Hear Him Louder Podcast

In this episode, Marnie and Shawna Sullivan discuss those important “stay” or “go” decisions. Shawna shares how over a span of 13 years, as her family prayed and waited, God made both “stay” and then “go” not just clear, but even filled with peace and joy.  

Marnie and Shawna chat about: 

• How in the waiting season, the question, “What if God brought us here for more than just ourselves?” became an anchor. 
• How God answered Shawna’s family’s prayers by confirming, “Stay,” and then in His timing, led them to “Go.”
• How in God’s kindness, He will answer and even re-confirm His answer.
• How in our waiting seasons, God’s Word is sufficient.

Shawna Sullivan is a mother and home educator to four children. After 13 years, she traded the hustle and bustle of New York City for the suburbs of north Texas. She will never take a backyard, time with family, air conditioning, or her own laundry room for granted. Shawna writes regularly for Family Christian online. Her passion for living faithfully, not perfectly, informs her words and ministry.

Shawna and David, her husband of 20 years, are writing a book and launching a podcast encouraging and equipping others toward a life of faithful stewardship with their time, money, and talents. Shawna connects with her readers through a bi-weekly newsletter, First Things First, where she shares practical resources and real-life applications.

You can find Shawna at her Website, on Instagram, and Facebook. She also has a free ebook, 30 Prayers for Provision, designed to help you anchor your heart so you can trust the heart of God and lean on His faithful promises. Included in this ebook are: 

-  30 prayers for provision, such as: a Prayer for Protection, Prayer for Finances, Prayer for Joy, etc.

-  30 Bible verses to guide your prayer time and anchor your heart

-  A prayer journal page to record your prayers, thoughts, and requests along with a space to record God's faithful provision

Marnie would LOVE to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a FREE resource to help you listen for Jesus. Get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young discuss how God can speak to our hearts in a variety of simple and unexpected ways.

Marnie and Dorina chat about: 

• The practice of choosing a word for the year (it’s never too late, by the way) and how Jesus meets us in those words.
• How Jesus gave Dorina an unexpected, last-minute assignment and how He confirmed what she heard – and then surprised her multiple times as she took steps of faith and obedience.
• How God cares about every little detail and shows us His care through even the smallest evidences of His perfection. 
• Simple, practical steps we can follow in our actual, everyday lives to regularly listen for Him.

Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young is an award-winning author, speaker, mentor, and Bible teacher who loves to help people discover God’s glory on life’s unexpected trails. Dorina has published more than 20 books, including children’s picture books, Bible studies, devotionals, poetry and non-fiction. She lives in Central California with her hubby Shawn and three courageous daughters.

Sign up here to be entered to receive a free copy of Redeemer: God’s Lovingkindness in the Book of Ruth.

You can find Dorina at her Website, on Instagram, and Facebook. Her new Bible study, Redeemer: God’s Lovingkindness in the Book of Ruth, is available everywhere.

Marnie would love to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a free resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young discuss how God meets us in our grief. Dorina shares her own story of becoming a widow with three young daughters, and how Jesus led her through that grief journey with the hope of redemption.

Marnie and Dorina chat about: 

• The promise that every grief journey holds the hope of redemption. 
• What Dorina would say to those grieving right now.
• How Jesus met her heart in those early days of grieving.
• How He led her to write this study, Redeemer, to offer hope to others for how God will redeem our stories.
• How this study of Ruth also serves as an encouragement to care for those who need our help.

Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young is an award-winning author, speaker, mentor, and Bible teacher who loves to help people discover God’s glory on life’s unexpected trails. Dorina has published more than 20 books, including children’s picture books, Bible studies, devotionals, poetry and non-fiction. She lives in Central California with her hubby Shawn and three courageous daughters.

Sign up here to be entered to receive a free copy of Redeemer: God’s Lovingkindness in the Book of Ruth.

You can find Dorina at her Website, on Instagram, and Facebook. Her new Bible study, Redeemer: God’s Lovingkindness in the Book of Ruth, is available everywhere.

Marnie would love to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a free resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Alicia Michelle continue their conversation about what it looks like to invite Jesus into the middle of our hardest emotional battles and how He speaks peace. Be sure to check out Episode #7 if you missed it, as Alicia introduces her 3-step ADD method that we dive deeper into in this conversation.

Marnie and Alicia chat about: 

• The kinds of questions we can ask, with Jesus, in each step of the ADD method.
• How to acknowledge what we’re feeling with Jesus. 
• How to discern with Jesus what is keeping us stuck.
• How to decide how to move forward with Jesus – even in ongoing, perhaps unresolvable situations.
• A story from Alicia's own journey and how Jesus met her inside the hardest emotions.

Alicia Michelle, ACC, CPLC is an ICF-certified Christian life coach and NeuroCoach, author of Emotional Confidence, popular conference speaker, and multi-award-winning podcast host of the top-ranked podcast The Christian Mindset Coach with Alicia Michelle. Through her coaching and courses Alicia has equipped tens of thousands of women with practical brain-and-biblically-based tools to manage emotions and rewire toxic thought patterns for more calm, confidence and joy. She loves to travel, cook, draw, paint and savor life with her beloved husband, four kids and three dogs.

You can find Alicia at her Website, on Instagram, and Facebook. Her podcast is The Christian Mindset Coach, and her book, Emotional Confidence: 3 Simple Steps to Manage Emotions with Science and Scripture is available everywhere. She also offers a membership community, called the Emotional Confidence Club.

Marnie would love to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a free resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Alicia Michelle discuss the science behind our emotions. When we understand how our emotions work and how God created them, we can more confidently navigate our emotions and even see our emotions as an invitation to connect with God. 

Marnie and Alicia chat about: 

• How our bodies respond to emotions.
• How we have more ammunition for navigating our emotions than will power. 
• How when we understand how our bodies work, we can work through our emotions WITH Jesus.
• The 3-step method we can follow to understand and process what we’re feeling.
• How we can work with Jesus to decide where to “emotionally dwell” in hard situations.
• Learning to see our emotions as avenues to connect with God.

Alicia Michelle, ACC, CPLC is an ICF-certified Christian life coach and NeuroCoach, author of Emotional Confidence, popular conference speaker, and multi-award-winning podcast host of the top-ranked podcast The Christian Mindset Coach with Alicia Michelle. Through her coaching and courses Alicia has equipped tens of thousands of women with practical brain-and-biblically-based tools to manage emotions and rewire toxic thought patterns for more calm, confidence and joy. She loves to travel, cook, draw, paint and savor life with her beloved husband, four kids and three dogs.

You can find Alicia at her Website, on Instagram, and Facebook. Her podcast is The Christian Mindset Coach, and her book, Emotional Confidence: 3 Simple Steps to Manage Emotions with Science and Scripture is available everywhere. She also offers a membership community, called the Emotional Confidence Club.

Marnie would love to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a free resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Niki Hardy have a conversation about inviting Jesus into the wrestle of making big, hard decisions.

Marnie and Niki chat about: 

• The possibility that God has a British accent.
• How we can expect God to speak into and lead our smallest steps and biggest decisions. 
• What watching and waiting for confirmation looks like.
• How sometimes when we want revelations, our answers can come through realizations.
• How the internal “knowing” can often be the hardest to trust.
• How clarity can come in our faithful movement forward.
• A practice that can help in discerning how Jesus responds to our questions.

Niki Hardy is the author of Audi Award-nominated, Breathe Again and One Minute Prayers for Women with Cancer. Her next book, God, Can We Chat? hits the shelves March 2025. She’s been featured in places like the Hallmark Channel, Life Today and Premier Radio. Having left corporate life, been to seminary, moved continents, planted churches, started businesses and nonprofits, and navigated loss, cancer, church hurt and painful uncertainty, she firmly believes God loves a cheerful doubter. Niki lives in North Carolina with her husband and ridiculous Doodle, Charlie, who is the main reason their three grown kids come home.

Connect with Niki on her Website or on Instagram. You can preorder Niki’s new book, God, Can We Chat? and go grab the resources Niki mentions, like How to Trust God When You Can't Stop Worrying and the Wildly Known Quiz.

Marnie would love to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a free resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy of How to Find Quiet: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Niki Hardy continue their conversation about what hearing God is like in our day to day. Check out Episode #5 if you missed Part 1 of our conversation.

Marnie and Niki chat about: 

• How being in nature offers us a unique invitation to meet with and hear from God.
• The neuroscience behind hearing God and what’s happening in our brains when we listen for Jesus.
• How to navigate the logical side and the creative side of our brains when we discern God’s voice.
• How the practice of listening takes time to “tune” into as we form new pathways.
• How to handle times when God seems quiet.
• What we can know when we have questions.

Niki Hardy is the author of Audi Award-nominated, Breathe Again and One Minute Prayers for Women with Cancer. Her next book, God, Can We Chat? hits the shelves March 2025. She’s been featured in places like the Hallmark Channel, Life Today and Premier Radio. Having left corporate life, been to seminary, moved continents, planted churches, started businesses and nonprofits, and navigated loss, cancer, church hurt and painful uncertainty, she firmly believes God loves a cheerful doubter. Niki lives in North Carolina with her husband and ridiculous Doodle, Charlie, who is the main reason their three grown kids come home.

Connect with Niki on her Website or on Instagram. You can preorder Niki’s new book, God, Can We Chat? and go grab the resources Niki mentions, like How to Trust God When You Can't Stop Worrying and the Wildly Known Quiz.

Marnie would love to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a free resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy of How to Find Quiet: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In episode 2 Marnie and Becky Keife continue our conversation about listening for Jesus as a daily practice. Check out Episode #1 if you missed Part 1 of our conversation.

Marnie and Becky chat about:

• Our identity in Christ and how hearing God’s voice leads us to a deeper knowing of who we are.
• How asking Him specific questions will lead us to a greater understanding of how He sees each of us as unique individuals whom He has called to unique purposes.
• Two simple, powerful questions to ask God every day.

AND:

A story of how God answered those two questions with the most unexpected, hold-your-breath surprise.

Becky references Jamie Winship’s book, Living Fearless. Check it out here.

Becky Keife is the author of multiple books and Bible studies and is mom to three loud boys. She’s the Community and Editorial Manager for (in)courage where she loves shepherding women’s words. Becky also runs her own business as a Conversion Copywriter & Brand Voice Strategist. She’s been married to her husband Chris for 19 years and only cooks dinner because people need to eat. 

Connect with Becky Keife on her Website, Instagram, Facebook and (in)courage. Learn more about her Six-Week Identify Intensive.

Marnie would love to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a free resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy of How to Find Quiet: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Rebecca George have a conversation about the very human heart condition called longing.

Marnie and Rebecca chat about: 

• Rebecca’s journey of sharing Jesus with women and the many ways she’s done that over the years.
• How Rebecca’s journey has held seasons of longing, especially the season of praying about and waiting on God’s plan for her longing to be married. 
• How those seasons of longing led to her upcoming book, You’re Not Too Late.
• The definition of longing and how longing is "no respecter of persons."
• The three-stage cycle of longing that we all experience.
• How some longings are placed in us by God.
• A question we can ask before our longings become unhealthy, to help us acknowledge our longing without getting stuck.

Rebecca is the founder of Radical Radiance® - a podcast community where listeners are equipped to blend what they love with the Jesus who makes them shine. She is a podcaster, speaker, and author whose greatest joy in life is discipling others to pursue their passions in a way that builds the Kingdom. In her free time you can find her running outside, writing, or trying a new recipe with 90s country playing in the background.

Connect with Rebecca George on her Website or on Instagram. Preorder Rebecca’s new book, You’re Not Too Late AND get the FREE 50-Day digital devotional at Nottoolatebook.live.

Marnie would love to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a free resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy of How to Find Quiet: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.

In this episode, Marnie and Rebecca George continue their conversation about longing and how we can listen for Jesus in our longings. Check out Episode #3 if you missed Part 1 of our conversation.

Marnie and Rebecca chat about: 

• The distinction between God-given longing and a longing that has become an idol.
• How to navigate the times when we are stuck in the lingering stage of the longing cycle.
• The relationship between accessibility and intimacy and how earthly longings and accessibility block intimacy in our relationships.
• The connection between intentionality and intimacy.

AND:

A story of a hike that proves God is in every detail, sometimes working behind the scenes, even in our seasons of longing.

Rebecca is the founder of Radical Radiance® - a podcast community where listeners are equipped to blend what they love with the Jesus who makes them shine. She is a podcaster, speaker, and author whose greatest joy in life is discipling others to pursue their passions in a way that builds the Kingdom. In her free time you can find her running outside, writing, or trying a new recipe with 90s country playing in the background.

Connect with Rebecca George on her Website or on Instagram. Preorder Rebecca’s new book, You’re Not Too Late AND get the FREE 50-Day digital devotional at Nottoolatebook.live.

Marnie would love to hear from you! You can connect with Marnie through her Website, Instagram, Facebook, and reach out by email. Marnie also offers a free resource to help you listen for Jesus – get your copy of How to Find Quiet: Your Guide to Listening for Jesus.