Heart of Dating

Jason discusses how relationships are selfless and selfishness is taking over our culture. Today Kait invited her new friend and FELLOW Canadian, Jason Ballard onto Heart of Dating for an incredible, deeply inspiring conversation about selfishness and and physical boundaries. Jason is one of the hosts of the Alpha Youth Series and a pastor at his home church, Christian Life Assembly in CANADA, eh?...

Kris and Kristen tell their love story and how to romance the other in a dating relationship while pursing a christ centered relationship intentionally. They also discuss DM sliding and why it's OK. Now for today’s episode we brought on Kait's friends Kris Wolfe and Kristen Dalton Wolfe. Their conversation revolved around importance of PURSUIT and ROMANCE in relationship… because yall these two th...

Bianca talks about how church dating can get akward and how to avoid being weird as a dating christian. Bianca Olthoff is a POWERHOUSE of a woman, let us tell you! Bianca is a speaker and pastor at The Father’s House, a church down in Orange Country. She moved down to the OC when she got married about 8 years and at the time worked alongside Christine Caine under the A21 organization, a global ant...

Joel discusses the importance of having a vision, purpose, dreams, and pursing them. He also talks about having values and being intentional. oday Kait interviews the inspiriting Joel Brown. Joel currently lives in Bali and in fact during this interview you could hear the birds chirping outside so you’ll want to get on a plane after for sure! Out in the gorgeous land of Bali Joel runs incredible c...

Gerard and Jeannie share their powerful story of grief and loss and talk about looking for someone who can face the hardships of life together with. Today’s episode touches our heart for a plethora of reasons. This first time Kait heard the story of today’s guests she was brought to total and complete tears. It moved Kait so deeply the vast amount of trauma they had been through but were able to O...

Benji talks about how the hookup culture of our world has influenced Christianity, and how we should dating in a godly way amidst it. Today we welcome the incredibly intelligent Benji Nolot, Benji is the founder Exodus Cry, an international non-profit organization that works to end sex trafficking and empower its victims. He is also a filmmaker – most recently for his new film Liberated: The New S...

Ben talks about how to know if you've found someone you should marry and the process of evaluation while dating as Christians. We are always looking for new amazing books to read on dating and someone earlier this year recommended the book Single. Dating. Engaged. Married. Our host, Kait, read it and really thought that everyone needed to read this book! So today Kait got the privilege of sitting...

Stephanie May Wilson discusses LOVING your singleness season and how to stay strong and not discouraged throught it. Today our guest is Stephanie May Wilson who is a brand new friend of Kait's. Their stories and journeys are SO similar y’all and she is SO passionate about singles (which we couldn't love more!). Steph is an author, blogger, speaker, and a best friend to many and in fact she hosts t...

Discussion on men, masculinity, and toxic masculinity. Learning how to be vulnerable, pursuing godliness, and what a man of God is. Part 2 of our conversation with 3 incredible men. If you missed our Part 1 of this conversation, you’re going to want to go back and listen to it. We dove into what it is like being a man in the culture of the Me, Too movement. How can we embrace women? How can we do...

Three men discuss their reaction to the me too movement from a male perspective. They also share how the church has handled it and how we can move forward in healing. So today Kait brought on 3 of her guy friends who she admires in SO many ways. Each of them have such beautiful hearts, and truly grasped what it means to love and respect women wholeheartedly, while also learning how to wrestle with...

amie Grace discusses not settling and waiting for the right person as well as how she found hope in her singleness. Today we have the STELLAR Jamie Grace on the podcast. She is a singer, songwriter, musician and actress who current lives here in Los Angeles, California and is originally from Atlanta! Y’all she is 2x GRAMMY nominee, Dove Award winning artist and actually got her start on YouTube wh...

Are y’all ready for a fun convo today on one of our FAVORITE TOPICS? We are talking about DTR’s today. What are they? How do you have them? How frequently do you have them? Why are they necessary? WE TALK ABOUT IT IT ALL. We have polled y’all on the topic of DTR’s and BOY did you have some grief to share. So we brought in the DTR expert, our good friend Kristina Harutoonian to chat all things Defi...

Juli and Addison tell their story of meeting and dating long distance, pursuing boundaries, and how God led their love story. Today we have a stellar couple on that we admire for so many reasons. Addison and Juli Bevere! We were super grateful to interview 2 of the other Bevere brothers, Alec and Arden, and now we are excited to speak to the veterans of the family, the oldest brother and his wife....

JP discusses dating in church community, how to do it well, and how to not be weird about. Above all he points out how to leave someone better than you found them. The ultimate Christian dating question: How in the world do we date healthily in our communities? And no, we are not referring to anything strangely related to the years of, “I Kissed Dating Goodbye”. But rather, how do we today actuall...

In today's MINISODE features Kait’s new friend, Cristina, co-founder of Matchmakers in the City! They have locations in LA, Washington, New York… she’s setting up people left and right, ALL across the country! And as a fellow-Jesus lover, she kind of serves as the token go-to Christian matchmaker! The ladies sit down to talk all the dating things from an EXPERT point of view. Some themes in today’...

Becca Stevens founder of Thistle Farms discusses facing sexual abuse and how she found healing. In today’s episode of Heart of Dating, Kait sits down for an emotionally filled, beautiful conversation with the incredible Becca Stevens. Becca Stevens is an author, speaker, Episcopal priest, justice entrepreneur, and founder and president of Thistle Farms which is a community of women survivors of pr...

Alec and Arden discuss everything girls are wondering about single men... what do they look for, pressures they feel as men, needs in a relationship, and why "men aren't asking women out”. In today’s awesome episode, we talk with Alec and Arden Bevere, two great, single, Jesus-loving men. They are brothers and work at Messenger International. They also co-founded Sons & Daughters, both which are f...

Jamie Ivey from The Happy Hour Podcast discusses how to be vulnerable with the person your dating to strengthen your relationship. In this LAST EPISODE OF SEASON 1 (holy moses!), Kait has a wonderful conversation with THE Jamie Ivey! Jamie is a podcaster, author, mother of four, Austin Texas native, working woman, wife to a wonderful pastor, and an all-around wonderful person. Four years ago, Jami...

Let's talk about spicing up your dating life! We have to do things different to increase connection! Whether we want to admit it or not, sometimes things can get a little stale in our dating lives… On today’s MINISODE, Kait sits down with Matt Jones to first & foremost laugh a TON, and second, walk you through what they think are 3 different stages of dating. Then in proper form, they thoroughly d...

Mike Foster discusses how technology impacts our relationships these days. He also reveals the importance of understanding different communication styles. Today, Kait talks to Mike Foster, a best-selling author, speaker, and advocate for not-so-perfect people and all around phenomenal guy. He is also a fellow podcaster and hosts the widely popular and deeply thought provoking podcast, Fun Therapy....

Jon Tyson profoundly discusses modern dating in both culture and the church through detailing out the theology of gender, marriage, and sexuality. Today, Kait has a conversation with Jon Tyson, a fearless pastor who, if this gives you any idea of his fearlessness, most recently did a sermon series called “The Controversial Jesus,” that talks about controversial topics like the transgender movement...

We have said it before & we will say it again… Mentorship is CRAZY important in relationships. Okay so today we are bringing you another MINISODE with musician friends of Kait’s, Giorgi + Leo. They are phenomenal singer and songwriters who love Jesus and have been married for 8.5 years coming from both Italy and California. We are ever so glad they found one other because y’all trust us, their mus...

Lauren Scruggs discusses insecurities and how not healing from them can effect your relationships...specially the one you have with yourself. In today’s episode, Kait has a conversation with Lauren Scruggs Kennedy, a kind-hearted, brave, inspiring, courageous, so kind hearted, and filled with so much love and joy. She is married to Jason Kennedy, who is a host on E-News and they live in Los Angele...

Clay discusses how pornography is harmful to relationships and if it’s not something that is dealt with, can have grave consequences and negative impacts on a marriage. Friends did you tune in last week? We spoke at LENGTH about the harmful affects on porn on our brain and how it can actually be an addiction. Clay Olsen from Fight the New Drug spoke candidly about some the staggering and vast affe...

Clay discusses the science of porn and statistic of the addiction and how it's become a serious problem in dating for many christians. We are just GOING THERE today. This is a topic that is so widespread, but also so feared when it comes to bringing to the light. There is so much confusion, so much pain, so much shame wrapped up in this 4 letter word. Today, in this two-part episode, Kait gets ext...