THE UPLOAD - Franni Cash: Escaping a Cult, Hearing God's Voice & Finding the Real Jesus
The Bobby Bones Show
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4.8 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Upload, Brooke Taylor and Pastor Mark Evans sit down with singer-songwriter Franni Cash for one of the most vulnerable conversations yet. Known to many as the former frontwoman of We The Kingdom, Franni opens up about the painful reality of growing up in a controlling religious cult, the long road to healing, and how she ultimately discovered the true heart of Jesus.
Franni shares how her family's involvement with a manipulative spiritual leader distorted her view of God from a young age. After the group's abuse and deception were publicly exposed, she found herself wrestling with church hurt, forgiveness, and one life-changing question: Who is Jesus, really?
Rather than walking away from faith, Franni dove into Scripture for herself. Through reading the Gospels, she encountered a Savior who wasn't controlling or condemning, but gentle, compassionate, and deeply personal. She reflects on how learning to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit transformed her understanding of God's character—and gave her the confidence to follow Him instead of relying on the opinions of others.
Together, they discuss:
- Escaping spiritual abuse and rebuilding faith
- The difference between religion and a relationship with Jesus
- Why church hurt doesn't have to be the end of your story
- Learning to hear God's voice for yourself
- The role of pastors, discernment, and spiritual authority
- Forgiveness, healing, and finding freedom after trauma
- Why authentic storytelling matters in Christian music
Franni also shares what led her to step away from We The Kingdom and launch her solo career. She opens up about writing deeply personal songs—including Raised by Wolves—and why she felt God calling her to tell the difficult parts of her story in hopes that others would find healing, freedom, and the courage to believe they aren't alone.
This episode is an honest reminder that even when people misrepresent God, Jesus remains the same. He isn't afraid of your questions, your doubts, or your pain—and He is still in the business of redeeming broken stories.
🎧 If you've experienced church hurt, questioned your faith, or longed to hear God's voice for yourself, this conversation offers hope that healing is possible—and that the real Jesus is far kinder than you may have imagined.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Hey, y'all. |
| 0:05.1 | It's Frannie Cash. |
| 0:06.2 | My journey started with learning to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit for myself. |
| 0:09.2 | There's a throne in your heart that only God can sit on and everything else are just things. |
| 0:14.8 | The same power that raised Jesus from the dead lives in me. |
| 0:17.4 | You don't need anything else. |
| 0:18.8 | And this is the upload. |
| 0:25.6 | Well, I'm excited about this. |
| 0:30.6 | I feel like a lot of us, we fell in love with your voice with your work with We the Kingdom, |
| 0:35.5 | but recently stepped into this new season of solo music. And her songs, they are honest, |
| 0:37.5 | they are vulnerable, they are full of hope. And we're excited that Brandy Cash is on the upload. Hey y'all, what's up? How are you? I'm great. Thank you so much for having me today. I'm really excited about this. Everybody didn't just get to see the microphone fiasco that we just want. We trauma bonded. We are ready to go. We've got the sky now, so we're good again. Broken mic. He is Friday Mercury. Broken microphone. We're working with it. |
| 0:56.7 | But I always say that |
| 0:57.7 | there's always a like Holy Spirit mission when stuff happens. You know, you can get mad about it. But it's like all of the technical difficulties, all of the breaking, all of the suffering, if you will. Like it's for a reason. Yeah, 100%. I like to make the devil mad. Oh, girl. That's a good sign. We make you mad this morning. Clearly. Sure. We always start these conversations, just kind of getting to know you and your heart. I know a lot of times in interviews, people are probably like, tell me about your next song. Tell me about what's coming up. |
| 1:28.0 | But here we want to know about you and your heart and where you are and kind of not have you on a stage, but have, you know, the Holy Spirit, the Lord on the stage. And we're sitting around a table, just having conversation as friends. So first and foremost, if you could in, I don't know, a short little blurb, just kind of like tell us about your faith and what you believe in. |
| 1:47.3 | Yeah, I love that. Well, first off, I love your podcast. I'm literally hot off the press listening to the Lauren Elena episode this morning. |
| 1:54.5 | We just saw my gosh. I was like, oh my word, like when she was talking about, well, what was crazy to me was when she said that her dad, when her dad was, her stepdad was passing. |
| 2:09.4 | And he said, he was seeing people in heaven and he said, and you'll remember better than I did, but he was like, oh, you're in here? |
| 2:16.5 | She was like, what are you doing here? |
| 2:18.3 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 2:18.7 | What are you doing here? |
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