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Episodes
Wednesday Jul 18, 2018
Journey of Hope With Rodney Mathers (187)
Wednesday Jul 18, 2018
Wednesday Jul 18, 2018
Hello!
It's just a fact that someone coming home from prison is going to need some help. It's not just about financial and job issues. Dealing with the changes that have taken place while someone has been incarcerated can be a strange experience! Believe me, I know about this! Within the first 48 hours of being paroled there were several things that jumped out at me. Slang had changed: people were saying, "really?" and "seriously?" People were eating chicken on a biscuit for breakfast. Where did all the Ekard drug stores go? These changes might seem ridiculous to most but to me, they were glaring!
Ex-offenders will also need help in dealing with the way society treats them. Rejection is probably the most intense of these behaviors of people toward ex-offenders.
We will discuss these things and several other things that ex-offenders could use a little help with upon returning home on this episode of JOH.
If God is for you, who can be against you?
Tuesday Jun 26, 2018
Journey of Hope With Rodney Mathers (186)
Tuesday Jun 26, 2018
Tuesday Jun 26, 2018
Hi everybody!
My guest this week is author Everett De Morier. Everett writes for 543 magazine and his book, Thirty-Three Cecils, won the top prize for fiction at the London Book Festival in 2015. One of the people he writes about in this book is an ex-offender and Everett explores his post incarceration life. Join me as we discuss Everett's take on all of this. You can check out Everett's book and his upcoming book as well by clicking HERE.
Remember: If God is for you, who can be against you?
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Journey of Hope With Rodney Mathers (185)
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Hello Everyone!
My guest this week has had drug dealers talking about where to burry his body and hit men tring to kill him. Merle Temple has been a deputy sheriff, an agent for the Mississippi Bureau of Narcatics (captain), a campaign chairman, an author, and an inmate in a federal prison. Merle discusses his life, how he reintegrated, and how his books are being used to help people. Check out my interview with Merle Temple and afterwards, check out his web page: Merle Temple
Remember, if God is for you, who can be against you?
Saturday Mar 10, 2018
From routine stress test to double bypass!
Saturday Mar 10, 2018
Saturday Mar 10, 2018
During a routine stress test and echo, which I have every 6 months, some issues were discovered. After a battery of tests it was determined that I needed bypass surgery. The surgery was on March 2, 2018 and I returned home March 6, 2018. I have returned home to dozens and dozens of emails about cancelled and missed interviews. I will be getting in touch with guests soon. Feel free to inquire about scheduling an interview if you dont hear from me. Hopefully I'll get things rolling again soon.
Thursday Feb 15, 2018
Journey of Hope With Rodney Mathers (183)
Thursday Feb 15, 2018
Thursday Feb 15, 2018
Hello Everyone!
Finally, we're back!
My first guest of the new year is John Kennedy. John has worked with the Marines in the context of PTSD and when I was first corresponding with John about appearing on the show, it was the PTSD that jumped out at me. Any time I see a potential guest that has worked with individuals suffering from PTSD it peaks my intrest.
Here's why:
It is my belief that in some cases, released offenders can have mild to serious PTSD. Some people that are incarcerated in prison (not county jail....PRISON) are intermingling with persons of the same street mentality they left prior to prison. There are other individuals that prior to prison had been in professional careers, are college educated, and had never been in trouble before. This is much more common than the general public realizes.
It is these individuals I think will benefit from John Kennedy's techniques. These individuals are not wise to ways of "the street". They spend each day of their incarceration trying not to show the weaknesses that WILL result trouble. The courtesies of professionalism don't translate to prison culture. These individuals suffer from PTSD after release in my view. If you have to worry about your personal safety every day for years while coming from a sheleterd background, I really don't see how anyone can argue this point.
John's technique adresses this and other conditions by physically changing the brain to be more efficient at the processing level.
After the interview, check out John Kennedy's web page: click here
On a different note, check out my new video: https://youtu.be/2VQJiIQp-gM
Remember, if God is for you, who can be against you?
Tuesday Dec 12, 2017
Journey of Hope With Rodney Mathers - Christmas Break!
Tuesday Dec 12, 2017
Tuesday Dec 12, 2017
Merry Christmas! We’re going to take a break for Christmas and we’ll be back the first week of February, 2018 with all new guests and ideas for making a successful transition and reintegration. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Thursday Nov 30, 2017
Journey of Hope With Rodney Mathers (182)
Thursday Nov 30, 2017
Thursday Nov 30, 2017
Hi Yall!
I hope everyone was able to get some time around someone you care about and some good chow for Thanksgiving!
My guest this week is Elizabeth O'Keefe and man does she have a story to tell! I hope you find at least one idea in her story that that will help you on your journey to put prison and what put you there behind you.
I've never done this before but I'm going to let Elizabeth give you a preview of her story. These are her words:
Tuesday Nov 14, 2017
Journey of Hope With Rodney Mathers (181)
Tuesday Nov 14, 2017
Tuesday Nov 14, 2017
Hello Everyone!
One of the things I like to do with this show is to interview people who I think, by picking their brain, I may find a good ideal or two. I'm never disappointed! Robert Galinsky, my guest on this episode, has a background I knew would produce some nuggets of useful help. As expected, Robert didn't disappoint.
Robert is banging away at doing what he loves and spending the ballance of his time working with incarcerated teens on Rikers Island. His main gig is writing plays and he currently has a play called The Bench being performed at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City. He's got a good grip on what incarceration looks like and what it takes to work toward personal goals. What a great combination for our purposes here on Journey of Hope.
Join me for my chat with Robert Galinsky and you'll find some thoughts that just may be helpful to your reintegration.
And as always remember, If God is for you who can be against you?