In this episode, we chat with our friend and florist extraordinaire, Missy Robinson. We discuss her family’s adoption journey, the call to care for orphans at home and around the world, and how to be brave when God is calling you to jump. Along the way, we talk about practical ways to be an advocate for children, why marriages sometimes have a dragger and a dragee, and that time Missy and Tara battled it out garage-sale style with the Junk Gypsies.

We got carried away when we were visiting with Tori Bryan, so we turned the second half of our conversation into episode 9. Tori shares a hard truth about grief and grace, and we talk about some hard things we are walking through right now.

Our friend Tori Bryan, founder of For the City, is in the studio with the brave collective for a conversation about what happens when God calls you to do His work and you feel like you're not the girl. Spoiler alert: yes, it's too harder and yes, you ARE the girl.

This episode could have been titled: the day they just showed up. It was a day when we didn't feel prepared, our audio was off, we were all tired and struggling with...life...but we showed up anyway. And we talked through the lie that is plaguing too many of us: that we have to have it all together. Here's a spoiler, friends: you don't, we don't--and that's okay. If you're looking for a highly polished podcast, today's episode isn't it. This one is real, a little raw, and definitely rough around the edges.

We welcome our first guest of the season, Kayci Pharaon. She might be young, but she taught us a lesson about priorities and to-do lists. Tara reveals something very interesting about her past, and Kristi shares something that has impacted her parenting.

Spoiler alert: it was a break, and he is totally okay (a red cast cures all). You'll have to listen to episode 4 to find out where Merritt was when we recorded. Tara and Kristi explore LOTS of lies we tell ourselves in the course of a day, and Tara tells the story of a woman who could be any one of us.

This week Tara discovers there’s a name for those feelings we all have when we scroll social media: FOMO. We talk about FOMO in the digital age…and Merritt reminds us that even one of Jesus’ closest friends wasn’t immune to it.

In this episode, we reminisce about George Clooney and The Facts of Life, why the world needs a Truth Theater, and how we’re waging war on the lies women believe. Along the way, we hang out with an Old Testament king and discover why it matters deeply who we listen to and how truth opens the door to real freedom.

Tara, Kristi, and Merritt are back from summer break and dishing on everything from Topo Chico to miracle math to calendaring for creatives. Learn why we’re all Jesus’ favorites, how focusing on the important things combats procrastination, and whether it’s wise to have a proliferation of pillows.