Finding the Courage to Lead with Special Guest Matt Hammitt | Ep. 524
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Matt Hammitt had a successful music career as frontman of the Grammy and Dove-award-winning band Sanctus Real, but he knew God was calling him away from his career and toward something else. The wake up call happened when he started realizing he was not the man he intended to be. Today Matt opens up about the process of following God's lead in leading his family well. Tune in for his encouraging story!
Episode highlights include:
- Is it time to 'burn the ships' and change course?
- When both spouses grieve differently
- Working through the self-deceptions that keep us stuck
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. |
| 0:13.4 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. |
| 0:17.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:21.8 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:31.3 | Welcome today's awesome marriage podcast. Today my special guest is Matt Hammett, |
| 0:35.9 | who is the lead singer of the Grammy and Devil Award winning band, Sank the Shrill for 20 years. |
| 0:40.8 | Matt is a new book out called Lead Me, Finding Courage to Fight for Your Marriage, Children, and Faith. |
| 0:46.3 | I'm excited to have Matt today. Let's go right to the interview. |
| 0:52.4 | Well, Matt is so good to have you today on Lost Marriage podcast. |
| 0:55.5 | Thank you for taking time to be with us. |
| 0:58.1 | Yeah, thanks for having me on. |
| 0:59.9 | Well, the book gets really real and making sure about Lead Me isn't just a song lyric, |
| 1:05.5 | but really the way you live and the intentions in that process. |
| 1:08.8 | So talk a little about it, the circumstances, really that just led to the song, lead me, which I know has impacted so many people over the |
| 1:15.6 | years. Yeah, thanks. You know, in probably 2007 or 2008, I had been on the road full time |
| 1:25.8 | after marrying my wife, Sarah. And she was with me for the first |
| 1:29.6 | four years. So in 2005, she left the road. And it really felt like kind of a departure of our dream, |
| 1:37.2 | you know, of being on the road together. She went home because we had our first daughter. And then I kind of continued this adventure that we |
| 1:47.5 | were once on together. But now I was doing this with the band while she was at home. So we were really |
| 1:53.4 | trying to adjust to this season of, well, first I'll say it took a long time to adjust to the |
| 2:00.2 | communication living on the road, |
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