UncommonTEEN for Christian Teen Girls

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! So many ladies have emailed me over the past couple weeks about dealing with addictions or relationships that aren't honoring God. Many times they aren't sure who to talk to, where to go, or what to do. It seems like there's no hope. This week, I am specifically to these ladies. Maybe there is pain you're holding onto, addictions or a...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! So many ladies have emailed me over the past couple weeks about dealing with addictions or relationships that aren't honoring God. Many times they aren't sure who to talk to, where to go, or what to do. It seems like there's no hope. This week, I am specifically to these ladies. Maybe there is pain you're holding onto, addictions or a...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! I love how God can take common things and make them uncommon. I love how He can take ordinary things and make the extraordinary.   Acts 4:13 says, "Now when they (the crowd) saw the boldness of Peter and John and saw that they were unlearned and untrained in the schools, they were common men with no educational advantages, the crowd m...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Two of the biggest questions we all have in life are: Why am I here? And what is my purpose?   We hear verses like Jeremiah 29:11, where God tells us that He has plans for our lives of good and not evil to give us a future and a hope. And Ephesians 2:10 where it says that we are God’s masterpiece, recreated in Christ Jesus for good wo...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! This week on the UncommonTEEN Podcast, I get the incredible honor of having Sara Barratt join me again! This is the second time that Sara has been on the UncommonTEEN Podcast, and ladies...let me tell you, there's a reason she's back! Sara has such a huge heart for Jesus and for reaching teens for the Lord.  On this week's episode, Sa...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Hey ladies! We are on part 2 of our series on boundaries!  When most people hear the word boundaries, they automatically think of something that is restrictive…it keeps them bound. It separates them from others. We think of them in a negative light.  However, boundaries do more than keeping you in and keeping others out. Boundaries he...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! When most people hear the term boundaries, their automatic thought goes to an imaginary line that separates you from someone else…kind of like a boundary on a map between two states or two countries.  However, boundaries do more than keeping you in and keeping others out. Boundaries help others see who it is that you really are and wh...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! As I was studying freedom this week in the Bible, I came across some verses that really stood out to me in a way that I hadn’t seen them before.   Most of us have heard these verses that are mentioned several times in the Bible, however, we’re going to read them out of Matthew 22:37-39-Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! This week I get the honor of interviewing Megan Whatley. She is a life coach and certified counselor and the owner of "The Beautiful Movement" Subscription Box for Christian teen girls! On this week's episode, Megan and I talk about: +How you are God's masterpiece! +How you don't need anyone to complete you, because in Christ you are...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! It doesn’t take much to look around us and see all of the craziness going on in this world. I mean, if you just watch the news for 5 minutes…which I don’t suggest...it can cause you (if you’re anything like me) to fight off anxiety and fear. It can lead us to feeling like we don’t ever want to leave our house.  But ladies, 2 Timothy 1...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! I have had many teen girls come to me over the years asking me what devotional is a good devotional for them to read. It’s a great question. I would venture to say that most everyone who listens to this podcast probably has read some kind of devotional in their life, right? I know I have.  However, do you want to know which devotional...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Grace McCready is a twenty-something and the author of Real Recovery: What Eating Disorder Recovery Actually Looks Like.  "Grace McCready was a thin, beautiful girl; but when she looked in the mirror, all she saw was fat and ugly. What started out as her trying to lose a little weight by slowly changing her diet led to her telling end...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! I was talking to another teen girl recently and she told me something that made me sad. She said, “I don’t expect good things to happen anymore. I find out that when I don’t expect them to happen, I don’t get disappointed and if someone good was to happen, then it makes me just that much more excited.   That sounds great and all, but...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Have you ever played the game, Two Truths and a Lie? If not, this is a game where you list 3 things about yourself. Two of them are true and one is not. Then the other people that you’re playing with are supposed to guess which one of the 3 things is the lie.  Now, I’m not condoning lying, so please don’t hear that. Everything that we...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Have you ever been blindfolded before? Or maybe the electricity went off in your house at night and you were trying to navigate your way through in the dark? You know that in either of these situations, it’s extremely hard to see when you have no idea where you are or what’s in front of you.   Yesterday, I walked into my room and beca...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! It’s no secret that fear and anxiety are plaguing teens today. A recently research study by Barna came out that about anxiety alone that said that 2 in 5 teens deal with anxiety.   That pressure can come from so many things: Teens are afraid to fail, they are anxious about making the right decisions, they don’t know what’s going to ha...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! There was a time in my teen years that really stands out to me about when I began to hate the way I looked. I was in 9th grade and why they did this, I still have no idea…but it was a terrible idea. In gym class—that had both guys and girls, they did body measurement tests in front of the whole class. When I’m talking body measurement...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Have you ever had something major you were facing right in front of you and it seemed like there was no way out of it? It almost seemed like the end of the world. Okay, so most of us can probably agree that when we first heard the news about COVID and how the whole world was shutting down, we felt like we were in a place like…how are...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! When you ask someone how they are doing, what is the standard response that they usually give back to you? “I’m fine.” Right?“  But are they really?  We smile and pretend that everything is good, but on the inside, it’s not.   Some of us don’t have anyone we can talk to, so we keep everything inside while putting that mask back on eve...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothi...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Rachel was the most popular girl in school. She was beautiful. She had a massive friend group that adored her. She had the most popular guy in our grade swooning over her. Rachel was…perfect.  Or so it seemed.  Rachel made it her job in life to make my life and I’m sure many other’s lives miserable. She would take that time to make fu...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Mandie Maass is the founder of Brave Girls Gather.  Brave Girls Gather exists to empower teen girls to bravely live out the purpose God has for their lives. Mandie has a special message for teen girls today...that their story matters. She encourages them to not only understand that they are called and commissioned to share Jesus with...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Our thoughts are so powerful. If we don’t control them, they can lead us to believe some pretty crazy lies.  I struggled with this for so many years…especially when it came to fear. Even after I became a Christian, I would watch all kinds of scary movies and then wonder why I had to fight off fear all the time.  Another type of fear t...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! “Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.” We all know that there are good thoughts…thoughts that bring life. Thoughts that bring healing. Thoughts and encourage others or even ou...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Sometimes in life, we have things happen to us that can cause us to become overwhelmed, or maybe stressed out or have some serious anxiety.    See, the devil knows that if he can get you overwhelmed and if he can get you stressed out or anxious, he can stop you from fulfilling your purpose in life.  My Pastor often says, “Somebody’s f...