Slightly off Script with Andy and Bethany Needham

In this episode, Bethany interviews fellow podcaster Jamie Ivey! Jamie Ivey is the host of the popular podcast, The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey, where she interviews women each week that are changing their world around them by being amazing! She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, four kids, and two dogs. She loves encouraging women to be all that God has created them to be!

In this episode, Bethany interviews long-time friend Alicia Vitello! Listen in as Ali shares about living and doing ministry in the same town that she grew up in. She shares what it looks like for her family to “go with God’s flow” through the years. Ali also shares with us what it’s looked like for her to listen to God and give up the control in many areas of her life.

In this episode, Bethany interviews fellow podcaster Emily Thomas! Emily is the host of the Mom Struggling Well podcast where she employs humor and candor to share the encouragement from God’s word and her personal motherhood misadventures in an effort to build up worn-down moms everywhere.

Bethany chats with Becky Woods! Becky is a wife, a mom of two boys, sings with her husband Jonas Woods and a small business owner! Becky walked through a season of cancer and she opens up about the ways God showed up in that time and all He revealed to her. We also chat motherhood, the life of a band wife, the beauty  of praying for others and the power in praising during suffering. Be sure to check out Becky’s business, Rivkah Designs, and all the beautiful ways she weaves scripture into her designs!

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In this episode, Lori Brown Harris returns! Lori was one of our guests in season one and we are SO GLAD to have her back! It’s been 8 months since Lori was on “Hey Girl” and there was so much to catch up on! She gives us an update her husband is doing, the new rhythms her family is settling into and what God has been showing her in this unique season. You’ll LOVE this conversation!

Bethany sits down for a very candid, truth-filled, hope-saturated conversation with her good friend David Larson. David opens up about the challenges of his adolescence, being Christian who has homosexual desires, and how in everything his struggles point him back to Jesus time and time again. He talks candidly about God challenged him with the question "Am I enough for you?" and the journey of answering that question.

This is a conversation full of wisdom, joy, quotables and reflecting the power of God! Samantha and her family live in Puebla, Mexico as missionaries. We hear the story of how God opened her and her husband’s heart to adoption and eventually led them to Mexico to open a home for orphaned children. Samantha shares with us about seasons in her life where she wrestled and found answers to the questions--”Is God who He says He is?” and “Is He good?”.

In this episode, Bethany interviews Regina Robinson. You are going to love this story! Regina and her husband Jua planted a church in Boston, MA back in 2007. She is a wife and mother of 4, while also serving as Dean of Student Affairs for Cambridge College, as a member of our Boston Public School committee, and as a powerful advocate for those whose voices aren’t always heard.

In this episode, Bethany interviews her new co-host, Laurie Casagrande (you can also call her Wilson)! She shares her journey back to God and finding a church home at Chapel of the Cross. She talks about the jobs she has held and how her passion for healthy, natural food ties into her work. Laurie also shares the ways she connects with God and how she continues to grow. There’s talk of life groups, boundaries, trampolines, stewarding our health, and lots of laughter!

Welcome to season 2 of “Hey Girl!”! In this episode, Jenn’s back! She gives us an update on what’s been happening in her life the past few months, how her son Charlie is doing and her decision to take a step back from “Hey Girl!”. Jenn and Bethany talk through about life--the highs, the lows, learning to say no, the expectations we put on ourselves, looking ahead to the 2018, love of laminators, and God’s goodness in the midst of it all!