FAITH AND FREEDOM WITH SHEMANE – OCTOBER 5, 2025

Podcast: Real America’s Voice
Host: Shemane Nugent
Release Date: October 5, 2025

Episode Overview

This episode of Faith and Freedom with Shemane explores a range of topics through frank interviews and spirited discussion, all anchored in faith, freedom, and American values. The episode centers on alternative health perspectives (including controversial claims about nicotine), the crucial role of mothers in society, the impact of new legislative efforts in public safety, and holistic approaches to healing, both physically and mentally. Notable guests include Dr. Brian Ardis, mom coach Hannah Keeley, journalist Britt McHenry, and holistic health advocate Sarah Brandow.

Key Segments & Insights

1. Dr. Brian Ardis on Nicotine: Myths, Health Benefits, and Best Practices

[00:36 – 11:37]

Main Points & Insights:

• Challenging Mainstream Views: Dr. Ardis asserts that nicotine is not as addictive or dangerous as commonly portrayed, contending that it is found naturally in many vegetables (eggplant, tomatoes, potatoes, etc.), not just tobacco.
  • “Nicotine is not addictive as you’ve been told. Number two, nicotine is actually found in multiple vegetables you eat every week.” – Dr. Ardis [01:56]
• Health Benefits: Claims that nicotine, as a “God-designed nutrient,” offers therapeutic potential for various conditions, including neurological diseases (Parkinson’s, MS, Alzheimer’s), Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, type 1 diabetes, myocarditis, some cancers, and autism spectrum behaviors.
  • “Nicotine is a preventative agent and an improving agent... It is published that nicotine is a preventative agent and an improving agent if you eat it or use it.” – Dr. Ardis [02:49]
  • “Right now, oncologists around the world are using nicotine... to reverse specific cancers like pancreatic cancers, brain tumors called glioblastomas and others.” – Dr. Ardis [05:09]
• Best Use Strategies:
  • Recommends starting slow with low doses (1–3mg/day), using patches (due to slower absorption and clinical study design).
  • Warns against high-dose oral products.
  • Emphasizes moderation and gradual increase.
  • Tips for safe use: “If you only have a 2mg gum at home, I would recommend you bite it in half for the first week or so.” [07:49]

Notable Moment:

• Host Shemane Nugent shares her own use: “I've never said this publicly. I use nicotine. And I have seen some benefits.” [05:33]

Safety Reminder:

• Start with the lowest dose, be mindful of nausea or other side effects.
• “Nicotine releases viruses, releases poisons from the body, including glyphosate, out of your cells. So when you’re detoxing, I always recommend slower is better.” – Dr. Ardis [10:33]

2. Hannah Keeley: Reclaiming Faith, Capacity, and Joy in Motherhood

[14:34 – 23:42]

Main Points & Insights:

• The Value of Motherhood:
  • The biggest threat to families is often internal—mothers devaluing their own role.
  • “If a mom devalues her role, she’s not going to invest in herself. She’s not going to try to get any coaching or training... I mean, we are shaping future generations.” – Hannah Keeley [14:50]
• Building Capacity, Not Succumbing to Overwhelm:
  • Overwhelm happens in absence of the “right training.” Mothers should seek out skills, routines, and faith to expand their capacity.
  • Suggests “mom brain hacks” like the “Lifestyles of Rock Star Moms” technique: behaving as if cameras are always rolling to raise one’s standard and intentionality.
    • “Pretend today there’s a camera on you, you’re on a show... With that mentality, like, we know we’re always being watched, our kids are watching us, right?” – Keeley [18:50]
• Faith & Seasons:
  • Shemane raises the importance of faith in difficult motherhood seasons and cherishing fleeting moments.
  • Encouragement: “Every single thing that we want actually is already within us... God gives it to us in seed form.” – Keeley [21:29]
• Call to Action for Moms:
  • “Ask God right now, what is it in my home?...that I can now plant and start to grow a harvest?” [22:59]

Resource:

• Keeley’s training programs for moms at mommastery.com and hannakey.com

3. Britt McHenry: The Tragedy, Politics, and Implications of Irina’s Law

[25:22 – 35:36]

Main Points & Insights:

• Context for Irina’s Law:
  • Law named after Irina Zarutska, who was murdered on public transportation in Charlotte.
  • Targets reforms like eliminating cashless bail, involuntary commitment for some mentally ill offenders, reassessment of the death penalty in NC.
  • “What it [Irina’s Law] intends to do is eliminate cashless bail… and also… overturn the death penalty’s use.” – Britt McHenry [26:13]
• Systemic Failures Highlighted:
  • Criticizes judicial leniency for repeat offenders and necessity for systemic and judicial accountability.
    • “If we don’t stop that [leniency], how much more of this can we be looking at?” – Shemane [27:56]
• Faith and Family Roots:
  • McHenry calls for rebuilding faith and community as crime prevention tools.
  • “We need much more faith and values in the home front. That is where the foundation is laid.” – McHenry [28:48]
• Challenges with Social Media & Modern Life:
  • Discusses potential negative impacts of social media on young minds and the need for online protections.
  • “Trying to be famous is what’s eroding our young children’s minds.” – McHenry [33:41]
• Mental Health and Institutional Support:
  • Raises the issue of insufficient mental health systems and reflects on the need for intervention and community support.

Advice for Listeners:

• “Travel in groups if you can… always be constantly aware when you’re in those situations.” – McHenry [31:32]
• Community involvement is key; look out for neighbors and vulnerable people.

4. Sarah Brandow: Food as Medicine, Breast Implant Illness, and Healing Subconscious Wounds

[36:02 – 44:28]

Main Points & Insights:

• Nutrition and the Gut-Brain Connection:
  • Food is more than fuel—critical for neurotransmitter production, hormone health, and systemic inflammation.
    • “Food is one of the most powerful levers we have for health… it actively changes our brain chemistry, our hormones, our systemic inflammation.” – Brandow [36:54]
• Breast Implant Illness:
  • Acknowledges growing medical recognition that implants can cause chronic inflammation, especially in women with underlying health issues.
  • Explant surgery can often result in dramatic improvement.
• Self-Sabotage and the Subconscious:
  • Change requires more than willpower; subconscious beliefs drive most behavior.
  • “About 95% of behavior is driven by the subconscious.” – Brandow [39:48]
  • Calls for environment design and pairing positive affirmations with aligned actions.
• Reprogramming Patterns:
  • “To break these neurofeedback loops: action plus repetition... You have to pair it [the affirmation] with an action that is aligned.” [41:23]
  • Remove toxic external influences—including media and social cues.
• Empowerment:
  • “We’re either being mind-controlled or we get to control our minds.”

Resource:

• Master Your Microbiome course (with a focus on overcoming self-sabotage): sarahbrando.com

Notable Quotes (with Timestamps)

• Dr. Brian Ardis:

  • “Nicotine is a nutrient… given to us as a blessing. And yet science and man has tried to bastardize it, demonize it, as if God created something dangerous—he did not.” [04:55]
  • “Nicotine releases viruses, releases poisons from the body… so when you’re detoxing, I always recommend slower is better.” [10:33]

• Hannah Keeley:

  • “If a mom devalues her role, she’s not going to invest in herself... We are shaping future generations.” [14:50]
  • “God gives it to us in seed form… He will always give you exactly what you need in that moment to be able to go to the next level.” [21:29]

• Britt McHenry:

  • “We need much more faith and values in the home front. We need better parenting systems in place. That is where the foundation is laid.” [28:48]
  • “Trying to be famous is what’s eroding our young children’s minds.” [33:41]

• Sarah Brandow:

  • “Food is one of the most powerful levers we have for health because people think of it in terms of calories or protein or fuel, but it actively changes our brain chemistry.” [36:54]
  • “About 95% of behavior is driven by the subconscious. That’s why I started really diving deep…” [39:48]
  • “We’re either being mind-controlled, or we get to control our minds.” [41:23]

Timeline of Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment Description | |------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 00:36–11:37 | Dr. Brian Ardis—Nicotine myths, health claims, usage tips | | 14:34–23:42 | Hannah Keeley—Motherhood, capacity building, faith | | 25:22–35:36 | Britt McHenry—Irina’s Law, crime, and system critique | | 36:02–44:28 | Sarah Brandow—Nutrition, breast implant illness, subconscious healing |

Tone and Voice

The tone throughout the episode is passionate, faith-oriented, and challenges mainstream narratives. Guests and host adopt both an encouraging and activist stance—pushing for alternative perspectives in health, family, and politics, and constantly invoking both scientific research (sometimes controversially) and faith-based reasoning.

Additional Resources Mentioned

• Dr. Brian Ardis: thedoctorartistshow.com
• Hannah Keeley: mommastery.com, hannakey.com
• Sarah Brandow: sarahbrando.com
• Books by Shemane Nugent: "Abundantly Well" and "Killer House" (Amazon)

Conclusion

This episode delivers strong alternative perspectives on health (especially nicotine and detox), elevates the significance of motherhood and intentional living, dissects the cultural and legislative responses to tragic violence, and offers practical strategies for both physical and emotional healing. Through its guests, it consistently returns to the themes of faith, self-empowerment, and the imperative to “rise to the occasion”—all under the recurring motif: “Perhaps you were born for such a time as this.”