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We’re all looking for something. In If You Can Hear Me, Ben Higgins sits down with people from all walks of life—celebrities, thinkers, everyday folks—to talk about what drives us, what shapes us, and what gives us hope.
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Michael W. Smith: The Missed Flight, the Uber Driver, and the Sermon (opens the original)
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40 years into his career, Michael W. Smith says he still hasn't arrived — and that's the point. Ben sits down with the legendary singer, songwriter, and now executive producer of *Daniel and the Fiery Furnace* (in theaters September 18) for an honest conversation about faith, family, and staying grounded in an industry built on adoration. In this episode: - The story behind *Worship* (2001) and why it became a healing album for America - Crying through an entire concert in Bahrain — and what shi
One Foot in the Quicksand: Granger Smith on Carrying Other People's Grief (opens the original)
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Granger Smith spent years thinking he was a Christian. Then he lost his son, and everything he believed got tested. In this conversation, Granger opens up about walking away from a country music career at the height of it, becoming a lay pastor in Central Texas, and what he now calls the "toxic beliefs" that kept him from real faith for nearly four decades. We get into: - Why he left touring, and what "exalting yourself" on stage was actually costing him - The night on his tour bus in Boise that
Why Montell and Kristin Jordan Traded Platinum Records for Prayer and Picture Books (opens the original)
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What if the monster under the bed is more afraid of you than you are of him? That's the question Kristin and Montell Jordan asked their son one night — and it became the seed for their new children's book, *Shiloh and the Not-So-Scary Girl Above His Bed*. In this episode, Ben sits down with the Jordans to talk about: • Why fear left unattended in childhood often becomes trauma in adulthood • How 32 years of marriage, ministry, and music shaped their approach to raising brave kids • Montell's jou
Jay Pharoah: SNL, Addiction, and the Prodigal Son (opens the original)
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Jay Pharoah — SNL alum, impressionist, and star of Fox's Quiz With Balls — sits down with Ben Higgins to talk about the moment he stopped running. In 2023, surrounded by everything he thought he wanted, Jay heard a voice tell him to leave the room. What happened next changed his life. In this conversation: - Why fame and access left him emptier, not fuller - The night he heard "meet me halfway, and I'll carry you the rest" - The addictions he walked away from — and how his father unknowingly ech
DOE: I Want to Be God's Daughter, Not His Employee (opens the original)
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Grammy-winning artist DOE joins Ben Higgins to talk about what it means to stop performing your faith and start living it. In this conversation, DOE opens up about being raised at the intersection of music and faith, the weight of feeling like "an employee" of God rather than a daughter, and how she learned to separate the anointing from her identity. She shares stories from her upbringing in a family band (Forever Jones), her father's militant commitment to morning prayer, and the wrestle that
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