In 24 Lessons from 2024, we’re sharing the biggest insights we’ve learned last year year. From making peace with our timelines to embracing audacity and trusting God’s no’s, we dive into discipline, faith, and growth. Join us as we reflect on the lessons shaping our journey in 2025!

With love,

Ruth and Joshua

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro’s

03:00 Ruth: Make Peace With Your Timeline

05:00 Joshua: Focus on Your Own Path

06:30 Ruth: Trust Your Discernment

09:05: Joshua: Lack of Discipline can Delay destiny

12:00 Ruth: Discipline is a Choice

13:30 Joshua: Changing Theology of Money

21:40 Ruth: Dream Big

23:50: Ruth: Be Audacious

28:20 Joshua: Grow Roots Into The Soil

31:10 Joshua: This is an Embodied

33:50 Ruth: God’s No’s Are Blessings

36:20 Ruth: It’s Okay to do What’s Best For Me

37:50 Joshua: Goodness and Mercy Follow Me

39:50 Ruth: Don’t Age Yourself

42:05 Ruth: You Cannot Do This Life Without Prayer

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Loneliness is a common human experience that can be felt by anyone, regardless of their relationship status or social life. In this podcast, we will explore the loneliness that can come with being single and the loneliness that can arise when we are working towards our goals and dreams. We will discuss how to cope with loneliness and build meaningful connections with others, even when we feel alone.

With love,

Ruth and Joshua

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

01:50 - Marthina’s experience with loneliness

03:30 - Destiny’s experience

05:45 - Ruth’s experience

14:00 - Coping with loneliness as a single person

25:00 - Wilderness or self isolation?

32:00 - Loneliness affecting your mental health?

38:00 - How to practically manage loneliness

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Join us in this episode as we delve deep into the transformative power of forgiveness. Explore Ruth and Marthina's compelling stories and perceptive insights, navigating the complexities and healing potentials of forgiving oneself and others.

Discover practical strategies and the emotional impact of embracing forgiveness on spiritual maturity, relationships, and overall well-being. Whether it's granting or seeking forgiveness, this episode offers a thoughtful exploration into this profound and cathartic human experience in light of the Gospel.

With love,

Ruth and Joshua

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:40 - What is forgiveness

09:00 - Institutional forgiveness

17:00 - What does it mean to forgive God?

22:00 - Marthina’s landlord situation

27:00 - Forgiving yourself

Apologies for the technical difficulties this week friends! Ruth's mic cut off at around the 32minute mark.

Boundaries are the invisible fences that protect our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. They define what we are willing to tolerate and what we are not. In this episode, we welcome back our special guest, Shekinah, and introduce a new voice to the conversation, Marthina.

Join us for a thought-provoking conversation as we delve into the intricate world of boundaries. In this episode, we'll explore the art of setting healthy limits, the challenges of asserting ourselves, and the power of saying no.

With love,

Ruth and Joshua

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00:00 - Intro

01:37 - Let's define 'boundaries'

13:00 - Generational and cultural clashes

25:00 - Navigating having our needs dismissed

40mins - Tips

In today's world of carefully crafted personas and social media facades, authenticity is a rare and precious commodity. In this episode, we delve into the this topic a bit deeper, exploring how these qualities can transform our lives and relationships. Our guest, renowned spoken-word artist, educator, speaker and dear friend, Boaz, shares his insights on the power of being true to ourselves and embracing our imperfections. Join us as we explore the power of authenticity and vulnerability, and how embracing your true self can unlock different aspects of our life including our leadership potential.

With love,

Ruth and Joshua

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Season 3 of our emotionally charged series on 'Emotionally Healthy Spirituality' is off to an explosive start with an episode delving into the delicate dance of confrontation. Join us as we unravel the mystery behind a situation that forced Ruth to have a heart-to-heart with Joshua..

But that's not all! Joshua is about to drop a life-changing update that will leave you speechless. Hint: He has a mini-me.. 👶

Get ready for an emotional rollercoaster as we navigate the complexities of confrontation, celebrate life's precious moments, and explore the depths of 'Emotionally Healthy Spirituality.'

With love,

Ruth and Joshua

00:00 - Intro

01:00 - Update

04:15 - The Problem

17:00 - How our Family of origin Affects the Way We Fight

24:30 - Evergreen Highlight: Care-fronting

31:00 - How to fight fair

39:00 - Outro

For the final episode of the season on life post-uni, we sat down with Mr. Rashawn Grant to pick his brains on his musing on the hurried life, recreating generational cycles of hurriedness as children of immigrant parents, failure as a man and so much more. This is perhaps one of our favourite episodes of this season.

If you have any questions for us for the next season on emotional health, feel free to drop us a DM with some topic suggestions and ideas.

We'll see you all in a couple of weeks. Stay blessed!

Ruth and Josh

00:00 - Embarrassing Rashawn with Honour

03:30 - Rashawn is Writing a Book

5:00 - What did young Rashawn need to hear?

9:20 - How do you recover from failure as a man?

15:10 - Finding Contentment in Living Slowly

30:00 - Origins of the Hurried Life

34:52 - Generational Cycles of Hurriedness

40:00 - Have you had the opportunity to tell the adults in your life to rest?

47:00 - Unbelief at the Core of Hurry

50:00 - Let Abba be Abba

53:00 - Who pours into you?

01:01:00 - Closing prayer

01:02:18 - Outro

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Hello! We're back for the penultimate episode of the season (eek!). In today's episode, we sat down with the AMAZING Veronia Spaine to learn more about money management, her journey getting debt-free and how to broach the sensitive topic of finances in intimate relationships. This was an incredibly enriching chat for us so we hope you're able to take some gems away!

With love,

Ruth and & Josh

00:00 - DISCLAIMER

00:30 - Intro

01:35 - Veronia’s Story of Being 16K in Debt

05:45 - Childhood Influences on Money Management

08:55 - Tips on How to Pay off Your Overdraft

16:00 -Guarding Against the Idolisation of Money

19:00 - Give What You Are Willing to Gift

22:00 - Money Conversations Whilst Dating

24:00 - Money Management In Marriage

25:00 - Investing Whilst Young

27:00 - ISAs

28:00 - EG Highlight

35:00 - What to do if we don't make much?

45:00 - Money in Marriage

48:00 - Importance of Financial Literacy Amongst Women

59:00 - What does financial independence mean?

01:08:00 - Build healthy habits

Hey guys! We are back with another episode!!

This week Josh returns to sit down with Ruth and discuss the difficulties of changing family dynamics after university.

This episode serves as a precursor to season 3, where we will be exploring ‘Emotionally Healthy Discipleship’ more deeply. But for now sit back and enjoy this week’s episode!

Stay blessed!

Ruth and Josh

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 - Intro

02:15 - Josh Get's Kicked Out of His Room

05:14 - Our Earliest Childhood Memory

08:40 - Our Happiest Childhood Memory

13:30 - Our Saddest Childhood Memory

20:00 - The Importance of Gentle Parenting

24:00 - Family Life Post University

29:00 - Outro

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Ruth's Insta: @Ruth.kendaaa

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Hi folks!

It's Monday which means another Evergreen episode. We hope you've been enjoying our series on life post-uni. In today's episode, we are joined by an incredibly special guest (and very dear friend of ours), Boaz a.k.a The Mayor of Warwick!

We discuss our spiritual journeys, the importance of fellowship and community during uni, including the pitfalls of Christian fellowships, processing anger towards God and so much more. Give it a listen and let us know what you think.

Stay blessed!

Ruth and Josh

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

01:16 - Boaz's journey to Christ

05:00 - What is deliverance?

06:50 - Road to Damascus

07:30 - Ruth's journey to Christ

14:50 - Kid's have no filter

16:45 - Understanding the Secret Place

18:00 - Ruth’s journey continued

27:00 - Walking hand in hand with those in difficult seasons

33:20 - Men of Valour!!!! EG HIGHLIGHT, SUIIIIIII

37:00 - The importance of male voices in younger men

40:26 - Ruth and Boaz's awkward first encounter

44:00 - The comparison trap

46:00 - University fellowships: the pros and cons

51:00 - The transition from university to work

55:00 - Tips and advice on maintaining your relationship with God post-uni

01:01:00 - EG Highlight 2, communities

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The Evergreen Podcast:

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Josh's Insta: @JoshChabala

Ruth's Insta: @Ruth.kendaaa

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