The Collide Podcast

This episode gives so much practical advice, strategies, and tools for blended families. You will walk away with a renewed sense of hope that building health into your blended family is not only possible, it's do-able! Mike and Kim Anderson are the founders of Mike and Kim Coaching and the host of the Blended Family Coaching Show. Hop on, hear their story, and learn how to weave health into your home!

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 Mike and Kim Anderson at Mike & Kim Coaching

Podcast: The Blended Family Coaching Show with Mike and Kim

Collide Resources:

Bible Study: 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.

Digital Course: 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.

Digital Guide: The Insight Journal is a free tool to help you pause and take stock of all that you’ve been through, all that you’ve learned, all that you want to leave behind, and reflect on lessons learned in hard times to take with you on the journey ahead.

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

Have you ever felt like you were living in someone else’s shadow, wondering if your story even mattered?

In this moving episode of The Collide Podcast, we sit down with Bridgette Ridenour—sister to Kirk Cameron and Candace Cameron Bure—to talk about what it was like growing up alongside 80s TV icons while wrestling with feelings of being unseen and forgotten. Bridgette shares her honest journey of learning to rewrite the false narratives she believed about herself and how God is now using her life to bring hope to others who’ve heard “no” far too many times. If you’ve ever struggled with comparison, rejection, or finding your place, this conversation will deeply resonate.

Meet Bridgette Ridenour

Bridgette is the sister of childhood stars Kirk Cameron and Candace Cameron Bure. While she grew up in the orbit of fame, Bridgette's story took a quieter, more difficult path—one marked by rejection, unfulfilled dreams, and feeling overlooked. But through God's redemptive power, Bridgette is now living out a calling to encourage others, using her voice and her experiences to help people embrace the story God is writing for them.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn

• What it was like growing up in a famous family while feeling left behind
• How God speaks into our “no’s” and redirects us toward purpose
• Why comparison can steal your joy and how to overcome it
• The power of allowing God to rewrite your story
• How to hold onto faith when your life doesn't look how you expected

How This Episode Will Encourage You

Bridgette’s vulnerability will inspire you to trust that God sees you, even when the world doesn’t. Her story reminds us that the parts of our life we think disqualify us may be the very things God uses to bring hope to others. You’ll walk away with renewed faith that your story matters and that God is never done writing it.

✨ Lean into God's better story for your life—and let go of the one the world tried to hand you.

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Check Out These Collide Resources Inspired by This Episode

Personal and Powerful - This study reminds us that God intersects with our lives in ways that are both deeply personal and undeniably powerful.

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.

Connect with Willow - Website | Instagram | Facebook

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Today on the podcast we’re sharing a message by Emily Jamieson from a Collide conference that was just too good to keep to ourselves! Emily frequents our Collide conferences and blesses us with her passion, her voice, and her heart. We love her so much that we wanted to recast this episode for you in case you missed it! Emily is an incredible leader, speaker, academic coach, and in her own family and ministry involvement. We were so blessed to be joined by her and are excited to share her poignant message about hearing God’s voice.

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!

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 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.
• For so many of us, when we go through tough times, when our prayers have not yet been answered, when we see our worst fears coming true, we can have a very hard time finding God. Our 6 Places to Go Looking for God guide will help you look for, find, and experience God, and we’re confident that by using it, you will be refreshed in your faith, challenged to grow in your relationship with God, and experience God’s presence in new and life-giving ways.

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

Head over to one of our summer podcast series where we are highlighting this oldie but a goodie. 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!

Collide Resources:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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

Need to hear a real-life miracle this summer? Here’s your chance. This episode of The Collide Podcast tells the story of an incredible miracle. Abbie Wentzel is the amazing woman and mother who went through what seems like an impossible experience with an astounding amount of faith and grace, and we’re thrilled to share her story because she has experienced a real live miracle and we are so encouraged that God is alive and well, powerful and loving and good, we know that Abbie’s story will encourage you with that truth, too. 

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!

You can watch a video about Abbie and her family’s story at: facebook.com

More 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 Insight Journal is a free tool to help you pause and take stock of all that you’ve been through, all that you’ve learned, all that you want to leave behind, and reflect on lessons learned in hard times to take with you on the journey ahead.

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

We are recasting this episode this summer because we think it's that good. So check it out! 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.

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

Connect with Carma @ shalomcounselingwa.com

Book Recommendation: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

More 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 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

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 Laura @ laurawilkinson.com

The Pursuit of Gold Podcast: laurawilkinson.com/podcast

More 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 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.
• The Insight Journal is a free tool to help you pause and take stock of all that you’ve been through, all that you’ve learned, all that you want to leave behind, and reflect on lessons learned in hard times to take with you on the journey ahead.
• We all have big dreams and big goals, but we often get held back by our own self-doubt. But God wants to use you just as you are. Dig into our amazing resource, 5 Exercises to Help you do Amazing Things to help you confront the fear that holds you back, and to say “yes” to God doing amazing things in your life. 

Listen in on our summer highlight series and be inspired by this great conversation! We all know those people who simply exude warmth and joy, and Theresa Butcher is one of those special humans. Theresa is one of the owners of Riverside Health Club in the Pacific Northwest in addition to being a passionate wife, mother, worship leader, and community member. In this conversation, Theresa shares about her heart for hurting children, the beauty of community, and the power of prayer.

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!

More Collide Resources:

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

• Our Go Ahead Bible study empowers women to experience the extraordinary and Divine in their everyday lives.
• 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.

This was an incredibly helpful conversation, so much so that we are bringing it back for our summer highlights series to bless you! Marilyn Vancil is a trained Enneagram teacher and the author of Self to Lose – Self to Find: Using the Enneagram to Uncover Your True God-Gifted Self. She is also a Spiritual Director and Life Coach with a passion for helping others live into their true identity as a unique reflection of God’s image. Marilyn inspires women to have simple and authentic faith in Jesus and delights in finding down-to-earth applications for God’s Word. If you’re ennea-curious, this is the episode for you! 

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!

Learn more about Marilyn and find her books at marilynvancil.com.

More Collide Resources:

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

• 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.
• The Insight Journal is a free tool to help you pause and take stock of all that you’ve been through, all that you’ve learned, all that you want to leave behind, and reflect on lessons learned in hard times to take with you on the journey ahead.

This summer we are highlighting a few of our podcasts we think you will love! In this episode, we're revisiting an interview with licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Amy Brandt who sat down to chat with us about some practical therapeutic techniques everyone can employ to help manage their anxiety. Amy is one of the trusted mental health professionals in the Collide counseling network who has been helping people find comfort, healing, and a more grounded sense of self since 2009. This episode is a gold mine of knowledge that we’re so excited to share.

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 Amy at Ash & Bloom Counseling

Dig into more Collide Resources!

• 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