In this episode of After Peter Pan, host Pat Tenneriello sits down with Austin May—a 23-year-old preparing for pastoral ministry—to explore faith, forgiveness, and the weight of answering a calling. Austin shares his journey from hedonism, anger, and resentment toward a life shaped by conviction, including the pivotal moment he confronted his hatred toward his father and chose forgiveness. Pat and Austin dive into what religion offers beyond self-help and psychotherapy, the difference between self-improvement and surrender, and what it means to take belief seriously when it demands responsibility rather than comfort. Together, they reflect on certainty, doubt, personal transformation, and what “growing up” looks like when faith carries real weight.

What You’ll Learn:

• How forgiveness can become a turning point for personal transformation

• What faith offers that self-help, psychotherapy, and philosophy often can’t

• Why conviction and certainty can feel both freeing and burdensome

• The difference between living for self-improvement and answering a calling

• What growing up really means when belief comes with responsibility

Links:

Booklet - Your Verdict on the Empty Tomb:https://www.amazon.com/Your-Verdict-Val-Grieve/dp/1783971894

In this episode of After Peter Pan, host Pat Tenneriello sits down with the Hon. Leela Aheer—Former Alberta Cabinet Minister, Former Deputy Leader of the United Conservative Party, musician, and a leader in healthcare and AI—to explore Minister, Former Deputy Leader of the United Conservative what it means to stand up for your principles when it isn’t safe or popular. Leela reflects on speaking out against her own party during COVID, the personal and political consequences of choosing integrity, and why she believes silence is the greatest threat to democracy. Pat and Leela dive into the loss of nuance in public discourse, the pressures of political life, the viral moment when she jumped in front of a charging bull, and her path of reinvention rooted in resilience, responsibility, and service.

What You'll Learn:

• Why speaking up during crisis moments can reshape a career—and a life
• How integrity, loyalty, and responsibility intersect in public leadership
• What’s driving division and the loss of nuance in modern civic discourse
• How Leela’s journey reveals the nature of courage, resilience, and reinvention
• How AI and precision medicine may transform the healthcare landscape

Episode Description

In this episode of After Peter Pan, host Pat Tenneriello sits down with Mads Larsen, a researcher and author who studies the evolution of love, and pair bonding. Together, they explore one of the most uncomfortable questions of our time: What happens when modern dating stops working—and what does that mean for our future?

Mads unpacks the history of human mating, from the rise of monogamy to the Tinder era, explaining how technology, freedom, and shifting gender dynamics have created the perfect storm for a global fertility collapse. The conversation dives deep into how men and women are adapting (or failing to), why we may have become too smart for our own survival, and whether society can find balance between individual freedom and collective continuation.

What You’ll Learn:

• How modern dating apps and social trends are reshaping human pair bonding.

• Why declining fertility rates could represent a deeper cultural crisis.

• The evolutionary roots of attraction, love, and family formation.

• How women’s liberation and technological progress changed mating forever.

• What it might take to rebuild connection in an age of hyper-freedom.

Mads Larsen:

• Research Gate

• Google Scholar

• Book: Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder - Link to free download

Photo Credit for Mads: Photo by Øivind Haugen