Significant Women with Carol McLeod | Carol Mcleod Ministries

In today’s enlightening conversation, Carol McLeod speaks with Dr. Patricia Boyce, a licensed professional counselor, about her journey of faith, mental health, and the importance of community support. They discuss the challenges women face with depression, the significance of reaching out for help, and powerful lessons from the Book of Ezekiel. Listen in for your dose of scriptural truth and enco...

Welcome back to the Significant Women Podcast with Carol McLeod! On today’s show, Carol interviews author Karen Wingate, who shares her incredible life story of overcoming significant visual challenges from birth. Karen discusses her childhood experiences, her faith journey, the life-changing surgery she underwent at the age of 50, the legacy she hopes to pass on to her daughters, and her journey...

Welcome back to the Significant Women Podcast with Carol McLeod! In a continuation of our series on the topic of depression, today’s episode features an encouraging talk with return guest Chanel Dokun. Chanel in an author, life coach, and the Co-Founder of Healthy Minds NYC, a thriving group therapy practice in Manhattan. Listen in to hear Chanel share from personal experience, professional expert...

Welcome back to the Significant Women Podcast with Carol McLeod! Today’s conversation is a continuation of our January series on the difficult topic of depression, and this week’s guest in another friend of the show, Dr. Michelle Bengtson, clinical Neuropsychologist. Dr. Michelle speaks from both personal and professional experience about the challenges of depression as well as some strategies for...

Welcome to 2025 and a new year of the Significant Women Podcast with Carol McLeod! As listeners and friends of the ministry know, Carol is no stranger to the challenges of depression. Since the month of January is known to have the highest rates of depression each year, we at Carol McLeod Ministries figured it’d be the ideal time to discuss this difficult topic. Today’s guest is a friend of the sh...

When David Smallbone’s successful music company collapsed, he moved his family from Australia to the United States in search of a brighter future. With nothing more than their six children, their suitcases, and their love of music, David and his pregnant wife Helen set out to rebuild their lives from the ground up. My guest today is Helen Smallbone…you might know her better as the mom of Grammy-wi...

Lauren Green, Chief Religion Correspondent for Fox News and host of the podcast Lighthouse Faith joins the Significant Podcast today to remind us that despite the fogginess of our world and its cultural pressures, mistruths, and lies, we can fully depend on our ever-present God.  I highly encourage you to grab her latest book “Light for Today: 365 Daily Devotions from the Lighthouse”. I know it’s...

Have you ever felt like you’re living life bracing for impact? Have you ever wondered how it could be possible to pursue Jesus earnestly yet simultaneously live with elbows locked? So many of us have developed a posture of self-protection, just waiting for the next storm to hit, but my guest today has spent the last few years cultivating an expectant heart around God’s goodness. My dear friend,  S...

Join Carol McLeod for a thought-provoking conversation with celebrated author and professor Dr. Sandra Richter!  Sandra is the Robert H. Gundry Chair of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California and has also taught at Asbury Theological Seminary, Wesley Biblical Seminary, and Wheaton College.  Dr. Richter is the author of several in depth ‘Epic of Eden’ Bible studies, and t...

Welcome back to the Significant Women podcast! Today’s episode features a joyful and inspiring conversation with author Kathi Lipp, whose latest book is titled ‘Sabbath Soup: Weekly Menus and Rhythms to Make Space for a Day of Rest.’ Sabbath Soup includes convenient, seasonal meal plans that take the guesswork out of shopping and cooking. More than just a collection of delicious recipes—including...

Today’s episode of the Significant Women Podcast features an important conversation with performer and producer Camille Kampouris! Camille is one of the faces behind Angel Studio’s latest film Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin, an exciting new look into the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Camille has had a varied life as a muppeteer, wife, mother, VoiceOver actor, producer, and follower of Jesus. Lis...

In Entrusted to Lead, Pastor Donna Pisani draws on over four decades of experience to offer a biblical perspective of women in leadership that considers their role an entrusted assignment rather than just an entitled position.  Generations of confusion have kept women from answering God’s call to lead, depriving God’s kingdom of crucial gifts and abilities. Entrusted to Lead shows women what it lo...

Carol McLeod welcomes a new friend to today’s episode of the Significant Women Podcast! Johanna Janssen was born in southern Ontario among rolling vineyards, fragrant orchards and strawberry patches, where in winter, the sunlight glints off the snow. Before this, her parents left the shores of the Netherlands, boarded the S.S. Waterman with three young children for Halifax harbor, leaving family,...

On today’s show, Carol welcomes back another dear friend, Dr. Michelle Bengtson! Michelle is a certified  neuropsychologist who lives to break the grip of anxiety and fear, foster regeneration, and renew life in her readers and listeners. From her own personal cancer experience and professional clinical expertise she recognizes in her life and others’ both the brokenness that attends life, and the...

On today’s episode of the Significant Women podcast Carol brings back a dear friend with a new book to share! Billie Jauss is the author of Baseball Family: Nine Core Qualities for Developing Healthy Relationships, as well as a tenured Baseball wife and mother. In the book and in today’s show Billie shares some of the lessons and ideas she’s learned about relationships from years in the world of p...

Join Carol McLeod on today’s episode for an encouraging conversation with prolific and talented author Shelley Shepard Gray! Shelley is a NY Times best-selling author of over 100 books, many of them falling into the category of ‘Amish Fiction’. Listen in to learn more about Shelley’s life, why she ended up writing about the Amish, and the joys of being a grandmother.  Connect with Shelley and orde...

Welcome back to the Significant Women Podcast with Carol McLeod! Today’s episode features a guest with a unique story: Raeanne Newquist, Mercy Ships spokeswoman. Raeanne has seen God move in her life time and again, and particularly through the world changing ministry of Mercy Ships, traveling hospitals bringing much needed medical care alongside the message of the Gospel to many of the world’s mo...

Today’s guest on the Significant Women Podcast is Barbara Wright, a new author with a lifetime of experience serving Jesus and plenty of thrilling stories to share! Join Carol McLeod for an interview ranging from  Barbara’s coming to faith through the Jesus movement to her missions experience on a reservation to her new calling as an author following her husband’s passing. It’s an episode you won’...

Welcome back to the Significant Women Podcast with Carol McLeod. On today’s show Carol is joined by prolific author of over 250 books, Melody Carlson! Melody’s most recent book is coming in right in time for early Christmas shopping and is titled ‘The Christmas Tree Farm.” Listen in to be inspired by Melody’s story. Order The Christmas Tree Farm from Baker Book House at https://bakerbookhouse.com/...

Welcome back to the Significant Women Podcast with Carol McLeod! On today’s show Carol is joined by best selling author Lynette Eason, whose latest book is titled ‘Target Acquired.” Lynette writes fiction in a unique and intriguing genre - romantic suspense! Listen in to hear her story and the ways her faith in Jesus shapes her writing. Order Target Acquired from Baker Book House at https://bakerb...

On today’s episode of the Significant Women Podcast, Carol McLeod is thrilled to welcome Rebekah Weigel, writer and producer of Angel Studios film, Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot. Rebekah is a mom to 5, including 2 fostered and adopted children, and has a heart to see the church care for those most vulnerable in our culture. Through the medium of film Rebekah and her husband Joshua Weigel...

Welcome back to the Significant Women Podcast with Carol McLeod! Today Carol is joined by Emily T. Wierenga, author of the memoirs God Who Became Bread, Atlas Girl, Making It Home, as well as the self-help resource Chasing Silhouettes: How to Help a Loved One Battling an Eating Disorder.  In 2014, she was used by God to establish The Lulu Tree Foundation, a nonprofit that operates in villages arou...

Damaging and unhealthy messages about body image bombard us on a daily basis. Turn on the tv, scroll on your phone, or see a magazine cover in the grocery store, and you will be confronted with the latest fad diet, the newest way to drop 10 pounds, and the miracle cream that will make you look ten years younger. As a Christian, you might wonder, does God actually care how I eat? Or if I exercise?...

This season on the Significant Women podcast, I have had the privilege to get to know so many of my favorite Christian fiction authors. As many of you know, Christian fiction was my escape when my children were young and we were in the midst of homeschooling. It transported me to a different place and time, and gave me a host of new “friends” to meet and stories to explore. My guest today is Angel...

As you already know, I am a fan of Christian fiction, and as a believer in Jesus Christ, I am compelled to support those authors and artists who are creating God-honoring content in a broken culture. My guest today is bestselling author Rachel Hauck who has been penning heartwarming and inspiring Christian Fiction for nearly thirty years. She’s just released a novel that takes us back to the 80s!...