{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":" David Petrash in the hot seat ","description":"In this powerful episode of Listen Bitch Presents: Tell Me Why You’re Special, I sit down with David Petrash — Navy submariner, pastor, entrepreneur, author, leadership speaker, and survivor of devastating personal loss — for one of the most honest conversations about faith, leadership, mental health, surrender, and rebuilding your life after collapse.\n\nDavid shares the deeply personal story of how infidelity, divorce, church collapse, emotional burnout, and a mental breakdown led to a complete unraveling of his identity and eventually landed him in a mental institution for three months. Instead of destroying him permanently, that season became the beginning of a completely different relationship with God.\n\nWe discuss authentic Christian leadership, overcoming mental health struggles, surrendering control, rebuilding faith after trauma, leadership pressure, divorce recovery, emotional healing, letting go of outcomes, trusting God during suffering, and why real faith is often built in broken places.\n\nDavid also talks about his book The Ripple of Faith, his music projects including songs releasing on Spotify, and the importance of focusing outward instead of becoming consumed by fear, shame, or self-protection.\n\nThis conversation dives deep into Christianity, spiritual growth, emotional resilience, healing from betrayal, leadership burnout, mental health recovery, purpose, obedience, and trusting God when life completely falls apart.\n\nIf you’ve ever questioned your purpose, struggled with faith, carried hidden pain, or wondered whether God could still use your story after disaster… this episode is going to hit hard.\n\nThis is not polished church talk.\n\nThis is survival, surrender, rebuilding, and faith made real.\n\nDavid Alan Petrash is a submariner, pastor, businessman,\nand water-treatment professional whose life bridges faith,\nservice, and leadership. He served eight years aboard U.S.\nNavy nuclear submarines as a nuclear engineer before\nembarking on a distinguished career in industrial water\ntreatment, where he became a Certified Water Technologist and award-winning corporate trainer with Nalco Water, Solenis, and Siemens.\n\nAlongside his technical career, David spent more than three decades as Senior Pastor of Grace Point Vineyard Church in Wolfeboro, NH and Connections Vineyard Church in Tucson, AZ, where he delivered hundreds of sermons that blend scriptural depth with everyday wisdom.\n\nToday, David and his wife, Trina, co-own City Wide Facility Solutions of Southern Arizona, a multimillion-dollar enterprise serving regional businesses. Drawing from his unique background - from submarine hulls to the pulpit and the boardroom - David writes with both authority and compassion, inspiring readers to live with faith, courage, and purpose.\n\nhttps://www.rippleoffaith.com/","author_name":"Listen Bitch Presents TELL ME WHY YOU'RE SPECIAL","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5166895-listen-bitch-presents-tell-me-why-you-re-special","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43445070/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}