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Listen in as Julie Interviews Meghan Fitzgerald about her new book Butterfly Out .  We live life forward and understand it backward and often find the things we go through to be random and Meghan Fitzgerald has written a beautiful book about her journey to finding her purpose.  In her book, she shares intimately about her journey from an eating disorder to true love and care for her body.   And, o...

For the past few months, Julie has been working with the SUN project on developing what we hope will be a continuing relationship to tell real stories of moms on a journey of addiction recovery. This is the second of 2 conversations that we have recorded. Enjoy! The SUN Project is a cross-sector, collaborative system of compassionate care that uses best practices to support the health, safety, wel...

For the past few months, Julie has been working with the SUN project on developing what we hope will be a continuing relationship to tell real stories of moms on a journey of addiction recovery. This is the first of 2 conversations that we have recorded. Enjoy! The SUN Project is a cross-sector, collaborative system of compassionate care that uses best practices to support the health, safety, well...

Julie runs to conflict.  Steve runs from conflict.  We are all wired differently and have different baggage coming to conflict.  Julie shares her passion for conflict and how it has been healing and surprising.  How can we all work to build a world with more peaceful conflicts?  Without conflict there is no true intimacy.  To access the second part of The Power of Conflict on Marco Polo Sharecast,...

Julie and Steve talk about some of the obstacles to date night. Also a review of Grove Cartel Brewery and the adjoining Meadows @ Grove Cartel . And this week is a twofer, where we also celebrated a friends birthday with a game night! Continue the conversation ... you can send us a message or link to our social media pages at The Celebrate Story! Podcast Webpage at https://www.celebratestorypod.co...

Julie and Steve have a conversation about the book The Power of Fun by Catherine Price and what in the book appealed to them for their marriage, parenting and life. Here is the link to the Fun Toolkit mentioned in the episode.  Continue the conversation ... you can send us a message or link to our social media pages at The Celebrate Story! Podcast Webpage at https://www.celebratestorypod.com/.

The last Date Night was at Deejai Noodle Bar & Starlight on 22nd (as called in the episode, the Starlight Lounge ... whoops). We also got a story from Julie's recent trip to Atlanta for the Taylor Swift Concert. Here is the West Wing Clip mentioned in the podcast. If you are enjoying all the Celebrate Story! podcasts, please Subscribe, Like and Review in your favorite Podcast Playing App....

Part 2 was a labor of grief and love.  Julie and Steve discuss the grief that accompanies  the necessary decision to leave a faith community they loved.  They also discuss what they hope to find in the next faith community and their own baggage that truly effected the unhealthy ways they bonded to their previous church home. Certainty Episode  Continue the conversation ... you can send us a messag...

We start with a list of memories from our 22 years of marriage. Then stories and reviews of our recent stay at the UNC Charlotte Marriott Hotel & Conference Center . Music by Coma-Media from Pixabay Continue the conversation ... you can send us a message or link to our social media pages at The Celebrate Story! Podcast Webpage at https://www.celebratestorypod.com/.

A new podcast that lets you peak into Julie and Steve's weekly date night. Expect restaurant, brewery and attraction reviews, as well as some witty banter. Enjoy! Music by Yrii Semchyshyn from Pixabay Continue the conversation ... you can send us a message or link to our social media pages at The Celebrate Story! Podcast Webpage at https://www.celebratestorypod.com/.

Julie and Steve reflect on memories of their childhood church experiences and reflect on how church in adulthood met needs for family and security.  They begin to discuss what the process of re-evaluating their relationship with church looks like and the loss of what they once had.  Listen in for an authentic conversation about the complexity of finding the right church home. Continue the conversa...

Some thoughts on why people hold certain political ideologies, a conversation with Nick Vincent on how his thoughts have changed and the state of politics today. Nick Vincent's Bio Links from todays Show: A Different Way of Thinking Podcast The elevator skit from Candid Camera https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/the-psychology-of-conformity/251371/ People tend to change their m...

Steve gives his experiences and thoughts on his time with church over the last 20 + years. Then Steve and David Roberts have a discussion on the state and future of the Christian Church in the US. Hope you enjoy. David Roberts Bio and Social Media Links Continue the conversation ... you can send us a message or link to our social media pages at The Celebrate Story! Podcast Webpage at https://www.c...

Continue the conversation ... you can send us a message or link to our social media pages at The Celebrate Story! Podcast Webpage at https://www.celebratestorypod.com/.

This week Steve finishes up a 2 part series of the The Grey of some social issues. This week, we talk race with Dr. Tracey Benson, co-author of the book, Unconcious Bias in Schools and founder of the Anti-Racist Leadership Academy. Please listen with an open mind to this important conversation! More about Tracey - https://traceyabenson.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exploring-race-raci...

Introduction to a new podcast from Celebrate Story! Steve Wagner presents Celebrate The Grey! We will look at a number of topics that used to feel black and white, but now fall into a Grey space. Continue the conversation ... you can send us a message or link to our social media pages at The Celebrate Story! Podcast Webpage at https://www.celebratestorypod.com/.

In the inaugural episode of Celebrate The Grey, Steve will take us back to a turning point in his way of processing the world around him and give a set-up into what the coming weeks of the podcast will be about. Julie Wagner's Podcast Website - www.celebratestorypod.com Reference Material: Origin of the Quote "If are given something for free, then you are the product" Article on Int...

This week we are talking about Work and Identity with Steve and his good friend Nick Vincent. If nothing else, you need to hear Nick's healthy take on what work means to him. Worth the listen! About Nick Vincent - Self Proclaimed, Approachable Nerd Nick Vincent is a longtime friend of the Celebrate Story! podcast team. Nick is a father of two living in northern VA with his wife, Rebecca. He i...

Steve and Julie Wagner discuss their journey through parenthood and the joy, dread and challenge that has presented. If you are enjoying the podcast please make sure you Subscribe/Follow and also leave a Rating and a Review on Apple Podcast ... it really helps the show. You can follow all that is going on at Celebrate the Grey and connect with Steve on Social Media at www.celebrategreypod.com . Mu...

Julie speaks with Lisa Sharon Harper who's recently published book draws on her lifelong journey to know her family's history, leading Christian activist Lisa Sharon Harper recovers the beauty of her heritage, exposes the brokenness that race has wrought in America, and casts a vision for collective repair. Enjoy this candid conversation! Link to the book: Fortune: How Race Broke My Fami...

This week, Julie concludes her 3 Part series, 'What is the Church?', with an interview of Brian McLaren ( https://www.celebratestorypod.com/guests/brian-mclaren/). Brian is the author of more than 15 books, including Faith After Doubt, Do I Stay Christian?, and A New Kind of Christian, he is a faculty member of The Living School at the Center for Action and Contemplation. Please enjoy th...

This week Julie is bringing you a great interview with Michel Hendricks, one of the authors of the book The Other Half of Church. Michel is a teacher, trainer, inventor and author. Drawing from the cross-section of the Bible and brain science, he helps churches and communities implement a relational discipleship that transforms. He is the director of Life Model consulting at Life Model Works and i...

Recent news is littered with stories of Christian churches acting badly. Laura Barringer and her father Scot McKnight had a front row seat to one of these stories at Willow Creek Community Church outside of Chicago, IL. They have theorized in their book, A Church Called Tov, that there might be a better way to do church. We hope you enjoy listening to this interesting and enlightening conversation...

In the first episode of Season 2 of Celebrate Story!, Julie reenacts her talk from icuTalks from March.  The theme is Changing the Narrative and Julie shares just a few of the stories from her life that prompted her digger deeper for better answers to the important questions in life. Link to YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/bOp-cZHWeXA   Continue the conversation ... you can send us a message or li...

Introducing Celebrate The Grey , a new podcast under the Celebrate Story! umbrella. Check it out and make sure you subscribe in your favorite Podcast App. Episodes starting March 22nd. Continue the conversation ... you can send us a message or link to our social media pages at The Celebrate Story! Podcast Webpage at https://www.celebratestorypod.com/.