The Real Deal Conversations The Real Deal Conversations

Megan Deal and Sara Forhetz talk about what we can learn from a Biblical Perspective about leadership and growth. What is the most important trait of a leader? Who is a leader? Why is serving necessary in growth? Why is the season you are wrestling with so important? How to lead in the world when we are not called to be of this world. And more!

Sara Forhetz is a speaker, journalist, and podcaster. She's also hosts a daily, morning radio show on Christian radio station 88.3 The Wind.   She spent 17 years as an Emmy Award-winning television news reporter and anchor... sharing mostly bad news.  Now, Sara shares the Good News across the country and around the world.  Her travels often take her to Africa, and the Middle East where she speaks about her faith in Jesus.

Sara is also a wife and a homeschool mother of three kids, ages 11, 12, and 14. She loves swimming, biking, and running and often competes in triathlons.

Sara and her husband, Ethan Forhetz, have been named one of the most influential couples in Southwest Missouri, and have been recognized as such by multiple publications.

She urges everyone to be bold in their faith. 

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To donate and support the mission of equipping pastors in Rwanda please go to the following website: http://Toilluminateministries.com

Charles Rwomushana, a pastor from Kigali, Rwanda, and I sat down to talk about the calling God gives us, faith, obedience, persecution, and perseverance.

From his years in boarding high school, Charles has always been passionate about helping people experience God’s love and salvation. Since 2017, Charles has served either as senior, associate or volunteer pastor in Kigali, Rwanda and Springfield, Missouri. Prior to starting full-time pastoring in 2018, he spent over 10 years in microfinance and community development work in Rwanda. In 2020, Charles moved to Springfield, MO to pursue his MA in Theological Studies at Assemblies of God Theological Seminary of Evangel University, which he completed in 2022 with magna cum laude. In 2023, Charles started his Doctor of Ministry at AGTS/Evangel so he can prepare to equip many leaders and ministers in Rwanda and beyond. Currently, Charles is in the process of starting a new nonprofit to promote evangelism, plant churches, help the poor and promote formal theological and ministerial training as required by new regulations in Rwanda. 

Charles is happily married to Chantal for nearly 14 years and both are blessed with a son (Genius, 11) and daughter (Lemuela, 9). Lack of sufficient financial resources made it difficult for the family to move to Springfield together or visit as often as needed, and Charles has only been able to visit them three times since 2021.



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In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Amit Jagtiani to discuss ADHD and Autism in children and adolescents. Dr. Jagtiani is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Burrell Behavioral Health in Springfield, MO. He is dual board certified in adult and child psychiatry. Dr. Jagtiani is the primary psychiatrist in the Youth Focus Clinic, the only dedicated ADHD clinic in southwest Missouri. He was trained in adult psychiatry in India and again in New York. He completed his child and adolescent psychiatry training at the prestigious Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. His expertise is in neurodevelopmental disorders, and he is especially passionate about treating ADHD.

Intro/What is ADHD

12:00 Alternate schooling programs

15:44 Emotional problems in ADHD

25:00 Anxiety complicating ADHD Diagnosis

31:30 Is ADHD real

35:35 Social problems in ADHD

37:30 Stresses and support needs in ADHD

49:55 How is ADHD tested/diagnosed

56:10 Transition difficulties in ADHD

59:45 ADHD treatment

1:03:45 ADHD and trauma

1:07:01 What is Autism

1:09:39 Social skill deficits in Autism

1:17:11 How is Autism diagnosed and treated

1:20:55 Autism and trauma

1:22:10 Parent Q&A

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We are back with Lyle and Alesia from S1E10! For context on this episode please watch S1E10. In this episode, Lyle and Alesia tell us what it is like to navigate a new life in freedom from addiction, and what setting boundaries to protect their new life looks like.

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👉 Life after coming home from being deployed
👉 Reintegration
👉 What that looks like for marriages
👉Suicide: Why it is so high in military and what to look for
👉Help and resources
👉and more!



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👉 Reintegration with a spouse who has been deployed
👉 Why people get married so quickly in military
👉Problems Military spouses face
👉Parenting while spouse is deployed
👉Parenting when deployed spouse comes back
👉Help and resources
👉and more!

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