Lifting the Lifter's Podcast

Happy New Year!!! 2025 is under way! If you took a minute to reflect on the past year, what do you see? Do you see a year of Gaps or a year of Gains? When we are in the gap, we see where we didn't measure up.  Where we missed the mark and didn't reach the ideal or the perfect scenario.  The problem is, is it ever "just right?" Did we ever see the ideal or the perfect scenario? Gap thinking leaves...

As we have just celebrated Christmas, the decorations will come down, the carols change to regular music, and family will go home, but Christ will still be there.  He is in each and every one of our stories.  He's in the thick things and the thin things. Do we see Him? In this podcast, I tell you a story about how we saw Crhist in our story and how we still see him.  We talk about how he delivers,...

New.  This is the word I'd use to sum up 2024.  We had a whole lot of new experiences, changes, surprises, challenges, and blessings come our way! When a package arrives on our doorstep we love to see what new thing the UPS man has delivered, but when it comes to life experiences, the Rydalch family loves to know what's going on, loves to have a plan, and doesn't necessarily love "new surprises" i...

This time of year can get a bit overwhelming and stressful with activities, social gatherings, gifts, and parties.  I have the best of intentions to enjoy the holidays, but sometimes it is difficult to manage it all! So in today's podcast, we are going to talk about 10 Holiday Hacks to help with the stress! Make meal times easy! Make a list of what's on your mind. De-clutter a space or a room for...

Whenever we travel, we love to come HOME. After a long day of school, work, and errands....HOME is the place we all want to be! At home is a place we can relax, let our gaurds down, feel safe, comfortable, and at peace. Maybe it's not necessarily your "home" that you feel this place, but if you have a "happy place" those feelings are the same. You feel safe. Sometimes going home, or to our happy p...

Christmas is around the corner! This year Thanksgiving was a little late so Christmas will be here before we know it! As we set into motion our plans for holiday shopping and traditions, sometimes we can get lost in the shuffle and forget the reason for all of it.! Join in this episode as we discuss some gift-giving ideas and traditions, what they mean, and some of my favorite ideas to help you cr...

Sometimes the days can go by at our house when it didn't even feel like we connected as a family, we touched base, and got a chance to catch up! We just go through the motions moving from one commitment to the next! It requires some intentional effort to slow down and put aside what we are doing so that we can have these moments.   One of the practices we like to do as a family this time of year t...

What would you say if you could write a letter to your family, loved ones, and friends right now, in whatever phase you are in? What advice would you give?  On three different occasions this week, as I have been running around, listening, and studying, I have run into just that.   One was titled "Insights from my Life" by Neal A Maxwell. One was in the Book of Mormon, chapter 7, Mormon is at the e...

In your lives who would you say is your wingman? A wingman can refer to a pilot in the Air Force or a friend or partner who helps and supports another person.  They are there for help, support, backup. Sometimes we feel lost and alone, like we have no one there for support and help or backup. In those times it is good for us to have a list handy of people who we know are there. Who are our wingmen...

Fear is upon us this time of year with all of the scary things in town! The Haunted Forests, Mills, and all other experiences that elicit fear! Fear is something we are all born with and is a very natural state of being for our mortal experience.  It is there for protection, but we default to fear all too often! In the scriptures, we hear to "Fear Not" repeatedly! Why? Because fear blocks our abil...

When you start planning for a wedding, a theme, style, and colors are at the top of the list.  That is where we began when Dylan and Rachael decided they were ready to tie the knot, Rachael chose pink and saige as her wedding colors and the hunt was on for the dress.   I looked everywhere from here to Timbuktu looking for a pink dress, and ordered several online just hoping I'd find that perfect d...

There's a scene that I love in the movie Hook: Robin Williams, Peter Pan, returns to Neverland, and the Lost Boys and Peter himself don't believe he is Peter Pan! Peter has been gone from Neverland for years! He has taken on the traditions of work, family life, stress, climbing the corporate ladder, and more. Tinkerbell drug him back to Neverland to save his kidnapped children and enlist the help...

Is there someone who inspires you? Who makes you want to do better, be better, or give you the courage to try something new? There have been many people in my life who have inspired me! I remember being in awe of Kelly Rippa's arms when she started weightlifting and I wanted to be ripped like Kelly Rippa! That led me on a journey full of exploration, knowledge, trial and error, and experiences tha...

Some of us have a morning routine that we stick close to.  For me, I get up, brush my teeth, go to the bathroom, wash my face, put my contacts in, change my clothes, and exercise.   After exercising I make myself some herbal tea, then sit at my desk and read, write, study, pray, play, and meditate. I don't venture away too far from my routine, and when I do, I can tell something is just off.  Are...

When was the last time you said this is awesome!  Struck with pure amazement When you were totally in awe Maybe it was this morning  Maybe it was last week Maybe it's been a while!  Did you know that the feeling of being in awe is scientifically proven to increase happiness?  Research on the experience of awe has found that it can have many positive effects on people, including:  Increased generos...

 What legacy are you leaving behind?  Every day we interact with others, we work, play, love, serve, and so much more. What are we leaving trailing behind us as we go? In this week's podcast, we talk about the legacy of Love that Jarred's uncle Butch left behind, the legacy of freedom for our God, religion, and families Captain Moroni left behind, and I ask for a special birthday wish that each of...

When we make something to eat, we follow a recipe with all the key ingredients to make the meal successful!  But what if one of those ingredients is missing?! Usually, that means a quick trip to the store, a call to a neighbor, or a substitution is made to make that ingredient part of the recipe. When it comes to our pursuits in life, and in family life, sometimes we are missing a key ingredient t...

If you could design and build your very own cruise ship, The Jesser Ship" What would that look like?  What activities would be on there, what shows, what would the design be, the different stops, if it was all you and you had to answer to no one what would your ship look like? My ship would be clean. Everything is in its place—a library FULL of books. A track all the way around to run on It would...

If you ask any of our kids where their happy place is, they'd say up in Island Park at the cabin.  My happy place, well, it also happens to be the cabin.  Island Park has had a special place in my heart since I was a little girl.  We'd go up and stay at my grandma's cabin and go boating in Island Park reservoir. It was here I learned to waterski, wakeboard, and surf.  It's in this reservoir that w...

Every single day we wake up with an agenda and to-do list.  In a sense, we go to war or to battle to conquer the day. Are we prepared? What are we doing to prepare? In this week's podcast we talk about preparing for our battles and talk about the armor we put on to do this.  I liken our armor to football gear that my little grid kid player has. They are: Helmets: Fill our minds with goodness. Keep...

What is the single best thing we can do for our health? What is it that makes the biggest difference? What has the biggest return on investment? Biggest bang for our buck? In a study, people with arthritis who used the "Magic Pill" for 1 hour 3 times per week decreased their pain and disability by 47%. Older patients who did this decreased their progression of Alzheimers and dementia by 50%. For t...

Who's in your circle? Your circle of people you can count on in good times and in bad. Female elephants are a fascinating group of animals.  They live in a herd together with mostly just females, one being the herd's matriarch, and the others the daughters. When a pregnant female is about to give birth, the other females in the herd back in around the mother forming a circle. They create a circle...

When we had babies, toddlers, and little kids, a routine saved my life.  It was the saving grace for all of us to have good days.  We had feeding routines, sleeping routines, bathing routines and rituals, nighttime routines, and more.  You name it.  When I was in the thick of little kids and these routines I would get frustrated and almost resent the fact that we had these routines, I would get te...

With the celebration of our independence on July 4th, we talk a lot about freedom, liberty, and independence.  One of the other words that comes to mind when I think of independence is CHOICE.  The ability to choose.   We were given the gift of agency and freedom to choose from the very beginning. In the premortal existence, this was the basis of the plan of redemption. Choice.  It goes against ou...

I always love a good recommendation and today I am giving one to you! Inside Out 2 is a must do!  Inside Out, the first one, was about a girl named Riley and her brain and emotions.  In this film we become acquainted with Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust as Riley experiences a move, making new friends, and the ups and downs that come with that.  In Inside Out 2, Riley has matured to a teenag...