Practical faith for ministry-minded leaders.
The Ryan Frank Podcast is a faith-based leadership show built around warm interviews with ministry and marketplace voices. Episodes move from church life and family ministry to perfectionism, integrity, neighbor-love, and creative projects shaped by Christian belief.
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The Ryan Frank Podcast is a Christian ministry and leadership show built around conversational interviews. Its center of gravity is practical faith. Ryan Frank brings on guests connected to churches, publishing, family ministry, and faith-centered projects, then steers the conversation toward what leaders do with pressure, calling, influence, and service. The tone is warm and ministry-facing. It is also fairly direct. Recent episodes frame perfectionism not merely as a productivity problem, but as an identity problem that can quietly shape pastors, ministry leaders, and people serving kids in the church. The show is interested in excellence, but it is more interested in what happens when excellence turns into fear of failure. That gives the leadership material a pastoral quality. Instead of treating success as a set of tactics, the conversations keep returning to worth, humility, and being grounded in Christian belief. Children, youth, and family ministry appear as recurring concerns, not side topics. The show treats that work as a serious place where identity and leadership are formed. Episodes also make room for faith-based media, including conversation around Ordinary Angels and the desire for church stories to portray neighbor-love and community service with dignity. The show’s best moments come when big ministry language gets pulled back toward simple obedience. Love the neighbor in front of you. Lead with integrity. Do the work without letting the work define personal worth. Listeners looking for combative debate or dense theology may find the show gentle. Listeners serving in churches, family ministry, publishing, or Christian nonprofit spaces will recognize its vocabulary immediately. It is a steady leadership companion for people trying to stay useful, humble, and spiritually centered while carrying responsibility.
Made for: The show is for pastors, children’s ministry workers, family ministry leaders, Christian publishers, and church-connected creatives. It also suits listeners who want leadership encouragement framed through everyday Christian service.
What sets it apart: It blends ministry leadership, family ministry, publishing, and faith-based media without treating them as separate worlds. The conversations keep pulling public leadership back to identity, humility, and neighbor-love.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A faith-forward conversation about Ordinary Angels, church witness, and the plain work of loving a neighbor.
The Ryan Frank Podcast turns its conversation with Pastor Dave Stone into a steady, faith-forward look at Ordinary Angels, framing the film as a story about a church helping others.
A practical talk on perfectionism, failure, and the kind of worth that does not wobble.
Perfectionism is the pressure point here, and the conversation keeps circling the way fear of failure can shape identity. Ryan Frank and Brian Dombosik trace the pull of excellence, the gap between visible success and something sturdier, and the reminder that worth is defined by…
A grounded faith conversation about the church story behind Ordinary Angels.
Pastor Dave Stone gives Ryan Frank a grounded, faith-centered way into Ordinary Angels, the film connected to Sharon, Ed, and Southeast Christian Church's role in their story.
Ryan Frank interviews Pastor Dave Stone about the upcoming film 'Ordinary Angels,' based on a true story from 30 years ago in Louisville.
Ryan Frank interviews Christy Penner-Warden about the heart of leadership, emphasizing integrity and humility from a Christian perspective.
Ryan Frank talks with Pastor Dave Stone, the former lead pastor of Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, about Ordinary Angels and the real people behind it: Sharon Stevens and Ed Schmidt.
Ryan Frank and Brian Dembowczyk focus on perfectionism and the fear of failure for pastors, kids ministry leaders, and church staff at the Kids Matter Conference and Thomas Nelson Bibles.
Ryan Frank interviews Nick Blevins, co-founder of Ministry Boost and author of The Volunteer Playbook, about resilience in church leadership.
Episode 543 of The Ryan Frank Podcast features Nicole Crank discussing how people can move from surviving past pain to building a thriving future.
Ryan Frank interviews pastor, author, and ministry coach Jim Wideman about turning overloaded schedules into manageable systems for leaders.
Ryan Frank interviews Christy Penner-Warden about the heart of leadership, emphasizing integrity and humility in ministry and marketplace.