Spiritually Minded Women Podcast

By Darla Trendler

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What's Spiritually Minded Women Podcast about?

There's more than one way to be a spiritually minded woman who wants to make and keep covenants, know her Savior and make it back home. Yes, there are essential CHECKPOINTS on the covenant path, but there are NO CHECKLISTS with a million checkboxes you must check off.

Each week on the Spiritually Minded Women podcast I’ll be sharing insights about how to embrace YOUR journey on the covenant path with CHECKPOINTS instead of CHECKLISTS.

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How to Do All the Things Go...

04.13.2022

In early 2020, Lynnette Sheppard was called to be a Relief Society president. She was already feeling inadequate and then the pandemic hit along with many personal trials including family challenges and business struggles. By January 2021, Lynnette felt she ...

Spiritually Minded Women Podcast episodes:

04.13.2022 How to Do All the Things God is Asking You to Do \|\| Lynnette Sheppard In early 2020, Lynnette Sheppard was called to be a Relief Society president. She was already feeling inadequate and then the pandemic hit along with many personal trials including family challenges and business struggles. By January 2021, Lynnette felt she ...
04.06.2022 Why Paying Attention to Your Desires Can Lead You to Great Things \|\| Ceri Payne Ceri Payne was very content raising three teen daughters and working from home as a special education teacher, but everything changed when she and her husband were asked to facilitate a self-reliance class. During the class, Ceri realized she had ...
03.30.2022 Why Sharing Your Talents Will Open Your Heart to Jesus Christ's Love \|\| Katie Mitchell In 2020, Katie Mitchell found herself dealing with personal trials in addition to the pandemic. She knew she needed hope and something to lift her spirits and felt a prompting to start sharing poetry with friends and family on Instagram. ...
03.23.2022 How to Have the Spiritual Vision to Enjoy Your Unexpected Journey \|\| Brittany Staker Several years ago Brittany Staker visited the eye doctor for a routine exam and learned she had a rare eye disease that would cause her to lose her vision. She lost her night vision and peripheral vision and then woke ...
03.16.2022 What I'm Learning from a Social Media Break + A New Direction for the Podcast \|\| Solo Episode Listen to hear what I've been learning since deciding to take a break from social media over 6 weeks ago. I'm also sharing a new direction I am taking with podcast which includes a new season focused on the doctrine ...
03.09.2022 How to Use the Enabling Power of Jesus to Flourish in Your Challenges \|\| Christi Hibbert Christi Hibbert, a psychologist, author, wife and mother, describes her two and a half year battle with breast cancer as a roller coaster she couldn’t get off of. Christi discusses in this interview how cancer and other grief-filled experiences in ...
03.02.2022 How You Can Drop Expectations and See God Show Up in the Perfect Way \|\| Taylor Ricks In this interview, Taylor Ricks tells about a 24 hour period when she found out she was pregnant and the newborn she and her husband were fostering and hoping to adopt had down syndrome and might not be adoptable. She ...
02.23.2022 SMW 049: Why Living Inside Your Temple Covenants is the Safest Place to be \|\| Listener Group Discussion Listen to hear the perspectives of 14 different women on what it means to live inside their temple covenants. Each of these women has varied experiences, seasons of life and a unique journey on the covenant path but all testify ...
02.16.2022 SMW 048: How Hard Times Can Bring You Growth and a Way to Help Others \|\| Melissa Bunkers Melissa Bunkers realized her dream and goal of becoming a nurse practitioner and then felt God pointing her in a new direction with functional medicine. In this interview, Melissa discusses the ways she felt the Savior guide her by putting ...
02.09.2022 SMW 047: What Living Inside My Temple Covenants Means to Me Solo Episode Episode Links Come to the live group episode recording about covenants: Sign up here Parenting in Real Life podcast episode: 3 Tips for Navigating the Teenage Years Pebbles of Light podcast episode: Helping Others Recognize Their Divine Potential President Nelson’s ...
02.02.2022 SMW 046: Join a Group Podcast Episode + How We Hear Him Replay This episode is an invitation to join a group podcast recording. Then, you’ll hear a replay of an episode that originally aired on May 6, 2020. That episode came as a result of a very strong and distinct impression to ...
01.26.2022 SMW 045: How You Can Embrace Love and Trust God When Your Child Comes Out As Gay \|\| Becky Mackintosh When Becky Mackintosh's son came out to her as gay, the first thing she did was pray and in this interview she shares that the clear answer she received that night and many times since was simple--love him. In this ...
01.19.2022 SMW 044: Why a Messy Journey Does Not Prevent You From Boldly Coming to Jesus \|\| Teniesha Williams Teniesha Williams received strong spiritually promptings to marry her husband, a childhood friend, who had been sober from addiction for four years. Teniesha felt doubt and questioned the promptings when shortly after their marriage and her pregnancy her husband started ...
01.12.2022 SMW 043: How Sharing Your Gifts Will Take Your Journey From Dim To Bright \|\| Jessica Brite Peterson As a young mom, Jessica Brite Peterson realized the light within her was on dim. In this interview, Jessica shares how she got the light back in her life and how you can do the same thing by figuring out ...
01.05.2022 SMW 042: Why You Already Have Everything You Need to Feel Joy and Live Your Purpose \|\| EmyLee McIntyre EmyLee McIntyre shares how her personal struggle with depression led her to help other women understand that suffering caused by trials is optional and joy can be found in any circumstance. We also dive into why just being on earth ...
12.15.2021 SMW 041: Why Learning of and Connecting to Heavenly Mother is Essential to Your Journey \|\| McArthur Krishna In this interview McArthur Krishna shares about her experience following personal revelation to marry her husband, who is not a member of the church, and what she learned about growth on the covenant path. McArthur also discusses why Heavenly Mother ...
12.08.2021 SMW 040: Why Better Relationships Start with Being Closer to Jesus Christ \|\| Crystal Haitsma Crystal Haitsma struggled as a young mom to be the parent she wanted to be. In this interview, Crystal shares how she turned to God for help and realized that deepening her relationship with Jesus Christ was the way to ...
12.01.2021 SMW 039: Why Doing What God Tells You To Do Will Help You Lead Out \|\| Susan Madsen Growing up, Susan R. Madsen didn't look at her future beyond getting married and having a family, but after she started having children, Susan realized she was being called by God to get more education. She earned a masters degree ...
11.24.2021 Why You Might Not Know When You are Feeling the Spirit How do I recognize the Holy Ghost when it comes? If you’ve ever asked yourself this question, you’ll want to listen to this episode. This episode originally aired over two years ago when the name of this podcast was Spiritually ...
11.17.2021 SMW 038: How the Story Written in Your Heart Connects You to Other Women \|\| Jen Mabray Jen Mabray is a student of Jewish Studies and Hebrew who is currently pursuing a PhD. In addition to her academic pursuits, Jen is also a wife, mother, author and seminary teacher. In this interview Jen shares about the book ...
11.10.2021 SMW 037: How Jesus Christs Atonement is Helping One Young Woman Heal from Pornography Addiction \|\| Ashlee Ayre Ashlee Ayre is a 20 year old woman who loves acting and playing the piano. She comes from a large family and also became addicted to pornography at age 11 starting with looking up pictures and words in a dictionary ...
11.03.2021 SMW 036: How Choosing Jesus Daily Will Help You Live in Your Purpose \|\| Chanelle Neilson Chanelle Neilson believes most of her growth on the covenant path has not come from huge trials but from choosing daily to follow Jesus and live in her purpose. In this episode, Chanelle shares the practical things she does to ...
10.27.2021 SMW 035: Why Latter-day Saint Women are Uniquely Qualified to Run for Political Office \|\| Audrey Perry Martin After 20 years as an election lawyer, Audrey Perry Martin has definitely seen the negative sides of politics. But despite her own cynicism from the things she has seen in her career, Audrey is sharing in this interview why she ...
10.20.2021 SMW 034: How to Let Christ Fill the Hole in Your Heart Left by Depression \|\| Laura Cragun Listen to Laura Cragun, a wife and mom of 3 young kids share about her personal challenges with mental health including depression, anxiety, eating disorders and suicidal ideation. Laura discusses how she has sought help through therapy and medication as ...
10.13.2021 SMW 033: Why Understanding Christ's Covenant Promises Gives You a Framework for Resilient Faith \|\| Sharla Goettl How do you teach your child to stay on the covenant path and make and keep covenants? That was a question mother and youth leader, Sharla Goettl, heard a lot. Writing a book with help for these questions was never ...
10.06.2021 SMW 032: How Waiting Will Help You Learn to Have Hope in Christ \|\| Graciela Moore Graciela Moore was raised in the Catholic church in her native Puerto Rico but stopped going to church after high school. In this interview, you will hear how Grace felt God guiding her throughout her life to find the gospel ...
09.30.2021 Why Living Your Life with a Checklist Won't Get You Where God Wants You to Be Surprise! I’m thrilled to be back to podcasting. This is a solo episode where I tell you how I learned that walking the covenant path with a checklist in one hand and a pen to check off “all the things” ...
07.28.2021 SMW 031: How Gods Love Will Help You Rebuild When Your Life Feels Shattered \|\| Natalie Reeve Natalie Reeve gained a testimony of the gospel at a young age but also experienced a time in her life that left her feeling shattered by abuse, lack of trust and an eating disorder. Natalie describes this period of her ...
07.21.2021 SMW 030: Faith to Follow What God is Calling You To Do \|\| Alexis Tanner After being married for three months, Alexis Tanner felt a prompting that she and her husband should start their family. Alexis followed the prompting but was disappointed when the pregnancy ended in miscarriage. In this interview, Alexis, who is now ...
07.14.2021 SMW 029: How to Use Your Prayers to Truly Build a Relationship with God \|\| Niki Olsen Niki Olsen, a mental health therapist, coach wife and mother of two, grew up with no spiritual guidance or knowledge in her life. At the age of 19, Niki converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but ...
07.07.2021 SMW 028: How You Can Find Peace in Christ Even in the Darkness \|\| Abbie Twingstrom Abbie Twingstrom’s journey on the covenant path has included both darkness and light. As a young adult missionary and newlywed, Abbie felt troubled by the lack of answers she received and struggled to continue to choose to stay in the ...
06.30.2021 SMW 027: How to Feel Gods Love for You When You Feel Different from Others \|\| Elisabeth Robinson Elisabeth Robinson’s father died when she was a baby and she often found herself feeling like a “nobody” in the church because she would never be the bishop’s daughter. She is also half Japanese and half Brazillian and Elisabeth often ...
06.23.2021 SMW 026: Why Your Unique Gifts Matter in the Work of Building Gods Kingdom \|\| Sally Dupaix Have you ever thought that you don’t have any talents or wondered how your quirky gifts could possibly help someone else? If so, you’ll totally relate to my guest, Sally Dupaix. Sally grew up cooking and baking with her mom ...
06.16.2021 SMW 025: How Finding Joy for Yourself Will Help You Share Light with Others \|\| Nicole Utley Nicole Utley is someone who has taken gathering others and self-improvement to a whole new level. She believes gathering is a Christ-like act when you have a purpose and you plan with the needs of those attending the event in ...
06.09.2021 SMW 024: The Next Step When Your Answers from God End in Commas Instead of Periods \|\| Alisse Coil When Alisse Coil was 16 years old, she visited the Sacred Grove in New York. Alisse was sure this visit would be the defining moment of her testimony. So, she was a little taken aback when the only answer she ...
06.03.2021 SMW 023: How to Have Confidence to be an Instrument for God as an Adult Convert \|\| Anne Maxson Anne Maxson grew up in Minnesota going to the Lutheran church. While attending graduate school in Chicago, Anne reached out to friend she had known through a church camp growing up and that friend introduced Anne to The Church of ...
05.28.2021 SMW BONUS EPISODE: Using the Enabling Power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ to Make Your Burdens LIght I have been feeling really weighed down by many things in my life for several months. Recently, I realized the reason I feel weighed down is because I am relying on myself instead of giving my burdens to Jesus. This ...
05.26.2021 SMW 022: Giving Your Heart to the Savior for Healing \|\| Laura LaBerteaux Laura LaBerteaux has struggled with postpartum depression several times in her motherhood. She especially felt the darkness of depression after her third child was born when she was also facing her husband being called as a bishop, a house fire ...
05.19.2021 SMW 021: Why Jesus is So Accessible to You in Your Journey \|\| Heidi Dunkley Heidi Dunkley grew up in the same town her whole life. But that all changed on her 19th birthday when, as a freshly married couple, she and her husband moved to New York. Heidi shares about the experiences she had ...
05.12.2021 SMW 020: How Knowing Your Infinite Worth Will Help You Love Your Body Trish Braunersrither Although Trish Braunersrither has been a wife and mother for many years, she says her full-time job for most of her life has been trying to shrink her body. In this interview, Trish shares how disordered eating affected every area ...
05.05.2021 SMW 019: When Your Covenant Journey Helps You Know the Path You Don't Want \|\| Denita Bremer As a child, Denita Bremer attended The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with her grandparents. She had undeniable experiences where she learned that God wanted to communicate with her. But Denita’s home life with her parents was anything ...
04.28.2021 SMW 018: How Christ is Ahead of You Beside You or Behind You in Your Journey \|\| Karen Krammer Karen Krammer is someone who has experienced great trials and tragedy in her life including what she calls “the four Ds”–disease, death, divorce, debt. In this interview, Karen shares how her 25 year marriage ended in divorce after her husband ...
04.21.2021 SMW 017: How Saying Yes to God's Promptings Will Help You Become More \|\| Natalie Bogle In this interview, you’ll hear Natalie Bogle say the same phrase many times, “Heavenly Father said to do this.” Whether it’s adopting, homeschooling, moving, starting a business or anything else, Natalie Bogle always finds herself saying “Yes” to God. In ...
04.14.2021 SMW 016: Why Jesus is There Even When Your Journey Feels Messy \|\| Audra Elkington After growing up in the church, attending BYU and marrying in the temple, Audra Elkington found herself with serious questions about her membership in the church. At the age of 32, she walked away with the intention of never coming ...
04.07.2021 SMW 015: Being Converted to Christ Through Small and Simple Experiences \|\| Courtney Lee Have you ever questioned your conversion because you haven’t had a huge, miraculous spiritual experience? If so, then you’ll totally relate to my guest, Courtney Lee. Courtney shares how she has always had a natural trust in Heavenly Father and ...
03.31.2021 SMW 014: Embracing Love and Peace in a Journey with a Gay Ex-husband \|\| Jessica Frew Three days before Jessica Frew married Steve, he confided in her about his pornography addiction. Jessica prayed and fasted and felt peace and guidance that she should marry Steve. Even though she was sure of the answer she had received, ...
03.24.2021 SMW 013: How Your Covenants Help You Belong to Jesus \|\| Noelle McBride In this interview, you’ll hear from Noelle McBride. Noelle shares part of her journey on the covenant path which involves divorce and learning how keeping her covenants helps her truly belong to Jesus. Journal Questions Noelle shared this quote from ...
03.24.2021 SMW 012: Understanding Priesthood Power Through Personal Revelation In this episode, I’m sharing what I’ve learned about priesthood power. One of the biggest things I’ve personally learned is that understanding priesthood power is about more than studying scriptures, reading conference talks, and attending the temple. For me, understanding ...
03.24.2021 SMW 011: #Jesusinmyjourney Welcome to season 5 of the Spiritually Minded Women Podcast. I am so happy to be back behind the mic! Listen to this short episode to hear what you can expect in the new season including: Interviews with women from ...
12.09.2020 SMW 010: Love One of my favorite talks from the April 2020 general conference was by Sister Joy Jones. She shared about the roles of covenant-keeping women in the Restoration. Sister Jones said, “In the final analysis of women’s continuing roles in the ...

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