The Honest Pod

This week, Karrie and Shara share about how we can own the light in our lives based on Matthew 5:14. We will see how no matter what your story, God wants to ignite HIS light through you. We also get to hear a bit more about the Own the Light tour Karrie and Shara are a part of!

After the year we have had, many of us are having to navigate loss more often than ever before. This week Karrie and Shara discuss how we can hold others during their time of loss and how we need to allow ourselves to be held as well. As always, please send any questions or topics you would like to hear Karrie and Shara discuss to hello@thehonestpodcast.com.

This week Karrie interviews pastor and author, Adam Weber, about his own journey of realizing his passion for befriending his neighbor. This honest and candid interview shows the heart of a pastor that beats for the marginalized, helping restore your faith and ignite your own passions. Adam Weber is the founder and lead pastor of Embrace, a church based out of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Author of...

This week Karrie and Shara interview Karrie’s husband and Freedom Movement’s Creative Director, Mario Garcia about his story of radical obedience and surrender. Mario shares honestly about his encounter with God that brought about total surrender, and how his BOLD YES has allowed him to fully step into the person that God created him to be.

This week, Karrie and Shara talk about how just one bold “yes” to what God is inviting you into can change the trajectory of your life. They unpack what it means to live in delayed obedience and share some of their own bold yes’s! What was one bold yes you have made that changed the path of your life?

This week Karrie and Shara answer some questions from the 11 listeners including: How to balance your marriage while on your journey to healing? How to navigate trauma when it comes to your family of origin? Some exciting news with Karrie’s non-profit, Freedom Movement and MORE!

This week Karrie and Shara define the differences between condemnation and conviction. The invitation is to bring Jesus and a trusted loved one into where your’e feeling condemnation in order to bring freedom from it. --- You can keep up with our hosts on Instagram at @karriescottgarcia and @sharahaus. We would love to hear from you! Submit your questions or thoughts to hello@thehonestpodcast.com....

This week Karrie and Shara talk about leadership and why they believe everyone is a leader. The question isn’t IF you are leading but really the question is HOW are you leading the people you love? Leadership isn’t about what you do but it’s about who you are.  Are you interested in leaning into your story more? Join Karrie for her next Freedom Academy!  — You can keep up with our hosts on Instagr...

This week, Karrie and Shara interview trauma therapist and host of The Place We Find Ourselves podcast, Adam Young, about why it’s important to name the harm and wounds in your story, so that true freedom can arise. Adam is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with Master degrees in Social Work and Divinity. He has completed extensive training with The Allender Center, including the Certificat...

This week Karrie and Shara examine comparison, the different ways it can show up, and how to healthily engage with it. Comparison is our humanity in the hands of the enemy but what happens to comparison when our humanity is in the hands of God? Are you interested in leaning into your story more? Join Karrie for her next Freedom Academy! https://www.karriegarcia.com/freedomacademy — You can keep up...

This week Karrie interviews author and relationship coach, Kait Warman, about how places of rejection in your story can actually be a gift instead of a burden. They also talk about Kait’s book, “Thank You for Rejecting Me,” where Kait vulnerably shares how she grew through her deepest, darkest rejections and offers readers the tools to heal from the past, take back their power, and walk in strengt...

This week Karrie and Shara talk through identifying self sabotaging behaviors, and how not to let them stop you from stepping into your dreams. — You can keep up with our hosts on Instagram at @karriescottgarcia and @sharahaus.  We would love to hear from you! Submit your questions or thoughts to hello@thehonestpodcast.com.  If you enjoyed listening to our show, please head over to iTunes to leave...

This week Karrie unpacks Joshua 2, the story of Rehab, and how the story of waiting can marry the courage to speak up for what you need and want. In both of these heart postures, Rahab shows us courage and patience while her story is waiting to be redeemed. Are you interested in leaning into your story more? Join Karrie for her next Freedom Academy! https://www.wearefreedommovement.org/academy — Y...

This week Karrie interviews Courtney Misener on the importance of boundaries and how they can protect you, and allow you to step further into your calling. Courtney Misener has worked with non-profits, start-ups, and companies both small and large, to provide tools that promote emotional health, respectful communication, awareness around depression and empathy, self-affirmations and self-care, and...

This week Karrie and Shara share their individual words for 2021 and why they believe choosing a word for the year will help you break strongholds in your life! — You can keep up with our hosts on Instagram at @karriescottgarcia and @sharahaus.  We would love to hear from you! Submit your questions or thoughts to hello@thehonestpodcast.com.  If you enjoyed listening to our show, please head over t...

This week Karrie and Shara interview the talented Tanya Godsey about how we can find mystery and wonder in the presence of God that will bring about rest and peace. Tanya Godsey is a Nashville based Singer Songwriter, Worship Leader, Speaker & Founder of Redeeming The Story Retreats. She is in that seemingly small family of Artists who are gifted and called to function as rare hybrids.  As both Mi...

This week Karrie and Shara kick of a new series by addressing the importance of taking time to reflect and pause. They share three steps to allowing your heart to be aligned with Gods as you venture into all he has for you. Scriptures Referenced in this episode: Lamentations 3:40 Romans 12:2 2 Corinthians 13:5 — You can keep up with our hosts on Instagram at @karriescottgarcia and @sharahaus.  We...

This week Karrie and Shara talk through questions that you have asked them! Listen in as they share open and honestly about everything from some of the worst dates they have been on to how they have figured out their “hell no, not on my watch.” — You can keep up with our hosts on Instagram at @karriescottgarcia and @sharahaus.  We would love to hear from you! Submit your questions or thoughts to h...

This week Karrie and Shara wrap up the Advent season and share 5 tips for regulating during potentially overwhelming and/or triggering situations that you may encounter. — You can keep up with our hosts on Instagram at @karriescottgarcia and @sharahaus.  We would love to hear from you! Submit your questions or thoughts to hello@thehonestpodcast.com.  If you enjoyed listening to our show, please he...

Continuing with the theme of Advent, this week Karrie and Shara talk about the importance of honesty and naming truth. Just like in creation, God takes “formless and void” and He will turn it into beauty and joy. — You can keep up with our hosts on Instagram at @karriescottgarcia and @sharahaus.  We would love to hear from you! Submit your questions or thoughts to hello@thehonestpodcast.com.  If y...

This week Karrie and Shara uncover the goodness that is offered in the word and tradition of advent. Advent is a word we have likely all encountered but might not know the power that comes from it. Advent doesn’t take us into despair but instead allows us to name the weariness and heartache without losing the joy. Advent helps us hold the right now and the not yet. This Christmas season, we hope t...

This week Karrie talks with her Pastor and friend, Dave Mudd about the true mission of the Church and how important it is that we change the way we think about Church. You can follow Dave and his church, The Hope Collective, on Instagram @davemudd and @thehope.collective. — You can keep up with our hosts on Instagram at @karriescottgarcia and @sharahaus.  We would love to hear from you! Submit you...

Join Karrie this week as she dives into defining the meaning behind holding space for the heart, how it enables the Holy Spirit to heal, and how using these tools can bring about hope! Holding space is what we as Kingdom bearers are called to do. It’s with curiosity and empathy around someone’s story that allows them to feel known and loved. — You can keep up with our hosts on Instagram at @karrie...

As a follow up to last week’s episode, this week Karrie shares about how it’s from the places of hurt that Hope rises. To hold Biblical Hope we must allow ourselves to name the places where we are in deep need — need for comfort, or care, or just the presence of God in our grief. Our pain without the comfort of Jesus produces destruction, but our pain in the hands of God produces freedom. — You ca...

This week, Karrie talks about the important role of Faith as an anchor and foundation that allows us to remember where we have been and in turn, have hope for the future. It is remembrance through Faith that is the key to growing and being grounded. — You can keep up with our hosts on Instagram at @karriescottgarcia and @sharahaus. We would love to hear from you! Submit your questions or thoughts...