After seven years, 112 episodes, and more than 68,000 downloads, Jennifer Bryant comes to you with some big and exciting news: the Practical Family Podcast is making way for something even bigger.

In this final episode, Jenn reflects on what this community has meant to her since launching in 2017 — the guests, the conversations, the thousands of listeners who showed up week after week — and shares why she's not letting that momentum quietly fade.

Plus: Jenn has a special gift for longtime Practical Family listeners — a private bonus episode recorded exclusively for this community. Details inside.

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Jenn Bryant shares her family's journey of change and growth, including a trip to Iceland and joining Speech and Debate. New voices join the Practical Family Podcast, including the Catanzaro family, Trisha Childers, and other friends. Jenn discusses the expansion of Family Life's offerings, including more courses and ebooks, and a new podcast dedicated to emotional and spiritual support for mothers. The Enough Mom Podcast will address common struggles and emotional overwhelm faced by moms, with a focus on practical and spiritual discipleship. Practical advice for families in new podcast series coming called Loved Enough. 

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Enough Mom

Home on Purpose

Speech and Debate

Iceland Trip

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The loss of a child comes in many forms. There is hope and support for grieving mothers, and the community that surrounds her. Rachel shows us how to be helpful and compassionate with our loved ones.

BIO

Rachel Lewis is the founder of Brave Mamas, an online community offering support to

thousands of bereaved moms. Rachel is a well-known contributor to Still Standing

Magazine and Pregnancy After Loss Support. She's the creator of Unexpecting: A 4-Week Grief Workshop for Pregnancy Loss for couples.

Her work and family have been featured by the Today Show, Upworthy, AdoptUSKids, and Babble. Rachel has experienced the loss of five pregnancies, as well as the unique grief of reunifying a foster son with his birth family. Learn more at thelewisnote.com.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

Unexpecting: Real Talk on Pregnancy Loss

Brave Mamas Facebook Group

How to Help a Loved One through Baby Loss

The Body Keeps the Score

Jonathan McKee gives parents practical tools on how to approach technology with wisdom and grace instead of constant correction.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

Parenting Generation Screen: Guiding Your Kids to be Wise in a Digital World

Teens Guide to Social Media

Guy's Guide to God, Girls, and the Phone in their Pocket

BIO

Jonathan McKee is the author of more than twenty-five books, including Teen's Guide to Face-to-Face Connections in a Screen-to-Screen World; If I Had a Parenting Do Over; and the Amazon bestseller – The Guy's Guide to God, Girls and the Phone in Your Pocket. He speaks to parents and leaders worldwide, all while providing free resources for moms and dads on his website becomingscreenwise.com.

20+ years of experience with youth ministry and family research has taught him that parents need to connect with their kids just as much as they correct their kids— it's the safe, loving conversations about screen use that will set kids up for a lifetime of good decisions and habits.

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What the link between family schedules and life expectancy tells us about teaching kids to be resilient adults.

BIO

Dr. Rhonda Spencer-Hwang is an epidemiologist and associate professor in the School of Public Health at Loma Linda University. Through her groundbreaking research, she has developed a program to help prepare families for whatever life throws their way—increasing resiliency, happiness, and likelihood of positive performances (from academics to athletics and beyond). She is a mom of three and lives in Loma Linda, California.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

DrRhondaSpencer.com

Book: Releases August 3, 2021

Raising Resilient Kids: Principles for Bringing Up Healthy, Happy, Successful Children Who Can Overcome Obstacles and Thrive despite Adversity.

More about Hulda Crooks

Philippians 4:6 - Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Do you have what it takes to be a homeschool mom? Yes! We're busting the myth that you have to do it all to be effective.

BIO

Katie M. Reid has been married to Adam for almost eighteen years, and is the mother of five loud children (ages threww to fifteen). Besides Jesus and her family, cut-to-the-chase conversations and musicals are a few of her favorite things. Katie encourages others to exchange try-hard striving for hope-filled freedom through her messages, articles, songs, and resources. She is a trained bible study facilitator and author of the book, Made Like Martha: Good News for the Woman Who Gets Things Done.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

www.katiemreid.com

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Sacred Grounds, Sticky Floors by Jamie Amerine

"All-Done" Calendar

How knowing your "why" is fuel for homeschooling and how to encourage characteristics of the heart that you can't measure with a grade.

BIO

Wife of a hospital physician and mama of four boys, Monica Swanson lives on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Oahu. They grow tropical fruits on their land that overlooks the "7 Mile Miracle" spot of some of the best surfing beaches in the world. She homeschools all of the boys, and just launched the oldest off to college in California. Her book Boy Mom: What Your Son Needs Most From You is a widely-read and acclaimed book among Christian boy moms across the nation.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

MonicaSwanson.com

Boy Mom Book

Character Training Course

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Today's culture is defined by amorality, dishonesty, and discontentment. As a Christian parent, you want your children to reject these norms in favor of values like integrity, wisdom, and forgiveness. But how can you train them to do this when you're still falling short yourself?

Author, speaker, and Moms in Prayer podcast host Lee Nienhuis offers guidance to every parent seeking to raise Jesus-following kids.

BIO

Lee is a farmer's wife (turned camp coordinator), and midwestern mama. She is the host of the Moms in Prayer Podcast and author of Counter Cultural Parenting: Building Character in a World of Compromise.

QUOTES

"Home needs to be a place where it's okay to fail and come back again. Home is our laboratory."

"We've never lived in such a connected world. It can be really scary, but it can also be really pioneering."

"The work of rebuilding our society starts in our own home."

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

Brave Moms Brave Kids

Countercultural Parenting

Moms in Prayer Podcast

Jesus Storybook Bible

Raising Heroes TShirt

Our Restaurant: South Shore Grill, Honolulu Hawaii

Sandrine Nyembo Tucker shares her incredible testimony about fleeing her home country torn by civil war, and her journey of faith in overcoming shame and rejection.

BIO

Sandrine Nyembo Tucker, Christian speaker and homeschool mama to six children. She and her husband and family live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where she shares her family journey on Facebook and Instagram, offering hope to women everywhere who want to flourish in their current season.

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Resources Mentioned in this Episode

Classical Conversations Curriculum

Hotel Rwanda

She Speaks Conference

When we recognize the root of our feelings, family life can be more manageable for everyone involved. Help your kids deal with their big feelings and set yourself free from extra guilt and shame.

BIO

Michelle Nietert MA, LPC–S is an author and speaker and Clinical Director of Community Counseling Associates in Dallas, TX. She's a former educator and school counselor with over 20 years of experience in private practice treating individuals, couples, children and teens. Michelle's writing can be found on the MOPS blog, in Lifeway's Parenting Magazine and she is the Mental Health columnist for Just Between Us Magazine. To discover more about Michelle as Your Mental Health Coach, the Raising Brave Beauties podcast, and her energetic speaking expertise that empowers and inspires, please visit www.MichelleNietert.com.

QUOTES

"Emotion is energy in motion, and depending on how you're wired, it's easy to catch that emotion." -Michelle Nietert

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Guide to a Smooth School Year

YourMentalHealthCoach.com

Loved and Cherished Devotional

Brave Beauty Devotional

Raising Brave Beauties Podcast

Total Family Makeover

Untangled: Guiding Teenaged Girls through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

Smart But Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach their Potential

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