How to find the glorious in the mundane with Dove Award winner Christy Nockels
Three-time GMA Dove Award-winning worship leader, singer-songwriter, author and podcaster Christy Nockels releases her first full-length studio album in over five years, This Is The Hour.
I remember listening to Christy Nockels and her husband Nathan when they were Watermark when I was in college and how much their music meant to me. I was so fortunate to be able to speak to Christy about her new album, why she wrote it, and the events that she personally had to go through before she could release it to the public.
We talk about finding God’s presence, and how that is everything.
What it’s like to walk away from fame and what she learned in the process.
How does God meet us in painful places.
How to find the glorious in the small moments.
As a worship leader for over 25 years, Christy’s heart is to simply lead others to connect and communicate with the living God. Her new album carries a storyline that God has already used in a deep and personal way in her and her producer-husband Nathan’s lives. They have experienced these songs spiritually and even emotionally, and they have already been a healing balm to their own hearts.
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How to “get around the table,” with a busy family with Christy Ogden
Research tells us eating dinner with our family during the week is beneficial in so many ways. But how do we ACTUALLY do this when we have multiple kids in different activities and eating together seems like a pipe dream.
My friend Christy Ogden, mother of 5, knows a thing or two about figuring out how to get her family all together for a purpose, and she gives us lots of ways to do just this in our interview today.
She talks about practical ways we can get around the table with multiple kids and busy schedules and why it has mattered so much. She gives us ideas of intentional questions we can ask, and how to foster open communication with our kids. She even wrote a book about it.
In her book, Around the Table , she weaves in her own memories of life at their table with her family and hosting multiple people and events over the past twenty years. The main theme is that the table should be a place of gathering people together and fostering relationships. In it, she shares both the joys and the heartbreaks of her own life in a very candid way. But she also gives a lot of practical applications for how others can foster these kinds of interactions in their own family.
You will love this interview and get some inspiration to get your family “around the table.”
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Be Love. Do Good. is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. To find practical and spiritual guidance to help you grow into the perfectly imperfect parent you want to be visit www.ChristianParenting.org
Strategies of how to Accomplish what Matters Most with Crystal Paine
Crystal Paine, New York Times bestselling author and best known as the Money Saving MomⓇ Founder, who has reached millions with practical advice that has changed families for the better. As a bestselling author, founder of a widely popular enterprise, top podcast host—and busy mom of six—Crystal Paine should be exhausted. Or at least overwhelmed. But she’s not. In fact, she’s thriving.
For the first time ever, Crystal is opening up and teaching on something moms have been asking her about for years: TIME. In her new book, The Time-Saving Mom: How to Juggle a Lot, Enjoy Your Life, and Accomplish What Matters Most (March 7, 2023), Crystal shares the strategies and guiding principles she lives by to maximize her time and energy while balancing many responsibilities, staying sane, living meaningfully, and loving life.
You will love our conversation and get some real life tips you can use this week to prioritize what matters most.
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Be Love. Do Good. is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. To find practical and spiritual guidance to help you grow into the perfectly imperfect parent you want to be visit www.ChristianParenting.org
How to say sorry to your kids and why it’s a game changer with Kristi Hayes
I don’t know about you, but saying sorry is hard, really hard! Especially to our kiddos.
Today I share a story with you about why I needed to say sorry to my kid and the emotions behind it. I talk about my tendency to control things because the underneath emotion is fear, I am not adequate as a parent.
If you have ever felt controlling, inadequate, or need to tell your kids you are sorry, this short 10-minute podcast is for you.
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Creating Margins in Motherhood with Ashlee Gadd
Today I talk with author Ashlee Gadd who wrote the book Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood.
You might think margins in parenting? What the heck is that? How do we even do that, with all the responsibilities of parenting.
Ashlee is a creative and lost that part of her when she was in the throes of motherhood, she talks to us about how to find and pursue those passions before motherhood and why it impacts our family for good so much.
Some things we talk about:
Mom guilt
Creating Margins
How do we continue our passions when the busyness of kids come along?
Why is having a community in your life important?
What happens when we don’t ask people to help?
After this podcast you will feel a much-needed permission slip to pursue your God-given creative gifts alongside motherhood.
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5 family values that last with Trudy Cathy White, daughter of the founders of Chick-fil-A
If you are like our family, we are heading to Chick-fil-A weekly. Not only are their chicken sandwiches the BEST, but their customer service is always spot on. Today on the podcast I have Trudy Cathy White, the only daughter of the founders of Chick-Fil-A and she talks to us about the importance of family values. How to make them, how to preserve them, and how to leave a legacy that lasts way after we are gone. We dig into their core family values and how their business relies on values as well. Things like Faith, Family, Integrity, Generosity, Gratitude .
She has recently written a book called A Legacy that Lastswhich gives us an inside look into these values and how to instill and preserve them in our own homes. She helps understand why being intentional matters in the long run.
You will love today’s podcast and will learn so much about the Cathy family and why they are so successful today.
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What is human trafficking and what do parents need to know to keep our kids safe with Susan Peters
Today I have on my boss Susan Peters, founder and CEO of Unbound Now an anti-human trafficking organization. I wanted her to come on to talk about what human trafficking is, and how we can help raise our kids to be confident in who they are and be able to have hard conversations.
The more conversations we can have about big topics with our kids and make it commonplace in the home, the more our kids will come to us when something doesn’t feel right. We talk about not panicking when our kids come to us with something scary, and how she broke the cycle of abuse in her own family. There are so many nuggets of wisdom in this episode.
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Stories of helping our kids love others with Kristi Hayes
I think stories change us, inspire us, and many times challenge us. Today I am sharing a few stories we have experienced that may help us all remember that it can be easy to love others, see others, and help our kids build relationships with others.
Listen to this short podcast and I hope some of these stories inspire your family.
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Be Love. Do Good. is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. To find practical and spiritual advice to help you grow into the parent you want to be visit www.ChristianParenting.org
How Love Conquers All with Fox and Rob Richardson
Today’s story is unbelievable. A story of love conquering all, in the midst of trials and heartache. Fox and Rob were married and lived together 6 months before their lives were torn apart. This is a beautiful story of faith, hope and love that has persevered through all odds. Fox & Rob Richardson, subjects of the Academy-Award nominated documentary TIME, who defied all statistics and are happily married after being separated for 21 years due to an overzealous prosecution. In his twenties, Rob was fighting to get his business of the ground and was turned down by every bank for a loan. In an act of desperation to provide for their growing family, he attempted to rob one. With no priors, Rob was sentenced to 61 years in prison, leaving Fox to raise their sons alone and fight for her husband’s freedom.
Rob ended up serving more than two decades in America's bloodiest penitentiary, Angola, until receiving clemency in 2018. Fox and Rob now spend their time advocating for incarcerated families where they have a vision to change lives and laws through love.
In their forthcoming book, Time: The Untold Story of the Love That Held Us Together When Incarceration Kept Us Apart (Baker Books, February 7, 2023), these high school sweethearts (together for 36 years now) dive deep into the incarceration that separated them, the love that sustained them, and the miracles that brought them back together.
You will be inspired by their true story.
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