REPLAY - Al Andrews
Instrumental with Dave & JJ Heller
JJ Heller
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
You know those people who just make you feel like everything is gonna be okay? Like a big ol' hug for your soul? Our guest this week is one of those. Al Andrews is the kind of person who somehow validates who you are as a person while simultaneously challenging you to step into the potential of who you could be. He's the founder of a counseling service for touring artists here in Nashville called Porter's Call.
His story is surprising, emotional, and powerful, and we think it's going to be really difficult to not fall in love with Al Andrews after you hear what he has to share. If you need a reminder today of God's miraculous ability to bring restoration and redemption, this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's JJ. And Dave. Welcome back to Instrumental rerun episode four. Yeah, we are |
| 0:08.9 | revisiting some of our favorite and some of the most popular episodes of Instrumental since we |
| 0:14.9 | started in 2020. And today's episode is Al Andrews. Yay, Al. |
| 0:22.2 | Al facilitates a counseling service right down the street from us. |
| 0:25.9 | It's called Porter's Call. |
| 0:27.6 | And they specifically help artists who are touring and on the road. |
| 0:33.1 | On a personal level, Dave and I have both benefited from Porter's Call and the wonderful |
| 0:40.7 | counsel that we've received there. |
| 0:42.3 | And I would wager that just about every artist that you have heard on our show has benefited |
| 0:49.2 | from a relationship with Al Andrews and Porter's Call. |
| 0:52.5 | That's probably true. |
| 0:54.1 | Something that's incredible about this episode is Al talks about his experience |
| 0:59.7 | visiting death row inmates in maximum security prisons and building relationships with them |
| 1:06.1 | to the degree that he considers them his friends. |
| 1:10.4 | And then he has also built relationships with some of the |
| 1:13.8 | most famous musicians that live here in Nashville. And he treats them all the same. Yeah, he is |
| 1:20.3 | definitely a wise voice in the lives of so many people, ourselves included, and I think you guys are really going |
| 1:29.2 | to enjoy hearing from Al. Here we go. |
| 1:32.9 | I'm J.J. Heller, and this is Instrumental, a show about the big and small moments that shape |
| 1:39.6 | our lives. In every episode, my guest and I start near the end of their story and work our way back |
| 1:46.6 | to the beginning. I hope our conversation reminds you that every second matters, because none of us |
| 1:52.9 | knows which moment will be the one that changes everything. |
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