How to Untangle Your Emotions with Jennie Allen

Have you ever been told you’re too emotional? That you need to better control your feelings? Or have you been a life-long feeling controller? Emotion pusher-downer? Do people praise you for being strong but you know deep down you’re actually just staying numb? Jennie Allen is a NYT Best-Selling author and bible teacher, and she […]

June 11, 2024

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Why to Prune your “Excess” This Summer

Have you seen this meme before? The one that always says something along the lines of: “adulthood is the cycle of constantly saying, I just have to get through this week, over and over again until you die”? Do you laugh or want to scream when you see it? Why have we allowed exhaustion and […]

May 22, 2024

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How to Detox Your Mind and Reclaim What Matters Most with Darren Whitehead

Have you ever done a fast? It’s not incredibly common in our culture anymore (unless it’s giving up something for Lent or a juice fast to drop a few quick pounds, it seems!). Well, it’s an age-old practice that pastor and author, Darren Whitehead, can save us from our phones. The 40-day digital detox started […]

May 14, 2024

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The Secret to Joy with Randy Frazee

This week’s guest is speaking my language on every level!! He’s been studying joy as a pastor and researcher for 5 years and, in his words, “mining the book of Philippians for joy for 27.” As a But Randy Frazee’s mission is not just to teach us about joy. He’s here to teach us how […]

April 24, 2024

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The Gift of the Unexpected: Finding yourself when your life goes off plan with Jillian Benfield

What if the dreaded, unexpected thing in your life is actually the beginning of becoming your truest, most flourishing self? This is Jillian’s story. This is my story. This is all of our stories at some point in life if we learn to yield to the God who redeems EVERYTHING. After receiving a life-altering diagnosis […]

April 16, 2024

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Reset Your Relationship with Your Phone & Restore the Relationships That Matter with Joey Odom & Aro

I’d be willing to bet you’ve found and are listening to this week’s episode on your phone, right? So let me start by saying – phones are not evil! But we’re lying to ourselves if we don’t admit their power to addict, distract, and ultimately steal from many of life’s joys given the CONSTANT connection […]

April 9, 2024

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Enrich Marriage & Intimacy w/ Lindsey Maestes

Well friends, this is the one either you’ve been eagerly waiting for OR the one that scares you the most to open 🤪. This week, we’re talking all things marriage and intimacy. This was obviously such a gift for me as Connor and I approach our first anniversary next month, but Lindsey’s work as a […]

April 2, 2024

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From Rock Bottom to Radical Joy: Why Your Story Matters with Molly Stillman

I couldn’t ask for a more perfect guest for Easter week than Molly Stillman. Her debut book, If I Don’t Laugh, I’ll Cry: How Death, Debt, and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming, and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For, releases TODAY and is a start-to-finish witness that God is always […]

March 27, 2024

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How to Get Past Your Past with Jason VanRuler

Do any of these exasperating statements sound familiar to you? That really was the last time. I’m going to do it differently than they did. I can’t keep letting this affect me. I’ve got to move on. Me too. And this week’s guest’s personal story and his life work is to help people like you […]

March 19, 2024

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Kinda Counseling #4 – Q&A Interview with Mattie

This week is super fun because we’re flipping the script and having Shannon interview ME! I’ve loved our one on one time with y’all, talking through different topics and issues that affect all of us. But I thought with season 3 underway and so much exciting change happening in my world, why not take a […]

March 12, 2024

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