Built on Truth

Brett Wheeless

The Christian Fitness Podcast In a world drowning in compromise, Built on Truth stands for something greater. A return to unwavering principles, real strength, and a life built on the solid foundation of truth of the Bible. This is not just another self-improvement podcast. It’s a deep dive into the core of what it means to be a man of faith, to pursue physical and mental resilience, and to build your life with wisdom and conviction. You’ll hear thought-provoking stories on strength and faith that shapes character, training, and manhood that leads with purpose The truth demands courage.

  1. 23시간 전

    Jeremiah Sehorn - BUD/S, LA City Fire, and a Faithful God

    00:00 Welcome Back to Built on Truth00:34 Who Is Jeremiah Seehorn? Raised in Tehachapi07:00 The Ruggedness of a Small Mountain Town11:44 Chasing the FBI Dream to Point Loma14:27 Dropping Out of College to Chase Navy SEAL18:02 Shipping Out to BUD/S20:10 First Day of BUD/S: Chaos and Attrition21:57 The Hardest Evolution: Log PT24:04 Stress Fractures, Recycling, and Walking Away25:11 Finding Barabbas Road Church Through a Classmate27:02 Hip Surgery and a New Calling in Medicine28:22 Choosing Family Over the SEAL and CEO Track28:41 Meeting Kylie, Married on Lockdown Day31:51 "God Is Faithful to Provide the Daily Bread"39:27 Grinding as an EMT While Kylie Provides43:53 A Move to Encinitas and a Rough Pregnancy48:57 Pulling Kylie Out of Teaching, No Matter What51:01 The Phone Call — A Job Offer Before His Son Was Born52:03 Starting Fire Academy52:53 The Ladder Problem Begins54:18 Fired From the Academy56:19 The Call Offering a Second Chance59:41 Training Smarter for Round Two1:00:24 Graduating Near the Top of the Class1:01:14 Station 57, South Central LA1:01:19 "God Said So — Not for Any Other Reason"1:03:01 Be the Side Character in Your Story1:04:11 Closing Word: God as the Author of Your Life"You were not here because of your willpower or your success or your focus. You were here because of God's grace."Jeremiah Seehorn grew up hunting and fishing in Tehachapi, California, chased a childhood dream of the FBI to Point Loma Nazarene University, then dropped out mid-degree to become a Navy SEAL. He made it all the way to BUD/S in Coronado — where stress fractures and exhaustion took him out before he ever saw Hell Week. That's also where he found Barabbas Road Church, through a classmate who'd rolled out ahead of him.After the Navy, Jeremiah set his sights on becoming a firefighter — one of the hardest jobs in the country to get hired for in Southern California. What followed was a two-year gauntlet of interviews, background checks, and a pregnant wife carrying the family financially while he worked EMT shifts for scraps. The job offer came days before his son was born. And then, months into his first academy, he got fired — undone by something as small as judging the distance on a ladder throw.This episode is about what God does with the men who get back up.In this episode we get into:Growing up in a small, rugged mountain town and what that does to a manChasing the FBI, then dropping everything for a childhood dream of becoming a Navy SEALGetting hurt, getting recycled, and walking away from BUD/SFinding a home church through a classmate at the lowest point of that journeyChoosing marriage and family over the SEAL dream and the "CEO" trackTwo years of interviews, background checks, and financial strain trying to get hired in LAThe phone call with a job offer that came a week before his son was bornGetting fired from his first fire academy over a single failed evolutionThe pilot-program second chance almost nobody getsWhat it means to see yourself as the side character in a story God is authoring

    1시간 5분
  2. 6월 2일

    Adam Rudd - Built by Hand, Saved by Grace

    00:00 Introduction — Who Is Adam Rudd?00:57 Growing Up in a Christian Home (And Walking Away)01:40 Quitting High School to Weld02:31 Moving to San Diego — Needed a Life Change03:33 The Fishing Trip That Changed Everything05:23 Losing His Eye — God's Humbling Moment06:42 Leaving It All Behind — Motorhome Life07:25 Getting Into Construction and Finish Carpentry08:43 What Work Ethic Actually Looks Like09:27 Was He a Christian When He Started His Business?11:24 The Neighbor Who Said "You Need Jesus"12:29 "Ask Christ to Reveal Himself to You"12:44 "I Didn't Even Know What the Gospel Was"13:23 2008 — Economy Tanking, Letting the House Go14:18 Started Going to Church, Started His Business16:07 The Watered-Down Church That Frustrated Him16:29 Finding Barabbas Road — "The Word Saved My Life"16:51 How He Started Reading the Bible20:40 Tithing — The Only Place God Says "Test Me"21:50 How God Has Been Faithful in Business22:54 1 Timothy 1 — "I Was One of the Worst Sinners"25:59 What a Real Christian Man Actually Looks Like26:37 "If You're On Time, You're Already Late"29:46 How He Evaluates His Workers34:02 How the Business Grew — All Word of Mouth37:08 No Social Media, No Advertising, No Marketing38:57 "God Put This Into Plan — I'm Just Maintaining What He's Given Me"40:20 Balancing Dad Life and Running a Business43:22 Men Need to Compartmentalize — Stop Talking About Your Feelings44:14 What We've Lost Since the Fear Pandemic49:27 Advice to a Christian Man Entering Construction54:02 How He Actually Reads His Bible57:23 He Tells Everyone to Come to Barabbas Road57:51 Real Men vs. The Facade of Men59:42 Serving Your Wife vs. Trying to "Be the Man"01:01:58 Being a Man Is a Daily Consistency — Not a Single ActionAdam Rudd grew up in Ventura County with a Christian bookstore in the family — and walked away from all of it. He quit high school to weld, moved at 18, made a string of bad calls, and eventually landed in San Diego living out of a motorhome. Then a fishing accident took the sight in one eye. Then a neighbor told him he needed Jesus. Then a pastor started preaching the actual Word.Today Adam runs Redesign, a finish carpentry and remodeling company in San Diego. He's been in the trade 20+ years, has five employees, two daughters, and a seat at Barabbas Road Church. He doesn't advertise. He doesn't have social media. He wakes up before 3am without an alarm.In this episode we get into:What it actually costs to walk away from your upbringing and spend a decade finding out the hard wayThe fishing accident that cost him his eye — and how he counts it as God's mercyStarting a business in 2008 mid-financial crisis with nothing but work ethic and a year of jobs lined upWhy tithing was the first real act of faith — and how God hasn't let him down sinceThe difference between men who work and men who hustle — and why he can tell the difference in five minutesRaising daughters tougher than most of the men on his crewWhat real Christian masculinity looks like at Barabbas Road vs. what the world calls manly"I don't even know how my business works. It's just there. God's put this whole thing into plan — I'm just trying to maintain what he's given me."

    1시간 3분
  3. 5월 12일

    Olympic Gold & the Simplicity of the Gospel | Peter Andrew, Olympic Coach & Special Forces Diver

    00:00 Cold open — Welcome to Built on Truth, introducing Peter Andrew01:05 Rock spider / Afrikaans wife — meeting Tina01:32 Why Peter wanted to be Special Forces — surfing & watching divers as a boy02:45 Blue Navy vs. Brown Navy — getting into the SA Navy03:25 What a SA Navy Diver actually did — rescue, salvage, small units04:37 The selection pipeline — 8-man teams, attrition, barnacles, no skin on hands07:23 Jock van Rensburg — the Christian friend who couldn’t swim08:02 “We can’t take you on course because you’re a Christian” — the psych eval09:00 Falling away from his faith on team — why equal yoking matters12:09 Special Forces operators & meshing with the team12:33 Conscription life — diamond mining, eyes as a secondary sense13:48 Meeting Tina, marriage, pest control, the pregnancy scare that turned into 8 years oftravel16:30 Having Markus (Michael) in the US — citizenship by birth16:48 Going home to take over the family farm in South Africa19:35 Farm life under siege — electric fences, German shepherds, Envirowatch23:00 Gil Bank, the French Foreign Legion neighbor with guns buried everywhere24:10 Leaving for the U.S. — land of milk and honey25:15 South Dakota — homestead America, soil sampling, pheasant season27:00 Tina’s immigration business is born27:55 Michael at 7 — “drop what you’re doing, come watch this kid”32:50 Locked out of the YMCA — building their own pool inside an old nightclub35:30 The Aberdeen Aquatics team takes off36:35 Setting out to actually learn how to coach — looking at the Russians, the science37:20 ASCA 2009 — Dr. Brent Rushall changes everything38:30 USRPT explained — Ultra-Short Race-Pace Training41:50 Why specificity is everything for elite athletes44:00 Pushback from USA Swimming — and the buried Indiana University study46:45 Tokyo 2020 (raced 2021) — gold, world record, fourth-place finishes48:10 Moving the family to Encinitas, California50:30 Father / coach / breadwinner dynamics — what Peter would do differently54:45 The hard truth of legalism vs. living biblically55:30 Post-Tokyo: Peter loses his way, over-coaches Michael’s stroke57:50 2024 trials — Michael misses the team and moves on58:55 “I wanted to go farm cows” — Peter’s detour59:30 The new vision: a pro team, USRPT 2.0 book, global mission1:03:40 Calvinism, the simplicity of the Gospel, and the takeaway1:06:00 Michael may finish his career with his dad after all1:08:30 Coaching as a mission field — sleep, family, heart-rate data, formation1:11:40 The COVID Olympics, the “Mako Andrew rule,” and what the press did1:13:50 The night before the medley relay — turning over tables1:17:30 Fear of the Lord and freedom from the fear of man1:19:00 Christian men: warriors, not wimps1:21:20 Worshiping vs. being worshiped1:23:00 Daily Bible reading — MacArthur Bible through the year1:23:50 Closing — and gratitudePeter Andrew — Olympic swim coach, former South African Special Forces Navy Diver, farmer, andinventor of the Ultra-Short Race-Pace Training (USRPT) method — joins Brett to share the long arc of hislife: war, faith, family, the rise of his son Michael Andrew to world-record swimmer, the heartbreak ofseparation, and the surprising mercy of God that brought him to a wider mission. A conversation abouthardship, community, and how the simplicity of the Gospel mirrors the simplicity of doing one thingwell.

    1시간 24분
  4. 4월 20일

    Jeremy Handysides | What Surfing Teaches About Fear, Discipline, and Faith

    00:00 – Intro: Why you should listen (surfing, coaching, faith)00:55 – Who is Jeremy Handysides? (father, coach, teacher, Christian)02:15 – Moving to San Diego & discovering surfing05:00 – Obsession with surfing & self-teaching08:30 – The psychology of big waves & fear11:00 – Near-death surfing story (17 years old) 🔥16:30 – Getting humbled by the ocean (ego check)18:45 – Understanding limits & risk in surfing21:00 – Coaching vs competing: knowing your lane23:00 – Advice for beginner surfers (lessons, etiquette, spots)26:00 – Coaching elite surfers: what actually matters29:30 – What separates top-level athletes32:00 – Contest strategy: how to actually win heats35:00 – Faith background & growing up Adventist39:00 – Getting saved at 19 (turning point) 🔥44:30 – Life before Christ: rebellion, emptiness, depression48:00 – Searching for truth in other religions51:00 – Why the Bible changed everything54:00 – What is the Gospel? (clear explanation) 🔥59:00 – Grace vs works (core difference)1:02:00 – Living as a Christian man day-to-day1:06:00 – Reading the Bible, discipline, and leadership1:10:00 – Spiritual warfare & staying grounded1:14:00 – Coaching vs teaching special education1:18:00 – The power of mentorship & serving others1:22:00 – Teaching breakthrough story (learning to read)1:26:00 – Humility in coaching & adapting your approach1:30:00 – Final advice: live for God’s gloryJeremy Handysides thought he might die in the ocean at 17. That moment—and everything that followed—forced him to confront fear, ego, and ultimately, truth. In this episode, Jeremy shares: A near-death surfing experienceCoaching elite athletesHis journey to faith in ChristWhat it means to live as a Christian manThis is a conversation about purpose, humility, and building your life on something that actually lasts.

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The Christian Fitness Podcast In a world drowning in compromise, Built on Truth stands for something greater. A return to unwavering principles, real strength, and a life built on the solid foundation of truth of the Bible. This is not just another self-improvement podcast. It’s a deep dive into the core of what it means to be a man of faith, to pursue physical and mental resilience, and to build your life with wisdom and conviction. You’ll hear thought-provoking stories on strength and faith that shapes character, training, and manhood that leads with purpose The truth demands courage.

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