The Untold Story Behind the Laughing with Lions Premiere
Most podcasts begin quietly. Ours began with a red carpet, a live audience, and a spiritual assignment. We didn’t pick October 31st because we love that date. We chose “the 31st” because we refused to surrender that night to fear, darkness, or culture.
Instead, we filled it with laughter, deliverance stories, prophetic words, and a roar that reached from Decatur, Illinois to the Philippines, Texas, and beyond - live.
🌍 A Red Carpet, a Late Night, and a Global Room
The room was full, but it wasn’t just the room. From the stage, we welcomed people watching from:
- The Philippines
- Dixon, Illinois
- Austin and Dallas, Texas
And other places tuning in online as the cameras went live
A red carpet stretched across the front. We joked about doing a runway walk because if women are going to heal, they might as well look fabulous doing it. There was laughter about “tall hair anointing,” “heavenly hair,” and the old saying: “The higher the hair, the closer to Jesus.”
It looked playful. But underneath the jokes, God was setting the stage for something much deeper.
🎭 Meet the Coach and the Comedian
We introduced ourselves the way Heaven framed this show:
- The Coach – an apostolic, mental health, biblical and professional life coach
- The Comedian – a minister with a sharp wit, contagious joy, and a testimony of radical deliverance
We told you up front:
This podcast is for the silenced, the searching, and the called. Two prophetic voices. Two inner-healing mentors. Two sisters in the roar—committed to walking with women who refuse to stay bound, silent, or small.
💧 Lisa’s Why: Deliverance in a Bathroom
Lisa shared her why first. Not from a pulpit. From a bathroom floor—28 years earlier. She talked about a night when someone told her she had a choice: “You can have the path Jesus has… or you can keep going the way you were.”
She described two weeks of wrestling: “Devil, if you’re real, you can’t have me. Jesus, if You’re real, You need to come now.”
And then—He did.
Fear broke. Oppression lifted. Depression and anxiety left.
She said people asked if she’d joined a cult because she had so much joy. But it wasn’t a cult. It was Jesus. Real Jesus. Deliverer Jesus.
From that bathroom forward, her why became clear: “My big why is to see others delivered and set free—and to tell as many people as possible that Jesus is real, personal, and still heals.”
🌿 Cheryl’s Why: A Mother’s Near-Death and a Generational Call
Then it was time to go deeper. Cheryl’s why didn’t start in a bathroom. It started with a little girl—her mother—five years old, abused from age 5 to 16.
Her mother died at five, went to Heaven, and sat on Jesus’ lap. And there, Jesus gave her a choice: “You can stay here… or you can go back. If you go back, your children and your grandchildren will change the earth.”
Her mother chose to come back.
She endured years more of abuse so that one day Cheryl could sit under bright lights, on a red carpet, and tell women:
- Jesus still heals abuse structures.
- He still breaks generational strongholds.
- He still turns trauma into testimony.
For 25 years, God has been teaching her how the enemy builds his kingdom through abusive systems—and how to tear those structures down so generations can be free.
That’s not entertainment.
That’s a war mandate disguised as a podcast.
📖 Isaiah 61: The Roar Word of the Day
We shared our shared prophetic call:
Isaiah 61 women.
“To proclaim good news to the poor. To bind up the brokenhearted. To proclaim freedom for the captives. To comfort those who mourn. To give beauty for ashes.”
This isn’t just a favorite scripture. It’s a job description.
Laughing with Lions isn’t about noise. It’s about freedom with evidence.
🔥 Prophetic Roar: When the Podcast Turned into Ministry
Then came our favorite part:
The Prophetic Roar.
In the room that night:
A young man named Luis was called out as a “double agent”—a stealthy runner carrying the Word of God like secret letters in the night. Where he once felt insecure, God called him a secure agent, a messenger, a deliverer of truth.
A man in a Nike hat was told he had businesses in his belly—that God would multiply what he stewarded well and that “there’s more in your future, and that more will multiply.”
A quiet cake maker was told her baking carries a spiritual assignment—that God uses her cakes to fill bellies and hearts, releasing freedom around those she blesses.
This wasn’t just content.
It was activation.
Heaven was marking ordinary people with extraordinary purpose—in the middle of a “podcast premiere.”
📅 What Happens After the Premiere?
Then we shared the practical side of the roar:
New episodes drop every Tuesday
7 PM – so you can wind down, laugh, and heal after a long day
You can watch on:
YouTube – Laughing with Lions Podcast
Spotify – Laughing with Lions Podcast
Shared to Facebook so you can easily find and share
Our first episode?
“Perceptions” – a deep dive into what happens when your perception is lying to you, how assumptions become judgments, and how Heaven wants to free your thinking.
We even created a Perceptions handout—a printable resource you can use at home, with friends, or with a small group.
You can grab resources at:
And if an episode hits you deeply, we want to hear your story:
🚀 The Launch Crew: A Roaring Inner Circle
We finished the night by inviting our first Launch Crew: The first 24 people who signed up received swag bags—including a Laughing with Lions tumbler and a fun calendar to remember Tuesdays with the Lions.
Launch Crew members get:
- Early notifications
- Free attendance to live events like the premiere
- Simple guides on how to share episodes, comment, review, and invite others into freedom
Because this isn’t just a show.
It’s a movement of women (and the men who love them) who believe that:
- Freedom should be normal.
- Laughter is holy.
- Healing is for now.
And no one heals alone.
🐾 Your Invitation: Step Into the Roar
If you’ve ever:
- Survived trauma and wondered if your story still matters
- Fought anxiety, fear, or depression and felt “too much” or “too broken”
- Loved Jesus but wished someone would talk honestly about abuse, mental health, and deliverance
- Wanted to laugh again and not feel guilty about it
Then Laughing with Lions was created with you in mind.
You didn’t find this by accident.
This is your freedom season.
🦁 Here’s how to join us:
- Watch the Premiere Replay on YouTube – Laughing with Lions Podcast
- Subscribe on YouTube & Spotify so you don’t miss Tuesdays at 7 PM
- Download the Perceptions handout at LaughingWithLions.com
- Email your story or testimony to [email protected]
- Pray about joining the Launch Crew when we open the next round.
Because when women rise, when truth is told, when laughter and deliverance sit on the same couch… The roar of freedom becomes impossible to ignore. And we would be honored to roar with you.
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