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Plain Values Podcast

The most inspiring and heartfelt podcasts you’ll ever listen to. Hosted by Plain Values magazine Publisher Marlin Miller, he regularly interviews the people with the stories, wisdom, and advice we all need to hear.

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EP #34 - Linda Kate: As Compassionate as a Judge

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2026/04/17

In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast, Marlin sits down with his neighbor and friend, retired judge Linda Kate.Linda shares her journey from a small-town Catholic upbringing in Tuscarawas County to becoming one of the youngest judges ever elected in Ohio. She reflects on the weight of responsibility she felt the day she was sworn in, the exhausting good days and excruciating bad days in juvenile court, and how she learned to lean heavily on prayer and the support of fellow judges and

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EP #33 - Brian Dahlen: What it Means to Follow Christ...

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2026/04/10

In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast … Marlin invites listeners into a warm, wide-ranging conversation with his friend Brian Dahlen.Brian spent 17 years hosting live radio for Moody Radio in Cleveland and Chicago. Known for his quick thinking and kind presence behind the microphone, he joins Marlin for breakfast and shares stories from his life … from growing up in Minnesota, teaching high school social studies, to the unexpected journey that led him into radio.The two friends talk

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86:27

EP #32 - Tom and Ferree Hardy: A Widow and Widower...

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2026/04/03

In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast… Some stories remind us that God writes better endings than we ever could.Tom and Ferree Hardy both lost their spouses in 2000. Two hearts shattered by grief, hundreds of miles apart, each raising children and learning to breathe again in a world that suddenly felt empty.Then, in 2002, their paths crossed. What began as a simple connection grew into a marriage that has now spanned more than two decades of blending families, navigating job changes,

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54:59

EP #31 - Kristen Smith on Faith, Family, and Natural...

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2026/03/27

In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast … Kristen Smith never planned on becoming an herbalist. As the oldest of three, she grew up surrounded by farmland in northwest Ohio, helping grandparents with conventional crops and meat chickens. But life shifted after marriage, college, and her first baby. A routine blood test at 22 revealed severe hypothyroidism. The doctor offered medication for life with little explanation. That moment sparked questions: Why did this happen? Could food

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120:47

EP #30 - Zach & Katie Miller: From Brokenness to...

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2026/03/20

In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast … Some stories don’t just inspire you, they quietly rebuild your hope.That’s what happened the moment I sat down with Zach and Katie Miller.Zach, a former Air Force pilot and commercial airline captain, lost his first wife Kaley to cancer after a seven-year battle.Left to raise three young children, he found himself in the kind of darkness that makes a man question everything. But instead of staying there, Zach chose the hard road of

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39:13

EP #29 - Turning Wheelchairs into Witness, One...

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2026/03/13

In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast … Joni Eareckson Tada was 17 when a diving accident in 1967 left her quadriplegic. What followed was not defeat. She learned to paint holding a brush in her mouth, shared her testimony with millions alongside Billy Graham, and turned letters of despair into a ministry born at her kitchen table.That ministry (Joni and Friends) now reaches families living with disability through family retreats, respite events, church training, and Wheels for the

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82:01

EP #28 - An Amish Preacher and a Former Real Estate...

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2026/03/06

In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast … Most of us have felt it… that quiet exhaustion when the body is running on empty and the spirit feels even emptier. Chris Zimmerman lived it for seven long months. Successful on paper, hollow inside, he reached a point where getting out of bed felt impossible.Then he found cold water.Not as a gimmick. As a last resort. What started as brutal cold showers became daily ice baths, and something profound shifted. The constant noise in his head went

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91:08

EP #27 - The One Question That Changed an Entire...

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2026/02/27

In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast … It was in his hometown church where Ryan Wolfe grew up and was drawn early to adults with intellectual disabilities who prayed, cross-stitched, and taught him more about friendship than any textbook. From coaching Challenger baseball with his young family to building a field when no one else would, he asked one question, “How can we be a blessing, no strings attached?”That simple obedience birthed Shine Ministry, guardianship programs, Jesus

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118:32

EP #26 - Nobody Talks About It. Melissa Brown Will...

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2026/02/20

In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast … Melissa Brown never planned to lead Ohio’s largest faith-based residential home for teen survivors of sex trafficking. A Catalyst conference umbrella moment in 2013 shattered her world … kids sold for sex, hidden in plain sight. She surrendered her “yes” to God anyway.Today, Safe Harbor’s 30-acre campus offers everything on-site: medical care, school, chapel, gym, cottages with private rooms. Girls arrive broken, often by someone they

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85:51

EP #25 - She Miscarried, Then God Called Her to Save...

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2026/02/13

In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast, Bekah Hilty, executive director of the Pregnancy Care Center of Wayne County (in Ohio), shares her unexpected path into ministry. From a health education background and personal miscarriage to leading a center that offers free ultrasounds, parenting classes, and newborn support, she emphasizes affirming women's worth in Christ.She details the risks of abortion pills (often obtained online without medical oversight) complications, reversals, how

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82:48

EP #24 - An Absolute Miracle, Lived in Six...

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2026/02/06

In this raw and unforgettable episode of The Plain Values Podcast, photographer Eric Brown opens his studio in rural Eastern NC and his life. He talks with Marlin about his time in Nashville, family, and the six miraculous years with his daughter Pearl … born with holoprosencephaly, doctors called incompatible with life.Eric shares the gut-punch diagnosis, the choice to welcome siblings into the room, the relentless care, and the beauty that flooded their home like Kodachrome. Pearl's death

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EP #23 - He Saw Too Much as a Paramedic … Then the...

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2026/01/30

Jake Drumm, a longtime paramedic now running Drumm Emergency Solutions and managing Watauga Flats Farm in East Tennessee, sat down for a raw, beautiful conversation. He shares stories from the ambulance that’ll make you hug your people tighter … about the ghosts that linger from years of witnessing grief, the burnout, and how true healing comes from community, not isolation.And then there’s the farm … regenerative practices breathing life back into the land.This episode is for every one of

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38:40

EP #22 - More Than Coffee: How Muletown Coffee...

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2026/01/23

In this warm, heartfelt episode, Chris and Kelli Coyne (owners of Muletown Coffee in Columbia, Tennessee) share the unlikely story of how a small coffee roasting operation became the spark that transformed a forgotten downtown into a thriving community hub.What started in 2013 as a risky venture in a near-empty square has grown into something far bigger than great coffee (though their roasts are repeatedly called “fantastic”). Chris boldly told his team on day one, “Remember, what we’re

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91:45

EP #21 - The True Heroes of This Life … Foster Parents

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2026/01/16

In a raw and moving episode of The Plain Values Podcast, Kevin Hewitt, CEO of Christian Children’s Home of Ohio, pulls back the curtain on a lifetime devoted to foster care, adoption, and healing traumatized children. From his own faith awakening as a teen, sparked by his brother’s battle with cancer and a faithful basketball coach, to quitting law school because his heart couldn’t settle for money over people, Kevin’s journey is one of relentless surrender to God’s call.What shines

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109:39

EP #20 - From Castro’s Cuba to the Operating Room:...

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2026/01/09

In this remarkable conversation, we sit down with Dr. Roberto Matthew — born in Cuba, shaped by revolution, exile, poverty, and perseverance to trace a life marked by danger, resilience, and deep conviction. As a child, he fled Castro’s regime with his mother, sister, grandmother, and aunt, while his father stayed behind to support counter-revolution efforts. What followed was a journey through Colombia, Puerto Rico, and finally the United States … years marked by scarcity, trauma,

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EP #19 - From Atlanta Highways to New York Hayfields:...

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2026/01/02

In this episode, we sit down with Buck Alford, an Atlanta native who traded suburban life for the wide-open fields and beauty of upstate New York. Buck shares the unexpected path that pulled his family north: a growing conviction about food, place, hospitality, and living closer to the land. What began as a simple desire to cook with better ingredients evolved into ripping out suburban landscaping, experimenting with edible gardens, and ultimately moving onto his father-in-law’s

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EP #18 - Kent Ernsting’s 35-Year Calling to Walk With...

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2025/12/26

In this week’s conversation, we sit down with therapist Kent Ernsting, a man shaped by a lifetime of caring for wounded hearts. Trained in Marriage and Family Therapy and Theology at Fuller Seminary, Kent has spent 35 years walking with people through trauma, addiction, attachment wounds, and the long road toward healing. His story begins with adoption, loss, and a defining question, “What will I do with this one wild and precious life?” and unfolds into a calling to invest deeply in

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EP #17 - How Dave Sims Found His Calling After Losing...

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2025/12/19

Today’s episode is with our friend Dave Sims. Learn more about Plain Values at https://plainvalues.com.Dave Sims is a man whose life was split cleanly in two by a single moment. In 1998, a slow family bike ride turned into a catastrophic accident, leaving him a C5/6 quadriplegic. The years that followed carried every dark instinct a person can have: despair, anger, bargaining, and the hollow silence of wishing life would simply end.But Dave’s story does not stop in the valley. It turns. And

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EP #16 - Where Hunting Meets Heart | Curt Yoder,...

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2025/12/12

Today’s episode is with our friends Curt Yoder, Brian Yoder, and Mark Schlabach. Learn more about Plain Values at https://plainvalues.com.In the rolling hills of Amish country, a small youth deer hunt that started with just four kids in 2012 has exploded into something extraordinary... A thriving 501(c)(3) that gives disabled, special-needs, and first-time hunters a life-changing day in the woods.Today, their flagship event draws 700+ spectators to watch 36 hunters—ages 9 to 80, many in

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EP #15 - Julie Kirby’s Mission to Wrap Foster...

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2025/12/05

Today’s episode is with our friend Julie Kirby. Learn more about Plain Values at https://plainvalues.com.Julie is the founder of Hope’s House Foster Closet and a woman who has spent nearly two decades on the front lines of foster care. Julie and her husband fostered for over 18 years and opened their home to more than 100 children through emergency placements, respite care, and long-term fostering. Along the way, they adopted a sibling group of five, each carrying their own complex story

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