Army of Normal Folks

Latest Episodes:

How To Keep Going: When You Literally Lose Your Face. Or Anything Else (Pt 2) Dec 23, 2025

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Pat Hardison was a volunteer firefighter, dad, and small business owner when one call changed his life forever. After literally losing his face in a fire and enduring more than 70 surgeries, Pat took the risk of undergoing the most extensive face transplant in history. This episode will show you how to keep going when facing obstacles…. or in Pat’s case losing almost everything.
Check out Pat’s new book Facing The Fire: https://lnk.to/FacingTheFireEP

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What A Pencil Can Teach You And Me Dec 19, 2025

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For Shop Talk, we dive into the origin story of a pencil and what lessons it has for An Army of Normal Folks. We bet you didn’t see that one coming!

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James Fox: The Dude Who Brought Yoga To Prisons (Pt 1) Dec 16, 2025

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James is the founder of Prison Yoga Project, which brings trauma-informed yoga to prisoners to help them heal and rehabilitate. And last year 57,000 prisoners attended their programming! This life-changing work is led by their own Army of Normal Folks who are facilitators.

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James Fox: The Dude Who Brought Yoga To Prisons (Pt 2) Dec 16, 2025

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The Contribution Gap…. And What We’re Doing About It Dec 12, 2025

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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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Lydia and Scott Rosencrants: The Normal Folks Who Adopted 11 Kids (Pt 1) Dec 09, 2025

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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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Lydia and Scott Rosencrants: The Normal Folks Who Adopted 11 Kids (Pt 2) Dec 09, 2025

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We Need To Look In The Mirror About Lane Kiffin Dec 05, 2025

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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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Gabrielle Clowdus: We All Have Homelessness In Us (Pt 1) Dec 02, 2025

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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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Gabrielle Clowdus: We All Have Homelessness In Us (Pt 2) Dec 02, 2025

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