The Original Design Restored Podcast

In this episode, Katie is joined by her husband, Val, who shares about his process of working through the ODR Workbook.  Katie also asks Val to share his experience of the workbook as a man, since prior to the workbook, ODR has been primarily female-focused.  Overall, the ODR Workbook is a practical tool for movement and change.  It is crafted as a journey to meet with God.

Conversation Highlights:

{02:18} Val’s experience of working through the workbook

[04:09} What parts of the workbook could be especially impactful for the guys

{07:30} Who would benefit from this workbook

{09:32} Everyday practical tools for Life 

Quick Links:

To access the ODR Workbook, click here.

For info on our Growth Groups, click here.

For our Free Resources Page, click here. 

Special Thanks:

To Artist M.D. and Bloom Sounds for the fantastic intro and outro music.

To loreleeproduct for the excellent audio editing. 

The ODR Podcast is a ministry of Original Design Restored:

www.originaldesignrestored.org

THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

In this episode, Katie talks about strength for the heavy and hard things in life. Katie shares about how God met her in some of her heavy and hard realities.  She also shares the verses that she received from God as she was in prayer over those realities. Katie closes by sharing a playlist and encouraging listeners to meet with Jesus in their own heavy and hard realities 

Conversation Highlights:

{00:55} Some things do need to be thrown off, while some things can’t be

{03:34} Lessons I learned during a February retreat

{06:55} Verses of encouragement

{13:54} Final encouragement

Quick Links:

For info about The Abbey (retreat center I mention), click here.

For the playlist Katie created to accompany this episode, click here. 

Special Thanks:

To Artist M.D. and Bloom Sounds for the fantastic intro and outro music.

To loreleeproduct for the excellent audio editing. 

The ODR Podcast is a ministry of Original Design Restored:

www.originaldesignrestored.org

THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

In this episode, Katie focuses on the question, “Where is God is intersecting with your life?” Katie shares the significance of the question and also shares stories of how God has interacted with her in her everyday life. God has impacted her homeschooling, her health, her emotional wounds, and her marriage. Katie shares resources to help you springboard you toward interacting with God in everyday life. 

Conversation Highlights:

{00:46} The focus question

{05:41} How God intersected with our homeschooling

{06:56} How God intersected with my health.

{10:30} How God intersected with my marriage.

{12:07} Resources and Launch Team

Resources:

The Soul of Desire by Curt Thompson

The ODR Workbook

Special Thanks:

To Artist M.D. and Bloom Sounds for the fantastic intro and outro music.

To Lorelee Productions for the excellent audio editing. 

The ODR Podcast is a ministry of Original Design Restored:

www.originaldesignrestored.org

THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

In this episode, Katie discusses the concept of throwing off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. Katie invites us to back up and simplify in order to run the race. 

Katie shares an example from her own life about 10 years ago when she realized that her kids needed more of her attention during a season when was trying to care for everyone that mattered to her in her life. Trying to know what needs to be “thrown off” can be a difficult task. Katie shares resources to help you make those choices. 

Conversation Highlights:

{01:56} What is God calling us to throw off? 

{04:44} Throw off the sin that so easily entangles.

{06:44} Throw off everything that hinders. 

{09:18} Katie shares her story of throwing things off to run the race marked out for her.

{13:00} So the question to you, “When you look at your life right now, what are the three to five things that God is asking you to walk out?” 

{21:13} Workbook Resource 

Resources:

The Soul of Desire by Curt Thompson

Jenny Allen's podcast “Made for This”

originaldesignrestored.org

How to access the ODR Workbook:

Click Here

Special Thanks:

To Artist M.D. and Bloom Sounds for the fantastic intro and outro music.

To loreleeproduct for the excellent audio editing. 

The ODR Podcast is a ministry of Original Design Restored:

www.originaldesignrestored.org

THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

We are excited to announce that on May 30th, Original Design Restored: An Interactive Workbook will be released. In this episode, Katie shares the vision behind this workbook and also invites you to join the Launch Team (click here to sign up).  Here’s the quick rundown of how the Launch Team will work:

By joining the Launch Team, you would be agreeing to do one or more of these three things:

·       Work through the workbook on your own

·       Share about the workbook on social media, in group text threads, and/or by word of mouth

·       Work through the workbook with a small group

What you’ll get by joining the Launch Team (by May 26th):

·       If you’re in the USA: an ODR sticker and bookmark

·       Everyone: an invitation to an online Book Bash via Zoom (Thursday, June 1, 8 p.m. CST) to celebrate the workbook’s release

Katie’s heart is to offer this workbook act as a guided journey for readers to interact with Jesus as they pursue transformation in their own lives.  Original Design Restored: An Interactive Workbook will be released on Tuesday, May 30, as a free downloadable PDF on the ODR website and will also be available for purchase on Amazon as a paperback book.  We'd love to have you the team to help get this workbook into as many hands as possible.  Would you consider joining the Launch Team? 

***While the Launch Team time as passed, you can now access the ODR Workbook by clicking here. 

Fun Fact: While ODR's Intensive have been female-focused, this workbook is designed with both men and women in mind. So, if you're one of the few guys that follow along with ODR, know that this workbook is for you, too!

If you want to hear more of Katie’s husband’s story that she mentions in the episode, click here. 

Special Thanks:

To Artist M.D. and Bloom Sounds for the fantastic intro and outro music.

To Lorelee Productions for the excellent audio editing. 

The ODR Podcast is a ministry of Original Design Restored:

www.originaldesignrestored.org

THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Katie closes out this season by recapping what we have learned this season about facing lies and how we can find increasing truth and freedom. What has impacted you this season? When you get really quiet, what comes to the surface?  Will you let God meet you there? 

Conversation Highlights:

{02:50} What is God highlighting to you?

{07:00} The tangible presence of God

{08:00} Sharing your struggles with other people

{09:00} Therapy when lies are combined with trauma 

{10:27} Learning your enneagram type

{11:30} Personal growth intensives 

{12:30} An invitation for you to meet with God

Resources:

Your Enneagram Coach

The Journey Training

The Original Design Restored Intensive

Special Thanks:

To Artist M.D. and Bloom Sounds for the fantastic intro and outro music.

To loreleeproduct for the excellent audio editing. 

The ODR Podcast is a ministry of Original Design Restored:

www.originaldesignrestored.org

THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Katie is joined today by her husband Val Tramonte who shares how a deeply rooted lie kept him from sharing his full self with those around him.  He shares how this impacted both himself and his relationships.  Val then shares the journey of healing God brought him through, step by step, for Val to bring his full self into relationship with others.  

Conversation Highlights:

{01:15} Intro to Val Tramonte

{06:44} The lie and how that impacted Val’s life and relationships

{16:33} Being unconditionally loved by Jesus

{20:00} How God brought healing to Val

{34:13} What life looks like when you are living in truth

Resources:

To hear more of Val’s story and spoken word poetry, click here.  

Special Thanks:

To Artist M.D. and Bloom Sounds for the fantastic intro and outro music.

To loreleeproduct for the excellent audio editing. 

The ODR Podcast is a ministry of Original Design Restored:

www.originaldesignrestored.org

Katie is joined today by Beth Moody. Beth and her husband serve as co-directors of a Chi Alpha campus ministry. Beth shares about how she struggled with the seemingly unending expectations of a full-time ministry vocation while also being a mom and wife. She believed the lie that she had to measure up to fulfill her calling. Beth explains how she found freedom in learning how to say yes to God as the person He created her to be. 

Conversation Highlights:

{01:51} Who is Beth Moody

{03:56} The lie: you have to fit into a specific box to be in ministry

{08:56} The call to ministry

{12:29} How Beth found truth and freedom

{21:05} The truth: I can say yes to God creatively 

{26:20} Practical steps for others facing a similar lie

Special Thanks:

To Artist M.D. and Bloom Sounds for the fantastic intro and outro music.

To loreleeproduct for the excellent audio editing. 

The ODR Podcast is a ministry of Original Design Restored:

www.originaldesignrestored.org

THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Katie is joined by Candace Dolph who shares how a prayer of wanting to know God deeper, “no mater what,” took her on an unexpected journey toward healing.  She shares how a moment in her journey destabilized her and how that impacted her physically, mentally, spiritually, and relationally.  She shares about God’s total and complete love for her apart from anything she did and how, as that truth settled into her heart, she was able to take steps toward further healing and peace.

Conversation Highlights:

{07:00} The lie – I was unlovable apart from what I did

{31:24} The truth is that God loves me because He loves me

{34:15} How everyday life has changed

{47:26} What it means to close the door

Resources:

To find Candace’s podcast, “The Made New Podcast,” click here.

To find The Soul of Shame by Curt Thompsom, click here.  

To find Dr. Anita Phillips’ podcast, “In the Light,” click here. 

To find the podcast, “Living the Reclaimed,” click here. 

Special Thanks:

To Artist M.D. and Bloom Sounds for the fantastic intro and outro music.

To loreleeproduct for the excellent audio editing. 

The ODR Podcast is a ministry of Original Design Restored:

www.originaldesignrestored.org

THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Katie is joined today by Stacy Koning who shares about her marriage journey. Early on in her marriage, she and her husband faced difficulties. While Stacy’s husband began to experience transformation, Stacy came to believe that God only cared about her husband’s spiritual growth. Stacy’s pain caused her to pull away from her friends and shut off from her full self. Stacy shares how God began to set her free from both the lie she believed and how it was affecting her. 

Conversation Highlights:

{02:15} Introduction to Stacy Koning

{05:39} The lie -my husband’s spiritual growth is more important to God than mine

{11:48} What to do if a friend seems to disappear

{16:22} How God shifted Stacy out of the lie and into truth

{20:00} Sharing with safe people

{27:34} The truth – I hold equal value to my husband

Special Thanks:

To Artist M.D. and Bloom Sounds for the fantastic intro and outro music.

To loreleeproduct for the excellent audio editing. 

The ODR Podcast is a ministry of Original Design Restored:

www.originaldesignrestored.org

THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.