Mac and Kenz talk about their dating personality quiz, how everyone perceives dating different struggles and strengths each personality has in dating (This episode geared towards women). The week on the Heart of Dating podcast, we have co-founders of Delight Ministries Mac and Kenz as guests on the show! Mac and Kenz started Delight Ministries in college and since then have expanded their ministry to 140 different chapters all over college campuses in the United States. They are also authors of ...
Apr 24, 2019•58 min•Season 3Ep. 45
Dave and Ashely discuss if chemistry and physical attraction are important and how much weight you should put in it when getting to know someone. They also discuss how that can change over time. This week, Kait got a chance to exchange conversations with creators of The Naked Marriage podcast, Dave and Ashley Willis. Dave and Ashley share a beautiful marriage and have 4 boys together. They are also involved in a marriage ministry titled Marriage Today and have done work with the XO Marriage Conf...
Apr 17, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 44
Kait tells her heartbreak story and lays out 3 practical ways we can heal from a breakup. On this very special episode, Heart of Dating’s very own host Kait shares her personal story on dealing with heartbreak. Kait gets #real and shares about how a broken relationship has taught her to deeply love herself and not forget her self-worth. This episode focuses on healing and learning that you don’t have to try to convince someone to stay with you. Kait also shares her wisdom from going through thes...
Apr 10, 2019•35 min•Season 3Ep. 43
Kait does an interview on being a single woman and answers questions such as: healthy habits, boundaries, navigating the dating scene as a Christian, how people hyper-spiritualize the dating process, and seeking out mentorship. Friends! We have a special and unique episode for you today. A few weeks ago we had friends Ryan and Selena Frederick on HOD to really share about what it looks like to have a Fierce, Faith-Filled Dating Relationship and they truly brought SUCH incredible wisdom and insig...
Apr 03, 2019•44 min•Season 3Ep. 42
Audrey and Jeremy share about long distance dating and how they learned to date creatively. They also discuss creating a healthy environment to share vulnerably, overcoming challenges in a relationship, and how to be intentional in dating. Kait had the incredibly pleasure of sitting down with Audrey and Jeremy Roloff today to talk about their story, their INCREDIBLE dating advice, AND to share about their brand new book, A Love Letter Life, Available April 2nd! Jeremy Roloff actually grew up fil...
Mar 27, 2019•45 min•Season 3Ep. 41
Johan talks about all the myths women may believe about men and vice versa when it comes to dating. He also discusses rejection, dating in church, having an open mind, women making the first move, and if men and women can be just friends. Here is the deal. You guys DM us with questions about what the other gender is thinking all the time OR you ask them in our private FB community, and because of that we decided we needed to have a rad guy come on to help Kait tackle some of the biggest myths ab...
Mar 20, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 40
Kat discusses being a single woman in her 30s, online dating, dating apps, and debunking myths of christians using dating platforms. She shares online dating tips, myths, and her favorite online dating story. Kait brought her good girlfriend, Kat Harris, on the show to do a PODCAST swap where we exchanged advice on each other’s podcasts about online dating. Listen to that episode HERE. Kat Harris is a Brooklyn-based speaker, digital content creator, female empowerment advocate...She loves Jesus,...
Mar 13, 2019•38 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Dave shares funny stories, how to woo a woman, lessons he's learned in dating, and ridiculous things christians do in dating. If yall have not had the pleasure of knowing WHO Dave Barnes is then, you are going to want to be his friend after listening to this episode!! Dave Barnes is a respected Nashville artist and songwriter who received GRAMMY and CMA nominations for Blake Shelton's recording of his hit song "God Gave Me You." Barnes has also penned songs for Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood, Reba...
Mar 06, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Elisabeth and Peter go over some tendencies each enneagram type have in dating. Today we invited Peter and Elisabeth Bennett from the ever growing instagram account enneagram.life on the podcast. Peter is an Enneagram 1 and Elisabeth is an Enneagram 4! Together they live for Jesus in the beautiful PNW and they have been together for 5 years, married for 3 years, and have an almost 1 year old son. After learning about the Enneagram 2 years ago, Elisabeth read basically everything she can get her ...
Feb 27, 2019•50 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Serena and Ryan discuss how to prepare for marriage as a Christian single both in practical and spritual ways. Today Kait invites Ryan and Selena Frederick onto the podcast… and they are the marriage #dreamteam! Together they have an incredible platform called Fierce Marriage which is a place to truly process the trials of marriage and celebrate its JOYS all rooted in Christ centeredness. Under Fierce Marriage they have a blog, an amazing instagram, a podcast, and TONS Of resources for couples. ...
Feb 20, 2019•57 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Carrie talks about being an older single woman and the feelings of loneliness and how to combat discouragement and comparison. Today we wanted to do an episode on singleness and THRIVING in it, as well as how to combat loneliness. So Kait brought on a phenomenal woman is is doing all of these things as a 38 year old single woman…the lovely Carrie Lloyd! Carrie Lloyd is an author, speaker, pastor at Bethel Church, and a coach. She originally worked in film and TV advertising in the UK and then we...
Feb 13, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Scott talks about everything you need to discuss with your SO before getting married. Scott Kedersha is a Marriage pastor, conference speaker, and popular blogger. He currently lives in Dallas, TX and is the Director of Marriage ministry AND the Director of Newly Married Ministry. Scott works with thousands of couples and has learned an immense amount about what they struggle with and need to discuss before marriage. Scott has become so passionate about this that he just recently launched his ne...
Feb 06, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Kait does a Q&A answering questions and topics such as: where to meet men, off/on relationships, boundaries, dating a friend, and more. This is an EXCITING day. We were able to POLL yall on instagram to find out what YOUR burning questions are regarding dating… we wanted to give you the opportunity to ask us anything, and now Kait is here to discuss it ALL...heyoooo!! Alrighty friends, truth be told, this is our first SOLO episode so we have to first start out by asking… have GRACE WITH KAIT! We...
Jan 23, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Mike discuss what codependency is, how to avoid it, how to recognize it, and why we do it. So today we are so excited because this guest has become a DEAR friend of Kait's over this last year... and is in fact a REPEAT GUEST! Mike Foster is such a wonderful human being you guys. He is a best-selling author, speaker, and advocate for not-so-perfect people. He has an INCREDIBLE podcast, Fun Therapy, which Kait actually had the pleasure of being on during Season 3 (go take a listen!). Y’all Mike ha...
Jan 16, 2019•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 32
Alessandra talks about being a strong confident woman in dating, making the first move, meeting great men, and the idea of an "independent woman”. Now today, we are so excited. We have had SO many ladies writing in asking questions about knowing where to meet guys, how or if they can initiate, ALL of it. So today we brought the amazing Alessandra Conti on to talk about it ALL. Alessandra is a Celebrity Matchmaker and Co-Founder of Matchmakers In The City. You may remember her sister Cristina jus...
Jan 09, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Jason discusses how relationships are selfless and selfishness is taking over our culture. Today Kait invited her new friend and FELLOW Canadian, Jason Ballard onto Heart of Dating for an incredible, deeply inspiring conversation about selfishness and and physical boundaries. Jason is one of the hosts of the Alpha Youth Series and a pastor at his home church, Christian Life Assembly in CANADA, eh?! Jason lives in Langley, BC with his wife Rachael and his three kids. He loves preaching about Jesu...
Dec 19, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Kris and Kristen tell their love story and how to romance the other in a dating relationship while pursing a christ centered relationship intentionally. They also discuss DM sliding and why it's OK. Now for today’s episode we brought on Kait's friends Kris Wolfe and Kristen Dalton Wolfe. Their conversation revolved around importance of PURSUIT and ROMANCE in relationship… because yall these two things are IMPORTANT! You might actually remember Kris from our previous Me,Too and Masculinity episod...
Dec 12, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Bianca talks about how church dating can get akward and how to avoid being weird as a dating christian. Bianca Olthoff is a POWERHOUSE of a woman, let us tell you! Bianca is a speaker and pastor at The Father’s House, a church down in Orange Country. She moved down to the OC when she got married about 8 years and at the time worked alongside Christine Caine under the A21 organization, a global anti-human trafficking organization as well as helped to launch Propel Women. When she transitioned out...
Dec 05, 2018•58 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Joel discusses the importance of having a vision, purpose, dreams, and pursing them. He also talks about having values and being intentional. oday Kait interviews the inspiriting Joel Brown. Joel currently lives in Bali and in fact during this interview you could hear the birds chirping outside so you’ll want to get on a plane after for sure! Out in the gorgeous land of Bali Joel runs incredible conferences with his friend Emile Steenveld to help people really dive into figuring out WHAT is limi...
Nov 28, 2018•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 27
Gerard and Jeannie share their powerful story of grief and loss and talk about looking for someone who can face the hardships of life together with. Today’s episode touches our heart for a plethora of reasons. This first time Kait heard the story of today’s guests she was brought to total and complete tears. It moved Kait so deeply the vast amount of trauma they had been through but were able to OVERCOME So today Kait interviews the amazing Gerard and Jeannie Long. Gerard has an extensive bankin...
Nov 21, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Benji talks about how the hookup culture of our world has influenced Christianity, and how we should dating in a godly way amidst it. Today we welcome the incredibly intelligent Benji Nolot, Benji is the founder Exodus Cry, an international non-profit organization that works to end sex trafficking and empower its victims. He is also a filmmaker – most recently for his new film Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution, which is INCREDIBLY EYE-OPENING, PEOPLE. Like, we are shook after watching it. You...
Nov 07, 2018•52 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Ben talks about how to know if you've found someone you should marry and the process of evaluation while dating as Christians. We are always looking for new amazing books to read on dating and someone earlier this year recommended the book Single.Dating.Engaged.Married. Our host, Kait, read it and really thought that everyone needed to read this book! So today Kait got the privilege of sitting down with Ben Stuart who is not only an author but also the pastor of Passion City Church, Washington D...
Oct 31, 2018•59 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Stephanie May Wilson discusses LOVING your singleness season and how to stay strong and not discouraged throught it. Today our guest is Stephanie May Wilson who is a brand new friend of Kait's. Their stories and journeys are SO similar y’all and she is SO passionate about singles (which we couldn't love more!). Steph is an author, blogger, speaker, and a best friend to many and in fact she hosts the incredible podcast, Girls Night. Her greatest mission is to help others have awesome relationship...
Oct 24, 2018•59 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Discussion on men, masculinity, and toxic masculinity. Learning how to be vulnerable, pursuing godliness, and what a man of God is. Part 2 of our conversation with 3 incredible men. If you missed our Part 1 of this conversation, you’re going to want to go back and listen to it. We dove into what it is like being a man in the culture of the Me, Too movement. How can we embrace women? How can we do a better job of listening and acknowledging the pain of sexual assault? This week, we are SO incredi...
Oct 17, 2018•45 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Three men discuss their reaction to the me too movement from a male perspective. They also share how the church has handled it and how we can move forward in healing. So today Kait brought on 3 of her guy friends who she admires in SO many ways. Each of them have such beautiful hearts, and truly grasped what it means to love and respect women wholeheartedly, while also learning how to wrestle with their own personal identities as men. This conversation was SO good that we split it into two parts...
Oct 10, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 21
amie Grace discusses not settling and waiting for the right person as well as how she found hope in her singleness. Today we have the STELLAR Jamie Grace on the podcast. She is a singer, songwriter, musician and actress who current lives here in Los Angeles, California and is originally from Atlanta! Y’all she is 2x GRAMMY nominee, Dove Award winning artist and actually got her start on YouTube when she was only 14 years. Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at a young age, she has a fierce resilien...
Oct 03, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Are y’all ready for a fun convo today on one of our FAVORITE TOPICS? We are talking about DTR’s today. What are they? How do you have them? How frequently do you have them? Why are they necessary? WE TALK ABOUT IT IT ALL. We have polled y’all on the topic of DTR’s and BOY did you have some grief to share. So we brought in the DTR expert, our good friend Kristina Harutoonian to chat all things Defining the Relationship. Kristina is an aspiring writer and the comedic voice behind The DTR Blog. Y’a...
Oct 01, 2018•34 min
Juli and Addison tell their story of meeting and dating long distance, pursuing boundaries, and how God led their love story. Today we have a stellar couple on that we admire for so many reasons. Addison and Juli Bevere! We were super grateful to interview 2 of the other Bevere brothers, Alec and Arden, and now we are excited to speak to the veterans of the family, the oldest brother and his wife. Addison is a husband, dad, son, brother, and BOSS man. He was married at 22, had his first kid at 2...
Sep 26, 2018•58 min•Season 2Ep. 19
JP discusses dating in church community, how to do it well, and how to not be weird about. Above all he points out how to leave someone better than you found them. The ultimate Christian dating question: How in the world do we date healthily in our communities?And no, we are not referring to anything strangely related to the years of, “I Kissed Dating Goodbye”. But rather, how do we today actually date in our church communities respectfully and lovingly? It’s complex, we know. Today we sit down ...
Sep 19, 2018•44 min•Season 2Ep. 18
In today's MINISODE features Kait’s new friend, Cristina, co-founder of Matchmakers in the City! They have locations in LA, Washington, New York… she’s setting up people left and right, ALL across the country! And as a fellow-Jesus lover, she kind of serves as the token go-to Christian matchmaker! The ladies sit down to talk all the dating things from an EXPERT point of view. Some themes in today’s MINISODE are: -Why is the dating world so difficult now? -How can we conquer the consumeristic min...
Sep 17, 2018•36 min
