Prodigal The Podcast
Prodigal The Podcast
Podcast Description
Welcome to Prodigal: The Podcast! Hosted by Don Jackson with co-host Big Sean, this podcast dives deep into the journey of faith, self-discovery, and transformation. Inspired by Don's upcoming book, Prodigal: Leaving Church and Finding God, we explore topics like spiritual deconstruction, awareness, and redefining beliefs.Join us as we engage with thought leaders, scientists, philosophers, and individuals who share their experiences and insights on leaving behind tradition to find personal truth. Expect engaging discussions, diverse perspectives, and powerful stories that encourage growth and understanding.Subscribe to join the journey, and let’s explore faith and life beyond the boundaries.#Podcast #Podcasting #PodcastLife #PodcastCommunity #NewEpisode #PodcastInterview #PodcastersOfInstagram #PodcastRecommendation #PodcastHost #FaithJourney #SpiritualDeconstruction #SelfDiscovery #PersonalTransformation #FindingGod #SpiritualAwakening #RedefiningFaith #FaithAndLife #SpiritualGrowth #QuestioningFaith #FaithCrisis #PhilosophyOfReligion #ExistentialQuestions #ProgressiveChristianity #Mindfulness #SoulSearching #JoinTheJourney #DeepConversations #TransformationalStories #GrowthMindset #SeekTruth #AuthenticLiving #StorytellingMatters #ThoughtLeadership #LifeBeyondBoundaries #ProdigalPodcast #ProdigalThePodcast #ProdigalJourney #ProdigalBook #DonJacksonPodcast #BigSeanCoHost @prodigalthepodcast @mrdonjackson
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast delves into themes such as spiritual deconstruction, personal transformation, and the search for authentic faith. Episodes cover topics like the societal impacts of political figures, critiques of traditional church practices, and personal journeys in spirituality, with examples including interviews with experts on race and spirituality and discussions on the religious climate in various cultures.
🎙️ Prodigal: The Podcast — Notice the Pattern
Prodigal: The Podcast explores the patterns hiding underneath religion, politics, power, and culture — and asks what it actually costs us to keep looking away from them.
Hosted by Don Jackson and Daysha Voss, the show pairs honest, sometimes uncomfortable conversation with real reporting — tracing the same institutional playbooks across faith, government, money, and technology, from ancient history to this week’s headlines.
Inspired in part by Don Jackson’s upcoming book, Prodigal: Leaving Church and Finding God, the podcast grew out of questions about religious institutions and belief — and has widened into something bigger: a regular look at how power holds onto itself, whoever’s holding it and whatever century it is.
Prodigal: The Podcast is part of a larger ecosystem built around the same idea. Prodigal Breaking News covers the pattern as it happens, day to day. Prodigal AI companion guides turn each story into something to actually sit with. And the podcast is where it all gets talked through out loud, unscripted, between two people who don’t always agree.
What You’ll Hear on Prodigal
Religion, Deconstruction & Institutional Power
What happens when people question inherited belief systems, and how religious structures shape politics and public life.
Power, Money & the Machinery of Control
From colonial history to national debt, surveillance, and who actually benefits when a system says it’s protecting you.
Healing From Religious and Institutional Trauma
Conversations about recovering from toxic theology, broken systems, and reclaiming personal agency.
Philosophy, Psychology & Consciousness
Deeper questions about meaning, identity, and why people believe what they believe.
Real Stories of Transformation
Personal journeys through faith crisis, institutional betrayal, and coming out the other side clearer.
Who This Podcast Is For
Prodigal is for listeners who are:
- Questioning their faith or the institutions they were handed
- Trying to understand how religion, politics, and power actually connect
- Exploring spirituality outside traditional structures
- Paying attention to where AI, surveillance, and economic policy are heading
- Searching for a plainer, less performative way to talk about all of it
Whether you’re navigating a faith transition, trying to make sense of the news, or just tired of conversations that flatten everything into a side, Prodigal offers a place to actually think it through.
About the Hosts
Don Jackson is the founder of the Prodigal Movement, a platform examining spirituality, psychology, power, and cultural transformation. His work traces how belief systems — religious, political, and economic — shape identity, institutions, and collective consciousness. His upcoming book, Prodigal: Leaving Church and Finding God, explores his own journey out of institutional religion.
Daysha Voss is the show’s co-host — the second voice in the room, there to push back before an idea hardens into certainty. She doesn’t always read a pattern the same way Don does, and that’s on purpose: the show works because two people are actually working something out, not performing agreement for an audience.
Join the Conversation
Subscribe to Prodigal: The Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and your favorite podcast platform.
For daily coverage and deeper essays on religion, politics, and power, visit prodigalthepodcast.substack.com — home to Prodigal Breaking News and the full written archive behind everything discussed on the show.
When's the last time you thought about your refrigerator? This summer, freezers at grocery stores on U.S. military bases started heating up in the middle of the night, and the Pentagon now treats it as a suspected cyberattack. Don Jackson and Daysha Voss pull back the curtain on the machines that keep us alive every day, and ask who's watching them.
They walk through the commissary freezers, the October attack that hijacked refrigerators at hundreds of French supermarkets and started fires, and the July hacks on water systems in at least seven states. Then the history: Colonial Pipeline's gas lines, the JBS meat shutdown, and Volt Typhoon, the group U.S. agencies say sat inside American infrastructure for years.
Daysha pushes back with the honest part: most failures aren't attacks, fear is a product too, and the real fixes are boring. Update the software. Change the password. Take it off the internet. The danger isn't only hackers. It's neglect.
The Actualization: the systems can fail, but you are not the system. Three practical steps, no bunker required.
Stay for Daysha's closing meditation, ”The Hum.”
Plus the Prodigal Newsbeat with Latisha Sky: Dolores Huerta dies at 96, a drone strike on Dnipro's train station, King Charles faces the reparations question in Guyana, and the bishops who say the White House used their prayer.
🎧 Full written deep dive with every source: 🌐 More stories: prodigalbreakingnews.com 💬 Talk to the AI companion guide: prodigalai.app 📖 Don's book, Prodigal: Leaving Church and Finding God (Iff Books, 2025): https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/iff-books/our-books/prodigal-leaving-church-finding-god 🩷 This episode is brought to you by FemChoice, Don Jackson's own company, full disclosure. A private, standalone cycle tracker: no app, no phone, no account. Your Cycle. Your Device. Your Privacy. Shop FemChoice on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGVTJH2B?maas=maas_adg_5E4C6F31CE7261E3C5F94C7201247B50_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas&tag=maas
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