Her Story Speaks

Jamie Bruesehoff (she/her) is an award-winning writer, speaker, and advocate. She is an openly queer woman married to a Lutheran pastor and mom to three spirited children, including a 14 year old transgender daughter, Rebekah.  She is passionate about sharing her family’s story, because she believes our stories are bridges to understanding, compassion, and celebration. Jamie works alongside her da...

Cha Sears-Barefield is a powerful speaker, entrepreneur and talk show host of The Cha Show. The Cha Show is committed to fostering meaningful conversations that bring people together, create a safe space to share our stories and inspire our hearts to be better, love better, and hope more. Cha believes in the power of pushing the needle towards love. She sees the extraordinary in the ordinary and c...

Emmy Kegler is a pastor, author, and speaker called to ministry at the margins of the church, especially among LGBTQ+ Christians. She serves as pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Northeast Minneapolis. Emmy has a Master’s in Divinity from Luther Seminary and is an ordained pastor of the ELCA.  She is a co-leader of the Queer Grace Community, a group of LGBTQ+ Christians in the Twin Cities who meet...

In this weekend bonus episode I am joined once again by Marcie Alvis-Walker from Black Coffee with White Friends and special guest, Cha Sears-Barefield from the ever popular The Cha Show. In this conversation, Marcie shares about her newest endeavor, “Black Eyed Bible Study” and what led her to create this unique study that dives into popular bible verses and stories, biblical translations, bible...

Meghan Tschanz is a writer, speaker, podcast host, and former missionary who is passionate about empowering women and reclaiming feminism for the Christian faith. For years she worked as a missionary with sexually exploited and oppressed women. After befriending them and hearing their stories, they taught her what no one else could have: how to take a stand. As she spoke out against the atrocious...

In this special bonus 'Mother’s Day’ Episode, I sit down for a conversation with my 18 year-old daughter, Grace Kingsley Miller. Grace spent her formative years growing up in the Bible belt and being raised in the conservative, white evangelical church. But at some point in her journey, she questioned all that she had been taught to believe about faith and politics. In this candid conversation, Gr...

Kellie Haddock is a singer, songwriter, wife and mom. A former widow, Kellie has lived through tragedy and found hope and joy on the other side. Her music draws from real-life stories of beauty, heartache, hope and the celebration of life. The Thank You Project, a short film featuring Kellie’s story of gratitude after tragedy, has attracted more than 150 million views and has been featured on The...

Emily Joy Allison is a queer author, artist, public speaker and yoga teacher from Nashville, TN. Her passion and work focuses on fighting sexualized violence and purity culture in Christian communities. In November of 2017, Emily took to Twitter to share her story of being groomed for an abusive relationship by a church youth leader when she was in her teens, and the #ChurchToo movement was born t...

Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young is an author, speaker, podcaster, former news reporter, and coach. She is passionate about helping women discover God’s glory on life’s unexpected paths and flourish in their God-given callings. In this episode, Dorina shares the most painful part of her story she would never have written for herself and three young daughters. In 2003 Dorina and her husband, Ericlee, star...

Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes is a clinical psychologist, public theologian, and minister whose work focuses upon healing the legacies of racial and gender oppression. She earned her M.S. and Ph. D. in clinical psychology from the University of Miami and her Masters of Divinity from Duke Divinity School and  is currently an associate professor at Mercer University.  Dr. Chanequa is the author of Too...

In this special episode Michelle Reyes, PhD, Grace P. Cho, Tasha Jun, and Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young all join me for a vulnerable conversation about the Atlanta Massacre and the Anti-Asian hate/violence in this country. As Asian American Christian women, they share  what that means especially in this time of increased hate and violence aimed at Asian-American bodies.  In this conversation we talk a...

Tiffany Bluhm is an East Indian born, author, speaker, podcaster, and adoptive parent who is passionate about the restoration of marginalized people groups. As a minority, immigrant woman with a interracial family,  she cares deeply  about women's equality, justice, and dignity. Tiffany’s story includes serving as an Outreach Pastor at an urban mega church where she engaged parishioners with margi...

Tasha Hunter’s story is nothing short of a miracle. A survivor in the truest sense, Tasha has overcome child abuse, incest, and an attempted suicide attempt that should have destroyed her life. Through her years of struggling with issues of abandonment and post-traumatic stress, her story brings to life her search for meaning, acceptance, and love. As a mental health advocate who now specializes i...

In this final episode of the four-part series celebrating Black Women, I am joined once again joined by Marcie Alvis-Walker from @blackcoffeewithwhitefriends and special guests: author and therapist; Tasha Hunter, and Historian; Lettie Shumate from @sincerely.lettie.  In this conversation, we continue our discussion about Black women throughout our history focusing on Black women as our first ladi...

In episode three of a four-part series during Black History Month, we celebrate BLACK WOMEN. I am joined once again by Marcie Alvis-Walker from @blackcoffeewithwhitefriends and special guests Patricia Taylor from the popular blog and instagram account ‘Some Thoughts from Your Black Friend’; author and therapist Tasha Hunter and Historian Lettie Shumate from @sincerely.lettie. In this conversation,...

In episode two of a 4-part series during Black History we celebrate BLACK WOMEN. Once again I am joined by Marcie Alvis-Walker from @blackcoffeewithwhitefriends and special guests Patricia Taylor from the popular blog and instagram account "Some Thoughts from Your Black Friend" and author and therapist, Tasha Hunter. We pick up where we left off in our last conversation and discuss the origins of ...

In this special episode I am joined by Marcie Alvis-Walker. This month Marcie joins me each with as we celebrate Black Women in American History. We talk about the stories of Black women who are often overlooked or hidden from our mainstream History lessons—from the Kitchen to the White House. In this particular episode we talk about “The Jemima Code” and celebrate how from the beginning of our co...

Chandra Crane is an author, speaker and multi-multi-ethnic specialist who is passionate about diversity and family. Growing up in a multi-ethnic home, she has too often felt the otherness of never quite fitting in. Her own mixed multiethnic and multicultural background includes a Thai birth father, a European American mother, and an African American father who adopted her when she was five. In her...

By integrating theology, sociology, and psychology, Gigi Khanyezi has devoted her life to healing, equipping, and mobilizing people to seek racial justice. She is the Founder/Director of Jesus and Justice, where she is a writer, artist, activist, and speaker and where she facilitates the groundbreaking Jesus and Justice Course with an emphasis on healing racial trauma.  After growing up in E. Oakl...

Michelle Reyes (PhD) is the Vice President of the Asian American Christian Collaborative and the Editorial Director at Pax. She is also the Scholar-in-Residence at Hope Community Church, a minority-led multicultural church in East Austin, Texas, where her husband, Aaron, serves as lead pastor. In this conversation Michelle shares her story of growing up as a 2nd generation Indian-American in predo...

Diana Oestreich heard God’s call to love her enemies in the most unlikely place: on the battlefield of Iraq. She’s now a soldier turned peacemaker and author of  “WAGING PEACE”. Diana is also an activist who shares her story and passion with others.  Speaking across the country she empowers us to identify our own rural, urban, political and religious divides to cross our own “enemy lines”  to rema...

Marlena is a writer, pastor, deep thinker, and speaker who is passionate about the eternal implications of our life in God. She is a lover of beauty and a seeker of justice seeker. Marlena deeply believes that spiritual formation and justice should never be separated. She is most concerned with those who profess to follow Jesus but speak and behave so unlike him. As a Puerto-Rican influenced by ma...

Patricia Taylor is the woman behind the blog, "Some Thoughts From Your Black Friend” where she seeks to cultivate a space in which difficult yet necessary topics can be shared and discussed with grace, truth and love. She is  a thirty-something wife, mom and California native turned Georgia peach who believes in Jesus, loving all of our neighbors, and having critical conversations around racial ju...

Beth Silvers co-hosts Pantsuit Politics, a bipartisan podcast focused on nuanced and grace-filled dialogue about the toughest issues we face as a nation. In our conversation, Beth shares her story that led her to the role she now has of talking politics and the passion she has for grace-filled political conversations. She shares how the last 4 years have shifted her political leaning and the role...

Jamie Grace is a two-time Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and actress. Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome, OCD, ADHD, and anxiety at a young age. At 19 years old, Jamie was nominated for a Grammy for a song she wrote in college, and her career skyrocketed in a matter of months. Among several other nominations, Jamie won the Dove Awards New Artist of the Year, a lot happened, fast. While these a...