Cassian Bellino is a Christian podcaster and Instagram content creator who helps believers grow in their faith through humor, entertainment, and clear, engaging teaching. She is passionate about making complex biblical topics easy to understand and accessible for everyday Christians navigating their faith journey. Through her content and podcast, she creates thoughtful yet approachable conversations around Scripture, theology, and real-life application.

Podcast & Platform Links

• Website: https://www.bibspeak.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/biblicallyspeaking
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/biblicallyspeaking
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@biblicallyspeaking

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Praise God for you Cassian.

It's a great pleasure to connect with you.

What part of the world are you in today?

I'm in Honolulu.

So I'm hearing an American accent, right?

So I'm guessing you're not originally from Hawaii.

No, no, I don't have, I don't speak pidgin or have an island accent.

I'm from Ohio.

I'm like as far away as possible.

And then I just kind of popped all over the world.

And three years ago, I ended up in Honolulu because I was working remote and I was in Arizona, just kind of got stuck there after COVID with my family.

And I knew the Lord wanted me to go somewhere.

And I felt like it was between two places.

And I just kind of gave him some conditions and it was like very clear he wanted me to move here.

And so thankfully I could, I had a remote job and I had a friend from Ohio that lived out here.

So like a childhood, childhood best friend.

So I basically arrived on island with a friend group and a furnished home.

And all I had to do was go grocery shopping.

And it was like one of the easiest moves of my life.

It's been so wonderful to be able to live here.

What do you contribute to it being so easy this particular season of your life?

That's a good question.

I think it's a very youthful island and it's really easy to meet people.

And when you meet people, everyone's really willing to be your friend and everybody has really cool hobbies that they're willing to invite you into.

And so I say all that because it matters to me because when I was in Arizona, I was the opposite of that.

Just to have that contrast of in Arizona, I lived there for I think three to four years.

I didn't make many friends.

And it was really hard to make new friends once my old friends moved away.

And it was really hard to do fun things.

Just nobody really did anything because it's so hot.

It's not because the people suck.

It's just because you don't want to go out of your house when it's 120 degrees.

And so you're a lot more limited in a place like Arizona.

But compared to here, everybody's alive and outdoorsy and healthy and open and exciting and supportive.

This is where I started my podcast was living out here and I don't think it would have been possible if I lived anywhere else.

But because I live here and because everyone was so supportive and encouraging and willing to introduce me to people that would help me, that's what made this place really special to me.

Is there a huge Christian community there?

It feels like there is.

And I could be wrong, but my church is amazing.

And my church is really young, like it's filled with people from college up until like young families and then like older aunties and tutus.

And it's one of those things where I feel, you know, being a Christian, I kind of like see it.

And I feel like Hawaiian culture is inherently Christian.

There's definitely like an island spirit.

And so I think it goes hand in hand with respecting God's creation, but also respecting the creation itself.

It's not like they worship the land, but they're very much so in contact with it.

Like the island is alive.

Hawaiian culture is very Christian and Hawaiians are Christian.

I mean, there's definitely like an agnostic and atheist culture.

I'm definitely friends with a lot of them.

So it's been fun for me to kind of transform into a stronger Christian here and my friends to witness that.

But it's much more Christian than I thought.

I'm much more Christian than Arizona.

So, you know, comparatively I see an increase.

How many other places have you been in the world?

Let's see.

I'll just walk you through the timeline.

I was born in Ohio.

I lived in Switzerland for a bit, moved back to Ohio.

So we won't count that.

Moved to California.

I was born in Ohio, moved to Switzerland just as a child, lived back in Ohio and then California for high school, college.

Out of college, my first job was in Thailand.

So I lived in Bangkok for a year.

And then after that, I moved to Columbia for a couple months and then COVID hit.

And so then I moved to Tucson with my family, lived there until I moved here to Hawaii.

So I guess seven places.

Where did you meet Jesus?

I knew Jesus my whole life.

And, you know, growing up in Ohio, I went to like a Christian camp and I think I was like nine years old that I gave my life to Jesus at like 3 a.m. in the camp tent.

But I was, you know, baptized as a baby.

I've known him my whole life.

So I don't know.

But I feel like, like if you really ask when as an adult you make that decision and you decide for yourself, I would say that happened here, you know, like two years ago.

You talked about doing the remote job and it being the reason for you moving around.

What are you primarily doing now?

So right now, before I was in sustainability, I was working for sustainable tech companies and that's what I went to school for.

So there's really fun tourism and, you know, solar sales and plastic credits.

I loved all of it so much.

And then when I did this podcast, I went through like a little bit of unemployment and I just did the podcast full time.

And I learned so much about podcasting and social media and branding that I kind of realized I wanted to do this full time.

So I pivoted, I don't say like pivoted careers, but industries.

And now I work for iHeartRadio and I work in sales and I'm selling airtime the same way you would place an ad on a podcast.

I place an ad on the radio and I build out campaigns and I work in like entertainment and music industry and it's really fun.

It's just like such like, there's so collaborative and it's so creative and it's in person.

So it's not remote anymore and I'm learning so much faster.

It's great.

So I got to listen to your podcast and it feels as though you're very much intellectually curious.

And as time went by, the evolution of you came into the spiritual side of releasing.

Well, just from what you just told me there, right?

So what has that been like where you're navigating the podcast in terms of managing?

Do I go all intellectually in terms of the control that goes with this or do I keep it more spiritual?

Before, when I first started, it was out of just pure obedience.

Like God wanted me to do this thing.

And so I just did it.

And I didn't really want to do the podcast because I knew it would come with an identity shift of like being a Christian podcaster, which by no means was I living at that standard.

So, you know, I like reluctantly did it.

And then I got really caught up in the hype because it took off and I had, you know, a hundred thousand followers and I had, you know, tons of people calling me out of the blue and I was like, okay, we have to monetize this or else it's a failure.

And I just, I needed it to monetarily succeed.

And I, like God really took me through it because I've tried everything.

And it's gotten to a point where I'm like, God just wants me here.

Like God just wants me in these conversations.

Like God wants me to just sit down and talk with scholars and be curious and record it and share it.

And every single day spend time with him.

Like, why do I do this?

Because he wants to spend time with me.

Like, how could I give that up?

And that was one of the reasons I started it.

Like not to make money, not to have a podcast brand, not to like be known as a Christian influencer, but like, because God said I should do this.

And because I think he just wants to spend time with me.

And so I think I've had to relinquish my expectations for the podcast and what I want for it because it's his podcast.

It's not mine.

And, you know, people ask, you know, what's happening next?

It's like, I don't know.

Like, this is God's podcast.

Like the most insane people have come on my show recently, like Frank Turek and coach Tony Dungy.

But like, that was all God.

That wasn't me.

So what's happening next?

Like, I don't know.

I'm not the one in charge.

Five years from today, you're listening to this conversation.

What's a message you'd leave for future you five years from today?

I hope you ask for double.

I hope that you let go of those limitations that you made up that you think that you lived in.

I hope that you fully submitted and relaxed.

And I hope that you had so much fun trusting in God, because you knew that he had it all along.

I hope that the husband is super hot.

I hope there's children.

I hope Maggie's children and Ellen and Joe, just thinking of like my family.

Is there any question that I could have asked that I didn't ask that would have helped you serve us better?

No, I you asked questions that I'd like to have never thought before.

I'm going to be thinking about the five-year questions so much.

Amazing audience.

If you want to hear more from Cassian, if you want to check out her podcast, we have all of the links in the show notes.

I listened.

It's an absolutely amazing job that she's doing over there.

Cassian, a pleasure.

I treasure.

Thank you for being on What Is Inspired by 12 and the Commons.