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Send us Fan Mail I’m so excited to welcome a new friend to chatologie today, Certified Health Coach and Podcast host Katrina Sequenzia.  I am being very vulnerable with Katrina today and sharing my story that led me to begin my own radical healthy journey this year.  After finishing my 75 Hard Challenge, I truly wanted to talk to Katrina about how she helps others work to maintain a healthy and fr...

Send us Fan Mail I’m so excited to welcome podcast host, speaker and author of her first book Do the Thing: Gospel-Centered Goals, Gumption, and Grace for the Go-Getter Girl, Rebecca George.  Rebecca and I discuss how the hustler, the go-getter girl, can see her calling through a Gospel centered perspective.  As an achiever myself, this conversation brought me so much encouragement…and I’m glad yo...

Send us Fan Mail I’m so excited to share this episode with you today.  My new friend, Taylor Turkington is here to chat about her new book, Trembling Faith.  If you’d like to dive into a really short book about a distressed prophet, Habakkuk is exactly what you are looking for and Taylor’s book is the perfect companion guide to read it.  In a world where so much can go wrong, Habakkuk helps us dea...

Send us Fan Mail We’re having a conversation today we’ve never had before on chatologie, and because of our topic, you probably want to listen to this episode without little ears listening.  I’ve invited my new friends, Layton and Chelsea Boeve to share their story and journey with finding freedom from the effects of pornography on their dating life and marriage.  If you know someone that is strug...

Send us Fan Mail I’m so excited to welcome back my friend, podcaster, author and Bible teacher, Nicki Koziarz.  Nicki has recently written a book called Your New Now about the life of Moses.  There is so much to glean from the life of Moses and his experiences, especially when it comes to handling transitions.  Listen in as Nicki walks us through four seasons of transitions that we might find ours...

Send us Fan Mail I’m so excited to welcome Jasmine Holmes to the show today.  Jasmin is the co-host of the podcast, The Gospel Coalition and author of the new book, Never Cast Out.  We all deal with shame in some way.  Today, Jasmine and I are talking about how the gospel helps us deal with and puts an end to the story of shame.  This is an important conversation…and I’m glad you’re here for it.  ...

Send us Fan Mail I’m so excited to welcome back my friend, author Crystal Paine, to the show.  Crystal is here to talk about her new book, The Time Saving Mom.  If you are anything like me, and most moms are, we are extremely busy, so how can we find extra time.  Crystal walks us through setting priorities so that we can order our day and our lives.  I needed this conversation and I hope it brings...

Send us Fan Mail I’m so excited to bring you this episode today with Debra Fileta.  As a licensed Christian Counselor who specializes in mental and emotional health, Debra knows that to achieve effective, long-lasting change, you have to know and understand what is happening on the inside.  Today, Debra shares the wisdom I needed to help me with the mental challenge that I was doing, the 75 Hard C...

Send us Fan Mail I’m so excited that my friend, Heather MacFayden is back on chatologie today!  Heather has just released her second book, Right Where You Belong.  But the topic of our conversation is best described by the subtitle of the book, How To Identify And Fully Occupy Your God Given Space.  Most of us have asked questions like, “Am I where I’m supposed to be?  Am I doing what God wants me...

Send us Fan Mail I’m so excited to introduce you to my friend Vivian Mabuni today.  Vivian is an author and the podcast host of Someday Is Here and one of the voices that I am listening to in the space of learning about other races and what they face in our culture today.  As an Asian American woman, Vivan grew up not seeing anyone like herself as authors and speakers.  Viv has spent her life work...

Send us Fan Mail I’m thrilled to introduce you to my guest today, our former pastor from Euless, TX, John Meador.  John is joining me to discuss his new book, God’s Not Done With You: Encouragement From The Bible’s Greatest Comeback Stories.  You will be inspired by John’s own story of losing his hearing at the age of 6, and the other stories he has compiled to show how God uses tragedy in our liv...

Send us Fan Mail My guest this week is Leslie Thompson and we’re discussing her book, Every Moment Holy .  Holy Week has arrived and as we head towards Easter weekend, so many of us are focusing on the holy moments that led Jesus to the cross and out of the grave to pay for our sin and defeat sin and death by His resurrection. This book is filled with written prayers and liturgies - habits and pra...

Send us Fan Mail We’re having a very important conversation today with the author of the new book, Starved, Amy Seiffert.  Amy takes the approach of physical starvation to help us understand what it is to fill our lives with spiritual junk food, like spending too much time scrolling and focusing on the comparison trap, clicking on headlines that cause fear, anxiety and exhaustion in our lives.  Sh...

Send us Fan Mail Hi Friends! We’re getting real on chatologie today with my new friend, trauma-informed therapist and author of the new book Image Restored , Rachael Gilbert.  So many of us, both men and women, experience shame and insecurity when it comes to our bodies, even stretching back to our childhoods.  Rachael and I talk about practical ways that we can tear down all of that and stand in...

Send us Fan Mail She’s back!  Today’s episode is the next installment of Tuesdays with Tiff and we’re talking March Madness!  Don’t worry, this is not a basketball show, but a show about what makes us mad or “pet peeves”.  You know you can’t wait to hear and probably agree with our list  And we’d love to hear what your pet peeves are and what you are grateful for. This conversation is exactly what...

Send us Fan Mail Hi Friends! Today I’m joined by a new friend I’ve been so excited to finally meet.  You may have heard of Wendy Speake’s 40 Day Sugar Fast before, but after Wendy wrote that book and led many women through the study, she realized that fasting prepares us to feast, and that lead her to write the 40 Day Feast.  If you have a desire to truly know God and His Word on a different level...

Send us Fan Mail Hi Friends!  Today I’m joined by Phylicia Masonheimer to chat about her new book releasing today, Every Woman A Theologian .  As Phy shares today, her desire in writing this book is that every woman, and man, will be equipped to effectively share their faith.  It is not possible for everyone to go to seminary, but with this book, we can be prepared on how to share with others abou...

Send us Fan Mail Hi Friends!  I’m so excited to have one of my favorite Bible study teachers back on the show today, Jen Wilkin.  Jen is walking us through her latest Bible Study, Abide, about I, II, and III John.  John was the last living apostle at the time he wrote these letters and he touches topics that are super relevant to the church today.  Jen and I talk about what is plaguing the church...

Send us Fan Mail Friends, you responded so overwhelmingly to how much you loved my episode last season with my friend Tiffani Casey and so we’re going to make it a permanent segment for Season 7!  And so in the spirit of the month of February and officially Valentine’s Day, Tiff and I are sharing our love stories with you today…AND we’re talking “Rom Coms” and our favorite love stories from the Bi...

Send us Fan Mail Season 7 is here and we’re so happy you are here for it!  I’ve been waiting for this interview for a long time and I’m thrilled to finally share it with you today.  Author, speaker and storyteller, Carlos Whittaker is here today to talk about his new book, How to Human . After the toll that the pandemic took on us, it’s time to tap back into who we were created to be.  It’s time t...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year!  I invited my friend Tiffani Casey to join me for this fun-filled episode we’re calling Happiness Hacks for 2023.  Goal setting and resolutions aren’t always easy, and we often abandon them because we get overwhelmed and can't live up.  So this year, we’re focusing on things that bring us happiness.  If we live our life leaning in to the things that make us he...

Send us Fan Mail This week, I'm so happy to welcome my Pastor, David Uth, back to the show.  We take a few minutes to talk about the Characters this Christmas who are standing out to us. As we end the year, I couldn't think of a better way to close this year, than reflecting on the reason for it all, Jesus.    Mentioned in the show: Compassion:  Sponsor a child with Compassion Internatio...

Send us Fan Mail We’re getting closer to Christmas and this interview couldn’t have come at a better time.  Today, I have a conversation with Drew Jackson, author of the new book of poems called God Speaks Through Wombs.  As you’ll hear Drew and I chat, I’ve been thinking a lot about Mary and her role in the story of Immanuel coming to be with us.  Drew’s poems are drawn from the gospel of Luke, w...

Send us Fan Mail I’m so excited to air this interview for you today.  My friend, Jamie Ivey interviews Jonathan, a formerly sponsored child through Compassion International, each year, and I wanted you to hear just how amazing his story is as it continues.  After Jamie’s conversation with Jonathan, you’ll hear my conversation with Dr. Yannely Suero, another former Compassion child who is now a ped...

Send us Fan Mail I’m so excited to air this interview for you at this time of year.  Last year, as a part of the Simple Seminary community, we interviewed Kristi McLelland, a Biblical Studies professor at Willamson College in middle Tennessee, after her recent visit to Chicago to celebrate Hanukkah, The Festival of Lights, with a Jewish family.  You guys, there is so much to learn about this celeb...