Encouragement for the unfinished middle.
Between The Dream turns everyday emotional crossroads into direct, encouraging reflection. Richard Taylor Jr. speaks from lived experience about divorce recovery, media balance, seasonal change, trust, forgiveness, and the slow work of becoming whole again.
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Between The Dream is a reflective encouragement show about the unfinished middle of life. Richard Taylor Jr. describes that middle as the space between the present moment and the promise, and recent episodes keep returning to that idea with unusual emotional directness. The show is warm. It is also restless, often moving quickly from a casual aside into a serious point about healing, identity, or discipline. Episodes can begin with gratitude for new and returning listeners, a seasonal observation, or a personal update, then shift into the deeper question underneath. What happens when summer ends and the days get shorter? How does a person rebuild after divorce without rushing the pain? Can forgiveness happen without reconciliation? Those questions give the show its shape. A recent 10-part series, Unfolding Life After Divorce, follows the terrain of breakup, betrayal, trust, identity, and sustainable healing. The series does not treat recovery as a clean slogan. It lingers on the first hard steps, the awkwardness of opening the heart again, and the need to give oneself credit for staying in the work. Other episodes widen the frame. Social media fasting becomes a way to talk about attention, mental health, and being present instead of constantly posting. Seasonal change becomes a prompt for joy, resistance, and the different ways people respond to transition. Men's Health Month opens the door for conversations about care, connection, and mental health awareness. The style is conversational and faith-adjacent, with a sense of urgency and a willingness to wander before landing the point. It is not clinical. It is personal without becoming only about the speaker. The humor is loose, sometimes playful, and used as a release valve before the show returns to the serious work. Listeners looking for polished distance may find it too intimate. Listeners who want honest reflection from someone speaking inside the process will understand its appeal quickly.
Made for: Between The Dream suits listeners navigating change, divorce, breakup, faith-shaped reflection, media overload, or the slow work of emotional recovery. It is especially built for people who want encouragement that sounds personal, direct, and lived-in.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the blend of casual immediacy and sustained emotional focus. Richard Taylor Jr. can move from seasonal jokes or listener gratitude into careful reflection on trust, forgiveness, identity, and healing without losing the feeling of a one-to-one conversation.
Between The Dream is everyday encouragement for those who are dealing with this process that we call life. Get ready for needed & intentional conversations that will provoke the thoughts of listeners and encourage the audience in their current and future personal & professionals endeavors! Cover art photo by https://www.rawpixel.com
Richard Taylor Jr. turns the space between heartbreak and healing into a seat beside you.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A candid return that moves through divorce, grief, and shaken identity toward a more truthful sense of self.
A year away from the microphone becomes the doorway into a frank return shaped by divorce, grief, and the loss of an imagined future. The host follows how a traumatic shift can unsettle identity, confidence, and the self a person once knew inside a relationship, then turns…
A warm look at how productivity can hide exhaustion and the need for support.
Richard Taylor Jr. examines high-functioning depression through the gap between what others see and what a person may be carrying. Joy, laughter, charisma, and energy can sit alongside real strain, while work and other necessary tasks still get done.
A hopeful closing reflection on courage, hard-won lessons, and staying open to love after divorce.
After divorce or a breakup, healing can ask a person to risk connection again, and the final installment of Between The Dream's Unfolding Life After Divorce series treats that step as a quiet practice of courage. Richard Taylor Jr.
A warm, reflective conversation about the pressure men carry and the grace they may struggle to give themselves.
Men's mental health is treated here as a question of pressure: the pressure to seem strong, to manage pride and ego, and to keep vulnerability from looking like weakness. Richard Taylor Jr.
Pastoral sermons for healing, faith, and release.
Faithful steps for God-shaped dreams.
Christian marriage counsel with prayerful accountability.
Christian steadiness for unsettled news and cultural life.
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Between the Dream host Richard Taylor Jr.
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The host returns to the Between the Dream podcast after a year-long break to introduce a 10-part series on life after divorce, emphasizing the importance of embracing the process between dreams and reality.
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Richard Taylor discusses the reality of high functioning depression, using a social media post about celebrities who appear joyful but struggle with depression to encourage listeners to acknowledge their own mental health struggles without shame.