Unpolished

In this episode, we sit down with our very first guest, Haley, for a deeply honest conversation about faith, marriage, moving to Broken Hill, quilting, grief, hope, and the life of her daughter, Ruth Grace. What starts as a relaxed couch conversation quickly turns into a powerful story about infant loss, navigating heartbreaking medical news, holding onto faith in the middle of uncertainty, and fi...

Jessie’s back from the USA, and we’re unpacking everything — the revival tour through Los Angeles, leadership conversations, worship at the birthplace of the Pentecostal movement, and what the trip revealed about faith, calling, church culture, and the future of Broken Hill. This episode somehow also includes squirrels, tall poppy syndrome, bananas in worship-leading dreams, vocal rest disasters,...

Jessie’s heading to the USA for a ministry study trip exploring revival history, leadership, and church culture. So naturally, before takeoff, we sat down for a completely unhinged pre-trip debrief covering Holy Spirit encounters, fear, travel anxiety, chopped-off fingers, being “28,” and what happens when God completely changes your life.

In this deeply personal episode, Kirsty shares her journey of becoming a mother in the midst of an abusive marriage—and the quiet, faithful ways God worked to bring her and her daughter into safety. This is not a story of easy answers, but of God’s presence, protection, and redemption even in the darkest seasons. Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussion of domestic abuse and may be distre...

After three pretty intense episodes, we’re switching gears for something fun (and slightly chaotic). In Episode 4, we sit down and ask each other all kinds of questions — the serious ones, the silly ones, the unexpected ones, and a few we probably should’ve prepared for but didn’t. From childhood memories to personality quirks, faith stories to random favourites, this episode is basically one big...

After years of living in different states, Kirsty has finally moved to the outback — and the last few months have been nothing short of wild. In this episode, we unpack the chaos, the surprises, the spiritual stretch, the laughter, the meltdowns, the unexpected blessings, and the way God has been moving in real time since we’ve finally landed in the same town again. From settling into Broken Hill...

After surviving the whirlwind of 2020, life didn’t exactly slow down. In this episode, we pick up the story with Jessie moving to Broken Hill while Kirsty stays in the Adelaide Hills — the place where we had all been living, serving, and doing life side by side. We talk about the four years that followed: the stretch of distance, the growth in both our families, the unexpected turns, and the unmis...

We’re starting Unpolished by going back to the year that changed everything for both of us. 2020 was messy, heartbreaking, confronting, and defining; a year of identity questions, deep grief, unexpected crisis, and moments that reshaped the course of our lives. In this first episode, we open up about the inner turmoil, the losses, and the near-unbelievable experiences that pushed us closer to Jesu...