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Canyon Pathways Podcast
by Canyon Pathways
The Canyon Pathways podcast invites men into the journey of sonship, and invests in them through creative content, honest conversation, and inspiring stories of men around the world so that the listener leaves encouraged and equipped to live like a son and lead like a father. Our goal with the podcast is twofold: 1) to invest more deeply into our existing community and provide ongoing content and community spaces for them, and 2) to expand the community by inviting more men around the world to this global campfire. So, welcome to the table of sonship—we’re glad you’re here!
Episodes
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Pull Up a Chair: Your Invitation to the Father's Table
Tables hold some of our best memories and some of our worst. In his recent field note, Noel traced the word back to the Latin tabula, the blank slate where so much of our story gets written. This episode picks up where that essay left off. Luke gathers three Canyon brothers around a virtual…
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FIELD NOTE | Table: Why the Seat You Were Never Given Still Defines You
Tables are everywhere in our lives — and we almost never think about them. But when you slow down and look, the most formative moments of your life probably happened at one: the dinner table where something was spoken over you that still echoes, the table you were never invited to, the conference...
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Servant to Son: What Spiritual Direction Actually Does | A Conversation
Three men — Sherman Bradley in Ohio, Paul Kimball in South Dakota, and Jason Lee in Taiwan — each arrived at a Canyon Pathways retreat running on fumes. Paul came ready to serve. Jason came in his own words like 'a plane on fire trying to land with no pilot,' carrying two miscarriages, full-time...
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Spiritual Direction: The Lost Practice for Men Who Lead Everyone but Are Led by No One
Most men in midlife leadership have accumulated the tools — executive coaches, counselors, mentors, books. And yet something stays unintegrated. The professional self and the father, the husband, the man of faith never quite come together. In this field note episode, Canyon Pathways founder Noel...
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He Found The Messiah Alone in Iran — No Church, No Community, Just Jonah | Kewmars Kazemzadeh
Kewmars Kazemzadeh grew up in post-revolution Iran in a secular, partly Jewish family — navigating a society where the government was imposing an ideology on a people who had not asked for it. He had no religious upbringing. His first prayer was a teenage bargain with God over a girl who wasn't...
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Confidence: Why You Don't Have to Lead Alone - Field Note
Confidence is a tricky thing in midlife leadership. For some of us it's been quietly draining away — through a loss, a reversal, an injury, or pain we've carried a long time. For others it's a newer ache: there was once a confidence tied to our wins, and now a fresh challenge has us rattled.…
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He Wasn't Supposed to Be Born. Then He Built a Business, Had Three Strokes, and Rode 13,000 Miles — Then God Stopped Him | J.P. Avekoe
What does real progress look like for a man who has already built the business, made the first million, and still felt like it wasn't enough? For J.P. Avekoe — CEO of Hardy Global and co-founder of Rise and Shine Africa, a 240-acre initiative in Togo — that question took decades, three strokes, a...
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FIELD NOTE | PROGRESS: When Forward Doesn’t Feel Like Forward
We all want progress. We want to feel like we’re moving… like something is changing… like we’re not just stuck. But midlife has a way of complicating that. Sometimes it feels like a grind. Sometimes it feels like we’re going backward. And sometimes everything looks like it’s moving forward on the...
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Anticipation: Leading with Vision w/ Aseka Taabu
Anticipation sits at the center of leadership. In this episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, Sherman Bradley sits down with Aseka Taabu, a Canyon Pathways brother based in Nairobi, Kenya, to explore the Field Note word Anticipation and how it shapes the journey of sonship and leadership....
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From His Dad's Arrest to Fighting Human Trafficking — Jacob Johnson's Sonship Story
Jacob Johnson is the founder of Calion Wax Company, a home fragrance social enterprise that has donated nearly $900,000 to U.S.-based nonprofits fighting human trafficking since launching in 2017. But the number is just the surface. Underneath it is a kid who grew up with a front-row seat to his...
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FIELD NOTE on "INTENTIONAL": To Stretch Toward That Place Inside
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways podcast, host Noel Bouché explores the profound depth of what it means to be intentional. Drawing inspiration from an unlikely source—the 90s alt-rock hit "Father of Mine" by Everclear—Noel unpacks how intentionality is less about strategic planning and more...
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2025 End of Year Reflections w/ Noel, Luke and Sherman
As 2025 draws to a close, I had the rare gift of sitting down with my brothers Sherman Bradley and Luke Smith for a roundtable conversation—not to wrap things in a neat bow, but to stay in the tension of grace, truth, and what it means to be sons who stay at the table. This year has been marked…
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Patrick Rooney: The Wealth You Can't Buy (and the Word That Changed His Route)
Patrick Rooney is a husband, father of four, entrepreneur, and investment professional who has spent more than a decade living and working in the United Kingdom. He grew up in Wheaton, Illinois — one of the most church-dense communities in America, by his own admission — played collegiate…
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FIELD NOTE - The Essence of Wealth: More Than Money
In this Field Note episode of the Canyon Pathways podcast, I reflect on the complex and often misunderstood idea of wealth. At midlife, many of us are asking deeper questions about what it means to be secure, successful, and significant. But what if true wealth has less to do with accumulation…
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SURRENDER Convo: Holding Back, Letting Go w/ Pastor Jackie Jackson
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, host Sherman Bradley welcomes his longtime friend and brother, Dr. Pastor Jackie Jackson—a seasoned pastor, teacher, and community leader whose story spans decades of ministry, reconciliation, and faithfulness. Together, they unpack two deeply...
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SURRENDER Field Note: The Strength of Letting Go
There’s a kind of strength we rarely talk about—one that doesn’t come from pushing through or pressing harder, but from loosening our grip. In this Field Note, I reflect on the quiet courage of surrender. Not the surrender of defeat, but the surrender of trust. Of handing back what was never ours...
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The Son of a Death-Row Communist — George Romeos on Peace, Fear, and the Father's Table
What does it mean to be a peacemaker when you've grown up inside a family that war almost destroyed? George Romeos — co-founder of Cosmovision ministry in Athens, Greece, and a key host for Canyon Pathways retreats on the island of Aegina — sits down with Luke Smith to answer that question…
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FIELD NOTE: The Cost of PEACE w/Noel Bouché
In this Field Note episode of the Canyon Pathways podcast, Noel Bouché reflects on the true nature of peace—not as a passive absence of conflict, but as a courageous and costly reality rooted in covenant. Drawing on the ancient understanding of peace as shalom and its connection to sonship, Noel...
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He Left His Father's Name Blank — And Spent 40 Years in Ministry Before He Understood Sonship | David Kosobucki
David Kosobucki came to the Canyon Pathways retreat in Spearfish, South Dakota, not knowing what the retreat was about. What he found there mirrored almost exactly what God had already been doing in him — quietly, over decades, pressing him toward a question he hadn't been able to name: What does...
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UNDERSTANDING Field Note: The Difference Between Comprehension and Trust
In this Field Note episode of the Canyon Pathways podcast, Noel Bouché invites us to explore the difference between comprehending and understanding. In a world that prizes intellect and rewards those who “grasp” and “master” situations, this episode offers a different vision—one rooted not in...
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UNITY Convo: Staying at the Table w/ Steve Njenga
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, Sherman Bradley sits down with Kenyan leader and friend Steve Njenga for a heartfelt conversation on unity—not as agreement, but as courageous togetherness. Steve shares his personal journey of navigating difference, staying present in moments of...
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UNITY Field Note: A Journey from Division to Togetherness
In this Field Note episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, host Noel Bouché reflects on the nature of unity—not as sameness, but as togetherness rooted in shared essentials. Drawing from Scripture, cultural moments, and personal experiences, Noel explores how the biblical concept of Echad (Hebrew...
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EMPOWER Convo: Raising Sons, Not Servants w/ Joe Gachira
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, host Sherman Bradley sits down with Joe Gachira, a leader, mentor, and civic-minded entrepreneur from Nairobi, Kenya. Together, they explore the deeply relational and spiritual act of empowerment—not as a top-down command, but as a call to raise...
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EMPOWER: Putting Ability Into Others w/Noel Bouché
In this Field Note episode of the Canyon Pathways podcast, Noel Bouché unpacks the word empower—not as a soft sentiment, but as a bold act of entrusting others with ability, authority, and autonomy. He explores how true empowerment mirrors the character of a Father who places confidence in His...
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AUTHORITY Convo: From Powerlessness to Life‑Giving Leadership w/Michael Perron
In this Canyon Pathways Podcast conversation, Luke Smith sits down with Michael Perrin to dive deep into the word authority—a word that, for many of us, is loaded with mixed experiences and emotions. For some, authority feels like control, punishment, or shame. For others, it’s a title or…
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AUTHORITY Field Note | A Journey from Control to Growth w/Noel Bouché
In this Field Note episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, I (Noel Bouché) take a closer look at the word AUTHORITY—a word that stirs both longing and resistance in many of us. For so many men in midlife leadership, authority feels like a double‑edged sword. We want it, we question it, we push...
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DISCOVERY Convo: When God Finds You Before You Know You're Lost w/ Peter Glynn
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, Luke Smith sits down with our friend Peter Glynn to explore the theme of discovery—not just in the sense of travel or adventure, but in the much more sacred journey of becoming who you were created to be. Peter’s life has taken him across…
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FIELD NOTE: DISCOVERY — Uncovering What Life Buried but the Father Still Sees w/Noel Bouché
In this Field Note episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, I (Noel Bouché) explore the word “DISCOVERY”—not as a grand uncovering of something new to the world, but as a sacred uncovering of what’s long been lost or buried in our own hearts. As boys, discovery was a way of life. From childhood...
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PROVISION Convo: When Identity Meets Grace w/ Rob Casey
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, our brother Luke Smith hosts a powerful conversation with Rob Casey about the journey of PROVISION—not just as something we receive, but as something that redefines how we see ourselves, God, and others. Rob shares honestly about his early struggles...
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FIELD NOTE: PROVISION — The Journey from Scarcity to Sonship w/Noel Bouché
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, I reflect on the idea of provision—what it is, what it isn’t, and how our relationship with it often reveals whether we’re living like sons… or like servants. Midlife leadership often comes with unspoken pressure. We carry burdens. We face...
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MISSION Convo: Receiving the Call, Not Chasing It w/ Sherman Bradley & Darren Mdhululi
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, I have the joy of sitting down with my brother Darren Mdhululi to talk about the idea of mission—not as something we manufacture, but something we receive. Darren’s journey has taken him from a home filled with music to leading others through...
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FIELD NOTE: MISSION — What Are You Being Sent For? w/ Noel Bouché
There’s something about the word mission that stirs us—especially in midlife. It speaks to meaning, movement, and the hope that our lives still matter. And yet, for many of us, that word also carries weight. In the quiet corners of our hearts, we’re asking: What am I here for? Have I missed it?…
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ATTENTION Convo: Stretching Toward What Matters w/ Paul Kimball
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, host Luke Smith sits down with longtime friend and fellow sojourner Paul Kimball for an honest and deeply personal conversation about attention—what it costs, why it matters, and how it transforms the way we live, lead, and love. Together, they...
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ATTENTION: Field Note & Commentary w/Noel Bouché
In this Field Note episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, I reflect on one of the most overlooked but essential parts of our lives and leadership: attention. In a world saturated with distractions, the simple act of giving our full attention has become one of the most radical—and…
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PASSION Convo: Redefining Purpose, Suffering, and Faith w/ Andy Mburu
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, Sherman Bradley sits down with brother Andy Mburu, a pastor, youth leader, and apologist from Kenya, to talk about something we often misunderstand: passion. For many of us—especially in leadership—passion can get confused with performance. But what...
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CONTROL Convo - From Legalism to Relationship: Robert Bouwens' Journey
In this conversation, I—Sherman Bradley—sit down with my friend Robert Bouwens—a husband, father, world-traveler, and fellow pilgrim in the canyon of mid-life—to trace the winding road that has carried him from a rules-based faith into a living, breathing relationship with the Father. Robert’s...
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CONTROL Field Note & Commentary w/Noel Bouché
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, I invite you into a vulnerable, honest reflection on control—especially for those of us navigating midlife leadership and all its uncertainties. If you’re anything like me, you know the tension: on one hand, we crave a sense of security; on the…
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PURPOSE Convo: Discovering Who You Are Before What You Do w/ Sherman Bradley
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast: Conversations, Luke Smith sits down with Sherman Bradley for a heartfelt and honest exploration of purpose—a word that carries a lot of weight, especially in midlife. When the familiar markers of success start to fade or feel empty, we’re left...
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PURPOSE Field Note & Commentary w/Noel Bouché
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, Noel Bouché invites listeners into a vulnerable and insightful reflection on purpose—especially for men navigating the complexities of midlife leadership. Midlife often brings questions that feel both urgent and unanswerable: What am I here for?…
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FREEDOM Convo: Bound in Sin to Bounding in Freedom w/Kostas V
What does true freedom look like? In this episode of Canyon Pathways, Luke Smith sits down with Kostas to explore his journey from addiction and fear to faith, love, and redemption. Kostas shares how military life, personal struggles, and a life-changing encounter with God reshaped his...
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FREEDOM Field Note & Commentary w/Noel Bouché
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, Noel Bouché reflects on the evolving nature of freedom—what it means, how we seek it, and why true freedom is often found in unexpected places. Freedom is something we all long for, but as life unfolds, our understanding of it shifts. In youth,...
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RISK Convo: The Cost of Playing It Safe vs. The Reward of Faith w/ Todd Filbrun
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast: Conversations, host Luke Smith welcomes Todd Filbrun for an honest and thought-provoking conversation on RISK—what it costs, what it reveals, and why it’s essential for growth. Risk is more than just stepping into the unknown; it’s about trust. It’s...
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RISK Field Note & Commentary w/Noel Bouché
In this Canyon Pathways Podcast Field Note and Commentary episode, Noel Bouché explores the unavoidable and transformative nature of risk in leadership, relationships, and the journey of sonship. Risk carries both fear and exhilaration, but avoiding it can lead to stagnation. Through reflections...
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RECEIVE Convo: Finding Freedom in the Father's Love w/ Michael Perron
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast: Conversations, host Luke Smith engages in a profound conversation with guest Michael Perron on midlife leadership, the art of receiving, and the transformative power of sonship. With honesty and vulnerability, they unpack what it means to move from...
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RECEIVE Field Note & Commentary w/Noel Bouché
In this Canyon Pathways Podcast Field Note and Commentary episode, Noel Bouché reflects on the profound and often challenging concept of receiving. Through insights and reflections, he explores why receiving—love, grace, and relational intimacy—is so vital yet difficult, particularly for men in...
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ANTICIPATION Field Note & Commentary w/Noel Bouché
In this 'Field Note' episode of the Canyon Pathways Podcast, host Noel Bouché unpacks the concept of anticipation and its profound impact on midlife leadership and personal growth. Drawing from personal stories and reflections, he explores the dual nature of anticipation—how it can inspire...
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Feeling like a nobody in a room of CEOs — and hearing 'you belong here, you're my son' | Matt Wordelman
What does it cost a man to stop striving long enough to receive? Luke Smith and Matt Wordelman — friends from their college football days who reconnected through Canyon Pathways — sit down for an honest Christmas conversation woven around the community's field note on generosity. Matt's story...
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GENEROUS Field Note & Commentary w/Noel Bouchè
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways podcast, Noel Bouché explores the concept of generosity, emphasizing its importance in the journey of sonship and leadership. He delves into the etymology of the word 'generous', highlighting its roots in nobility and the act of giving life. The discussion...
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RESTORE Convo: Reclaiming Identity and Healing Through Sonship w/ Jimmy Williams
In this episode of the Canyon Pathways podcast, host Luke Smith welcomes guest Jimmy Williams for a powerful conversation about restoration and the transformative journey of sonship. Together, they explore how faith, community, and vulnerability can lead to personal healing, stronger family...
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RESTORE Field Note & Commentary w/ Noel Bouche
In this Field Note edition of the Canyon Pathways podcast, Noel Bouché reflects on the profound concept of restoration, particularly in the context of midlife leadership. Using the restoration of the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral as a powerful metaphor, he unpacks the beauty and strength that can...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Canyon Pathways podcast invites men into the journey of sonship, and invests in them through creative content, honest conversation, and inspiring stories of men around the world so that the listener leaves encouraged and equipped to live like a son and lead like a father.
Our goal with the podcast is twofold: 1) to invest more deeply into our existing community and provide ongoing content and community spaces for them, and 2) to expand the community by inviting more men around the world to this global campfire.
So, welcome to the table of sonship—we’re glad you’re here!
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