Become Who You Are

Updated: 16 Dec 2025 • 687 episodes
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What’s the meaning and purpose of my life? What is my true identity? Why were we created male and female? How do I find happiness, joy and peace? How do I find love that lasts, forever? These are the timeless questions of the human heart. Join Jack Rigert and his guests for lively insights, reading the signs of our times through the lens of Catholic Teaching and the insights of Saint John Paul ll to guide us. Saint Catherine of Siena said "Become who you are and you would set the world on fire". 

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Love isn’t a mood that lasts forever; it’s a mission that matures.  We trace the arc from infatuation to mature love, explaining what happens when the early hormone rush fades and why that moment is the invitation to choose each other anew. Costanza reframes “submission”

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A late recording on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe turns into a fierce meditation on a world that feels unhinged and the mother who leads us to her Son. We trace a throughline from John’s Gospel and the order of creation to Juan Diego’s roses in winter and the tilma t

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Advent sharpens our memory and our courage, and that’s where we start: gratitude for the return of public faith and a renewed freedom to say Merry Christmas without apology. From there we move straight into the central question young people are asking in a noisy, anxious

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Jack discusses the decline of Western civilization, emphasizing the importance of faith, family, and cultural identity. He highlights the spiritual battle against ideologies that threaten individual identity and moral values.  He then calls for action through the Claymore

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Tom Hampson is with Jack to dig into the newly released HHS review of youth gender medicine and what it asserts about puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery for minors. You’ll hear why many countries are recalibrating toward psychotherapy and mental health supp

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Feeling pressured to pick between Socialism and Capitalism? We challenge that trap and make a case for a third way that takes human dignity seriously, starts in the heart, and rebuilds culture from the ground up. We walk through why many young people gravitate toward soci

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