Founder Testimonies.

The devil never had to speak to these two. Their childhoods did the talking.

One of them was two years old, home alone and starving — his father gone again, probably out in the garage. He dragged a chair across the kitchen, climbed onto the counter, and found himself a box of cereal. Two years old, and already his own father.

The other stood frozen in a Soviet preschool, unable to move or speak. That freeze followed him for thirty years: into a strict church he came to resent, into the bottle, into the panic attacks that kept him awake every night.

These are the two men who started madenew. This is the episode where they finally tell you where they came from — a mom who was sixteen, a father lost to drugs, a daughter born with a diagnosis that brought a grown man to his knees, and the God who was standing in the wreckage of both their lives the whole time.

Two completely different childhoods. The same way out. If you've ever tried to carry your whole life on your own back, you need to hear how these two finally learned to set it down.