Chiseled – We're all a work in progress
Chiseled - We're all a work in progress
Podcast Description
The Chiseled podcast, hosted by Rob Commodari, is a biweekly show dedicated to fostering personal growth and self-awareness. Through candid conversations with guests from diverse backgrounds—including entrepreneurs, spiritual leaders, and individuals who have overcome significant challenges—Rob explores how life's experiences shape us into the people we are meant to be. The podcast emphasizes that we are all works in progress, continually being "chiseled" by our experiences to live our fullest lives. Launched in 2021, Chiseled delves into themes such as resilience, transformation, faith, and the pursuit of purpose. Rob's approach is deeply personal and spiritually grounded, often reflecting on how divine guidance influences our journeys. Each episode offers listeners insights and inspiration to embrace their own paths of growth and self-discovery.
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The podcast explores themes of resilience, transformation, faith, and the pursuit of purpose with episodes that include guests like Mark Victor Hansen, who shares his journey from bankruptcy to becoming a best-selling author. Other topics discussed encompass overcoming challenges, spiritual guidance, and the importance of self-discovery, making the podcast relatable and relevant for listeners on various personal growth journeys.
The Chiseled podcast, hosted by Rob Commodari, is a biweekly show dedicated to fostering personal growth and self-awareness. Through candid conversations with guests from diverse backgrounds—including entrepreneurs, spiritual leaders, and individuals who have overcome significant challenges—Rob explores how life’s experiences shape us into the people we are meant to be. The podcast emphasizes that we are all works in progress, continually being “chiseled” by our experiences to live our fullest lives. Launched in 2021, Chiseled delves into themes such as resilience, transformation, faith, and the pursuit of purpose. Rob’s approach is deeply personal and spiritually grounded, often reflecting on how divine guidance influences our journeys. Each episode offers listeners insights and inspiration to embrace their own paths of growth and self-discovery.
The worst thing imaginable happened to Bob Arnold and his wife Jeanne in 2002. They were getting ready for bed and a coroner calls. Their 23-year-old daughter Marcie was found dead in her apartment nearly 500 miles away.
Marcie, a vibrant young woman who was just getting established in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., was talking with a friend on the phone when the conversation went silent. She had suffered QT prolongation, sudden death from cardiac arrest, a rare occurrence that afflicts people with arrythmia, or irregular heartbeat.
It is a tragedy that no parent should have to endure. But rather than get angry or go into denial, Bob and Jeanne chose another route to confront their suffering.
“I knew one thing that had to happen in order to do that … is to really be honest about what’s going on,” Bob said. “Trying to think of all the ways to try to rationalize this or deal with this, I knew none of those were reality.”
Bob started journaling. In the first three years after Marcie’s death, he wrote 1,300 pages to help him “sort through the depths of despair” he was feeling.
Those reflections turned into a book authored by Bob and Jeanne called When the Circle is Broken: Our Journey Through Deep Sorrow and Surprising Joy in the Loss of Our Daughter.
The suffering also led Bob to ministry. The Arnolds now have a 70-acre farm in Western Maryland named Marcie’s Meadow, which serves the ministry. They help people who are facing illness, death, divorce, or family difficulties find the joyous hand of God in their sorrow.
“God doesn’t take away the pain, but the pain continually became a healing agent,” he said. “It (keeps) shaping and reforming and reforming, and in the process, we meet this compassionate and caring God.”
Bob’s spirituality is evident in this episode of Chiseled. He tells a profound story of sorrow and joy and shares a path to healing that we can all follow.
Bob’s ministry is available to anyone who needs a lift. He can be reached at his email or phone number, which he shares at the end of the episode. Meanwhile, you can check out his ministry at his website, meadow4.org.
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