Fierce Calling

Do you or someone you know struggle with food guilt, weight obsession, and yo-yo dieting? 

In today's episode, my friend Johnna Myers shares her story of an unhealthy relationship with food and exercise and how she got free. Now she shares this message of freedom with everyone she meets and we are blessed to be among them. 

Johnna is an energetic, full-of-life communicator who loves to share the transforming rescue of Jesus. In addition to being a police wife and stay-at-home-mom to two teenage girls, she leads women and children at Harvest Church, meets friends for dark coffee and deep conversation, and is really good at making life awkward.  She is a faith speaker, Bible teacher, and life preacher who loves helping women know truth, find hope, and live in freedom. Her trademark laugh is big, and her hugs are even bigger!

Connect with Johnna at johnnamyers.com, Facebook & Instagram

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Relationships can be messy, amen?

In today's episode, hear from Licensed Professional Counselor and Mental Health Service Provider, Judy Herman. Judy's story includes a devastating divorce, a dark season in her second marriage due to her husband's Bi-Polar Disorder, and a heartbreaking experience at age 16. Through it all, God led her on a path to freedom, wholeness, and the rediscovery of her authentic self. Through all her experiences and training, she is helping others find their way back to their authentic selves.  

Judy is offering Fierce Calling listeners a special bonus! Buy a copy of her book at your favorite retailer, then go to this special link to claim an additional copy for free, signed personally by Judy. Buy one get one free! One to keep and one to give to someone who needs to hear Judy's message of hope, healing, and restoration. Grab your copy of Beyond Messy Relationships: Divine Invitations to Your Authentic Self on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart.com, or wherever books are sold. 

Connect with Judy at judycounselor.com, Facebook. and Instagram. 

Judy K. Herman, LPC-MHSP is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Mental Health Service Provider and a National Certified Counselor in Chattanooga, TN. She is the author of Beyond Messy Relationships: Divine Invitations to Your Authentic Self, and speaks at conferences and retreats. Judy graduated from Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee, then earned two Master's degrees, one from Richmont University in Chattanooga, TN and the other from Liberty University. Specializing in relationships, she helps her clients move beyond conflict in their crucial relationships so they can live a life of vibrant authenticity. She and her husband Joe met through ballroom dancing and enjoy spending time with grandchildren.  They currently reside in the Greater Chattanooga area.  

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Today I welcome my friend Donna Jensen. Donna is the Executive Director of Grace House Pregnancy Center. She shares her story of the difficult decision she made years ago to have an abortion and how God is now using her to minister to women who also made that choice. After her abortion, her life began to spiral downward, but we serve a God who heals and forgives and brings hope and restoration.

Grace House offers hope and life-affirming options for those facing a crisis pregnancy.  Hear about the healing, support, and restoration going on at Grace House and how this ministry got its name. It may seem obvious, but it’s not what you think. 

Donna is passionate about sharing the value & source of life as well as sharing God’s plan of salvation & biblical truth with others. She and husband, Rod, have been married since 1982 & have 2 grown sons, and 2 teenage granddaughters. She seeks daily to submit to God’s authority, wisdom, and to carry out His heart’s desires for Grace House.

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What is it like to rescue children from going into the system? 

Listen in as I have a chat with Frances Chaisson. We're talking about her ministry work at the Rescue Station, health & wellness, and her beautiful adoption story. Frances is passionate about sharing the love of Jesus and bringing hope and encouragement to a world that desperately needs it. 

Frances was born and raised in Puerto Rico but has called Florida her home for over 20 years. Frances and her husband Jeff recently became parents of their adopted 16-year-old daughter Renee. Together, Frances and Jeff lead Salty Family Services, a ministry dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect in their community. 

When she is not pouring into ministry work, you can find her hanging out with her family, breaking a sweat at the gym, cooking or working on her writing. Frances is a member of Hope*Writers and her desire is that God will use her new blog to encourage others to pursue God and answer His call to GO courageously where He leads them. As a certified wellness coach, she enjoys helping others develop a healthy and active lifestyle. She loves dark chocolate, Starbucks cold brew coffee, and early mornings.

Connect with her and follow her blog at franceschaisson.com and https://www.instagram.com/franceschaisson/ and via email: [email protected]

I'd love to connect with you as well. Hop on over to my blog at dorisswift.com. I have free gifts for you there. Grab my free list of Fear Fighting Scripture verses! I also want to give you my free ebook, Step Out of Your Doubt and Into Your Calling.

Need a speaker for your next women's event? Check out my speaking page at dorisswift.com/speaking

Have you ever experienced a spiritual wilderness? 

In this episode, I'm talking with Corella Roberts. Her Fierce Calling thus far includes a difficult season in bush Alaska and adventures in Thailand. Hear what she learned during her spiritual wilderness, what her family is currently praying and waiting for, and how God is using her in a land that is less than 1% Christian. Plus she's writing a book and we get to hear the details. Listen in!

To connect with Corella visit corellaroberts.com on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/corella.roberts/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/corellaroberts/

Born and raised in northern Idaho, Corella's love for books and writing developed at an early age. After high school, she ventured off to St. Paul, MN where she earned a degree from the University of Northwestern and first heard the call to be a missionary teacher. She married her high school sweetheart, Troy Roberts, and they moved to teach in a village of about fifty people in bush Alaska. After seven years, during which time they almost gave up on missions entirely, God saw fit to rekindle their desire to teach in unreached parts of the world. That's when they moved to Chiang Rai, Thailand. 

They have two spunky children who love sloths and hamsters, they eat cheap Thai food to their hearts' content, and they support the amazing community of missionaries there through teaching and organizing community events. 

Recently, God has invited Corella to return to her passion for writing, and she is working on a book about the literal and spiritual wilderness she experienced in Alaska, and the surprise of finding God’s fingerprints all over that part of her story.

Connect with Doris at dorisswift.com

What would life be like if you could hear God's whispers of love to you? He longs to have those conversations with you. As you connect with God, you find out more about your own heart.  You can discover new ways to pray and listen that allow two-way conversations with Him.

In this episode, I'm talking with Nancy Booth. Nancy is an author and Certified Spiritual Director who walks alongside you as you seek to hear more of what God has for your daily living and purposes.

She is wife to Jim and Grandma to her four precious grandchildren. They show her how to be fully present and experience joy in the moment.

She would love to connect with you over zoom, discovering what your hopes and dreams are for hearing more of God.  She can help you explore different ways to pray, like breathe prayer, imaginative prayer, and scriptural prayer.

You can have more of God in your life living free, peaceful and calm.  Connect with Nancy at www.mysacredmoments.com or [email protected] for spiritual direction and a weekly encouraging blog. 

Website: www.mysacredmoments.com

Facebook: My Sacred Moments https://www.facebook.com/NancyBBooth/

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In this episode, I’m talking with author, speaker, and coach Danielle Bernock.

Danielle didn’t always believe God loved her. Losses, traumas, and lies sent her running from God.

So what happens when a girl is taught that what the Bible means about dying to self is that our true self is not worthy of God's love?

Instead of it being told dying to self meant taking up our cross and following Christ in our born again new self, a lie was planted and she believed that her self was worthless and not worthy of God’s love.

Danielle had to overcome lies of Christian legalism and through God’s love, she found freedom.

Danielle wants you to know you matter. You matter to God and you matter to her. Listen in while I have a chat with Danielle Bernock.

Danielle Bernock is an author, speaker, and coach who helps people embrace their value, heal their soul through the power of love, and take ownership of their life, to become wholehearted thrivers, who are living a good and satisfying life, making a difference in the world. Connect with her and find her books at daniellebernock.com.

Other ways to connect with Danielle: Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn

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Sometimes just a shift in perspective can make all the difference. Join me as Abby McDonald shares her passion for women finding their identity in Christ instead of the noise of the world. We'll talk about hard times, good times, and how God is in it all. 

Abby McDonald is the author of Shift: Changing Our Focus to See the Presence of God. She is also a blogger, speaker, wife, and mom whose work has been featured on Proverbs 31 Ministries, (in)Courage, For Every Mom, Crosswalk, and more. When you pre-order her book you can grab some awesome free gifts! Go to shiftbook.org

Her passion is to empower women to grow in faith and hope, even when life is messy. She earned a BA in English from the University of South Carolina and teaches writing workshops both online and at conferences each year. Abby lives with her husband and three children in western Maryland. You can connect with her at www.abbymcdonald.org, on Instagram @abbymcd7, and Facebook.

Kathy Burrus never intended to be an author. That changed the day after her daughter Leisha died.

In the back of Leisha’s journal, Kathy found Chapter One of a book her daughter had begun. Leisha started by telling the love story of her parents and ended the chapter with "…and then I was born, Leisha D. Burrus". At that moment, Kathy knew she was meant to finish the book.

Her first book, Lovely Traces of Hope,  tells their story: Kathy's, Leisha's, their family's. But it is really the story of how God showed up with hope and was Kathy's guide through the tunnel of grief to find life again.

Her second book, EnVision YOU: UnStuck and Confident (which just came out in Sept of 2019), is for the woman who wants to make her difference but feels stuck.  It might be grief, but Kathy talks about a myriad of other ways we might be stuck.  How would you feel to be free of the stuck places and making your remarkable difference?

Kathy is a lover of stories, and more importantly, of the people who live those stories. She chose to become a certified professional life coach to take this a step further and help women hear, through their own stories, who they are and how they are making a difference in their world. She loves to help them intentionally design hope as they engage their life, empower their love in marriage, and even embrace their loss.

Drawing from her experience as a life coach and from years in ministry as a worship leader and as the wife of a pastor, Kathy has found her author’s voice. In her writing, she shares a message of hope and healing to women that is authentically transparent.

Kathy and her husband Rennie, have been married for over 40 years and make their home surrounded by the cornfields of Columbus Grove, Ohio.

Connect with her at https://www.kathyburrus.com/

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