St. Florian's With Fr. Matthew Young Podcast engages in real conversations with people who in some way are or have been serving the common good as firefighters, police officers, paramedics, nurses, doctors, politicians, teachers, military personnel, and others. We explore their challenges, joys, struggles, stresses, disappointments, and successes. We talk faith and discover where we find and are found by God. The Very Reverend Matthew Young, an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Lexington, i ...
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Ryan Rowley: From Army Ranger to Real Estate
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Father Matthew Young talks with Ryan Rowley, a real estate agent in Newport, Kentucky, who served in Afghanistan and Iraq in the Army's 1st Ranger Battalion and how that has effected his life and how embracing his own struggles is helping others.
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Lena Hill: What Kindness, Compassion, Please, and Thank You Can Do
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Fr. Matthew Young joins recently retired 911 operator and dispatcher Lena Hill who organized and maintains and electronic group of about 6,000 people solely for the purpose of connecting people who have a need with what they need.
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Matt Olson: A Sliver of Hope Saved My Life
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A recently retired 31 year fire service veteran, Matt Olson, speaks with Fr. Matthew Young about managing and overcoming adversity caused by his mother's suicide, being sexually abused by a priest and no one believing him, job related trauma and stress, alcoholism, and suicidal ideation.
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Joe Bowman: How Ticks Saved My Life
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Fr. Matthew Young talks with Battalion Chief Joe Bowman of the Covington Kentucky Fire Department. We talk about how he pursued fire engines as a kid on his big wheel, growing up without a positive father figure, serving in Iraq in the US Army, leadership, carrying around pain, the toughest Fire and EMS runs, the changing landscape of the fire serv…
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Brandon Gray: Heroin Under the Mattress
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Fr. Matthew Young talks with Firefighter/EMT Brandon Gray. A career firefighter with Independence KY Fire Protection District, Brandon is also a singer/songwriter. Brandon performs three of his original songs. We discuss being a follower of Jesus, faith, heroin overdoses, traumatic incidents, managing stress, adoption a child, racism, and resurrect…
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Special Edition: Tornadoes in Western Kentucky
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In this special episode, Fr. Matthew Young talks with Steve "Bubba" Hendley who has served the people of Western Kentucky in law enforcement for over 40 years. After being hunkered down with his wife and holding on for dear life in Mayfield, KY with an F3 tornado outside, Steve reports on the loss of life and property there, current relief efforts,…
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Chris and Kelly Hall: As We Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us
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In Episode 4, Fr. Matthew Young sits down with Chris and Kelly Hall. In October 2021, Chris, a sheriff's deputy in Boone County, Kentucky, had his life flash before his eyes when he was intentionally struck by an oncoming fleeing vehicle that left him injured in the roadway. He and his wife Kelly discuss that experience along with its effects on th…
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Audrey Owczarzak: All Around Badass
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In Episode 3, Fr. Matthew Young sits down with Audrey Owczarzak and discusses what it was like for her growing up in poverty, her time deployed to Iraq as a United States Marine, being one of 5% of career firefighters who are women, how she has people in the City of Newport Kentucky and beyond to raise and distribute charitably over $120,000 in goo…
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Jo Terry: PTSD And My Husband's Suicide
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In this heartbreaking and inspiring episode, Fr. Matthew Young sits down with Jo Terry. In 2017, after a storied and heroic career as a firefighter, Jo's husband Chip violently shot and killed himself, shocking his wife, family, friends, and coworkers. Jo tells her story honestly and openly including how she's determined to help save the lives of o…
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Terry Foster, RN: Service, Comedy, and Care
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Fr. Matthew Young sits down with Terry Foster, a registered nurse for over four decades and talk about service to and with others, compassion, what is was like to be at the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire in May 1977, COVID-19, and how being a follower of Jesus impacts his work and life. Terry is quite the comedian and so be prepared to laugh as wel…
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