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Welcome to The Most, the podcast that asks you to level yourself all the way up. Rachel Rodgers, Robert Hartwell and Susan Hyatt have teamed up to give you a behind the scenes look at how they’ve built their enviable brands, business and lives. If you’re looking to secure the bag, the connections and the lifestyle of your dreams, this is the show for you. From money moves to signature style to leveraging your network, these friends are serving truth, side-eye and so much love.

Jessie’s career on TV and stage made her life seem idyllic. Evenings spent in her boyfriend’s club, surrounded by people who adore her, should have made her happy. There was just one problem - she didn’t love him. How can one be lonely in a crowd? Josh has had a hard life. He’s never caught a break. A lifetime of hiding from the pain has been no way to live. He needs someone who can bring him into the light. Then they met outside the club for the first time. For Jessie and Josh, it won’t be easy. The cast of Drifters is like a family and everybody wants their say.

Family is everything. When it splinters, suddenly the meaning of family is even more profound. Jessie finally gets the ‘go ahead’ to reconnect with long lost relatives, but those in her protective circle grow wary. Is she strong enough to handle the fallout, be it good or bad? Jessie hopes for healing and a blood connection. What she finds surprises everyone, as they once again learn from her seemingly endless capacity to forgive, and to help others get past old hurts. In the meantime, she struggles to maintain some semblance of control over her busy life despite its ever-changing ...

Drifters, Book Ten “I’m telling you that I’ve been lonely, Matt. I’ve been very lonely.” Matt Kelly has been an anchor in the Keating camp right from the start. Just as he is about to leave for Belgium to watch over Jessie on her new film shoot, his wife Julie stuns him with a difficult request. Matt is forced to make a choice he thought he would never have to make, and it catapults him into a whole new world where he must measure the true meaning of love against faith, loyalty and friendship. Josh has been struggling since the tragedy that brought Jacob back into his and ...

Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to the heart, it knows. -Native American Proverb. We’ve been handed an opportunity here, boys. We can end this unholy war and save this family. Choices. It would be great if they were always black and white, but the truth is, most times choices are gray. After the unthinkable happens, the Keating camp is left reeling. Strangely, out of the turmoil a rainbow appears. It’s a light in the storm; it’s calm amidst chaos. However, there’s a down side, and it’s tied to a choice. On one side is safety and security, on ...

The light in me honors the light in you. Fear. Sacred Peace’s first season of production was not the idyllic shoot Josh and Jessie, and their cherished friends and family, had hoped for. Now, as season two looms, armed with only a sketchy, uncertain lead on who was targeting Josh and why, everyone is trying to move forward the best way they know how, in spits and starts, some with the uncertain hope that reaching out to the suspect behind the attacks might be the key to mitigating the threat. A divided approach does nothing to quell the uneasiness and increased fear as the vicious threats...

A wish was in those eyes – Jessie could see it plain as day, hovering just beneath the surface. It was accompanied by genuine sorrow and a sprinkle of peace. Idyllic Prince Edward Island has always been touted as a land of healing, a place of rest. For the Sawyers, the land of the bright red mud offers unexpected bliss and treasured family time. Yet, as much as Jessie has always wanted to live a ‘normal life,’ in P.E.I. she realizes that she and her family will never be normal. Something’s missing—early morning set calls, the happy hubbub of cast and crew, the glamor of big shows....

Susan Rodgers' writing masterfully explores the pain that can lie just beneath the surface. She opens up conversations about guilt, healing, and acceptance — and reminds us how much peace is waiting just beyond those talks. - Brandon Lorimer, The East Magazine Some wounds never heal. Ricky Raines was once a typical twelve-year-old boy. One evening when he was supposed to be watching his little sister, the unthinkable happened. Ricky has since spent his entire life paying for a single mistake. Fast forward to a simple fundraising luncheon, where Dallas White and his friend Jessie Wheeler ...

I lost. I hurt. Everybody has a breaking point. Jessie Wheeler’s is Josh – when he hurts, she hurts. In Let The Music Cry, Jessie faces an impossible truth – she needs to help herself but all of her strength is embroiled in her husband. Josh is lost – he’s so entangled in a dark, downward spiral that his Drifters friends, his family, and his wife are losing faith in his ability to ever rebound. The last thing Jessie wants to do is let Josh go, because she knows she is the key to his future. She is Josh’s rock, his faith, his hope. Without her, she knows he will lose the will to ...

There is a timeworn honor in battle. But sometimes the weariness of war changes the landscape, and those fighting the war lose their perspective. They make choices that open old wounds and have the potential to harm rather than save. In Whispers of Home, Jessie Wheeler finally gets back to work. But distance from Josh and intimate work with Jacob challenge the newfound strength she earned from the salty Prince Edward Island breeze. Left to his own devices, Josh decides to investigate yet another old red thread from Jessie’s past, when she was homeless and struggling for survival in ...

The storm has passed…or has it? Jessie, Josh and Jacob have moved on after the turbulent events of the last few years, but loose ends threaten to unseat their newfound peace. At the center of the new angst are children caught between two men, and a woman who loves with an open heart despite a history of loss. Just when things seem to be settling, a sudden tragedy sets Josh and Jessie on a whole new path of fear and worry. Jacob’s world explodes as Kayla’s spirals into chaos and confusion. Suddenly the Sawyers are surrounded by bitterness they are powerless to escape. Suddenly they are...

When Josh moves to Alberta to start work on Charlie’s new series, Sacred Peace, he finds the best way to escape past hurts is to lose himself in his new fictional world. In Vancouver, Jessie buries herself in recording the new soundtrack for Sacred Peace. Suddenly, old and new friendships are on the line when loneliness and hurt cry out for release; when lines in the sand are drawn and crossed, and when a solitary ride into the woods is echoed by a desperate need for connection.

A brokenhearted couple’s brutal game deepens when it takes a right turn, resulting in the desperate need for a heartless single-minded outcome. Although the intended victim is really Josh, it’s Jessie who finds herself in the crossfire, a necessary pawn in the vicious plot. Around Jessie are people she loves who are all struggling to figure out where they fit in and how they can help. In the end, choosing what’s most important in life leaves a trail of broken hearts, while the trigger-quick actions of two men in the face of a heartsick woman’s final choice drive home the true ...

Jessie and Matt. The friendship and trust between them is the soul-kind shared by soldiers who have been through bloody, spirit-weary battles. Their hearts are united in a forlorn solidarity, the kind that only comes out on the other side of war. There is a new war at play now, and it’s rooted in Charlie’s TV show, Sacred Peace. It pits Jessie against the men she trusts with her husband’s life. There is another man, one whom she has always relied on for help, and who she wants to turn to, but he is lost in a new battle - the kind that wrecks hearts and destroys spirits. The kind that ...

'Susan Rodgers, author of the deeply loved Drifters Series, is an extraordinary writer who puts you directly in touch with her characters so that they become friends. Her visual storytelling is simply magical. You'll adore Dallas, the star of this new series from the Drifters universe!' - Kathy Gillis, Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada He wants his mojo back. She’s struggling to heal her grief. Will a spontaneous beach vacation offer much more than a simple getaway? Country singer Dallas White knows popularity is no substitute for the gaping hole inside him. And with his music ...

HEAL? OR IMPLODE? Josh is all for moving forward, but how's he supposed to do that when every time Jessie tries to face her troubled past she runs away? A quaint island is a great place to hide. But a riptide can be merciless and unforgiving…especially after a storm.

Ms. Rodgers makes her characters come alive on the page; you feel like they are right in the room with you. You get swept away as the story unfolds and you can almost feel the sun on your face and sand between your toes. - Denise Robinson, Prince Edward Island, Canada Late one evening after a show, Dallas White’s security chief and friend, Matt Kelly, is forced to take Dallas aside to give him tragic news. Immediately, Dallas must take Cassie, Ry, and his young daughter, Jade, to a remote Alberta ranch. When he gets there, he’s astonished to discover that a small, silent, soulful child ...

A lonely man works to help the homeless on the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver - it is his way of telling his old friend, Jessie Wheeler, that he cares about her world and what’s important to her. Meanwhile, Jessie has made a choice that reverberates around the world. Jessie’s world implodes when she must match the old with the new and, in the mix, a dangerous aggressor provides the match that fuels the flames of betrayal and reveals the true meaning of sacrifice.

Jessie Wheeler's past catches up with her as an old nemesis settles in Vancouver, threatening to destroy any chance at the singer's newfound happiness. But Jessie is an old hat at acting. She has picked up the habit of disappearing inside herself and creating characters in order to help herself survive. Backed into a corner by Deuce McCall, she relies on a tougher version of herself to help her through the dark days while she seeks a solution to free herself of Deuce's clutches.