Ryan is an Emmy® Award-winning creative professional, international public speaker, columnist, factivist, and author. His work has been extensively featured on many major media outlets. With his wife Bethany, Ryan co-founded The Radiance Foundation, an educational non-profit.
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Through creative media, The Radiance Foundation addresses culture-shaping issues in the context of God-given purpose. As Chief Creative Officer of The Radiance Foundation, Ryan hopes to continue to impact millions to embrace their inherent and equal value and the incredible possibility with which we are all created.
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As an adoptee, Ryan has a rather unique perspective on family and purpose. At 6 weeks of age, he was adopted into a diverse family of 15, 10 of whom were adopted. Today he is husband to Bethany and father to four children (two of whom were adopted), and has a heart for for sharing that every human life has purpose and the intrinsic worth we all possess.

Matt Hammitt is a singer, songwriter, author, and speaker. Matt was the lead singer for the band Sanctus Real from 1996-2016, and has been the recipient of three Dove Awards and has been nominated for two Grammy Awards, for his work with Sanctus Real. Matt has written over fifteen chart topping songs, performed by Sanctus Real and other musical artists.
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A Toledo native, Matt now lives in Nashville with his wife, Sarah, and their four children. Passion for family is what led him to step away from Sanctus Real in 2016, to spend more time at home. This difficult transition is detailed in his book Lead Me: Finding Courage to Fight for Your Marriage, Children, and Faith. Matt holds nothing back in this unfiltered story of his life, so far.
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In 2022, the Hammitts released a documentary called Bowen's Heart. This feature length documentary film follows (then) eight-year-old Bowen Hammitt through his third major open heart surgery, his family caught in the tension between hoping the surgery will make his life better and knowing it could make things much worse.