What are you really bowing down to every day?

In Episode 4 of Own Yourself, we go back to one of the oldest stories of faith: Abraham and his father, Terah, a man who made his living selling idols in the marketplace. Abraham grew up surrounded by statues people prayed to and trusted. He eventually confronted his father with a simple question: why worship something that can't see, hear, or save you? Why give your devotion to something you made with your own hands?

We look at why this lesson matters more now than ever. Today's idols aren't carved from stone. They're in our pockets. Our phones, our feeds, the influencers we follow, and the screens we check before we even say good morning have become the things we look to for direction, validation, and comfort.

From there, we take on the daily urges that quietly run our lives: the urge to scroll, to overeat, to stay comfortable, to put things off, and to choose what feels good now over who we're trying to become. Owning yourself starts with recognizing what's pulling at you and deciding you're the one in control.

This is Own Yourself. Episode 4

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What if the divine was never hidden or far away? What if we’re surrounded by something greater that we simply haven’t learned how to recognize? This episode explores faith, skepticism, spiritual awakening, life after death, God, consciousness, and the power of becoming still enough to notice what may have been there all along. Sometimes awakening isn’t about finding something new. It’s about finally recognizing what was always there.

This is Own Yourself. Episode 3.

In this episode of Own Yourself, we explore what it really means to awaken during a time when the old ways of understanding ourselves and the world around us may no longer feel complete.

Throughout history, civilizations have experienced moments of profound change, times when old structures faded and new ways of thinking emerged. Could we be experiencing one of those moments now?

This episode is about learning to trust the part of yourself that already knows something is shifting. The synchronicities. The angel numbers. The unexplained feelings. The moments that seem too perfectly timed to simply dismiss. Instead of outsourcing your spiritual understanding to someone else, Own Yourself challenges you to become curious about your own intuition and develop a direct relationship with what spirituality means to you. Maybe it's time to stop hiding in your "spiritual closet." Stop feeling embarrassed about the things you're experiencing. Give yourself permission to question, explore, listen, and discover what resonates with you.

A new age isn't just about what's changing around us. It's about what's awakening within us.

Welcome to Own Yourself, a podcast about waking up to who you really are.

Hello everyone, I'm Scott Snyder, a father, and someone who spent decades building a career in corporate America. On the outside, everything looked the way it was "supposed to", but somewhere along the way, I started noticing the parts of my life that felt disconnected from something deeper. That's when everything began to shift in my life.

This podcast is the story of that shift. Episode by episode, I'll be sharing the moments, signs, and realizations that led me to a spiritual awakening I never expected. The healing that's come from finally listening to it. We'll talk about various scriptures, other spiritual traditions and stories, and we'll talk honestly about what it looks like to rebuild your life around purpose instead of just routine.

This isn't about having all the answers. It's about being willing to look inward, ask harder questions, and trust that there's more to life than the version we're handed by default. If you're someone who's felt that quiet pull toward something more, whether you're deep in your career, raising a family, or just sensing that something in you is ready to change. Then this podcast is for you.