For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

By Jen Hatmaker

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"For the love" of...People. Home. Stories. Shoes. Family. Jesus. Community. TV. Travel. Food. Culture. The hilarious best-selling author and star of HGTV’s “My Big Family Renovation” invites you to drop by and catch up with her friends as they laugh and chat about all the things we love.

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To be Black in America means living at several different intersections. Writer and thinker Marcie Alvis-Walker joins For the Love Podcast to share the inspiration behind her beautiful, thought-provoking space called Black Coffee with White Friends. Marcie shares about her ...

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10.27.2020 Black in White Spaces: Marcie Alvis-Walker on Racial Intersections To be Black in America means living at several different intersections. Writer and thinker Marcie Alvis-Walker joins For the Love Podcast to share the inspiration behind her beautiful, thought-provoking space called Black Coffee with White Friends. Marcie shares about her ...
10.23.2020 [BONUS] Michael Kutcher on “2 Hearts” Film & the Gift of Organ Donation On this bonus episode of For the Love, we’re talking about a heartwarming new movie (based on a true story!) called “2 Hearts” with organ donor recipient and advocate Michael Kutcher. He’s a walking miracle shares his journey of receiving ...
10.20.2020 Recasting Portrayals of Race, with Brit Bennett Stories come in many forms: in the reports we see in the news, the TV shows and movies that light up our screens, from books to toys and so many other places. New York Times bestselling author Brit Bennett is ...
10.13.2020 Empowering Black Entrepreneurs: Jessica O. Matthews Turns Adversity into Strength What does it mean to build the world in a way where every single person, no matter their color, gender, ability or religion has access to security and opportunity? That’s a question inventor and entrepreneur Jessica O. Matthews has spent ...
10.06.2020 “Education Is Freedom Work”: Dr. Monique Morris on Investing in Black Students Having access to learning is a portal to opportunity, a key to unlocking your dreams and leaving doors open for those who come after you. That’s what education has been for Dr. Monique Morris, an author, scholar, justice educator and ...
10.02.2020 [BOOK CLUB BONUS] Sejal Badani’s “The Storyteller’s Secret” Want a sneak peek into the book club of your dreams? Then allow us to present: the Jen Hatmaker Book Club! From time to time, we’ll drop in with what we’re reading in hopes you’ll join us at jenhatmakerbookclub.com—because we ...
09.29.2020 Centering Mental Health & Self-Care in Black America, with Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes Cultivating a healthy mind is essential for our entire well-being. Psychologist and theologian Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes joins us For the Love of Black Lives series to help us unpack how the anxiety and trauma carried through generations of Black Americans ...
09.22.2020 Celebrating the Rich Legacy of Black Culture, Art & Fashion in America, with Dr. Tanisha C. Ford Black culture is central to American culture—we simply don’t have America without having the Black experience, born of slavery and systemic racism and white supremacy, of physical and mental and emotional pain. But through generations, Black women and men have ...
09.15.2020 The Black Woman’s Fight to Be Well, with Christina M. Rice Though many of our country’s systems of care desperately need an overhaul, there’s one system in particular that could improve greatly to help Black Americans: healthcare. It might be unimaginable that we might get lesser care, for example, if we ...
09.08.2020 Going to Church Shouldn't Hurt: Alicia Crosby on Religious Trauma’s Effect on Black Lives God created a beautiful world, filled with people who share love, creativity, friendship and hope in all kinds of ways. For thousands of years, some have tried to use religion to wield power and authority over people around the globe, ...
09.04.2020 [BOOK CLUB BONUS] Nora McInerny’s “No Happy Endings” Want a sneak peek into the book club of your dreams? Then allow us to present: the Jen Hatmaker Book Club! From time to time, we’ll drop in with what we’re reading in hopes you’ll join us at jenhatmakerbookclub.com—because we ...
09.01.2020 CeCe Jones-Davis: Realigning the Gears of the US Justice System As lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson puts it, slavery never actually ended—it just evolved, and today it looks like mass incarceration. In the past fifty years, we’ve seen the prison population skyrocket from 200,000 in 1970 to 2.2 million in ...
08.25.2020 Ending Black Oppression and Celebrating Black Dignity with Alencia Johnson Today we open a new chapter of For the Love, where we’ll celebrate the beauty, wholeness, and dignity of Black Lives. At the same time, we’ll also explore the roots of the recent growing advocacy and racial reckoning with experts ...
08.18.2020 [Summer Best Of For the Love] Actually Believing God Loves You Changes Everything: Jeff Chu Since journalist (and now podcaster!) Jeff Chu came on the show in spring of 2019, we haven’t forgotten his poignant storytelling or his answer to the powerful question he’s asked himself since he was a kid: “Does Jesus really love ...
08.11.2020 [Summer Best Of For the Love] Small Steps to a Happier Life: Gretchen Rubin When lawyer-turned-writer Gretchen Rubin first came on the show in 2019, we were dazzled by the wisdom and tools she shared on how to live with more contentment, right where we are. A decade ago, Gretchen fancied herself a happy ...
08.04.2020 [Summer Best Of For the Love] The Glory of God in Our Pain: Kaitlin Curtice & the Power of Lament When our third Summer Best Of teacher speaks, people listen—and we couldn’t forget the powerful words she shared on For the Love in 2019. Raised a Southern Baptist, as she grew older Kaitlin Curtice began to explore her family’s rich ...
07.28.2020 [Summer Best of For the Love] You Are Wholly Good: Osheta Moore and Embracing “Shalom” Our second Summer Best Of guest is a teacher who taught us how to embrace peace with others, but also within ourselves. Osheta Moore is a writer, speaker, podcaster, and a faith groundbreaker. She’s also a powerful leader on racial ...
07.21.2020 [Summer Best of For the Love] Barbara Brown Taylor: Learning to Walk in the Dark Ever wish you had a toolkit tailor-made to get you through 2020? Us too. That’s why we pulled together a few of our favorite teachers who have graced the podcast over the years, so we can brush up on the ...
07.14.2020 Enneagram Nines - Sarah Bessey on The Peacemakers To close our spectacular Enneagram series, last but certainly not least (we promise, Nines!), we’re diving into the earnest and endearingly sincere Peacemakers with Jen’s wonderful friend and all-around good human, author Sarah Bessey. Fondly called the crown of the ...
07.07.2020 Enneagram Eights - Sarajane Case & Abi Robins on The Challengers Make way for the Enneagram Eights! On this week’s episode, we get to chat with not one, but two experts about the steely armor and tender insides that make up The Challengers, as they’re sometimes called. Sarajane Case of Enneagram ...
06.30.2020 Enneagram Sevens - Bob Goff on The Enthusiasts Enneagram Sevens! You can’t say it without an exclamation point, right? This week we look at what many consider to be the most “fun” number on the Enneagram—known as The Enthusiasts for good reason! To guide us is a true ...
06.26.2020 [BONUS] Jen and Sydney Hatmaker On Being Gay and Loved On this incredibly meaningful, special bonus episode of For the Love, in honor of Pride Month, a mother and daughter come together to have a frank and beautiful conversation about what it’s like to grow up as the daughter of ...
06.23.2020 Enneagram Sixes - Ashton Brye on The Loyalists On today’s peek behind the Enneagram curtain, we get to learn all about Type Sixes—the Loyalists—and what makes them tick. Graphic designer, Enneagram artist, and Disney cast member Ashton Brye shares how she discovered the Enneagram, applied her own artistic ...
06.16.2020 Enneagram Fives - Dr. Avon Manney & Knox McCoy on The Investigators Today we begin a deep dive into the head triad, starting with Type Fives—the Investigators. And because there’s so much to learn about the complex Fives, we have not one but two guests to share their input: Enneagram expert Dr. ...
06.11.2020 [BONUS] White Women’s Toxic Tears, with Lisa Sharon Harper In light of the uprisings of the past weeks, it is not enough to perform wokeness. We need true solidarity. True solidarity requires an understanding of the historical and cultural roots and current-day patterns of white women’s betrayals of people ...
06.09.2020 Enneagram Fours - Ian Cron on The Individualists Our Enneagram series continues with another type who rounds out the heart triad: the beautifully complex Type Fours (also known as The Romantics). To lead us on all things Type Four, we have an incredible returning guest: a Four himself, ...
06.02.2020 Enneagram Threes - Lisa Whelchel on The Achievers The next stop on the For the Love of The Enneagram train takes us to the land of the Enneagram Threes (also known as The Achievers). Leading us today are two Threes—someone you may know named Jen Hatmaker who’s a ...
05.26.2020 Enneagram Twos - Phileena Heuertz on The Helpers Our next installment of For the Love of The Enneagram brings us to wonderful Enneagram Twos (aka The Helpers!). And leading our discussion is Phileena Heuertz, a spiritual director and Enneagram expert who, as a Two herself, knows how it ...
05.19.2020 Enneagram Ones - The Reformers with Fr. Richard Rohr Last week, we launched our brand-new Enneagram series, and today we begin our deep-dive into each of the nine numbers. We’re starting right at the top with Enneagram Ones—and who’s better to talk about Ones than with For the Love ...
05.12.2020 What is The Enneagram? Suzanne Stabile Gives Us a Primer Good people of the internet and faithful For the Love listeners—you’ve asked, we’ve listened, and we are thrilled to invite you to our brand-new series on one of our favorite topics: The Enneagram personality assessment! Whether you’re a seasoned Ennea-thusiast ...
05.05.2020 Elizabeth Gilbert Moves from Fear to Fierce Who would we be if we weren’t afraid? What would our lives look like if we pushed aside our greatest fears and let curiosity lead the way? Today we’re wrapping the Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire series with one ...
04.30.2020 [BONUS] A “Fierce” Jen Hatmaker Book Club Sneak Peek! Have you ever wanted to be part of an actual book club? One that actually reads the book instead of just providing classy cover for wine drinking? (well, okay, there’s still a little wine drinking) Then seriously, you need to ...
04.28.2020 Camila McConaughey: Empowerment to Do What We’ve Never Done Before Fierce women are all around us—we are them, we raise them, we’ve been mentored by them. But lifestyle expert and entrepreneur Camila McConaughey takes that to a new level by cultivating a loving, open, supportive community called Women of Today. ...
04.27.2020 [BONUS] Quarantine Queens Eps 11: Paula Faris on Realigning Our Priorities Right now, we’re capable of so much more than surviving. We can thrive right now if we dig deep and we put our hand to this work. Award-winning ABC News correspondent Paula Faris, who also hosts the Journeys of Faith ...
04.24.2020 [BONUS] Quarantine Queens Eps 10: Sheri Salata on Falling in Love with Change Think about the day quarantine is over (dare we dream?). What will our lives look like? Who will we be? Is it possible that maybe, ever so gently, we can start taking a small inventory of what’s been serving us, ...
04.21.2020 Jordan Lee Dooley Chases the Dream and Owns It Our next “Fierce” guest is coming in hot! The dynamite leader of the Own It Academy, Jordan Lee Dooley, takes the mic to push us to ponder what our true dreams really are and how we can start to own ...
04.20.2020 [BONUS] Quarantine Queens Eps 9: Blame Scars, Forgiveness Heals: Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt We’re all struggling with resentment right now—separation from family and friends, lost jobs and furloughs, cancelled graduations and vacations, and even struggling to come up with grace for the people living right inside our very houses. But our guest today, ...
04.16.2020 [BONUS] Quarantine Queens Eps 8: When This is Over, We Deserve A Parade: Jim Gaffigan’s Lockdown Life Quarantine Queens is back with another episode as we continue to muddle through this weird time of isolation and the ongoing search for the elusive “new normal,” including; when is it okay to take a break from the seriousness of ...
04.14.2020 Fierce, Free, & Full of Questions: Melissa Radke Gets Jen to Tell It All The For the Love world is totally upside-down today, y’all. Jen is a guest on her own podcast, and gets interviewed about her new book, Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire, by the ever-so-magical Melissa Radke! Jen reveals the first ...
04.13.2020 [BONUS] Quarantine Queens Eps 7: Kate Bowler – You Can Be Afraid & Faithful What do you do when you believe God is good, that He has a plans to give us hope and a future, and yet the reality of what we’re living is . . . well, it’s hard. And sad. So ...
04.10.2020 [BONUS] Quarantine Queens Eps 6: Jessica & Matthew Paul Turner Give Us Pandemic Parenting Hacks Parents, we’re trying our best here. Who’d have ever thought we’d find ourselves in the middle of a pandemic, trying to help our offspring navigate a world we don’t really know how to wade through ourselves? Two of our fellow ...
04.08.2020 Queer Eye's Bobby Berk and the Fire Inside Us All Our next guest in our Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire series is—get ready—Queer Eye’s delightful design guru Bobby Berk. Bobby walks us through the backstory we’ve all gotten glimpses of on TV: how he left home at 15, after ...
04.06.2020 [BONUS] Quarantine Queens Eps 5: Anne Bogel Helps Us Escape with Books (for Adults & Kids!) More than ever, now’s the time we can dust off the books we’ve been meaning to read for forever and conquer our literary dreams. But what if your dreams of tackling War & Peace are too much right now and ...
04.02.2020 [BONUS] Quarantine Queens Eps 4: Your Pantry During a Pandemic with Nom Nom Paleo’s Michelle Tam Now that so many of us are figuring out what it looks like to be home all the time, we also find ourselves cooking, cooking, cooking. Whether you’ve got a family of seven like Jen, or are cooking for one, ...
03.31.2020 Glennon Doyle on What’s True and Beautiful, and the Lies We’ve Been Told We’re THRILLED to launch our new “Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire” series, and our first guest lives all three of those traits in such an inspiring way. Glennon Doyle is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love ...
03.30.2020 [BONUS] Quarantine Queens Eps 3: Dr. John Townsend on Structure, Connection, & Boundaries in a Pandemic On the best days, people are, well, a lot. They have feelings, they have opinions, they have needs—and as “responsible adults,” we have so many people relying on us at one time that sometimes it can feel like we cannot ...
03.27.2020 [BONUS] Quarantine Queens Eps 2: Dr. Hillary McBride’s 7 Steps to Grasp Big Feelings During Hard Times You’re stuck at home with nowhere to go, with people you loved before you learned you were married to the guy who says, “Let’s take this convo offline,” or discovered your human limit for watching Frozen 2 on repeat is ...
03.24.2020 Jo Saxton Unpacks Women’s Stories to Make the World a Better Place We’re wrapping our Live Podcast series on a high note with leadership trainer, international speaker, and author Jo Saxton. Jo graced us with her guidance in an early podcast series (one of our favorites) called “ For the Love of ...
03.23.2020 [BONUS] Quarantine Queens (and Kings!) Eps 1: Pete The Planner and Finance Fears The For the Love Podcast is bringing you a series of special episodes as we all face the Coronavirus Pandemic and all the ways it’s impacting our lives. We’ll bring you inspiration, education, practical tips, humor & hope as we ...
03.17.2020 Failing, Learning, Beginning Again: For the Love Live With Shauna Niequist We’re on the road again with the For the Love Live Podcast Tour! And this stop reunites us with old friend and New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist. Shauna fills us in on her family’s big move from the ...

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