Kris Camealy is a fellow table person and writer living in a cozy rural community outside of Columbus, Ohio with her husband and four kids. In addition to homeschooling their kids and trying to figure out the trick to the prettiest pie crust, she also writes online , is the founder & editor-in-chief of the beautiful hospitality site Grace Table . I loved getting to talk hospitality with her today. Can’t wait for you to meet Kris! Here’s the interview on Dear Daughters Episode 41. Show notes:...
Nov 16, 2017•50 min•Season 2Ep. 41
Natalie Coulter is the Founder and Creative Director of Mint and Maple where she works to equip people for the creative life. She is an old soul with a youthful spirit, a personality test junkie, a professional dreamer, and wife to Josh. She’s also an enneagram type 7, and an absolute delight. In this episode we talked about creativity and owning a small business and a whole lot of whimsy. She recently released her Art Journal Kit and I want to buy one for everyone I know. :) I can’t wait for yo...
Nov 08, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Amy Nelson Hannon lives in Springdale, Arkansas in the heart of the Ozark Mountains. She is married to her college sweetheart, who she believes, is still the funniest boy in the world. Her three greatest gifts came packaged as Grace, Luke, and Isaac.In May 2014, after almost 13 years as a wedding stationer, Amy pursued her dream of opening a kitchen boutique in her grandmother’s name. Because like Euna Mae (pronounced ‘yoo-na’ ), Amy loves to be in her kitchen making food for those she loves. Am...
Nov 02, 2017•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 39
Bri McKoy is a writer, air force wife, dog mama, food blogger, and table person living with her husband, Jeremy, in Hermosa, California. She believes in following in Jesus’ footsteps as He broke bread around the table with his disciples, and making the table a place to welcome others into our stories. Bri also works with Compassion International and writes online at Our Savory Life . She just released her first book, Come and Eat: A Celebration of Love and Grace Around the Everyday Table . Givea...
Oct 25, 2017•52 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Oh y’all, it’s so hard to list everything Jess Connolly does in one little paragraph. Jess is a teacher, writer, entrepreneur, wife, mother of four, and church planter. One of her greatest joys is gathering with women and being as honest as possible with them about how good God is and how much He loves them. She writes online at jessconnolly.com , is the founder of the All Good Things Collective , and pastors Gospel Community Church with her husband, Nick. She helped co-found She Reads Truth and...
Oct 19, 2017•53 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Karen Wright Marsh is a fellow table person, storyteller, writer, and theologian. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with her husband where she runs the non-profit, Theological Horizons . She also created The Bonhoeffer House out of their own home because she wanted a space for "meals and interactions and meetings about faith, thought and life." Don't you just want to go to her house for pie right now ? Karen has three adult children, and acts as mom and mentor to dozens of college students ...
Oct 12, 2017•55 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Sharon Hodde Miller is a writer, speaker, Bible teacher, pastor’s wife, and mother, who loves writing about Jesus for the women in his church. She regularly contributes to sites like: Her.meneutics, Relevant, (in)courage, and Propel. Sharon lives in North Carolina with her husband and two sons. She is releasing her first book baby, Free Of Me: Why Life is Better When It’s Not About You today , and is expecting her first girl baby to join their family in a few months! Today we talk about how to i...
Oct 03, 2017•55 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Lindsey Nobles is a gatherer of people, an "architect of affiliation" and one of the builders of IF: Gathering. She has lived all over the country but loves the South (and as you will hear ... the Central Time Zone ;). She writes on the internet at www.lindseynobles.com and currently consults for non-profits. She is one of my favorite people to talk with about ministry, God and food. I think you'll love hearing her vulnerable thoughts on transition, self-care and where she's headed next. I’m so ...
Sep 25, 2017•59 min•Season 2Ep. 34
"What does it look like to love God for the next ten minutes? What does it look like to love the person in front of me for the next ten minutes? That’s the Great Commandment." ~ Jan Johnson Jan Johnson is a spiritual director, speaker, instructor at Richmont Graduate University, and writer of 22 books (!!). She says that everything she writes or speaks on flows out of these three areas: spiritual formation, partnering with God in caring for the voiceless, and living with purposeful intentionalit...
Sep 19, 2017•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 33
"He never leaves your side. He’s always right there holding your hand. And you know what? You’re gonna be awesome." ~ Tara Royer Steele Tara Royer Steele lives in Brenham, Texas with her husband Rick and their two boys, where they make pies, cater for Royer’s Roundtop Cafe, run the Pie Haven and lead camps on soul restoration through their newly launched Brave Gathering . Tara and her family just transitioned from one wonderful season to follow God in faith and join him in this big new work. I c...
Jun 27, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 32
"This is how change works. It’s stealthy. It delicately changes you and your perspective while you’re in it, and it is not until you are fully out of it that you look in the mirror and notice a difference." ~ Andrea Lucado Andrea Lucado is a full time freelance writer, coffee drinker, and author of English Lessons: The Crooked Path of Growing Towards Faith . Andrea has had her own crooked path meandering from San Antonio, to West Texas, all the way to England, then back to Tennessee. She now liv...
Jun 14, 2017•53 min•Season 1Ep. 31
"You have a hardwiring from God, and it’s a beautiful hardwiring. And if you can discover what that is, that points to the reason you’re here." ~ Bill Hendricks Bill Hendricks is a native Texan, Executive Director for Christian Leadership at the Hendricks Center, and President of the Giftedness Center, where he helps people understand their unique giftedness. He lives in Dallas with his wife, Lynn, and has three adult daughters. He has written over 20 books, including his latest, The Person Call...
Jun 07, 2017•57 min•Season 1Ep. 30
I believe that each best choice that I make will add up to the best life that I can live. ~ Esther Emery Esther is an off-grid homestead wife, mama, and author. She lives with her husband and three children in a yurt (!!) in the forest (!!!) where they maintain a blog and You Tube channel about the simple life. They raise goats, and bake bread, among many other amazing things. She just released her first book, What Falls From the Sky: How I Disconnected from the Internet and Reconnected with the...
May 23, 2017•52 min•Season 1Ep. 29
"As we’re trying to find a better self, it’s not a construction project, it’s an excavation project. We’re learning to let go of those things which are not us." ~ Kelly Flanagan Kelly is a licensed clinical psychologist and writer whose words have appeared in The Huffington Post , Reader’s Digest , Babble (Disney’s parenting website), and The Today Show . He blogs regularly at UnTangled about marriage, parenting, and exploring the redemptive life. He and his wife Kelly, (so fun, right?!) and the...
May 09, 2017•52 min•Season 1Ep. 28
"This world is huge. It is majestic. It is worth exploring just for the sake of knowing it." ~ Tsh Oxenreider Tsh Oxenreider is a podcaster and blogger at The Art of Simple , and has published several books including Notes from a Blue Bike and her newest, At Home in the World. Her writing has also been featured in the Washington Post, CNN, Real Simple magazine, and more. Tsh currently lives in Georgetown, Texas with her husband and three kids where they live simply, work on their fixer upper, an...
May 02, 2017•53 min•Season 1Ep. 27
"Instead of trying to parent the way that God parents us, we get mad that God doesn’t parent like we do. God allows negative things into our lives. He disciplines those that He loves. He doesn’t parent like us because He knows that’s an emotionally crippling way to raise a child." ~ Dr. Jimmy Myers As a licensed professional counselor and Owner/Executive Director of The Timothy Center , Dr. Jimmy Myers focuses on helping others find God’s solutions to life challenges. In the many years of minist...
Apr 12, 2017•52 min•Season 1Ep. 26
"Curiosity is a life raft." ~ Casey Tygrett Have you ever thought of curiosity as a spiritual discipline? I never did until I met Casey Tygrett. Casey is a pastor, spiritual director, and author of Becoming Curious : A Spiritual Practice of Asking Questions (coming May 2 ~ yay!). Casey lives in Rockford, Illinois with his wife and daughter where he serves as the teaching pastor at Heartland Community Church in Rockford, Illinois. I’m excited for you to get to meet him today. Here’s the interview...
Apr 04, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 25
"Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is waste time." ~ Shelly Miller Meet Shelly, your Sabbath mentor. At least that’s what Myquillyn Smith calls her. Shelly is married to H (yes, his name is one letter!), an Anglican minister who resources church planting in the UK and they are the proud parents of two children, Murielle and Harrison. When Shelly isn’t at St. Barnabas Church in Kensington, you’ll find her clicking keys at a desk or walking around the city with her camera, exploring n...
Mar 28, 2017•56 min•Season 1Ep. 24
"God is not looking for perfect mothers to raise perfect daughters. He’s looking for imperfect mothers who are raising imperfect daughters in an imperfect world … and desperately dependent on a perfect God for the results." ~ Vicki Courtney Vicki Courtney is a wife, mother and grandmother. She is an author and ministry leader. She is also my friend. She is the kind of friend I can call to untangle questions about ministry, parenting, writing … and just about anything else. She is a woman full of...
Mar 22, 2017•58 min•Season 1Ep. 23
The world may tell us we’re too much and never enough. But we can walk wildly in who God created us to be and rest freely in the work Jesus did for us. We do not have to be confined or conformed by cultural expectations. We are unchained from our past and unafraid of our future. ~ Jess Connolly If you want to know what it looks like to run after God, meet Jess Connolly. Aside from starting a church with her husband, Nick, she is a mom to four young children, a small business owner and an author....
Mar 14, 2017•55 min•Season 1Ep. 22
In 2013 Kate Merrick said goodbye to her 8 year-old daughter Daisy Love when she left for heaven. She wrote on grief, joy, and struggle on prayfordaisy.com . Kate is making her way back toward laughter and finding life to be filled with good things. Kate Merrick is a pastor's wife, writer, speaker, and mom to a teenager and toddler. She and her husband Britt cofounded the Reality family of churches in 2003, which began in Carpinteria, California, and has grown to include Santa Barbara, Ventura, ...
Mar 08, 2017•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 21
The single greatest cause of homelessness is a profound, catastrophic loss of family ~ Alan Graham What does it really look like to love your neighbor? What does it look like for you to share your life and somehow be family to people who may not be just like you? Alan Graham answers those questions in profound and practical ways. In 1998, he started a ministry to feed the homeless here in Austin. Since then, he harnessed over 18,000 volunteers to serve over 4,000,000 meals to the hungry. Oh, yes...
Mar 01, 2017•55 min•Season 1Ep. 20
"Sometimes I think I’m afraid to listen to desire, the gentle heartbeat of my own life, the thing that makes me come alive because I discount that God speaks within me and to me through the Holy Spirit." ~ Emily Freeman Are you afraid to listen to the gentle heartbeat of your own life? These are the kinds of things Emily Freeman thinks about and it’s one of the reasons I love reading what she’s writing. She is the best kind of contemplative: thoughtful, creative and also playful. I’m excited to ...
Feb 22, 2017•55 min•Season 1Ep. 19
The mother-daughter relationship is one that is delicate, beautiful and let’s be honest … sometimes fraught with boundary issues. As a mom of two young adult daughters and a daughter-in-law, my heart goal is to make sure that I love and honor them in the new stage they are in as young married wives. Not always the easiest thing because what I’d really love to do is beg, cajole and/or guilt them into moving back to Austin. (And maybe even living with me. Ha.) Of course, I know this is not the sma...
Jan 25, 2017•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 18
"I thought I could pour myself into ministry and make the pain go away. But God started breaking down walls, helping me look honestly at my pain, and teaching me how to really grieve." ~ Hilliary Cheatham In this episode of the Dear Daughters podcast, I talk with Hilliary Cheatham. She is a story-telling photographer in China as a missionary. She lives and works at Show Hope. Hilliary is also a very dear daughter of mine. She roomed with my daughter, Emily, when they were at Baylor, she lived in...
Jan 19, 2017•53 min•Season 1Ep. 17
"Sometimes there’s no getting around tough circumstances, but changing the way you handle them can make a big difference. It doesn’t take much to go from feeling completely in control to completely overwhelmed. Sadness, isolation, anxiety… whether it’s a lifelong struggle or a season of life that just doesn’t seem to be passing, we all experience times when it would help to have someone in our corner." ~ Dr. Ashley Stafford In this episode of the Dear Daughters podcast, I talk with Dr. Ashley St...
Jan 11, 2017•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 16
How are you feeling about those new year resolutions? Already tired underneath the weight? Yeah, I’ve felt it too. That’s why I’m trying something a little kinder and more centered on this truth: Only God knows the future you. Resolutions, best efforts and inspiration will wane. So when it does, the best new prayer is … As You wish Totally got that from The Princess Bride . Not at all concerned about the fact that I somehow made dialogue from a comedy into a prayer. Because this year, I’d love c...
Jan 04, 2017•11 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Kind of a different format on the podcast today because I wanted to touch base and catch up with you. And I also wanted to talk about how Christmas time while wonderful, can make things wonky. And wonky sometimes makes for lonely or sad feelings. And I just don’t want you to feel lonely or sad. I want you to know everyone feels those confusing Christmas-y feelings sometimes. I've certainly felt them. Also wanted to share a quick and yummy breakfast idea for Christmas morning. As well as a few wa...
Dec 20, 2016•13 min•Season 1Ep. 14
One of the things I love best is introducing you to people like Lana Rush. She is a pastor’s wife , mother to three beautiful girls and spiritual mama to many. She’s a woman full of wisdom and God’s kind of deep joy. In this episode, she shares honestly about some of her greatest struggles in being the parent of a child with special needs. She opens up about how she and her husband handle the challenges differently and how they’ve managed to stay close despite setbacks. We also chat about how we...
Dec 07, 2016•59 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Do you dream of owning your business? Working your own hours? Living your Big God Dream? Then you’re going to love meeting Lauren Gaige in this episode 12 of The Dear Daughters Podcast . Lauren is a graphic designer who built her own business with just ten a couple dollars in the bank. The heart behind Lauren and her brand is to help women start a successful business and/or blog by providing a luxury website design, amazing support, and an affordable online presence without the headache! She is ...
Nov 30, 2016•55 min•Season 1Ep. 12
