The very wise Chuck Bentley joins us to chat about balance & perspective when the world around us feels unsettling. Whether it be a Pandemic, racial tensions, political turmoil, financial uncertainties, even family disagreement can we find solid ground? Chuck offers insight and points to hope.

"We need to be patient and listen to each other," Chuck encourages. "We need to be not easily angered just because someone disagrees with us."

Chuck Bentley, chief executive officer for Crown Financial Ministries, has a relentless passion to travel the globe teaching biblical financial principles to stewards from all walks of life including the affluent, middle class, poor, and ultra poor. He is a highly sought-after speaker, a film producer and author of five books. His latest, Seven Gray Swans, was published in January 2021. Chuck and his wife Ann have 4 sons & 4 grandchildren and live in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Find Chuck at crown.org

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Get ready to smile and be encouraged by this fun & inspiring chat with Sarah Jackson (Church Revitalization Trust) who joins us from London to chat about what happens when people come together to care for others (hint: a different kind of outbreak, one of joy & neighborly love).

"What can we do during this pandemic?" she asks. "We can show love; we can show small acts of kindness that don't cost us anything, but actually make people know that they're valued, they're seen, they're not invisible."

Which they did at the encouragement of HTB Vicar Nicky Nicky Gumbel, calling their plan: Love Your Neighbor - an effort to help the most isolated and vulnerable across the U.K. during the Covid-19 crisis. They could never have imagined it would become a movement across all of the United Kingdom (and even beyond), bringing churches together with lots of love given and shared.

And - as the 2020 Christmas season approached, these now connected churches added “Love Christmas”, a holiday-step-further effort delivering a million “Love Christmas” boxes to people in need across the U.K.

Sarah Jackson is a curate at Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) church and CEO of the Church Revitalisation Trust in London. She is passionate about the role we have to play in bringing hope and change to society.

Find Sarah at crtrust.org

Anne's story that began with a paper she wrote in 3rd grade, that hit lots of highs, lows and lots of waiting is sure to inspire you (as it did us, Brenda Teele to tears) and put wind in your sails as your travel your own journey. Hers tapped into art then back to writing which is why she joined our carpool chat - to share about her new devotional -- Angels: Devotions and Art to Encourage, Refresh, and Inspire.

Stunning art and thoughtful words for 40 days. Here's a taste as Anne redeems the word busy, "I just did not want to glorify that word. So I came up with an acronym B.U.S.Y: Be Uniquely Serving Yaweh by using what is specifically yours."

So beautiful. We hope this will bring a smile to your "busy" day and little lift in your step as you go about doing what you are uniquely created and gifted to do.

ABOUT ANNE: As an artist, author, philanthropist, wife, and mother, Anne Neilson paints and creates her home products with both passion and purpose – giving back to others by contributing to local, national, and international charitable organizations with proceeds from her art shows, books, and products. In addition to Anne Neilson Home, she also owns Anne Neilson Fine Art, an art gallery located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Representing more than 50 talented artists from across the world, the gallery is dedicated to being a lighthouse in Charlotte and beyond, illuminating the work of emerging and established artists.

Find Anne at anneneilsonhome.com or @anneneilsonhome on Instagram

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The amazing, best-selling author Holley Gerth joins us to chat about how to fully function in and to be blessed by our biological and genetic wiring (specifically introvert & extrovert).

"All of us are perfectly designed for God's purpose for OUR lives," Holley shares, "not for anyone else's. For ours; we have what it takes."

This chat is chock full of encouragement for introverts, for those who walk next to introverts, for extroverts -- okay, for us all. Stay tuned until the end for Holley's terrific tips to a joy-filled life!

Holley Gerth is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, licensed counselor, and life coach. She imagines a world where we all become who we’re created to be, use our strengths to serve, and grow for a lifetime. Holley cofounded the groundbreaking blogging community (in)courage and cohosts the popular podcast More Than Small Talk.

Find Holley at holleygerth.com or @holleygerth on Instagram/Twitter

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The wonderful, hilarious, insightful and always fun Melanie Dale joins Cynthia Yanoff (Pardon the Mess Podcast) and Kay to chat about calm-parenting at any stage - even in a Pandemic. Her latest book, Calm the Heck Down: How to Let Go & Lighten Up About Parenting comes out in December. we're lucky to get this uplifting preview.

Melanie shares about:

* palms up parenting

* parenting in the pandemic

* giving grace & breathing to yourself

* her terrific, life-infusing GRACE acronym!

We hope you'll get as much from this as we did -- and that you'll be inspired to go SaySomething encouraging to the folks walking alongside you today.

Melanie Dale is an author, speaker, podcaster, and mother of three children from three different continents. She and her husband live in the Atlanta area. They have successfully kept their kids alive for a combined total of 227,760 hours, give or take. Melanie has appeared on numerous radio shows and podcasts and has been featured in articles in Real Simple, The Bump, Working Mother, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Los Angeles Times.

Find Melanie at melaniedale.com or @melanierdale on Instagram

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Sam Collier shares his incredible story to encourage each of us in our own stories. His is a story of abandonment, sacrifice, gratitude, and rescue, revealing how God is always doing something bigger and better than we might imagine - which can a challenge any day, but especially in our current environment.

"If we stay so focused on our hardships, we will miss the things around us that we that we find ourselves praying for all the time," Sam encourages.

We hope you enjoy and are inspired like we were by Sam's winsome wisdom. Stay until the end when Sam shares his terrific tips on a joy-filled life.

Sam Collier is a pastor, speaker, author, and host of "A Greater Story with Sam Collier" TV Show and Podcast. As a communicator and consultant, he speaks and contributes nationally and internationally at North Point Ministries the reThink Group/Orange Leaders, Alpha International Leadership Conference, Global Leadership Summit, and more. Sam lives with his wife, Toni, and their daughter in Atlanta, Georgia.

It's hard to navigate today's challenges. But as friends, let's do it together. So, SaySomething Show's hosts Julie Hildebrand, Brenda Teele and Erin Schreyer and Kay chat about loving neighbors in challenging climates like today's racial tension and Covid-19 fears. We also dial in Brenda's sister Lisa Hank from Las Vegas where she has served in a civilian capacity at the LVMPD. She points us toward perspective, courage and inclusion.

Where can we land on hope and how do we genuinely come alongside each other with encouraging words? We lean into and learn from conversation that is far from perfect or from solving all the problems. But it's a start which we hope will inspire further conversation for us all. With a few laughs plus lots of listening & learning - this, like most of our chats, is one to be continued.

Thanks for joining and for walking the road together!

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In our new social-distancing and even shelter-in-place environment thanks to the Corona Virus - it's still important to remain connected. And there are safe ways to do that, with the people who live closest to us. Kristin Schell chats with us today (via Zoom!) on why we need to and simply ways how to do just that.

Kristin Schell is an author, speaker and blogger on the subjects of food, faith, and hospitality. Passionate about community, she founded the Turquoise Table and Front Yard People movement where she offers encouragement & practical insight on how to open our lives and homes to others. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Tony, and their four children.

Shelly Miller, author and founder of the Sabbath Society, joins us to talk about Sabbath rest - a purposed break planned and set aside to replenish our soul, even during times when a slow-down came without our asking (COVID-19). Why not make the most of it?

Shelly Miller is an author, veteran ministry leader and sought-after mentor on making rest a rhythm of life. She leads the Sabbath Society, an online community of people who want to make rest a priority, and curates Sabbath Society Circles, small groups that meet in neighborhoods and cities around the globe. Shelly & her husband H, an Anglican minister who resources church planting in the UK, live London with their kids.

Find Shelly at shellymillerwriter.com or @shellymillerwriter on Instagram

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Jennie Allen, award- winning NYT bestselling author, Bible teacher & Founder and visionary of IF:Gathering, joins Kay & Cynthia Yanoff with Pardon the Mess Podcast to chat about getting out of our heads and getting our thoughts anchored on life-giving Truth.

She hopes to link arms with women and encourage at least two things: "1. Do you know that all of these thoughts that you're thinking - you don't have to think? 2. Do you know how valuable you are to God? - and how much has equipped you to fight this fight ... and win."

Jennie Allen is an award- winning and NYT bestselling author, Bible teacher & sought after speaker. Her latest book Get out of Your Head tackles our spiraling toxic thoughts, pointing readers to the power & freedom we have available to us. The founder and visionary for the IF: Gathering, she is a passionate leader following God's call on her life to catalyze a generation of women to live what they believe. Find Jennie at jennieallenn.com or @jenniesallen on Instagram

Pardon the Mess Podcast is a brand of christianparenting.org a part of Denison Forum.

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