Do your worst fears consume you? Maria Furlough, author of Breaking The Fear Cycle: How To Find Peace For Your Anxious Heart, shares her riveting story of God’s Presence on the day she believed would be the worst of her life. That day was transformed by God, and it started a transformation of the rest…

We all want to be known as women who can be counted on, but there are some hidden traps involved: Over-helping. Savior complexes. Personal exhaustion. How can we become reliable friends, co-workers, wives and neighbors without slipping on the downsides and turning into controlling women? In this episode, Cheri and Amy candidly share failures and…

We’re not made for the exhaustion of try-harder living. Kathi Lipp and Cheri Gregory, co-authors of You Don’t Have to Try So Hard, share strategies for overcoming Perfectionism and its three fellow “P Bullies” — People-Pleasing, Performancism, Procrastination. If you need insight on how to resist these and strength to rest from them, listen in…

Cary Heise, this week’s “Seed-Sender” guest, has always been a people-gatherer. Now she uses this gift to draw people around a table for great good. Instead of down-playing your gifting, what if you identify and start to leverage it? If you’ve been unsure of how to step up into your calling, this episode will spur…

(Prefer reading to listening? Download the Episode #53 transcript!) In their conversation with Lynn Cowell, author of Magnetic: Becoming the Girl He Wants, Amy ‘n’ Cheri discover the beauty of living beyond the social networking highlight reels and the pressure of parenting perfectly. Instead, Lynn shares about how to engage our children’s hearts with our…

Sometimes the celebration just doesn’t seem worth it. The cleaning, the cooking and the planning can be overwhelming, so we just avoid it altogether. But what if we’ve over-complicated hospitality, letting our perfectionism get in the way of something really good? Christen Price, author of Invited, shares how to choose connection over perfection when we…