and the Dan Cable…

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Fromology (CHEESE) Part 2 with Kyra James 1:12:09

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We’re back with molten hot cheese trivia in Part 2 with Fromologist Kyra James of OwnYourFunk.com. Part 1 covered the foundations and this week we address your listener questions about cows on boats, plant-based cheese options, how to properly store cheese, how cheese changes your brain chemistry, the Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake, the grea…

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Faithly and the Future of Ministry Connection (featuring Alicia Lee) 35:20

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Alicia Lee didn’t leave ministry. She left Wall Street. After nearly two decades at Goldman Sachs, Alicia was managing a massive trading floor and rubbing shoulders with IPO titans. She loved the fast pace. She was good at it. And then God pulled the plug. A missed promotion became a divine pivot - and what followed was not a sabbatical, but a star…

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S9 Ep. 12: Spirit Meets Medicine with Maryam and Meg 54:47

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In this episode, you’ll hear a real-time demo of intuitive & medical collaboration! I’m joined by Maryam Faresh, a seasoned psychic medium/medical intuitive, & Meg Harrell, a registered nurse with a deep passion for solving the medical mysteries that traditional systems often miss. Together, they collaborate to help clients uncover the emotional an…

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Fromology (CHEESE) Part 1 with Kyra James 1:10:40

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Soft. Hard. Fresh. Aged. Stinky. Illegal. Let’s talk cheese with Certified Cheese Professional (CCP) and Fromologist, Kyra James. We chat about proprietary bacterial slurries, basement caves, cheese knife etiquette, rind eating, vegetarian versus vegan cheeses, cheese history, different warm-blooded animals whose milk is used for cheese, American c…

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Redeployed, Not Retired (featuring Jon Talbert) 51:52

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What do you do when ministry success comes at the cost of your soul? In this episode, we sit down with Jon Talbert - pastor, coach, and co-founder of Forte - to talk about the quiet unraveling that often happens behind the scenes in leadership. Jon has led at the highest levels of church and nonprofit work, but somewhere along the way, he realized …

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Episode 449: MAE.SUN 1:21:35

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MAE.SUN is a multi-instrumentalist and composer originally from Portland, Oregon. I chatted with her about discovering her passion for music at a young age, how she express herself differently on various instruments, approaches to recording, losing her house in the recent LA fires, touring as an auxiliary player in Clairo, and her collaborative pro…

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Lampyridology (FIREFLIES) aka Sparklebuttology Updated Encore with Sara Lewis 1:07:49

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Let’s light up your life and butt. World-renowned firefly expert Dr. Sara Lewis of Tufts University gives us some updates to her 2021 episode, sharing her love of a bug that many think is merely mythological. Learn how these tiny animals illuminate the night, the dos and don’ts of firefly observation, how to take good firefly photos, femme fatales,…

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S9 Ep. 11: Inspired by the Telepathy Tapes with Nicole and Lizzie 48:14

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This episode unfolded in a way I didn’t expect. What started as a quiet meditation turned into a vivid connection with a loving non-physical presence. ✨The energy I felt was clear, gentle and warm. This being, Winifred, introduced herself as one who supports the Hill, the energetic meeting place referenced in The Telepathy Tapes. What followed was …

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Crotalology (RATTLESNAKES) with Emily Taylor 1:21:11

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Fangs. Rattles. Misconceptions. Crawl out from under your rock for the angelic rattle of one of the world’s most maligned, misunderstood, gorgeous, mysterious, efficient creatures. Herpetology professor, rattlesnake scientist and thus, Crotalologist Dr. Emily Taylor discusses why rattlesnakes deserve our love, the parenthood strategies of rattlers,…