The Mentor's Table

By Joy Abad

A place where women gifted to lead and teach can gather around this virtual table to feed our souls. In season one, we'll dig into the nitty gritty parts of surrender and develop muscle memory in o

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How many episodes does The Mentor's Table have?

The podcast currently has 46 episodes available.

The Mentor's Table episodes:

January 08, 2025An Invitation to Silence
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Links from this episode (may contain affiliate links):
My favorite book on spiritual disciplines
Pete Scazzero’s Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast “The Power of a Hidden Life”
Rule of Life podcast: “Solitude 03: Encountering Our Self with Bethany Allen”
Habit Lab podcast with Jenna Zint: “Habits to Help With Info Overload”
Places where we can continue this conversation:
In the comments right here ⬇️
Email at [email protected]
On Instagram @joyabaddotcom
Stay up to date on all our conversations and the resources I’m creating for you by subscribing to my monthly newsletter. Our next episode will drop on Wednesday, January 23rd. Subscribe now wherever you listen to podcasts so you don’t miss it.
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Add your voice to the Table here . . .

Instagram: @joyabaddotcom

Website: JoyAbad.com

Email: [email protected]

Sign up for my monthly newsletter here and receive a free "Couch-to-Sabbath" plan to guide you to start a sabbath rhythm.

Join my friend Gretchen and me on our podcast As We Grow.

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December 11, 2024A NEW Spiritual Discipline Part 2
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I couldn’t wait to add more to our discussion about remembering being a new spiritual discipline. One of the points we focus on is how important it is to remember God’s provision in the GOOD times. I also give some practical ideas for how to incorporate remembering in your life rhythm. Take a moment to listen, and then share your responses below.
A few prompts to help add your voice to the table:
There are aspects of remembering woven into some of the other spiritual disciplines—gratitude, prayer, and Bible reading to name a few—do you think remembering have enough substance to stand on its own? Why or why not?
Would you be willing to share any examples of when remembering fueled your hope in the midst of a difficult trial?
Please share ALL THE PINS with out-of-the-box ideas for creating your own remembering station in your home.
Links (may contain affiliate links):
The Bible Project's Hope video
My favorite book on spiritual disciplines (remembering is not included ;-).
The mini printer my daughter uses.
This printer makes stickers!
Places where we can continue this conversation:
In the comments on joyabad.com.
Email at [email protected]
On Instagram @joyabaddotcom
Stay up to date on all our conversations and the resources I’m creating for you by subscribing to my monthly newsletter on joyabad.com. Our next episode will drop on Wednesday, January 8th. Subscribe now wherever you listen to podcasts so you don’t miss it.
Support the show
Add your voice to the Table here . . .
Instagram: @joyabaddotcom
Website: JoyAbad.com
Email: [email protected]
Sign up for my monthly newsletter here and receive a free "Couch-to-Sabbath" plan to guide you to start a sabbath rhythm.
Join my friend Gretchen and me on our podcast As We Grow.
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27min
December 04, 2024S1E3: A NEW Spiritual Discipline???
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This is a bold statement, but I think I've discovered a NEW spiritual discipline. What are your thoughts? How does this discipline help develop your surrender muscles? How has this discipline/practice helped you in the past?
Links:
The Bible Project's Hope video
My favorite book on spiritual disciplines (my new one is not included, hehe ;-).
My favorite resource for spiritual disciplines
Places where we can continue this conversation:
In the comments on joyabad.com
Email at [email protected]
On Instagram @joyabaddotcom
Stay up to date on all our conversations and the resources I’m creating for you by subscribing to my monthly newsletter on joyabad.com. Our next episode will drop on Wednesday, December 11th. Subscribe now wherever you listen to podcasts so you don’t miss it.
Support the show
Add your voice to the Table here . . .

Instagram: @joyabaddotcom

Website: JoyAbad.com

Email: [email protected]

Sign up for my monthly newsletter here and receive a free "Couch-to-Sabbath" plan to guide you to start a sabbath rhythm.

Join my friend Gretchen and me on our podcast As We Grow.

*Show notes may contain affiliate links
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26min
November 20, 2024Surrendering Even When You KNOW Better
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In today’s episode, we’re going to step on some of my fellow recovering-control-freak’s toes. We’ll start with Jesus asking Simon (Peter) to lower his nets in the sea after he’s been fishing all night and caught nothing. As a fisherman by trade, Peter KNOWS BETTER, yet he answers, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets” (Luke 5:5 esv).
When we’re talking about God’s invitation to surrender, there is no caveat that says we can wait until it starts to make sense to us.
How About You?
Which of your past experiences does Peter’s example trigger in your memory?
Do you still find yourself hung up on waiting for the understanding to come before the surrender?
Are there any practices/habits you have implemented that have helped you be able to surrender before you understood the why?
Places where we can continue this conversation:
In the comments on joyabad.com
Email at [email protected]
On Instagram @joyabaddotcom
Stay up to date on all our conversations and the resources I’m creating for you by subscribing to my monthly newsletter on joyabad.com. Our next episode will drop on Wednesday, December 4th. Subscribe now wherever you listen to podcasts so you don’t miss it.
Support the show
Add your voice to the Table here . . .

Instagram: @joyabaddotcom

Website: JoyAbad.com

Email: [email protected]

Sign up for my monthly newsletter here and receive a free "Couch-to-Sabbath" plan to guide you to start a sabbath rhythm.

Join my friend Gretchen and me on our podcast As We Grow.

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15min
November 06, 2024The S-Word
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In this episode, we begin to dig in to all of our favorite word . . . the s-word—surrender.
Surrender is a whole-body; whole-life action verb that too often gets glossed over with sweeping generalizations. In this episode we’ll begin to talk about some of the nuances to the word and why I’m choosing to focus on it for this season.
Conversation starters:
* Which subtitle resonated with you and why?
The Nitty Gritty Parts of Surrender—Invitations to develop callouses on your soul and muscle memory in your body to let go
God’s invitations to live from a posture of open hands, open heart, eyes fixed

* Do you believe that the ability to surrender requires building spiritual muscle memory, or do you believe it primarily is dependent on something else? Please explain.
Places where we can continue this conversation:
In the comments on joyabad.com
Email: [email protected]
On Instagram @joyabaddotcom

Our next episode will drop on Wednesday, November 20th. Subscribe now wherever you listen to podcasts so you don’t miss it.
Support the show
Add your voice to the Table here . . .

Instagram: @joyabaddotcom

Website: JoyAbad.com

Email: [email protected]

Sign up for my monthly newsletter here and receive a free "Couch-to-Sabbath" plan to guide you to start a sabbath rhythm.

Join my friend Gretchen and me on our podcast As We Grow.

*Show notes may contain affiliate links
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21min
November 01, 2024The Mentor's Table: Season One Trailer
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Welcome! I’m Joy your host here at this virtual table.
I’m a teacher, writer, spiritual director, girl mom, married for 19 years, recovering control freak.
In this episode we’ll talk about the power of a table, who is invited to this table, the focus of our conversations in season one, and I’ll extend to you a bit of an unorthodox invitation as well as a HUGE disclaimer.
The first episode of this season will drop November 6th, 2024. Please subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts so it will automatically pop up in your feed whenever an episode drops.
Places where we can continue this conversation:
On my website joyabad.com
Email at [email protected]
On Instagram @joyabaddotcom
Support the show
Add your voice to the Table here . . .

Instagram: @joyabaddotcom

Website: JoyAbad.com

Email: [email protected]

Sign up for my monthly newsletter here and receive a free "Couch-to-Sabbath" plan to guide you to start a sabbath rhythm.

Join my friend Gretchen and me on our podcast As We Grow.

*Show notes may contain affiliate links
...more
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FAQs about The Mentor's Table:

How many episodes does The Mentor's Table have?

The podcast currently has 46 episodes available.