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I won't let them steal my soul.

In this episode of Help the People, Shannon Riley takes listeners into a sacred conversation about what it means to stay human in a world that rewards performance.
From nature’s divine rhythm to the quiet death of false identity, Shannon unpacks how the soul is slowly stolen when we live to impress rather than to align. He shares raw reflections on losing himself to titles and expectations and how faith, silence, and surrender brought him back into rhythm with the Creator.
This is an episode about becoming whole again: learning to let old identities die, reclaiming your divine rhythm, and refusing to trade your peace for performance.

Even The Junk Has Value

In this episode of Help the People, Shannon Riley explores a deeply personal story about his grandfather’s lessons in labor from junkyards to concrete plants, Shannon unpacks how struggle can become sacred preparation. He reflects on how silence clears the ground, work builds the muscle, and new language plants the seed.
This is an episode about unlearning the language of survival and learning to speak a language of healing instead, about seeing how even the most challenging moments are part of the Creator’s plan.

Rising From the Ashes

Rising From the AshesFrom an early age, we’re taught the language of survival, how to fight, how to endure, how to carry silence like armor. But survival is not the same as healing. In this episode, Shannon Riley reflects on what it means to rise from the ashes of struggle, to lay down the survival script, and to discover the fearless becoming that only comes when the fire strips everything away.

Episode 4 – When Systems Fail, People Bleed

Episode 4 – When Systems Fail, People BleedIn this episode, Shannon Riley exposes how broken systems, such as schools, the criminal justice system, and human services, often fail to recognize the pain beneath the surface and instead too frequently punish rather than heal. From his own childhood fights and encounters with the justice system to decades of working inside human services, Shannon shares how systemic neglect leaves scars on children, families, and communities. He challenges listeners to push back, advocate, and demand better because when systems fail, people bleed.

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In this episode, Shannon Riley speaks directly to young men about the lies we’ve been told about manhood that strength is silence, sex is power, and anger is masculinity. Drawing on his own journey of addiction, stillness, and healing, he shares how true strength comes from honesty, discipline, compassion, and humility in the presence of the Creator. This episode challenges us to sit in silence, listen for God’s voice, and pass on a new definition of manhood to the next generation.

Survival vs. Healing

Episode Two: Survival vs. HealingIn this episode of Help the People, host Shannon Riley unpacks the difference between survival and healing two words we often confuse. Survival is making it through the storm, but healing is learning to breathe after the storm. Drawing from his own story of beginning to drink at fourteen and battling addiction for nearly four decades, Shannon shares how survival once became his only language. But survival alone wasn’t enough it numbed the pain without ever mending it.
Through honest storytelling, he reflects on the losses, broken ladders, and God’s interventions that led him to sobriety. This episode challenges us to ask: Are we just surviving, or are we truly healing? It’s a call to move beyond resilience as a finish line and step into the deeper work of recovery, presence, and joy.

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