In the River is the official podcast of Live & Lead by Design. Curtis Rippee, J.T. Hardcastle and Christian Landers, three leaders who found out the hard way that success and self-reliance weren't enough, talk honestly about what they went through and what changed when they let other people in. Whatever your river looks like right now, calm or rough, you were never meant to be in it alone.
Curtis Rippee, J.T. Hardcastle and Christian Landers give credit where it's due, walking through the people and organizations whose work made Live and Lead by Design possible: Dr. Chip Dodd, Tin Man Ministries and The Eden Project. Curtis shares how 18 months of counseling with Chip changed his life 30 years ago, and how stumbling onto Chip's podcast decades later brought him back home. Along the way, a side quest about The Table turns into one of the most honest moments the guys have shared ...
20 Oct 2026
Origin Stories
JT Hardcastle and Christian Landers share how each of them found their way to the table with Curtis. JT talks about hitting the wall in his early 40s after a lifetime of performing his way to success, and Christian opens up about getting sober and why his real recovery didn't begin until he stopped doing it alone. Both stories land in the same place: most of our hurt comes through relationships, and so does the healing. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Living with Heart: From Birth to Death, podcast...
6 Oct 2026
Welcome to the River
JT Hardcastle, Christian Landers and Curtis Rippee kick off In the River by sharing why three successful, high-functioning leaders ended up crashing and burning, and what they found on the other side. Curtis tells the origin story of Live and Lead by Design, from selling his company in 2019 to realizing the missing piece in leadership was never another strategy. It was learning that we were built to need each other. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Dr. Chip Dodd https://www.chipdodd.com The Voice of...
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