Join us for inspiring, real-world conversations with Catholic professionals and young leaders navigating faith and career. Produced by Young Catholic Professionals (YCP), Refiner’s Fire offers practical insights, spiritual encouragement, and personal stories on living boldly as a Catholic in today’s workplace. Each 30-minute episode equips you to grow in virtue, thrive in your career, and embrace work as a path to holiness.
Refiner's Fire
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25 episodes
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Join us for inspiring, real-world conversations with Catholic professionals and young leaders navigating faith and career. Produced by Young Catholic Professionals (YCP), Refiner’s Fire offers practical insights, spiritual encouragement, and personal stories on living boldly as a Catholic in today’s workplace. Each 30-minute episode equips you to grow in virtue, thrive in your career, and embrace work as a path to holiness.
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Recent Episodes
July 7, 2026
From MedTech Executive to Wealth Advisor: Chris Wood on Faith, Leadership, and an Integrated Life
<p>After nearly 15 years in MedTech operations and corporate leadership, Chris Wood began asking a deeper question: <strong>Was professional success enough, or was God calling him to something more?</strong></p><p>In this episode of Refiner’s Fire, Chris, now a wealth advisor with Arno Wealth and former president of YCP Fort Worth, shares how prayer, Catholic community, and courageous discernment reshaped the trajectory of his career and family life.</p><p>Chris and Peter discuss what it means to live an integrated life, recognize God’s direction through open and closed doors, detach identity from professional titles, and lead with faith in the workplace. Chris also reflects on marriage, fatherhood, spiritual leadership, and why authentic Catholic community can profoundly influence the decisions that shape our lives.</p><p>This conversation offers practical encouragement for professionals seeking success without allowing career, status, or control to become the foundation of their identity.</p>
June 2, 2026
Prayer, Purpose, and the Integrated Life with Dr. Greg and Lisa Popcak
<p>In this episode of Refiner’s Fire, Peter Blute sits down with Dr. Greg and Lisa Popcak, founders of CatholicCounselors.com, to explore how young Catholic professionals can live with greater integration, purpose, and peace.</p><p>Together, they discuss why faith, work, relationships, marriage, family life, and personal gifts are not separate compartments, but pieces of one life God is patiently bringing together. Drawing from decades of counseling experience, Dr. Greg and Lisa offer practical wisdom on discernment, anxiety, healthy relationships, professional ambition, readiness for marriage, and the courage to take the next faithful step.</p><p>This conversation is a reminder that God does not waste any part of who we are. Our gifts, desires, relationships, struggles, and even our mistakes can become part of His “God Positioning System” when we remain rooted in prayer and open to grace.</p>
May 8, 2026
Beyond Networking: Curiosity, Connection, and Interior Transformation
<p>In this episode of Refiner’s Fire, Steven sits down with Matt Ingold of Metanoia Catholic to explore how young Catholic professionals can move beyond transactional networking and build authentic human connection.Matt shares practical insights from his conference workshop, including how to notice “mind drama,” take thoughts captive, and shift the spotlight away from self-consciousness and toward the person in front of you. He also explains why curiosity is essential for connection, how presumption can damage relationships and team dynamics, and why true professional growth must begin with interior transformation.Rooted in Catholic anthropology, Scripture, and the wisdom of St. John Paul II and St. Thomas Aquinas, this conversation invites young professionals to see networking, leadership, and workplace relationships as opportunities for encounter, formation, and deeper communion with Christ.</p>
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