The Collide Podcast

Feeling burned out and wondering why sleep isn’t enough to truly restore you?

In this powerful episode of the Collide Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith to talk about what it really means to rest—beyond just getting more sleep. She shares her personal story of hitting burnout as a busy physician and mom, and how it led her to uncover the seven types of rest we all need to live whole, healthy lives. Whether you’re stretched thin, running on empty, or longing to feel refreshed in both body and soul, this episode will remind you that real rest is possible—and it’s more sacred than you think.

About This Episode

Burnout doesn’t just happen from doing too much—it can happen from not getting the right kind of rest. In this episode, Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith unpacks insights from her book Sacred Rest and shares her personal journey through exhaustion and into restoration. You’ll gain practical tools for recognizing your rest deficits and learn how to begin replenishing what’s truly empty.

Meet Dr. Saundra Dalton Smith

Dr. Smith is a board-certified internal medicine physician, speaker, author, and work-life integration researcher. She’s the founder of Restorasis, a wellness-focused organization dedicated to burnout prevention and restoring well-being in the workplace. With deep expertise and lived experience, she helps people reconnect with the kind of rest that actually heals.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn

• Why sleep alone doesn’t equal rest
• The 7 types of rest and how to identify which one you’re missing
• How burnout shows up in unexpected ways
• Practical strategies to begin restoring your energy and joy
• How rest connects with your faith, purpose, and calling

How This Episode Will Encourage You

If you’re feeling depleted, overwhelmed, or like you’re running on empty, this episode will help you name what you’re missing and offer a path back to peace. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of how rest is sacred, strategic, and essential—not just for surviving, but for living fully into who God created you to be.

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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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What happens when you follow God into the unknown with nothing but faith?

Pastor Alex Seeley shares how she and her husband left behind everything familiar in Australia to follow a call from God to Franklin, Tennessee. What started with a few people gathered in their living room turned into The Belonging Co—a vibrant church impacting thousands. In this conversation, Alex opens up about the fear, surrender, and deep spiritual transformation that came with obeying God’s invitation. You’ll be encouraged by her honesty, wisdom, and the powerful reminder that God specializes in making something amazing out of nothing.

About Pastor Alex Seeley

Alex is a dynamic pastor, author, and speaker with a passion for helping people discover their identity in Christ. She co-leads The Belonging Co in Nashville, TN, a church known for its Spirit-led worship and transformative teaching. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Alex is devoted to seeing lives changed by the power of Jesus’ love and truth.

What You’ll Hear

• The story behind Alex and her husband’s cross-continental move of faith
• Why surrendering to God’s plan often includes questions and wrestling
• God’s heart to use the unknown to bring about transformation
• Hope for anyone starting over or wondering what’s next

How This Episode Will Encourage You

If you're navigating uncertainty, wrestling with surrender, or wondering if God can really use your “nothing” for something meaningful—this episode will renew your faith. You’ll walk away with hope that God sees the bigger picture, practical encouragement to keep trusting, and a deeper belief that He is writing a beautiful story in your life, even if you can’t see it yet.

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Go Ahead - Empowers women to step into their days expecting to experience the extraordinary and Divine in everyday moments.

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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• Book: The Opposite Life: Unlocking the Mysteries of God's Upside-Down Kingdom

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Can one life really change the course of generations?

In this inspiring episode of the Collide Podcast, we sit down with Jefferson Lee to talk about legacy, influence, and the ripple effect of a single life lived with purpose. Jefferson shares about growing up in Korea, the man who changed his father’s life, and how that one act of kindness has transformed not only his own journey, but also the lives of his children. Whether you’re reflecting on your own story or wondering if your life can make a difference, this episode will remind you that even small actions can leave an eternal impact.

Jefferson Lee is a nonprofit development expert and the Senior Vice President of Development at Gloo. With 26 years of experience, he has helped raise over $240 million in support of churches and nonprofits around the world. He’s partnered with billionaires, celebrities, and major philanthropists, and his work has been featured in Global Fundraising. Beyond his professional success, Jefferson is deeply committed to volunteer work and serves on multiple advisory councils. His story is a powerful example of how legacy, generosity, and faith intersect.

• How one person’s influence can shape a multi-generational story
• The power of legacy and living with generational impact in mind
• How generosity can create ripples far beyond what we can imagine

If you’ve ever questioned whether your life, story, or actions matter, this episode will remind you that every choice to live with purpose can bless others in ways you may never fully see. You’ll be encouraged to live a life that leaves a legacy.

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We're bringing back a few of our favorite episodes from the archives to highlight for our Broken and Beautiful series. Listen in for encouragement that Jesus not only handles our brokenness, but He can use it to pour beauty out onto others. 

Do you ever feel yourself disengaging or pushing people away, but you’re not exactly sure why you’re doing it? Or on the flip side, do you ever experience the rejection of a friend who seems to be withdrawing? In this episode, Willow interviews Mental Health Counselor Breeze Potts on the cycles of how our insecurity perpetuates loneliness and broken relationships. They discuss challenging our inner assumptions, being curious about others, and what it means to lean into relationship.

We love connecting you with resources, so we pulled some of our faves based on this podcast episode. We hope they encourage, inspire and challenge you.  Enjoy!

Partner with Us to Impact Lives!

If you love this podcast and the work Collide is doing to impact lives, would you consider partnering with us? We rely entirely on the generous support of donors to fuel the life-changing work we do to create spaces for women to collide with Jesus in the midst of their brokenness. And you can be a part of that work! Your generous donations help us send women to counseling who couldn’t otherwise afford it, help us to create content to bring hope to the hurting, and to create spaces for women to connect in community.

Will you join our efforts to bring hope and healing to hurting women by giving a financial gift? Visit our website for more information about giving.

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

• 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.

• As women we often get stuck believing lies, settling for less than we deserve, and shrinking back rather than owning who we can become. We get stuck assuming things about God and about others. 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.

Connect with Collide at [email protected] or on Facebook or Instagram.

We're bringing back a few of our favorite episodes from the archives to highlight for our Broken and Beautiful series. Listen in for encouragement that Jesus not only handles our brokenness, but He can use it to pour beauty out onto others. 

Amy Brandt is a Marriage and Family Therapist who approaches therapy from a place of experience from a life that has been filled with immense challenges and great joys. Amy loves adventures in nature, including running, skiing, hiking, and picnics. She has a deep need to create beauty wherever she goes and often does this through cooking, painting, playing music, and gardening. She has also traveled a lot in her life and looks forward to more travel as her boys grow up. She lives in a beautiful patch of woods with her husband, their two boys and a yellow lab named Boone. In this episode, we chat with her about some practical therapeutic techniques the everyday person can employ to help manage their anxiety. 

We love connecting you with resources, so we pulled some of our faves based on this podcast episode. We hope they encourage, inspire and challenge you.  Enjoy!

Partner with Us to Impact Lives!

If you love this podcast and the work Collide is doing to impact lives, would you consider partnering with us? We rely entirely on the generous support of donors to fuel the life-changing work we do to create spaces for women to collide with Jesus in the midst of their brokenness. And you can be a part of that work! Your generous donations help us send women to counseling who couldn’t otherwise afford it, help us to create content to bring hope to the hurting, and to create spaces for women to connect in community.

Will you join our efforts to bring hope and healing to hurting women by giving a financial gift? Visit our website for more information about giving.

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 Birds and Lilies Bible study for anxiety seeks to counter what some are calling “anxiety culture,” a phenomenon that impacts women across the world.

• 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.

• Our 5 Week Guide to Manage Your Anxiety is chocked full of advice from five 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. Available as a digital download or printed guide.

Connect with Collide at [email protected] or on Facebook or Instagram.

We're bringing back a few of our favorite episodes from the archives to highlight for our Broken and Beautiful series. Listen in for encouragement that Jesus not only handles our brokenness, but He can use it to pour beauty out onto others. 

Carma Roetcisoender is a licensed mental health counselor whose primary focus and passion has been in helping survivors of sex trafficking find new hope and life through individual and group therapy. She loves helping vulnerable children and adults who have experienced poverty, homelessness, sexual and physical violence, and trauma as well as helping people with life transitions, grief and loss, and career changes. Talk about an amazing counselor. In this episode, Carma talks about the complexities of trauma, and reminds us that healing is possible.

We love connecting you with resources, so we pulled some of our faves based on this podcast episode. We hope they encourage, inspire and challenge you.  Enjoy!

• Connect with Carma on her website.
• Book Recommendation: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

Partner with Us to Impact Lives!

If you love this podcast and the work Collide is doing to impact lives, would you consider partnering with us? We rely entirely on the generous support of donors to fuel the life-changing work we do to create spaces for women to collide with Jesus in the midst of their brokenness. And you can be a part of that work! Your generous donations help us send women to counseling who couldn’t otherwise afford it, help us to create content to bring hope to the hurting, and to create spaces for women to connect in community.

Will you join our efforts to bring hope and healing to hurting women by giving a financial gift? Visit our website for more information about giving.

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.

• 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.

• There is great power that comes from recognizing the lies we believe about ourselves. Healing starts there. We’ve created a free downloadable exercise, Overcoming the Lies You Believe About Yourself,to help you truly think about the statements you’re believing that are untrue about yourself and God. This resource helps you move from recognizing lies to claiming truths.

Connect with Collide at [email protected] or on Facebook or Instagram.

What does it look like to keep choosing healing—day by day, step by step?

In this thought-provoking episode of the Collide Podcast, we continue our powerful two-part conversation on healing with mental health counselor Breeze Potts, Collide Founder Willow Weston, and Collide staffer Kristen Mattila. Picking up where Part One left off, this episode dives even deeper into the intentional steps we can take to pursue wholeness in our emotional, spiritual, and relational lives. With honesty, wisdom, and grace, Breeze, Willow, and Kristen unpack what real healing looks like—and how it often shows up in the most unexpected places. If you're ready to do the deep, meaningful work of healing, this episode is for you.

Breeze Potts is a licensed mental health counselor with a heart for guiding people through pain toward healing. Willow Weston is the founder and director of Collide, passionate about helping women encounter Jesus in real, raw ways. Kristen Mattila brings vulnerability and depth to this conversation, asking the questions we’re all wondering and sharing reflections from her own story. Together, these three voices offer a holistic and hope-filled view of the healing journey.

• What sustainable healing looks like over time
• How to invite God into the parts of your story you avoid
• Why community is essential in the healing process
• The role of honesty, therapy, and faith working together
• How healing transforms not just you—but the people around you

If you’ve ever wondered if deep healing is truly possible, this episode will breathe fresh hope into your journey. You’ll be reminded that healing isn’t a one-time fix—it’s a lifelong invitation to let God meet you, love you, and restore you day by day.

🎧 Haven’t listened to Part One yet? Go back and catch it—it lays the foundation for everything we unpack here in Part Two!

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Collide Women’s Conference - Join us for a powerful one-day event filled with inspiration, connection, and encouragement to help you pursue healing, purpose, and deeper faith.

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Birds and Lilies - A Bible study for anxiety that helps counter today’s “anxiety culture” with peace, faith, and trust in God’s provision.

Connect with Willow - Website | Instagram | Facebook

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What if healing isn’t just possible—but something you can actively move toward?

In this inspiring episode of the Collide Podcast, we kick off a two-part conversation on healing with mental health counselor Breeze Potts, Collide Founder Willow Weston, and Collide staffer Kristen Mattila. Together, they explore the intentional moves we can make to experience greater emotional, mental, and spiritual wholeness. This honest and hope-filled discussion invites you to consider how God might be calling you into deeper healing—right here, right now. Whether you're carrying old wounds or longing for inner renewal, this series is packed with rich wisdom you won't want to miss.

Breeze Potts is a licensed mental health counselor who brings a compassionate and practical approach to emotional healing. Willow Weston is the founder and director of Collide, known for her story-driven leadership and passion for seeing women collide with Jesus in the midst of real life. Kristen Mattila is a thoughtful and insightful member of the Collide team who adds honesty and depth to this conversation. Together, they offer a multi-layered perspective on the healing journey.

• Practical steps you can take toward healing and wholeness
• Why healing often begins with awareness and honesty
• How faith and mental health go hand in hand
• The importance of naming your pain and inviting God into it
• What it looks like to pursue healing in everyday life

If you’ve ever felt stuck in your brokenness or unsure of how to heal, this episode will meet you right where you are. You’ll be reminded that healing isn’t just for other people—it’s for you too, and it starts with small, brave steps toward Jesus.

👉 Stay tuned for Part Two, where the conversation continues with even more practical tools and powerful insight.

Check Out These Resources Inspired by This Episode

Collide Counseling Bundle - This online course tackles the 12 most common issues women face in counseling, offering practical tools, expert advice, and encouragement from licensed mental health professionals. The course also includes a beautifully designed printed workbook (mailed to your door) filled with exercises, reflection space, and helpful resources to guide your healing journey.

5 Week Guide to Manage Your Anxiety – Get expert advice from counselors, plus guided exercises, reflections, and tools to help you find peace and trust in the midst of anxiety.

Birds and Lilies - A Bible study for anxiety that helps counter today’s “anxiety culture” with peace, faith, and trust in God’s provision.

Connect with Willow - Website | Instagram | Facebook

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Sara Nelson is the Director of Small Groups and leads Bible teaching classes at North County Christ the King church in the Pacific Northwest, where she focuses on spiritual growth through authentic relationships. She aims to make Bible study exciting for personal growth. Sara is married with two daughters and enjoys sci-fi video games and collecting board games. In this podcast episode, we discuss the importance of supportive relationships as well as how to be intentional in seeking friendships that support you through difficult seasons and spur you toward spiritual growth.

We love connecting you with resources, so we pulled some of our faves based on this podcast episode. We hope they encourage, inspire and challenge you.  Enjoy!

 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!

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

• Collide and Converse: A Group Video Bible Study for Women This 6-week series centers around New Testament stories of people having life-changing collisions with Jesus.

• 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. 

Ciara Laine Myers is the author of the new book, "Glasses Off: Seeking God When Your Vision Is Gone," which encourages readers to seek God to find their purpose. In the book, Myers shares her struggles with finding her purpose and how she shifted her focus to find clarity. She guides readers to solidify their faith in God to discover their true calling. Myers is also the founder and co-owner of Intentional Counseling and lives in Prosper, Texas, with her family. In this episode, we discuss the significance of understanding your purpose and the process of seeking God's vision for your life. Ciara offers practical tools and steps to aid in identifying your true calling.

We love connecting you with resources, so we pulled some of our faves based on this podcast episode. We hope they encourage, inspire and challenge you.  Enjoy!

Connect with Ciara on Instagram

 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 and Beautiful: A 5-Day Devotion. Reframe your perspective on life's challenges by colliding with Jesus in the places you feel broken. Explore this 5-day Bible study on Luke 7:36-50 to discover beauty in brokenness and invite Jesus to transform your life.
• Our Yes, You Bible study on self-worth encourages women to see beyond their inadequacies so they can be purposed to their fullest potential. 
• The Women of Impact Online Course provides teaching and inspiration from women making a huge impact in the world as they tap into God’s purpose for their lives in the sectors and spaces they’ve been called to. Get inspired and equipped to make an impact with YOUR life.