Have Hope; Will Travel

Emily is an unlikely worthiness coach who specializes in helping people stop feeling like they aren’t enough so that they can confidently be themselves. She joins us this week on Have Hope; Will Travel podcast to share about her experience growing up in a cult church, leaving said church and community, and restoring her relationship ... Read More about {83} Realizing You Are Worthy [Emily Louis]

We say it every week: your story matters. How you tell your story matters. What you believe about your story matters. This week’s guest is a storytelling consultant who shares about how she overcame sexual abuse and survived a childhood cult. She offers us some advice on how to alter our stories from trauma and ... Read More about {82} Living an Altered Story [Mischelle Saunders-Gottsch]

This week’s guest and I have spent a lot of hours together—studying, traveling, and theologizing. We went to college together, served in ministry together, and studied abroad together. This week on Have Hope; Will Travel podcast we’re inviting you into the conversation as we talk about God and LGBTQ+. Rev. Dr. Keith A. Menhinick is ... Read More about {81} Finding Freedom in Sexuality and the Church [Keith Menhinick]

Evening Snow is the oldest of 13 children. When she was adopted from Ethiopia, she joined the Snow family to become the oldest of 8. In this episode Evening shares about her transition from Ethiopia to the United States, learning English as her third language, and how her legal and biological ages are different. We ... Read More about {80} Pros and Cons of Adoption [Evening Snow]

This week we welcome back Marla Taviano for the second part of the conversation we had in episode {76}. This time we’re talking about race–two women sharing their journeys to becoming antiracists. Topics Addressed: What is White Girl Learning? Why becoming an antiracist matters What we can do to make the world a more inclusive ... Read More about {79} White Girl Learning [Marla Taviano]

Ana Maria Tromp is an overcomer who’s lived in three different countries and speaks four languages. She’s a recovering perfectionist willing to share what she’s learned from burning out and now becoming a women’s empowerment coach. Topics Addressed: Growing up in a dysfunctional household Living in Venezuela, the Netherlands, and Aruba Learning to speak four ... Read More about {78} For the Overachiever [Ana Maria Tromp]

Kelsey Pfleiderer was in her twenties when she was (eventually) diagnosed with a spinal tumor. Now she uses authentic storytelling to talk about chronic illness, grief, and motherhood in hopes that others find their own story in hers. Topics Addressed: Kelsey’s story of being diagnosed with a spinal tumor in her twenties How to find ... Read More about {77} Authentic Storytelling Meets Spinal Tumor [Kelsey Pfleiderer]

This is the first of a two-part conversation with Marla Taviano of White Girl Learning. In this episode, we’re going to talk about her life as a missionary in Cambodia, her divorce, and her deconstruction journey. Later this fall we’ll share the other part of the conversation about being white women learning about race–why it ... Read More about {76} Deconstruction and Divorce [Marla Taviano]

Conversations at Have Hope; Will Travel can get deep and heavy. It’s fun to end the conversation on a light note: an abstract question that unites us all: If you could be any inanimate object, what would you be and why? As with the guests, there’s so much diversity and creativity in the answers. It ... Read More about {75} If You Could Be Any Inanimate Object [Recap]

There are a lot of complex perceptions behind the terms “foster care” and “foster youth.” Today our guest Tori Hope Petersen is a foster care survivor, foster care advocate, foster parent. Listen as she shares her story as a former youth in foster care and how faith, hope, and advocacy have taken root from her ... Read More about {74} Faith, Hope, and Foster Care [Tori Hope Petersen]