Pastor, pharmacist Chad Potts reflects on two years of podcasting

Editor’s notes: This story is among features in the newly-released 2026 edition of Laurens Living magazine, available now at The Courier Herald and other local businesses. Chad also recently joined our podcast, Slightly Off the Record, for an extended conversation that you can hear here.

Podcasting is a booming industry. 

By the end of the decade, the market for the medium is projected to be worth more than $17 billion dollars with amateur and well-known creators alike generating content for the more than 600 million people who say they listen or watch podcasts. According to recent market research about 35 percent of Americans download or stream an average of eight podcast episodes every week. 

Among those listeners consuming multiple podcast episodes each week is Laurens County resident Chad Potts.

“I really value podcasts,” Potts said. “I think they are great platforms for growth, a great avenue of learning and deepening your knowledge on different topics.” 

And Potts had a lot he wanted to learn about. The 42-year-old is a husband and father, a clinical pharmacist and an ordained minister. His listening list included shows on family matters, spiritual issues and health and wellness.

“I’m soaking up all these podcasts. I would listen to some in the realm of faith, some on parenting and how to be a better spouse and I would be listening to separate podcasts about health, fitness and nutrition,” he said. “And it hit me one day: I haven’t found a place that brought all of those together.” 

So he decided to do what any podcast aficionado would do – create a podcast centered on spirituality, family life and health. The first step? Buying a microphone.

“You gotta buy a microphone, right? And I kept that mic for a few months and it was never used. I had it all set up. It was a beautiful microphone,” Potts said. “I’m an introvert by nature. The worst grade I ever got in college was in public speaking, and then God called me to be a pastor, but the idea of podcasting was just intimidating to me. It scared me to death, but it was a nudge that I couldn’t get away from.” 

The encouraging words of a friend was all it took to finally take the plunge and begin recording, and in May 2024, the RevRx Podcast debuted with an interview with Eric Stephens, a pastor and public speaker who hosts his own faith-based podcast. 

It was a 35-minute interview that sounded like, well, a first podcast. 

“I remember that conversation was probably the most awkward conversation I’ve ever had because it was being recorded,” Potts recalled. “I go back and listen to some of those early episodes, and I’m like, oh man those are bad. But you know what? That’s what I needed to move forward.”

RevRx is a one-man show. Potts serves as host, producer and booking agent, squeezing recording sessions in between his day job, family life and serving as the young adult pastor at Dublin’s First Church of the Nazarene. He’s built a small studio in a room of his home.There’s been a lot of trial and error over the past months, learning more about recording equipment, figuring out podcast distribution and sending interview requests to potential guests. 

With over 100 episodes and counting in the archive, RevRx is available on all major podcast platforms, like Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube. Guests have ranged from local preachers to widely recognized figures, some from around the globe, each sharing their testimonies, stories and advice aimed to inspire listeners. Big guests include best-selling Christian author John Eldredge and Major League Baseball MVP and two-time World Series champion Ben Zobrist. 

“I try to find very practical, helpful information, and have guests on the bring encouragement to people to help them on their journey, because there are so many people out there just overwhelmed with life. I talk to them every day in the pharmacy, in the church and everywhere in between,” Potts said. “I feel like I’ve got a catalog that will help people, no matter where they are spiritually, mentally and physically.”

Potts moved to Dublin about 15 years ago with his wife, Celia, a Laurens County native. The pair met at Mercer University’s Pharmacy School, though he went to college with intentions of becoming a doctor. 

“I’ve always loved medicine,” he said. “The human body is fascinating to me. If you want to see evidence for God, look at the human body.” 

While the human body was interesting, body fluids, however, were not. A job as a pharmacy tech in his native Rome, Georgia, gave him a better direction. Such transitions would become common his Potts’ life. The couple moved to Dublin in 2010 and settled in the idyllic American dream life. The next year, he felt the call to join the ministry. 

“I had to remind God that I was the wrong guy. He had called me to be a pharmacist, so that’s just not going to work,” he said. “Long story short, he paved the way for all that to happen. He always does. Then I realized that these world, these paths are not so separate.” 

For the future, Potts said, he will continue doing what he is doing, serving the Lord, his family and his community. As for the podcast, it will remain a labor of love. He hopes to keep booking guests and even record solo episodes, sharing more of his own personal insights and experiences. 

“What I hope is that people get some sort of ‘A-ha moment’ that helps them be a better husband, wife, dad, co-worker or fill in the blank,” Potts said. “If I’ve done that, I feel like that’s worth my while.”