This episode is with my good friend Amanda Florczykowski. She is an Author and President of Able Moms International.

God is using her in many and mighty ways and I want you to hear how He’s been working in her life.

Backstory, we met at their first national conference in Illinois. I was supposed to go to a political event in DC and the Lord sent me in the clear opposite direction to Illinois for Mom Comm and I am sure thankful He did.

Amanda is an amazing and inspiring leader, mom, overcomer and warrior woman that I’m blessed to know.

So, here’s what we’re talking about:

• Her testimony of how having her daughter be trafficked out of her arms and what God did with it,
• Her passion that started Able moms,
• How she’s learning about the brain/spirit connection and the neuroscience behind our faith,
• How people are done with complacent Christianity and done with sitting on the sidelines,
• Her incredible story about how God put her ministry and their team in the Texas Hill Country RIGHT after the floods this year.

Her first book was called “Unraveled: Mothering Fiercely in a World Full of Fears.”

Her most recent release in May 2025 was a book she co-authored with the team of Able Mom’s International and it’s called, “Moments Matter: The Gospels, An Interactive Keepsake Journal with Guided Bible Passages to Read with Your Kids - at Your Own Pace.”

There is one more called, "Parenting with the Holy Spirit.”

You can find all of these on Amazon.

Her ministry is Able Moms. I love their tagline: capable, unshakeable, memorable motherhood. They have some wonderful resources on their website so make sure you check them out moms!!

One note: This is a special episode because I get to announce unexpectedly that my daughter got saved the night before it was recorded. Yay!!!

#christianmoms #christianwomen #thoughts #thinking #neuroscience #christianmoms #Holyspirit #charliekirk #texasfloods #revival #momlife

This video was first recorded on audio 3 days before Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I had no idea what would transpire over the next few days, but God did. God knows this is a spiritual battle. He knows He needs warriors who will be boots on the ground to reach those who are desperate for Jesus.This - is part battle cry for the warriors, part testimony of how God took me from the battle on the home front walking out of the White House on 9/11 to standing as an overcoming, generational curse reversing, chain-breaking daughter of God and spiritual mama. Be encouraged by it, as you listen to Scripture, testimony and battle cry. Watch till the end and you'll find out about something the Lord has laid on my heart that is about ready to be launched. #genzfaith #genzforjesus #spiritualwarfare #spiritualwarriors #bible

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Right now, we are seeing many in Generation Z being drawn to Jesus.

Whether it's music like Forrest Frank that does it or a Tik Tok influencer sharing Bible verses, they want to know more and we're here for it!

My friend Alaina DeHart who is today's guest, is a student at Western Michigan University. We met through our church and her Mom who is a friend of mine through Griefshare.

She and I have had many discussions about how to reach the next generation for Christ and today we finally get to talk about it on the podcast.

So you may be watching this as a Gen Z in college. Or maybe you are out of college and trying to navigate adult life which is difficult. You are starting to get curious about God, but you aren't sure what to do with it. You just know you like some of this Christian music coming out or you are curious about the videos you see on Tik Tok about Sripture. Either way, I think you'll enjoy this.

Maybe you are a woman who is older and you can't quite figure this generation out. You've been wondering how it is they might be drawing towards Jesus but you want to know more. I think this discussion will help.

So listen in, as we go from talking about what college life is like today, to what it's like when you are going through something and the baggage we often bring to college. You can also learn about what it looks like when you make some big mistakes! And! We talk about the statistics on what actually is drawing Gen Z to Jesus. We hope you enjoy it!

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Earlier this summer, I got to sit down with my friend Megan Murphy Steen. She is currently serving at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya where God called her to medical mission work with her husband Jonathan, who is also a doctor. They are also parents to four children named Joseph, Timothy, Micah, and Cora who get to grow up in Africa! Megan specifically works as an OB/GYN there and is working to establish the first PAACS (Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons). So she’s also training other doctors. 

Needless to say, she’s an amazing woman with a high calling and a huge servant heart. We always love to chat about life and leadership when she’s in town and when she reached out to get together for the few weeks she was here, I said, “Sure! But let’s do it on the podcast.” 

So! There you have it. This woman inspires me to be a better leader. But I also love talking to her about what God’s call looks like in our lives and how we walk out that call and how it doesn’t always look like we “think” it should. She’s got some great stories about how God works in her life over there and we talk quite a bit about what it really means to have a calling from God.

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What does freedom look like to you?

I don’t know about you, but i always contemplate the meaning of freedom to me when July 4th is around the corner. Maybe it’s my upbringing in D.C. and Philadelphia, where I was surrounded by history and patriotic things. Or maybe it’s having worked at the White House and knowing it’s about so much more than our freedom as Americans. At it’s depth, true freedom is that which we find in Christ. 

As I grow deeper in my relationship with God, He reveals the deeper meanings of freedom to me. This year it was about the fear of man. After watching a sermon by a man named Del Fesenfeld just a few days before he died, I was convicted to speak about it. 

There is so much connection between how we seek approval from man and our fear of man. Not only do we live in a society that is obsessed with likes and approval on social media. But there is an enemy who wants to keep us stuck in that unsatisfying place of people pleasing and seeking approval from people so that we never run to the only one who we need to seek approval from - our Creator.

So, in this episode - we’re talking about approval seeking and the fear of man. 

Whether you are a new believer or a seasoned one, I think you’ll like it. 

For the new believers - there is a section about Getting Real where we talk about the approval seeking and how it affects us. You’ll hear a few truths found in the Word of God of how to overcome it. 

For the more seasoned believers, we’re Going Deep and talking about that fear of man that infiltrates our fear of God and how we may think we don’t really have it because we truly have a fear of God, but it lingers! 

I pray wherever you are on your spiritual journey that this message will convict you and take you deeper in your relationship with the Lord. 

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References from the Podcast

How to Conquer the Fear of Man, Del Fehsenfeld Jr. 

Additional Resources 

Get Real with Meredith Podcast

GGD Season 2: Episode 8: 4 Fake Freedoms - 4 things you think give you freedom but actually do the opposite. The enemy deceives us making us think there are things of the world that will give us freedom. But they won’t. Through wisdom from experience and the Word of God, I want to share those four fake freedoms -- from my White House experience, to self-seeking in recovery, to seeking it in weight-loss and eating whatever I want, I want to share with you the things I thought would give me freedom but didn’t. (Link here). 

Episode 19 GGD: Healing the Root of Rejection - We’ve all been rejected in some way in our lives. Yes, I’m talking about this on the love holiday because I like to get real and this is something that can block us from the love of God and life, really. If we’re not careful it can keep us consumed with feelings and thoughts that hold us back and eventually it becomes our identity. I want to help you get to the root of that and release it to God. You can find it on my blog with some other resources here. 

Other Resources on the Religious Spirit

“What is the Religious Spirit?” Curt Landry Ministries

“Conquering the Religious Spirit,” by Tommi FEMRITE with Rebecca Wagner SYTSEMA

When you think of Father’s Day, what comes up for you? Is it a day where you love celebrating your Dad? Or is it hard for you?

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When I was a kid and my Dad lived three hours away, I would have told you it was hard because I felt a bit abandoned, even though I knew he loved me. He wasn’t in my everyday life, except every other weekend and lots of phone calls. My heart couldn’t comprehend it. 

14 years ago when he passed suddenly, and all that abandonment came back, I never thought I’d be able to celebrate Father’s Day again. For years I cried about the loss on that day, but I found out early on in recovery that God truly was my Heavenly Father. 

Even though Dad couldn’t be here and there was physical distance and he had flaws (just like any Dad) when He was on earth, God showed me he could fill in every crevice of my heart Da couldn’t. 

Because of that, I enjoy celebrating my Dad and the impact he made on my life without losing it. Praise the Lord for healing. 

Every one of us who struggles with Father’s Day and says, “It’s hard,” has had some sort of pain in that relationship. Some of you may have extreme pain that has left deep resentment maybe for years. Some of you may have just cut him out and some of you are just grieving that He’s passed on. 

Whatever that pain looks like, it is a Father wound and I believe you are supposed to listen to this podcast today because He wants to heal your heart at the deepest levels that only He can reach. 

He wants you to know that even though your Dad didn’t meet your expectations - God can and you know what? He loves you more than you can imagine. I know that can be hard to hear when you have a Father wound, and that’s why we’re doing this podcast.

Today’s guest is my friend Sara Sosnowski. She is a daughter of God. Wife. Mom. Worship leader. Teacher. Sister. New Grandma…and she’s got a huge heart for helping people break chains and generational curses. 

She and I go to church together. What I love about her is how vulnerable and honest she is about the broken parts of her story that God has redeemed. She is so willing for the Lord to use her story to help someone else come out of their darkness and overcome. 

Today, she shares with us the part of her story about her Dad and it’s quite a story. What it was like, how God worked in her with “one more day.”

One other thing about Sara is she’s on my leadership team for Guiding God’s Daughters. She went through the mentor leader discipleship training with me last year (that we’ll make available again soon) so she’s committed and I love love how God is using her story for His glory. 

I hope you enjoy it.

If you’ve been stuck in a place with your father wound, I pray the Lord uses this to help pull you out of it and help you feel a little less alone and make you believe that healing is possible. Don’t let the enemy lie to you! You may have had not a great Dad. But God can heal that wound if you believe — and you’re wiling to take the steps toward healing. 

Have you ever had a time in your life when you’ve been forced to rest? It’s like you are taken out of the game, the race of life. What do you do with that time? Recently I had a case of the shingles (at 47). I’m not young! But I also thought it was mostly for old people (not so much). As someone who seeks the Lord as much as I can and knows how He can speak most at the times when you are most in pain, I leaned in. In fact, there really was nothing else I could do because I was in so much pain and couldn’t function. So with my awake time, when I wasn’t with my family, I was in the Word, just seeking His will and His way.What I pray with this episode is that it will give you new insights to how you can see God working in your times of forced rest. You know why? Because it is in those times that the enemy works so hard to keep us focused on our pain. But God speaks loudly in these times and I want to help YOU see that.#suffering #pain #mentalhealth #healing #hope #anxiety #god #emotions #peace #Scripture #secretplace

Infertility is something so many women struggle with silently so it can feel tremendously lonely and isolating. There aren’t a lot of places to talk about it, let alone in the context of our faith. But here, we like to get real and go deep about the issues nobody likes to talk about in the context of faith.

On that note, this was one of those conversations that felt very relevant of our day. So, I’ve invited two of my friends to join me. Both of them have walked the walk in some way and both know God can use their story for His glory so I’m grateful for their willingness to step out and share their stories. 

You will hear our testimonies from different aspects including what our childhood perspective of motherhood was like, how we started to navigate this journey and what we did to address it. But you will also hear the common theme of how we’ve seen God show up in the midst of the storm. 

So, whether you’ve just realized you are on the infertility journey, you are smack dab in the middle of it, you feel like you’re coming to the other side of it or you’ve been through it and you remember the pain if it vividly, we want to help you see you aren’t alone. We even welcome you if you are someone who’s never experienced this but you love someone going through it.

Today’s episode is dedicated to those of you praying for a baby. We’re lifting you up in prayer for God to bless you with a miracle. We also pray that our testimonies will bless you.

Make sure you listen all the way through for 10 ways to get closer to God on the journey, strategies for recognizing the enemy’s attempts to defeat you, and a powerful Scripture and prayer at the end. 

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Make sure you Follow and Subscribe to my Podcast on Spotify, Apple and You Tube.Find me and follow me @getrealwithmeredith on Tik Tok and InstagramIf you’re interested in the 10 things we shared, check my Instagram page to find out more.Also, if you’d like to get more extensive teaching on those ten things, you can be one of the first to sign up for my Mentorship Program. In it, you will get monthly calls with me and access to all kinds of videos to help you on your journey towards Christ.If you are local (Southwest Michigan or Northern Indiana), come join us on Saturday, May 17th for a workshop I’m going to be leading called, “Get Real on Infertility.” We will be sharing testimonies and want to hear yours, so we can support you on the difficult journey. It’s from 9-11 at Summit Church, on US 12 in Niles.

Do you ever struggle with comparison? I think this podcast might help you. I think it will give you some spiritual insight and why we all deal with it sometimes and I way to get out of it.

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Matthew 7:24-27 NLT
2 Corinthians 10:12-13, 17-18 NLT

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You are looking for strength, but you can’t find it within. You are looking for it. Well, I’m here to tell you where you can find it, because you and I both know that true strength isn’t just physical. It goes much deeper than that. It’s spiritual and the only way you can truly find strength is from the source. That’s God.