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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Hamilton’s Christopher Jack...

09.21.2021

Pull your tickets out and silence your cell phones as we dive into another episode in our For the Love of Broadway series! As live theater comes back into all of our lives, we’re going straight to the heart and ...

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast episodes:

09.21.2021 Hamilton’s Christopher Jackson on Knowing Who You Are—On and Off Broadway Pull your tickets out and silence your cell phones as we dive into another episode in our For the Love of Broadway series! As live theater comes back into all of our lives, we’re going straight to the heart and ...
09.17.2021 [BOOK CLUB BONUS] Elizabeth Acevedo’s “Clap When You Land” Calling all book nerds! Are you looking for a place where your book-loving heart can flourish? Join us at jenhatmakerbookclub.com, and become one of our sisters in nerdiness. For August 2021, Jen and the club read Elizabeth Acevedo’s Clap When ...
09.14.2021 The Double Name Witches, ft. Wicked’s Mary Kate Morrissey and Ginna Claire Mason This week we are rolling back the curtains and kicking off a brand new series, For the Love of Broadway...so dim the lights and get ready for the absolute blast we are going to have here! To kick off this ...
09.10.2021 Antoni Porowski [BONUS] “Antoni: Let’s Do Dinner” Cookbook Chat Happy unscheduled podcast goodness day to you all—we’ve got a super fun bonus episode for you! This week we are welcoming the one and only Antoni Porowski to the show. You know and love him from the delightfully heartwarming Netflix ...
09.07.2021 Moving Forward After Pain Rips Your Script: Maggie Smith It’s so hard but so true: growth often comes from the most painful parts of life. An untreatable diagnosis, a painful divorce, the loss of savings that took a lifetime to build—when the script we write for ourselves is ripped ...
08.31.2021 Fighting Fear of Failure and Taking the Leap with Jamie Kern Lima Taking a leap in the face of uncertainty is scary. It’s hard to envision a life in which you are living your dream, especially if your current reality is not living up to your expectations. But, what if it all ...
08.27.2021 [BOOK CLUB BONUS] Gabrielle Hamilton’s “Blood, Bones & Butter” Calling all book nerds! Are you looking for a place where your book-loving heart can flourish? Join us at jenhatmakerbookclub.com, and become one of our sisters in nerdiness. For July 2021, Jen and the club read Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones ...
08.24.2021 Renovating Lives and Homes with HGTV’s Mina Hawk Fresh starts, new beginnings, and renovations. As we continue to dive into all the ways we can “flip the script” in our lives, we’re taking on one that is pretty literal—refreshing and renovating homes. Whether it’s something small like shuffling ...
08.17.2021 Everything’s A Gift: Steering Our Lives Through Light & Through Darkness with Amy Grant Continuing on in our Flip the Script series, we look at not only the things that happen “to us,” but the things that happen “by us.” Our guest this week epitomizes a life that includes those things we weren’t expecting ...
08.10.2021 Real Change Can Begin with a Conversation ft. Malynda Hale When it comes to learning to dream again after a big change, it can be hard to think outside the bounds of where we have always lived. It’s hard to imagine a world that looks different from the one we ...
08.03.2021 I Survived My World Turning Upside Down and You Can Too: Jen Flips The Script Kicking off our Flipping the Script series is none other than our venerable host, Jen herself. In this solo episode, Jen transparently talks about the changes in her life in the last year--the days she thought she wouldn’t survive, and ...
07.27.2021 Following Your Heart for Meaningful Change with Jennifer Garner We’re back with more of the For the Love of Transitions series which is showing us the many ways we can move through life after a huge shift has occurred—whether it was chosen or thrust upon us. We have learned ...
07.23.2021 [BOOK CLUB BONUS] Emma Straub’s “All Adults Here” Calling all book nerds! Are you looking for a place where your book-loving heart can flourish? Join us at jenhatmakerbookclub.com, and become one of our sisters in nerdiness. For June 2021, Jen and the club read Emma Straub's All Adults ...
07.20.2021 Owning and Knowing Your Finances with the “Budgetnista” - Tiffany Aliche As we continue in our For the Love of Transitions series, we’re tackling one of the most stressful transitions to face in life--a change to our financial situation. Perhaps a job change/loss reduced your income unexpectedly, or maybe a medical ...
07.13.2021 Understanding a Transgender Person with Stephanie Byers When it comes to making a big transition in life, we are often held back by fear. Fear of judgment, fear of backlash, fear of losing those close to us. But, oftentimes, it takes a big transition to lead us ...
07.06.2021 Learning to Love The Image in the Mirror with Jess Connolly In our For the Love of Transitions series, we’ve been looking at and evaluating the chosen and unchosen changes so many of us experience in the various seasons of our lives. In the category of chosen changes, we have found ...
06.29.2021 Everything Great is Birthed from Discomfort with Emmanuel Acho When it comes to changing unhealthy dialogues and digging up errant roots that have been allowed to grow deep—many of us tend to ignore the discomfort and carry on with our days. However, when we live in denial, inequity and ...
06.22.2021 Releasing The Fantasy of “The Good Girl” with Dr. Shefali Tsabary We continue with the “For the Love of Transitions” series and it’s giving us so many new perspectives on pushing back against what we’ve always known and finding new ways to grow and evolve into the person we have always ...
06.15.2021 The Shifting Role of Religion vs. Faith with Diana Butler Bass Continuing in our “For the Love of Transitions” series, we look at crossroads many of us are facing in regards to our view of faith and religion. More than ever before, people in our country are choosing not to identify ...
06.11.2021 [BOOK CLUB BONUS] Sue Monk Kidd’s “The Book of Longings” Calling all book nerds! Are you looking for a place where your book-loving heart can flourish? Join us at jenhatmakerbookclub.com, and become one of our sisters in nerdiness. For May 2021, Jen and the club read Sue Monk Kidd’s The ...
06.08.2021 Rebuilding Your Life Out of the Rubble with Amy Downs This week we are kicking off a brand new series here on the For the Love Podcast. There are so many times in each of our lives where a curveball just knocks us on our backs. The unexpected transition from ...
06.01.2021 Spring Back Series: Living Proudly with Sydney Hatmaker It’s the last episode of our Spring Back series--and we’re wrapping it up with a conversation that was the most listened to (and commented on) episode in our entire For the Love podcast history--and it’s with none other than Jen’s ...
05.25.2021 Spring Back Series: Finding Your Truth with Abby Wambach & Glennon Doyle Are you ready to find your truth? We are currently in the tail-end of our spring back series where we are re-visiting some of our favorite episodes from For The Love past, and Jen’s bringing some all new insight and ...
05.18.2021 Spring Back Series: Loving Fiercely with Marcie Walker There are so many lessons in life that are evergreen; they stay with us through each season, and that’s why we’re revisiting some episodes that bring those truths home in ways that are so applicable to where we are in ...
05.11.2021 Spring Back Series: Embracing Authenticity with Luvvie Ajayi Jones Each day as we inch closer to summer, we are reminded of all the possibilities that surround us daily. The leaves on the trees are becoming greener by the minute, the grass is finally dense and fluffy, flowers are pushing ...
05.07.2021 [BOOK CLUB BONUS] Jen & Friends on Simple and Free Calling all book nerds! Are you looking for a place where your book-loving heart can flourish? Join us at jenhatmakerbookclub.com, and become one of our sisters in nerdiness. For April 2021, Jen chose her own book, Simple and Free, because ...
05.04.2021 Spring Back Series: Growing Boldly & Simply with Emily Ley Just as we rely on spring each year to bring light and warmth back into our lives, we also depend on the lessons of life that show up during each season. That’s why on this series of For the Love ...
04.27.2021 Spring Back Series #1: Courageously Changing with Beth Moore Spring is here, and you know what that means! Blossoming, regrowth, cleaning out, all the goodness that comes with a new season. But that doesn’t mean we should leave behind the lessons learned last season. We can be watering what ...
04.23.2021 [BOOK CLUB BONUS] Laura Zigman’s “Separation Anxiety” Calling all book nerds! Are you looking for a place where your book-loving heart can flourish? Join us at jenhatmakerbookclub.com, and become one of our sisters in nerdiness. For March 2021, Jen and the club read Laura Zigman’s Separation Anxiety. ...
04.20.2021 Joanna Gaines on Gardening, Ramen, and Bringing Family to the Table It’s the grand finale of our For the Love of Food series—and lucky for us, we’ve got someone on today who holds the very high honor of “Most Requested For the Love Podcast Guest of All Time”—Joanna Gaines! Jen and ...
04.13.2021 Jeff Mauro on the “Come On Over” Mentality & Proper Sandwich Protocol “Come on over.” Talk about three words that promise fun’s on the way! We’re daydreaming of getting back to game nights with our besties, and margaritas with the neighbors, and the great Jeff Mauro is no exception. You may know ...
04.06.2021 Cookbooks, Country Music, and Creativity with Martina McBride When you’re a kitchen newbie, it can feel a little intimidating—and even overwhelming—to figure out how to put a good meal together, especially if you’re just asking yourself questions like, “What the heck is oregano, anyway?” But we all start ...
03.30.2021 Chaat, Chopped, and Culinary Globe Trotting with Maneet Chauhan We know we aren’t the only ones who spend hours on the couch binging episodes of Chopped or Iron Chef. Not only is it super satisfying watching other people cook— we feel like we become friends with the contestants and ...
03.23.2021 Community Bonding over Anchovy Pasta with Alex Snodgrass In the past year, many of us have looked at our kitchens and had to flip the Open sign to Closed. We put big holidays dinners on hold. We canceled game nights with our friends. We traded cutting boards for ...
03.19.2021 [BONUS] Jennifer Garner on the Power of Saying Yes Break out the confetti cannons because today’s guest is someone we’ve wanted on the show since Day 1: the one and only Jennifer Garner! Who didn’t love Alias? Who doesn’t watch 13 Going on 30 at least once a year? ...
03.16.2021 Thai Food, Traveling with Knives, and Connections at the Table: Bri McKoy We hope all you foodies out there have been enjoying the Food 2.0 series. But we know some of you saw what this series was about and thought, I can’t cook, I’ve never cooked, I will never cook, and you ...
03.12.2021 [BOOK CLUB BONUS] Jacqueline Woodson’s “Red at the Bone” Calling all book nerds! Are you looking for a place where your book-loving heart can flourish? Join us at jenhatmakerbookclub.com, and become one of our sisters in nerdiness. For February 2021, the Jen Hatmaker Book Club read the novel Red ...
03.09.2021 Great British Bake Off’s Nadiya Hussain on Confidence & Mayo Mashed Potatoes We’ve got a crush on this series and everyone in it—because FOOD! For the Love of Food, Part 2 is cooking up something new this week as we move into BAKING with a member of the royal family of baking ...
03.02.2021 Ree Drummond on Microwaved Ding Dongs and Other Real-Life Cooking It’s a big day on For the Love, friends—we’re celebrating our 200th episode! We’re kicking off a brand-new series about food! And we’re celebrating it all with an FTL Fan Favorite: The Pioneer Woman herself, Ree Drummond! Ree’s back on ...
02.26.2021 [BOOK CLUB BONUS] William Kent Krueger’s “This Tender Land” Calling all book nerds! Are you looking for a place where your book-loving heart can flourish? Join us at jenhatmakerbookclub.com, and become one of our sisters in nerdiness. For January 2021, the Jen Hatmaker Book Club read the novel This ...
02.23.2021 Leaning in to Love Others (Even When We Disagree): Rozella Haydée White Have you ever had a conversation with a friend or loved one where you couldn’t find common ground about something that fundamentally mattered to you? Is it possible for those relationships to continue, even though you don’t see eye to ...
02.16.2021 Ambition is a Girl's Best Friend: Priyanka Chopra Jonas on Reconnecting with Our Dreams Over the past year, we’ve had to put our dreams on hold. We canceled vacations, missed family gatherings, and constantly wondered, How long will my life look like this? But those spaces in our calendars have given us the margin ...
02.09.2021 Communication Drives Connection—and Healing: Dr. Mark Goulston Get ready for a deep-dive into what it means to listen and connect with those around you with our next guest in the Reconnecting series: psychiatrist and executive coach Dr. Mark Goulston. As a former FBI hostage negotiation trainer, Dr. ...
02.02.2021 Exploring the Joys and Pitfalls of Online Connection: Chris Stedman Break out a pen and notebook, because today on For the Love, we’re going back to school with writer and professor Chris Stedman, our next guest in the For the Love of Reconnecting series. A former chaplain at Harvard and ...
01.26.2021 Reconnecting with God Through Our Wandering with Bunmi Laditan With so much discussion around finding different ways to connect in a season where literal physical connections are challenging at best, how do we address when our spiritual connections are faltering? How do we “feel seen” by God when things ...
01.19.2021 Making Good Use of Our Emotions: Hilary Jacobs Hendel It’s so hard to feel your feelings—especially when you have all of them all at once, and it’s never a convenient time to process them. For the past year, we’ve all been stewing with anxiety, stress, anger, loneliness, grief, and ...
01.12.2021 How Boundaries Can Save Your Relationships with Nedra Glover Tawwab Next up in our For the Love of Reconnecting series, we’re touching base with a very important and easy-to-lose-hold-of concept: our boundaries. If 2020 taught us anything, it’s how much setting boundaries impacts our life. So why do we feel ...
01.08.2021 [BOOK CLUB BONUS] Allison Winn Scotch’s “Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing” Sneak peek alert! Are you looking for a place where your book-loving heart can flourish? Look no further, and allow us to welcome you to the Jen Hatmaker Book Club. Want to join us? Visit jenhatmakerbookclub.com, and become one of ...
01.05.2021 Rewriting the Stories We Tell Ourselves: Lori Gottlieb New year, new series! We’re thinking all about For the Love of Reconnecting, where we’ll try to get back in touch with who we are and what we value, so that we can start to inch forward in this brand-new ...
12.29.2020 Living While We Wait: Cece Jones-Davis’ Blessing for 2021 We made it, you guys—we’re finally turning the corner into a brand-new year and into the hope of a fresh start. And while 2021 will no doubt have its set of challenges, we’ve set our minds to living in the ...

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