Host: Jude DiMeglio TrangGuest: Robin Stoller

Description:In this episode of The Gift of Need, Jude sits down with longtime friend Robin Stoller to explore the themes of resilience, adaptability, and the willingness to change. Robin shares her journey of faith, family dynamics, caring for aging parents, and learning to lean on her community and God through hardship. Together, Jude and Robin uncover how resistance and resilience play a role in personal growth, relationships, and the way we navigate need.

We talk about:

· Robin’s childhood, family dynamics, and early faith journey during the Jesus Movement

· How unexpressed love shaped her family relationships, and how Christian community helped her change

· Caring for aging parents with dementia and bipolar disorder, and the toll it took on her spiritually and physically

· Facing her own health crisis during this season and the role of stress in her open-heart surgery

· The sustaining power of community and the importance of supportive friendships

· How recognizing limits, leaning on her husband, and letting go of the need to “fix” built resilience

· Lessons in compassion, forgiveness, and not “swinging at every pitch” when faced with conflict

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Music Credit:Gabe Kubanda / Damn Plans (Instrumental) © 2021 Kubanda Music

Engineer:

Ray Ingegneri, Third Street Productions, Tucson, AZ

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