In this episode of The JD Denham Podcast, JD Denham sits down with Brandon Hills, a former cop turned transformation coach, husband, and father, for one of the most honest conversations about infidelity, shame, and redemption this show has had. Two men from opposite sides of the tracks who ended up at the same table, and at the same cross.

Brandon opens up about seven years in law enforcement and five years in a prison before that, how a job built on being lied to every day slowly turned him bitter and judgmental, and why he walked away from it all to coach full time. Then he goes somewhere most men never will. He tells the story of confessing his infidelity to his wife after years of hiding it, the night in a gas station parking lot when he had already decided to leave, and the moment she told him she had heard God's voice tell her to give him another chance. He talks about what unconditional love did to a man who never believed he was worthy of it, and why that kind of forgiveness is not possible without God.

JD and Brandon get into the father wound and the cycles men inherit, why Brandon deleted social media for years and went to therapy, how his wife baptized him in a freezing lake in Montana five years after the worst chapter of their marriage, and why God keeps using the broken, tattooed, cussing men instead of the polished ones at the pulpit. They also talk about grieving a father who is still alive, and JD shares his own story of letting go of a resentment he thought he never would.

If you are in a dark season, or know a man who is, this one is for you.

Chapters:

00:00 – Intro

00:07 – Welcome & Meeting Brandon Hills

01:48 – Who Brandon Is Today: Reborn

04:17 – From Prison Guard to Cop to Online Coach

15:09 – The Drug Task Force Spiral & an Emotional Affair

20:28 – Telling His Wife the Truth

23:24 – The Gas Station Conversation That Saved His Marriage

27:19 – Doing the Deep Work: Therapy & Quitting Social Media

32:10 – Why Forgiveness Takes God

37:13 – Baptism: From the Jiu-Jitsu Mat to a Montana Lake

41:50 – JD's Story: "God, If You're Real, Show Up"

51:08 – Why God Uses Men With a Past

53:01 – Brandon's Dad & JD's Resentment Story

1:02:13 – Transformation Coaching: Where to Find Brandon

1:04:23 – Start a Business From Where You Are & Outro

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Intro Music: Pennywise – Let Us Hear Your Voice