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Faith, grit, and the next hard move.
The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome treats faith as something lived under pressure, not stored on a shelf. Episodes move from retirement, fitness, prayer, sex, demons, adventure, and gang life into one repeated challenge: take the harder, truer step.
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The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome is a brisk, interview-driven show about living with nerve. Its center of gravity is Christian faith, but its reach is wider than church talk. The show is interested in what people do when comfort runs out. That can mean facing retirement with a plan for purpose, spending money while family can still enjoy it, or admitting that mortality changes the way a person should live. It can also mean training the body, drinking water, praying before a workout, and refusing to turn one missed week into surrender. The show likes tension. It puts spiritual conviction beside physical endurance, marriage intimacy, money, doubt, and risk. Bear Grylls talks about a wilder picture of Jesus and the courage required by faith. Fr. Vincent Lampert brings stories of exorcism, possession, oppression, and spiritual warfare into a serious theological frame. Paul Maconochie talks about healing prayer, submission, provision, and trusting God with money. Shawn Zitt pushes practical fitness habits while the conversation stays loose and teasing. Tyler Frazier’s story moves through motorcycle gang life, family, and the costly decision to leave. Episodes with Kingdom Sexuality bring direct talk about sex, intimacy, and marriage into a faith-based context. The format is not polished distance. It is closer to a live exchange that keeps interrupting itself, laughing, pressing, and circling back to the point. The repeated message is simple and demanding. Belief should produce movement. Courage needs community. A better life usually asks for an aggressive move before it offers a cleaner path.
Made for: This show suits listeners drawn to Christian faith, challenge, resilience, practical discipline, and stories of people changing under pressure. It also fits anyone who prefers lively, blunt interviews over calm self-help lectures.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by mixing church-rooted conviction with unusually earthy subject matter: exorcism, gang exits, sex, hunting, retirement, fitness, and endurance challenges. It is persuasive without sounding sanitized.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Faith, family responsibility, health, and personal change meet in interviews that keep asking what conviction requires in practice.
The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome turns interviews into direct questions about how belief becomes action. The host moves easily from prayer and healing to exercise, retirement, incarceration, and courage, repeatedly pressing guests for decisions a person can make rather than…
A water goal gets 'you're on crack'; you get a faith conversation willing to argue back.
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Retirement here means math, mortality, and a body that still has to show up.
It frames retirement as a blunt family and bodily reckoning. The conversation circles retirement age, death age, and the space between them, then turns that math toward money, time, and whether a body at 70 can still handle elk hunting.
A calm, faith-forward account of exorcism that turns ritual detail into something unsettling.
Fr. Vincent Lampert's conversation with Brian Tome begins with a first exorcism that feels almost domestic at first: an elderly Italian woman, her husband nearby, paper towels on the table, and a grocery bag on the radiator.
Prayer is framed as submission that reshapes money, trust, and obedience.
The episode opens with Brian Tome's coyote story and then settles into Paul Maconochie's case for prayer as submission. That move gives the talk a clear center: asking in Jesus' name is treated as asking for what Jesus wants, so prayer is meant to align with God's agenda rather…
Quitters Day becomes a practical discussion of protein, water, short workouts, and sustainable consistency.
The episode starts on Quitters Day and turns quickly to a practical case for protein, water, short workouts, and steady habits. Brian Tome and his guest treat goal body weight in protein and half body weight in ounces of water as the basic targets, even if the water number…
A direct Christian conversation about doubt, courage, and the fellowship that helps faith catch again.
Faith is treated here as a matter of nerve, shaped by a hard question about courage, fear, and doubt. The episode moves from an unruly image of Jesus into something more vulnerable: John the Baptist, named by Jesus as the greatest prophet, still asks from prison whether Jesus is…
A prison-to-kidney story held together by plain talk, family stakes, and a school visit.
The Aggressive Life spends this hour with Suave Gonzalez on a reset that feels both physical and deeply personal. A Vive Organic ginger shot, a strict diet for the last three months, and the plan to give his sister a kidney in March after about six years of knowing she needs one…
Film-set upbringings, listener stories, and the hunt for normal.
Daily TED and TEDx talks hosted by Elise Hu, spanning science, psychology, and creativity.
Pop culture, personal stakes, and room for a tangent.
Lawfare's weekly panel turns Supreme Court rulings and war-powers fights into legal debate.
Host Brian Tome interviews Luis 'Suave' Gonzalez, who served 31 years in prison after being sentenced to life without parole at age 17.
Dave and Ann Wilson discuss the decline of marriage rates and share insights on building a strong marriage.
Interview with Hollywood writer and producer Mark Williams about his work on Ozark and The Accountant.
The hosts discuss the upcoming Man Camp 2025 event, its growth, and the aggressive life philosophy behind taking men into the wilderness for spiritual and physical challenges.
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Hosts of Kingdom Sexuality discuss their mission to help couples improve intimacy and connection through sex education and resources.
Brian Tome breaks Man Camp precedent by releasing a live interview with Bear Grylls from the event.
Brian Tome and co-host Windex answer 'true or false: God has one perfect plan for your job, spouse and college' with a flat 'False.' Tome rejects the 'blueprint theory' and 'purpose analyzers' and cites 2 Kings, where Hezekiah's prayer changes a 'get your affairs in order' verdict, and Abraham's test on Mount Moriah, where God says 'now I know.' He draws on his 38-year marriage and his move to Crossroads in Cincinnati after losing a California pastor job.
On The Aggressive Life, Matt Fortin and Rory Lawrence describe driving from New Hampshire to Man Camp in Ohio and finding friendships that lasted beyond the weekend.
Brian Tome and Matt Chandler connect men’s friendships to David’s “king’s table,” naming Nathan, Joab, and Jonathan as distinct forms of support.
Brian Tome talks with Dale Tesmond about retirement, purpose, and why men often struggle when their careers end.
Brian Tome replays a live Man Camp interview with Bear Grylls, who says he wants people to know “the story of our Lord and savior” rather than “the fluff” around religion.
Father Vincent Lampert says the Catholic Church appointed him exorcist for the Diocese of Indianapolis in 2005, and he says the U.S.
JonBob and David Valentine discuss their 2800-mile challenge and how fun can build resilience, inspired by the Aggressive Life podcast.
Former Iron Horsemen enforcer Tyler Frazier shares his story of leaving the gang and finding healing through faith.
Brian Tome frames prayer as an aggressive act, and Paul Maconochie answers with stories from churches in Sheffield, England, Brisbane, and the Baptist world.
Brian Tome and Shawn Zitt frame fitness around "Quitters Day," 2026 goals, and the reality that about 80% of New Year’s resolutions are health based.