The Yellow Coat Club | Stop Hiding. Start Becoming.

Sean Little

You spent years performing, hiding behind a mask until you forgot what was underneath. The Yellow Coat Club is about taking it off. A podcast about identity, courage, and becoming who you were made to be. We get honest about shame, self-worth, loss and redemption, wrestling with faith and trusting God in the wreckage, finding your voice, and what it costs to stop hiding — and why it's worth it. Not motivation. Not a highlight reel. The truth, from someone still finding his way out, walking beside you — not ahead of you. Stop hiding. Start becoming. Find your yellow coat.

  1. 5d ago

    What's Your Real Motive? The Why We Try to Hide

    What's your why? We ask it about the big things—purpose, calling, meaning. But what's the real motivation behind your everyday life? The text you sent. The prayer you prayed. The favor you did. This episode is an honest look at the motives we hide, even from ourselves. Sean sits in the mirror with rigorous self-examination and asks the question most of us avoid: what's actually driving me—not the answer that sounds good, but the one underneath it. The why behind the why. It started with his boss. Sean said his motivation was greatness. His boss asked him, in love, to look closer: was it greatness, or fear? From there the episode pulls the thread through four mirrors. Work: love of the craft, or fear of not being enough. Leadership: do you want the title without the responsibility of actually carrying people? (A nod to Patrick Lencioni's The Motive.) Faith: do you follow God out of reverence, or for what He'll do for you? Relationships: do you love people, or leverage them for what you might gain? None of these motives are automatically evil. But they expose where you are—and who you're becoming. This isn't an awe-inspiring moment. It's a doorway. An honest look at the life you're actually living. Because when Sean is most at peace, he isn't performing or protecting himself—he's moving toward another person in love, because he's surrendered to what love actually means. A few questions to sit with: If people knew you were motivated by obligation, how would they feel? If you felt fully secure, would you still do the things you do out of fear? If you knew you were loved for who you are and not what you do—who would you be? This is a podcast about identity, authenticity, faith, and becoming who you were created to be. If you've ever wondered whether the reasons you give yourself are the real ones, start here. What is your motivation?

    32 min
  2. Apr 23

    Yesterday's Faith Won't Be Enough for Tomorrow's Calling

    As I was packing up my life in Phoenix, I was caught up in all the memories of our home, and that's when it hit me. I could see the thread. Every leap I didn't feel ready for. Every step I took without a plan. Every moment the call was louder than the fear. And here's what I know now: the faith it took to do the last hard thing won't carry you into the next one. Faith is a muscle. And muscles atrophy when you stop using them. In this episode, I walk through my own "Hall of Faith" — the moments that built the man I am today. Admitting I was an alcoholic and getting sober. Answering a call to Mexico. Moving to Phoenix without a job or a house. Writing The Yellow Coat Club. And now — stepping into something I've felt called to since 2022 that I finally stopped running from. In this episode, we talk about Hebrews 11 — and the part nobody preaches: some of those people never saw the promise, but they stepped anyway. We talk about Joshua, Jericho, and what it looks like to walk around your house seven times in prayer and move forward even if the walls don't come down. And we land on one question that I think will follow you long after this episode ends: Where are you putting your foot? Yesterday's faith is today's obedience. But it's not sufficient for tomorrow's calling. It's time to step. SCRIPTURE IN THIS EPISODE Habakkuk 1:5 (The Living Bible) — "Look and be amazed. For I am doing something in your lifetime that you would not believe even if I told you." Joshua 1:3 — "I will give you every place where you set your foot." QUOTES IN THIS EPISODE "Every man dies. Not every man really lives." — William Wallace, Braveheart "There is a force that will stop you. It will tell you the timing isn't right. That you're not ready. That someone else should do it. That's Resistance. And Resistance is not your friend." — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step." — Martin Luther King Jr. "Get busy living, or get busy dying." — The Shawshank Redemption CONNECT YouTube/FB/IG: @theyellowcoatclub Website: theyellowcoatclub.com If this episode hit you, share it with one person who needs to hear it. That's how this grows — one coat at a time.

    36 min
  3. Mar 12

    You Are Not Alone

    For a long time, I thought isolation was protecting me. During the years when I was struggling with addiction, grief after losing my parents, and mental health battles, I became consumed with trying to survive my own life. When that happens, something subtle begins to take over. You start thinking about yourself constantly. Not because you want to be selfish, but because you’re drowning. There’s a lyric from Mike Mains and the Branches that described that season perfectly: “I’ve been so stuck on myself, can’t seem to help anyone else.” I wanted to care for people. I wanted to be someone who showed up for others. But at the time I couldn’t even help myself, and I lived in the tension between who I hoped to be and who I actually was. Pain convinced me that isolation would protect me. But isolation slowly becomes a prison. In this episode, I talk about the lies that keep us hiding, the moments of betrayal that make us afraid to open up again, and the deep truth that we were never meant to live life alone. From the story of Adam and Eve hiding in the garden, to the friendships and brotherhood that helped pull me out of isolation, this conversation is about the power of connection and the courage it takes to step out of hiding. Recently, in the middle of uncertainty and transition, I asked myself a simple question: What has God done in my life this week? What I wrote down surprised me. It wasn’t events. It was people. Name after name, I was struck with this overwhelming sense of gratitude and a simple, yet powerful truth: I am not alone... and neither are you. We were made for community. We were made to live life with others where we can divide pain among us and walk together. Find your tribe and be willing to step out in vulnerability, you might be surprisedly what you find.

    39 min

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You spent years performing, hiding behind a mask until you forgot what was underneath. The Yellow Coat Club is about taking it off. A podcast about identity, courage, and becoming who you were made to be. We get honest about shame, self-worth, loss and redemption, wrestling with faith and trusting God in the wreckage, finding your voice, and what it costs to stop hiding — and why it's worth it. Not motivation. Not a highlight reel. The truth, from someone still finding his way out, walking beside you — not ahead of you. Stop hiding. Start becoming. Find your yellow coat.