The Collide Podcast

In this episode, we sit down with Jillana Goble, a speaker, author, and foster care advocate to hear her inspiring journey of becoming a passionate voice for vulnerable children. Jillana shares how God developed a deep desire in her heart to advocate for the most vulnerable, and how that calling has shaped her life and founding the statewide movement Every Child Oregon. Together, we dive into the real talk about managing expectations around outcomes in the foster care system, the immense need for more foster families, and the ways we can stretch our hearts to make a difference in the lives of kids in need.

Whether you're considering fostering, know someone who is, or just want to learn how to advocate for those in vulnerable situations, this conversation with Jillana offers insight, encouragement, and practical wisdom.

As promised, here are the resources we mentioned in the podcast. We hope you love them as much as we do. 

Connect with Jillana on her website

Read her books: A Love Streached Life, and No Sugar-Coating

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Join us for a Collide Conference for Women! These one-night events gather together women of all ages, stages, and faith backgrounds for an incredible night of inspiration and encouragement. Attending a Collide conference is a unique experience that women walk away from feeling refreshed, energized, hopeful, and changed. Check out our website for info on upcoming events.

Need additional travel info or suggestions? Email us at [email protected] and we'd be happy to help.

Here's a Blog we think you'll love! "Beautiful Mess", written by a Foster Mom.

Our Yes, You Bible study on self-worth encourages women to see beyond their inadequacies so they can be purposed to their fullest potential.

What if the very thing you’re afraid of is the doorway to your greatest impact?

In this inspiring episode of the Collide Podcast, host Willow Weston sits down with Jessica Honegger to talk about how God transformed her personal struggles into a thriving business that now provides dignified work to vulnerable communities around the world. She shares her leap of faith that started from a place of unexpected need, the unpredictable path that followed, and how courage and calling often grow in the midst of fear. Whether you’re wrestling with self-doubt, longing for purpose, or standing at the edge of a risky decision, this episode will remind you that courage is imperfect—but powerful.

Jessica Honegger is the founder of Noonday Collection, a socially conscious business that creates opportunities for artisans around the globe, and the author of Imperfect Courage. She is passionate about empowering women, fighting poverty through entrepreneurship, and helping others discover their purpose. Jessica’s story is a powerful example of what happens when faith meets risk and ordinary people choose to step into extraordinary impact.

• How a place of personal need became the seed for a global movement
• Why courage doesn’t mean being fearless—and how to move forward anyway
• The curvy, unpredictable path of building something bigger than yourself
• How dignified work transforms not only communities but lives
• Why faith is often the fuel for stepping into purpose

If you’ve ever felt paralyzed by fear or unsure of what comes next, this episode will give you hope to take the first step. You’ll be reminded that your courage doesn’t need to be perfect—it just needs to be real.

Go Ahead Bible Study - Empowers women to step into their days expecting to experience the extraordinary and God’s divine presence in everyday moments.

6 Places to Go Looking for God – This guide will help you find and experience God in fresh, life-giving ways, encouraging spiritual growth and renewing your faith.

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Welcome to our Summer Highlight Series on The Collide Podcast! Throughout the summer, we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes, where we hear stories of people who have experienced life-changing collisions with Jesus. Each conversation you hear on this podcast will ignite your hope, your healing, and your purpose. 

Today, we’re excited to bring back this episode with Counselor Kristi Knipp where we discussed how to support teen girls with depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation.

Kristi Knipp is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who specializes in working with teens struggling with anxiety, depression, and trauma. She values community, identity formation, and empowering clients with practical tools. Kristi enjoys spending time with her family, gardening, and reading. 

Whether you’re listening again or discovering it for the first time, we hope you enjoy this special edition of The Collide Podcast.

Let’s be friends! Check out Collide’s website for info on upcoming conferences, events, and resources, and follow us on Facebook and Instagram for encouragement, inspo and a fun peek into our ministry. Plus, subscribe to our newsletter to stay up-to-date on all things Collide!

The Counseling Bundle is a tremendous online course covering the 12 most common issues women face in counseling featuring tips, tools, and advice from mental health professionals. This course is a great fit for anyone considering whether counseling is for them, or as an option to begin the healing process while waiting to see a counselor. Now includes a beautifully designed printed workbook with exercises, reflection space and resources to help you get the most out of your course!

Welcome to our Summer Highlight Series on The Collide Podcast! Throughout the summer, we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes, where we hear stories of people who have experienced life-changing collisions with Jesus. Each conversation you hear on this podcast will ignite your hope, your healing, and your purpose. 

Today, we’re excited to bring back this episode with Pastor Grant Fishbook, who is the Lead Teaching Pastor of Christ the King Community Church, with 6 campuses in NW Washington. In this episode we discuss everything you’ve ever wanted to ask a pastor. He assures us that pastors are just regular people, pursuing Jesus to the best of their ability. Being a pastor often means being uncomfortably transparent and allowing God to engage with people in meaningful ways that allows them to know that Jesus not only loves them, but likes them too. Listen in as Pastor Grant gets real about his faith and his own personal struggles, doubts and fears, and the realities of dealing with messy people.

Whether you’re listening again or discovering it for the first time, we hope you enjoy this special edition of The Collide Podcast.

Let’s be friends! Check out Collide’s website for info on upcoming conferences, events, and resources, and follow us on Facebook and Instagram for encouragement, inspo and a fun peek into our ministry. Plus, subscribe to our newsletter to stay up-to-date on all things Collide!

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Do you ever wish you could access the wisdom, tools, and advice of licensed mental health professionals from your very own couch? Now you can, with the Collide Counseling Bundle, which is an online course jam-packed with counselors giving their best teaching and resources on the topics you bump up against every day, like anxiety, finding your calling, and broken relationships. Check out this 12-part course now, and take your first step toward healing, wholeness, and freedom.

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Feeling burned out and wondering why sleep isn’t fixing it?

Welcome to The Collide Podcast Summer Highlight Series!

All summer long, we’re re-airing some of our most impactful episodes — conversations that have stirred hearts, sparked healing, and inspired real-life collisions with Jesus. Whether this is your first time listening or a return visit, each episode is filled with life-giving truth and purpose.

This episode originally aired in April 2024 and quickly became a listener favorite. In this conversation, Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith offers a transformative framework for understanding rest—not just sleep, but seven specific types of rest we all need to truly refresh our bodies and souls.

Today, we’re excited to bring back this episode with Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, a board-certified internal medicine physician and work-life integration researcher, as well as a speaker, and author of several books. She founded Restorasis, a company dedicated to restoring well-being in the workplace and helping with burnout prevention strategies. She does all of this while juggling family life.

In this episode, we discussed her book “Sacred Rest”, which explores 7 types of rest and the unhelpful ways we try to rest. The author shared her story of burnout, restoration, and becoming an expert on the topic.

Whether you’re listening again or discovering it for the first time, we hope you enjoy this special edition of The Collide Podcast.

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6 Places to Go Looking for God – This guide will help you find and experience God in fresh, life-giving ways, encouraging spiritual growth and renewing your faith.

All the Best – Connect with Jesus and find peace through guided reflections on Mary and Martha’s story, helping you overcome distraction, worry, and comparison.

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Welcome to our Summer Highlight Series on The Collide Podcast! Throughout the summer, we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes, where we hear stories of people who have experienced life-changing collisions with Jesus. Each conversation you hear on this podcast will ignite your hope, your healing, and your purpose.

Today, we’re excited to bring back this episode with Rick and Tiffany Bulman, who are the authors of the book “Mended, One Couples Journey from Betrayal to Imperfect Beauty.” These two have so much wisdom to share about forgiveness, hope, redemption, and reconciliation. In this episode, they talk about how baggage from their childhood and wounds from their early marriage led to affairs and betrayal. But they also share a heartfelt story of grace that offers a window into the lives of an ordinary family with an extraordinary story of God colliding with them in the mess of their marriage and giving them a message of redemption.

Whether you’re listening again or discovering it for the first time, we hope you enjoy this special edition of The Collide Podcast.

Let’s be friends! Check out Collide’s website for info on upcoming conferences, events, and resources, and follow us on Facebook and Instagram for encouragement, inspo and a fun peek into our ministry. Plus, subscribe to our newsletter to stay up-to-date on all things Collide!

And make sure to subscribe to the Collide Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts so you can listen in each week!

Collide Resources

NEW Broken & Beautiful: a 5-Day Devotional is a free resource to help you collide with Jesus and see that there can be beauty in the places we often see as broken. We created this tool so that as you work through Luke 7:36-50, you will keep running into the One who renamed the “sinful” woman, not by her brokenness, but by the beauty He could bring out of it.

Our Personal and Powerful Bible study reminds us that God is able to intersect with our lives in both personal and powerful ways. 

Welcome to our Summer Highlight Series on The Collide Podcast! Throughout the summer, we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes, where we hear stories of people who have experienced life-changing collisions with Jesus. Each conversation you hear on this podcast will ignite your hope, your healing, and your purpose.

Today, we’re excited to bring back this episode with Author Cheryl Bostrom where we talk about God, faith and the seasons of a woman’s life. Cheryl speaks straight to the heart and you will hang on her every word in this podcast. This author has made words her steady companion most her life. She is the author of 3 books including her latest, ‘Sugar Birds’ for which she is winning lots of awards. Her work has also appeared in a variety of publications, including The Upper Room Disciplines and the American Scientific Affiliation’s God and Nature Magazine, for which she’s a regular photo essayist. She is also a former columnist for Women of Faith.

Whether you’re listening again or discovering it for the first time, we hope you enjoy this special edition of The Collide Podcast.

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What if getting unstuck begins by uncovering the lies you believe about yourself and replacing them with what God says is true?

We all get stuck. Sometimes it’s in insecurity, unforgiveness, comparison, fear, or old ways of thinking. We know we want greater freedom and confidence, but figuring out how to actually move forward can feel overwhelming.

Coach, speaker, and self-described “trajectory shifter” Emily Jamieson joins Willow for a powerful conversation about what keeps us stuck and how we can begin moving toward greater freedom, confidence, and wholeness.

For Emily, that work starts with identity. She shares how God revealed that even a seemingly positive label like “super mom” had become a weight she was trying to live up to. When she released that identity and asked Jesus, Who do You say that I am?, the phrase “trajectory shifter” came to mind—an identity that reflected how God had already been working through her life.

Emily explains that many of us are living from lies rooted in past experiences: I’m not enough. I’m alone. I’m unlovable. I’m helpless. I’m hopeless. Moving toward freedom requires being willing to recognize those beliefs, get curious about where they came from, and invite God to replace them with truth.

Willow and Emily also unpack some of the other things that keep us stuck, including unforgiveness, isolation, and losing our willingness to learn and grow. Emily shares why forgiveness doesn’t erase what happened but can release us from the power it continues to hold over us—and why community is essential to moving forward.

And Emily is quick to admit that being a coach and helping others move forward doesn’t mean she never gets stuck herself. She opens up about motherhood, miscarriage, family challenges, insecurity, feeling like she’s failing, and her continued need for counseling, mentors, friends, and God’s truth. Her honesty is a reminder that you can be strong and still feel weak. You can help others and still need help. You can be moving toward freedom and still be a work in progress.

If you’re feeling bound by insecurity, stuck in an old story, or simply longing for more freedom and confidence, this conversation will encourage you to identify what’s holding you back, invite God into it, and take your next step forward.

Emily Jamieson is a coach, speaker, mentor, wife, mom of four boys, and owner of Jamieson Coaching. She has spoken at several Collide conferences and teaches in Collide’s Women of Impact course. At the heart of Emily’s work is a desire to help people experience greater freedom and confidence and become more aligned with who God created them to be.

Emily calls herself a “trajectory shifter” because she loves learning, growing, and passing along what has transformed her so that others can move closer to truth, love, and freedom.

• When you feel stuck: Start by asking what you’re believing. The way we see ourselves can shape the direction of our lives.
• When you don’t feel confident: Remember that your identity isn’t what you do, what you have, or what other people say about you.
• When an old experience still has power over you: Consider whether forgiveness may be part of moving forward. Forgiveness doesn’t erase the memory, but it can release its hold on you.
• When you think you already know: Stay curious. Emily believes a willingness to keep learning is essential to continuing to grow.
• When you’re isolated: Invite people into your life. Community can cultivate hope, movement, learning, and the courage to dream again.
• When you feel like you should have it all together: Give yourself grace. Even the people helping others move forward still have places where they need help.
• When shame tells you to hide: Bring the right people into your story. Vulnerability creates opportunities for deeper connection and freedom.
• When change feels overwhelming: Focus on today. Ask what choice you can make right now that moves you toward life, hope, presence, and freedom.

Getting unstuck doesn’t mean arriving at a place where you never struggle again.

Emily reminds us that freedom can look like recognizing a lie a little faster, inviting someone into what you’re carrying, choosing forgiveness, remaining curious, or simply asking God what He wants you to know today.

At the end of the conversation, Emily leads listeners through a listening prayer and invites us to ask Jesus two simple questions:

What do You want me to know?

Who do You say that I am?

You don’t have to change everything today. Start with what’s keeping you stuck, listen for what is true, and take your next step toward freedom and confidence.

Connect with Emily on her website

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Our FREE downloadable, Getting Unstuck, A Reflection to Help Unleash you into the Life you Desire is chocked full of tools and insights to help you recognize why you might be stuck and to help walk you toward freedom.

We know you’ll LOVE this podcast collection full of empowering stories from everyday women as well as practical advice and wisdom from leaders, counselors and more!

Welcome to our Summer Highlight Series on The Collide Podcast! Throughout the summer, we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes, where we hear stories of people who have experienced life-changing collisions with Jesus. Each conversation you hear on this podcast will ignite your hope, your healing, and your purpose.

Today, we’re excited to bring back this episode with Bridgette Ridenour, sister of actors Kirk Cameron and Candace Cameron Bure, as she shares what it was like to grow up feeling forgotten and living in the shadows of celebrity siblings. This episode will bless you as she shares God’s story of re-writing her inner narrative and using her story to help other people who have heard way too many "no’s" in their lives.

Whether you’re listening again or discovering it for the first time, we hope you enjoy this special edition of The Collide Podcast.

Let’s be friends! Check out Collide’s website for info on upcoming conferences, events, and resources, and follow us on Facebook and Instagram for encouragement, inspo and a fun peek into our ministry. Plus, subscribe to our newsletter to stay up-to-date on all things Collide!

Collide Resources:

• Our Personal and Powerful Bible study reminds us that God is able to intersect with our lives in both personal and powerful ways.
• The Counseling Bundle is a tremendous online course (now includes a printed workbook!) covering the 12 most common issues women face in counseling featuring tips, tools, and advice from mental health professionals. This course is a great fit for anyone considering whether counseling is for them, or as an option to begin the healing process while waiting to see a counselor.

Welcome to our Summer Highlight Series on The Collide Podcast! Throughout the summer, we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes, where we hear stories of people who have experienced life-changing collisions with Jesus. Each conversation you hear on this podcast will ignite your hope, your healing, and your purpose. Today, we’re excited to bring back this episode with Pastor Kip McCormack where we discussed how to lean into faith and how to have peace amid chaos when fears and anxiety threaten to overwhelm you.

Kip McCormick, who is now a pastor after retiring from the military after 28 years of service as an Army active duty colonel, intelligence officer, and Foreign Area Officer. Kip has a passion for God's Word and has completed his PhD in Biblical Studies. With his combined military service experience as a senior officer, former U.S. Military Academy (West Point) instructor, and intelligence professional Kip uses his knowledge and life experiences to equip and encourage others in their walk with Christ.

Whether you’re listening again or discovering it for the first time, we hope you enjoy this special edition of The Collide Podcast.

Collide Resources

• Our 5 Week Guide to Manage Your Anxiety is chocked full of advice from licensed counselors to walk you through spiritual and emotional health exercises, reflection spaces, and resources with tools to help meet you in your desire for peace and trust in the midst of angst and agony. 
• NEW Broken & Beautiful: a 5-Day Devotional is a free resource to help you collide with Jesus and see that there can be beauty in the places we often see as broken. We created this tool so that as you work through Luke 7:36-50, you will keep running into the One who renamed the “sinful” woman, not by her brokenness, but by the beauty He could bring out of it.
• The Counseling Bundle is a tremendous online course covering the 12 most common issues women face in counseling featuring tips, tools, and advice from mental health professionals. This course is a great fit for anyone considering whether counseling is for them, or as an option to begin the healing process while waiting to see a counselor. Now includes a beautifully designed printed workbook with exercises, reflection space and resources to help you get the most out of your course!