At the Podium with Patrick Huey
At the Podium — where real stories meet quiet courage.
Join host Patrick Huey in intimate, soul-centered conversations with writers, creators, visionaries, and healers. Each episode peels back the layers of memory, transformation, identity, and human longing — the stories we think we’ve left behind and the truths waiting to bring us home. Whether we’re talking second chances, reinvention, spiritual awakening, healing, or deep creative work, At the Podium is a space to sit firmly in honesty, vulnerability, and hope.
If you’re seeking a podcast that embraces life’s messiness, celebrates emotional truth, and holds space for redemption and growth — welcome. This is more than a show. It’s a living room of possibility, a place to reflect, to heal, and to come home to yourself.
🕯️ Expect thoughtful interviews, personal stories, and questions that linger long after the episode ends.
At the Podium with Patrick Huey
Justin Wren: I Fight for the Forgotten Because I was Once One.
Justin Wren is a big man—and not just in physical stature. When you meet him in person, he takes up space. With his professional athlete’s frame and long blond hair, you can’t miss him. He has presence.
In his book Fight for the Forgotten, Justin writes unflinchingly about the intense bullying that shaped his childhood—a pain that sparked the fire that carried him into the world of professional MMA, where he found money, recognition, and a sense of belonging. But along his climb to becoming a champion, he fell into addiction, spiraled into despair, and attempted suicide.
It is here—at his lowest point—that Justin’s story becomes a living example of how our trials can become our testimony. Somehow, in the haze of that turmoil, a vision—a single Bible verse from Isaiah—became the thread that pulled him toward Africa, toward purpose, and toward the people he felt called to serve: the forgotten ones. People living in modern-day slavery. People forced to drink water for survival that, as Justin says, we would hesitate to give our dogs.
What happened next became a symbiotic story of restoration. Justin, who never had a champion fighting for him as a child, has become a dragon slayer for communities who need protection, dignity, and a friend in their midst. And as he brings them life-sustaining clean water, they give him something just as powerful: acceptance, belonging, and a reshaped sense of family.
In many ways, they are fighting for each other.
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