This week on the Engage Your Destiny Podcast, we sit down with Andrea Hand, artist, songwriter, and founder of Sound of Hope, for a powerful conversation about suicide, trauma, mental health, and the healing power of faith.

Andrea shares how her life changed after losing three people to suicide in a single year, including her cousin. What began as a calling in music became a mission to confront the silence around mental health and help people find hope, healing, and freedom.

From touring with Carrie Underwood and appearing on The Voice, to building a nonprofit that helps remove the stigma around emotional pain, Andrea opens up about what unresolved trauma, hidden wounds, and core lies can do to a person’s life if left unaddressed.

This conversation goes deeper than mental health awareness. It is about truth, inner healing, community, and learning how to walk with God in a world filled with noise, distraction, isolation, and artificial intelligence. Andrea shares why faith matters, why healing is often a process, and why no one should suffer in silence.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Andrea Hand’s background in music and ministry
02:00 Losing three people to suicide in one year
05:00 The beginning of Sound of Hope
06:00 Suicide, mental health, and the church’s blind spot
07:30 The vision for the Sound of Hope docuseries
10:00 Trauma, core lies, and inner healing
18:30 Rejection, identity, and the music industry
27:00 Why Andrea is passionate about removing the stigma
30:00 AI, isolation, and protecting the human soul
38:00 Hearing God in a distracted world
43:00 Final message of hope for those who are struggling