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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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Episode 173: Recalculating | When God Changes the...

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2026/09/09

“Recalculating.”We've all heard that word from our GPS.There's an accident ahead. Road construction. A closed street. Suddenly the blue line changes and you're being sent down a road that makes absolutely no sense.But you follow it.Why?Because the GPS can see something ahead that you can't.Traveling through Europe, our family depended on GPS constantly as we navigated unfamiliar cities, train stations, apartments, restaurants and landmarks. We knew where we wanted to go, but we

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00:05:46

Episode 172: God Was Already There | What If God...

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2026/09/08

What if God isn't absent? What if you just haven't recognized Him yet?When life doesn't make sense, one of the easiest questions to ask is:“God, where are You?”Jacob experienced something similar in Genesis 28. After encountering God in a place where he hadn't expected Him, Jacob woke up and said:“Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.” — Genesis 28:16God hadn't suddenly arrived.Jacob suddenly recognized Him.Looking back at Kilimanjaro, I understand that

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Episode 171: What Are You Carrying That Isn’t Yours?...

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2026/09/07

I like this better than simply “Weight Matters” for discovery because the question creates curiosity while the second half delivers the emotional hook.Some of the heaviest things we carry in life don’t weigh a pound.Guilt. Resentment. Regret. Fear about tomorrow. Other people’s expectations. Responsibility for choices someone else made. The need to control outcomes we were never capable of controlling.On Kilimanjaro, I learned quickly that weight matters. Every extra pound in your pack eventually

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00:05:37

Episode 170: God Doesn’t Waste the Detour | When Life...

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2026/09/04

What do you do when your life stops following the itinerary you planned?Traveling through Europe reminded me that the itinerary and the journey are rarely the same thing.Trains get delayed. Plans change. You take a wrong turn. And sometimes the moments you remember most happen between the destinations.Life isn't much different.We make plans for our careers, marriages, families, finances and futures. Then something happens that wasn't on the itinerary, and suddenly we're asking:God, why

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Episode 169: Built for a Different Time | “That’s How...

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2026/09/03

“That’s how we’ve always done it.”It might be one of the most expensive sentences in leadership.Traveling through Europe, I was surrounded by buildings, streets and structures created for a completely different world. Some adapted and survived. Others became monuments to something that used to be.There’s a lesson in that for all of us.Experience matters. Processes matter. We shouldn’t throw something away simply because it’s old.But even SOPs have revision numbers for a reason.Markets change

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Episode 168: Who’s Carrying Your Tent? | The People...

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2026/09/02

Everybody takes a picture of the person standing on the summit.Almost nobody takes a picture of the person who carried their tent.Standing inside the Colosseum in Rome, I thought about the thousands of unnamed people whose labor helped build something that still stands nearly 2,000 years later. We remember emperors. We remember Caesar. But most of the people who actually carried the stones disappeared from history.Kilimanjaro taught me the same lesson in a much more personal way.Amanda and I were

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00:06:46

Episode 167: You Don’t Have to Win the Whole Day |...

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2026/09/01

Ever feel like you're losing the day before it's really even started?Episode 167 was released a little later than planned because I couldn't decide what I wanted to talk about. Then I realized the struggle to get the episode done was the lesson.We put enormous pressure on ourselves to win everything at once. Work. Family. Faith. Relationships. The next decision. The next week. The future.But Kilimanjaro taught me something different:You don't climb the whole mountain at once. You take the next

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Episode 166: Not Today, Satan | When Everything Goes...

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2026/08/31

Have you ever had a morning where one little thing after another keeps going wrong?Mine started with traffic on the way to school.Then came an unexpected doctor's appointment.A school that wouldn't answer the phone.A forgotten laptop.No parking at Starbucks.A coffee order that somehow disappeared.And finally, a client offering to pay me more money to stay on a call at exactly the moment one of my kids needed me.Every time something else happened, I kept thinking the same three words:Not

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00:07:36

Episode 165: What Will Outlive You? | Rome Lasted...

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2026/08/28

My house is only seven years old, and I've already lost count of how many plumbing problems we've had.Then I went to Europe and saw Roman aqueducts built more than 2,000 years ago.That made me wonder:Did the engineers who built them have any idea their work would still be here thousands of years later?In Episode 165 of Summit After the Storm, we're talking about legacy—but not the kind measured by titles, accomplishments, buildings, or whether people remember your name.The Roman Empire

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Episode 164: The Trojan Horse in Your Family | How...

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2026/08/27

The Greeks couldn't break through the walls of Troy.So they found another way in.The Trojans carried the enemy inside themselves.Thousands of years later, the Trojan Horse leaves us with a warning that reaches far beyond ancient Greece:Not every enemy looks like an enemy.In Episode 164 of Summit After the Storm, we take a deeper turn into faith, family, deception, and spiritual warfare.If Satan wanted to destroy your family, would he really show up looking like the devil?Or would he use someone

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Episode 163: The Most Dangerous Person in the Room |...

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2026/08/26

The most dangerous person in the room...may not be the one who disagrees with you.It may be the one who always tells you:You’re right.In Episode 163 of Summit After the Storm, we explore what happens when leaders unintentionally teach people that agreement is safer than honesty.People learn quickly.What gets rewarded.What gets shut down.Who gets promoted.Who gets labeled difficult.Before long, a leader can walk into a room, offer an idea, and watch everyone nod.That can feel like

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Episode 162: When Leaders Stop Listening | The Higher...

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2026/08/25

The higher you climb in leadership...the easier it becomes to hear applause.And the harder it can become to hear the truth.But as I recorded this episode, I didn't feel particularly strong.I felt tired.Weak.Vulnerable.And maybe that was exactly what I needed to understand the lesson.Because the people we lead are human too.The employee sitting across from you may be exhausted.The coworker who seems distracted may be carrying something you know nothing about.The frustrated customer.The struggling

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00:05:53

Episode 161: Spartacus and the Value of a Human Life...

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2026/08/24

Rome saw him as property.History remembers his name.Spartacus was enslaved, trained as a gladiator, and sent into an arena to fight. To ancient Rome, his value was determined by his status.He wasn't wealthy.He wasn't powerful.He wasn't even free.Yet more than 2,000 years later, the empire that considered him property is gone...and we still know the name Spartacus.In Episode 161 of Summit After the Storm, his story leads to a much bigger question:What determines the value of a human

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Episode 160: When People Become Numbers | The...

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2026/08/21

Headcount. Payroll. Productivity. Turnover. Revenue per employee.Businesses call them KPIs.But every one of those numbers represents a person.I've spent most of my career in business, and numbers matter. Budgets matter. Margins matter. Productivity matters. Sometimes leaders even have to make incredibly difficult decisions about layoffs, performance, and eliminating positions.But there's a danger hiding inside the spreadsheet:We can become so focused on the number that we stop seeing the

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Episode 159: What the Colosseum Reveals About Human...

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2026/08/20

Thousands of people once packed the Roman Colosseum to watch other human beings suffer and die.They called it entertainment.Two thousand years later, we look back and ask:How could people enjoy that?But maybe the more uncomfortable question is...Are we really as different as we'd like to believe?Today, cameras are everywhere. Someone gets shot. Someone gets beaten. Someone dies in a tragic accident. Within minutes, the actual footage can appear on YouTube or social media, where millions of us

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Episode 158: The Rise and Fall of Empires: What...

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2026/08/19

Rome once looked unstoppable.Today, we tour its ruins.Standing inside the Roman Forum forced me to confront an uncomfortable truth: success has a way of convincing us that what we have today will still be there tomorrow.Rome had wealth. Power. Influence. Military strength. An empire stretching across continents.And eventually, it fell.The same illusion can creep into our careers, businesses, health, relationships, and families. We assume the job is secure. The company will keep winning. Our

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Episode 157: Standing Where History Happened | The...

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2026/08/18

History feels different when you're standing in the exact place where it happened.Walking through the Colosseum. Standing among the ruins of Pompeii. Looking across the Acropolis. Entering Westminster Abbey and Parliament. Standing outside the building where Anne Frank and her family once hid.These weren't just places I'd read about anymore.They were real.And so were the people who lived there.That's when something hit me:They weren't living in history. They were living in the

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Episode 156: The World Is Bigger Than Your Routine |...

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2026/08/17

Your world can become incredibly small...without you ever realizing it.We wake up in the same house, drive the same roads, work with many of the same people, and repeat routines that quietly convince us the way we experience life is simply the way life is.Then something disrupts that perspective.For me, Europe did.So did Kilimanjaro.In the Season 5 premiere of Summit After the Storm, we move beyond simply telling travel stories and begin asking a deeper question:What did those experiences actually

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Episode 155: The Journey Continues | Life Isn't...

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2026/08/14

We traveled thousands of miles across Europe. But the most important distance we covered may have been inside ourselves.For the past several weeks, Season 4 of Summit After the Storm has followed our family through Rome, Greece, Amsterdam, Paris, London, and back home again.We saw extraordinary places. We experienced history. We worshiped together. We got lost, waited on buses, navigated unfamiliar cultures, laughed, struggled, and learned.But somewhere along the way, the destinations became the

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Episode 154: Coming Home Changed | Everything Looked...

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2026/08/13

Have you ever returned from a journey and everything looked exactly the same... but somehow, you weren't?After nearly a month traveling across Europe, our family finally walked back through our own front door.Same house.Same furniture.Same neighborhood.Same life waiting for us.But after everything we'd experienced together, something was different.We were.That's what a real journey does.It doesn't necessarily change the destination. It changes the traveler.In Episode 154 of Summit

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