BeTempered

10/19/2025

shares the chilling story of his car accident — when his vehicle flipped and left him trapped for hours. By all accounts, he should’ve been gone… but he wasn’t. There’s no other way to explain it except divine intervention — an angel was watching over him that day. 🙏

10/18/2025

When Chuck and Rhonda Winings went to the doctor, they were hoping for answers. Instead, the doctor looked at the scan and said her liver was full of cancer. 💔

Rhonda asked quietly, “How much time do I have?”
The doctor paused and said, “A month… a week… maybe only a few days.”

Can you imagine hearing those words? How would you react? How would you live if you knew time was running out?

🎙️ Hear Chuck’s powerful story of love, loss, and faith in this week’s BeTempered Podcast.


Charles Winings

10/17/2025

This episode is not about having the right words. It is about standing when your legs shake. It is about fathers trying to be anchors for their children when they feel like they are drifting. It is about carrying a legacy forward without letting it crush you. If you have ever whispered, I am not okay, or wished someone would simply check on you, this conversation is a hand on your shoulder. Charles Winings Dan Schmidt Ben Spahr Global Media Enterprise

When someone says, “Brian’s dead,” life divides into a before and an after. For Chuck Winings, it divided twice. What began as an ordinary Super Bowl Sunday ...

10/16/2025

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10/14/2025

When life gets tough, lean in. The only way to earn strength, confidence, and resilience is by doing hard things. Choose the path that tests you. Risk failure. Take the hits. Push through—and watch who you become on the other side. 🔥

10/13/2025

pours into the next generation because he knows they’re the ones who will lead, serve, and carry the torch forward. 🔥 He’s not just teaching — he’s shaping future leaders who will one day guide our communities.

10/12/2025

There will be moments in life when the world tries to tell you who you should be, to fit in, to quiet your fire, to change your story.

But the truth is, the strength that got you this far came from being you.

Don’t lose sight of that.

Don’t shrink to make others comfortable.

Don’t forget the battles you’ve already fought and the lessons that shaped you.

Never forget who you are.

You’ve already overcome too much to start doubting it now. 🔥

10/11/2025

Every single person is created with a purpose, made special, and deeply loved. No matter what you’ve been through, your life carries meaning and value. 💙

10/10/2025

The wind through pine branches can sound like a lullaby, or the whisper of survival. That’s where Shirley Thacker loved to sit with her husband, Rich—a farm kid turned teacher, veteran, and fighter—dreaming about the book she would someday write. In this powerful episode of BeTempered, hosts Dan Schmidt and Ben Spahr sit down with Shirley to trace the hard and luminous arc of her life: a small Indiana farm in the 50s and 60s, a ten-year-old’s stolen safety and the silence that followed, the middle-school note that tried to erase her, and the moment on the edge when she felt a love stronger than despair pull her back. Global Media Enterprise

The wind through pine branches can sound like a lullaby, or the whisper of survival. That’s where Shirley Thacker loved to sit with her husband, Rich—a farm ...

10/09/2025

In this moving conversation, Shirley Thacker shares a story about the final months of her husband’s life. She remembers wheeling him outside to sit beneath the pine trees—where he could feel the breeze and listen to the soothing whisper of the wind through the branches.