Embracing Change: Recent Episodes
Lucretia Bowman & Jennifer Osborn
Join Lucretia Bowman as she gives insights into how her life was transformed from a five-time convicted felon to the founder and Vice President of Recovery Services at City Gospel Mission. You'll be inspired to turn your life around and how to embrace change no matter how impossible it seems.
Have any comments on any of the episodes? Please email: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Charles passed away September 17th after a second stay in hospice. Charles’s children Jamar and Amber come on the show to share unflinching memories and grief at the loss of their dad.
Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Podcast recorded on September 26, 2025
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com
In this episode, we wrap up the season by discussing Charles’s cremation and how this season felt like such an ode to Charles.
Thank you, Charles, for all you did for everyone. You were truly a gift. See you on the other side in the presence of Jesus.
Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Podcast recorded on October 17, 2025
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com
Geneva know Charles before she knew Lucretia and she talks about how the impact she had on him and her experience with meeting Lucretia.
Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Podcast recorded on August 29, 2025
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com
The Bowmans’ son, DeLorean Hamilton, comes on to speak about Charles and Lucretia, beginning with his entry into their lives at 9 years of age.
Before he jumps into that, we talk about Charles’s unexpected first stay in hospice.
Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Podcast recorded on August 22, 2025
B & D Marathon Movers
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com
The Bowmans discuss the next phase of their marriage and how circumstances from their past reconciled to their present.
Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Podcast recorded on June 15, 2025
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com
Charles & Lucretia Bowman started the ministry many years ago. While Lucretia is up front and the face of Having the Courage to Change, Charles was an equal lead in the background. This episode is getting to know Charles and his impact on this influential ministry as well as the start of Bowmans’ marriage and how this couple jumped into ministry
Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Podcast recorded on June 2, 2025
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com
We've had some wonderful women this season. Join us as we recap, and well, gush, about all the great guests.
Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Podcast recorded on April 14, 2025
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com
Judge Trotter Bratton's mission in serving Hamilton County echoes not only through the municipal court but in a mission-oriented court called "Change Court." In this arena, she can impact the lives of those affected by human trafficking.
Podcast Produced and Edited by Jennifer Osborn
Podcast recorded on April 7, 2025
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com
Copyright 2025 - Lucretia Bowman
God can surprise us all with unexpected turns. Ebony shares her life's journey and how God's fingerprints were all over her when she came to Cincinnati and her mission to see others thrive.
https://www.citylinkcenter.org/
Podcast Produced and Edited by Jennifer Osborn
Podcast recorded on March 31, 2025
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com
Copyright 2025 - Lucretia Bowman
Dr. Courtney L. Walton is a highly respected thought leader when it comes to gender and racial studies. She mentors and nurtures other black and brown women as they navigate unfamiliar waters with empathy and connectivity. To find out more information about Dr. Walton, please visit:
https://www.thebrwnplace.com/
Podcast Produced and Edited by Jennifer Osborn
Podcast recorded on March 24, 2025
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com
Copyright 2025 - Lucretia Bowman
Travina Adams faced adversity early in life. Rather than succumb to the pressures and unplanned events, she overcame them triumphantly!
Podcast Produced and Edited by Jennifer Osborn
Podcast recorded on March 17, 2025
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com
Copyright 2025 - Lucretia Bowman
Dr. Rhonda has focused her life on helping those in the throes of addiction. Helping others realize they can learn to love themselves, she is on a mission to change the world.
https://selflovedoctor.life/
Dr. Rhonda is a Doctor of Naturopathy, Clayton Collage Birmingham Alabama, Master of Science, Andrews University, Berrin's Michigan, and. Certified Life Coach, Institue for Life Coaching.
Podcast Produced and Edited by Jennifer Osborn
Podcast recorded on March 14, 2025
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com
Copyright 2025 - Lucretia Bowman
As a Councilmember, Meeka Owens leads the Climate, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee and is also a member of the Budget and Finance and Equitable Growth and Housing Committees. In her first term, she successfully advocated for the 2023 Green Cincinnati Plan and now aims to maintain the collaborative approach that drives significant systemic changes within and around City Hall.
Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Podcast recorded on March 3, 2025
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com
As director of the Office of Reentry, Trina has had great opportunities to pour into the lives of those who may have been written off by society. But seeing with the eyes of hope and who people can be, she was able to help others transform their lives.
For more information on the Office of Reentry in Hamilton County, Ohio, please visit:
https://reentrytoday.com
Recorded 2/24/2025
Edited by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Copyright 2025 by Lucretia Bowman
As a professional woman, she never thought she would "break." When it happened, her life radically changed in a way that only God could do. Now, she has a ministry called "Give Me a Break" that helps others work out issues. From her website, to TikTok, to Facebook "lives" she offers a vulnerable look at transformation.
www.givemeabreakjc.com
Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Podcast recorded on February 17, 2025
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com
At 40 years of age, Venita Turner suffered the unthinkable: a heart attack. Not long after, a second heart attack left her dead for over 15 minutes and required a heart transplant. This event sent her down a path of realizing God was leading her to help others who have experienced the same sort of life-changing event. Join us for a conversation with this incredible woman.
https://www.beatgoesoncincy.org/
Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Podcast recorded on February 10, 2025
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com
Vice Mayor of Cincinnati Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney shares her insights into listening to the voice of God through simple nudges and how that can lead to the most unexpected joy. Join us as we have a conversation with her.
https://www.instagram.com/kearneyforcincinnati/?hl=en
Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Podcast recorded on January 27, 2025
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com
Season 12 premiere: Special guest Michelle Smith. After her son was incarcerated, she embarked on a journey to let others see a path to restoration of not only a relationship with an incarcerated loved one but a restoration of a relationship with God. Join us for this insightful conversation.
https://faithfreedomlife.org/
Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Podcast recorded on January 20, 2025
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com
Lucretia expands on her steps after incarceration and how she moved from "la-cre-sha" to "la-cre-ta." God transformed and continues to transform. God is good.
Book cited as "Learning to Forgive" is actually "For the Love of God" and can be purchased by clicking here.
Recorded 7/15/2024
Edited by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Do you ever have moments when someone else is in control, and you have no choice? Incarceration can be like that. When that happens, a learned helplessness can set in, something to be overcome. Join us as we discuss just that.
Recorded July 8, 2024
Edited by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
"Resentment is a complex, multilayered emotion that has been described as a mixture of disappointment, disgust, and anger. Other psychologists consider it a mood or as a secondary emotion that can be elicited in the face of insult or injury." **Wikipedia
Do you struggle with Resentment? Is it a part of your everyday life, but don't know what to do with it? We discuss resentment in all of its nuances.
Recorded 6/24/2024
Edited by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Anger is often considered a secondary emotion because it's a response to other emotions, rather than an emotion that arises on its own. It can come out of feelings of rejection, fear, frustration or pain. But how do you get a handle on what is going on inside of your own head? Join us as we discuss those very things.
Recorded: 6/10/2024
Edited by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Do you know that you can compete not only with others, but with yourself? That can lead to a very unsatisfying life and focus. Join us as we talk about that.
Recorded: 6/3/2024
Edited by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Control. Do you try to control things around you? Control is an illusion. We actually control very little, but that doesn't stop us from trying. Join us to discuss how we've tried to control and lost.
Recorded: 4/29/2024
Edited by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Defense mechanisms can be healthy or unhealthy. If unhealthy, they can alter how you see things. We discuss how to identify them and stop the unhealthy cycle.
Recorded: 4/22/2024
Edited by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Ambition can be good, but it can also be very bad. When does it come into play in your life? Join us as we discuss how this can wreck your world.
Recorded 4/15/2024
Podcast recorded and produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
What does surrender look like to you? In this episode, we discuss what surrender can look like and how God can use it.
Podcast recorded and produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
"...To everything, turn, turn, turn" Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Change is in the air. We let you in some updates. We are so glad to be back with you.
Recorded April 15, 2024
Podcast recorded and produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Hello folks!
This is Jennifer Osborn from the Embracing Change Podcast. I wanted to let you know that while we’ve been on a little bit of a break, we will be returning in the coming months.
When we do, we will be at Episode 100! Can you believe it? I can’t. Our previous season have covered so many wonderful insights when it comes to change, deep revelations in Lucretia’s personal story, and some fantastic interviews with some truly remarkable individuals.
So, look for us to return in the coming months, and we thank you for being a listener.
Take care!
Lessons are all around us, and if we lean into them we can learn much. If we don't, we can be stuck in complacency and stunted growth.
Recorded September 18, 2023
Podcast recorded and produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Have you ever had someone you are speaking to not make eye contact or acknowledge what you are saying? Do you feel heard? Do they feel like they are listening? Our bodies reveal how we are listening to someone.
Recorded on September 18, 2023
Podcast Copyright 2023: Lucretia Bowman
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Podcast edited and produced by Jennifer Osborn
Sometimes suffering is optional. Sometimes it is not. Whatever the case, how we process suffering can set us on different paths.
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Copyright 2023 by Lucretia Bowman
Recorded on 9/11/2023
Questions or comments: embracingchange2023@gmail.com
How do you talk to yourself? Is it positive? Negative? Riddled with self-doubt? Join us as we discuss how self-forgiveness and compassion will radically change your life.
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Recorded on: 8/30/2023
Produced and edited by Jennifer Osborn
Part 3 - We continue our discussion on how racism and trauma create division, and how Undivided is bridging that gap.
More information on Undivided:
https://undivided.us/
Recorded July 14, 2023
Edited and produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Part 2 - We minimize. We shrink. We become something other than what God created us to be. In this episode, we discuss just how trauma divides us and makes us twist and conform to the expectations of others.
Recorded July 14, 2023
Edited and produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
We minimize. We shrink. We become something other than what God created us to be. In this episode, we discuss just how trauma divides us and makes us twist and conform to the expectations of others.
Recorded July 14, 2023
Edited and produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Part 1 of our interview with Courtney Walton. Join us as she shares about epigenetics and the deep wound of pain. This is part 1, and part 2 will continue next week.
Recorded 7/5/2023
Produced and edited by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Did you know that healing and a cure are two different things? When we have deep pain in our lives we have to unravel what that means to heal and to know that the ultimate cure is death, either death to self or death to a situation.
Recorded on June 26, 2023
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Produced and edited by Jennifer Osborn
Pastor Deborah Merritt once again joins us for a discussion on Embracing Peace. This is our final episode of this season.
Recorded on 3/13/2023
Produced and edited by Jennifer Osborn for Embracing Change, LLC
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
"Having the Courage to Change" written and performed by De'Era Merritt, from the album Voices of Change, Copyright 2007 by Lucretia Bowman.
We invited Pastor Deborah Merritt on the latest episode to discuss "Loving Others as a Shepard versus a Shepard." Deborah was the first mentor Lucretia had coming into the faith and she adds wonderful insights to the 30 year journey Lucretia has been on.
Recorded 3/13/2023
Edited and produced by Jennifer Osborn for Embracing Change
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Seeing my purpose as my pulpit: Lucretia continues to share about her 30 years in ministry. In this episode she shares details of the "marriage" of Having the Courage to Change and City Gospel Mission.
Recorded 3/6/2023
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Do you live your life performing for those around you, even God? Do you know what it is to produce for God? Lucretia asked these same questions as she continues to walk us through her journey in the building of her pulpit.
Recorded March 6, 2023
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Finding her mother meant a new wave of things to work through. It could have push or pull her back to places she didn't want to go, but God kept her through it.
Recorded: 2/27/2023
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Lucretia talks about the many ways in which power was taken from her and how it was restored through her taking it back.
Recorded 2/27/2023
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
When Lucretia left the halfway house she found herself at Mary Louise Inn trying to put her life together. After an invitation to church she found the clear pathway to prepare herself and made a plan with God at the helm.
Recorded 2/13/2023
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or Comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Continuing our journey through the beginning steps of healing, Lucretia takes you through the letter to the little girl her and how that impacted her healing.
Recorded: 2/6/2023
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or Comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Pressure can either destroy us or it can make us. In this episode, Lucretia talks about how the pressure helped make her a diamond.
Recorded: February 6, 2023
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
While we may not have control of the trauma we endure, we do have a choice in how to respond and pursue avenues of healing. Lucretia share her letter to her abuser and how she moved forward enough to say good-bye to him.
Recorded: January 23, 2023
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
According to Oxford Languages Dictionary on Google, Persevere is to continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty or with little or no prospect of success. Such was what Lucretia was facing when she was fresh out of prison and ready to try to navigate her own healing. In this episode, we'll hear about that and a letter that she wrote to her mother.
Recorded 1/16/2023
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Leaving Prison to build a pulpit: the 30 year journey
Episode 1 - Facing the pain
30 years ago Lucretia was faced with writing a letter to the judges who were considering her for shock probation. She dared to do it and eventually found herself on the outside with the possibility that things could be different. However, she first had to face her pain to get to the path of healing.
Recorded: January 16, 2023
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
On December 28, 2021 Lucretia Bowman spoke at Unbound at Landmark Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. This is part 2 of 2.
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
On December 28, 2021 Lucretia Bowman spoke at Unbound at Landmark Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. This is part 1 of 2.
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Lucretia shares her heart and story with the women's group at Anderson Hills United Methodist in Cincinnati, Ohio, pt. 2
Recorded 4/6/2020
Podcast produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Lucretia shares her heart and story with the women's group at Anderson Hills United Methodist in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Recorded 4/6/2020
Podcast produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Lucretia Bowman appeared at the Kingdom of God Ministries on November 3, 2019 and gave a message on God's Protective Systems.
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Lucretia Bowman appeared at the Kingdom of God Ministries on November 3, 2019 and gave a message on God's Protective Systems. This is part 1 of 2.
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021
On 10/28/2019 Lucretia Bowman had the opportunity to speak on the WIZ FM in Cincinnati Ohio. Afterward, she was interviewed by Raven Nevar in their "after show."
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
On 9/10/2019 Lucretia spoke at the Restore Community Summit sponsored by the Hamilton County Office of Reentry.
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Part 2: Lucretia Bowman speaks at Mariemont Community Church. Continuing her message, she talks about how God met her and transformed her from a convicted felon to the child of the king.
Recording 9/9/2019
Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions/comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Part 1: Lucretia Bowman speaks at Mariemont Community Church. Lucretia recounts her experiences that lead up to her entering into a relationship with God. She had tried everything else up to that point, she asked "Why not try God."
Recording 9/9/2019
Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions/comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
This show is the wrap-up of the awesome interviews we did.
This season we heard from a former stripper, a former foster child, a homeless girl, a rejected son, and a struggling sister of an addict. All saw God show up in amazing and different ways to turn them into a restored woman, an executive pastor, a ministry leader, a humble father, and a delivered sister. God is certainly good!
Recorded on June 6, 2022
Edited and produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Liz and Holly were sisters both searching. While Liz was struggling with life-controlling issues, Holly was looking for a reason to live. Through Liz's issues, Holly found redemption. This is an interview about how a sister's love can transform and point to a power higher than all of us.
Interview conducted on 5/30/2022 via zoom.
Edited and produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Experiencing the loss of three mothers over the course of her childhood, Latonya's mind began to survive by blacking out. Once thought to be disabled, she defied all the odds and became the mother of four children and an entrepreneur. What looked like a message became a wonderful message of resilience.
Recorded on May 23, 2022
Edited and Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
As a sexual abuse survivor, Tiffany found an altered sense of her body and herself. Eventually that notion of sex and using her body to get the things she desired, she became a stripper. That road led down a path to rape and struggles. God stepped in and showed her how her mess would eventually become a message.
Recorded May 16, 2022.
Questions or comments: Embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Produced and edited by Jennifer Osborn
From an unacknowledged son to a humble father, Rickale has traveled from mess to message in wondrous ways. He discovered being a successful father is just showing up.
Recorded on May 16, 2022
Questions or Comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Editing and produced by Jennifer Osborn
Growing up in inner City Cincinnati, Patriece Johnson focused her attention on getting out of the city and never returning due to a history of abuse and homelessness. After coming into a relationship with God and working for an organization called "The Navigators" she was faced with returning and allowing God to take her to a new place of healing and letting others see the message in her life story.
Click here for more about the Navigators
Recorded on May 9, 2022
Questions or Comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
Editing and produced by Jennifer Osborn
Being placed in foster care at the age of four, Deborah found herself with foster parents who loved and feared God and taught her the same. Still, the question would quietly come up about her biological family and the rest of her nine other siblings. Through miracle after miracle, God showed himself a faithful father and used many other "mothers and fathers" in her life to heal the wounds of rejection and abandonment.
Recorded 5/9/2022
Editing and Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
This is episode one of our new season title, "From Mess to Message." We discuss how to think about your life and how we all have hard questions in life.
Recorded on 4/25/2022.
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com
We get to redeem things that happened to us. They are not stagnant events that never change. They will either change for the better or will be changed for the good, you decide.
Hosea 4:6
Recorded 3/7/2022
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: lucretiaspeakstruth@gmail.com
An examination is a good thing. Sometimes in that examination, we find areas that need to be brought back to life. We need to revive them with the freshness that a new perspective can bring.
Recorded 2/28/2022
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: lucretiaspeakstruth@gmail.com
In this episode we discuss "repair = mend" and how When you are dealing with change, it's like giving birth, it can be painful and laborious. You need to look at the tear that might be keeping you from true change, and we must begin to repair it in order to completely mend it.
Recorded on 2/28/2022
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: lucretiaspeakstruth@gmail.com
In this episode, we discuss “revise = alteration” and how it is good to let things be fearlessly changed when necessary.
From the episode:
“Today is my best day. It’s the only 24 hours, 1,440 minutes, 86,400 seconds, that I have been given as a gift. I only have one moment. I’m only in the moment that I have now. Learning to breathe through each moment gives me this: it gives me peace. And peace is what I want to lead with to pursue my passion; to be persistent in whatever it is I encounter; to have the perseverance to push through when it gets difficult because it will. Because I know with everything I deal with today has purpose. Thank you Lord.”
Talked about in today’s show:
https://www.rose-lynnfisher.com/tears.html
https://spectaclesms.com/blogs/tears
https://brenebrown.com/book/atlas-of-the-heart/
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Recorded on 2/21/2022
uestions or comments: lucretiaspeakstruth@gmail.com
Power comes to us when we realize who we are. We aren't second-rate, or broken beyond repair. Join us for a continuing conversation about identity and how knowing who you are can transform your life.
Recorded on 2/14/2022.
Produced by Jennifer Osborn.
Questions or Comments: lucretiaspeakstruth@gmail.com
Do you know when you realize who you are and who God made you to be, you begin to operate from a place of power? You do! And do you know that you can have hope to live a thriving life? The prior episode with Jennifer's full story: Season 3, Episode 4.
SUICIDE HOTLINE: 1-800-273-8255.
Questions or comments: lucretiaspeakstruth@gmail.com
Recorded on 2/7/2022
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Every day is a new opportunity for you to redo your day, to redo your path, and to redo those things you might not have gotten right the day before. Listen for the insights into how to do just that.
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Record date 1/31/2022
Questions or comments: lucretiaspeakstruth@gmail.com
What is forgiveness anyway? Does it mean I have to let someone who has hurt me back into my life? Or let someone abuse give no account? We talk about this and other myths in this episode.
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Recorded on 1/31/2022
Comments or questions: lucretiaspeakstruth@gmail.com
Why don't you like yourself? Why don't you have joy? Why are you unhappy? "Refresh" reimagines the "why" behind our unhappiness. What is your mind-posture?
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Recorded on 1/24/2022
Comments or questions: lucretiaspeakstruth@gmail.com
Season 6 - Redefining Outcomes - Redevelop =renovation. How to we redevelop outcomes and how to we reset it in the way that we think?
It's all about the stories that connect us. Join Lucretia and Jennifer as they discuss the ways in which God brings all of the parts of the triune man to work together to accomplish his will. This happens through our "before Christ" (bc) days, our "considering Christ" (cc) days, and our "after Christ" (ac) days.
Referenced Scripture Psalm 139
Recorded on 11/22/2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Common sense. Nonsense. Uncommon sense. We use these terms a lot in our daily life. While some think common sense cannot be learned, we can be taught to think critically. Join us for a conversation about all kinds of sense as we prepare to end the season.
Book Referenced: The Power of Intuition: How to Use Your Gut Feelings to Make Better Decisions at Work by Gary Kline (2004). The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz (2018). Referenced scripture: James 4:17
Recorded on 11/22/2021.
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Question and comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
We can be a fragrance or an odor. This is spiritually, physically, and emotionally. Are we identifiable by our aroma or our stink? This is a conversation you will enjoy.
Recorded 11/22/2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Touch is such an important thing, not only in life as people but also spiritually when there is a "laying on of hands" or an "impartation of the spirit". If you aren't familiar with those terms we explain them and then explore them a little deeper.
Recorded 11/22/2021.
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Things can feel very heavy. Sometimes it feels very light. This can be a spirit situation. Stress, chaos, problems, even words can be heavy or you can make them light. Are you bringing heaviness or are you bringing lightness?
Recorded 11/16/2021.
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions/Comments/Prayer Requests: josborn@citygospelmission.org
What do you think of when you hear the word "spirit?" It can mean a lot of different things to different people. Everyone has one, but do we understand exactly what it does and operates within us? Recorded 11/16/2021. Produced by Jennifer Osborn
We see the behaviors and immediately think we understand the person, but what would it mean for us to ask why? There is a visible soul man and an invisible soul man -- one certainly acts from the other. It is a practice to stop and ask deeper questions and be willing to truly listen to the answer.
Recorded 11/1/2021.
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: Josborn@citygospelmission.org
Movie referenced "The Best of Enemies"
Scripture ref: 1 Cor 2:14
Where is the soul man and how does he control you? The answer might surprise you. Join us as we take a look at what all encompasses the soul and how God can heal it.
Recorded on 11/1/2021.
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
A continuing conversation related to the body and how we operate in the realm of "hardware" and "software." Book cited in this episode is "Back to the Gospel" by Peter K. Louis.
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Recorded 10/25/2021
Questions or Comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
We are made up of the body, soul, and spirit - a triune organism. Each part has a purpose and can get steered in the wrong direction. In this episode, we will be talking about the body.
Referenced in this episode is the book "The High 5 Habit" by Mel Robbins.
Recorded 10/25/2021.
Produced by Jennifer Osborn.
Email comments to: Josborn@citygospelmission.org
What do Teslas and Jesus have in common? We answer that question in this last episode of this season of Resetting Our Beliefs. So when are you starting? Your beliefs will not change unless you begin.
Recorded: August 30, 2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Are you looking to other people to take responsibility for how you feel and what you believe? It's an easy path to take. In this episode, we are asking, "who is your help?" With anything we believe, we have to begin to help ourselves in changing our beliefs and taking responsibility for them.
Recorded 8/30/2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Question or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
In this episode, Lucretia Bowman shares about three key areas to help us shake off the old mindset - wisdom, morality, and concentration. Wisdom brings the right view, right intention, and the right speech. Morality is right actions. Concentration is being mindful, being focused, and being aware.
Recorded 8/16/2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
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It's a struggle constantly to pick the healthier way. For some of us, being unhealthy feels so normal that healthy ways of doing things seem incomprehensible. Your beliefs can be just as unhealthy as eating food that clogs your arteries. But you can move from the unhealthy way of believing to healthy beliefs.
Recorded 8/17/2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
You have to go back in order to go forward. Sounds counterintuitive, but if you are carrying the baggage of a belief system that isn’t serving you well, you need to go back as far as you need to in order to find the origin story of your beliefs.
Mentioned in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX9U4rLL9ww https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-are-wrongly-convicted-people-still-imprisoned-in-missouri/
Recorded July 19, 2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
When you hear the words "give up" are you seeing it as a surrender or as an exchange? Giving up something allows space for something new. In this episode, we will talk about what it is to exchange one belief for another.
Recorded July 19, 2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
A person rarely changes from a place of comfort. Trying to change is like cutting yourself open to pull out the part of yourself that is diseased. But you have to first start by getting uncomfortable. If you are trying to change and are feeling the struggle, you are doing it right.
In this Episode:
https://www.netflix.com/title/81038216 (The Best of Enemies)
Recorded: 7/19/2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Beliefs are like roads, sometimes they can be a smaller road and other times a highway. We all travel the roads of belief systems, but there are times you have to ask yourself how you got to your destination and if it still makes sense.
Recorded on 7/12/2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Where did your beliefs come from? Have you ever asked yourself that? Lucretia reveals most beliefs are influenced by our parents, environment, education, our pain, our experiences. Those beliefs are shaped and impacted by the general systems of the world: education, economics, entertainment, government, legal, financial, religion, political, social, defense, labor, and society.
Be brave and ask the question.
Recorded July 9, 2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Do you fight over simple things like which way the toilet paper faces? Or does being wrong make you feel less valuable than someone else? In this episode of Embracing Change, we are asking the question, “What have you been believing?” In asking that question you can start digging into Resetting our belief system.
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Recorded on 7/9/2021
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
In this last episode of Season 3, Lucretia and Jennifer discuss the difference between the first Adam and the second Adam, as well as singing part of “The Adams Family” theme (written by Vic Mizzy). It’s always a great journey to re-cover yourself.
Book referenced in the episode: In the realm of Hungry Ghosts – Gabor Mate, M.D. I am Human: A Book of Empathy – Susan Verde I am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness – Susan Verde
Celebrate Recovery – John Baker
Episode recorded on 4/26/2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
For questions or comments, please email: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Ever wonder how to organize yourself to begin the walk of change? Join Lucretia and Jennifer as they discuss the steps to wholeness.
Book referenced in the episode: Choose Again: 6 Steps to Freedom – Diederik Wolsak
Episode recorded on 4/26/2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
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Chaos is all around us and can become an addiction unto itself. Breaking the cycle of chaos begins with taking responsibility and asking yourself critical questions needed to bring awareness and order.
Recorded 4/26/2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Books referenced in this episode: Scattered – Gabor Mate, M. D. When the Body Says No – Gabor Mate, M. D.
From emancipated minor to US Navy soldier, Geneva Clark felt as if she could take on any foe, that is until addiction caught up to her along with her pain. Join us for a serious, funny, insightful interview you won't want to miss.
Recorded April 12, 2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Comments or questions: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Kurt Platte is one of the premier architects in the revitalization of Over the Rhine in Cincinnati, Ohio. But it wasn't always so. For years he struggled with addiction and its destructive effects. After kneeling behind a dumpster at a rehab center, he found a path to joyful freedom. You don't want to miss this interview.
From Marysville Prison to redemption, Joyce Hull heard Lucretia Bowman's story and found that she could live a different life. After being arrested over 45 times, Joyce found the courage to become sober and live her best life.
Mentioned in the Podcast: Baba Shawarma Grill - 4028 Harrison Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45211
Recorded on: March 15, 2021
Produced by: Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Being raised by an unmedicated, mentally ill father, Jennifer Osborn struggled with suicidal thoughts until God showed her the path to hope and identity in him.
Recorded: March 15, 2021
Produced by: Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
From an executive at Coca-Cola to living on the streets, Tony Green struggled with alcohol abuse and addiction for years. After coming to Exodus Recovery at City Gospel Mission for a second time, Tony found a path to hope and freedom.
Recorded: 2/15/2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Triumphant Surrender:
Amazon
Walmart
Disorder is a roadblock when it comes to recovery from any life-controlling issue. So how do you stop the disorder and allow God to come in and create order? Lucretia will explain just that.
Recorded: 3/1/2021
Produced by: Jennifer Osborn
Comments or questions: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Recovery is bigger than moving past surgery, drugs, or alcohol. Recovery is moving from death to life from the inside out. Join Lucretia Bowman and Jennifer Osborn as they discuss how to change your perspective on recovery.
Recorded: March 1, 2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
As we wrap up the final episode of the series: Changing the Person in the Mirror, we take a look at foundations and how it needs to be solid in order to progress.
Record date: 1/18/2021
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Principles are the guiding lights to your life. They help to assist you to open up and be honest in your journey. We explore just how important those things are.
*Side note, Jen is an INFJ in Meyers Briggs. The book discussed is "Principles" by Ray Dalio
Comments or questions: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Recorded 1/18/2021
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Is life around you in chaos, so much so that you can't fathom how you'll change? In this episode, we take a deep dive into finding clarity so that you can change the person in the mirror.
Recorded: 1/4/2021
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Structure can provide the needed stability to execute long lasting change. However, most of us misunderstand how to go about this. Join Lucretia Bowman and Jennifer Osborn as they discuss how important structure is and how you can implement it in your life.
Mentioned in the Podcast: insomniatv.tv
Questions or comments, email: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
The word accountability invokes thoughts of punishment for some. When really accountability is the thing that keeps you on track when you are trying to change. Forming a solid group of people around you to hold you accountable is key to the process of change.
Recorded: December 21, 2020
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Questions or comments? Email: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Executing is moving forward while letting go of something else. In this episode, Lucretia Bowman and Jennifer Osborn discuss how to pull the needed items together to let go of the past and push toward the future. Remember it all starts with the person in the mirror.
Recorded: December 21, 2020
Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Produced by Jennifer Osborn
Do you run from conflict or do you embrace it? Do you wish you could handle it differently? In this episode, Lucretia will give you insights into how conflict shapes change.
Recorded on December 7, 2020
send comments to: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Podcast produced by Jennifer Osborn
How do you find the courage to change? There are roadblocks that will keep us from finding what it takes to face our mistakes, regrets, and others to walk the path to changing our lives.
Join us for insights into finding the courage to change.
recorded on December 7, 2020.
send comments to: josborn@citygospelmission.org
Podcast produced by Jennifer Osborn
Join Lucretia Bowman and Jennifer Osborn as continue to face the person in the mirror and ask, "how to prepare for the transition of change?" We will take a deep dive into those two pivotal parts.
Recorded on November 23, 2020
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Podcast produced by Jennifer Osborn
This season we will be looking at what it means to change starting with looking at the person in the mirror. In this episode, we explore the basic question of "what is change?"
Recorded on November 23, 2020
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Podcast produced by Jennifer Osborn
From a former crack head to working for the SEC, Teresa Taylor found the courage to change with the help of the Recovery Program, Having the Courage to Change at City Gospel Mission. Lucretia Bowman sits down with her to share her incredible story.
The conclusion to the steps of change. In being completely honest with yourself you can discover an escape route to new choices. Join Lucretia Bowman as she shares how the path of walking out that freedom is a choice made daily.
Lucretia Bowman continues to reveal the steps toward change. She reveals how change can be uncomfortable at times but well worth it. This episode covers steps 4 through 6 of Chapter 11.
Lucretia Bowman gives insight into how she developed steps to help someone else realize they can change if they have the courage. This episode covers steps 1 through 3 of Chapter 11.
Still processing her new name, Lucretia begins to unravel her past so God can reweave her future.
A simple family reunion for her foster family leads Lucretia to come face to face with her birth mother for the first time since she was a toddler. This chance meeting reveals God's plans to give her a new name.
Faced with writing a letter to the judge to explain why she is at the place she is in life, Lucretia Bowman faces it with brave determination and raw honestly. The result landed her on the path to freedom.
Lucretia Bowman delves into how her view of incarceration changed when faced with willingly going back to prison in order to wait for a bed in a local program designed for paroled individuals. In trusting God with her wait time she discovered a better way to spend her time rather than simply doing time.
In Lucretia’s journey of self-discovery, she reflected on a time when an innocent lesson in writing her name in grade school lead her to realize her name was not the same as her mother's. Her questions began the self-fulfilling prophecy that people could not be trusted.
As a five-time convicted felon, Lucretia Bowman had been in and out of prison in Kentucky and Ohio for most of her adult life. Upon hearing a voice call to her in jail, she set out on a course of discovery and healing through the power of God. She discovered she had lived her life addicted to the cycle of self-abuse and began the journey of breaking that cycle forever.