What does it look like to serve people in their darkest hour?

In this episode, I sit down with my dear friend Taylor Mendoza, a funeral director, embalmer, wife, mother of two, and Ms. Universe TCP 2023–2024. Taylor lives in a space most of us avoid, and she does it with extraordinary compassion, grace, and purpose.

We talk about why she chose this work, what it means to care for families when their world has just shattered, and how her heart for others led her to create the No Whispers Foundation.

Taylor’s mission is simple and sacred: to ensure that children whose lives were taken by domestic violence are not forgotten. Through No Whispers, she helps provide funeral services for these children, giving families dignity, care, and a way to say goodbye when the unthinkable has happened.

This conversation isn’t heavy. It’s beautiful. It’s human. It’s about service, calling, and what it means to show up when it matters most.

Taylor lends her voice where there once was only silence.

And in doing so, she reminds us all what it looks like to love people well.

For More information about Taylor Mendoza and the No Whispers Foundations visit

nowhispersfoundation.com

Sometimes survival makes us silent. This episode is about faith, courage, and claiming your voice when life has been heavy and clarity has come at a cost.

Women! Do you feel like your head is in a vice most days? Pressure to do all and be all for everyone? It's time that we have the necessary conversations about this with ourselves, our daughters and each other. Listen in as I visit with my friend Valeri Malone. Valeri is a wife, Mother of 2, and a very successful Personal Injury Attorney. Valeri is a woman who advocates for others with humility, vulnerability and authenticity. We discuss everything from navigating the daily pressure of expectations on women to how to balance parenting our daughters to be all they can be in a world that creates an illusion of perfection. Valeri gives powerful insight to how she is able to create massive success while facing her fears and evolving after raising her children.

Connect with Valeri Malone

Email: [email protected]

Website: maloneinjurylawyers.com

Valeri Malone brings two and a half decades of experience to her clients. She is a successful trial lawyer, who has earned the respect of her peers and the trust of her clients.
Valeri is a graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University and Texas Tech School of Law. While in law school, Valeri was selected for early admission to Texas Tech School of Law’s advocacy program, the Board of Barristers and ranked first her in class. She was a National competitor.
She is licensed to practice law in Texas and Oklahoma State and Federal courts. She has also been granted admission to appear in cases, pro hac vice, across the Nation, from California to New York.
By Gubernatorial appointment, she served as Chair for the Texas Board of Manufactured Housing, on which she previously served as a member. 
She was also named as a Texas Super Lawyer, Rising Star in 2007, 2008, and 2009. She is a member of Million Dollar Advocate Forum and Multi-Million Dollar Advocate Forum.
Early in her career, Mrs. Malone represented families and victims of explosions involving catastrophic burn injuries, generating multi-million dollar results for her clients. 
She now focuses on personal injuries from semi truck crashes, wrongful death, car crashes, defective products, oilfield injuries, daycare injuries, fall hazard injuries, and dog bites. 
Anyone who knows Valeri Malone knows she lives by the words of Babe Ruth that “it is hard to beat someone who never gives up.” That is who she is and how she represents her clients. 
She has recovered millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for her clients. She has handled thousands of cases. She has a proven track record for hard work, experience, and results, and her reputation precedes her when she walks into settlement talks and into the courtroom.
Valeri has managed and handled cases for multiple high volume personal injury offices across North and West Texas for large law firms. However, she and her attorney husband, Matt Malone, with whom she practices, decided to open their own boutique personal injury firm that specializes in giving their clients the detailed, intentional representation they deserve. 
Matt and Valeri are proud Texas Tech graduates and proud members of the West Texas community. If you or someone you love is injured through no fault of your own, let Matt and Valeri make it right for you and your family.

Listen in to this deep and moving discussion with my friend, Alexis Arnold. Alexis opens up with me about some of her health and fertility journey that lead her to Motherhood as well as co-founding The Inside Out Foundation. Her Faith is unwavering and her true passion to serve others is clear. You'll be left inspired in your own life to take action and to serve others.

The Inside Out Foundation was founded in 2012 by Alexis Arnold her and co-founders Adair and Karla to serve traumatic event survivors. The mission: To revive and enrich every client who walks through our door; inside and out. We strive to make our clients not only look beautiful but feel beautiful down to their souls.

Visit the website at theinsideoutfoundation.org for more information on how you can receive services or get involved.

Email Alexis directly at [email protected]

Connect with Alexis:

Facebook: Alexis Arnold

Instagram: Alexis Arnold

Join me as I chat with my dear friend, Venessa Wood. Mother, Wife, Leader, Faith Driven Servant and CEO of Ag Women Connect. We discuss how her passion for Agriculture, Horses, Empowering Women and Deep Connection have fueled the beginning and explosive growth of Ag Women Connect. If you eat food, then yes, you have something to give and get from Ag. Agriculture aside, we all need a safe space to feel valued and connected. We also all need to take note from our discussion on what it means to step out in faith and obedience and put action to our words.

For more information and to connect with Venessa:

Website: Ag Women Connect

Email: Venessa Wood

FB: Ag Women Connect

Join me on this special episode to kick off October and Domestic Violence Awareness month. 

In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Hanners Gutierrez, a decorated and esteemed professional in her field of medicine as well as an international award winning singer/songwriter, chats with me about her passion for Global Health and how we can all unite with our gifts to change the world. We discuss our mutual fight against Domestic Violence and dig more into her personal story of overcoming her Monster and where her inspiration came from to write the anthem International award winning  "Dear Monster" and unite Warriors in our mission around the world.  

Get ready to feel empowered and inspired!

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Phew, this episode was much tougher than I realized it would be. Come sit with me as I share the heartbreak of losing what I thought was God's plan for me and my lessons through it all. I also share how my purpose lead me here and continues to lead me. We always think we know what the plan for our life should be and His plan is always so much greater. 

The War in Ukraine has not ended just because we've all been distracted by stories the media deems more "newsworthy." Listen to this episode with my incredible and cherished friend, Iryna Petrus, Mrs. Transcontinental ™ as she shares with us what real courage and bravery look like. How she escaped the war with her daughter. How she overcomes and manages through having to leave her husband and so many loved ones behind not knowing if she'll see them again. She is an incredibly accomplished woman professionally and in her personal life. Her Grace, Wisdom, Courage, Strength and Emotional Fortitude is something to admire and learn from. 

Sharing my thoughts as I continue on this emotional, spiritual and physical roller coaster. Why is it that it takes someone putting a label on our lifespan for us to realize that life is short? Why do we think we can do this life alone? When will we realize that control is a false narrative that brings so much unnecessary stress? 

If like me, you've been exhausted the majority of your life in pursuit of perfection so that you can EARN your right to "belong" or to be "accepted" or to be  loved or even your eternal salvation - then listen in and kick back for a chat with me. I believe I have some words of encouragement that will help you, as they are helping me to find hope in knowing peace and joy aren't far away and they are accompanied by REST. Rest far beyond sleep, but resting at the core of our souls.