Agreeing With God

How can brain science and spiritual growth work hand-in-hand to heal emotional wounds? Join us as we sit down with Susan Wright, the founder of Loved Into Life, to uncover her revolutionary approach to heart healing. Susan’s ministry goes beyond traditional methods, integrating cutting-edge brain science and deep spiritual principles to address long-standing emotional pains. She passionately discusses her mission to make Jesus real to people and how living from the heart instead of past traumas can lead to profound transformation.

In this inspiring conversation, Susan shares real-life examples of miraculous healing and the significant impact unresolved emotional issues can have on physical health. We delve into how negative belief systems and parental deficits shape our self-worth and worldview. Susan’s insights reveal the holistic approach needed to dismantle these barriers, integrating spirit, soul, and body for complete healing. Whether you’ve experienced minor emotional disturbances or severe traumas, Susan emphasizes that true freedom and restoration through faith are attainable, and you don't need to relive the trauma.

Discover how recognizing and transforming triggers rooted in past trauma can lead to deeper healing and alignment with your faith. Susan explains how embracing our true identity in Christ allows us to live in abundance and let go of old coping mechanisms. Learn practical steps to reconnect with yourself and God, and how this process can improve relational dynamics and communication in both personal and professional settings. This episode is a powerful testament to the life-changing potential of integrating brain science with spiritual truths, enabling you to live a more fulfilling and connected life.

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Embark on an enlightening journey with us, joined by the charismatic Pastor Darren Stott of Eden Church in Newcastle, as we unravel layers of faith, forgiveness, and the quest for inner peace. Pastor Darren paints a vivid picture of his personal odyssey to pastoring, highlighting an emotional encounter that sparked a transformative moment of forgiveness. This candid conversation unravels the power of redemption, and the pivotal role forgiveness plays in life.

We venture into a riveting exploration of world religions, dismantling common misconceptions, and discovering the unique paths many faiths follow in their attempts to find favor with the divine. Experience an open dialogue about how upbringing shapes our perspectives of a supreme being and how Christianity, with deep roots in Judaism, stands out from the crowd. Unlike many, Christianity is not a faith of performance for acceptance, but rather a celebration of unconditional love and acceptance.

As we traverse deeper into Christianity, we open a treasure trove of its distinct aspects and the ways in which it stands apart from other religions. Together, we delve beneath surface, discussing the common strongholds of fear and shame, and how faith can serve as a beacon of hope. We provide a unique invitation to experience the peace and love of Jesus, underscoring the importance of forging a personal relationship with God. Through this heartfelt exploration, you'll find a fresh perspective on faith, forgiveness, and the journey to inner peace. Tune in for an engaging, inspiring, and deeply moving conversation.

Book offer - Prayer changes everything — especially when you’re seeking God for answers to anxiety, depression, relationships, finances, health, or life decisions. 100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares shares real stories of answered prayer, biblical wisdom for hearing God’s voice, and practical faith tools rooted in Scripture to help you walk in freedom and bold trust in God.  "100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares"  Click to order your copy today and begin praying with confidence!

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The Grief Recovery Method is the only evidence-based program in the world.

Lenora interviews Cole James, CEO of the Grief Recovery Method.  We all face up to 40 different types of losses throughout life but few of us are equipped with healthy ways to navigate these changes.

As the podcast host, Lenora gained enormous benefit from the Grief Recovery Handbook, now in 20 languages, and believes anyone will benefit from the practical tools available.

Visit The Grief Recovery Method website for videos, free e-book and much much more.

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Book offer - Prayer changes everything — especially when you’re seeking God for answers to anxiety, depression, relationships, finances, health, or life decisions. 100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares shares real stories of answered prayer, biblical wisdom for hearing God’s voice, and practical faith tools rooted in Scripture to help you walk in freedom and bold trust in God.  "100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares"  Click to order your copy today and begin praying with confidence!

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Friendships - What was Normal Becomes A Habit

Humans are great at reproducing what is normal for them.  Lenora and Kathy talk about their experiences with friendships since we're all hungry for relationships.

• Loneliness
• Show yourself friendly
• Self talk and defensiveness
• Purposeful investments
• Volunteering
• Kindness
• Assume best intent
• Express affection and appreciation
• Emotional bank accounts
• Love is not easily offended....is your tank empty?
• Encouraging others encourages you
• Words build or tear down
• Build a new normal
• Forgiveness
• Don't repeat the matter or gossip. It separates friends.
• Plant seeds for relationships and regard seasons of life
• Best Friends, can there be more than one?

Book recommendation:  

• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, by John Gottman PHD
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Note: This episode was recorded under the former podcast name.
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Book offer - Prayer changes everything — especially when you’re seeking God for answers to anxiety, depression, relationships, finances, health, or life decisions. 100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares shares real stories of answered prayer, biblical wisdom for hearing God’s voice, and practical faith tools rooted in Scripture to help you walk in freedom and bold trust in God.  "100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares"  Click to order your copy today and begin praying with confidence!

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What does "bless you" mean?  Is it more than for sneezing?

What was said about you as a child?  Blessing someone is "to cause to prosper".

This is a few minutes to help lift your day.
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Book offer - Prayer changes everything — especially when you’re seeking God for answers to anxiety, depression, relationships, finances, health, or life decisions. 100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares shares real stories of answered prayer, biblical wisdom for hearing God’s voice, and practical faith tools rooted in Scripture to help you walk in freedom and bold trust in God.  "100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares"  Click to order your copy today and begin praying with confidence!

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Are there secrets to building human connection?  Deborah King, founder of Final Touch and Finaltouchschool.com tells her personal story of discovering success and helping people connect through people and communication skills that many struggle to gain.

We may be well trained technically but how do we want to be remembered?

Deborah and Lenora, podcast host, talk through the foundational pieces of what can make an enormous difference throughout life when it comes to interacting with people.

Things like:

• What's the secret?
• It's not about the rules, it's about relationship
• How to connect across the table
• Honoring other cultures
• Focusing on trust and respect brings connection 
• All people have worth and value
• The art of acknowledgement, "I see you"

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Book offer - Prayer changes everything — especially when you’re seeking God for answers to anxiety, depression, relationships, finances, health, or life decisions. 100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares shares real stories of answered prayer, biblical wisdom for hearing God’s voice, and practical faith tools rooted in Scripture to help you walk in freedom and bold trust in God.  "100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares"  Click to order your copy today and begin praying with confidence!

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Everybody’s got an opinion. Share it with caution.  Real communication takes real effort.

What is an Opinion?   o·pin·ion /əˈpinyən/  noun

a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. way of thinking, point of view , viewpoint, outlook, angle, slant, attitude, stance, perspective, reflections, idea, assumption, conviction, in my view, if you ask me, the beliefs or views of a large number or majority of people about a particular thing.

Forming opinions are part of how we learn but are risky.  Sharing opinions helps gain perspective but opinions could become judgments where we stop listening, stop asking questions and bring division.

Work vs social media response patterns

• The Risks and Benefits of Opinions
• Written versus spoken communication and the amplified ways to misunderstand.
• Be careful how you hear. Emotions, mindset, assumptions and their impact on hearing others.
• Often we don’t listen, we interpret
• Opinion vs belief
• What if an opinion moves to a judgement?

Bald like a lion?   Funny stories of what was said versus what was heard.

Couple communication:  Listening versus interpreting.  Slowing down to speed up.

Seeking common ground and communicating good will.

The benefits of debates

Discussion matters, debate matters, listening matters, telling the truth, getting to the “truth” matters….. in my opinion.

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Book offer - Prayer changes everything — especially when you’re seeking God for answers to anxiety, depression, relationships, finances, health, or life decisions. 100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares shares real stories of answered prayer, biblical wisdom for hearing God’s voice, and practical faith tools rooted in Scripture to help you walk in freedom and bold trust in God.  "100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares"  Click to order your copy today and begin praying with confidence!

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Mentoring happens on accident and on purpose and being a mentor can be as rewarding as for someone who is being mentored. 

In this episode, my associate producer and I talk about the many ways you can be mentored on purpose and even by accident. 

When I was younger, I thought that people grow up and whatever happens kind of happens. I really didn’t think you had a choice in your future. If you were born poor, you’d always be poor. If you were born into a rich family, you’d always be rich.  Cause that's your lot in life; your normal. And I didn't realize how much you could change what your normal is by changing your focus or input. 

As an adult, I had a mentor who changed how I thought. He really focused on asking what's your vision for your life? Your vision is your future. Having this mentor, in this case my pastor, really gave me new ways to think about what you put in your eyes goes into your brain and into your subconscious, which becomes your expectations, and changes your future. 

• We walk like our mentors, we talk like our mentors.  
• Pick mentors based on the fruit of their life.
• Mentoring remotely or in person, over time.
• Examples of volunteer organizations and mentoring structure.
• Don't be afraid to ask for virtual coffee, once or multiple times to learn from others.

Discover how to change your future by making some of the same decisions successful people make and focusing on what you can take responsibility for.

Benefit from the habits of others.  Step by step, new input will bring new output.

Don't rely on an accidental harvest.  Choose what we plant to gain what we want to harvest.

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Book offer - Prayer changes everything — especially when you’re seeking God for answers to anxiety, depression, relationships, finances, health, or life decisions. 100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares shares real stories of answered prayer, biblical wisdom for hearing God’s voice, and practical faith tools rooted in Scripture to help you walk in freedom and bold trust in God.  "100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares"  Click to order your copy today and begin praying with confidence!

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This week's guest has a dream of making the dreams of others come true.
President and CEO of ARS Roofing, Gutters & Solar, Letitia Hanke is also the founder of The LIME Foundation in Santa Rosa, California.

Letitia shares how she said "Yes" to opportunity and became the CEO of her own business in her early twenties when her hard work made her stand out and her boss asked her to take over his business when he retired.

She knows how opportunity changes lives and even saves lives.  Her own escape from terrible bullying brought her a love for music.  The kindness of a teacher and her unexpected opportunity to own a business helped lead her to also start a foundation that seeks to harness each individual's potential by providing vital skills in music and the performing arts, construction, technology and health.

Letitia and Lenora both have experience supporting Opportunity programs and their passion is heard in discussing the life changing work.

In 2020, Letitia was a guest and recipient of a generous donation on "Returning the Favor" with Mike Rowe.  Since then, people have reached out to her from across the country to learn how they can create a program for youth as well.  She was also a guest on the Kelly Clarkson show.

Her website is TheLIMEFoundation.org and full of information and videos about their work.
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Note: This episode was recorded under the former podcast name.
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Book offer - Prayer changes everything — especially when you’re seeking God for answers to anxiety, depression, relationships, finances, health, or life decisions. 100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares shares real stories of answered prayer, biblical wisdom for hearing God’s voice, and practical faith tools rooted in Scripture to help you walk in freedom and bold trust in God.  "100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares"  Click to order your copy today and begin praying with confidence!

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With so much going on in society, this episode is a perspective on forgiveness.

We take a look at possibilities beyond an actual negative event to ponder what can happen once we're offended.  We end up discussing much more than we originally intended.

Regardless of who did it or what was done:

• Can an offense change thinking, expectations and then the future?
• How to keep control of one's own pathway
• Does forgiveness equal trust?
• Who gains freedom when an offense is released?
• Right or wrong, is division the goal?
• Examples of nearly unbelievable forgiveness choices

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Note: This episode was recorded under the former podcast name.
It's been a journey... Subscribe to  "Getting Personal with God"  on your favorite podcast app to receive fun and shorter new episodes. We love to stay connected with you!

Book offer - Prayer changes everything — especially when you’re seeking God for answers to anxiety, depression, relationships, finances, health, or life decisions. 100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares shares real stories of answered prayer, biblical wisdom for hearing God’s voice, and practical faith tools rooted in Scripture to help you walk in freedom and bold trust in God.  "100 Prayers Releasing 100 Cares"  Click to order your copy today and begin praying with confidence!

 Prayer requests, questions, speaking engagements and guest inquiries:
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