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Melinda is joined by Jason Persaud on this week's SOS episode about church. Women and the church, racism, church hurt, spiritual abuse, what we learned through the pandemic in our church, and how we respond to deconstruction. Jason is an associate pastor, community leader in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. He's a founder of the Culture Changers Movement that was launched to inspire the church to be a l...

This week on our SOS: Summer of Strength podcast, Melinda is joined by Mindi Oaten, a prophetic artist whose life trajectory changed after hearing from God in a dream. She shares how she came back to an artistic practice after 14 years of neglect, and how small acts of obedience can help us hear God's voice in our lives.   As a note, the purple flower is a wisteria.

Divorcing, married, or single, this episode is for you.  This week Melinda is joined by another guest familiar to fans of seasons 1-3 of See Hear Love... It's Jen Lawrence! She's back with us to talk about the 8 languages of money, how to navigate the process of divorce so you can focus on your healing, how there's no one "right" way to handle your finances, and the role that toxic money stories c...

This week on See Hear Love, Melinda is joined by Debbie Opoku-Mulder, a Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario. Debbie shares the story of how, after many years as a therapist helping others all day and tuning out the problems all night, she realized SHE needed to get help.  She gives us her thoughts on  • Who helps the helper • Battling burnout • The fear of asking for help, and • Erasing the stig...

This week Melinda is joined by someone familiar to some of you... Kimberley Mitchell is back with us! Kimberley Mitchell is Co-Host of the Solo Parent Society podcast and former guest panelist on See Hear Love. Kimberley has spent more than 3 decades in church ministry across Canada and the US, sharing encouragement through speaking, singing and writings. Her broadcast and music studies lead to ma...

The biggest lie you will ever believe is the one that says you're unwanted. If rejection or betrayal has come crashing through your door - you know the emotional shattering this brings. You understand the brokenness. And you know the heartache of standing in the jagged fragments of a new normal you never wanted. This week on See Hear Love, Nicole Langman joins Host Melinda Estabrooks to talk about...

This week, we’re interrupting our SOS: Summer Of Strength Podcast Series for a very special episode with host Melinda… being interviewed about her trauma and recovery from her emergency surgery on her mouth and jaw, and ICU hospitalization. Psychotherapist Debbie Mulder asks Melinda deep, thoughtful questions about her thoughts on dying, living life to its fullest, and choosing to be grateful ever...

Welcome back to another episode of See Hear Love's Summer of Strength series. This week, Melinda is joined by Senait Litchmore. Senait is a Registered Psychotherapist and Enneagram Practitioner who has provided individuals and families with clinical support since 2010, with a few breaks in between to nurture and raise her 3 children. This conversation is all about strong families: • How family the...

Welcome to our See Hear Love Summer Of Strength! Today Melinda is joined by Idelette McVicker. Idelette is the author of Recovering Racists: Dismantling White Supremacy & Reclaiming Our Humanity. In this episode, we discuss • White Supremacy and Living in a White Bubble • The Liberating Jesus – Emmanuel, God with Us • Honouring everyone. Like, actually everyone • Her journey of Liberation and...

Join Melinda Estabrooks on this interview from the archives with Max Lucado, the author of books that have sold more than 150 million copies - as he shares how the story of Queen Esther inspires us and teaches us how to have courage. This inspiring conversation continues on our Facebook, Instagram, and on seehearlove.com

This month we are bringing back our favourite shows from last summer's SOS - Summer Of Strength series. Join Host Melinda as we continue our SOS Summer of Strength series with two amazing guests who will help strengthen you in your marriage OR in your singleness! Stephanie Rourke Jackson was living a picture-perfect life, that hid deep relationship problems in her marriage. After 19 years of marri...

This month we are bringing back our favourite shows from last summer's SOS - Summer Of Strength series. Join Host Melinda as we listen and learn from: Grammy award winning Christian hip hop recording artist, songwriter, music executive, actor, and entrepreneur LECRAE as he shares about finding hope and overcoming shame, navigating backlash (especially from The Church) from being outspoken about ra...

This month we are bringing back our favourite shows from last summer's SOS - Summer Of Strength series. Join Host Melinda as she sits down with Henry and Alex Seeley, the founders of The Belonging Co, as they share honestly and intimately about their ministry, their marriage, and their struggle to find healing in their journey with Alex's eating disorder. Their conversation is inspiring and far-ra...

This month we are bringing back our favourite shows from last summer's SOS - Summer Of Strength series. Host Melinda sits down with Kevin and Dawn, who are founders of the Helm Center, an addictions recovery program in Nova Scotia. Their own story with Kevin's drug addiction to Crystal Meth started a week before their wedding, and many years later saw the restoration of their family. Dawn describe...

Trigger warning: Sexual violence and abuse . This month we are bringing back our favourite shows from last summer's SOS - Summer Of Strength series. This week we are featuring our episode with Rosie Rivera, an author, television personality, and businesswoman. Rosie shares her heartbreaking story of her childhood sexual abuse, the poor choices she made in trying to find her way, and her beloved si...

It’s our Season 7 Finale and that’s a Wrap! Join Host Melinda and our See Hear Love Co-Hosts Matt Vincent, Cheryl Nembhard, Dr. Merry Lin and Joanna la Fleur as they share their FAVOURITE SHOWS from the past season, what they’ve learned about themselves this past year and events and moments that shook them, that challenged them .. to lean in and press into Jesus.

Join Host Melinda, Co-Host Cheryl Nembhard and Regular Panelists Tryphena Perumalla-Gagnon and Esther Lysakovsky as they share bravely and honestly about their response to Clergy sexual and emotional abuse in the Church, how ‘we’ have contributed to a culture of abuse, why cultivating character over influence is vital for every leader, how ‘we’ can stop abuse from happening in our churches, and ho...

This week on See Hear Love, the experts are here to help us become more confident women! Melinda Estabrooks is joined by cohost Dr. Merry C. Lin and contributors Sue Wigston and Ellen Graf-Martin. We want to help you become more confident, so that you can make an impact on YOUR world.

April is Autism Acceptance month, and this week's guest is Daniel Bowman Jr. Daniel is the author of On The Spectrum, a book about faith and neurodiversity. This conversation is inspiring and informing for us as we pursue living a life of loving our neighbour, and make space for the diversity of human experience in our churches, schools, and organizations.

Join Host Melinda Estabrooks, the See Hear Love team and Special Guest, New York Best-Selling Author, Lisa Bevere, as they talk all about HOW to stop seeing others as rivals – which limits our purpose and connections with others – and start seeing how God’s love breaks these limits and promises true identity and intimacy. It’s time to stop comparing yourself with others and competing against them...

See Hear Love celebrates Easter with the next-generation After Hours panel, hosted by Joanna la Fleur. Listen in as Camille Aguila, Earl Cabaluna, and Hannah McNeilly discuss their faith upbringing, why the Easter story matters, and how they are inspired to share the Gospel story with their peers.

Join us this week for a conversation with Mike Kai. Mike Mike Kai leads a multi-site congregation in Hawaii. His mission is to see people fulfill their God-given potential, and he is helping to make that happen by equipping business leaders and executives with leadership tools. His new book That Doesn't Just Happen, Mike Kai draws lessons from the story of the Queen of Sheba visiting King Solomon...

This week, join us for a special episode of See Hear Love, with Cheryl Nembhard, Tryphena Perumalla-Gagnon and Esther Lysakovsky sharing the stories of the women who inspire them, and what they hope to see for the future of women.

This week, join Melinda and See Hear Love for our Amazing Women Who Inspire Us and Are Making a Difference podcast series! Jennifer Lau is the executive director of Canadian Baptist Ministries, and shares her thoughts on being in leadership, her advice, and how the church and Christian organizations should respond to tragedy. Be ready with a notebook, because this is a powerful conversation!

This week on See Hear Love, Join Melinda Estabrooks with the Men's Panel as they reflect on how work is not our identity, and the danger of linking our identity to what we do in our career. Melinda also sits down with Detective J. Warner Wallace as he shares how he learned to keep his identity separate from his own work.