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Welcome to Hold This Thought, an open-ended conversation podcast where every week, a new guest joins me for unscripted conversations. We discover their passions, explore curious topics, and gain insights about life along the way.
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- Sep 28, 2026
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045 | Blind Draw | What's A Weird Thing You Do, But You Think Is Normal? | Haley Ozier (opens the original)
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Unscripted | Unpredictable | You Will Laugh | Roasts | RidiculousBlind DrawWhat happens when two friends put completely unexpected questions into a coffee mug and have to answer whatever they pull? In this episode of Hold This Thought, Blind Draw takes the conversation everywhere from childhood memories and dream careers to pizza, board games, travel, faith, weird habits, acting, piano, browser history, and surviving a deserted island. Along the way, the questions get increasingly ridiculous, bu
044 | Why Trying Harder Doesn't Produce The Fruit You Want | Aaron Snow (opens the original)
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Food Discipline | Drug Addiction | Good vs. Bad Fruit | Reconciliation | Stewardship | Pastor Aaron Snow joins the conversation to unpack the connection between identity, discipline, faith, and the fruit our lives produce. His story moves through personal transformation, addiction, leadership, fatherhood, and the difficult process of becoming the person you know you are called to be. The conversation also explores what it means to stop chasing approval, embrace discipline, and live from a deeper
043 | He Played 500 Hours of Catan… Here’s What He Learned | Ben Austin (opens the original)
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Catan | Boardgames | NICU Journey | Theme Parks | Immersion What starts as a conversation about Catan quickly turns into something much bigger. Ben Austin joins us for an unusually nerdy and surprisingly deep conversation about why The Settlers of Catan became such a phenomenon, the negotiation and diplomacy hidden inside the game, and how the game's balance of strategy and luck mirrors real life. From there, we go down the rabbit hole of board games, movies, Marvel, Star Wars, and theme parks a
042 | He Reinvented The Table | Chandler Mitchell (opens the original)
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Drip Table | Creativity | Craftsmanship | Woodworking | Artificial Intelligence Chandler Mitchell joins Hold This Thought for a conversation about craftsmanship, creativity, faith, simplicity, fatherhood, AI, and the things that make a life meaningful. Chandler is the creator of Drip Table Co., a custom furniture company built around an unusual idea: taking a single slab of wood and allowing the table surface to flow continuously into its base. What begins as a conversation about furniture quick
041 | The Evangelist Who Preached to 100,000 People in Pakistan | David Ursin (opens the original)
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Terrorism | Evangelism | Persecution | Miracles | Pakistan | What does it actually look like to preach the Gospel in some of the most dangerous places on Earth? In this episode, David Ursin shares the remarkable journey that took him from working at a gas station to preaching before crowds of more than 100,000 people across Pakistan, India, Africa, and beyond. Along the way, he was personally trained by legendary evangelists Reinhard Bonnke and Daniel Kolenda, witnessed extraordinary stories of
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