Become Who You Are

Updated: 14 Nov 2025 • 678 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” What if the ache you feel isn’t a flaw to fix but a fire to aim? We open with the shocking power of eros—the sudden arrest of beauty, the pulse of attraction—and follow it to its true end: a life of self-gift that can heal hearts, families, and even a nation fraying at th

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A hidden magazine in fifth grade. A dopamine hit. A secret that follows a boy into high school, dating, and marriage. That’s how our conversation starts, and from there we get honest about why porn isn’t just a bad habit—it’s a widespread, tech-fueled crisis that reshapes

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A generation raised on endless noise is choosing silence, beauty, and order. We sit down with Catholic writer and Latin Mass altar server Jacob Plante to explore why Gen Z is showing up at the traditional Latin Mass in growing numbers Jacob shares his own story of a deepe

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Start with the unpopular truth: the surest privilege isn’t race, money or status, it’s growing up with a married mom and dad who stay together.  Then the shock of Charlie Kirk’s assassination... but it’s the two sided response that sheds light on where we are as a people—

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” If your heart feels restless and the world feels loud, you’re not broken—you’re being called. We dive into the ache beneath anxiety and distraction and show how that desire is the starting line of a meaningful life. First the heart stirs, then the culture collides with it

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Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Headlines say one thing, moral logic says another. We sat down with Phil Lawler to unpack the storm around a lifetime award for Senator Dick Durbin, the so-called “consistent ethic of life,” climate pageantry, and immigration debates—and to draw bright lines between intri

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