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Recovery is a process of decisions PodcastWhat it means to turn my will over to the God of my understanding.We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textMy will is my will. I can't turn it over to someone else, I can't absolve it. We are all free will creations. Free to decide for ourselves what to and what not to do. We were created unique and special in the entire universe, both known and unknown. Our will is not instinct or mandated action, but rather is completely under our control. We possess a moral capacity that places our will under direction from our God center. Our moral compass is tightly wound within our will to l...2025-06-1308 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastRelapse presents a decision provoking deathWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textRelapse presents a decision to die and not live. With relapse, gone are the sure-fire dreams of success. Gone is the newfound cohesion between family and friends. Gone is the financial security and rewards of recovery. Gone is the journey to get better. Relapse presents an illusion of one more trip on the drink and drug carousel. Relapse instead delivers instant guilt and shame. Relapse presents death as the decision to use could very well be the very last decision one ever makes. Recovery brings forth light. Relapse delivers...2025-06-0607 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastRecovery means removing the liesWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textAddiction is a disease built on lies. Addiction is a disease of self-deception. The remedy for the lie is truth. Addiction is considered a disease of no spirituality. This is since with addiction, you get the presence of lies. A lie is the opposite truth. All truth begins with GOD. GOD cannot lie. Everything GOD does is truthful. GOD can't lie. With the truth that comes from GOD, you remove the existence of the lie. Lies exist in darkness. With truth, you get the light of GOD. With truth, y...2025-05-1607 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastPlease, thank you, I'm sorry words that are worthyWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textRecently, at the funeral of Pope Francis, I learned that he expressed that three sayings were his favorite. These words were, please, thank you, and I'm sorry. When I heard this, a thought came to my mind that these three expressions could be best used in a conversation with God. Please, a statement of submission and acceptance, thank you, a saying denoting gratitude as well as graciousness in receiving all the many blessings of life. A humble expression of kind receipt. I'm sorry, a statement of forgiveness and remorse...2025-05-0909 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastDiscerning marriage in recoveryWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textMarriage is a union of two separate lives under the umbrella of unity, where two plans for life become one. Where the inclusionary spirit must exist when drafting the all-for-one plan of the marrying parties, a marriage is a living entity and requires the respect and nurturing cohesiveness of both parties if the union is to stand the test of time or the sandstorms of life. Marriage requires the give and take of humble submission and willing forgiveness. Marriage in recovery presents unique circumstances. Circumstances that force a decision...2025-05-0210 minRecovery is a process of decisions Podcast🔒 Recovery is a understanding that failure is necessarySubscriber-only episodeWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textSuccess is built upon the failures of the past. Life's success is built upon the lessons of what to and what not to do. We can learn from our own failures or the failures of others, but learn we must. The trials and errors of life permeate our successful endeavors. Success is built upon the temporary failures of the past. By learning from our bad decisions, we do better. We get better results from better decisions. More rewards and fewer consequences. Failures are temporary and...2025-04-3005 min
Owners TableEpisode 95: Part 2-Trent Dilfer: Talks Super Bowl to Sidelines, and Everything In BetweenThomas and Trent continue their conversation by exploring the complexities of revenue sharing (rev share) in college athletics, focusing on the financial disparities between Power Five and Group of Five schools. They highlight the significant financial pressures and long-term sustainability concerns faced by less affluent programs. They discuss the competitive imbalance created by differing revenue capabilities and the impact of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) deals on recruitment. The conversation also touches on the future of college athletics, emphasizing the need for innovative solutions to create a more equitable system and the importance of community engagement and tradition.2025-04-2859 min
Owners TableEpisode 94: Part 1-Trent Dilfer: Talks Super Bowl to Sidelines, and Everything In BetweenIn this episode of the Owners Table podcast, Thomas chats with Trent Dilfer, a former NFL quarterback, Super Bowl champion, ESPN analyst, and current head football coach at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The discussion covers Dilfer's extensive career, his transition to coaching, and his holistic approach to player development. Dilfer reflects on his NFL experiences, the importance of financial literacy for athletes, and the evolving landscape of college football, including the impact of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) deals. He emphasizes the role of coaches in shaping players' lives both on and off the field.2025-04-2157 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastThe beauty of getting family back in recoveryWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textAddiction often destroys the bonds of family and reduces them to nothing, the bonds that hold the family together. Far too often, Addictive bad decisions cost families their trust and eliminate their trustworthiness. Gone are all the joy-filled meetings of joyous union. Frequently replaced with hate, distrust, and emptiness. However, recovery brings the shine back. Returned to luster is the inner joy and togetherness, complete with a newfound measure of appreciation and love. Listen as Trent envokes the happiness found in recovery when ones family is returned in good...2025-04-1805 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastAcceptance of consequences is not enough to stop the disease of addictionWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textAddiction is defined as the interplay and continuance of activity in spite of suffering the damaging consequences. This literally means losing your job, your marriage, your children, your friends even your life is not enough to stop the continuation of addictive behavior. Death is the only function that ends the addictive mindset. Recovery from addiction begins with a decision to live and not die. The premonition to live is the precursor to recovery. It is only through a moment of sanity that we make a conscious decision that life...2025-04-1107 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastRecovery and dealing with the rewards of successWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textIn recovery, it does get greater later. This can mean we begin to reap the rewards of making better decisions. Thus, we get more rewards from better decisions and fewer consequences from bad decisions. These successes can put us in a funhouse of deception. We can very easily fall victim to the self-deception of we deserve a break or we can indulge in just one because of our success. We can foster the lie that we have amassed enough wealth that we can't possibly fall down. How quickly, that...2025-04-0406 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastDealing with our past in recoveryWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textRecovery requires we share our past bad decisions with someone other than ourselves. To heal we must reveal. Some consider this a wall, for me, it was a door. A door that opened with gratitude. A door that revealed how grateful I was for being given another day to just do better. Revealing my past relieved me of the guilt and shame that had infested my very being. Revealing my past afforded me a life of recovery. A life where success is measured by serenity. A life where I...2025-03-2807 minRecovery is a process of decisions Podcast🔒 CONFIDENCE IS A MUSCLESubscriber-only episodeWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textConfidence is the belief in someone or something that can be relied upon. A firm trust. Self confidence is the belief in ones self affirming strong character and being trustworthy. Belief is based upon truth. If you are in fact trustworthy and you do show up and are reliable then the truth is affirmation that you do exude confidence. Muscles gain strength and definition by adding weight and completing many repititions. The same is true for confidence, the more you show up and can be...2025-03-2106 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastWilling to recoverWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textIn recovery, we must participate in our own recovery. We must be willing to submit to change everything. It is our willingness that presents our submission to the GOD of our understanding for his help and guidance. It is our willingness that puts us in a position to be used by GOD as a tool for him to use to present truth and light to those who are seeking help. The more we give the more GOD gives us to give. Your basket will never go empty when you...2025-03-2106 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastAcceptance keeps me soberWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textEarly in recovery, I did not know recovery even existed or was possible. I did not know how to live a sober life. I had to learn. I learned in 12-step meetings from people I did not know, that these individuals were willing to teach me how to live a sober life by sharing their past bad decisions and some of the most embarrassing moments in their lives. Their truths taught me what to and what not to do in recovery. In these rooms, I learned I suffered from...2025-03-1407 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastWhen using is no longer an optionWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textLiving life on life's terms often means dealing with unexpected hurtful, and even painful situations. These situations remain outside of our control and we lack the power to change or abate them. We can and should deal with them in their entirety. The pain, the loss, the isolation, the exhilaration, the joy, the laughter. All of life's ups and downs feel what we need to feel and then move on. Faith in the God of our understanding propels us through these life events. Faith that with GOD everything is...2025-03-0709 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastDealing with death in recoveryWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textDeath is a part of life. It is an eventuality we all must succumb to. In death we are remembered for the life we lived. With recovery, we ensure we are remembered for the giving we did in our community. In recovery, we are mandated to make the next right decision. In making the right decisions we reap the reward for making correct decisions, thus we are remembered for these correct decisions. Our death is a testament to the will of God his wisdom, his blessing. We have attributed th...2025-02-2809 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastRecovery is selfishWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textRecovery requires a selfish mandate to treat the disease of addiction before anyone or anything. This selfish desire protects one's self-esteem, self-control, self-hood, and self-worth. All because one decides to selfishly treat the disease of addiction first and foremost. Self-love dictates a selfish decision to place recovery above everything. Even before your loved ones. Without placing the disease of addiction in remission every day, one risks succumbing to the ravages of the addictive lifestyle. Many have relapsed due to the placing of loved ones, work, money, hanging with friends...2025-02-1407 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastChange is inevitable in recoveryWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textChange is indeed inevitable for life is dependent on change. From the air, we breathe to the movement of the earth we live on. Change is constant and necessary for life. From the change of night to day and sunshine to rain change is mandatory. We too can and should change, Recovery demands change. To recover we must do better. Better today than yesterday. We receive a new opportunity each day to just do better. God invokes change. As we learn better we then know better which in turn...2025-01-3107 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastGod knows what we know notWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textThere is no recovery without God. God is omnipotent everywhere all the time, all-powerful. God is truth. Everything God does is truthful. God cannot lie, God has no beginning and no ending. Time bows to God. God knows our past, present, and the possibilities of our future. To God, all knees shall bend either willingly or unwillingly. With God, all things are possible and achievable. God requests our submission and is worthy of our worship. Listen as Trent proclaims Gods magnificence and the part God plays in our recovery2025-01-2406 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastRecovery is a everyday battleWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textLife never stops throwing life at you. We must live life on life's terms. With the disease of addiction there is no cure and as such this disease never stops submitting its claim for your early death. It relentlessly strives to submit to you a steady unretreating mindset of selfish desires; Submitting to this mindset can have devastating consequences. Consequences that can bring about an end to you and your family's happiness. These consequences can produce intense pain and premature death. With recovery comes the blessings of learning better...2025-01-1708 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastKnow one to blame but me.We welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textMy recovery my respondsibility. I must participate in my own recovery. I cannot blame anyone for my decisions. Recovery is a decision to live and not die. I can choose to recover or not recover. Every person has the right to decide to live or not. All me All the time, Know one to blame but me. Listen as Trent defines his decision to recover and not blame anyone for his past decisions.Support the showRecovery is a process of decisions.2025-01-1006 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastChange or die in recoveryWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textChange is constant and inevitable. Everything in the universe is in a consistent state of change. The very ground we stand on is in a steady state of change as the planet we live on is in a revolving state of motion. What we are empowered to change is measured. In fact we control very little. We don't control the beating of our heart or the inhalation process of our lungs. Even the blinking of our eyes happens without our conscious measure. What we do control happens in how w...2025-01-0308 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastDefining manhood in recoveryWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textA boy does what he is told yet a man does what he has to do. With understanding and wisdom, a man makes life decisions. Somewhere I heard a man does not cry, I know you are not a man until you learn how to cry. Being a man is taught from one man to another. Just as a lion lays down his life for his pride, so does a man find the same obligation for his family. A man serves his family by being better every day, Being th...2024-12-2715 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastAdjusting attitude in recoveryWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textWe do not have control over what others do or say. However, we do control our attitude response. Our response is primarily linked to our attitude, how we view life our perspective is prominent in whether we respond with good or bad decisions. There is a slogan that states love me or hate me neither will make me or break me. If we lose control due to our attitude it often results in anger. Anger is dangerous. Anger separates us from the GOD of our understanding and often leads to violence...2024-12-2010 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastForgiveness is your lifesaver in recoveryWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textForgiveness is an I attribute. You cannot project forgiveness on an another. If I forgive you, I am saving my own life. Forgiveness stops the negative feelings of stress caused by the actions of a perpetrator. You will always be held hostage to the actions brought about by another. The same is true for forgiveness of oneself. You will never move beyond the inner stress and turmoil caused by your past bad decisions until you first forgive yourself. The forgiveness of yourself is a mirror of the same attribute Go...2024-12-1306 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastRecovery is for now not laterWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textTomorrow can be too late for recovery. Recovery is a decision to live and not die. Yesterday is history and tomorrow is not promised, Recovery is for today right now. Now is all we can control. life is a reward for making a correct decision, death is the consequence for making a wrong decision. With the advent of fentanyl your next decision to use could be your last. We control very little, whether we will wake up in the morning is not guaranteed, thus recovering tomorrow is not promised. Listen as T...2024-12-0606 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastTaking instructions in recoveryWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textRecovery has taught me to live a GOD complicit life. A life where I follow Gods Instructions. A life where I have given up driving the car but rather depend on the instructions that come from God. Patiently waiting on his purpose in my life to come to fruition. Gone are my off the road driving into pits and off cliffs due to being spiritually blind with senses dulled with drugs and alcohol, No longer am I a victim of sad consequences from making immoral decisions. No longer looking over my sho...2024-11-2910 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastDrama and conflict in recoveryWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textAddiction is a constant battle between sanity and actions of insanity. A battle demonstrated in the battle between drama and conflict. Knowing what not to do has little value in dealing with the disease of addiction and it's proposition of insane actions. Living in the unreal world one is placed in while in active addiction forces one to deal with drama and conflict on a daily basis. Only the intervention from GOD in a moment of sanity saved the life of Trent Thomas. Hear how he relays his life exp...2024-11-1509 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastMercy from GOD in recoveryWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textMercy is to forgive someone you can punish, God is a God of mercy He could erase anyone at any time. Yet he decides to rehabilitate and recover those who sin against him. He ordains recovery as a measure of his mercy. Each day he awakens us he exercises mercy. His mercy is immense, His mercy comes in all forms. His mercy is expressed in not only what he does for us but also by what he protects us from, by the diseases we do not suffer from. We s...2024-11-0805 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastWith recovery faith is in the waitingWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textIn recovery, faith is absolutely mandatory. We serve an all-powerful creator who operates above the natural world. He exists in the supernatural. On day 1 of creation, he said let there be light yet it was on day 4 that he created the sun. Where did the light come from before the existence of the sun? Here in is proof that God does not need the natural world to fulfill his purpose, He stated let there be light and light came into existence. He does not need the logic of the...2024-11-0108 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastGratitude keeps me soberWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textThe more scientists discover about our universe the more they prove the existence of our God. The fact that scientists have proven that the universe had a common starting point called the Big Bang proves the existence of an intelligent force that initiated this Big Bang of creation. All life is cell creation and no cell can self-generate but rather must come from another cell proving yet again the existence of an intelligent, all-powerful creator. Our GOD creates from love, mercy, power, and sheer genius. The more we learn ab...2024-10-2508 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastRecovery is dependent on our spiritual conditionWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textThere is no recovery without God. God initiates, ordains, and sustains recovery. It is our spiritual condition that invokes and sustains our recovery. Faith is the key to spiritual viability. Faith is the assured expectation of things hopeful yet unseen. Faith that an unseen God can and will save us from ourselves. Faith is the spark plug that ignites our recovery efforts. By processing our recovery life through our spiritual engine we develop a dependence on the God of our understanding and remove all dependencies on other false entities th...2024-10-1805 min
The Security Insights ShowMicrosoft Security Insights Show Episode 231 - Thomas NaunheimJoin us this episode as we talk with Thomas Naunheim, Cyber Security Architect and MVP. Thomas is here to share some insights of his "EntraOps Privileged EAM" project.Show Notes/Links* Thomas Naunheim’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasnaunheim/* Upcoming Defender Experts Webinar: https://aka.ms/DefenderExpertsWebinar* Lyrics for Three's Company: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/threescompanylyrics.html* EntraOps Privileged EAM: https://entraops.com/Watch the live show replay This is a public episode. If you would like to di...2024-10-1557 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastIts a inside jobWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textOnly you can fix you, a true slogan based on fact. We are created as free moral agents, possessing the unique ability to decide for ourselves right and wrong. This fact aligns human beings with free thinking and a moral capacity. Even if we never read the bible we would know right from wrong, We possess an inner connection with God, we call it spirituality. This moral balance comes with feelings of guilt and shame and an instantaneous conscience when confronted with encounters of good and bad. As humans...2024-10-1108 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastA power greater than me in recoveryWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textStep 2 of the AA twelve-step states 'Came to believe a power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.' This introduction to the concept of GOD beautifully installs a fact that simply identifies that we cannot and did not save ourselves, therefore a power greater than ourselves can and did save us from ourselves. This belief is factual and begins the process of understanding the existence of God and the important role God plays in recovery. This understanding highlights that there is no recovery without God. Listen as...2024-10-0412 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastAvoid making a reservation for relaspeWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textRelapse is a deterioration after a period of improvement. When one refuses to share past bad decisions and the consequences reaped, this places a reservation for relapse on that activity. When you don't want anyone to know what you used to do because you might do it again, you make a reservation for relapse on that activity. Relapse need not be a part of your story by putting bad past activity under the bright light of acceptance. By not hiding bad past behavior you put the activity under the b...2024-09-2706 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastScars are proof of recoveryWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textScars are marks left as the result of a healed injury. Scars are proof of the incidence of recovery. To have a scar you must have first been injured. Scars are proof of a hill climbed a valley crossed an incident survived, Recovery is a part of man's unique and remarkable design by an all-knowing and loving God. A God that knows what we know not. A God who created man to recover. To fall down make mistakes and get up and do better. To learn from our mistakes is...2024-09-2007 minRecovery is a process of decisions PodcastAdmitting mistakes is mandatory in recoveryWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textAdmitting mistakes creates the neuro-pathways for learning as a part of our brain learning mechanism. We must admit we don't know something or admit an error or mistake to invoke the learning process. We learn primarily through trial and error. We learn through our own mistakes or the mistakes shared by others. Our actual learning tracks are created when we admit mistakes. The trial and truth process is how man was created to learn. The same is true when we invoke these same neuro-pathways with the act of asking...2024-09-1304 min
Greatest Movie Of All-TimeAll the President's Men (1976) ft. Betsy and TrentDana and Tom with Betsy and Trent (hosts, Never Seen It w/ Betsy and Trent) revisit All the President's Men (1976): directed by Alan J. Pakula, written by William Goldman, score by David Shire, starring Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Balsam, Jane Alexander, Jack Warden, and Jason Robards.Plot Summary: All the President's Men is a gripping account of two reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who uncover one of the most significant political scandals in American history. Set against the backdrop of a tense and suspicious Washington DC, the film follows their relentless pursuit of the truth...2024-09-042h 19Recovery is a process of decisions PodcastRecovery is HealingWe welcome your inspiring comments. Send a textHealing is defined as making one sound or whole again. The key word is again. Denoting a prior existence, Being at some point whole and sound. All faults need to be healed. Man is prone to make mistakes or faults. With this is the God-created ability to heal and recover. The human body replaces every cell every 100 days. By design, the man was made to heal and thus recover. To heal one must admit there is an injury or a scar. All scars are testimony to movement. A te...2024-08-2306 min