Thriving Beyond Belief with Cheryl Scruggs

The Thriving Beyond Belief podcast this week featuring: Julia Jeffress Sadler ! Julia Jeffress Sadler is a reality star from TLC's Rattled, pastor's daughter, minister, professional counselor, triplet mama, and wife to her junior-high sweetheart, Ryan who has seen God do immeasurably more than anything she could hope or imagine! After suffering three miscarriages in one year, God blessed her and h...

The Thriving Beyond Belief podcast this week featuring: Betty Maxwell ! Betty Maxwell - Miss America 2016 and the author of Miss Unlikely: From Farm Girl to Miss America.  Betty can interview on the following: Put the Lord First in Your Life: Betty grew up in a faith family on a modest farm in rural Georgia. She trained tirelessly on her God-given operatic talent. She encourages young girls on kin...

The Thriving Beyond Belief podcast this week featuring: @tcofoley Tara's Clean Beginnings I started my clean beauty journey over 10 years ago after realizing that my "healthy" lifestyle had a huge blind spot: I was exercising and eating clean, but I had no idea what I was putting on my body. That's when I discovered all the toxins hiding inside my beauty products. I started a blog to share informa...

The Thriving Beyond Belief podcast this week featuring: Jason Thacker .  Jason is an expert on current trends in AI. He is one of the authors of the Evangelical Statement of Principles on Artificial Intelligence  and is the creative director and associate research fellow at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. In The Age of AI , Thacker thoughtfully explores the social, moral, and ethical...

Kreis Beall is the co-founder of Blackberry Farm, an award-winning Relais & Chateaux resort in East Tennessee and one of the nation's premier destinations. Entrepreneurial and artistic, Kreis expresses her passion for life in a wide range of pursuits, from running an inn to designing beautiful spaces--many of which have been featured in leading home magazines for decades. Born in Tennessee, Kreis...

This week on the Thriving Beyond Belief podcast, Esther Fleece Allen !  Esther Fleece's success and influence as a millennial leader have come not only courtesy of professional acumen, but personal experience. It is through the tragedies and triumphs of her own life – some of which she has shared as a highly sought-after international speaker – that she has established authority and authenticity w...

This week on the Thriving Beyond Belief podcast, Lauren Mones ! A note from our founder. Hi, welcome! I wholeheartedly believe in the healing power of plants. As a young girl I would take refuge in Nature. The natural world was the safest place for me to be me. I felt a deep connection to the life force of the forest, lake, mountains and ocean. Little did I know as a young girl how this powerful c...

This week on the Thriving Beyond Belief podcast, Debra Fileta ! Whether you're single, dating, engaged or married – the quality of your relationships impacts the quality of your life. Healthy relationships are vital to healthy living. Licensed professional counselor and relationship expert, Debra Fileta, has observed countless relationships at various stages and has guided clients through each one...

This week on the Thriving Beyond Belief podcast, Gary Thomas ! Can't wait for you to hear this interview! Get you paper and pen handy! Your life's calling is too important to let toxic people take it away. In  When to Walk Away ,  Gary Thomas - bestselling author of  Sacred Marriage - draws from biblical and modern stories to equip you with practical insights to dealing with difficult people in yo...

This week on the Thriving Beyond Belief podcast, Daniel & Brittany Price Brooker !

This week on the Thriving Beyond Belief podcast , Paul David Tripp ! Dr. Paul David Tripp is a pastor, event speaker, and a best-selling and award-winning author. With more than 30 books and video series on Christian living, Paul's driving passion is to connect the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. Paul was born in Toledo, Ohio, and his parents had recently come to faith in Chri...

This week on the Thriving Beyond Belief podcast, Melanie Shankle! Melanie Shankle, New York Times bestselling author and founder of the Big Mama blog, pens up with humor and great stories about friendship, love and what it takes to be true to yourself, you'll be encouraged to find your way again in a world that can make you feel a little bit crazy. In  On the Bright Side , Melanie reminds us of th...

This week on the Thriving Beyond Belief podcast, Kelly Minter! FROM KELLY: "My parents raised me along with my three younger siblings in Northern Virginia, which is an important distinction because it means D.C. metro, traffic, and politics more than the Blue Ridge Mountains. In the Minter home, although our family didn't always get it right, we mostly got it real. As a child, I struggled with acu...

Lauren Scruggs Kennedy was born in Redondo Beach and raised in Dallas, so she calls herself a California girl whose roots are deep in the heart of Texas. Lauren loves Jesus, her hubby, Jason Kennedy, her family, friends and clean living ! And that's what this episode is about! we are going to talk about Lauren's The Clean Sweep program! Lauren is beyond thrilled to offer this three-month program t...

A willingness to be vulnerable and share a personal story takes courage. Speaker, blogger, and pastor, Ashley Abercrombie knows this first hand. In her new book, Rise of the Truth Teller: Own Your Story , Tell it Like it Is, and Live with Holy Gumption, she writes about her private journey surviving rape, abortion, dysfunctional relationships, and overcoming addictions all while maintaining her gr...

As a marriage and family therapist, one of Nicole Zasowski's greatest joys is helping her clients grow in emotional freedom. What she couldn't see for many years is that she was living her own life outside of that freedom, clinging to behaviors like shame, performance, and control in order to feel valued and safe. It was only when she was confronted with her own devastating pain and loss that Nico...

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry Please welcome John Mark Comer to the Thriving Beyond Belief podcast this week talking about our world of HURRY and how we can eliminate it!! Author and Former Megachurch Pastor John Mark Comer Advocates a New Practice for Your Spiritual Life: Slowing Down Our worst moments tend to happen when we are in a hurry—late for an appointment, behind on our to-do list, cr...

Please welcome Niki Hardy to the Thriving Beyond Belief podcast this week!! Niki Hardy is a speaker and writer whose work has appeared in Christian Today and Living by Design Ministries and on Premier Radio. After leaving corporate life in London, she trained as a teacher at Kings College, London, before studying theology at Wycliffe, Oxford. She and her husband moved their family to the United St...

The first weekend in October at the Influence Her Conference 2019 near Sacramento, CA, I had the honor to speak alongside my friend Shannon Stewart Ratliff , Cheryl Broderson and Grace Broderson at Metro Calvary Church in Roseville, CA! We loved our time there and the amazing women we were able to speak into and meet! This week on the Thriving Beyond Belief , I am playing the talk that Shannon did...

Mentoring is something we often talk about on the podcast because we know how critical it is as we grow in Christ, but it can also feel overwhelming. Today we're excited to talk with >Shelley Giglio and Daniele Flickinger about FLOURISH . FLOURISH  is a yearlong mentoring journey based on Scripture and created in partnership with Passion City Church. After 6 years of development and leading more t...

Super excited to welcome Alex Seeley back again on the Thriving Beyond Belief podcast this week! Alex Seeley was born and raised in Australia and spent seventeen years pastoring there. It is also where she met and married her husband, Henry. After relocating to Nashville in 2012, they founded The Belonging Co., a church where they minister together to thousands of people each week. She is a passio...

Super excited to welcome Ashley LeMieux to Thriving Beyond Belief this week! 3 Steps to Turn Your Life Right Side Up by Mike LeMieux On April 22, 2013, my wife Ashley and I (pictured above) became parents over night to a 4 and 6 year old. Up to that point we'd never thought about having kids. We were asked to raise them and felt like it was the right thing to do —so we did. We picked them up and b...

I am so grateful and honored to welcome Anne Graham Lotz to the Thriving Beyond Belief podcast today! Called "the best preacher in the family" by her late father, Billy Graham, Anne Graham Lotz speaks around the globe with the wisdom and authority of years spent studying God's Word. The New York Times named Lotz one of the five most influential evangelists of her generation. Her Just Give Me Jesus...

Sarah Mae is an 80's/early 90's child who grew up living with her dad in Pennsylvania but visiting her mom in the summers (Alaska! Georgia! Arkansas!). She rode a bike with no helmet, roller-skated with friends till dark, played the games Girl Talk Date Line and Mall Madness, loved She-Ra, and watched Saved By the Bell, Full House, Growing Pains, and all the rest. Her highest hopes were to be just...