Blue Collar Blessed: Faith, Family, and Fighting for Idaho

In this powerful and deeply personal episode of the show, Samantha Jade welcomes Denny LaVe—an Idaho-based construction company owner, father of six sons, and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate—to share his remarkable life journey and bold vision for America. From a turbulent childhood marked by family breakup and early trauma, through a heat stroke in the Marines, nearly two years in a French monastery, and building a thriving blue-collar life and marriage, Denny opens up about healing from broken homes and the vital importance of stable families for raising healthy children. He discusses his faith-driven decision to run against long-time incumbent Jim Risch, his international bestselling memoir Blue-Collar Blessed, and key issues like runaway national debt, skyrocketing costs, healthcare profiteering, endless wars, and protecting families from corporate overreach. Honest, hopeful, and refreshingly grounded, this conversation celebrates resilience, traditional values, true masculinity and femininity, and the courage to step up for meaningful change. - Please visit newlionofidaho.com to learn more! - To find all my deals, visit: https://mydeals.page/7fu7 - Want to be a guest on Shades of Jade Podcast? Send Samantha Jade Wooldrik a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/shadesofjadepod - Music: Mozart Horn Concerto No. 4, K. 495 – III. Rondo: Allegro vivace, performed by Dennis Brain (public domain recording from Archive.org)