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I want to hear from you! Would you be willing to record a voice-text (90 sec or less) and send it to me? If so, here are the four questions I’d like you to answer!

1) Name
2) Ministry / Role (if applicable)
3) How has the podcast supported you as a teacher/preacher?
4) What was one of your favorite episodes and why? or Favorite takeaway from of the episodes?

If interested - go to this link:

www.ryanohara.org/betterpreach

and send me an email through the CONTACT FORM on the middle of the page and use the subject line: VOICE TEXT.

I’ll send you the details from there!

Again, don’t forget I am shooting to have these by end of day, Friday June 6th, 2025. And while I can’t wait to hear your comments I will be selecting a handful to share on the show for episode 100!

Please reach out to with any questions!

Links

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Better Preach Podcast is now on YouTube. Here’s a link to the channel.

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  Are you Like me? I always watch TV shows and movies at home with captions on. It's one of the reasons I don't want to go to the movie theater. Because I can't do the captions. I don't know if I'm getting old or what it is, but it's just so much better with the captions .

I can follow every little thing that's said, and I feel like I'm understanding what's going on much better, because I can hear it and I can read it. That's kind of the idea that I'm tapping into today. There's this psychological theory called the “dual coding theory. It says that we store information in two ways, words and images.

And if you put them together, there's a much better likelihood that you'll remember the idea. Words connected to images.

Most people are running away from slides. I think you have an opportunity to make incredible slides that can really reinforce the big ideas. From your talk

It's really helped me to communicate ideas better using slides sparingly, but strategically. So I wanna share three principles that really help guide me in that during this episode:

1) Think Images not Text

2) Think Phrases not Paragraphs

3) Build it Last

Tools

For designing slides: canva.com

For finding great free images: unsplash.com

Caravaggio’s “The Call of Matthew” - https://www.caravaggio.org/the-calling-of-saint-matthew.jsp#google_vignette

Links

For more information about the Better Preach Podcast visit: www.ryanohara.org/betterpreach

Better Preach Podcast is now on YouTube. Here’s a link to the channel.

Check out Ryan’s FREE course on “sharing your faith as a Catholic.”

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 I don't know if you know this, but Father Mike Schmitz is a huge fan of Superman, but in my conversation today, you get the really strong impression that he's got a lot more in common with the everyday man, just you and me and the kinds of things that we struggle with. And he shared just humbly and honestly about some of his speaking missteps and struggles and the questions that he has around preaching.

It gives us this beautiful window into the man, the disciple that's, you know, behind the crazy number of views on YouTube and downloads on podcast apps. And by doing so, he gives us each permission to be real with each other and with the Lord, and to name those struggles in our spiritual life.

That we might normally, you know, keep under wraps, but when we share it, it really does shed light on our own lives and the lives that we're in community with. This was a fantastic conversation. I'm so excited for you to hear it.
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Father Mike Schmitz is the Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry for the Diocese of Duluth, as well as the chaplain for the Newman Center at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He has preached to thousands locally and nationally, and is the host of the widely popular Podcasts Bible in a year, and the Catechism in a year, produced by Ascension. Father Mike also offers weekly homilies on iTunes, hallow, and bulldog catholic.org, and weekly videos viewed by millions on YouTube through Ascension presents.

Connect with Fr. Mike and learn more about his mission in campus ministry at University of Minnesota-Duluth here: www.bulldogcatholic.org

Links

For more information about the Better Preach Podcast visit: www.ryanohara.org/betterpreach

Better Preach Podcast is now on YouTube. Here’s a link to the channel.

Check out Ryan’s FREE course on “sharing your faith as a Catholic.”

Follow Ryan on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, or Facebook

Join the Better Preach email list.