An Army of Normal Folks

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Our country’s problems will never be solved by a bunch of fancy people in nice suits talking big words on CNN and Fox, but by An Army of Normal Folks just deciding “hey, I can help.” Hosted by Coach Bill Courtney from the Oscar-winning Undefeated, this podcast is building the Army and celebrating its extraordinary members. New episodes are released every Tuesday. 

  • 14 minutes 49 seconds
    The Contribution Gap…. And What We’re Doing About It

    For Shop Talk, we dive into the reality that only 33% of Americans are contributing in their community at the level they’d like. And what we plan to do about it.

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    12 December 2025, 5:00 am
  • 37 minutes 17 seconds
    Lydia and Scott Rosencrants: The Normal Folks Who Adopted 11 Kids (Pt 1)

    Lydia and Scott Rosencrants have 13 children, 11 of which are adopted and 8 of them have some form of intellectual or physical disability. They didn’t set out to adopt this many kids, but they clearly answered the call a lot of times. And Lydia is the President of our local chapter in Memphis that’s launching soon!

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    9 December 2025, 7:00 am
  • 1 hour 36 seconds
    Lydia and Scott Rosencrants: The Normal Folks Who Adopted 11 Kids (Pt 2)

    Lydia and Scott Rosencrants have 13 children, 11 of which are adopted and 8 of them have some form of intellectual or physical disability. They didn’t set out to adopt this many kids, but they clearly answered the call a lot of times. And Lydia is the President of our local chapter in Memphis that’s launching soon!

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    9 December 2025, 6:00 am
  • 24 minutes 1 second
    We Need To Look In The Mirror About Lane Kiffin

    For Shop Talk, Coach Bill shares his outside-the-box take on the Lane Kiffin saga. Even if you're not a college football fan, there's life lessons for our own lives and for the Army in this story! 

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    5 December 2025, 6:00 am
  • 39 minutes 27 seconds
    Gabrielle Clowdus: We All Have Homelessness In Us (Pt 1)

    Dr. Gabrielle Clowdus is the founder of Settled, which helps churches build "Sacred Settlements", tiny home villages on their property where people experiencing homelessness and church members live in community. When she started this work of radical hospitality, she believed it was a homelessness ministry. Today, she believes that it's a ministry to all of us, as we all have some homelessness in us!  

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    2 December 2025, 7:00 am
  • 1 hour 25 minutes
    Gabrielle Clowdus: We All Have Homelessness In Us (Pt 2)

    Dr. Gabrielle Clowdus is the founder of Settled, which helps churches build "Sacred Settlements", tiny home villages on their property where people experiencing homelessness and church members live in community. When she started this work of radical hospitality, she believed it was a homelessness ministry. Today, she believes that it's a ministry to all of us, as we all have some homelessness in us!  

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    2 December 2025, 6:00 am
  • 22 minutes 41 seconds
    Why Did Life Expectancy Grow By 4 Decades?!

    For Shop Talk, we explore why did human life expectancy stick around 30-40 years old for thousands of years and then suddenly increased by 4 decades in less than 200 years! 

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    28 November 2025, 8:52 am
  • 39 minutes 39 seconds
    Lisa Steven: The Former Teen Mom Empowering Teen Moms (Pt 1)

    Lisa Steven is a former teen mom who went on to build the only home for teen moms in the entire state of Colorado. Their resource center serves over 280 teen moms per year with free empowerment programming and early childhood education. And now 3 other communities have adopted their model!

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    25 November 2025, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    Lisa Steven: The Former Teen Mom Empowering Teen Moms (Pt 2)

    Lisa Steven is a former teen mom who went on to build the only home for teen moms in the entire state of Colorado. Their resource center serves over 280 teen moms per year with free empowerment programming and early childhood education. And now 3 other communities have adopted their model!

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    25 November 2025, 5:00 am
  • 19 minutes 18 seconds
    The Happiest Man on Earth

    For Shop Talk, we bring you Army member Anita Marin's awesome recommendation to learn from Eddie Jaku, the Holocaust survivor who called himself the happiest man on earth! 

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    21 November 2025, 6:00 am
  • 36 minutes 46 seconds
    Steve Wanta: How To Loan Money 100% of The Time (Pt 1)

    Steve Wanta is the co-founder of JUST, a nonprofit lender to 14,000 black and brown female entrepreneurs in Texas. And because they’ve built an unheard of system based on trust and community, they’re achieving unheard of results such as loaning money to 100% of applicants while also being repaid 99% of the time! 

     

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    18 November 2025, 7:00 am
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