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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11.12.2019 This American Life’s Bim Adewunmi on the Magic of Stories Big and Small Our next episode of For the Love of Podcasts takes us to the gates of one of the most beloved audio shows of all time, NPR’s This American Life. And here to take us by the hand and lead us ...
11.05.2019 Hardcore History’s Dan Carlin Breaks Down History for Our Ears Today we’re cracking open the history textbooks and learning from OG podcaster—we’re talking, 2005 OG—Dan Carlin! Dan’s had a long career in broadcasting and his podcast, Hardcore History, combines gripping moments in history with Twilight Zone-style twists only a master ...
10.29.2019 Retelling Our Past & Future: Podcasters Propaganda, Dr. Alma & BT Harman This 4th episode in our For the Love of Podcasts series speaks to the powerful way podcasts can affect change. In fact, we’ve seen podcasts start important conversations and transport us to moments in history we’d have never encountered otherwise. ...
10.22.2019 “How To! with Charles Duhigg Podcast” Gets Answers to Life’s Burning Questions We’re learning truckloads and having a ridiculous amount of fun in our For the Love of Podcasts series—lifehacks abound in these episodes, and especially in the show of our next guest: How To! with Charles Duhigg. Charles is a Pulitzer-winning ...
10.15.2019 Manage Your Money Like a Boss: The Rachel Cruze Show One of THE best things about podcasts is how we can instantly connect with wise teachers who change our lives for the better. And that’s 100% true for today’s guest, personal finance expert Rachel Cruze! For some of us, throwing ...
10.08.2019 Behind the Scenes with Podcast Queens: The Secret Lives of Black Women Calling all podcast nerds: today we’re launching a brand-new series celebrating the shows and hosts we love—that’s right, it’s time to kick off For the Love of Podcasts! And today we’re thrilled to bring you two fresh voices who started ...
10.01.2019 Unlocking Our Kids’ Potential: Teachers of the Year Mandy Manning & Sydney Chaffee We’re wrapping up the Back to School series as we celebrate the heart of our nation’s classrooms: our teachers. There are so many inspiring teachers that we couldn’t narrow down our conversation to just one guest. We had to talk ...
09.24.2019 Tales From Elementary School - 5th Grader Ryan Hickman Gets A Jump On His Dreams We’re still in full swing with our back to school series, and we’ve saved the best of our academic years for last - Elementary School. If you’ve ever been tempted to lose faith in this upcoming crop of youngsters, we’re ...
09.17.2019 Remy Hatmaker & BFF Ella on Middle School: Juggling Friends, Homework, & Smartphones We’re winding back the clock and revisiting one of the most pivotal times in our lives: middle school. And guiding us through the junior high hallways of 2019 are Jen’s daughter Remy and her very best friend Ella! These girls ...
09.10.2019 Ben & Caleb Hatmaker Show Us Around High School & Gen Z’s World Hit up your locker and meet us in homeroom because today we’re going back to high school with Jen’s very own two high schoolers, Caleb and Ben Hatmaker. High school is a formative experience for all, and Ben and Caleb’s ...
09.03.2019 How’s College Life in 2019? Gavin & Sydney Hatmaker Pull Back the Curtain Pull out your notebooks and sharpen your pencils, because today we’re starting a brand-new series called For the Love of Back to School! Ahh, school. Some things never change (football games! clubs! writing your entire term paper the night before ...
08.27.2019 Deconstructing Fake News with MediaWise’s Heaven Taylor-Wynn Remember when newspapers and 3 TV channels were the only ways you consumed the news? That world will never be a reality for our kids—and it’s up to us to teach them to think critically about where they’re getting information ...
08.20.2019 “The Truth Is Worth It.” – NY Times’ Elizabeth Dias When we sat down to plan For the Love of Finding the Truth, one of the first names that came to mind was Elizabeth Dias of The New York Times. And for good reason—Elizabeth is one of our best thinkers ...
08.13.2019 Elle.com’s R. Eric Thomas: Truth Is Funnier Than Fiction “It’s funny ‘cause it’s true!” said Tina Fey on 30 Rock. As in all things, Tina is 100% correct. In our 2nd episode of For the Love of Finding the Truth, Elle.com humor writer R. Eric Thomas and Jen explore ...
08.06.2019 Left & Right CAN Be Friends: Searching for Truth with Pantsuit Politics’ Beth & Sarah In the immortal words of Jack Nicholson, can you handle the truth? We think you can, and we’re excited to start a new series that dives into the murky world of truth-telling in our culture today: For the Love of ...
07.30.2019 She Should Run: Erin Loos Cutraro’s Vision for Equal Representation Erin Loos Cutraro has a vision some may describe as bold, but actually, it should be our reality: half of the people running for office should be women (and spoiler alert: women who run win at the same rates as ...
07.23.2019 Chef Dominique Crenn: Leading with Love In and Out of the Kitchen If you’ve seen her on the Netflix series Chef’s Table, you know Chef Dominique Crenn is filled with equal parts talent, love, and creative whimsy. Dominique is the chef-proprietor of Atelier Crenn, the San Francisco restaurant she opened nearly a ...
07.16.2019 Real-Life ‘Call the Midwife’ in Haiti: Tara Livesay and KJ Johnson Our series on Powerhouse Women continues with two strong women who are helping women in Haiti get through the most powerful and vulnerable moments they will ever experience: giving birth. Midwives Tara Livesay and KJ Johnson are best friends who ...
07.09.2019 The Power to Survive, Heal and Succeed: Facebook’s Nona Jones Nona Jones (Yes Nona, not Norah!) faced a lot of obstacles on her path to becoming a powerhouse woman and now heads up global faith-based partnerships at Facebook. Growing up with a single mom amid trauma and abuse, Nona struggled ...
07.02.2019 Even Winners Fail: Sarah Robb O’Hagan By anyone's definition, Sarah Robb O'Hagan is a winning force. She's a brilliant executive, passionate athlete, and bold entrepreneur who’s worked with some of the biggest corporations around: Apple, Virgin Atlantic, Nike, to name a few. And when Sarah was ...
06.25.2019 theSkimm’s Carly Zakin & Danielle Weisberg: Empowerment Through Knowledge We all know knowledge is power. But the power doesn’t just come from what you know—it comes from acting on that knowledge. And for theSkimm’s Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, their mission is to give that power to millennial women ...
06.18.2019 Melinda Gates: The Power of Lifting Up Women We’re starting strong in our new series For the Love of Powerhouse Women, because we’re joined by one of our personal heroes: Melinda Gates. Kind and wise, Melinda leads the world largest philanthropy, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to ...
06.14.2019 Love, Learning and Leadership with Stedman Graham In this bonus episode as we begin a new series, which features Powerhouse Women, we’re thrilled to visit with someone close to one of the most powerful women on the planet! Stedman Graham is a brilliant business consultant whose clients ...
06.11.2019 Celebrating 100 Episodes! For the Love’s Favorite Moments & Memories Break out the champagne and the streamers because today we’re celebrating our 100th episode! To mark this illustrious milestone, Jen is joined by the women behind the podcast: God-sent angel/assistant Amanda Duckett (who had to be heavily bribed to appear ...
06.04.2019 It’s Okay to Be a Late Bloomer: Forbes Magazine’s Rich Karlgaard In our fifth and final installment of For the Love of Health & Wellness, we’re exploring the wide world of career health, a huge part of many of our lives that affects us mind, body, and soul. How we spend ...
05.28.2019 You Are Worthy of Great Sex (and so much more): Dr. Celeste Holbrook Since this episode contains mature themes, we recommend listening where kids can’t hear. We forge ahead in For the Love of Health & Wellness with an important facet of our health we don’t address as openly as we may care ...
05.21.2019 Practicing Kindness for a Healthier Life: Sebastian Terry Let’s get in the driver’s seat of how we’re living, who we’re investing in, and how we’re spending our time as we head into the third episode of For the Love of Health & Wellness. Today we’re looking at the ...
05.14.2019 Healthy Connections for a Healthy Life: Dr. Danielle Ofri With the second episode of our For the Love of Health & Wellness series, we’re taking a deep dive into physical health—but this is not a “go get your annual physical” guilt trip. We’re talking with a doctor who’s taking ...
05.10.2019 Pursuing Health at Every Size with Nutritionist Haley Goodrich We’re thrilled to begin a new series we hope will spur conversations about our body image, health, nutrition and well-being. During For the Love of Health & Wellness, we’re stepping out of the body-shaming space and giving the mic to ...
05.08.2019 Rachel Held Evans Tribute Episode: 2018 Interview “Loving, Leaving & Finding the Church” We lost a beloved friend, teacher, and true faith groundbreaker this week. Her teachings, writings, and insight into the Christian faith have quietly revolutionized the lives for many whose religious upbringing imposed limits and yielded scars. Because of Rachel, more ...
05.03.2019 Bonus Eps: Chrissy Metz from This Is Us and her Breakthrough Moment We always like to mix it up a little bit here in For the Love Podcast world, and we hope you’ll be the happy beneficiaries of this bonus episode! We got the chance to catch up with one of our ...
04.30.2019 Rap Artist Lecrae Navigates Injustice & Trauma with Love & Hip-Hop Coming in to wrap up our For the Love of Faith Groundbreakers series is yet another guest who challenges us to look at our faith differently, a prolific writer, rapper, activist and voice of conscience (and one that’s bound to ...
04.23.2019 Pete Enns Adds Color to Our Black & White View of the Bible The Bible means many things to many people, and its passages have been interpreted seven ways to Sunday; in turn those interpretations have spawned countless church denominations that all vary in their beliefs. For some, the Bible is the ultimate ...
04.16.2019 Sarah Bessey: Life on the Other Side of Being Broken Sarah Bessey is the friend we all need, the one who will welcome you with open arms, tuck you under a blanket she knitted herself, and hand you a cup of tea while you talk about the mysteries of life. ...
04.09.2019 Live Yourself into a New Way of Thinking: Richard Rohr Father Richard Rohr is one of our best teachers, hands down. Whether it’s through his work at the Center for Action and Contemplation (which he founded) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, or the many enlightening books he’s written, Fr. Richard is ...
04.02.2019 Actually Believing God Loves You Changes Everything: Jeff Chu “Does Jesus really love me?” Journalist Jeff Chu has asked himself this question countless times since he was a kid. Jeff grew up immersed in a family of theologians, where knowing and sticking to the Bible’s rules were prized currency. ...
03.26.2019 The Glory of God in Our Pain: Kaitlin Curtice & the Power of Lament When Kaitlin Curtice speaks, people listen. Raised a Southern Baptist, as she grew older Kaitlin began to explore her family’s rich history in the Potawatomi Citizen Band. Kaitlin tells us what life is like as an indigenous woman in the ...
03.19.2019 Can Faith Withstand Doubt? Mike McHargue’s Journey to Atheism and Back When Mike McHargue, AKA Science Mike of The Liturgists Podcast, stopped by to visit with Jen, we knew we were in for some mind-bending stuff. After all, you don’t go from a Southern Baptist deacon to an atheist back to ...
03.12.2019 You Are Wholly Good: Osheta Moore and Embracing “Shalom” We’re thrilled to enter a new series: For the Love of Faith Groundbreakers. In the vein of last year’s “exploring our faith” series, we’re talking with women and men who are taking a fresh, honest look at their faith experiences ...
03.05.2019 Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott on Grace and Good Friends You know that warm, happy glow you get after chatting with your friend all night, favorite beverage in hand and deep conversation shared between you? This conversation is one of those happy moments. Jen had the chance to catch up ...
02.26.2019 Amy Grant: Compassion, Community & the Cycles of Life Say the words “Amy Grant,” and you launch a generation of music lovers into nostalgia. We’ve grown up alongside Amy, haven’t we? Who didn’t sing “Love Will Find a Way” or “Baby, Baby” into their hairbrush? Who didn’t feel a ...
02.19.2019 The Evolution of Martina McBride: From Country Superstar to Food Network Chef We have country music royalty in our midst today, we’re fangirling and we don’t even care—because Martina McBride is our queen! Since she came on the scene in the early 90s, Martina has been a vocal powerhouse ranked among the ...
02.12.2019 Jennifer Knapp on Music, God, and Speaking Her Truth When Jennifer Knapp broke into Christian music in the 90s, we’d never heard anyone quite like her before. A soulful voice with lyrics to match, Jennifer took the CCM scene by storm—until she stepped out of the spotlight just a ...
02.05.2019 Sandi Patty: The Legendary Christian Singer Finds Her Personal Voice You asked, we listened: this is the kick-off episode of our For the Love of Music series! We’ll hear from artists of all stripes and genres, and find out what inspires them to create songs that touch our hearts like ...
01.31.2019 Therapy Is a Gift for Everyone: Onsite’s Miles Adcox One of the bravest, most impactful good changes we can make is to care for our emotional wellness. Each day we carry so many thoughts, memories and dreams that shape the stories we tell about ourselves. When we’re ready to ...
01.24.2019 Stuck? Just Do the Next Right Thing: Emily P. Freeman When you have no idea what to do next, it feels like you’re drowning in a lake of neverending to-do lists, homework, laundry, and dreams on hold. In a word, it’s overwhelming. How do we begin to take charge and ...
01.15.2019 Give Yourself the Gift of Done: Jon Acuff With the new year comes new pressure to CHANGE. OUR. LIVES. This is the year we’re finally going to lose the weight, finish the project, clean out ALL the closets. Time after time, so many of us find life gets ...
01.08.2019 Undoing the Shame of Our Body Image Struggles: Hillary McBride What would our lives be like if we spent less time thinking and talking about the way we look? What If we stopped comparing our bodies and bemoaning our “flaws”? Researchers report 85–95% of women are extremely dissatisfied with their ...
01.01.2019 Small Steps to a Happier Life: Gretchen Rubin Lawyer-turned-writer Gretchen Rubin fancied herself a happy person. She had a job she liked, a husband and two daughters she loved, a life she enjoyed. But one day she found herself wondering, “Could I be happier?” So she set out ...
12.25.2018 Best of For the Love: Emily Ley on Simplified Living Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the For the Love team! This week, we’re previewing our brand-new series for the new year, For the Love of Good Change, and bringing back one of our most downloaded episodes (not to mention ...

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