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Wade Muhlhauser
A Desra Group Conversation Platform
Honest Providers
Mission. Career. Wellbeing. Opportunity.
Honest conversations with the people who help others serve, heal, build a career, and move forward.
Defense and mission work, professional life, college and alternate paths, mental health, family, and faith — every conversation comes back to the same question we ask inside The Dalton Society: how do you help the next person find their footing?
Honest Conversations. Every Kind of Provider.
Where mission work meets real life, careers meet mental health, and people who carry responsibility for others talk plainly about doing it the right way.
About The Show
Providing Comes in Many Forms
Honest Providers sits down with people across defense and mission support, healthcare and mental health, education and college advising, the trades, technology, faith, and family life — anyone whose work makes someone else's path more possible.
A cleared professional describing what the first year in a mission environment really feels like. A counselor talking about burnout without the slogans. An advisor who says out loud that college is one path among several. Different rooms, same standard: honesty, transparency, and integrity.
Defense & Mission ProfessionalsVeterans & Transitioning Service MembersClinicians & Mental Health ProvidersEducators & College AdvisorsMentors & Early-Career ProfessionalsFaith, Family & Community Leaders
What Does It Mean to Provide?
Providing is not one profession. It is a posture.
Some people provide clinical care or mental health support. Some serve national and public missions in uniform or as cleared civilians. Some teach, coach, advise, or mentor. Some hire, train, and create the roles that let a person build a stable life. Some simply hold a family together through a hard season.
Our conversations are honest because none of that is simple. We talk about pressure and burnout, careers that did not go in a straight line, college and the paths that are not college, service and what it costs, recovery after setbacks, and how to help someone else see their options.
And every episode ends where The Dalton Society begins: with a lesson a young person could actually use.
An Honest Provider is not defined by a title. A provider may be a clinician, counselor, service member, cleared professional, parent, pastor, advocate, educator, mentor, business owner, or public servant—anyone who takes responsibility for helping another person heal, grow, find direction, or access a better future.
Three Ways We Provide
Honest Wellbeing
Mental health, burnout, recovery, resilience, family support, and the habits that keep people steady under pressure — in clinics, in uniform, in the field, and at home.
Clinicians, counselors, chaplains, recovery leaders, veterans, caregivers, and families.
Honest Service
Defense and mission work, public service, faith, advocacy, and community leadership — what it actually takes to serve well and stay accountable.
Service members and veterans, defense and mission-support professionals, public servants, pastors, advocates, and nonprofit leaders.
Providers of Opportunity
Careers, college and alternate paths, trades, certifications, mentorship, and the decisions that shape a working life — told honestly, including the detours.
Mentors, educators, business owners, technologists, recruiters of talent for honest work, and early-career professionals.
Latest Episode
Watch Our Latest Conversation
Catch up on our most recent episode featuring honest dialogue about care, faith, and accountability.
Recent Episodes
Featured Conversations
Stories from providers, faith leaders, advocates, and families committed to honest care.
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Alexia Cadenas
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Cover My Mental Health
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Guest Benefits
Why Join Us as a Guest?
Being a guest is an opportunity to share what responsible care, service, leadership, or opportunity-building looks like in practice. Guests help viewers see that people who make a difference are not defined by one title—they are defined by how they show up for others.
Featured Recognition
Honest Providers Badge
Recognition of a commitment to honest care, responsible service, and opportunity-building.
Wide Reach
Major Platform Distribution
Your episode distributed across Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio, and YouTube.
Content Spotlight
Feature Article
A dedicated feature article highlighting your story, mission, and contributions to your community.
Network Access
Guest Network
An introduction to our guest network of professionals and leaders across defense, healthcare, education, and public service.
Amplified Reach
Social Media Clips
Short video clips from your episode shared across our social platforms with tags to amplify your reach.
SEO Value
SEO Backlink
A practical, secondary benefit: a backlink from your episode page to your website.
The Process
What to Expect as a Guest
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30-Minute Conversation
Relaxed, respectful, and well-prepared discussion about your experience, mission, and perspective.
02
Receive Your Badge
Get recognized with the Honest Providers Badge as a symbol of your commitment to honest care and service.
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Amplify Your Voice
Optional feature across our platforms to share your message with a wider audience.
Conversation Guidelines
Our conversations welcome discussions about faith, ministry, healthcare, advocacy, and the personal journeys that shape honest care. We encourage guests to share openly about how their values and beliefs inform the way they serve others.
Please note: This podcast does not engage in political debate or commentary on partisan issues. Conversations should remain focused on care, service, and the topics outlined in your episode prep. Guests who introduce off-topic or inflammatory subject matter may have their episode not used or recording terminated.
We do not use conversations to recruit young people, market directly to vulnerable audiences, or promise employment, internships, scholarships, admissions, placement, or security clearance. Guests must protect the privacy of others and may not share confidential, proprietary, controlled, procurement-sensitive, classified, or security-sensitive information. When a conversation involves youth or personal health experiences, dignity, consent, and safety come before promotion.
Guest Benefit
The Honest Providers Badge
As a guest, you will receive our Honest Providers Badge—recognition of a commitment to honest care, responsible service, and opportunity-building. Whether you are a clinician, a pastor, an advocate, or a mentor, display it proudly on your website, email signature, or materials.
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Providers of Opportunity
Young people do not only need answers about what job to choose. They need honest adults who can help them understand how to care for themselves, build trust, recover from mistakes, develop useful skills, and recognize the many paths available to them.
Providers of Opportunity features people who have built responsible careers while helping others move forward. Guests may come from healthcare, education, technology, advocacy, business, public service, and civilian organizations that support demanding public missions. Each conversation is designed to leave students and families with practical perspective—not a sales pitch or a promise of placement.
Some guests may discuss civilian work in complex, mission-driven environments, including organizations that support public service or national missions. Conversations focus on professional habits, self-care, mentoring, transferable skills, and career awareness. They are not recruitment presentations and do not include non-public, proprietary, controlled, procurement-sensitive, classified, or security-sensitive information.
Helping the Next Generation Grow
The Dalton Society is where Honest Providers become a community of mentors, guides, and opportunity-builders for the next generation. Through parent-supported mentorship, thoughtful adult perspectives, and real conversations about character, discipline, self-care, judgment, and direction, Fellows gain a stronger sense of the options ahead.
Learn About The Dalton SocietyInterview Topics
Sample Questions We Explore
Each edition is tailored to the unique perspective and experience of our guests—from clinical care to faith-driven service to opportunity-building.
Provider Edition
For practice owners, clinicians, and healthcare operators
- What does honest care look like inside your practice on an ordinary day?
- Where does the system make ethical care harder than it should be?
- How do you protect your own wellbeing while carrying responsibility for others?
Mission & Defense Edition
For service members, veterans, and cleared professionals
- What does a normal day in a mission environment actually look like?
- What surprised you most about the transition out of uniform?
- How do you carry the weight of the work without letting it carry you?
Career & College Edition
For educators, advisors, recruiters, and hiring leaders
- What paths do students never hear about that they should?
- When is college the right call, and when is it not?
- What do you look for in someone with no résumé yet?
Mental Health & Resilience Edition
For counselors, chaplains, and people who have been through it
- How do high-pressure professionals actually recognize burnout in themselves?
- What helped when things were hardest, and what did not?
- What would you tell someone who is not ready to ask for help yet?
Faith, Family & Advocate Edition
For pastors, parents, and those fighting for a loved one
- How do your values shape the way you serve people in crisis?
- How do you hold systems accountable without losing hope?
- What would you say to a family standing where you once stood?
Providers of Opportunity Edition
For mentors, founders, technologists, and public-service leaders
- What habits carried you through the early, uncertain part of your career?
- How do you help a young person recover from a mistake?
- What paths exist that most students never hear about?
Share Your Story
Whether you are a provider, a pastor, an advocate, a family member, or a mentor—your story matters. Join us and help set a higher standard for honest care and honest service in every form.
Desra Group is the parent organization and owner of Honest Providers.
The conversation spans mission and defense work, careers and college paths, mental health and resilience, healthcare and recovery, faith, and family.
The Dalton Society is where it lands — Honest Providers become a community of mentors, guides, and opportunity-builders for the next generation.