Real Talk with Rachael Podcast

This week on Real Talk with Rachael I'm talking with the host of the Truth for your Twenties podcast , Katie Bulmer. The mission behind everything Katie does is to be who she needed when she was younger. She is an author and keynote speaker to over 50 colleges nationwide, mom of two girls, TikTok creator, and a big fan of guacamole. Key Points from Our Conversation: Katie was a quiet child who nev...

This week I felt God drop it on my heart to speak to you about why we need to retreat in order to advance. This word came to me for the JOYmail newsletter I send once a month. By the way, if you aren't on that list click here to join.  I love to look to Jesus to learn how to set healthy boundaries and create space to process emotions. Jesus would often retreat to a quiet place to be alone and pray...

This week on Real Talk with Rachael I'm talking with author Kat Armstrong about her new book The In-Between Place . Kat was born in Houston, TX where the humidity ruins her curls. She is a powerful Mexi-German Bible teacher and author of two books ( No More Holding Back and The In-Between Place ). As the co-founder of The Polished Network , an outreach to working women navigating careers and explo...

Today's episode is the last in my series leading up to Easter about 5 topics that will help us prepare our HEART -  Holy Spirit conviction Embrace grace Align your heart with His Restore union Thanksgiving As we focus on thanking Jesus this Easter, I also want to discuss thanksgiving as a Biblical principle that helps our mental health. When we give thanks to God with a posture of gratitude, somet...

This week on Real Talk with Rachael, I'm chatting with author Jen Weaver. Jen is passionate about helping women know the love of Christ and engage in life with Him. She's the author of "A Wife's Secret to Happiness" and serves as Bible teacher, ministry coach, and contributing writer for various publications. Married to her best friend Jared, she's a happy boy mom of two young sons and is most lik...

Leading up to Easter, I'm doing a series about 5 topics that will help us prepare our HEART -  Holy Spirit conviction Embrace grace Align your heart with His Restore union Thanksgiving Today's episode was inspired by the phrase from John Eldrige's book Get Your Life Back . In it, he writes about the act of taking a 1-minute pause to realign your heart with God to restore union with the Father, Son...

This week on Real Talk with Rachael I'm talking with author Charlotte Gambill. Charlotte has an infectious love for life, a deep love for people, and zealous love for God's House. Her passion is to build the local church across the earth, to see people reach their full potential, and to develop and strengthen leadership. Charlotte is known for her practical, humorous, and passionate application of...

Leading up to Easter, I'm doing a series about 5 topics that will help us prepare our HEART -  Holy Spirit conviction Embrace grace Align your heart with His Restore union Thanksgiving This week I'm focusing on aligning our hearts with His. When we can do that and pray from a position that's in line with God's will, we will see doors bust open. It just takes a simple prayer. Here are 2 simple ways...

This week on Real Talk with Rachael, I'm talking with Christy Wright about her new book Living True: 40 Days to Get Back to You . Christy Wright is a #1 national best-selling author, personal development expert, and host of The Christy Wright Show. She's been featured on Today Show and Fox News and in Entrepreneur and Woman's Day Magazines. Since 2009, Christy has served at Ramsey Solutions, where...

Leading up to Easter, I'm doing a series about 5 topics that will help us prepare our HEART -  Holy Spirit conviction Embrace grace Align your heart with His Restore union Thanksgiving This week I'm focusing on embracing grace. We could sum up the Bible in the phrase "God's grace." "Grace" is God's favor to humans through Jesus. He purchased our freedom with the blood of His Son and forgave our si...

This week on Real Talk with Rachael I'm speaking with Karen Ehman about her new book Make Their Day: 101 Simple, Powerful Ways to Love Others Well . Karen is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker with Proverbs 31 Ministries , and a writer for Encouragement for Today, an online devotional that reaches over four million women daily. She has authored 15 books and has been featured on numerous...

When I asked God what He wanted me to share for today's Talk Therapy, He laid on my heart this phrase, "Prepare your hearts for my Son." Leading up to Easter, I'm going to be doing a series about 5 topics that will help us prepare our HEART -  Holy Spirit conviction Embrace grace Align your heart with His Restore union Thanksgiving This week I'm sharing about what it looks like to be convicted by...

This week on Real Talk with Rachael I'm excited to talk with Dr. Caroline Leaf about her new book Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess . She is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist with a Masters and Ph. D. in Communication Pathology and a BSc Logopaedics, specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology. Since the early 1980s, she has researched the mind-brain connection, t...

This week as I was feeling anxious, I began to analyze myself when God interrupted my thought process and reminded me to pray. Anxiety, worry, and fear are not from God. Whenever those things pop up, we can use them as reminders that we must make it a daily habit to cast our cares upon God. Casting requires action, but it also lightens our load and does something to fix the problem. What is God as...

This week on Real Talk with Rachael I'm chatting with my friend Lisa Corley about how we can better understand the gift of prophecy. Lisa Corley is a wife and mother of three boys. She has been an active member of Gateway Church for 18 years. She has lead small groups and is involved in the prophetic ministry. Lisa has taught on parenting, understanding prophetic ministry, and living a Spirit-fill...

We all have coping strategies, but are they healthy? When life throws the unexpected at you, it's natural to seek to numb the pain through coping. Maybe you run to online shopping, alcohol, or binge eating. But God's desire is for us to soothe in a way that draws us closer to Him. That can look like praying or reading the Bible or even going for a walk or listening to upbeat, positive music.  This...

This week on Real Talk with Rachael, I'm talking with Tom Lane, Dallas campus pastor at Gateway Church about his book Tested and Approved: 21 Lessons for Life and Ministry . Tom Lane graduated with a bachelor's degree in accounting and business administration from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Prior to Gateway, he was in pastoral ministry at Trinity Fellowship for 27 years where he held a v...

Welcome to Real Talk with Rachael. Today, you are listening to talk therapy, a short segment of the show that releases at the beginning of the week to allow space for God to move in our hearts and speak into our lives. Last week I released an episode on why we need to process things. This week I am tackling the topic of jealousy. You can check out a blog I wrote previously about 3 problems with je...

This week on Real Talk with Rachael I'm chatting with author and national speaker, Katy McCown. Katy is president of She Laughs Ministries , a writer for Proverbs 31 Ministries , and a national speaker. Through all life's uncertainties and surprises, she has learned some things about "living sure" even when the future is not. She and her husband, Luke, a former NFL quarterback, are raising six chi...

In this episode of Talk Therapy, I'm discussing what it means to process and why we need to do it. Even if you haven't experienced major trauma in your life, smaller traumas compound, but we often resist the discomfort that comes with processing. The fact is that you can process that trauma or it will process you.  What are you afraid of processing? What do you think it'll look like to process thi...

In this episode of Real Talk with Rachael, I'm talking with Arden Bevere about his new book Redefined . Arden is the youngest son of John and Lisa Bevere and the cofounder of Sons & Daughters , a movement committed to raising up a generation of uncompromising followers of Christ who will transform our world. He has traveled the world doing ministry and speaking at conferences and has a passion to...

Last week I released an episode on the first "before and after" in the Bible. As I started this conversation on beauty I realize I am ruffling feathers or as some would say, stepping on toes. Actually, it is not I who is doing the ruffling but the holy spirit. Before we keep having these hard conversations I wanted to address why I feel called to bring up hard things.  If you listen to our Wednesd...

In this episode of Real Talk with Rachael I'm talking with my friend, Kat Lee who is passionate about teaching others how to jumpstart each day with a grace-filled, life-giving morning routine. She is a writer, speaker, podcaster, and founder of HelloMornings.org . She and her husband, Jimmy, live in Waco, Texas with their three children. Key points from today's conversation: Kat originally starte...

Last week I released an episode called "The Beauty Battle." I started the conversation about where this battle for beauty began and I challenged us to examine our hearts for any beauty idols. This week I am continuing that conversation about beauty.  As I was scrolling through social media, I was noticing there were a lot of before and after photos. These photos are inspiring as we see the transfo...

This week on Real Talk with Rachael I'm talking with Amy Ford, the author of Help Her Be Brave: Discover Your Place in the Pro-Life Movement . She's also the President and Co-Founder of Embrace Grace , a non-profit that inspires and equips the church to love single and pregnant young women by working with almost 700 churches across the nation, providing curriculum to help moms with unexpected preg...