Family Bytes Podcast

Family Bytes Podcast


Living with Desire

July 24, 2018

Shad Berry, CEO and Exec Director of Downline Ministries and Sagehill Counseling, is the special guest today on the podcast with host, Freddie Albaugh. Freddie and Shad discuss this idea of "living with desire" and what that looks like as adults and parents.


Hear Freddie and Shad discuss:



  • what does desire really mean? And why is desire an important part of every person's life?
  • how our desires are an echo of the Garden of Eden.
  • healthy vs. unhealthy desires and how to distinguish between the two
  • how to help your kids and family work toward their own dreams and desires.
  • how our desires are directly related to vulnerability
  • how community is directly related to desire
  • how to balance responsibility/duty vs. passion and what passion really means.

To find out more about the next Living with Desire workshop on October 19, 2018 please visit the Sage Hill Counseling website~


More about Shad Berry:


Shad Berry serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director for Downline Ministries. He is a native Memphian and graduate of the University of Memphis with a degree in business management as a member of the university’s Emerging Leader program. Shad spent the first 11 years of his professional career in his family’s 40-year old communications firm, Memphis Communications Corporation. He served as a vice president after spending several years as a sales professional and sales manager with the company before being led to Downline.


Shad and his wife Veronica are also alumni of the Downline Institute and are members of First Evangelical Church, where Shad serves as an elder and co-leads a Sunday school class.  The Berrys have four children: Ainslee, Abbie, Jack and Ann Claire.