Hear Where You Belong

Embark on an inspirational journey with guests from diverse backgrounds, sharing stories of triumph, resilience, and faith, reiterating the common human longing for belonging. From dreamers to doers, believers to seekers, uncover the extraordinary in ordinary moments and the purpose within every life. Open your heart, mind, and ears to resonate with stories reminding you of your significance, belonging, and purpose. Welcome home to 'Hear Where You Belong'.

Hear Where You Belong is a education podcast hosted by Dea Irby, THE Belonging Strategist, with 113 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Dea Irby, THE Belonging Strategist hosts Hear Where You Belong, a education show with 113 episodes published.

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  Episode #112

  "Jesus, If You're Real I Give You 6 Months — and Boom, I Was Sober" | Ep. 112 with David W. Ebel

  Sep 29, 202648 minS1

  He walked into church drunk, high, and on his way to his fifth suicide attempt. He raised his hand for Jesus because he was too obliterated to put it back down. And the moment he prayed — boom. Instantly sober for the first time in three years. That was 1973. And David W. Ebel has never stopped since. In Episode 112 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast , host Dea Irby sits down with David — Christian life coach, pastor, evangelist, author, chaplain, grief and trauma counselor, disaster responder, photographer, Salvation Army officer, church planter, and the first Christian master clown recognized by Ringling Brothers professionals in the history of the world. Yes. You read that right. David opens up about growing up with birth defects and chronic pain — bullied, depressed, alcoholic, suicidal — before Barbara the candle shop girl flirted him into church on a Tuesday night in Detroit. He shares the moment a youth pastor supernaturally knew his name, his birth defects, his hemorrhaging ulcer, and his plan to kill himself that Saturday — and said God did not want him to die. He talks about 12 years on the road with the Kids Celebration Circus — 49 youth camps, global ministry, 100 conversions on a New Jersey boardwalk including four rabbis and two Sikh leaders — before his birth defects finally forced him off the road. And the 28,000 square feet of debt-free space God built through a man who had never built anything more than Lincoln Logs. His slogan is the one I want ringing in your ears: God did not send His second cousin Louis to the cross. He sent His best. How dare we offer less? And his parting word — straight from Romans 12:1-2 — is the one that has been his compass for fifty years of faithful, fearless, full-throttle ministry. The greatest distance in the world? Twenty million miles — and seven inches. From the head to the heart. Find David at GodSaysYesPodcast.com — and download his book When the Doctors Say No, God Says Yes FREE when you join his mailing list. #HearWhereYouBelong, #YouBelong, #DavidWEbel, #WhenTheDoctorsSayNo, #GodSaysYes, #GodSaysYesPodcast, #FirstChristianMasterClown, #RinglingBrothers, #HowDareWeOfferLess, #Romans12, #BornToBeRestored, #RenewRestoreRebuild, #SalvationArmy, #ChristianLifeCoach, #NewEpisode, #ChristianPodcast, #NeverTooFarGone, #FromHeadToHeart, #KidsCelebrationCircus, #BelongingMatters

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  Episode #111

  "She Started Drinking at 14 to Numb the Hurt — 30 Years Later Her Dad Went to Get Her" | Ep. 111 with Robert Ruesch

  Sep 22, 202641 minS1

  She started drinking at 14 to numb the hurt. Thirty years later — her dad went to get her. In Episode 111 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast , host Dea Irby sits down with Robert Ruesch — author, writer, husband, and father whose family has walked through more than three decades of addiction, heartbreak, hope, and ultimately recovery. His award-winning book The Long Road Home: A Family's Journey Through Addiction is available on Amazon now. Robert opens up about the prayer he prayed on a Monday night in tears — and the letter from his high school sweetheart that arrived on Friday after twenty-five years apart. The midnight phone call telling him Jennifer had stopped breathing — and the four doses of Narcan that brought her back. The code messages, the garbage bags, the two squad cars outside the house in San Antonio the morning they finally brought her home. Teaching his forty-eight-year-old daughter to drive. And the periodontist who restored her smile for a fraction of the expected cost. She just wanted her smile back. His favorite quote from Hemingway — anybody can write, all you have to do is open a vein and bleed — explains everything about how he finally wrote the book God told him to write. And his parting word is the one that will carry every parent, every family member, and every person who has ever loved someone through addiction: Never give up hope. Never. Prayer is the most powerful thing in the world. There is always a long road home. Find The Long Road Home on Amazon Find Robert at his author page #HearWhereYouBelong, #YouBelong, #RobertRuesch, #TheLongRoadHome, #NeverGiveUpHope, #AddictionRecovery, #FamiliesOfAddicts, #SheJustWantedHerSmileBack, #YMCAoftheRockies, #JimIrwinApollo15, #PrayerChangesThings, #ForgivenessIsNotPoison, #HighSchoolSweethearts, #GodIsTheAuthor, #NewEpisode, #ChristianPodcast, #HopeForFamilies, #LongRoadHome, #NeverStopPraying, #FaithAndRecovery

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  Episode #110

  They've Never Asked Me — Uncovering the Extraordinary Stories Hidden in Ordinary Lives | Ep. 110 with Kelsey Billingsley

  Sep 17, 202633 minS1

  She was just another baseball mom. Until Kelsey Billingsley got curious and asked a question. What followed was the story of a woman who survived a civil war, fled in the middle of the night after her father was killed, spent five years in a refugee camp digging through bread every morning looking for poison — and built a beautiful ordinary life that nobody around her knew anything about. When Kelsey asked why her closest friends had never heard the story, the answer stopped her cold: They've never asked me. In Episode 110 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast , host Dea Irby sits down with Kelsey Billingsley — wife, mother of three, and host of the award-winning Unspoken Lives Podcast — a show built on one powerful conviction: every person you walk past today is carrying an extraordinary story. And most of them are just waiting for someone to care enough to ask. Kelsey opens up about the waitress named Miracle — declared brain dead, family about to pull the plug, who woke up the moment they went to do it. The friend who lost her young son and said pain is a microphone. The Uber driver from South Africa who asked every single passenger the same first question: do you believe in God? And the spiritual war dream that woke her up in her college dorm and launched everything. She also shares practical wisdom for anyone thinking about starting a podcast — from zero experience to award-winning, one Tuesday at a time. Her favorite quote — carried since childhood, written on sticky notes and given to friends: When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, you rejoice and the world cries. This episode is for everyone who has been walking past extraordinary people without ever asking. ️ Find Unspoken Lives Podcast at UnspokenLives.com and on all major platforms

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  Episode #109

  "I've Been Saving These — 17 Quotes From Our Guests That I Cannot Stop Thinking About" | Ep. 109 with Dea Irby

  Sep 8, 202626 minS1

  What if the most powerful thing you could do today was slow down and sit with a few extraordinary words? In this special solo episode of Hear Where You Belong Podcast , host Dea Irby does something she has never done before — she pulls back the curtain on 17 of the most powerful, memorable, and soul-stirring quotes shared by guests across the seasons. Words she has been carrying around, writing down, and thinking about in the car, in the middle of the night, and while washing dishes. Some of these will make you laugh. Some will make you sit very still. And some — she is just going to warn you — are going to hit somewhere deep. From Benjamin Disraeli to Maya Angelou. From Miles Davis to Elisabeth Elliot. From Cheri Baugh Woods to Alison Gieschen. From cotton mill villages to the open sea. These are the words that stopped Dea cold — and she has been saving them just for you. Quotes about belonging. Faith. Suffering. Purpose. Courage. Comparison. Calling. And the kind of wisdom that only comes from people who have actually lived it. No guest today. Just Dea. And 17 quotes worth slowing down for. There are seven days in a week — and someday is not one of them. Today is the day. Go listen. #HearWhereYouBelong, #YouBelong, #IveBeenSavingThese, #17Quotes, #SoloEpisode, #SpecialEpisode, #BelongingMatters, #QuotesOfWisdom, #ChristianPodcast, #NewEpisode, #MilesDavis, #MayaAngelou, #ElisabethElliot, #FaithAndBelonging, #WordsThatChangedMe

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  Episode #108

  Don't Mistake the Fire for the Finish Line — Your Story Is Not Over | Ep. 108 with Cheri Baugh Woods

  Sep 1, 202640 minS1

  Divorce. Widowhood. Leukemia — twice. Multiple brain surgeries. A bone marrow transplant. Any one of those would shake most people's faith to the ground.Cheri Baugh Woods has walked through all of them. And she is still standing.In Episode 108 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast , host Dea Irby sits down with Cheri — author, speaker, retired educator, and International Impact Book Awards Author of the Year finalist — whose memoir Win-Win: Miracles Still Happen has already traveled to the Frankfurt Book Fair and the London Book Fair before it ever officially launched in the United States.Because it is not her book. It is God's book. And He took it exactly where He wanted it to go.In this episode, Cheri opens up about the marriage that fell apart six months in — when she discovered her military husband had quietly married another woman in a different state while still married to her, and was engaged to a third. She shares the leukemia diagnosis that came decades later — and the moment God spoke to her in the hospital and said: if I take you home, that is the ultimate win. But if I keep you here — you win again. Because I still have a purpose for you.She also shares the miracle of her brother — a retired Navy SEAL — being a 100% bone marrow match. The surgery that literally changed her blood type from O-positive to A. And why she now calls herself a Navy SEAL by proxy. Her greatest accomplishment? Seeing God use every single chapter of her journey — the ugly ones, the hard ones, the ones she never planned — to give hope to others.Her parting word is the one I want ringing in your ears: Don't mistake the fire for the finish line. This is a chapter — not your whole story. And her free 3-day mindset reset is waiting for you at CheriBaughWoods.com. Choose hope. Your story is not over. #HearWhereYouBelong, #YouBelong, #CheriBaughWoods, #WinWinMiraclesStillHappen, #DontMistakeTheFireForTheFinishLine, #YourStoryIsNotOver, #ChooseHope, #NavySEALByProxy, #MiraclesStillHappen, #LeukemiaSurvivor, #BoneMarrowTransplant, #NewCreationInChrist, #GodHoldsThePen, #FaithThroughHardship, #NewEpisode, #ChristianPodcast, #BelongingInChrist, #WinWinMindset, #KeepShowingUp, #Romans8

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