{"podcast":{"title":"Team Never Quit","slug":"team-never-quit-218766","podcast_index_feed_id":218766,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5035699.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5035699","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/40161815.jpg","author":"Marcus Luttrell","episode_count":467,"summary":"Each week join Retired Navy SEAL and Lone Survivor Marcus Luttrell, Melanie Luttrell, and their son and Producer Hunter Juneau as they’ll take you into the \"briefing room\" to chat with incredible guests who share their greatest never quit stories. This humorous, heartfelt, and entertaining podcast is changing lives and has become a beacon of hope and resilience to those who are facing the impossible. One of the best ways we can support our community is to share their stories so that we might inspire others to Never Quit.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T20:21:28.356898+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/team-never-quit-218766"},"episode":{"title":"Wendi Rees: From Trauma to Triumph Through Faith, Author & Host of Truth Talk","slug":"wendi-rees-from-trauma-to-triumph-through-faith-author-host-of-truth-talk","published_at":"2026-03-18T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/team-never-quit-218766/wendi-rees-from-trauma-to-triumph-through-faith-author-host-of-truth-talk","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/team-never-quit-218766","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8874857","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/arttrk.com/p/ABMA5/clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8874857.mp3?modified=1773844031&sid=5035699&source=rss","summary":"From Victim to Victor: Wendi Rees on Faith, Trauma, and Unexpected Paths to Healing What if the tools for healing were already placed within God’s creation? And what if the journey toward restoration could be both deeply spiritual and profoundly transformative? This week’s Team Never Quit Podcast guest, Wendi Rees, is an author, speaker, and podcast host who brings a powerful testimony of faith, resilience, and healing. In her new book, The Christian’s Guide to Psychedelics: Finding Hope and Healing Through God’s Creation , Wendi explores a thoughtful and faith-centered perspective on the role certain substances—such as Ibogaine, Psilocybin, MDMA, and Ketamine—may play in addressing trauma, addiction, and depression. But at the heart of Wendi’s story is not a substance—it’s Jesus Christ. A survivor of childhood sexual abuse beginning at age 11, Wendi spent decades wrestling with the lasting effects of trauma, shame, and identity. Through faith, prayer, and a long journey of surrender, she discovered a powerful truth: the Bible does not define believers as victims, but as victors through Christ. In this deeply honest conversation, Wendi shares how learning to see herself through God’s eyes rather than the lens of trauma became a turning point in her life. She opens up about the difficulty of trusting others after abuse, the challenge of releasing burdens to God, and the transformative power of understanding the unconditional love of the Father. Wendi explains that her work and writing are not about promoting psychedelics—but about exploring whether some of God’s creations, when approached prayerfully and responsibly, might serve as tools that point people back to the ultimate source of healing: Jesus. Today, she helps individuals and groups walk through journeys of resi…","meta_description":"From Victim to Victor: Wendi Rees on Faith, Trauma, and Unexpected Paths to Healing What if the tools for healing were already placed within God’s creatio…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5385,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/team-never-quit-218766/episodes/wendi-rees-from-trauma-to-triumph-through-faith-author-host-of-truth-talk/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/team-never-quit-218766/wendi-rees-from-trauma-to-triumph-through-faith-author-host-of-truth-talk.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}