Praying for Healing (Guest: Sam Collier)

Dear Future Wifey

Laterras R. Whitfield

Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Education, Christianity, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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“I didn’t want to do this interview.” That’s how this interview opens up—and what follows is one of the most raw and vulnerable conversations we’ve ever had.

Sam shares:

👶 Growing up as 1 of 5 kids in poverty with a drug-addicted father

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 How his incredible adoptive parents changed his life trajectory

💔 His public divorce and the ripple effect it had on his ministry and professional world

🏛️ Why the system of church often leaves no room for pastors to heal, recover, or experience redemption

🔥 And how Laterras pushed him to places he wasn’t comfortable going—but needed to

This episode is about grace, truth, and the courage to tell your story—even when it hurts.

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0:00.0	I didn't want to interview you. I get a lot of backlash. But listen, I got to be submitted to what God called me to do.
0:06.7	Who is Sam Collier? You know, I'm rediscovering that. My life started in poverty. My mother had five kids at 21.
0:14.3	Me and my twin sister were the fourth and fifth. Do you struggle with abandonment issues?
0:18.2	The Lord did a supernatural work with my adoptive parents.
0:22.2	They made adoption of fairy tale.
0:24.1	We were going to preschool telling everybody we were adopted.
0:26.6	And they were going to their parents saying, can we be adopted?
0:29.2	What I discovered from that is that I did not have an abandonment wound.
0:32.8	I had an attachment wound.
0:35.1	Everybody leaves me.
0:36.3	I don't leave them.
0:37.0	Which means I'll stay in something.
0:39.2	Way too long. What led to your divorce? It wasn't like one led with it, the other one did a
0:45.1	countersuit and y'all made a joint decision to go ahead and file? You know, it was a little more
0:48.6	complicated than that. For the sake of honoring her, there was a discussion and we landed on the
0:53.4	joint filing.
0:51.3	What is your hope when it comes to your ex-wife? Hope about what? I don't know. You tell me. I want to give real answers. That's what I want. I remember having a lot of hope. The divorce is so tumultuous that I forgot. I'm going to just be honest. And I have never said any of this publicly. There's an obvious hurt, right? I don't want to be the butt of a joke,
0:53.4	but I want her to be everything I don't want to be the
1:11.1	butt of a joke, but I want her to be everything God's call her to be because I remember when I met her, I saw it on her life. And she's the mother of my son. I want him to see her amazing. I want him to see what I saw? And I want to do the same. What does it mean to be Sam 2.0? And I get it because you're held to a higher standard.
1:28.1	I've apologized to the public and my commitment to the public is to be better than I've
1:32.1	ever been.
1:32.8	But if we are believers, there is no evidence in the text of repentance, grace, restoration,
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