The Devoted Dreamers Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Kristi Hayes is the Founder and CEO of Be Strong Story, a business spreading the message from a simple lunch box note that her husband wrote to their son: Be Strong. Protect the Weak. Love Everyone. TM Now, this is not only the tagline for their business, it’s become an action statement for their family as they work with homeless and others who need a second chance. Kristi’s great...

Send us Fan Mail Jessica Mathisen hails from Marietta, Georgia, and graduated from the University of Georgia in 2010 with a degree in Early Childhood Education. After graduation, she moved to Chihuahua, Mexico, where she taught elementary grades at a mission school. Upon returning to Athens, she taught for another four years in the public school system and at Downtown Academy. Jessica and Rory met...

Send us Fan Mail Blythe Scott has a passion is to see Christ’s purposes furthered on this earth and to help mobilize and equip the Church to join Him in the “renewal of all things,” further redemption, and advocate for the vulnerable through politics and policy. Over the years, this passion has become focused on the intersection of faith and politics, and Blythe has spent much of her professional...

Send us Fan Mail Wendy Bohling is a speaker, thought leader and business consultant on leveraging the financial rewards of a gender equality and inclusive leadership. CEO of Corporate Cowgirl Up and author of the bestselling book “Cowgirl Up: A Woman’s Guide to Navigating the Corporate Frontier,” she has more than 30 years’ experience as an executive in the corporate saddle at some of the top tele...

Send us Fan Mail Heather Holleman, PhD, is a speaker, college instructor, and writer who loves helping women connect with Jesus and delight in studying the Bible for themselves. She is the author of Seated with Christ ,  Guarded by Christ  and  Included in Christ.  Her new book,  Chosen for Christ , will be released fall 2018 from Moody Publishers. Heather teaches advanced writing at Penn State an...

Send us Fan Mail Elizabeth Grace Saunders is an internationally recognized expert on effective time management and the founder of Real Life E Time Coaching and Speaking. Her company partners with individuals on the journey from feeling guilty, overwhelmed and frustrated to feeling peaceful, confident and accomplished. She has been featured on CBS, ABC, NBC, and FOX. She contributes to Forbes, Harv...

Send us Fan Mail Kasey Shuler is an author and Revelation Wellness Personal Trainer. Her two Bible studies include “Love Beyond Looks: A 5-Week Bible Study on Body Image” and “Rest and Rise: Be Refreshed In Your Work.” Starting with the Word, her mission is to encourage others to know Christ and awaken life through movement and prayer. She enjoys swapping ideas with her husband and creating storie...

Send us Fan Mail Sarah Beth Marr is the author of Dreaming with God – A Bold Call to Step Out and Follow God’s Lead. Sarah Beth danced professionally for more than fifteen years as a ballerina and now encourages women in the dance of life and faith through her writing, speaking at MOPS International groups and women’s events, and teaching the Word. Sarah Beth and her husband, Brian, have three son...

Send us Fan Mail In the margins of parenting a 17, 14, and 11-year old, Beth Bruno directs a non-profit aimed at preventing domestic minor sex trafficking and regularly speaks to students, law enforcement, educators and community groups around the topic of sexual exploitation. Her first book, A Voice Becoming: A Yearlong Mother-Daughter Journey into Passionate, Purposed Living (FaithWords), releas...

Send us Fan Mail Halley Mastrolonardo of Wild Grace Collective is a wife, soon-to-be mom, faith and lifestyle blogger, and lettering creative. She loves to share her faith and the Gospel through writing and creativity. Her dream is to encourage other women in their journey and remind them of their worth and value by speaking of God’s love and grace. As she prepares to meet their first child, she s...

Send us Fan Mail Amy Knuver is a thrift store scrounger, a coffee shop enthusiast, and a lover of watercolor painting who spends her days with 22 inner-city fourth graders who call her Miss K. Amy loves to cook but hates to eat alone so when she’s not teaching, she can be found whipping up a new recipe for friends. God placed the dream of teaching in her heart years ago. Amy came on the podcast al...

Send us Fan Mail Tiffany Bluhm, author of the  Never Alone  book and Bible study, is a speaker and writer who is passionate about helping women come to know their value and purpose because of a loving, redeeming God. In a style that speaks to women right where they are, she shares insights from a life spent chasing after Jesus while walking alongside women from suburbia to the inner city, jails an...

Send us Fan Mail Allison Hale first came to the Dominican Republic as a missionary with her parents at the age of 13. In 2003, she returned with her husband to reside in the city of San Pedro de Macoris. There they have a church plant ministry as well as a Christian school and several other outreach ministries to the community. One of those is The Mercy Workshop, which ministers to women who have...

Send us Fan Mail Dorcas Cheng-Tozun is an award-winning writer and the author of Start, Love, Repeat: How to Stay in Love with Your Entrepreneur in a Crazy Start-up World . She is a columnist for Inc.com and a regular contributor to Christianity Today. Her work has also appeared in dozens of publications in the U.S., U.K., and Asia. Previously, Dorcas worked as a nonprofit and social enterprise pr...

Send us Fan Mail Simone Halpin is the co-founder and Executive Director of  Naomi’s House , a residential safe home in Chicago for women who have suffered from commercial sexual exploitation. With a Master of Arts in Biblical Studies from Moody Theological Seminary, Simone teaches and trains women what it means to love and follow Jesus. She and her husband have four children, and they live in the...

Send us Fan Mail As a Business & Mindset Coach Allie Davis empowers Christian women entrepreneurs with faith-focused mindset and authentic strategy resulting in God-inspired impact and income. She’s also a wife and a mom to a toddler girl who loves to dance as much as her mama. Allie is from Edmond, Oklahoma and loves to travel! In this interview, Allie talks about her experience of moving fro...

Send us Fan Mail Gretchen Foster is a woman whose life has been completely undone and restored by the unfathomable love of Jesus Christ.  She is His in every way it is possible to offer oneself to Him.  She is the wife to her champion of a husband, Matt, and the mother to two daughters, Presley and Marlo.  Professionally, Gretchen earns an income by capturing life’s special moments for people thro...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year!! There's so much I'm excited to share with you in Season Four, but I'm also having a little anxiety about a few things I need to do differently in my podcasting process. In this quick bonus episode, I'm revisiting the vulnerability of Season One, by pulling back the curtain and letting you in on what's changing and why for this coming seaso...

Send us Fan Mail Today I’m introducing you to my first anonymous guest. We’re calling her Catherine Brown, which is, of course, not her real name. She agreed to come on the show as long as I could keep her identity private. She tells the story of a vision God gave her about taking a group of Muslim women rock climbing, and that vision is part of what has led her and her husband to move across the...

Send us Fan Mail Lara Veve oversees the Women’s Community at Flatirons Community Church in Lafayette, Colorado. She’s been married to Eric for 18 years, and they are parents to three teenagers while trying to embrace the beautiful chaos of this season of life. Sunshine, high heels, chocolate and music are some of her favorite things. The best part of her job is the opportunity to observe life tran...

Send us Fan Mail McKenna Gilbert is a freshman at Whitworth University, currently planning to major in Elementary Education and Spanish. She hopes to teach English in Spanish speaking third-world countries for a few years after college before settling down and beginning a career as a teacher in the United States. She is the oldest of four kids, the only girl, and she absolutely adores her family....

Send us Fan Mail Rebekah Scott is a servant of God, wife to Nicholas, mother of four and owner/designer of Rebekah Scott Designs , where you can design your own custom handbags and accessories that Rebekah and her team assemble by hand, here in the U.S. Her mission is to build relationships with women by providing high-quality products with excellent customer service unique to their roles and seas...

Send us Fan Mail Entrepreneur, nonprofit founder and visionary Meredith King talks on the podcast this week about how things changed in the pursuit of her dream once she had kids—and the ways she’s learned to draw boundaries that are good for her and her family. She gives a name to that voice in our heads that tells us we’re not enough or shouldn’t be pursuing this dream, and she talks about how s...

Send us Fan Mail Beth Ratzlaff is an ordinary clay-pot woman who is being crafted by an extraordinary potter, God. She blogs about spiritual formation and writes in other capacities. She also serves as a spiritual director and works with Get HOPE Global, a ministry that provides Christian business training curriculum and microloans to women in impoverished countries. She loves international travel...

Send us Fan Mail Jeannie Blackmer is the author of three books on the topics of confident mothering, celebrating the roll of “boy mom” and stories of perseverance for women. She has been encouraging women through her blog posts on a variety of Christian websites and her work published in Guideposts, Today’s Christian Woman , Thriving Family, and MomSense . Jeannie has bachelor’s and master’s degre...