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Understanding Calling

Hosted by Alistair Forman · religion · EN-US

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For those wanting to grow into who God has called them to be, so they can do what God has called them to do. Hosted by Alistair Forman, this is an informal discipleship focused podcast that also acts a front door to a wider community of people growing and encouraging each other in their calling journeys. Check out our Patreon for options to become part of the community. www.patreon.com/c/understandingcalling/membership

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28%

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Selective

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What is Understanding Calling about?

For those wanting to grow into who God has called them to be, so they can do what God has called them to do. Hosted by Alistair Forman, this is an informal discipleship focused podcast that also acts a front door to a wider community of people growing and encouraging each other in their calling journeys.

Who hosts Understanding Calling?

Understanding Calling is hosted by Alistair Forman. The show has published 18 episodes to date.

What has Understanding Calling covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Ep 17: The Beautiful Relief of Knowing That God’s First Best Destiny For You May Have Nothing To Do With You Reaching ‘The Top’" (24 August 2026, 46 minutes), "Ep 16: Jay Snyder on Why Your Family Comes Before Your Church Ministry and How God Restores Joy Back into Your Life Where there has Been Shut Down or Burn Out" (3 July 2026, 50 minutes), and "Ep 15: Narcissism, Calling and the Right (and the Wrong) Amount of Thought About Our Place in God’s Plan" (26 May 2026, 52 minutes).

How often does Understanding Calling publish?

Understanding Calling publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 40 minutes across 18 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Understanding Calling?

Booking probability for Understanding Calling is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Understanding Calling requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Understanding Calling's contact route on record: public web form.

Who should pitch Understanding Calling?

The strongest fits for Understanding Calling are Religion & Faith. Understanding Calling has a religion audience.

About the host

Alistair Forman hosts Understanding Calling, a religion podcast with 18 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Episode #17

    Ep 17: The Beautiful Relief of Knowing That God’s First Best Destiny For You May Have Nothing To Do With You Reaching ‘The Top’

    Aug 24, 202646 minS1

    Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! We can find ourself seeking to go further up the ladder, seeking to be 'at the top' of our profession or ministry and totally miss that we have...

  • Episode #16

    Ep 16: Jay Snyder on Why Your Family Comes Before Your Church Ministry and How God Restores Joy Back into Your Life Where there has Been Shut Down or Burn Out

    Jul 3, 202650 minS1

    Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! In this episode I talk to Jay Snyder, a pastor, missionary, Father and friend. Jay along with his wife Peg heads up Passion For Life Ministries...

  • Episode #15

    Ep 15: Narcissism, Calling and the Right (and the Wrong) Amount of Thought About Our Place in God’s Plan

    May 26, 202652 minS1

    Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you! How much should we think about our God given calling...and how much is too much? How do we draw the right balance between being intentional and...

  • Episode #15

    Ep 15: Narcissism, Calling and the Right (and the Wrong) Amount of Thought About Our Place in God’s Plan

    May 26, 202652 minS1

    <p>Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!</p><p>How much should we think about our God given calling...and how much is too much?</p><p>How do we draw the right balance between being...

  • Understanding Calling

    Trailer - New Patreon Course: The Calling Quadrant

    Apr 30, 20263 minS1

    <p>Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!</p><p>Over on Patreon Understanding Calling has a whole other Podcast called "Understanding Calling Extra", that is for courses and series to...

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  • Episode #14

    Ep 14: Insecurities and Why You Don’t Know What Is In You Until You Get Squeezed...(Waiting In The Wilderness Pt 3)

    Apr 23, 202637 minS1

    <p>Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!</p><p>This episode is all about the insecurities God lets us see when we get squeezed by waiting and by the pressure of circumstances on...

  • Episode #13

    Ep 13: Have You Had A Season of Obscurity and Hiddenness? What Does God Do When It Feels Like You’ve Been Forgotten... (Waiting In The Wilderness Pt 2)

    Apr 10, 202638 minS1

    <p>Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!</p><p>In this second part of the Waiting in the Wilderness series, we're looking at Joseph's story and what God does in the life of someone who...

  • Episode #12

    Ep 12: Are You 'Waiting' or Are You 'Deferring'? (Waiting In The Wilderness Pt 1)

    Mar 19, 202635 minS1

    <p>Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!</p><p>We all want to know what God is doing in us and around us as we wait for what He has for us next...</p><p>However</p><p>How do we know if...

  • Episode #11

    Ep 11: Ken Snyder on Why Nothing is More Important than Obidience to What God is Asking You to Do and Why Humility and a Heart that is Willing to Serve Will Always Keep You in God’s Will

    Feb 27, 202643 minS1

    <p>Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!</p><p>Ken Snyder, Missionary and Pastor shares authentic stories about living outside of the limelight and from a place of humility and service...

  • Episode #10

    Ep 10: ‘The Four Versions of You’ - The Questions We Ask to Discover Who God Made Us To Be and The One Way We Find Out

    Jan 30, 202641 minS1

    <p>Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!</p><p>We all ask ourselves questions about who God made us to be:</p><p>- Is who I dream I could one day be "The real me"? </p><p>- Is it the...

  • Episode #9

    Ep 9: Mark Burlinson on the Effects of the Orphan Spirit and Sonship Revelation on Our Callings, and the Wisdom Found in the Life Languages to Understand How We Were Made to Flourish Wherever We Are

    Jan 14, 202653 minS1

    <p>Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!</p><p>This week I am speaking to Mark Burlinson, who along with his wife Jane pastors Catch the Fire Church in Myrtle Beach in South...

  • Episode #8

    Ep 8: ‘Put a Hand on the Bucket’ - Letting God Empty You As You Start 2026

    Jan 3, 202620 minS1

    <p>Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!</p><p>A new year is upon us, but many of us are still full and overflowing with the last year...</p><p>This shorter episode is an offering for...

  • Episode #7

    Ep 7: ‘Seasons...’ What Does God Do Through Them? How Do We Discern Them? How Do We Navigate Them? What Matters Most?

    Dec 18, 202534 minS1

    <p>Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!</p><p>One of the most used words in Christendom these days seems to be 'Seasons'.</p><p>We talk about being in a season, coming out of one and...

  • Episode #6

    Ep 6: Tom Allsop on Embracing Hiddenness, Contentment in a Calling that Fits You and What’s More Important than a ‘Big Calling’

    Dec 4, 20251h 3mS1

    <p>Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!</p><p>Tom Allsop is the Pastor of Catch the Fire: Three Rivers Church in Hertfordshire England and this week I get to sit down and talk with...

  • Episode #5

    Ep 5: The 8 Expressions of Calling (and how anything you do will be Preparation, Gifting, Assignment, Contribution, Legacy, Passion, Destiny or Glory)

    Nov 18, 202541 minS1

    <p>Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!</p><p>God calls a life over a lifetime - that means there is more than one thing you and I are called to do with our lives. </p><p>The bible...

  • Episode #4

    EP 4: Is Reaching the Potential of Our Gifting, Vision, Prophetic Words and Dreams God’s First Priority For Our Calling?

    Nov 3, 202547 minS1

    <p>Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!</p><p>Gifts, skills, prophetic words and dreams, vision for our future and the 'what if's' of our younger years - all of these feed into what...

  • Understanding Calling

    Ep 3: Taking What You Know and the Best from What You've Been Taught About Hearing God’s Voice…and Letting the Rest Go

    Oct 23, 202531 minS0

    <p>Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!</p><p><b>Check out our Patreon for ways to become part of the community and our monthly video calls...

  • Understanding Calling

    Ep 2: Identity: Who have You been, Who are You now…and Who are You going to be?

    Oct 22, 202547 minS0

    <p>Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!</p><p><b>Check out our Patreon for ways to become part of the community and our monthly video calls...

  • Episode #1

    Pilot: The Unrelenting Mystery of Calling and How God Uses A Life, Over A Lifetime

    Oct 22, 202536 minS1

    <p>Click here to send me a Text or a Voicemail - I'd love to hear from you!</p><p><b>Check out our Patreon for ways to become part of the community and our monthly video calls...

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Jay Snyder

Chairman/Partner of Snyder Nationwide Real Estate, Inc., Snyder Nationwide Real Estate, Inc.

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Mark Burlinson

Catch the Fire Church

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Tom Allsop

Catch the Fire: Three Rivers Church

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