A Longer Table

Manda brings her financial advisor, Tony Escobar, to the table to discuss finances in the context of faith. Tony shares how being a financially savvy Christian shouldn't be uncomfortable and gives insight on how to put your "money on mission" while also offering some easy first steps of how to improve your current financial situation! Reach out to him here & follow along @tonyescobar.thrivent

Manda's business coach, Neil, is BACK! Since you had SO many questions about the LifePlan (episode 65), tune in to hear the following:

Who created LifePlan and the backstory

An overview of intentional exercises you are guided through when you go through a LifePlan

Manda and Neil's biggest takeaways from their LifePlan's and more about this investment

Follow @neilsternberg & email him if you want to learn more about LifePlan: [email protected].

Hannah Brencher, author of "Come Matter Here" & founder of "More Love Letters, joins Manda to share about her life with depression and how her darkest season impacted the way she viewed mental illness, daily discipline, and her identity as a Christian. Follow @hannahbrencher and order her brand new book Fighting Forward.

Alexandra is wife, mother, Bible teacher, & writer who’s passionate about communicating the love of Jesus. In this episode, her and Manda dive deep about:

-Should women teach/lead in the church?

-How to discern scripture & confidently embrace what you believe

-How her relationship with God transforms the way she lives

-Where she has experienced & witnessed racism

-How we, as Christ-followers, help dismantle systems of oppression in the Church & the world at large

Manda's business coach, Neil, who also facilitated her LifePlan in May joins the table to share...

-What a LifePlan is

-What he was surprised by when he met Manda

-Advice he would give to his newlywed self

-His favorite part of fatherhood

-Wisdom for anyone feeling stuck in their career, spiritual growth, or relationships

Follow him @neilsternberg

Website: leadwellteam.com 

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: neil.sternberg

Manda's friend Lindsay gets honest about:

Relying on God & discernment when it comes to big decisions

Embracing singleness joyfully as a thirty-something woman who hopes to get married one day

Finding joy and purpose in her day to day life & how her faith plays a huge role in that.

Follow her @thefaithfeast.

Shannan had it all: dream home, comfortable paycheck, & a tight-knit Christian community, but God challenged her to exchange it all for something more abundant. Her family moved to "the wrong side of the tracks." She's learning everyday what it means to love your neighbor. Tune in to hear about re-defining the American Dream & how learning to love people who are different than us might completely change our views. Follow @shannanwrites & check out her books Falling Free and The Ministry of Ordinary Places

Multi-talented, Chicago native, David Bell joins Manda to share about his journey to becoming a professional actor. From his favorite role to his audition struggles, he gets candid about what it's really like to chase his dream and talks about how mental health and his relationship with God ties into it all. Connect with him @princeofbellair & @humbellfitness!

Like so many of us, when transitioning into adulthood Holli was unsure what she was supposed to do with her life post-college.

In this episode she shared a bit of her story... of praying and fasting and ultimately feeling lead to move across the globe to China.

As scary as it was, Holli followed God’s prompting and became a teacher in China. What she didn’t expect was to meet her husband, but that’s exactly what happened.

While fighting for her country in the Middle East, Diana was commanded to run over an Iraqi child. She was confronted with a choice she never thought she'd have to make: God's call to love her enemy vs. her country's command to be willing to kill. Diana chose to wage peace in a place of war. It led her to spend the rest of her life as a peacemaker. Tune into the full conversation for tips on how to be a peacemaker at upcoming holiday gatherings & grab her book Waging Peace on Amazon. Follow @dianaoestreich.