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Fresh Hope for Mental Health is the official podcast of www.FreshHope.us 

Pastor Brad Hoefs is the host for the program.  

We encourage you to leave comments or to email us with questions and ideas to: PastorBrad@FreshHope.us

Apr 6, 2026

In this episode, Pastor Brad talks with author and speaker Maria I. Morgan about her powerful journey through anxiety and depression. Maria shares how her first experience with anxiety and depression began in 2006 after a car accident. During that season she sought help quickly and spent about nine months...


Mar 23, 2026

In this episode, Pastor Brad interviews Donavan Wallenburg, a faith-based mental health advocate living with Bipolar I disorder. Donavan shares his personal journey, including his struggles with alcohol that began in high school, the impact of his parents’ divorce at age 18, and later his use of marihuana. He also...


Mar 12, 2026

In this episode, Pastor Brad interviews Pastor Dustin Kleinschmidt, author of The Wilderness Way. Dustin shares his personal journey of faith, beginning with a childhood marked by trauma and growing up without a Christian background. As a teenager, he encountered Jesus through a Christian youth group, where he found the...


Feb 12, 2026

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In this episode, Pastor Brad sits down with Dr. Benjamin Long, a sleep medicine physician and author of Sleep Habits Journal: Practices, Prayers, and Devotions to Ease Your Sleepless...


Finding Hope Through Anxiety: A Conversation with Cody Deese

Nov 11, 2025

In this episode, Pastor Brad interviews Cody Deese, a pastor from Georgia and author of Discovering Your Internal Universe.

Cody opens up about his lifelong struggle with anxiety, which began in childhood. At 40 years old, he received his first diagnosis of panic disorder — the moment that marked the beginning of a...