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Talks with Gallagher

Talks with Gallagher

Written by: John Gallagher
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 Having conversations that inspire and empower emerging and seasoned leaders, John Gallagher brings together spiritual pioneers and business innovators from around the globe.

Each episode dives into transformational stories and timeless wisdom—whether you’re pursuing spiritual depth or marketplace impact, this podcast equips you with tools to grow into who you’re meant to be.

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  • Renewing Our Minds in Love: Neuroscience, Scripture & Inner Healing — with Tina Smith | EP 164

    Renewing Our Minds in Love: Neuroscience, Scripture & Inner Healing — with Tina Smith | EP 164
    Jan 19 2026
    What if understanding how your brain works could help you partner with God for deep emotional and spiritual healing? In this episode, licensed therapist and author Tina Smith unpacks her book Renewing Our Minds in Love and shows how neuroscience, attachment, and Scripture all fit together in God’s design for wholeness. Tina and John talk about what trauma actually is (and isn’t), why attachment and early relationships matter so much, how triggers work in the brain and nervous system, and why many believers feel condemned or “stuck” even while trying to renew their minds. She also explains the “hand model” of the brain, how love literally rewires neural pathways, and why over-spiritualizing mental illness has quietly hurt people in the church. They dive into practical tools for:
    • Navigating family dynamics and toxic environments (especially around the holidays)
    • Setting boundaries without burning bridges
    • Having hard conversations without labels, name-calling, or shutdown
    • Leading in church and ministry with curiosity instead of quick fixes
    • Integrating therapy, inner healing, and deliverance in healthy, balanced ways
    If you’ve ever wondered why you react the way you do—or why change feels so slow despite prayer and Scripture—this conversation will help you see your story, your brain, and your healing through a much kinder, more hopeful lens. Guest: Tina Smith — licensed therapist; founder of SELA Counselling & SELA Treatment Center; creator of Sword & Grace Coaching; author of Renewing Our Minds in Love

    Host: John Gallagher — Talks with Gallagher Timestamps (chapters — adjust to your final edit) 00:00 Welcome, intro & Tina’s story and background
    04:10 Why Tina wrote Renewing Our Minds in Love and what she was seeing in clients
    09:20 Where the church often unintentionally keeps people stuck in their mental health
    14:05 Trauma, attachment & early relationships — why they shape how we see God and others
    18:40 What is trauma really? Tina’s working definition beyond the buzzword
    23:15 How unhealed childhood experiences show up later in work, marriage & leadership
    27:40 The “hand model” of the brain — fight, flight, freeze, fawn and how God wired us
    32:30 Triggers, smells, songs & body sensations: when your nervous system remembers
    37:55 Glasses of trauma: how we filter the world, intimacy, and even church through past pain
    42:20 Holidays, toxic spaces & boundaries: staying loving without staying unsafe
    47:00 Fruits of the Spirit as a practical mental health framework (not just a Bible list)
    51:25 Love vs. fear in the brain: how love literally rewires neural pathways
    55:40 The power of words: shaping identity, safety & neural pathways in others
    1:00:05 How to have hard conversations without labels, blame, or “you always…”
    1:04:10 Anger as the tip of the iceberg: what’s really underneath (rejection & abandonment)
    1:08:00 How leaders can walk with people wisely: curiosity, listening & collaboration with therapists
    1:12:35 Over-spiritualizing mental illness vs. honoring both neuroscience and the spiritual realm
    1:17:10 PTSD, first responders & why feeling safe is the first step of healing
    1:21:00 Tina’s work as a TheraCoach & how people can connect with her
    1:24:30 Final encouragement: no shame, no striving—Jesus sits with you as you heal If this helped you, follow, rate, and share the show.

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    50 mins
  • Glory Realm & the Fear of the Lord: Watchers, Holiness & Third-Day Prophetic with Dr. Theresa Phillips | EP 163

    Glory Realm & the Fear of the Lord: Watchers, Holiness & Third-Day Prophetic with Dr. Theresa Phillips | EP 163
    Jan 12 2026
    What’s the difference between the anointing and the glory—and why does it matter right now? In this rich, story-filled conversation, Rev. Dr. Theresa Phillips joins John to unpack the three realms (salvation, anointing, glory), how the third-day glory realm works, and why the Lord is bringing a loving but firm course-correction to the prophetic movement.

    Dr. Theresa shares visions of the cloud of witnesses and heavenly “watchers” moving across the nation, her encounters in the throne room, and how the glory realm is already impacting culture through signs like feathers, gems, and supernatural fragrance. She also talks candidly about holiness, repentance, the fear of the Lord, the American church, and what it means to love people deeply without affirming their sin. You’ll hear stories from her bake-stand outreach, Be a Hero to a Hero (stockings for medically confined veterans), the birth of her Redeem and Renew skin care line from a glory encounter, and practical ways to cultivate a lifestyle that attracts heaven’s atmosphere—starting with a fresh relationship with the Word and Revelation 21.

    00:00 Welcome, intro & who is Dr. Theresa Phillips (plus recap of the “oil angel” episode)
    03:45 Three realms explained: first day (salvation), second day (anointing), third day (glory)
    08:20 Difference between anointing and glory: God touching earth vs. inviting us into His realm
    12:10 Prophetic in the glory: coming correction, coal on the lips & speaking only from the throne
    16:40 Cloud of witnesses & the watchers: vision of a moving cloud over the nation
    21:05 Relationship with the written Word vs. just “knowing” it; living in daily repentance
    25:30 Fear of the Lord & holiness: dress, conduct, emotions, and not wounding God’s heart
    29:50 Bake stand testimonies: Operation Gift Vet, praying for veterans & being a light in public
    34:15 Wheat & tares, sheep & goats: political divide, church division & loving souls without compromise
    39:00 Glory in culture & marketplace: feathers, gems & the danger of “touching” God’s glory
    43:30 Throne room encounter: terror, embrace of the Father & being seated among worshipers
    48:20 Sound, worship & the glory: angel playing keys beside her at the piano
    52:50 Consecration as prerequisite to glory; busting myths about “living anointed 24/7”
    56:30 Revelation 21 as a doorway: seeing, smelling and believing what heaven looks like
    1:01:10 Heavenly fragrance & the butterfly tree: sensory encounters in the celestial realm
    1:05:40 Angelic armies & the American flag vision: “riches in the nation to save the nation”
    1:10:25 Prophetic integrity: stop saying “I don’t know if this is God” & seek wisdom
    1:14:00 No more condemning the church: honoring every stream, ending intra-church warfare
    1:18:10 Building a hungry house: asking the congregation, “Where did you go? What did you get?”
    1:21:30 Dr. Theresa’s prayer for hunger, dreams, visions, fragrances & heavenly encounters
    1:24:30 How to connect: The Chicago Voice, drteresaphillips.com, Redeem and Renew, Be a Hero to a Hero & closing blessing If this helped you, follow, rate, and share the show.

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    54 mins
  • Calling the Unlikely into Identity: Miracles, Brazil & Obedient Faith with Pastor Rafa Assis | EP 162

    Calling the Unlikely into Identity: Miracles, Brazil & Obedient Faith with Pastor Rafa Assis | EP 162
    Jan 5 2026
    What happens when God takes a sick baby on the edge of death, a wounded church kid, and a “reluctant” leader—and turns him into a pastor who equips ordinary believers to walk in miracles? In this episode, Pastor Rafa Assis from Brazil (with translator Jarvis) shares his powerful story: healed as a newborn, burning for Jesus as a child, deeply hurt by church, then radically re-encountering God through prophetic encounters, seminary, and the supernatural move of the Holy Spirit.

    Rafa talks about being mentored in a revival culture, traveling with Randy Clark and Global Awakening, planting and pastoring Pier 49 church in Rio, and watching God use “unlikely” people to see cancers, strokes, arthritis, autism, and more healed. He and John also dive into what God is doing in Brazil right now, how the Father is healing issues of spiritual fatherhood, and why this is a season for hidden, ordinary believers to step into identity and power. If you’ve ever felt overlooked, disqualified, or “too unlikely” to be used by God—this conversation is an invitation.

    00:00 Welcome, intro & who is Pastor Rafa
    03:20 Miracle at birth: pneumonia, near-death & instant healing as a baby
    07:45 Hungry kid with a Bible: reading Scripture by age seven
    11:10 Deep church hurt, “professional believer” phase & distancing from pastors
    15:25 Prophetic encounters in a burger shop parking lot & at home
    20:05 “I don’t want this!” — resisting the call, then suddenly waking up wanting seminary
    24:30 No money for school & the surprise legal payout that pays for Bible school
    28:50 Holy dissatisfaction: crying out, “There has to be more than this”
    33:15 Prophet visits church… and skips Rafa? Frustration & the night everything changed
    38:40 Three encounters in three months & hearing “your time in this church is over”
    44:05 Dreams, visions of the beach, clay jars & being led to Pastor Ed Rocha and Pier 49
    49:10 Meeting Global Awakening & discovering Randy Clark, “There is More”
    53:30 Dangerous prayer: “Just five seconds with Randy” … turning into seven days (and more)
    57:45 Traveling with Randy Clark & seeing deaf ears, wheelchairs, cancer healed
    1:02:10 Stroke miracle: woman’s face straightened, eyesight restored & walking again
    1:07:30 Brazil healing nights: arthritis, creative miracles & people lining up for prayer
    1:12:00 Street chaos & a man collapsing during Carnival — praying until “Heaven’s ambulance” arrives
    1:16:40 Risk & obedience: living with almost no money but radical trust
    1:20:30 Shadow healing: using Peter’s example & watching a leg grow out
    1:24:10 Infertility, leukemia & dental miracles — God the Great Physician (and Dentist)
    1:28:55 Calling out healing for strokes, cancer & accidents over listeners
    1:32:40 Transition from Pier 49 & repeated prophetic words about “cold places”
    1:37:00 Abraham-like call: going to a place God will show & living in faith between words
    1:40:15 What God is doing in Brazil: healing father wounds, preparing unlikely ones
    1:45:10 Big churches vs. big people: equipping everyday believers, not building celebrities
    1:49:30 A word to leaders: every meeting is an opportunity for people to meet Jesus
    1:53:00 Activation prayer for leaders, identity, and a fresh encounter with God
    1:57:00 Final encouragement & wrap-up If this helped you, follow, rate, and share the show.

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    1 hr and 9 mins
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