Living Faithfully Fit with Tracy Balderach

Welcome to the Living Faithfully Fit Podcast. I’m so glad you’re here. This episode starts with parenting… but it doesn’t stay there. I’ve been thinking a lot about how easy it is to focus on how we’re being perceived… and how quickly that mindset can shape not only our kids, but the way we show up in our own relationships. But what if we’re asking the wrong questions? In this episode, I walk thro...

Welcome to the Living Faithfully Fit Podcast with Tracy Balderach. In this episode, I sit down with Stephanie Streenz, a wife, mom of 2, and homeschooler who spent 13 years building a career in healthcare that looked like everything from the outside. But on the inside, something felt very wrong. What followed was one of the most powerful stories of surrender, obedience, and waiting I have ever had...

Welcome to the Living Faithfully Fit Podcast with Tracy Balderach. Is there someone in your life you have quietly decided is too far gone for God? Maybe one of your children. Maybe your husband. Maybe it is you. Or maybe the harder question is this. Is there an area of your own life where you have been running? Where God has been nudging you toward something and you have gone the other direction?...

Welcome to the Living Faithfully Fit Podcast with Tracy Balderach. In this episode, I sit down with Jess Olejniczak, a wife and mom of 3 who was diagnosed with Crohn’s after her first pregnancy and found herself searching for answers beyond what she had been told. What I love about Jess’s story is that she didn’t just accept it. She started asking better questions. She began making simple, intenti...

Welcome to The Living Faithfully Fit Podcast with Tracy Balderach. This week’s episode is a little different… and one I didn’t expect to record. After finishing a book that I can’t stop thinking about, I found myself reflecting on a simple but powerful question: What kind of life am I actually choosing to live? In this episode, I’m sharing how this story stirred something deeper in me… not because...

Welcome to The Living Faithfully Fit Podcast with Tracy Balderach. If you’ve ever felt like you’re constantly starting over with workouts, nutrition, faith habits, or routines that never quite stick, this episode is for you. In today’s conversation, Tracy shares a powerful reminder that consistency is not a personality trait. It’s a skill that can be built through small faithful choices repeated o...

Welcome to the Living Faithfully Fit Podcast with me, Tracy Balderach. This week’s episode is a special one because it’s Episode 100. Recently, in a Mom of Teens group I help lead at my church, we had an honest conversation about something many of us struggle with as our kids get older: control. As our children move into middle school, high school, and eventually college, we begin to realize how l...

Welcome to The Living Faithfully Fit Podcast with Tracy Balderach. After studying the life of Solomon, I found myself asking a question I couldn’t ignore… How does someone who loves God… slowly drift? This episode isn’t about one big decision. It’s about the small, quiet ones we make every day that can slowly divide our hearts. If you’ve been feeling a little off… a little disconnected… or like so...

You’re eating better than ever. You’re lifting weights. You’re moving your body. You’re trying to do all the right things. And the scale keeps going up. If you’ve ever looked in the mirror and thought, This doesn’t make sense, this episode is for you. In this conversation, I share my personal experience of gaining 20 pounds while doing “all the right things,” visiting multiple doctors, feeling dis...

Welcome to The Living Faithfully Fit Podcast. I’m Tracy Balderach. Have you ever had a season where you still believe in God… but you just don’t feel close to Him? In today’s episode, I share a real-life conversation that sparked a powerful reminder about faith, emotions, and the quiet seasons we don’t talk about enough. If worship has felt flat, prayer has felt one-sided, or your faith hasn’t fel...

Welcome to the Living Faithfully Fit Podcast with Tracy Balderach. In this deeply moving episode, I sit down with my friend, Felice Marcy for a conversation about faith, courage, and walking through one of life’s hardest seasons with God at the center. Felice shares parts of her recent breast cancer journey and the unexpected ways her relationship with the Lord grew stronger in the middle of uncer...

In today’s episode, I’m sharing a personal journey that started with a simple prayer and led to some unexpected spiritual and physical awareness. This conversation isn’t about shame, extremes, or labeling things as good or bad. It’s about what happens when we invite God into areas of our lives we’ve always considered normal. In this episode, I talk about • Why I never thought twice about alcohol •...

🎙️ The Living Faithfully Fit Podcast Welcome to Your Weekly Reset In today’s Season 3 kickoff episode, Tracy introduces the heart behind this season: your weekly reset . Not a reset because you’re failing, but a reset as a Sabbath moment . A place to pause, loosen your grip, remember God is in control, and step back into your week with faith, strength, clarity, and momentum. This episode will remi...

Welcome to the Living Faithfully Fit Podcast with Tracy Balderach. This final episode of Season 2 is all about slowing down, creating space with the Lord, and building the habits that will shape your 2026 with intention and peace. If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed or spiritually tired, this conversation will help you reset and prepare for the woman God is calling you to become. 💛🙏🏻 Today we’re...

How One Choice Can Change Everything Welcome to the Living Faithfully Fit Podcast with Tracy Balderach. Today we are stepping into a powerful truth woven through Second Samuel chapters eleven through fifteen. David made one choice that opened the door to consequences he never expected, and the ripple effects moved through his entire family. James 3:13-18 shows us why this happened. There is worldl...

We usually treat anxiety like an enemy — something to fight, suppress, or fix. But what if anxiety was never the problem? What if it’s actually an emotion God designed to move us toward prayer, courage, and purpose? 💭 Psalm 94:19 — “When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.” 💭 1 Peter 5:7 — “Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.” You’ll walk away from th...

Hey friend, are you tired of feeling tired? You’re not broken, and you’re definitely not alone. In this episode, Tracy gets real about fatigue and shares faith-fueled, practical ways to restore your energy, peace, and focus so you can feel like you again. From small nighttime routines that actually work to the natural peptide that’s transformed her sleep, you’ll walk away with simple shifts you ca...

This week’s episode dives into 2 Samuel 7 , where David wants to build a house for God—but God says no . It’s a story that reminds us that “following your heart” isn’t always the same as following God. Even Nathan, a prophet and God’s messenger, spoke too soon when he told David to go ahead with his plans before checking in with the Lord. And haven’t we all done that? Jumped ahead because somethin...

This week’s episode is a real and vulnerable look inside our family as we navigate the college decision process with our two oldest girls — and the spiritual lessons that have come from it. 💭 What started as conversations about college choices turned into a deep reminder that even our best intentions can drift off course when we stop inviting the Holy Spirit to lead. In this episode, Tracy shares...

As moms, we remember the days of being bone-tired from chasing toddlers, running up and down stairs, and never sitting still. But now, the exhaustion feels different. It’s emotional. It’s the weight of caring for our teens’ hearts, decisions, and futures — and trying to hold it all together while balancing our own lives. In this episode, Tracy shares how motherhood shifts from physical exhaustion...

Have you ever hit a wall as a mom — the kind where you wake up and realize you don’t even have the words to pray? That’s exactly where I found myself this fall after a hard, full summer of travel, parenting from the road, and walking through big things with my kids. In today’s episode, I share how God met me in that emptiness and reminded me of His incredible grace. Prayer is never about striving....

Forgiveness is one of those words that’s easy to say but so hard to live out. This week, I’m unpacking why forgiveness matters, what scripture teaches us, and how we can actually walk it out in real life. We’ll look at Jesus on the cross, the example of forgiveness we saw in recent headlines, and how God’s kindness is always drawing us toward repentance. If you’ve ever wrestled with bitterness, ca...

Have you ever prayed about something over and over—and still felt like God’s only answer was wait ? In today’s episode, I share a personal story about a prayer I’ve been bringing to the Lord for 2 ½ years. Along the way, I’ve seen little miracles, long stretches of silence, and a lot of waiting. Through it all, God has been teaching me what it really means to wait well. We’ll look at two powerful...

Have you ever wanted to rush ahead of God? To push doors open, speed up decisions, or grab control out of fear that you’ll miss your chance? In this episode, I share how God has been teaching me, through my daughters’ college process and the story of King Saul in 1 Samuel, to surrender my timing and trust His. From praying for God to change hearts, to recognizing how fear drives impulsive decision...

Welcome to The Living Faithfully Fit Podcast with Tracy Balderach. In today’s episode, we’ll talk about how God meets us in our discouragement, why His blessings don’t depend on us having it all together, and how we can trust Him in the waiting. If you’re weary today, this episode is your reminder that God has not forgotten you. His blessings are already on the way — and the journey becomes so muc...