Welcome, listeners! Have you ever wanted to stop the regular flow of your life and drive across the United States in an RV? Well, the Richardson family did just that! Jay & Natalie will be with us for the next two episodes as they share their perspective on how they bravely went against the patterns of this world and what the “good life” looks like for their family. 

In this first episode, they share what inspired them to go on this RV trip and they vulnerably share what it was like to actually take the steps to follow God’s love through quitting jobs, taking their children out of school, and packing up their 3 older children and a one-year-old on this 4-month exertion. 

Want to see pics of their journey? Feel free to go to their Instagram page @RichesontheRoad

Let’s go! 

Truly. This will make us all want to go! 

Resources:

Movie: Parenthood

Oikonomics, Mike Breen & Ben Sternke

The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss

The Wheel of Fear: Laura is sweatin’ to the oldies y’all as she reports out for the 4th week in a row! She shared the tough reality of having to deal with a new budgeting system after leaving her high-paying job a year ago. Laura’s transparency is such a blessing as it reminds us of the sacrifices made when freely following God’s love throughout all areas of our life.  

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Welcome! We’ve loved hearing such positive feedback from our listeners regarding the podcast and this current series on redefining success and what is considered the “good” life. We are pausing our interviews to build upon Mike Breen & Ben Sternke’s work through the Christ-centered book, Oikonomics. These authors define oikonomics  by how we invest and exchange and grow spiritual capital for God’s kingdom.

In this episode, Laura & Tara take time to reflect on the five primary capitals in all our lives and how we can become more self-aware and intentional about the day-to-day decisions that influence our abundant life. For a quick recap, the five capitals we can invest and grow are: 

Spiritual: (wisdom & power)

Relational: (family & friends)

Physical: (time & energy) 

Intellectual: (concepts & ideas) 

Financial: (money & resources)

Praying this episode blesses you and frees you up from striving within the kingdoms of this world, and welcomes you into thriving in the kingdom of God. 

Let’s go! 

Resources:

Oikonomics, Mike Breen & Ben Sternke 

The Wheel of Fear: What?! Three in a row! Tara’s on a winning streak! Laura shares how she followed the Spirit of God rather than the patterns of this world regarding when her child was ready to handle certain levels of social media. In agreement with her husband, they continued with gradual release of control and trusted God’s love over their teenage daughter and their parenting. 

Listener, you may not be in this same situation, but this is a good time to reflect: have you invited God to lead you through your choices ––mostly if they go against the patterns of the world and cause extra pressure? 

Easy said, done hard; however, well worth it!  

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Welcome! We are so glad you are joining us as Laura and Tara continue with the series on “success” and what is considered a “good” life. Today we are excited to share part two of our conversation with Cody Wilson, co-founder of a church in the Detroit area: Living Army. In this episode Cody shares how he used hurt and brokenness to grow closer to the love of God, which revealed a greater capacity to have compassion towards others. This deeper understanding is the foundation of their ministry rather than the old measures of success of numbers and performance. How freeing! 

Listener, once again, we invite you to grab your journal to take notes on specific reflections or teachings from Cody. Our conversations turned into a powerful teaching of truth, wisdom all coated in love. 

Let’s go! 

The Wheel of Fear: Two in a row! I’m getting the hang of this game and Laura report s out how she did pressing into the “fear” of using Facebook Marketplace to sell some of her unwanted goods. Sounds horrifying, doesn’t it?! LOL Laura knows it’s not that big of a deal, but she ain’t ascared to admit that even the little things is a loving invitation from Jesus to see what lies or limitations might be in the way of living abundantly! 

What was super cool is she not only earned money selling expensive scrubs that she used as a sales rep, but she also realized how “silly” it was to even hesitate doing something that was no big deal at all. It’s those “silly” things that we think is no big deal if we don’t do them, but realizing if we added up all the silly things would we notice a wall of self-protection? 

Glad we are doing life in community to support each other through the big and little things in life. It all matters. XO 

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Love, Laura & Tara

Welcome! We are so glad you are joining us as Laura and Tara continue with the series on “success” and what is considered a “good” life. Today we are excited to share part one of our conversation with Cody Wilson, co-founder of a church in the Detroit area: Living Army. In this first of two episodes Cody shares how joy was his #1 motivator, but as he was climbing the football ladder of success, his script flipped from joy to fear. Even though he earned a full-ride scholarship to play football in college and made it to the NFL, he felt empty. 

Listener, we invite you to grab your journal to take notes on specific reflections or teachings from Cody. He may use sports, the NFL or pastoring a church as a vehicle to convey his personal testimony, but there’s a lot to glean from as we all are on the same human adventure! 

Let’s go! Together. 

Resources mentioned: 

Crazy Love,  Francis Chan

Forgotten God,  Francis Chan

If You Want to Walk on Water, You Got to Get Out of The Boat,  John Ortburg 

The Wheel of Fear: Tara reports how unsuccessful (wink) she was at sharing a loving word from God with a stranger at the Detroit Red Wings game. It’s more nerve-wracking than she wants it to be. She knows that it’s as simple as pausing the moment, asking God what loving thought He has over the person and then speaking it out. The hard part is stopping the over-thinking-about-it and just do it! She and Laura knows a loving word for someone never returns void. 

There’s always next time. 

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Welcome! We are so glad you are joining us as Laura and Tara continue with the series on “success” and what is considered a “good” life. We are excited to provide the second part of our talk with Brady Gardner, the co-founder of LA37 (Living Army) here in the Detroit area. Tara has greatly benefited from this church movement and now ––thanks to the Wheel of Fear–– Laura will too! (wink)

In this episode Tara & Laura continue to provide a space for Brady to share the second part of his testimony: from the point of a couple serious setbacks as well as experiencing deep sadness after losing a beloved family member in a fatal car accident. We all want to experience what happened next! After crying out 12 years of pain & anger towards God, His Spirit filled Brady’ car and from there began to change the trajectory of his life. 

SCRIPT FLIPPED!

God used Brady’s career/financial success to invest in other “capitals” such as spiritual and relational capitals; leaving him with three years of no salary. Yet, for the first time there was total freedom and pure joy as Brady went against the patterns of the world into the faith-filled life with Jesus! 

Anyone else willing to ‘brave your abundance’ with Jesus?! 

Let’s go! 

Resources mentioned: Oikonomics: How to Invest in Life’s Five Capitals the Way Jesus Did, by Mike Breen & Ben Sternke

The Wheel of Fear: The timing of Laura’s share couldn’t be better! She has some reservations about attending LA37 due to the fact that their outward expression for Jesus is much different than what she’s used to – quiet and reserved praise and worship complementing a more predictable church experience. 

Even though Laura couldn’t attend a service this past week, she was met with love and acceptance while interacting with Brady (& Cody Wilson) during the conversation. They brough CHURCH to us through these conversations, so technically, Laura already experienced the joy and freedom of Living Army. 

And…in the next few weeks, Laura will share what it was like to attend a Sunday service. Stay tuned! 

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Welcome! We are so glad you are joining us as Laura and Tara continue with the series on “success” and what is considered a “good” life. It’s our first time inviting a friend to chat with us. Brady Gardner is the co-founder of LA37 (Living Army) here in the Detroit area, where Tara has greatly benefited from this church movement.

Brady’s testimony of encountering the loving truth of Jesus at age 26 (even though he gave his life to Jesus when he was 9) changed the trajectory of his life. Where Brady had career/financial success at the forefront of his mind, Love naturally flipped the script of fear and invited Brady into a whole new way of living ––with freedom!

This podcast isn’t a place where testimonies are elevator pitches. Nope! Truth and love are extracted one moment at a time. We don’t want our listeners to miss out on necessary thoughts and events illustrating the impact of a FLIPPED life!

In this Episode Tara & Laura hold space for Brady to share what his mindsets were as a young adult in high school and college regarding measures of success. He then leads us through some vulnerable and disappointing times in his life; as well as how the loss of a family member in a fatal car accident brought him to scream out 12 years of pain! It was at that point that…

Listen to find out.

The Wheel of Fear: Tara’s report is quite interesting as she shares that her and Laura tried float therapy this week. Episode 8 & 9, Tara learned from her client, Cait, about spas that have pods with enough Epsom Salt to suspend you in water that’s at body temperature, while it’s pitch dark. What?! Since Tara ultimately is Cait’s spiritual formation coach, Tara made a spiritual connection to float therapy like hangin’ with Jesus. The feeling of being loved and secure even if “everything went dark,” as if we disconnected from the needs/wants of this material world.

Tara isn’t claustrophobic; however, she had two incidences where fight or flight kicked in due to being stuck in cramped, small spaces. So, the intrigue of float therapy was enough to add it to the wheel of fear.

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Love, Laura & Tara

Welcome! We are so glad you are joining us as Laura and Tara begin a new series on “success” and what is considered “good”. We have been inspired by the book, Oikonomics as well as by stories of others who live in the kingdom of God rather than conforming to the patterns of this world. We know –– this is easier said than done!

Hoping today’s focus and reflection of how we invest most our time, energy and money is an heart-opening message that inspires you to flip the script along with us!

Let's gooo!

The Wheel of Fear:  Laura is up! It’s her turn to report the outcome from her wheel of fear. She doesn’t post on social media all that often not wanting to be too open and overshare for fear of inviting other’s thoughts and opinions. Laura admitted feeling weary of posting an update since quitting her job last year; yet, after she shared her picture montage via an Instagram reel it was quite freeing!  She’s now grateful for losing the Wheel of Fear, because now she gave herself a chance to share with others her deep sense of gratitude for the past year!

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Welcome! We are so glad you are joining us as Laura and Tara rely on Ezekial 37:1-10 to empower and equip everyONE in a “dry bones” season of life. It doesn’t matter if your faith is the size of a mustard seed, it’s less about us and all about the truth of who God is! Praying this episode is life-giving and provides space for you to breath in truth and exhale the lies and fears of our circumstances.

Ya’ll we are in this together! You are never, ever alone or hopeless.

Let's gooo!

The Wheel of Fear:  Tara’s back on a losing streak as she reports out another limiting belief that there’s not enough financial resources to go around. Yet, it’s important to her family to take little family trips even though they have two kids in college and one high schooler in travel hockey. She reports that her and Ryan are choosing love (and joy) over fear of not having enough for the future needs. God, they are rollin’ on the sense of peace that their future needs will be covered. Amen!

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Welcome! We are so glad you are joining us as we continue to discuss loving God with all our heart all the while His Spirit is resting on Asbury University. God’s love for us is amazing and dependable, yet still a divine mystery. We weren’t looking for a formula to accessing God’s reviving love, but we did take note of a few important elements of the revival. We noticed the power of responding to God’s love through prayer, worship, confession and repentance. It’s life changing!

Let’s call on more and more and more revivals drawing us closer to the truth of who God is, revealing and removing any sin in our lives that will get in the way of that precious relationship.

Let's gooo!

The Wheel of Fear:  Tara’s winning streak is over as she reports the fearless move to take risks on buying new equipment for the podcast. It sounds simple, but fear can be disguised in the simple decisions of business and everyday life. Let’s continue to journey together by trusting in God’s will more and our fear less.

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Special Valentine’s Edition. Welcome! We are so glad you are joining us as we celebrate Valentine’s Day by flipping the script on what it means to do good deeds and love our valentine well. First, we focus our eyes on the greatest Valentine EVER ––Father God, Jesus, and The Holy Spirit. Aligning with what we really believe about God’s character and receiving from The One who loves us perfectly and abundantly. Then love simply flows through us. Finally, we sit with this truth realizing that not only is this love for everyONE, the culture of heaven teaches us how to intercede for others by praying to God no matter what an even if!

This triangulation (God above and my neighbor and me equally below) is an incredible way to show up in the world and to respond. Praying this episode is for you as it was for us ––high levels of love as well as high challenge. Just enough to teach and humble us to fully believe & receive His: compassion, grace, patience, loving kindess and truth.

Let's gooo!

The Wheel of Fear: Yay, it’s Laura’s turn to report out! Nope, not because she lost rock-paper-scissors; because she’s a compassionate friend who thought it would be nice to take one for the team. (Pssst…and she might be getting jealous at all the favor I’m getting as I ‘brave my abundance’ and step into my fears.) Either way, she reported out taking steps forward with her 401K after leaving her job of twelve years. It’s going to be fun to see what God knows about the full truth of this financial investment that Laura hasn’t realized quite yet. Stay tuned!

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