The Jackie and Stacey Show

Monthly Topic: PERMISSION Today we discuss 4 ways to give you permission to engage in your community in a healthy way. Our impacts are persistent and strong. We sometimes aren’t even aware of the ripple effect our words and behaviors have on our communities. Bandura’s Social Learning Theory shows how our behavioral modeling reinforces our community identity, de-escalates tension, and builds trust....

Monthly Topic: PERMISSION This episode is for the ladies. Or, anyone who knows a lady! You see, women tend to withhold permission for themselves in five general areas: 1) to ask for what we need/want; 2) to hold boundaries in our close relationships; 3) change; 4) asking for help/space; and 5) to NOT identify as the caretaker in the relationship. Whew, these were some tough practices to discuss to...

Monthly Topic: PERMISSION We have Free Will. This means we have permission to choose: a life with God, or a life without God. Even if you choose a life with God, you will wrestle with all the rest of your choices … to allow God to be the leader of your life, or not. The Psalms especially are a detailed reflection of crying out to God - in victory, battle, fear, pain, love, defeat, joy, and … you n...

Monthly Topic: PERMISSION In today’s episode, Jackie and Stacey identify and explore the originations of several social “schemas” we have adopted throughout our lives. These are societal or internal unwritten “rules” that we have been taught or learned along the way. We look at these so we can intentionally give ourselves PERMISSION to decide whether these rules still serve us, or PERMISSION to un...

Monthly Topic: LEGACY Our communities are our neighborhoods, social groups, sports engagements, schools, workplaces, and common interest groups. We ask ourselves, “how does THIS (action /thought / behavior/ etc) contribute to my legacy?” We use this question to help mold how we make decisions now. In today’s episode we call out dozens of our community members, and the legacies we see them building...

Monthly Topic: LEGACY Join us as we continue to discuss how we are currently building our individual legacies: what we will eventually leave behind. Today, we focus on this relationships that have impacted each of us deeply. Mentors are close relationships that have helped us identify and develop our legacy value systems, and how to maintain congruence.

Monthly Topic: LEGACY While you may leave a LEGACY behind when you go, you are building your LEGACY now. What are we doing on the daily to build our legacy of faith? Be sure, our recollection of experiences is often times different from those who experience memories right along side us. But if we can look for Christ in people and reflect back to them that encouraging truth, then THAT is how we can...

Monthly Topic: LEGACY Welcome to a new month and a new topic! Legacy = what we leave behind. Compare traditional notions of legacy with more modern notions. For example, it’s not like the money we leave behind, but the daily intentional values we build upon. What do you want people to remember about how you showed up in the world?

Monthly Topic: MARGIN Thanks for joining us today as we wrap up our month long discussion on Margin. Follow along with us as we determine if we are overwhelming our bandwidth in our communities, or if we have the margin to participate in areas in which we are compelled. Alongside us, ask yourself what breaks your heart? Then do something about it. Join us?

Monthly Topic: MARGIN Sooo many great questions to mull over in today’s episode! Join us and consider YOUR answers!

Monthly Topic: MARGIN

Monthly Topic: MARGIN Margin is the space between doing all the things that you have to and want to do in life. In design, it’s called the “white space” where the eye can rest so it will be drawn to the filled space. Join us as we learn how to make space in our lives, and how it is not a luxury, but a necessity to leading a healthy and intentional life.

Monthly Topic: IDENTITY During today’s episode - find out how we are our own worst enemies with the stories we tell. The fact is that we are all just faking it until we make it - and GOOD FOR US! In community is how we learn, and have the opportunities to practice playing out the identities we choose. In what ways are you practicing, learning and adapting who you are?

Monthly Topic: IDENTITY Today we scratch the surface of a discussion on maintaining our identities in close relationships. Of course, t’s natural to compromise, adapt, and grow as we learn how to interact in our close relationships. Ultimately, only you get to decide which values are foundational to you, and which areas you can compromise. It’s a delicate balance, and one we want to be intentional...

Monthly Topic: IDENTITY In today’s episode, Jackie asks us, “how do we use IDENTITY to describe ourselves?” And then, what happens when things change? Both of us are rooted in Christian faith, so we believe that strong foundation does not change. Our identity is first with Christ, as we: Are created in God’s image; The old is gone and the new is here; God’s mercies are new each morning; and He cho...

Monthly topic: IDENTITY Today we ask, “Who are you?” How do you see yourself? How do you define yourself? Giving voice to our identities, deciding who we want to be and intentionally stepping into the world fully YOU has great benefits. Join us today as we embrace our identity with confidence, authenticity and congruency.

Monthly Topic: REFLECTION Communities are made up of individuals who are either practicing reflection … or not. We’ve discussed the many benefits we experience - and growth we are able to achieve -when we reflect. But how do we influence our communities to participate? How do we model reflection and empathy in community groups and in our neighborhoods?

Monthly Topic: REFLECTION Jackie leads us through 5 major benefits of incorporating reflection into our close relationships. She also leads us through 3 pitfalls of reflection. Join us as we practice countering the pitfalls and practicing healthy reflection that leads to growth and better relationships.

Monthly Topic: REFLECTION In today’s episode, we go big with following God’s command to sit back, take stock, rest, and remember. Over and again God does amazing miracles, and over and again God reminds us to stop and remember. It is in this remembrance, this reflection on alllll the ways God has been faithful, that we are reminded that he will continue to provide and be faithful and love us. We c...

Monthly Topic: REFLECTION WELCOME to the seventh (7!!) season of the Jackie & Stacey Show. In today’s very first episode, we begin where we always do: with SELF. We discuss how important it is for us to stop. When we stop, we intentionally reflect on what we have done, what we have achieved, and where we have failed. Reflection is an important part of the beginning of a cycle or season of life. Li...

Monthly Topic: TENSION In today’s episode we: 1. Brainstorm types of tensions we encounter in communities (cultural, political, socio-economic, access to justice, etc); 2. Discuss the impacts of those different tensions (negative and positive); and 3. Highlight the ways in which we can manage our community tensions (acknowledging, navigating, highlighting the good, etc). Join us as we hold the ten...

Monthly Topic: TENSION Listen in with us as we wade through e multitudes of ways to experience tension in close relationships. Jackie and Stacey describe several ways we experience tensions - and remind us all that tensions are not problems to be solved, but instead topics to be monitored and managed. Then we discuss ways to do just that: monitor and manage the inevitable continuing tensions in cl...

Monthly Topic: TENSION There are so many instances of tension within faith, and today we explore a few of them. Join us as we manage the tensions of what is versus what is to come; what we want to do versus what we actually do; and more dichotomies of living in faith.

Monthly Topic: TENSION After Jackie brought up Andy Stanley’s latest leadership wisdom we had to pursue this topic further. In today’s episode, we start with ourselves, and how we define the different types of tension: problems to be solved (temporary tension) and tension to be managed (ongoing tension). We hope you find this topic as fascinating as we do!

Monthly Topic: LOYALTY Jane and Lexi drop some major wisdom! Tune in to the podcast to listen in on our interview of these two teenage philosophers! From faith to love, we’ve covered it all. What does loyalty mean to you?