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Fresh Hope for Mental Health

Pastor Brad Hoefs

Booking Overview

A faith-centered mental health podcast focused on living well with diagnoses, offering both practical hope and guest journeys. Ideal for PR outreach to Christian authors, speakers, and people with lived experience who can speak to recovery, treatment, and restoration with sensitivity and conviction.

Metrics

Episodes: 100

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

YouTube: 975 subscribers

Instagram: 4.5k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

bradhoefs@yahoo.com

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Host

Pastor Brad Hoefs - Pastor Brad Hoefs is the founder of Fresh Hope Ministries and the host of Fresh Hope for Mental Health. He is also the author of “Fresh Hope: Living Well in Spite of a Mental Health Diagnosis.”

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Christian authors/speakers or individuals with lived experience of a mental health diagnosis who can share a recovery journey (often including diagnosis, treatment/therapy/medication experiences) and a faith-centered message for living well.
Required Achievements:  
Authored a book related to their diagnosis or recovery, Public speaking / author platform (for speakers/authors), Documented personal journey that can be translated into practical hope for listeners

Recent Guest Discussions

J.M.D. Myers - Living With OCD As A Misidentified “spiritual” Issue; Diagnosis As Healing; Faith-grounded Perspective On Belonging And Identity; Her Book “but What If I’m The 99th?” And Theatre Work.

Adam Flesner - Bipolar Disorder; Medication And Stability; Relapse, Addiction, And Substance Use; Suicide Attempt And Stabilization; Rebuilding Life And Pursuing Theology.

Maria I. Morgan - Anxiety And Depression; Treatment/therapy And Faith; Later Deeper Root Causes; Suicide Attempts And Psychosis Episode; Restoration And Her Upcoming/related Books (including “hope Ignited”).

Recent Topics

Mental Health, Christianity, Anxiety, Bipolar, Ocd

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Fresh Hope for Mental Health
:

Meet Tim Boyd — Joining Us at Celebration of Hope on September 3

August 14, 2026

In this episode of the Fresh Hope for Mental Health Podcast, Pastor Brad sits down with Tim Boyd — husband, father of five, former pastor of 20 years, author of two books, and comedian — for a candid conversation about family, faith, and the realities of raising kids who've experienced trauma. Tim shares his story alongside his family's international adoption journey, opening up about the joys and the challenges of parenting children who carry the weight of past trauma. Tim also serves as the...

"But What If I'm the 99th?" — A Conversation with J.M.D. Myers

May 24, 2026

In this powerful episode, J.M.D. Myers shares her personal journey with OCD — a journey that for years was misread as a spiritual problem. Growing up in a devout Christian family in Massachusetts, JDM was a child who took her faith seriously. But what looked to others like legalism or being overly judgmental was actually undiagnosed OCD. For years she carried the weight of that misidentification, feeling like something was fundamentally wrong with her spiritually — and the guilt that came wit...

Still Here: Adam Flesner's Journey Through Bipolar Disorder

May 18, 2026

In this episode of the Fresh Hope for Mental Health Podcast, Pastor Brad interviews Adam Flesner about his powerful story documented in his book, Still Here: A Bipolar Survival Manual. Adam shares his journey with bipolar disorder, beginning in 2011 while he was in college. At first, doctors believed he was struggling with depression and prescribed an antidepressant, which triggered his first manic episode and eventually led to a bipolar diagnosis. Adam openly discusses the difficult years t...

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bradhoefs@yahoo.com

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