Real Life Mentoring

About Real Life Mentoring

Chris and Christina Elledge are passionate about mentoring. They are excited to talk about the things they have learned by sharing their own stories as they have mentored people from various countries for many years. They will share their firsthand experience on mentoring and the life lessons they have learned from their own journeys. In the Real Life Mentoring podcast, we believe you will gain some practical tools to help you on your own journey and inspire you to give what you've learned away to others!

Publisher

Chris & Christina Elledge

Category

education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Jun 2022

Latest episode

27 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

149 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Mar 2026

   Interview: Thomas Hill

   In this powerful conversation, a business leader shares his journey from outward success to inward collapse—and the hard road back through recovery, humility, and faith. What looked like achievement was actually addiction to performance, control, and self-focus. Through loss and rebuilding, he discovered a different way to live and lead—one grounded in surrender, honesty, and caring more about people than perception. This episode explores hidden addiction, imposter syndrome, leadership under pressure, and the freedom found in shifting from self-centered living to a life rooted in purpose, accountability, and faith.

2. 

   27 Feb 2026

   The Six Areas: What Happens Is You Neglect The Emotions?

   We train and equip adults to become holistic, effective mentors in the church and in the marketplace—impacting individuals, families, and communities into the next generations. In this episode of our series on The Six Areas, we explore the emotional and the hidden consequences of emotional neglect. While we often emphasize physical or spiritual health, unprocessed emotions quietly shape how we think, relate, make decisions, and endure hardship. Emotional neglect can look like avoiding feelings, lacking emotional vocabulary, suppressing tears or anger, not repairing conflict, or having no safe outlet for what’s happening inside. Over time, that creates anxiety from unprocessed fear, depression from unprocessed grief, and relational disconnection from a lack of empathy or repair. We talk about how this often shows up in mentoring conversations through statements like: “I blow up over small things.” “Nothing motivates me anymore.” “I feel disconnected from myself and others.” Without emotional awareness, thriving becomes accidental rather than intentional. We also discuss why emotional health matters for discipleship. Scripture gives us permission—and language—to feel and express emotion, from the Psalms to the life of Jesus. Emotional honesty becomes a doorway into deeper relationship with God and with others. Finally, we share a simple mentoring framework for helping people engage the emotional domain through naming, reflecting, seeking support, and regulating rather than suppressing. Action Step: Name what you're feeling today and take it to God. Support the mission: fahrenheitmentoring.com (http://fahrenheitmentoring.com) (Podcast tab) This episode is sponsored by The Aaron Ruiz Agency, offering auto, home, life, and business insurance. They strive to build real-life relationships with their clients — and as clients ourselves, we are happy to recommend them! Contact them at (405) 773-5500

3. 

   20 Feb 2026

   The Six Areas: What Happens if you Neglect "The Physical"?

   We’re launching a new series on The Six Areas: spiritual, mental, emotional, relational, physical, and professional/educational. Instead of talking about growth, we’re asking: what are the consequences of neglect? This episode explores the physical area — what happens when we ignore rest, nutrition, movement, and medical care. Common outcomes include fatigue, preventable health issues, chronic stress symptoms, irritability, and reduced capacity to focus, work, or serve. The physical area often becomes the bottleneck for growth in every other domain. We share a simple mentoring tool to assess neglect and take one small action to move toward health. Sponsor: The Aaron Ruiz Agency — auto, home, life & business insurance. Contact: (405) 773-5500. Support the mission: fahrenheitmentoring.com (http://fahrenheitmentoring.com)

Who has been a guest on Real Life Mentoring

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• Senator John Crane
• Nate Brewer
• Kim Cary

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

827

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

21 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 76 / 100

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Quality

79

Social presence

90

YouTube

66

Engagement

71

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