This week, we step into a pivotal moment on the Engage Your Destiny Podcast as we introduce The Ben Peterson Show—a new chapter focused on faith, culture, and the rising influence of artificial intelligence.

As technology rapidly reshapes the world, a deeper question emerges: are we using AI as a tool… or allowing it to become our guide?

In this episode, Ben Peterson shares the heart behind the rebrand and unpacks a critical tension facing this generation—how to navigate faith in an age where answers are instant, but wisdom is often missing. Through real-life stories and personal conviction, he reveals the difference between creating with purpose and outsourcing the very voice God placed within us.

This message goes beyond technology. It’s about identity, discernment, and the responsibility of believers to remain grounded in truth while engaging a changing world.
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Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction to The Ben Peterson Show
01:00 – Why the rebrand from Engage Your Destiny Podcast
02:00 – Faith in the age of AI and cultural shifts
03:00 – The critical question: tool or guide?
04:00 – Using AI as a tool (real-world business example)
05:30 – The danger of using AI as a guide
06:30 – Choosing prayer over instant answers
07:30 – Waiting, seeking, and receiving clarity
08:00 – The growing reliance on AI for direction
08:30 – Gen Z, AI, and the crisis of guidance
09:00 – A call to lead, think, and live differently

This week on the Engage Your Destiny Podcast, we sit down with Andrea Hand, artist, songwriter, and founder of Sound of Hope, for a powerful conversation about suicide, trauma, mental health, and the healing power of faith.

Andrea shares how her life changed after losing three people to suicide in a single year, including her cousin. What began as a calling in music became a mission to confront the silence around mental health and help people find hope, healing, and freedom.

From touring with Carrie Underwood and appearing on The Voice, to building a nonprofit that helps remove the stigma around emotional pain, Andrea opens up about what unresolved trauma, hidden wounds, and core lies can do to a person’s life if left unaddressed.

This conversation goes deeper than mental health awareness. It is about truth, inner healing, community, and learning how to walk with God in a world filled with noise, distraction, isolation, and artificial intelligence. Andrea shares why faith matters, why healing is often a process, and why no one should suffer in silence.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Andrea Hand’s background in music and ministry
02:00 Losing three people to suicide in one year
05:00 The beginning of Sound of Hope
06:00 Suicide, mental health, and the church’s blind spot
07:30 The vision for the Sound of Hope docuseries
10:00 Trauma, core lies, and inner healing
18:30 Rejection, identity, and the music industry
27:00 Why Andrea is passionate about removing the stigma
30:00 AI, isolation, and protecting the human soul
38:00 Hearing God in a distracted world
43:00 Final message of hope for those who are struggling

This week on the Engage Your Destiny Podcast, we share a powerful testimony from an undisclosed base in the Middle East, a story of warfare, prayer, and the undeniable intervention of God. In the middle of ongoing incoming attacks, a chaplain cried out for a miracle: a six-hour window to rescue a family trapped in a war zone. What happened next is a reminder that God still moves on the battlefield.

This episode is more than a testimony from the front lines. It is a call to faith under pressure. Ben Peterson opens the Word in Joshua 10 and draws a direct connection between the God who fought for Israel and the God who still answers impossible prayers today. When chaos surrounds you, when the battle feels nonstop, and when you need heaven to make a way, this message will challenge you to pray boldly and stand firm.

This conversation also speaks directly to the spiritual battles many are facing right now, fear, mental exhaustion, temptation, hopelessness, and the war for the mind. If you’ve been feeling under attack, this episode will remind you that you do not have to surrender your thoughts, your peace, or your purpose. You are called to fight with spiritual authority and trust the God of the impossible.

WATCH UNTIL THE END - this story could change how you see pain, purpose and the power of redemption. Engage Your Destiny (EYD) is a 501(c)3 on a mission to help combat the deadly epidemic of military suicide with faith.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome to Engage Your Destiny
00:45 The Guardian mission and supporting active-duty military
01:50 Joshua 10 and the God who fights for His people
04:20 Testimony from an undisclosed base in the Middle East
05:00 Six weeks of nonstop incoming fire
05:45 A family trapped in a war zone
06:15 The chaplain’s impossible prayer
06:40 The six-hour miracle window
07:20 What battle are you facing right now?
08:10 God still answers prayers on the battlefield
08:40 Spiritual warfare and taking thoughts captive
10:00 A call to fight for your mind, family, and purpose
10:20 Why Engage Your Destiny supports service members
10:40 Become a Guardian and join the mission