Lifework Podcast
by Williams Baptist University
Latest episode
A Banjo, a Family Band, and an Unexpected Door with Brandon Green
A Banjo, a Family Band, and an Unexpected Door with Brandon Green
About this podcast
Lifework is a conversation about calling, hosted by Dr. Stan Norman, president of Williams Baptist University.
Every episode, Stan sits down with one person, a coach, professor, alum, student, leader, or friend, and works through their story: the opportunity they did not expect, the plan that changed, the mentor who challenged them, and the moment their work began to make sense.
No résumés. No highlight reels. Just honest conversations about faith, purpose, work, and the calling God places on a life.
In Season 3, Stewarding What You’ve Been Given, Lifework asks one recurring question: How are you stewarding what God has already given you? Through stories of leadership, redirection, mentorship, perseverance, and service, each conversation explores what it means to be faithful with the gifts, relationships, responsibilities, and opportunities already in front of us.
Lifework is produced by Williams Baptist University in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 73 episodes
- A Banjo, a Family Band, and an Unexpected Door with Brandon Green · 26 min · Season 3 Episode 7Brandon Green never set out to move his family from West Virginia to Arkansas. But a bluegrass competition, an unexpected connection, and weeks of prayer opened the door to a new…
- A New Assignment, the Same Calling: Dr. Brett Cooper on Faithful Stewardship · 21 min · Season 3 Episode 6A new assignment doesn’t always mean a new calling. Sometimes it means serving the same mission in a different way. Dr. Brett Cooper joins Dr. Stan Norman, president of Williams…
- Called to Coach, Entrusted to Lead: A Conversation with Justin Dee · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 5What does it mean to steward a team, not just chase a winning record? Dr. Stan Norman welcomes Justin Dee, head volleyball coach at Williams Baptist University, for an honest…
- Open Hands for What’s Next: Jordan West on Following God’s Unexpected Path · 22 min · Season 3 Episode 4Jordan West didn’t expect his emergency management degree to lead him into ministry. But when he served among people whose lives had been upended by conflict, he found himself…
- Faithful to the Assignment: Coach Stephen Abanathy on Returning Home and Building at WBU · 23 min · Season 3 Episode 3A coach who once wanted the bigger-school path came back to Williams after being told he would never win here. In this episode of Lifework, Dr. Stan Norman talks with WBU Head…
- When the Calling Changes: Kendall Davenport Layne on Finding Peace in a New Assignment · 28 min · Season 3 Episode 2Kendall Davenport Layne shares how she found peace when her lifelong plan to serve overseas changed and how God led her into counseling, teaching, and mentoring students instead…
- Stewarding What You’ve Been Given: Coach Tracy Hubbard on Faithfulness, Calling, and Building What’s Next · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 1Season 3 of Lifework begins with a question that reaches into every season of life: How are you stewarding what God has already given you? In this opening episode, Dr. Stan…
- Walking Out of Trig: Calling, Seminary, and Steven Nelson’s Path to WBU · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 38In part two of Dr. Stan Norman’s conversation with Steven Nelson, Director of Housing and Intramural Sports at Williams Baptist University, Steven picks up the story as a young…
- From Missouri Farm Fields to Williams: The Early Journey of Steven Nelson · 20 min · Season 2 Episode 37In this episode of the Lifework Podcast, host Dr. Stan Norman welcomes Steven Nelson, Director of Housing and Intramural Sports at Williams Baptist University, to share how a boy…
- Calling, Sports, and Storytelling: How God Led Caleb Garner to the Classroom · 21 min · Season 2In part two of this conversation, President Stan Norman and Caleb Garner pick up Caleb’s story as he moves from Mississippi State into the world of sports media and, eventually…
- Chasing Mascots: The Early Journey of Caleb Garner · 20 min · Season 2In this episode of the Lifework Podcast, President Stan Norman sits down with Caleb Garner, Chair of the Department of Health and Physical Education and Assistant Professor of…
- Trust the Process: From Corporate Accounting to Calling in the Classroom · 20 min · Season 2In last week’s episode, Janna Himschoot shared how farm life, family, and faith in Hardy, Arkansas, laid the groundwork for her calling as a wife, mother, and future educator. If…
- Lifework on the Farm: How Cows, Calling, and a Small-Town Faith Shaped a Business Professor · 20 min · Season 2What if your sense of calling started with a cattle loan at age 12 and evenings spent checking cows with your dad? In this episode, WBU President Dr. Stan Norman sits down with…
- Called to the Classroom: How God Led a Reluctant Mathematician to Teach · 21 min · Season 2In part two of our conversation with Belina Dulaney, professor of mathematics at Williams Baptist University, she shares how God redirected her carefully laid career plans and…
- God Is a Mathematician: Professor Belina Dulaney on Faith, Resilience, and “All the Math” · 26 min · Season 2In this LifeWork Podcast episode, host Dr. Stan Norman sits down with Belina Dulaney, Assistant Professor of Natural Sciences – Mathematics at Williams Baptist University, to…
- When God Uses Your Worst Decisions: Calling, Cancer, and the Classroom · 23 minIn Part 2 of this Lifework conversation, host Dr. Stan Norman picks up Dr. Trevor Babcock’s story right where the cliffhanger left off: a clear, lifelong plan to become a…
- From Goth Kid to Gospel Teacher: Dr. Trevor Babcock’s Journey of Calling and Conversion · 21 minIn this first part of a two-episode conversation, Lifework host Dr. Stan Norman sits down with Williams Baptist University English professor Dr. Trevor Babcock to trace the…
- From Retail to Recruiting to the Bench: How Coach Mayberry Found His Lifework · 26 minIn this second conversation with Coach John Mayberry, Dr. Stan Norman explores how God redirected a plan that once pointed toward North Texas and college soccer into a life of…
- Blue-Collar Faith: Coach John Mayberry on Work, Calling, and Women’s Basketball · 20 min · Season 2 Episode 27In this episode of the Lifework Podcast, Dr. Stan Norman sits down with Coach John Mayberry, head coach of the Williams Baptist Lady Eagles, to trace an unlikely journey from…
- When Winning Really Matters: Calling, Coaching, and Walking Through the Fire with Coach Josh Austin (Pt. 2) · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 26In this second conversation with Williams Baptist University head men’s basketball coach Josh Austin, host Dr. Stan Norman picks up the story right where Part 1 left off—at the…
