Unlikely Housewives: Real Talk For Worn Out Christian Women

It is hard to believe we are already in the middle of May! May is a busy season for mamas with the field trips, school parties, graduations, field days, and etc! And while summer can be relaxing, we can also get lost in all the camps, playdates, and pool dates: we encourage you to keep evaluating your schedule and being able to find joy in your chaos and say NO to the stress and activities that ar...

In honor of Mother's Day this past Sunday, we wanted to re-release our episode "You Actually Are A Good Mom" because we don't think you get to hear it enough! We encourage you to share it with another mama who needs some encouragement this week! Much love,  Tori & Tracy XOXO   Hey Housewives! We understand that being a mom makes you question everything, while also feeling like you know it all. Due...

Hey Housewives! We can’t believe we are here…wrapping up our first season of our podcast! We had no idea we would have a season, let alone how many episodes we’d get to before a break or even how many downloads we’d have. We just started and prayed.  In this episode we share with you our favorite clips whether funny, impactful, or emotional. We review some highlights of our behind the scenes on ou...

Hey Housewives! Trigger warning: This episode is on suicide and suicide prevention. We discuss the loss of two teens and give hope and helpful resources for suicide prevention.   Join us as we have a candid conversation with two mothers who are turning their pain into a greater purpose.    Statistics show, often teens are choosing to end their life in a snap decision. Lost in a moment of darkness,...

Hey Housewives! This week we had the pleasure of talking with Kaety Bowers, newly elected Blue Valley School Board member. If you are one of our local (Johnson County) listeners, you will LOVE getting to hear her heart and her story. If you are not one of our JoCo listeners, you will love the practical advice and suggestions she gives to us as parents how to be a better advocate for our children i...

Hey Housewives!   We hope you enjoyed Part 1 of this episode with our husbands.  In last week’s episode we shared how we each met our spouses, grew in our marriages, struggled with letting our husbands be the spiritual leaders of our homes and last but not least, how the pandemic affected each of our families.    💙 This week’s episode focuses on some more in depth conversations around what our hu...

Hey Housewives! Who’s ready to laugh? We laugh a TON in this episode!!  We are pretty excited for this week’s episode to finally be released.  We had so much fun having our husbands on the show, and we truly know the message of our messes and blesses of our marriages can encourage you and your marriage.    💙 We of course had to start with sharing our stories of how we met our spouses and a few st...

Hey Housewives! Not too often is the confidence that women carry talked about... it is even perceived as a gift from God.  For us, we fully believe that the confidence we have, in what we do, in who we are, comes from our creator and the act of obedience to what He has called us to.  When you are out of alignment of your purpose and calling, confidence is the first piece that women feel in lacking...

Trigger warning: Our guest briefly touches on a sensitive subject of sexual abuse.  Trauma as a child, speak to women to help them drop the shame around having been sexually abused.  Hey Housewives!    We are so excited to share with you our dear friend, Christian life and business coach, Melissa Batt.  She is a stay-at-home-mama turned top six-figure direct sales leader who found herself exhauste...

Hey Housewives! This week’s episode is going to cover a great deal of things as we address being overscheduled mamas and families.  Our main goal with discussing this topic is to challenge you to ask yourself a few questions & determine if you are finding joy in all of the busyness or if you are living underwhelmed.  Our hope is that you would bring awareness to some of these feelings whether exci...

Hey Housewives! We had so much fun chatting with Ellen, a pastor’s wife in this episode! We absolutely loved hearing how she and her husband met, and how unlikely their path into ministry really was…and for those sports loving families, she has some truly incredible nuggets on being competitive!!  Ellen sheds some light on what it’s like to be a pastor’s wife and how she learned to extend grace an...

Hey Housewives! Today’s episode is going to have a different feel…Tracy is going to interview Tori and help her share her personal journey with depression in order to encourage others who have experienced these feelings, especially after these last 2 years. Depression looks different for everyone. For some, it’s seasonal or circumstantial. Others, it starts with sad feelings while being pregnant o...

Hey Housewives! This week we have a fun and informative conversation with our guest, Andrea Studt, a mama of 7 boys and their family’s journey of homeschooling!    Homeschooling used to be just another option of schooling that only a few ever considered taking on for their family. The thoughts of so much extra time, effort, work, energy, emotions, & the added stigmas were all that you would hear i...

Hey Housewives! Do you feel like a conventional mom or do you feel comfortable doing things that are best for you and your family without the thought that it might not be “normal”? In this episode we discuss unconventional motherhood…doing things against the norm in our homes and with work.   Everyone has standards of what the perfect mother should be and to some degree, we all fall short and feel...

Hey Housewives! Grab you coffee and tissues… We are honored to have our friend and guest, Jill Renfro, on our show to share her unlikely story of battling through infertility. God has already been using her to share His message, and we hope this podcast is not only an extension of what she has already shared, but hopefully one that reaches many mama-in-waiting hearts.  Jill, and her husband Dakota...

Hey Housewives!     In this episode, you are going to hear the beautiful unfolding of how Stephanie & her husband, Jeremy, became a family of 8, one by one building an incredible family with 6 children through fostering and adoption.      Stephanie shares how their story is the definition of UNLIKELY as fostering or adoption wasn’t their plan…yet it ended up being their journey.      We love how S...

Hey Housewives!  Have you ever been offended?  Like really hurt by something someone said about you, your beliefs or ideas?  How about when they have attacked your character?  Then there are those times where we take offense by a story we tell ourselves…that probably isn’t true.   ➡️ We share a couple personal stories of how we were offended and then ask the question…Is being offended justified? S...

Hey Housewives! We understand that being a mom makes you question everything, while also feeling like you know it all. Due to our current culture, we have resources and help from every angle, however we also have advice and criticism on EVERYTHING we do as a parent…which brings along so much shame & guilt for the motherhood journey. We start this episode by sharing how initially doubting your own...

Hey Housewives!   We are going to dive into the TOXIC side of our mental health.  The space that fills our days and minds with information that simply isn’t true about who we are and who we have the potential to become. God calls us to step into our purpose, and yet we allow one of these areas to stop us. Why? Because we feel overwhelmed and perhaps we fully don’t believe we were made for a greate...

Hey Housewives!    It’s a New Year, now what?  Time to set some New Year's resolutions…or not?  We know the #1 resolution revolves around health goals, weight loss and dieting.  We have an interesting take on this new diet culture.  We feel it brings shame and guilt instead of focusing on wellness and that we have one body & we should take care of it the best we can.     “Diet culture” refers to a...

Hey Housewives!  If you haven’t listened to the detox download episode yet, pause this episode and go listen to that one first! Or don’t! We can’t tell you what to do, ha! ➡️ Let’s discuss last year’s NY resolutions… ➡️ God is not done with you…we are all unfinished  ➡️ We are on a journey together. This is not a fix one issue per episode kind of thing. We are figuring this out together and your t...

Hey Housewives:  Time to download what is going on inside us…end of year audit, a physical if you will…what’s working for us & what’s not. Detox isn’t just “cleanses” or “eliminations”, diets, etc…it’s clearing out space for good things to come in. 3 areas we encourage you to do a detox download:                     Mental, physical & spiritual   Mental:  Declutter—physical space in the house…kitc...

Housewives!  What are we talking about now:  Natural fear vs unnatural fear… Natural fear: experiencing fear naturally and facing it confidently because you know it feels right…going off to college, marriage, Motherhood. Unnatural fear: (an experience or circumstance that we choose) work, owning your own business, working out, health journey, dreams. people don’t always understand, people haven’t...

Housewives!!! EEEKKKK! We are here! Can you believe it?  What are we talking about: Who is an unlikely housewife? In your community, are you a “lifer” or a “transplant”? You are not the same person, and THAT’S OKAY!   Join our fast growing community on Facebook and connect with us on Instagram !  Write an apple review and YOUR review could be read on our next episode!    Hosted by Tori Shirah and...

Housewives!  What are we talking about now:  Using social media and our phones to fill a void Being present in our everyday lives Becoming aware of how much we use our phones and social media Comparing our reality to others highlight reel   Join our fast growing community on Facebook and connect with us on Instagram !  Write an apple review and YOUR review could be read on our next episode!    Hos...