S.C.A.R with Dustin Rivenbark Podcast

038. "Pain into purpose / teen development" with Mallory Rothstein

Mal Rothstein is the Founder of Learn What Matters which is about helping high schoolers invest in their personal development through coaching, consulting high schools on building strong alumni programs, and providing personal development scholarships. She’s also an Administrative Business Partner in Search Ads at Google. She recently became a TEDx Speaker and during the pandemic launched the weekly Instagram Live Series called Peace Over Panic to help youth find peace over panic in their lives. While she's a NJ native, she now calls the Bay Area home where she enjoys cheering on the Golden State Warriors and being a member of Hillsong SF. 

037. "5 T's of strong relationships"

Today we uncover the "5 T's of strong relationships." This is a great podcast episode for those looking to build healthy and strong relationships of any nature (i.e work, marriage, dating, friendships or family etc...).

036. "Unleash God's Healing: My battle with cancer" with Ginny Brant

After turning to faith in Jesus Christ at age 16 through Young Life in Washington, D.C., I eventually left my modeling career to study the Bible and fulfill God’s purpose in my life. Risking the approval of my beloved father, I set out on a journey in obedience to God’s call. I attend the Christian college that my father forbade and marry the spiritually-minded man my father reluctantly allowed. Even when we were at odds, we remained respectful and devoted to each other.

My testimony is the true story of my passionate prayer for my father to find Christ so he would one day spend eternity with me. My father, Harry S. Dent, Sr., was a powerful, political strategist, who worked for President Nixon and narrowly escaped Watergate. He entered politics to save the world and protect the freedoms of his country. He served a Senator and three Presidents and helped to build the Republican Party in the South. In the early years, he attempted to manipulate me into his success syndrome.

Deep inside my father feared his princess would one day become a missionary. In the end God used it all for His glory. He not only answered my simple prayer of salvation and God’s purpose for my dad’s life, but went far beyond what my mind could ever imagine. Through God’s grace, we team up in ministry together and my dad becomes what he so desperately feared: a missionary.

His full time ministry takes him to Romania where he assists the underground churches and a country emerge to new found freedom following 40 years of communism. My path would take me to the darkest corners of the Middle East where there was no freedom.

The poetic justice in my story proves God’s faithfulness and His marvelous sense of humor. My testimony will motivate anyone who has a loved one they want to see in heaven to pray without ceasing and realize they may be the only Jesus their loved one sees.

Throughout our lives and times, my dad and I experienced different kinds of freedom. Ultimately, we find true freedom together-the freedom that lasts forever.

Ginny Dent Brant graduated with a B.A. from Columbia International University, and holds two Masters Degrees from the University of South Carolina in Elementary Education and Elementary Counseling. With 28 years of experience in public education as a teacher, counselor, and adjunct professor, she currently serves as a counselor at Orchard Park Elementary School.

Ginny served as a trustee of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and has held leadership roles in many Baptist churches. Ginny has done mission work in Gaza, Yemen, the Czech Republic, Romania, and China. She is a soloist, Bible teacher and Christian speaker. She is the President of Laity Alive and Serving which her father, Harry S. Dent, started in 1985.

Her husband, Dr. Alton Brant, is an associate professor of American Sign Language and Deaf Studies at Clemson University. The Brants have one married son, Joshua (and wife Sydney) and twin sons, Jonathan and Harrison. She is the daughter of Harry and Betty Dent.

Ginny was a contributing author for The Chosen Path: 365 Inspirational Messages, Love is a Flame, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Shaping the New You, and online with Christian Devotions. She also contributes articles to The Baptist Courier in South Carolina.

035. "When all seems lost" w/ Dustin Rivenbark

Come alongside Dustin as he navigates what it feels like when all seems lost. He takes a dive into 1 Samuel 9 and we learn from the life of Saul as he faces a "when all seems lost" moment and learns a valuable lesson that God is working ahead of our misfortunes. 

034. "Mental Health and First Responders" with Sean Wyman

Public Safety Professionals are killing themselves more than the people they encounter daily in their profession. As a Public Safety Professional this is devastating and unacceptable.

The problem is Public Safety Professionals do not get a lot of training when it comes to dealing with social emotional issues. As a Police Officer, I learned to shoot, drive, fight, enforce laws and protect citizens but I never learned about the social emotional impact trauma has on my family and I over my career.

When I discovered trauma informed care and applied it to my job and my personal life, I realized this training is needed across our industry.

I found the right partnerships and created Going Beyond The Call Mental Health Fitness for Public Safety Professionals. I want to reduce Public Safety suicides dramatically over the next 5 years. Lt. Colonel David Grossman wrote the foreword for our book and had this to say:

"One of the most important books (and programs) of our time. A hidden impact, a stigmatized secret that overshadows the men and women who sacrifice every day. With this training and these tactics for wellness, we can stop the tragic statistics to these professions.

Going Beyond the Call is an action plan for the magnificent individuals who “go beyond the call” every day, and for our very civilization, to survive and thrive amid death and darkness.

We must begin a process, a movement, a revolution, a culture shift in training in which every first responder is well equipped with the information in this vital book and training."

By: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, author, On Killing, On Combat, & Assassination Generation

This program is designed to help Public Safety Organizations:

*Bridge gaps in the communities they serve

*Reduce liability and lower the bottom line

*Create a higher quality of life mentally, physically, and physiologically professionally and personally.

* Save First Responders Lives

033. "The struggle for identity" with Dan Steuer

Such a great conversation with fellow podcaster and friend Dan Steuer. If you struggle with identity or direction/vision then this is the episode for you.

032. "From convicted felon to 5x best seller and mentor" with Desiree Lee

Not long ago, Desiree Lee was just a convicted felon. She had nothing but a strong desire to make enough money as a single mom and never return to prison. With this strong desire, DLee had started over 6 businesses and failed. Though rejection and shame loomed over her head, she decided to share her story to prevent teen incarcerations, help individuals publish their first book, and become an entrepreneur.

After many false starts in business, DLee finally became an International Public Speaker, 5x Award-Winning Bestselling Author, and sold over 20,000 units of her first book, "Inmate 1142980: The Desiree Lee Story", by age 29.

Fast forward to today, Desiree Lee is now the #1 Online Self-Publishing Consultant with over 10 internationally best-selling books, in 2 languages (Spanish and French). She’s the founder of Authors In Business Co. and DLeeInspires LLC; assisting several self-published authors to become bestselling authors. And outside of her business success, she is one of the most-watched, most quoted and most followed influencers of our time. In total, her videos have been watched repeatedly across her social media platforms. Her emails are read by over 5,000 people every month.

Book link:

http://bit.ly/dleestory 

031. "From desperation to REVELATION" with Rashawn Copeland

Listen in as Rashawn Copeland gives us great insight into his new book, “Start Where You Are” Foreword by Manny Pacquiao. The book is about how God meets us in our mess, loves us through it, and leads us out of it…. I hope to encourage and challenge many to hand over the mess and live out God’s best for their lives. I would love the opportunity to share with the listeners how God took me from being a proud, attention seeking, hypeman of an artist named Soulja Boy to a soldier in His beloved army. –

Rashawn is also the founder of I’m So Blessed Daily - a digital outreached which focuses on delivering good news daily. 

030. "the barriers and benefits of diversity in the church" with Julia Tucker

Julia Tucker is the NextGen Pastor for Transformation Church. Transformation Church is paving the way for diversity, truth and Christ like character. Follow along with this great conversation to gain valuable insight into what being diverse really looks like.

029. "Men's fitness, ministry and mental health" with Troy Ismir

Barbells and Brothers is an online men's fitness ministry that helps men overcome isolation and loneliness, poor physical, mental and spiritual health and lack of purpose.

We are a brotherhood of men devoted to living a life or purpose for the glory of God and the good of others.

BE IN BROTHERHOOD

LIVE A LIFE OF OPTIMAL HEALTH

LIVE A LIFE OF PURPOSE