In this unforgettable episode of The Overdrive Podcast, we explore what happens when faith, grit, and brotherhood collide. CBA Support Center team members Mike Simmons, Brad Fink, and Cameron Giddings joined a group of brothers to take on a grueling ultramarathon in the Texas heat, pushing their minds and bodies to the edge. This story of endurance, transformation, and faith will challenge you to face your own wall and find the strength waiting on the other side.
What does it take to reach your breaking point and keep going anyway? What does it take to confront the limits of your body, your mind, and your comfort, and still refuse to quit?
In Beyond the Wall: Pushing Past Your Limits, we explore one of the deepest truths about personal growth. Real transformation does not happen in easy seasons. It happens when you willingly step into the hard things, trust God through the struggle, and keep moving when everything in you wants to stop.
This episode follows the journey of CBA Support Center team members Mike Simmons, Brad Fink, and Cameron Giddings as they joined a group of brothers to take on the Rattler 50K Ultramarathon in Burnet, Texas. Over six hours of rocky terrain, steep climbs, scorching sun, and rising heat pushed every runner to confront exhaustion, pain, and self doubt.
The race became a real time lesson in endurance and faith. You will hear how Mike took a hard fall on the trail, hit the ground, regrouped through pain, and kept pressing forward. You will hear how Manny battled severe calf cramps and still pushed to mile 20. You will hear how Freddy fought heat exhaustion and hallucinations but refused to give up. You will hear how Brad trained harder than anyone but reached a point where his body physically failed, yet with full humility and pride in his brothers, he stood at the finish line cheering with joy.
These moments reveal the heart of brotherhood. Support. Encouragement. A shared grit that binds people together when the trail gets rough. This race was not about finishing first. It was about finishing with purpose. Every step carried a deeper meaning rooted in faith, discipline, and belief that growth lives on the other side of hardship.
Through this story, the episode breaks down some of the most important lessons we can learn about life and leadership.
• How to keep moving when your strength feels gone.
• Why pain often signals the beginning of transformation.
• Why God does some of His strongest work when you feel the weakest.
• How brotherhood and community can carry you through the hard seasons that are too heavy to walk alone.
• Why the moments that break you open often become the moments that rebuild you stronger.
This is not a running story. This is a life story. It is about finding out who you are when comfort is stripped away. It is about leaning on faith when fear begins to rise. It is about understanding that the wall you hit is not the end of your journey but the starting point of who you are becoming.
No matter what your personal wall looks like, this episode will challenge you to take the next step. And then the next. And then another. Small, faithful steps that build strength over time.
Because growth does not happen before the wall. It happens when you break through it.