Thomas Ripplinger spent two years as a full-time Catholic missionary at Michigan Technological University, and is still living mission today with his wife and children in a small town in Wisconsin. Join us for a delightful conversation!

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We're joined with Amanda Teixeira, co-founder of WalletWin, to talk about her time as a full-time missionary and the lessons and fruit that came from years with FOCUS and beyond! Hear how she was at the beginning of both FOCUS Greek and FOCUS Summer Projects! 

In January 2012, FOCUS missionary Amanda Teixeira, and her husband, Jonathan, had $25,000 in debt and a deep desire to break free. A short — and zealous — seven and half months later they wrote their last check to Sallie Mae and closed the doors on debt forever. Since kicking debt to the curb, they’ve focused on saving, investing and giving in a way that set them up for total financial peace for a lifetime.

Upon hearing their story, a few people asked them money questions — and they answered. That snowballed into hundreds of answers, speaking at events, providing financial coaching, and in 2017, founding WalletWin to provide Catholic financial formation for the whole family.

They are authors of How to Attack Debt, Build Savings, and Change the World Through Generosity: A Catholic Guide to Managing Money, hosts of The Catholic Money Show, and creators of The Catholic Money Course, and The Catholic Family Emergency Binder. They have appeared on EWTN, FORMED.org, and are regular guests on Relevant Radio. Their financial formation programs are used by parishes, dioceses, and schools across the country.

Jonathan and Amanda live in Omaha, Nebraska with their four children.

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Soren and Ever Johnson are founders of Trinity House, and Joseph had a chance to sit down with Soren and discuss what makes a home really imitate the love of the Trinity.

The mission of Trinity House Community is to inspire families to make home a taste of heaven for the renewal of faith and culture. 

Consider launching a Trinity House Community Group for families at your parish. For just $499/year, this turn-key model offers families a "date night + family night" experience and is now blessing families at 34 parishes in 14 states! 

Subscribe to receive Soren & Ever's weekly Heaven in Your Home Lettershere. Every Tuesday, you'll receive inspiring stories and practical tools for your own "Trinity House."  

Check out their Heaven in Your Home Letters & Guide: Inspiration & Tools for Building a Trinity House (Amazon, $24.99)

Print up the Heaven in Your Home Flowchart and hang it on your fridge as a reference point for your family's growing life in Christ! 

Visit their ministry's Trinity House Cafe + Market, which offers "a little taste of heaven at the corner of Church & Market Streets" in the heart of old town Leesburg, VA. 

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"Remember Man that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return!"

There's no time like Lent to reflect a little more deeply on death. 

Find the catechism section here: https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_two/chapter_three/article_11/ii_dying_in_christ_jesus.html

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Deacon Luke Oestman, longtime missionary with FOCUS and director of St. Timothy Fellows, joins the podcast to share his passion for the Father's blessing!

You can find Deacon Luke here: https://focus.org/missionaries/luke-oestman/

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Crystal had the opportunity to interview her favorite podcaster, Dana K. White, host of the podcast "A Slob Comes Clean."

Dana just came out with a new book, Jesus Doesn't Care About Your Messy Home, and Crystal had a delightful time talking with her about it!

Dana is the creator of the No Mess Decluttering Method and (much to her own surprise) a Decluttering Expert. Dana shares realistic home management strategies and a message of hope for the hopelessly messy in her books: Organizing for the Rest of Us, Decluttering at the Speed of Life (a Wall Street Journal bestseller), and How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind. Dana teaches her strategies through her blog, podcast, and videos at ASlobComesClean.com and trains coaches in her unique decluttering process at DeclutteringCoaches.com. 

You can find Dana's new book here: https://www.aslobcomesclean.com/jesus/

You can follow Dana here: https://www.youtube.com/danakwhite

https://www.facebook.com/ASlobComesClean/

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We had the delight of having Peter Herbeck, executive vice president of Renewal Ministries, on the podcast to unpack the last line of the last OT prophet, "He will turn the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents" (Malachi 4:6a). 

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What if having a family were a team sport? What if a lot of the loneliness and frustration of the home were from someone being guilty of poor sportsmanship? Jordan Langdon joins us to share her story of transformation, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

Check out her work at https://www.familiesofcharacter.com/

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This topic probably deserves a longer episode treating it, but I really wanted to get some thoughts about feeling homeless from the two primary institutions (family and Church), and especially from feeling so from within the institutions. There are a great number of people who come to Mass and don't feel at home, just as there are a great many who live at an address that doesn't feel all that homely. 

This isn't to dismiss the tragedy of being physically homeless-- I think I mentioned in the episode that physical homelessness is more visible, and after the fact, remembered that a great many homeless disguise their homelessness by roving from one friend's/family member's house to another-- what I meant was moreso that there is a physical malady there, and it is point-to-able in a way that spiritual homelessness isn't. 

Anywho, I still recommend the book True Leadership: https://amzn.to/4ju0AmI (and this link actually earns us a commission! Crystal set it up recently!) 

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When we make invitations, we're making several statements all at once-- that we have something worth offering, that the other might receive, and that they're free to make a choice one way or another. If we don't make invitations, all three of those statements get called at least into question. 

Listen in to find out more!

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