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Pilot Light

Josh Prigmore

Helping people see farther, live deeper, and become who they were created to be. Through honest stories, practical wisdom, and meaningful conversations, Pilot Light explores identity, purpose, leadership, faith, relationships, mindset, and personal growth. Each episode is designed to help you understand yourself more deeply, overcome fear and self-doubt, grow in confidence, strengthen the way you lead and love others, and live with greater clarity, courage, and intention.

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S2 · E3
Tuesday · 19 min
Stop Waiting for People to Ask for Help
Some people who need help the most will never ask for it. Not because they don’t want someone to care, but because asking can be hard—especially for the people who have spent years being the strong one, the dependable one, the fixer, the helper, or the person everyone else counts on. In this episode of Pilot Light, Josh explores what it means to truly notice people before they reach a breaking point. You’ll hear why “Let me know if you need anything” can sometimes put too much responsibility back on an already overwhelmed person, why asking the second question can open the door to a real conversation, and why the strongest people in your life may be the ones who most need someone to check on them. This week’s Flame Challenge is simple: check on the strong one. Reach out to someone who is usually carrying everyone else. Don’t ask because you need something. Don’t rush to give advice or fix the problem. Just ask how they’re really doing—and stay long enough to hear the answer. You don’t have to rescue everyone. You just have to care enough to notice. Because sometimes passing the flame means reaching first. 💬 Continue the Conversation: I'd love to hear what this episode stirred in you. Support the show 🔥 If this episode encouraged you, would you do three things? Follow the podcast so you never miss a new episode. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Leave a review. It helps more people discover Pilot Light and join the journey. I'd love to hear from you. Connect with me: Instagram: @mypilotlight Facebook: Pilot Light Website: mypilotlight.com (Leave me a message on our Fan Page) Remember... See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. Until next time... Keep your Pilot Light burning.
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S2 · E2
September 15 · 22 min
The People Who Changed Your Life Probably Don't Know They Did
Some of the people who changed your life probably have no idea they did. Maybe it was a teacher who believed in you, a coach who pushed you, a friend who showed up at exactly the right moment, or someone who said a few simple words you never forgot. In this episode of Pilot Light, Josh explores the extraordinary power of ordinary influence—the conversations, encouragement, examples, and small acts of kindness that can quietly alter the direction of someone’s life. We often think making a difference requires a platform, a title, or some dramatic moment. But some of the greatest influence happens when nobody is keeping score. A word spoken at the right time. Someone who sees potential you can’t yet see in yourself. Someone who leaves a little light behind without ever knowing how far it traveled. This week’s Flame Challenge is personal: think of someone who helped light your pilot light. Reach out to them. Tell them specifically what they did and why it mattered. And then ask yourself a bigger question: Whose life might be different someday because you chose to do the same? Never underestimate what God can do through one ordinary person who chooses to notice, encourage, and pass the flame. 💬 Continue the Conversation: I'd love to hear what this episode stirred in you. Support the show 🔥 If this episode encouraged you, would you do three things? Follow the podcast so you never miss a new episode. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Leave a review. It helps more people discover Pilot Light and join the journey. I'd love to hear from you. Connect with me: Instagram: @mypilotlight Facebook: Pilot Light Website: mypilotlight.com (Leave me a message on our Fan Page) Remember... See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. Until next time... Keep your Pilot Light burning.
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S2 · E1
September 8 · 19 min
Who Are You Leaving the Light On For?
What if changing the world starts smaller than you think? In the Season 2 premiere of Pilot Light, Josh introduces The Flame Challenge—a simple invitation to stop worrying about lighting the whole world and start bringing light to the space right in front of you. A text. A phone call. An encouraging word. An act of kindness. Forgiveness. Showing up for someone who needs it. None of those things seem extraordinary on their own, but small acts of light have a way of multiplying. You may never know how far one moment of encouragement travels or how deeply it affects someone who desperately needed it. This episode is about influence, intentionality, and recognizing that you don’t need a huge platform to make a meaningful difference. You simply need to notice the person God has already placed in your path. The challenge is simple: find one person this week and intentionally encourage them. Then share the story. You may not be able to change the whole world today—but you can change one person’s world. One light can change everything. Pass the flame. 💬 Continue the Conversation: I'd love to hear what this episode stirred in you. Support the show 🔥 If this episode encouraged you, would you do three things? Follow the podcast so you never miss a new episode. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Leave a review. It helps more people discover Pilot Light and join the journey. I'd love to hear from you. Connect with me: Instagram: @mypilotlight Facebook: Pilot Light Website: mypilotlight.com (Leave me a message on our Fan Page) Remember... See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. Until next time... Keep your Pilot Light burning.
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S1 · E12
September 1 · 13 min
You Don’t Need a New Life. You Need to Come Back to Life.
When was the last time you felt fully alive? Not busy. Not entertained. Not simply getting through another week—but awake, present, hopeful, and connected to the person God created you to be. In the Season 1 finale of Pilot Light, Josh brings together the themes of identity, fear, calling, habits, truth, and legacy around one powerful idea: most of us don’t need reinvention. We need restoration. Life has a way of covering us with responsibility, disappointment, fear, regret, and routine until survival starts feeling normal. But buried doesn’t mean dead. The dreams, courage, creativity, joy, and purpose God placed inside you may still be there, waiting to be uncovered. This episode is an invitation to stop merely existing and begin living again—to remember who you are, reconnect with what makes your soul come alive, and trust that your story is not finished. You are not too old. You are not too late. You are not disqualified. Your flame is still there. And with God’s help, it can burn brighter than ever. 💬 Continue the Conversation: I'd love to hear what this episode stirred in you. Support the show 🔥 If this episode encouraged you, would you do three things? Follow the podcast so you never miss a new episode. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Leave a review. It helps more people discover Pilot Light and join the journey. I'd love to hear from you. Connect with me: Instagram: @mypilotlight Facebook: Pilot Light Website: mypilotlight.com (Leave me a message on our Fan Page) Remember... See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. Until next time... Keep your Pilot Light burning.
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S1 · E11
August 25 · 16 min
You Can’t Pass On a Fire You Don’t Possess
Who lit your pilot light—and whose are you helping ignite? In this episode of Pilot Light, Josh explores the difference between success and influence, and why some of the people who shape us most will never have a platform, a title, or a spotlight. They simply showed up, lived with character, believed in us, and kept their own fire burning. You’ll discover why influence is overflow, not performance; why legacy is built in ordinary moments long before anyone calls it legacy; and why your own emotional, spiritual, relational, and mental health matters to everyone God has placed around you. Because someone is always learning from your life—your children, coworkers, friends, neighbors, and the people you may not even realize are watching. This week, choose one person to intentionally encourage, invest in, or remind of what you see in them. You don’t have to become more impressive to make a difference. Keep your own flame healthy, stay close to the Source, and pass it forward. Because you can’t pass on a fire you don’t possess. 💬 Continue the Conversation: I'd love to hear what this episode stirred in you. Support the show 🔥 If this episode encouraged you, would you do three things? Follow the podcast so you never miss a new episode. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Leave a review. It helps more people discover Pilot Light and join the journey. I'd love to hear from you. Connect with me: Instagram: @mypilotlight Facebook: Pilot Light Website: mypilotlight.com (Leave me a message on our Fan Page) Remember... See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. Until next time... Keep your Pilot Light burning.
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S1 · E10
August 18 · 14 min
You Already Know What to Do—So Why Aren’t You Doing It?
Most of us don’t have an information problem. We have an implementation problem. We know we should exercise, spend less, put down the phone, have the difficult conversation, forgive, pray, or finally take the next step. We read books, listen to podcasts, take notes, and feel inspired—but days later, the same habits and patterns are still there. In this episode of Pilot Light, Josh explores why learning can become a comfortable substitute for action and how preparation can quietly turn into procrastination. Information may create awareness, but transformation only begins when truth becomes practice. You’ll discover why action often creates readiness, why consistency matters more than intensity, and how Jesus repeatedly emphasized doing—not simply hearing or knowing. This week’s challenge is simple: don’t learn something new. Choose one thing you already know and put it into action. You may not be one breakthrough away. You may be one application, one conversation, one decision, or one act of courage away. 💬 Continue the Conversation: I'd love to hear what this episode stirred in you. Support the show 🔥 If this episode encouraged you, would you do three things? Follow the podcast so you never miss a new episode. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Leave a review. It helps more people discover Pilot Light and join the journey. I'd love to hear from you. Connect with me: Instagram: @mypilotlight Facebook: Pilot Light Website: mypilotlight.com (Leave me a message on our Fan Page) Remember... See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. Until next time... Keep your Pilot Light burning.
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S1 · E9
August 11 · 14 min
The Life You Want Is Built in Ordinary Days
Every day, you’re practicing something—patience or impatience, gratitude or complaining, courage or avoidance, trust or worry. You may not notice it, but your repeated thoughts, choices, and habits are quietly shaping the person you are becoming. In this episode of Pilot Light, Josh explores a powerful truth: we don’t rise to our intentions—we drift toward our practices. We can want stronger relationships while practicing criticism, want peace while practicing anxiety, or want deeper faith while practicing distraction. You’ll discover why your future is built less by dramatic breakthroughs and more by small, ordinary decisions repeated over time. Every action casts a vote for the person you are becoming, and even one simple practice can begin changing the direction of your life. This week’s challenge is not to set another big goal, but to choose one meaningful daily practice—and repeat it. The person you hope to become may be quietly formed through what you practice today. 💬 Continue the Conversation: I'd love to hear what this episode stirred in you. Support the show 🔥 If this episode encouraged you, would you do three things? Follow the podcast so you never miss a new episode. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Leave a review. It helps more people discover Pilot Light and join the journey. I'd love to hear from you. Connect with me: Instagram: @mypilotlight Facebook: Pilot Light Website: mypilotlight.com (Leave me a message on our Fan Page) Remember... See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. Until next time... Keep your Pilot Light burning.
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S1 · E8
August 4 · 14 min
You Don’t Have to Believe Everything You Think
One comment. One mistake. One unanswered text. Before you know it, your mind has created an entire story—and you’re reacting to something that may not even be true. In this episode of Pilot Light, Josh explores the hidden conversations happening inside our minds and why the loudest voice isn’t always the most trustworthy. Our brains naturally fill in missing information, but fear, insecurity, and past experiences often write the ending before we have the facts. You’ll learn how repeated thoughts become beliefs, how assumptions quietly shape your identity, and why wisdom doesn’t mean believing everything you think. Through practical reflection and biblical truth, Josh challenges you to ask a powerful question: Who says? This week, interrupt one negative thought each day. Ask whether it is fact or fear, truth or assumption, God’s voice or your inner critic—then replace it with something true. The voice in your head may be loud, but it doesn’t get the final word. Truth does. 💬 Continue the Conversation: I'd love to hear what this episode stirred in you. Support the show 🔥 If this episode encouraged you, would you do three things? Follow the podcast so you never miss a new episode. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Leave a review. It helps more people discover Pilot Light and join the journey. I'd love to hear from you. Connect with me: Instagram: @mypilotlight Facebook: Pilot Light Website: mypilotlight.com (Leave me a message on our Fan Page) Remember... See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. Until next time... Keep your Pilot Light burning.
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S1 · E7
July 28 · 10 min
The Enemy Isn’t Always Outside
What if the biggest obstacle in your life isn’t your boss, your finances, your schedule, or your circumstances—but the story you keep repeating about yourself? In this episode of Pilot Light, Josh explores how fear can disguise itself as wisdom, responsibility can quietly become a prison, and familiar survival patterns can eventually feel like identity. Sometimes we change our surroundings but continue carrying the same fears, insecurities, and limiting beliefs wherever we go. Through honest reflection and powerful examples from Scripture, you’ll discover how to question the beliefs that have been shaping your life, recognize the difference between familiarity and truth, and begin seeing yourself through the eyes of the God who knows who you are becoming. This week’s Flame Challenge is simple: catch one limiting thought and ask, “Is it true? Is it helpful? Would God say this about me?” Your circumstances may not change overnight—but when your thinking begins to change, your future can change too. 💬 Continue the Conversation: I'd love to hear what this episode stirred in you. Support the show 🔥 If this episode encouraged you, would you do three things? Follow the podcast so you never miss a new episode. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Leave a review. It helps more people discover Pilot Light and join the journey. I'd love to hear from you. Connect with me: Instagram: @mypilotlight Facebook: Pilot Light Website: mypilotlight.com (Leave me a message on our Fan Page) Remember... See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. Until next time... Keep your Pilot Light burning.
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S1 · E6
July 21 · 12 min
Who Will Become You? Breaking Free From the Comparison Trap
Who would you become if you stopped comparing yourself to everyone else? Most of us do not intentionally decide to imitate another person. It happens slowly. Admiration becomes comparison. Learning becomes measuring. And before long, we are comparing our beginning to someone else’s middle, our weaknesses to their strengths and our behind-the-scenes life to their highlight reel. In Episode 6 of Pilot Light, Josh explores how comparison causes us to neglect our own gifts, voice, story and calling. You’ll discover why comparison is always incomplete, how the difficult parts of your story may become your greatest credentials and why God does not call copies—He gives purpose to unique people. The people you admire were given their assignment. You were given yours. The world does not need another version of someone who already exists. It needs the original God had in mind when He created you. This week’s Flame Challenge is a seven-day comparison reset. Each time comparison appears, replace it with gratitude. Write down three strengths God has placed inside you, three experiences that have shaped you and three qualities that make your story uniquely yours. Not because your story is perfect. Because it is yours. 💬 Continue the Conversation: I'd love to hear what this episode stirred in you. Support the show 🔥 If this episode encouraged you, would you do three things? Follow the podcast so you never miss a new episode. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Leave a review. It helps more people discover Pilot Light and join the journey. I'd love to hear from you. Connect with me: Instagram: @mypilotlight Facebook: Pilot Light Website: mypilotlight.com (Leave me a message on our Fan Page) Remember... See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. Until next time... Keep your Pilot Light burning.
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S1 · E5
July 14 · 14 min
When Fear Sounds Like Wisdom: Stop Postponing Your Calling
Fear rarely tells you to quit. More often, it tells you to wait. Wait until you feel ready. Wait until life settles down. Wait until you have more confidence, more money, more knowledge or a better plan. But what if some of the decisions you have called responsible were actually being shaped by fear? In Episode 5 of Pilot Light, Josh explores how fear can disguise itself as wisdom, caution and good timing—quietly convincing us to postpone the conversations, dreams and decisions that matter most. You’ll discover why calling often arrives before confidence, why faith does not require complete certainty and how a thousand seemingly safe decisions can slowly create a life you never intended to live. This episode is not an invitation to become reckless or fearless. It is an invitation to become faithful—to stop waiting for perfect conditions and take the next step God has already placed in front of you. This week’s Flame Challenge: identify one thing fear has been encouraging you to postpone, and take one small act of courage. Follow Pilot Light and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Then visit mypilotlight.com and share on our fan page what challenged you, encouraged you or helped you take a step forward. Until next time... 💬 Continue the Conversation: I'd love to hear what this episode stirred in you. Support the show 🔥 If this episode encouraged you, would you do three things? Follow the podcast so you never miss a new episode. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Leave a review. It helps more people discover Pilot Light and join the journey. I'd love to hear from you. Connect with me: Instagram: @mypilotlight Facebook: Pilot Light Website: mypilotlight.com (Leave me a message on our Fan Page) Remember... See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. Until next time... Keep your Pilot Light burning.
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S1 · E4
July 7 · 10 min
What If You're Not an Impostor?
Have you ever walked into a room and wondered... "What if everyone realizes I don't belong here?" Maybe you got the promotion. Started something new. Accepted more responsibility. Took a step forward. But instead of feeling confident... you felt exposed. In this episode of Pilot Light, Josh explores why so many capable people secretly struggle with feeling like impostors — and why that feeling may not mean what you think it means. Maybe uncertainty doesn't mean you're unqualified. Maybe discomfort isn't proof that you're failing. Maybe you're not an impostor... Maybe you're growing. You'll discover: 🔥 Why growth often feels like incompetence 🔥 The difference between being inexperienced and being incapable 🔥 Why confidence usually comes after courage, not before 🔥 How to stop letting doubt make your decisions You don't have to know everything before you take the next step. You just have to keep becoming. See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. 💬 Continue the Conversation: I'd love to hear what this episode stirred in you. Support the show 🔥 If this episode encouraged you, would you do three things? Follow the podcast so you never miss a new episode. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Leave a review. It helps more people discover Pilot Light and join the journey. I'd love to hear from you. Connect with me: Instagram: @mypilotlight Facebook: Pilot Light Website: mypilotlight.com (Leave me a message on our Fan Page) Remember... See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. Until next time... Keep your Pilot Light burning.
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S1 · E3
June 30 · 16 min
Stop Managing Your Image and Start Living From Identity
How much energy are you spending trying to look okay? In this episode of Pilot Light, Josh talks about the difference between image and identity — and why so many people feel exhausted from trying to manage how they are seen. We work hard to appear dependable, strong, successful, and put together. But somewhere along the way, it is easy to confuse what we do with who we are. Image asks, “What do people think about me?” Identity asks, “What does God know to be true about me?” This conversation is for anyone who has ever felt the pressure to keep everyone happy, make a good impression, hide the cracks, or protect a version of themselves they are not sure they can keep carrying. Josh explores why image needs an audience, why identity grows in private, and why Jesus never lived from approval but from the truth of who His Father said He was. This week’s challenge: practice one act of hidden integrity. Do something good that nobody will ever know you did — not for applause, but because that is who you are becoming. Because image may impress people for a moment, but identity impacts people for a lifetime. See farther. Live deeper. Become who you were created to be. 💬 Continue the Conversation: I'd love to hear what this episode stirred in you. Support the show 🔥 If this episode encouraged you, would you do three things? Follow the podcast so you never miss a new episode. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Leave a review. It helps more people discover Pilot Light and join the journey. I'd love to hear from you. Connect with me: Instagram: @mypilotlight Facebook: Pilot Light Website: mypilotlight.com (Leave me a message on our Fan Page) Remember... See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. Until next time... Keep your Pilot Light burning.
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S1 · E2
June 26 · 12 min
Life is Not a Test, It's Training
What if the hardest seasons of your life weren't meant to break you... but to prepare you? In this episode of Pilot Light, Josh explores a powerful shift in perspective: life isn't a test you're trying to pass—it's training for the person you're becoming. Every setback. Every disappointment. Every unexpected detour. None of it has to be wasted. When you begin to see life's challenges as training instead of testing, failure loses its power, purpose becomes clearer, and growth becomes possible. If you've ever wondered why you're walking through a difficult season or questioned whether your struggles have meaning, this episode is for you. In this episode you'll discover: • Why viewing life as training changes everything • How adversity develops the character success requires • Why God often prepares us before He promotes us • How today's challenges may be shaping tomorrow's calling Your circumstances may not change overnight... But your perspective can. 🔥 See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. 💬 Continue the Conversation: I'd love to hear what this episode stirred in you. Support the show 🔥 If this episode encouraged you, would you do three things? Follow the podcast so you never miss a new episode. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Leave a review. It helps more people discover Pilot Light and join the journey. I'd love to hear from you. Connect with me: Instagram: @mypilotlight Facebook: Pilot Light Website: mypilotlight.com (Leave me a message on our Fan Page) Remember... See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. Until next time... Keep your Pilot Light burning.
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S1 · E1
June 26 · 20 min
Identity Beyond Performance
What if the biggest thing holding you back isn't a lack of ability... but a case of mistaken identity? In this premiere episode of Pilot Light, Josh explores one of the most important questions you'll ever ask: Who are you becoming? Many of us spend our lives chasing approval, achievement, or success, only to discover that none of those things can answer the deeper question of who we really are. In this episode, you'll discover why identity shapes every decision you make, how performance can quietly replace purpose, and what it means to reconnect with the person you were created to be. If you've ever felt stuck, restless, or like there's more to your story than the life you're currently living, this conversation is for you. Because you'll never consistently live beyond the identity you believe about yourself. In this episode: • Why identity is the foundation of every lasting change • The hidden danger of building your life on performance • How to begin seeing yourself differently • The first step toward becoming who you were created to be The journey begins here. 🔥 See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. 💬 Continue the Conversation: I'd love to hear what this episode stirred in you. Support the show 🔥 If this episode encouraged you, would you do three things? Follow the podcast so you never miss a new episode. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Leave a review. It helps more people discover Pilot Light and join the journey. I'd love to hear from you. Connect with me: Instagram: @mypilotlight Facebook: Pilot Light Website: mypilotlight.com (Leave me a message on our Fan Page) Remember... See Farther. Live Deeper. Become Who You Were Created To Be. Until next time... Keep your Pilot Light burning.
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