UNDISTRACTED with Laura Bennett

Lysa Terkeurst is a NY Times Bestselling author and Bible teacher. For years, Lysa has taken readers into the ups and downs of her marriage from facing her husband’s infidelity, to learning how to forgive and rebuild and now, ultimately having to face the hard reality that the marriage of 30+ years had to end.

Lysa’s new book 'Good Boundaries and Goodbyes' is all about breaking cycles of dysfunction and looking at biblical ways of setting boundaries that help us love others without losing the best of who you are.

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Our guest today is entrepreneur Sierra Mackenzie. Sierra is the author of 'The Complete Guide to the Enneagram' and founder of Enneagram Enthusiast, a community of over 85,000 people exploring the fundamentals of the Enneagram personality test and learning how to make the most of it in everyday life. 

Sierra talks about how to use the enneagram to improve your overall health, its pros and cons and what affect it can have on our relationship with God. 

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When speaker and teacher Erin Davis realized how unhealthy her relationship to food had become, she began to wonder what the Bible says about food. She came across the principles of feasting and fasting and noticed there was something sacred about the way we consume food.

Erin complied her insights into a study guide, 'Fasting and Feasting: 40 Devotionals to Satisfy the Hungry Heart', and in this week's episode Erin speaks about food's effect on our joy, how it can spark wonder and what food teaches us about God.

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Gabi Macaulay is the President of Nurses Christian Fellowship Australia - an organization focused not only on medical care, but the holistic wellbeing of all patients. Gabi has travelled to disaster zones around the world with her work and is an example of someone who has taken a passion to care for people and turned it into a meaningful career with far reaching impact.

In this conversation Gabi talks about how to make crossroad decisions, the qualities of a life-long learner and what the effect of spirituality is on physical healing. 

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Songwriter Evan Craft is known for bridging the divide between American and South America culture. Becoming bilingual to engage more communities through music, Evan speaks about writing as an act of unity, improving integration and how his songs have impacted youth mental health. 

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Step brother to Elvis Presley, Billy Stanley’s new book ‘The Faith of Elvis’ gives us a personal account of a part the superstar’s life that isn’t always talked about, but that grounded him throughout his career. Getting to spend 17 years with Elvis, Billy speaks about the near death experience that prompted him to write the book, the ways Elvis mentored him in his faith and how he became part of the Presley family.

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Irene Rollins is a teacher, writer and minister. For years she led a church congregation while an alcohol addiction plagued her, and in her book 'Reframe Your Shame' she shares her powerful journey of finding freedom from addiction, offering real hope and practical help to anyone struggling with cycles of dependency and shame.

On this episode Irene talks about how to overcome our fear of feelings, the best way to help addicts and what the church can do to help people dealing with addiction. 

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Taryn Brumfitt went viral back in 2013 when she shared a before and after photo online that broke with convention. Her before photo showed the results of a body building obsession she picked up after having kids, looking all tanned and trim, and her after was when she’d ditched that and returned to a normal body with lumps, bumps and less tan.

Taryn went on to found the Body Image Movement, directing her first feature film 'Embrace' in 2016, and now releasing 'Embrace: Kids', confronting the alarming statistics that say around 60 per cent of children aged five to eleven years want to change something about their body.

In this conversation Taryn speaks about the cost of body loathing on our lives, how to change your view of your body and why she shared that first photo all those years ago. 

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Luke Mathers is an internationally recognised expert in stress and change management who coaches leaders, Olympians and elite athletes on how to find out more about our habits, manage them better and overcome the stress that they can cause.

Luke’s book, 'Curious Habits: Why We Do What We Do and How to Change', helps us understand why we build up certain ways of living, and how to work out if they’re still serving us. In this conversation Luke talks about having too much vision, debunking the myth that “I’ll be happy when...” and where people who have concentration issues fit into the world of intentional living. 

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Carlos and Alexa PenaVega have spent their lives in the public eye. Carlos as a Nickelodeon star and member of international pop band Big Time Rush, and Alexa, since starring in the 'Spy Kids' films. Now as parents with their careers in full swing, the couple have released their debut memoir 'What If Love Is The Point? Living for Jesus in a Self-Consumed World'.

In it they talk about struggling with the influences of Hollywood, broken relationships, divorce and the lost feeling that left them wondering, what's the point of it all?

Here Carlos and Alexa share about how faith beliefs can affect your career, their personal crossroad moments and why their understanding of success has changed.  

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