Joy Caissie has spent the last 40 years trying to live up to her name and the past decade has definitely challenged her more than ever to do so. She is a mother of three and in a current state of empty nesting! She has 3 children, 2 of which have spread their wings and become independent. Ages 21, 19, & 15. She is a newlywed to Clay Caissie, who loves her deeply, compliments her and pursues her daily. After seasons of pain, God knew exactly what she needed as a partner in crime to do life with! She lives intentionally to find joy in all things. In sharing her story, she hopes the story of redemption and the power of the freedom of forgiveness will help give hope to others as we all walk this life together and live out LOUD!!

Check out her cute Airbnb in Monroe, LA –Bayou Long Beard

Mary Margaret serves as the Girls Ministry Specialist for LifeWay Christian Resources, which basically means that teenage girls and the women who lead them are her favorite people on the planet. She has a passion to equip girls and women to dive deeply into God’s word and live out their calling, and does this by training, consulting, and speaking to women and student ministry leaders across the United States. Mary Margaret is the author of Show Her the Way: Your Guide to Discipling Teen Girls, is a former Girls Minister, and holds a master’s degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. She also hosts LifeWay Women’s {MARKED} podcast and co-hosts the LifeWay Student Ministry Podcast. Mary Margaret is married to Jonathan and they love living in Franklin, TN.

Lindsay Amilian ( “A- million”) is a wife, mommy of 2 little boys, fitness instructor, former Oklahoma City NBA dancer, and Certified Holistic Nutritionist from Oklahoma. She’s passionately in pursuit to change lives by teaching what true healthy living looks like after she experienced her own battle with past chronic issues like Leaky Gut syndrome and Adrenal fatigue syndrome. She is on a mission to help educate and bring awareness to the massive issues we face as a country with our large food industry. She recently self-published her first book on Amazon, “Pure Food Project for Kids” with a focus on how to nourish children with proper food, ingredients and immune support supplements. She is inspired to help you find your break-through in living a pure, healthy long-term lifestyle.

 

Purchase her book here. 

Celebrating the month of love and our 50th podcast guests! Wow! Can’t believe we have 50 amazing guests who have shared their stories on Living Out Loud.

Valerie Habeeb, she has an incredible story of healing. She just started a freedom ministry that leads others through inner healing called Moriah Oxford. She talks about the common misconceptions about inner healing and how to biblically lead others to a life of freedom. We sat there soaking up her wisdom and left feeling so educated and excited about how many people her ministry will touch.

We always want to encourage you to read scripture for yourselves. Don’t just take anyone’s word for it. Let God speak to you through his word!

Happy New Year!

This story of God’s faithfulness, love for details, and comfort during suffering is a great way for you to begin your new year! Dawn’s testimony will give you encouragement and grow your faith. She says her son Blade,“was chosen at birth to be a testament at death”

Trust us, you don’t want to miss this.

Check out Dawn and her husband, Brandon’s, ministy here.

Quart Graves lives in Needville, TX. He is an owner / operator of two Chick-fil-A Restaurants located in Sugarland & Rosenberg, TX. He is the world’s longest living survivor with Metastatic pheochromacytomas. This makes life with his wife of almost 35 yrs, 4 adult children & 3 grandchildren that much sweeter.

Stephanie is the wife of Tim and the mother of Savannah and Isabella.  Quite frankly, She has enjoyed a “comfortable” and “safe” life.  All of her family and friends were healthy and comfortable, as well. In what seemed to be an instant…this changed.  Her Alive 2 Thrive evolved as a response to personal and spiritual situations experienced in a short period of time, just a little over 3 months.  These experiences allowed her the opportunity to learn what is truly, TRULY, important in this life that we all live on Earth.  Yes, She’s learned that she can GROW in response to those life-changing situations.  Furthermore, She has learned how to THRIVE after the earth-shattering storm…literally taking one step at a time!  Sometimes, it’s just one breath at a time!

Check out her website-http://imalive2thrive.com

Shalonda is a wife of 14 years, married to ex-professional Miami Dolphins and Denver Bronco’s football player Sammie Smith and they have three beautiful children. Shalonda and her family moved to Oxford, MS in 2016 when her husband became the Fellowship of Christian of Athletes (FCA) Director of Character and Development for the University of Mississippi football program.

Shalonda grew up in a single parent non-Christian home with mother and two siblings. Her home life was dysfunctional which included the abuse of drugs and alcohol by her mother. Shalonda suffered mental, emotional, verbal, physical and sexual abuse as yearly as two years old until around the age of seventeen. The summer of Shalonda’s sixth grade year her mother abandoned her and her older sister when she went on a drug binge and never returned. After going from house to house and being homeless for a while Shalonda was finally put into foster care her first year of High School where she would remain until she became eighteen. At the age of nineteen Shalonda surrendered her life to Christ and became a follower of Jesus Christ.

Tune is as our friend Kelly Southern shares about giving her kidney to her cousin. Yes, you read that right. Talk about true selflessness. This is a story you don’t want to miss!

Tune is as Dara shares her powerful testimony. She says, “I could not deal with the issues of my life alone. It was too much! My past abandonment, molestation, teen pregnancy and other side issues needed a real SOLUTION not another rug to hide them under.I reached out for the Word, but I would get discouraged by the big words or I would get confused about the places, people and the time period.What I realized was, you can read the Word of GOD all day and night. You can call yourself an expert or theologian, but until you experience the Word of GOD your life will lack the zeal and thirst for the Almighty Creator.”

https://www.daravrose.com