Girls Talking Life

Welcome to a Girls Talking Life Extra. It's not a full show, just a short chat with a past guest to let you know what she's up to now. I'm talking with Jessica Hottle. Jessica was a guest all the way back on episode 38. If you haven't heard that conversation with her, be sure to go back and listen.

Jessica Hottle is a faith-based fitness coach, podcast host, best-selling author, and speaker with a heart for teaching women how to dismantle the lies that keep them from healing and wholeness.

Today we are talking about her new book, Face Off with Your Feelings: Break Up with the Lies from Your Past and Embrace Truth for Your Future. Listen in for all the details!

Connect with Jessica and find her new book at https://www.jessicahottle.com/

Kaci was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 31, right at the height of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Knowing that God could use every part of her life for something powerful, she worked to make one of the hardest years of her life one of the most meaningful. She launched a breast cancer themed Christian devotional for women called Twice the Warrior. The book tells about God's hand in her own journey, along with fifteen other breast cancer warriors.

Today on the show Kaci is sharing the story of her breast cancer journey. It's full of the things you'd expect like biopsies, surgeries and chemotherapy, but Kaci has SO MUCH MORE to say.

You'll hear us talk about:

• The whirlwind of her cancer diagnosis
• Feeling betrayed by God
• Deciding to use her situation for God's glory
• Viewing hard things as opportunities
• Using your story to show God's goodness

While her initial reaction to her diagnosis was "why me?" She make a bold decision to use her situation to glorify God. Kaci realized that narrating what she was going through was powerful to her healing and she wanted to help other women too.

Her devotional Twice the Warrior, is about fighting cancer, but it's also about fighting for people to know God. Kaci says that in difficult times we have to remember that God is good, and we should ask God what He's opening this door for. Kaci says it's all about shifting your perspective and calls her experience with cancer a "beautiful opportunity."

Twice the Warrior: Christian Devotional for Breast Cancer Warriors

It's Not Supposed to Be This Way

Kayaking with Whales

Auditioning for American Idol

Running a Marathon

Paragliding in Switzerland

Skydiving

Via Ferrata in Telluride

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Today I'm chatting with my friend Leah Rempel about how we can partner with God and put our faith into action.

You'll hear us talk about:

• being filled up from the inside out
• incorporating your faith into every area of your life
• partnering with God
• pursuing personal ministries, big and small

Leah Rempel is the host of the Faith School Podcast, a podcast dedicated to exploring the practical side of faith. She loves to lead women to follow God from the inside out, integrate their faith into their everyday lives and intentionally pursue personal ministries. She is a wife, mom, and former teacher living in the Great White North.

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I'm excited to bring you my conversation with my friend Bailey Stone. We are talking about finding our unique callings and the confidence to live those callings out.

You'll hear us talk about:

• The difference between purpose and calling
• Ways to discern your unique calling
• If your calling changes
• How to increase your confidence
• Discerning God's voice

Bailey is a Certified Professional Life Coach who helps women elevate their confidence and increase clarity so they can pursue their calling and make an impact. Bailey loves calling Montana home, reading books on the porch with her husband (when it's not freezing) and finding new spaces to house an ever growing army of houseplants.

Ephesians 2:10 – For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Confidence Myths that Have Been Holding You Back

The Sound of a Million Dreams: Awakening to Who You Are Becoming by Suanne Camfield (Chapter 10 – Naming)

Bailey Stone Coaching

Hearing His Voice Devotional by Chris Tiegreen

Live with Purpose Planner

Hearth and Hand Harvest Spice Candle

Produce Storage Bins

Beauty Counter Supreme Cream

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Did you know that there's a Girls Talking Life community group on FB? It's an extension of the podcast where we can connect and continue to grow even when we can't be with our girlfriends. If you are looking for community, if you want join in the conversation after the show and encourage others as we all grow in our faith, jump in to this group! I'd love to see you there!

Today I'm talking with Rhonda Stoppe, the No Regrets Woman, all about marriage and becoming the couple you long to be. Rhonda shares her own love story and invites us to remember what romance was like with our husbands before we were married. She says we need to remember that feeling and then keep working to rekindle it.

Rhonda talks about what she did when her marriage wasn't what she thought it would be. She says the number one marriage trouble is unmet expectations. We chat about resentment and unforgiveness, and how if these sins are in our lives, we need to acknowledge and repent of them regardless of what our husbands are doing. Rhonda says "it has to begin with you."

Rhonda tells us that we have to teach our husbands how to love us and what we need in our current season, and she explains how powerful it is when we pursue intimacy with our husbands.

Rhonda Stoppe is a popular speaker and author who fervently imparts the truth of God's Word to her audience. She is an enthusiastic communicator who unfolds Scripture with a contagious passion for truth as she teaches women to connect with God in an intimate "love walk" of obedience and to live deliberately in their purpose. She and her pastor husband, Steve, are the grateful parents of four grown kids.

Real-life Romance

The Marriage Mentor: Becoming the Couple You Long to Be

Titus 2

If My Husband Would Change, I'd Be Happy…And Other Myths Wives Believe

Marriage Videos

Nehemiah 8:10

Philippians 4

Moms Raising Sons to be Men

Coffee

Flowy Sleeves

Her Husband!

Her Kids

Being a Grandma

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A five-day experience to plan, prep and gather with your girlfriends.

The Gathering Project begins on September 13th.

You'll get:

• 5 days of coaching videos
• a 12-page workbook – the Girls Gathering Guide
• GTL conversation cards
• access to a private FB group for real-time interaction with me and other group members for support, ideas and encouragement.

My mission is to help you gather, have conversations, create meaningful connections, and build lasting friendships.

Katie was looking for community after moving to L.A., but what she was finding was a lot of networking events, people asking "what can you do for me?" She wanted to create a space for authentic community and started her business, At The Lane, to host intentional gatherings and to help others host intentional gatherings too.

Katie tells us every gathering needs a purpose. She explains why and how to add intentionality to your gatherings. Katie says she always wants her guests to feel like their presence matters.

Katie and I talk about why getting together is so crucial and how you may not even realize you're missing community, but that we have basic a need to be known by others. You may feel like hosting isn't your thing, but Katie disagrees. She says that everyone can be a host, just not the same kind of host, and she walks us through how to determine your specific hosting strengths.

We also chat about creating a space for all people. Katie says her "best dinners are the ones where the table looks different."

Katie is an intentional gathering facilitator, dinner party host & event designer. She founded her company, At The Lane, to host intentional gatherings and help others do the same. With her in-person gatherings, content, products and services, she strives to make gathering more attainable, fun and intentional, while also encouraging the host in each of us.

At The Lane

The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker

The Olympics

Maxi Dresses

The Magnolia Network

Interview Podcasts

Trader Joe's Butternut Squash Ravioli

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We are wrapping up our Summer of Joy series with Talasi Guerra, author of Joy Like a Mountain. She is a Christian communicator who is passionate about infusing Jesus into her everyday life and empowering others to do the same.

Talasi and I talk about the continuous cycle she was stuck in of feeling shame and guilt for making choices that didn't align with her beliefs, and how after a long battle with anorexia and depression, she cried out to God for help. Talasi shares that she didn't feel close to God in that moment, but says "looking back, I can see that He was so near because he heard me and started to get to work."

Talasi shares about what she calls the "joy crisis" and how joylessness effects us. She encourages us to dig in to what the bible says about joy and tells us that when she challenged herself to read about biblical joy every day for a month, reflect on it and apply what she read, her "mind was blown" and she'd "never experienced so much joy." She tells us that when life feels like a mountain, joy is the tool that help us up and over, but we have to choose to intentionally pursue it.

Talasi is committed to bringing light and life to the world around her by sharing her story, speaking truth, and offering hope to others. Talasi and her husband Ryan reside in Western Canada along with their daughters, Avra and Katana, and their massive strategy board game collection.

Joy Like a Mountain: Unleash the Power of Biblical Joy on the Journey of Life

Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. – Romans 5: 3-4 (NIV)

7-Day Joy Challenge

Town and Field Church Podcast

Parent Cue

30 Minute Workouts

Maracaibo Board Game

The Women's Speakers Collective

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It's the Summer of Joy around here and we know God is the true source of our joy, but through Him there are things (or people or places) that bring us joy too. On every episode I ask my guest to share the five things are her favorites. Today's show is a compilation of some of those favorites! We are talking spiritual tools and self-care!

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We are continuing our series, Summer of Joy, and I'm talking with Lain Ehman today. Lain is a best-selling author, life and business coach, and host of A More Beautiful Question, the radio show and podcast to equip women to live as Joy Rebels and fight back against a culture of worry and fear.

Lain explains what a joy rebel is and we talk about ways to be one. We talk about the difference joy and happiness, how gratitude creates joy in us and how we always have the choice to choose it or not.

Lain shares her story of struggle and what she did when she thought she couldn't handle one more thing. We chat about being joyful even in really difficult times and how to keep functioning when you feel like you might not make it through the day.

I encourage you to listen in, learn about being a joy rebel and then show up and shine your light.

A More Beautiful Question Show

How Do I Find More Joy in My Life?

How Do I Find More Joy in My Life? – Part 2

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. – Matthew 6:34 (NIV)

Zenni Optical

Air Fryer

Scribd – lainloves.com/scribd

Red Light Therapy

Black Rock Coffee

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It's the Summer of Joy around here and while we know God is the true source of our joy, and through Him there are things (or people or places) that bring us joy too. On every episode I ask my guest to share the five things are her favorites. Today's show is a compilation of some of those favorites! We are talking food, drink and books!

Connect with Girls Talking Life

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