What can we learn when women from four generations sit down and talk honestly? In this special episode of Anchor & Waves, Stacey and Jacque host a heartfelt panel with Kristin Vukovich, Claire Davis, and Hannah Grieve—representing Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z. Together, they share their unique hopes, fears, and experiences as women of faith navigating different seasons of life. You’ll hear about how expectations for women have changed, what each generation admires about the others,...
Jul 24, 2025•51 min
Friendship can be complex, in this episode Stacy, Jacque, and special guest Bailey Hurley are here to guide you through the ups and downs of finding and building meaningful connections. They'll explore God's purpose for friendship and offer insights on discovering deep, fulfilling relationships. 👉 Subscribe so you don't miss any episodes. 👉 Listen now and be encouraged to trust God as we navigate the calm and the storms that life brings. 🎧 Also available on Spotify & Apple Podcasts, or wh...
Jun 12, 2025•35 min
Join Jacque and Stacy for a very special podcast with Alex Kuykendall as they discuss the importance of appreciating your Actual Life. Jesus could have chosen any time to come as an infant and experience life, yet he came at a time where he had to walk everywhere, a time to meander. The ladies discuss the importance of slowing down to notice what is good and how to process the hard at the same time. ============================= RESOURCES ============================= 📚 Books Written by Alex: �...
May 22, 2025•36 min
Intimacy can so easily fall into unhealthy rhythms and ruts over time. Join Jacque, Stacy, and special guests Joe and Traci Castaneda from 1 Plus 1 Marriage as they discuss how to keep the joy and freshness in emotional and physical intimacy. The group talks about common factors that contribute to intimacy getting placed on the back burner and how to have healthy conversations to understand each other better. ============================= RESOURCES ============================= 🔗 :: https://one...
Feb 20, 2025•44 min
It is easy to look around the world today and feel hopeless. Join Stacy, Jacque and special guest Lillian Dehn as they discuss how to have hope, what it looks like and where it comes from. The ladies talk about how remembering what God has done, finding a "Yellow Jello Moment", helps us understand what hope is. ============================= Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits ============================= 🎙️ HOST:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig 🎉 SPECIAL GUESTS:: Lillian Dehn 🎛️ PRODUCER + MIXING:...
Jan 09, 2025•38 min
The hard in family dynamics can be all-consuming this time of year. Join Stacy, Jacque, and special guest Amy Whitehouse as they discuss how to handle the thoughts that can often steal your joy and distract your focus from the true meaning of Christmas. The ladies will talk about practical tips and how to make a plan to help you walk freer during this season. ============================= Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits ============================= 🎙️ HOST:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig 🎉 SPE...
Dec 05, 2024•47 min
When I hear the word submission, it often makes me cringe. It can lead us to believe it demands a shrinking of ourselves, a lessening or deforming of who we are. But I wonder if Esther can give us a different picture of submission being an empowerment of who God created us to be in his image as servant leaders. What if the deformation of ourselves is a version of compliance, not submission? One is the outcry of fear and the other of trust. Esther does things her way, but not out of rebellion. It...
Nov 14, 2024•59 min
Posting on social media can often feel freeing and sometimes necessary but may not helpful. Join Stacy, Jacque and special guest Frank Trimble, Executive Director at Family Time Training, as they discuss how to evaluate and filter your posts before you put them online. The group will talk about how potential blind spots, hurts, concerns and relationships can impact how you post. ============================= Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits ============================= 🎙️ HOST:: Jacque Carlson,...
Nov 07, 2024•42 min
We often speak of our “calling,” but what does that really mean? Mordecai exemplifies the model of where we find our identity, because that is where we will find our favor. We must know the caller before we can know how to respond. ============================= Reflection: ============================= ✅ What would you name as your “calling” other than following Christ? ✅ If it’s true that humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less, how often do conversations and act...
Oct 24, 2024•46 min
The things we put in front of us every day can have a great influence on our focus and attitude. God designed us to be free, not to be caught up in the daily gains and losses that can be a distraction from the good God has for us. Join Stacy, Jacque, and special guest, author Whitney Lowe as they discuss ways to adjust our focus so that we can be filled and purposeful with our lives. ============================= Resources: ============================= 🔗 How To Take A Personal Retreat PDF ====...
Oct 17, 2024•34 min
There is none who Haman loves more than himself. The real danger arises when we surround ourselves with those who validate our ego. Pride, like lust, is a thought sin, and unseen sin can be the sneakiest. So, how do we take our thoughts captive and bend them to Christ out of submission and humility? When we seek favor from within ourselves, we will always live from a place of unrest and anxiety. ============================= Reflection: ============================= ✅ How would you define pride?...
Oct 10, 2024•59 min
Amidst our current culture that still struggles to say “no” and find our “best yes,” we meet a king who is the ultimate people pleaser - always saying “yes” at any cost in order to gain favor and maintain his ego. He seems to beg others to find their favor in him, as he estimates his own worth based on their impressions of him. But finding favor from others demands scorekeeping, and the seduction of idolatry - of oneself. ============================= Reflection: ============================= ✅ ...
Sep 18, 2024•55 min
The things we put front of us everyday can have great influence on our focus and attitude. God designed us to be free, not to be caught up in the daily gains and loses that can be a distraction from the good God has for us. Join Stacy, Jacque and special guest, author Whitney Lowe as they discuss ways to adjust our focus so that we can be filled and purposeful with our lives. ============================= Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits ============================= 🎙️ HOST:: Jacque Carlson, St...
Sep 12, 2024•41 min
Step back into the Ancient Persian Empire to discover what led to the Jewish people living under King Xerxes’ reign. Walk alongside them as they question whether they still remained in a covenant relationship with God despite not returning to their homeland. Did that choice change things between them and their God? Did it impact his love and his favor? Join me as we live in the tension, as these characters did, of finding favor in the eyes of people and ourselves versus receiving favor from God....
Sep 05, 2024•46 min
Have you ever wondered what is he thinking about or wish you knew what he was feeling? Join Stacy and Jacque as they ask a special guests Danny Oertli, Will Larsen, and Colin McFarland important questions about parenting, marriage, and overall guy stuff. The ladies get the scoop on emotions, perspectives, and how to get guys to open up and share a little more. ============================= Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits ============================= 🎙️ HOST:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig 🎉 SP...
Jun 13, 2024•51 min
Sonder, is the realization that each person you meet has a life as complex as your own. Often we are surprised when we take the time to get to know someone on a deeper level and find similarities you would have never guessed by simply looking at them. These moments are ordained by God to encourage us in our walk with him. Join Stacy, Jacque, and special guest Evangeline North as she shares about her complex trauma and how God has brought her to a place of healing. ============================= A...
Apr 11, 2024•40 min
Dating can be a hard and complicated journey. Join Stacy and Jacque as they talk about what dating looks like with special guest Madi Herring. The ladies discuss some struggles associated with dating, the purpose of dating, and how God can play a part in helping us work through honest feelings associated with it. ============================= Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits ============================= 🎙️ HOST:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig 🎉 SPECIAL GUEST:: Madi Herring 🎛️ PRODUCER + MIXING...
Feb 14, 2024•38 min
Body image is how you see yourself when you look in the mirror or when you picture yourself in your mind. It can be impacted by thoughts, feelings and experiences in your life. Join Stacy, Jacque and special guest K.C. Ledgerwood a licensed professional counselor, movement teacher, and fashion enthusiast as they discuss the dynamic relationship that many people have with their bodies. The ladies talk about how to look at the journey a little differently and understand the gift our bodies are fro...
Jan 04, 2024•30 min
Join Kim Fearing and her mother-in-law, Dr. Molly Fearing, as they have a candid conversation about the dynamics of their “in-law” relationship alongside their theological understanding of Ruth and its contemporary application. ============================= Reflection: ============================= ✅ How do you live from a place of remembrance about who God is - in practical, everyday ways? ✅ What keeps you from intimacy in family relationships? What is there to celebrate in those relationships?...
Dec 04, 2023•1 hr 10 min
From death to life. From famine to fertile land. From emptiness to fullness. We see the lives of Ruth and Naomi come full circle as God creates new life. With the creation of life comes the reminder that God desired his creation to live life to the fullest in the beginning and continues with that same desire. No one is forgotten in the story. Just as Obed is a sign of new life in Ruth, we live in remembrance that God will send his Son as the ultimate resurrection of new life. That is cause for c...
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Perhaps one of the hardest things for me to receive is that God works through me to be an answered prayer to someone whom he deeply loves. A reminder they are not forgotten. You are not forgotten. A reminder that what once felt empty can now be full. I wonder if we can begin noticing the ways God uses Ruth, Naomi and Boaz to answer one another’s prayers as they begin to remember who God is and who he has always been. A reminder that perhaps life can still be lived to the fullest. ===============...
Nov 06, 2023•56 min
In a world that speaks of coincidences, chapter 2 overflows with God’s sovereignty and providential timing. We can see him at work behind the scenes in every detail. Not only is it filled with reminders of God’s hesed love but also reminds us he will use anyone willing in order to reveal his character and love through them. ============================= Scripture/Book Reading: ============================= 📖 Ruth Chapter 2 ============================= Reflection: ============================= ...
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Stacy Ludwig and guest host Kathy Stafford were able to sit down with Ruth Chou Simons to get to know a little more about Ruth the artist, faith-based speaker, entrepreneur and award-winning author. She was able to share her heart about being a mother for six boys, a little about her own spiritual journey, the origin of GraceLaced Co., and a loving word of encouragement to us all. Her newest devotional “Pilgrim: 25 Ways God’s Character Leads us Onward” is now available on Amazon Pilgrim and you ...
Oct 19, 2023•35 min
I wonder what our lives would look like and feel like if we understood what it meant to cleave to God and one another. To follow hard after someone requires trust. There is an innate trust between Ruth and Naomi, and between Naomi and God that we feel in Chapter 1. Ruth seems to feel it too, as she chooses to journey with Naomi back to her homeland, leaving behind everything - to begin living her life to the fullest. There is confusion and bitterness yet hope subtly hovers in the background with...
Oct 09, 2023•54 min
As we explore the Hebrew Scriptures, we begin to see that God’s desire is for his creation to live life to the fullest. There is historical and literary context that explains the significance of this leading up to the book of Ruth. We notice that God will use anyone willing to work alongside him in redeeming this messy world, and the theme of remembrance begins to emerge. ============================= Scripture/Book Reading: ============================= 📖 Genesis - Judges =====================...
Sep 25, 2023•57 min
Follow the unlikely story of a young, widowed woman who leaves behind everything she has known to follow her mother-in-law to an unknown future. Witness how trust in an ever-present God brings hope and healing to women beaten down by life's circumstances. Explore how looking at your own life through new eyes will reveal how God is even now at work in you. Remember your God and Reignite your joy. ============================= Healing, Hope, + Remembrance: A Product of Anchor + Waves Channel Credi...
Sep 11, 2023•3 min
Are we aware of how our actions and words impact others? In this episode, Ken West joins hosts Jacque and Stacy to share about his life, his personal experience with racism, and what he sees in our communities today. They explore how Ken was raised and how that has impacted his outlook and response to racism. The group discusses how to respect each other more so that we see each other as precious creations of God. ============================= Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits ====================...
Jul 13, 2023•51 min
Are we aware of how our actions and words impact others? God made us to be in community with those that are not like us to help US grow and love others. Join Stacy, Jacque, and special guests Jan Junge and Lisa Mundy as they discuss how to encourage single people differently and make sure they feel seen. ============================= Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits ============================= 🎙️ HOST:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig 🎉 SPECIAL GUEST:: Jan Junge, Lisa Mundy 🎛️ PRODUCER:: Andrew...
Jun 01, 2023•46 min
If you are looking for a deeper dive into the women and historical context we discussed this season, this is the episode for you. Join Kim and Dr. Craig Blomberg of Denver Seminary as they take a scholarly perspective on questions that were submitted throughout the Audacious Love season. ============================= Scripture/Book Reading: ============================= 📖 Luke 7:36-50 ============================= Reflection: ============================= ✅ Do you experience joy? Where are you ...
Apr 23, 2023•1 hr 30 min
We live in a time in which we are hyper-focused on how we see ourselves and how others see us, we can often then begin to assign worth and value to ourselves based upon those labels. The sad and tragic reality is that underneath a label or classification is a person, a purposeful creation of God, who has been reduced to a cheap descriptor. Join Jacque, Stacy, and special guest Amy Grace as she shares her personal story of battling against labels put on her, she put on herself, and how God redeem...
Apr 06, 2023•56 min
