📝 Episode Description

Healing starts at home—with faith, kindness, and humility. In this Saddle Up Segment of Doing Life Different, host Lesa Koski reflects on her conversation with Nurse Lisa Sander, pulling out the most powerful takeaways to help you heal, grow, and lead with kindness in your daily life.

Even if you’ve never faced divorce or frontline nursing, Lisa’s wisdom touches us all. From humility in relationships to finding your voice in midlife, these lessons are practical, faith-filled, and life-changing.

Listen in to discover how healing yourself transforms your family—and how healing families can transform our communities and country.

⏱ Timestamps

(00:00) Welcome to the Saddle Up Segment

(01:15) Healing helps us serve others

(02:30) Why kindness must begin at home

(03:40) Humility vs. defensiveness in relationships

(05:05) Healing our families to heal our country

(06:25) Finding your voice in midlife

(07:30) Daily kindness as leadership

✨ Key Takeaways

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• Healing frees us to turn outward and serve others
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• True kindness begins inside our homes
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• Humility repairs faster than defensiveness
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• Families are the first place healing must happen
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• Your voice matters at every age and stage
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• Everyday acts of kindness are leadership in action
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👩‍⚕️ Guest Bio

Lisa Sander is a Med-Surg charge nurse, coach, and co-host of Our Healer, Our Protector. After walking through divorce, frontline nursing during COVID, and rediscovering her calling, she now helps individuals and couples reconnect with themselves, each other, and God through retreats, coaching, and storytelling.