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Summit After the Storm | Leadership, Faith and Resilience Podcast

Summit After the Storm is a leadership and faith podcast for anyone navigating adversity, transition, or rebuilding. Hosted by Bart Wilbanks, author of Summit After the Storm, the show explores real lessons forged through hardship—including climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, surviving a near-death experience on the mountain, leading through crisis, and rediscovering faith and purpose. Each episode blends personal storytelling, leadership insight, and spiritual reflection for leaders and professionals

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00:07:20

Episode 192: Believe Before the Scoreboard Does |...

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2026/10/06

Sometimes the scoreboard says you’re losing long before the game is actually over.Sunday, our 12U Orioles fell behind the Cardinals 10–4 heading into the fourth inning.The boys looked discouraged.So I asked them:“Who thinks we can win this game?”Nobody raised a hand.Nobody said yes.So I told them:“We need five quick runs, then some quick outs, and it’s possible. I need you to believe.”Then I started calling them out by name.Gyson.Rhys.Miller.One kid got his first hit of the season.Others walked, got

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00:05:15

Episode 191: The Smile I Still Remember | Why...

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2026/10/05

I spent nearly a month seeing some of the most famous places in Europe. But one of the things I remember most clearly is the smile of a woman whose name I never even learned.In Athens, we were walking from our flat toward the Acropolis when we found a small Greek restaurant.I can’t even remember the name of it now.But if someone dropped me off at the flat where we stayed, I’m pretty sure I could walk straight back to that restaurant.And if I saw the hostess again today, I’d recognize her smile.She

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00:08:18

Episode 190: Winning Isn’t Always the Point | What...

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2026/10/02

Sometimes the scoreboard tells you who won the game. It doesn’t always tell you whether you accomplished the mission.Our 12U Orioles played the team the kids had been talking about all season: the Dodgers.We were short one of our strongest hitters, my first-inning plan fell apart, and after two strikeouts, a couple of hits, and a runner getting thrown out trying to advance as I was telling him to hold, we came away with zero runs.Amanda looked at me in disbelief.I just said:“Honey, I didn’t send

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00:06:27

Episode 189: Nothing Is Happening… Or Is It? | When...

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2026/10/01

Sometimes progress looks a lot like starting over.My book, Summit After the Storm, is now just weeks from release, and I already have pre-release copies sitting at my house.But there were months when I wondered if I would ever finish it.The book began with the journal I kept every day while climbing Kilimanjaro. I was writing the story as I lived it: the pain, exhaustion, conversations, emotions, and what God was showing me on the mountain.Those entries became chapters.Then came rewrites.More

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00:06:00

Episode 188: You Can Be Right and Still Be Wrong |...

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2026/09/30

You can win the argument, prove your point, and still walk away completely wrong.I like being right.It’s a weakness.Years ago, I took debate classes in graduate school and loved them. I could argue positions I didn’t even believe and still make the case.But one of the most important lessons I ever learned about being right happened much earlier.When I was a kid, my sister’s best friend, Jena, lived just down the street. We argued over something small that belonged to our family.I don’t even remember

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00:07:37

Episode 187: The Little Things Win Games | What Youth...

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2026/09/29

Everybody remembers the highlight. But the little things are usually what win the game.I had another episode planned for today, but after our first 12U Orioles game of the fall, I decided to punt that one until tomorrow.We won 11–2.Karter crushed a triple to the fence. Zeke started us off with three quick outs. Rhys battled at the plate, drew walks, stole bases, scored runs and played smart defense at second. And throughout the game, our pitchers threw strikes, our defense made plays and the boys

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00:05:38

Episode 186: What Are You Feeding? | How Anger, Fear,...

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2026/09/28

I used to let a football game I wasn’t even playing in ruin my entire week.If my team lost on Saturday, I’d replay the bad calls, read what everyone was saying, talk about what should have happened and carry the disappointment with me.Then I realized something uncomfortable:The football game wasn’t ruining my weekend. I was.I kept feeding it.Our minds can work a lot like a social media algorithm. Feed anger and you start noticing more reasons to be angry. Feed comparison and you find more people who

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00:05:03

Episode 185: Do It Before You’re Ready | Are You...

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2026/09/25

What if you’re not really waiting until you’re ready? What if you’re waiting until you’re certain?If I woke up tomorrow with an idea for an Instagram reel and somehow KNEW it would get 1 million views, I’d make it.If the perfect location were three hours away, I’d drive there. If filming took all day, I’d do it.Why?Because I’d already know how the story ends.But life doesn’t give us that guarantee.Nobody tells you the business will succeed before you start it. Nobody guarantees the job before you

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00:05:18

Episode 184: Who Gets the Best of You? | Are You...

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2026/09/24

Who gets the best of you... and who gets the rest of you? You know—the part that's left over.We can be patient with customers, available to our bosses, responsive to coworkers—and then come home and give the people we love whatever energy remains.I've done it.Years ago, I took my kids on vacation to Gatlinburg. The morning we left, a crisis erupted at work. I spent much of that vacation taking calls and managing the problem. I was physically with my children, but part of me was still at

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Episode 183: Three Words Strong People Struggle to...

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2026/09/23

There are three words I hate saying, especially when I need to say them most: “I need help.”Why is asking for help so difficult?For me, it forces me to confront something I don't like admitting: sometimes I'm not enough on my own.In Episode 183 of Summit After the Storm, I share what traveling through Europe with six people, overloaded suitcases, backpacks and endless subway stairs taught me about carrying each other's weight—and how Kilimanjaro taught me that pretending you don't

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00:05:34

Episode 182: Stop Climbing Someone Else’s Mountain |...

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2026/09/22

You can be making incredible progress and still feel like a failure if you keep looking at somebody else’s mountain.Open LinkedIn. Somebody got promoted.Open Instagram. Somebody bought a house, took an incredible vacation, grew their business or seems to have the perfect family.Five minutes ago, you were perfectly happy with your life.Nothing changed.You just looked at somebody else’s.I've done it too. I've compared careers, income, success, recognition—even the growth of this podcast.But

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00:06:04

Episode 181: Be Ready When the Ball Comes Your Way |...

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2026/09/21

You don't get to choose when your moment comes. You choose whether you'll be ready when it does.My 12-year-old stepson Noah has been asking me to talk about his football season on the podcast.So Noah... this one's for you.Noah plays linebacker and sometimes free safety. A few weeks ago, I watched him make a great tackle. But that's not the play I keep thinking about.Late in the game, his team needed one more defensive stop.The ball was snapped.The play developed.Fumble.Noah was

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00:07:16

Episode 180: Take the Long Way Home | When God Leads...

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2026/09/18

Sometimes God takes you the long way home on purpose.When God led the Israelites out of Egypt toward the Promised Land, there was a shorter route.God didn't take it.Instead, He led His people the long way around toward the Red Sea.And from where they were standing, the Red Sea probably looked a whole lot more like a dead end.An army behind them.Water in front of them.No apparent way through.They could have easily wondered, “God, did we go the wrong way?”But they weren't lost.They were being

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00:08:51

Episode 179: More | Why Having More Never Feels Like...

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2026/09/17

More is a strange word. No matter how much you have, it always asks for something else.More money. More success. More followers. A bigger house. A better car. The next promotion.But when is more finally enough?In Tanzania, I saw families living in homes made from straw, mud and dung. Then one day, I saw a young Maasai boy running alongside us with a staff in his hand.He was smiling and waving.He wasn't trying to sell us anything. He wasn't asking us for anything.He just wanted us to wave

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00:08:57

Episode 178: What Would You Do Without the Noise? |...

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2026/09/16

What if God isn't being silent? What if we just haven't hit mute?We fill almost every empty moment with something: our phones, television, music, podcasts, notifications, work and endless scrolling. But sometimes the noise we're surrounded by keeps us from hearing what matters most.In Episode 178, I share two moments when silence became powerful: walking through the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, where people seemed to become quiet without anyone telling them to, and waking around 4 a.m

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00:07:25

Episode 177: When Did We Become So Easily Offended? |...

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2026/09/15

Maybe the problem isn't that we're too easily offended. Maybe we're offended by the wrong things.Nearly 30 years ago, I held a door open for a man and respectfully called him “sir.” His response stunned me: “Don't you call me sir! I can open the door for myself!”I learned that day that what one person intends as respect, another can receive as an insult.But today I'm asking a bigger question: Have we become more sensitive without becoming more discerning?Jesus wasn't afraid

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00:06:49

Episode 176: The Stranger Beside You | My Wife Was...

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2026/09/14

What if one conversation with a stranger changed the rest of your life?Years ago, I boarded an airplane and started talking with the stranger sitting beside me. We talked about life, where they were from, where they had been, and where they were going.I had no idea that stranger would eventually become my wife, Amanda.Years later on Kilimanjaro, Amanda and I would meet another group of strangers. Those men became our team, and when our tent ripped loose in a violent storm, they ran toward us.Hebrews

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September 11: 25 Years Later | Remembering the Moment...

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2026/09/11

Twenty-five years ago, at 8:46 a.m. Eastern Time, America changed forever.On September 11, 2001, I was in my mid-twenties, working at a manufacturing plant in Illinois. Someone told me a plane had hit the World Trade Center, and I rushed to the break room.Then I watched the second plane strike live on television.In that moment, I knew America was under attack.I remember the anger. The fear. The chaos. Gas stations running out of fuel. People wondering what would happen next.But I also remember

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00:05:38

Episode 175: Don’t Miss the View | Stop Chasing...

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2026/09/11

Sometimes we're so busy trying to capture the moment that we forget to actually live it.Our family traveled thousands of miles through Europe to stand in front of places we'd dreamed about seeing:The Colosseum.The Acropolis.The Eiffel Tower.The Vatican.The canals of Amsterdam.And what did we do?We pulled out our phones.Sometimes I caught myself looking at something incredible through a screen six inches from my face.Think about how strange that is.I traveled thousands of miles to see

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Episode 174: What Are You Training For? | The Work...

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2026/09/10

We live in a world where almost everything is getting faster. But some things still can't be rushed.Same-day delivery. Instant answers. AI. Thirty-second highlight reels.Technology keeps eliminating waiting.Life keeps requiring preparation.You can't Amazon Prime character. You can't download experience. You can't ask AI to do your push-ups. And you can't cram for a crisis.Standing inside the Colosseum in Rome reminded me that worthwhile things take time to build.Kilimanjaro

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