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Crystal Paine Show — 344 episodes

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344: Raising Capable & Confident Kids with David Thomas and Sissy Goff

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343: The Surprising Lessons I’m Learning from Training for a 10k

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342: Discovering Your Communication Type with Jason VanRuler

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341: Five Exciting Updates at Our House

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340: How to Love Your Morning Even If You’re Not a Morning Person with Jennifer Dukes Lee

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339: Jesse Chaperoned a Trip to Denver

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338: Do This First Thing Every Morning with Addison Bevere

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337: My First Colonoscopy

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336: The Life-Changing Art of Self Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren

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335: My Grandma Hobbies Era

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334: Don’t Burn Your House Down with Lindsey Maestas

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333: Why I Started Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor

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332: One Man’s Journey from Abuse & Addiction to Forgiveness and Redemption with Stephen McWhirter

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331: My Fun List for 2026

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330: How Understanding the Compassion of Christ Changes Us with Sherri Hughes-Gragg

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329: Why I Am Not Setting Goals in 2026

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328: 25 Things I’m So Glad I Said Yes to in 2025

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327: How to Avoid Unintentional Harm Through the Words We Speak (with Amy Hughes)

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326: Why I Started Getting Up at 4:15am (it might surprise you!)

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325: It’s Never the Wrong Time to Do the Right Thing with Nicole C. Mullen

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324: My 3-Week Experience with a Parasite

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323: Raising Daughters That Are Ready for Adulthood with Kari Kampakis

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322: Helping Our Kids Understand Their Worth and Identity in Christ with Elisabeth Hasselbeck

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321: My 13-Day Trip to India

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320: The Power of Prayer with Willa Kane

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319: Loneliness, Friendship Breakups, and How to Build Strong Community with Kristen Strong

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318: My Parents’ 50th Wedding Anniversary Celebration

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317: I Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen with Kate Strickler

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316: Why I Started Shutting Down at 7

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315: Helping Our Kids Overcome Anxiety (with David Thomas and Sissy Goff)

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314: Swimming with Dolphins and Stingrays

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313: You Have an Addiction and What to Do About It (with Ian Cron)

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312: A true story of brokenness, redemption, and the power of a biker’s prayer with Angie Howell

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311: Changing My Mindset with Food

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310: Making Wise Decisions in Uncertain Times (with Katie Reid)

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309: Your Waiting Isn’t Wasted with DawnChere Wilkerson

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308: My Very First Time Going to a Gym Class

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307: How to Fight Less and Thrive More in Marriage (with Gabe and Rebekah Lyons)

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306: Our 20-Hour Overnight Getaway

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305: The Devil’s Subtle Strategies: What We Miss When We’re Distracted (with Tilly Dillehay)

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304: Marriage License Mayhem: Our Wild Ride Trying to Get a Real ID License

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303. True Intimacy in Marriage (with Joanna and Matthew Raabsmith)

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302. An Invitation to Behold Christ in Motherhood (with Whitney Newby)

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301. The Hard Truths We've Learned From a Month of Using the Opal App

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300. When You Feel Underestimated (with Mary Marantz)

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299. The 5 Money Beliefs That Shape a Teen’s Financial Future

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298. When You Feel Like You're Too Late For Your Life (with Rebecca George)

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297. My Honest Experience With Function Health

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296. A Rest-Filled Life (with Dr. Saundra Dalton Smith)

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295. Surprising Lessons I Learned on My Trip to Disney

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294. Celebrating Black History All Year Long (with Trillia Newbell)

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293. How to Plan Your Week So You Can Actually Take a Day Off (with Kathi Lipp)

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292. Habits of the Household + some newsy updates!

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291. Breaking the Patterns That Break You (with Tori Hope Peterson)

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290. Helping Kids Navigate Grief and Loss (with Annie F. Downs)

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289. Lessons Learned from 22 Years of Marriage and 20 Years of Parenting

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288. Show Your Phone Who is Boss (with Karen Ehman)

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287. Kathrynne's Sickness & Hospital Stay

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286. Goals for 2025 + 12 Things I Plan to Learn

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285. Consistently Inconsistent

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284. Listening Well and Practicing Simple Hospitality

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283. Building a Deeper Connection to God (with Jeannie Cunnion)

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282. Something I just learned about Jesse, cows, disappointment, and voting

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281. How We Went to NYC on a Budget

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280. Habits for a Sacred Home (with Jennifer Pepito)

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279. An embarrassing story, emergency preparedness, my 43rd birthday and goals for my next year

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278. When You Feel Like You're the Only One Who's Behind (with Meghan Ryan Asbury)

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277. Our freezer disaster, upping my iron, and Jesse's 44th birthday

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276. Our honest experience with Inside Tracker Blood Tests and what we've learned and changed from it

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275. Our big trip to Kalamazoo, MI & my trip to NYC!

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274. When Doing It All Is Undoing You (with Alyssa Bethke)

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273. 4 Strategies to Start Your Back-to-School Year Well

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272. Quietly Rebelling Against the Narrative of Fear

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271. Healthy Churches, Healthy Leaders: Restoring God's Original Blueprint for Local Churches (with Natalie Runion)

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270. Conspiracy Theories and a crazy travel story!

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269. My honest experience with wearing an Oura ring

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268. Finding Hope and Forgiveness After Horrific Pain (with Davey Blackburn)

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267. Newsy Summer Updates + 3 Shows We've Enjoyed Recently

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266. Why We Encourage Our Kids to Wait to Date

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265. Routines and schedules: do they serve you or enslave you?

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264. Our Top 20+ Favorite Audiobooks

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263. Our Goals for a Slowed Down Summer

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262. What Autism Taught Me About Limits & the Goodness of God (with Jessica Hurlbut)

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261. Things We Wish We Knew Before Having an Adult Child

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260. Simple Rules to Decorate Your Home No Matter Your Style or Budget (with Myquillyn Smith)

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259. Going to College Debt-Free: Our Best Tips & Strategies

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258. How We're Processing Having Back-to-Back Seniors

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257. Simple Systems That Keep Us Sane

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256. Micah's Unexpected Hospital Stay

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255. Answering your burning questions on marriage

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254. Kaitlynn's trip to Singapore and Indonesia

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253. How to Build Belonging in a World of Loneliness (with Chris and Julie Bennett)

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252. Silas and Jesse share about their trip to DC

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251. Removing Toxins from Your Life Without Adding Them to Your Personality (with Emily Morrow)

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250. What it was like living in the 1900's :)

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249. The Gift of Limitations (with Sara Hagerty)

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248. Losing and Rebuilding Trust With Your Teens

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247. An Update on Our 2024 Goals (+ an app we're both loving!)

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246. The Best Way to Encourage Your Single Friends (with Annie F. Downs)

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245. Life is Messy, But God is Still Good (with Cynthia Yanof)

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244. A Crazy Airport Story + some fun life updates!

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243. Trusting God When Your Life Feels Like It's Falling Apart (with Heidi Lee Anderson)

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242. My Word for 2024 (and some of the “weird” things I’m trying!)

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241. 5 Significant Changes We're Making in 2024

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240. Kathrynne shares about her first semester at college

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239. Trusting God When Life is Challenging (with Shane Stanford)

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238. Raising Spiritually Strong and Emotionally Healthy Children (with Lauren Gaines)

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237. REAL TALK: When It's Hard to Prioritize Your Marriage

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236. 1000 Hours Outside (with Ginny Yurich)

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235. One simple tweak that has made a big impact in our lives

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234. Grieving the Loss of What Your Life Used to Be (with Chuck and Ashley Elliott)

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233. When an Unexpected Phone Call Turns Your Life Upside Down (with Jillian Benfield)

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232. Why We Require Our Teens to Get a Job at 15

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231. A Healthy Perspective on Body Image (with Rachael Gilbert)

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230. Why I'm Saying No

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229. Secrets of Sex and Marriage (with Shaunti Feldhahn)

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228. Building Community Through Cooking (with Bri McCoy)

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227. Paying Attention in a Distracted World (with Paul Angone)

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226. 4 Big Transitions in Our Lives Right Now

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225. Preparing Our Kids for Marriage (with Tricia Goyer)

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224. The Secret Art of Confident Motherhood (with Alli Worthington)

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223. Love is Worth the Risk

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222. When Your Worries and Whys Need More Than Temporary Relief (with Lisa Whittle)

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221. The Worry-Free Parent (with Sissy Goff)

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220. 3 Unexpected Lifestyle Changes I Made This Summer

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219. How to find and build better friendships (with Laura Tremaine)

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218. 21 Days of No Sugar and the surprising lessons I'm learning

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217. How to Identify & Occupy Your God-Given Space (with Heather MacFadyen)

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216. Jesse's Perspective on IBLP

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215. Hope and Healing from Church Hurt & Disappointment (with Natalie Runion)

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214. Shiny Happy People: Our Honest Thoughts

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213. Every Woman a Theologian (with Phylicia Masonheimer)

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212. How to Help Your Kids Have an Intentional Summer

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211. Trading Boring, Empty Prayer for Real Connection (with Addison Bevere)

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210. Kathrynne shares surprising lessons she learned in high school

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209. Hope For When Motherhood is Really Hard (with Katie Faris)

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208. Slacker Parenting (AKA How to spend less time micromanaging and more time enjoying your kids)

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207. How God Brings Beauty & Purpose to Your Story (with Anne Neilson)

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206. How Do I Get My Spouse to Change Their Mind?

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205. Trading Fear & Anxiety for Unshakeable Peace (with Katie Davis Majors)

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204. Kathrynne's College Decision (+ a funny story!)

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203. Kathrynne and Kaitlynn share about their trip to London & Amsterdam

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202. Disability and Discovering God’s Image in Every Person (with Laura Wifler)

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201. It's Launch Day! Why I wrote The Time-Saving Mom

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200. Why We Stopped Fostering

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199. Raising Amazing Kids (with Monica Swanson)

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198. How to Identify What's Keeping Us Stuck (with Megan Hyatt Miller)

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197. 4 Things We've Learned After 18 Years of Parenting

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196. Discovering Hope & Healing After Brokenness (with Toni Collier)

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195. A Faith That Will Not Fail (with Michele Cushatt)

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194. 6 Lessons We've Learned from 20 Years of Marriage

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193. The Long-Awaited Adoption Day (all the details)!

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192. Our Goals for 2023

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191. Highlights from 2022 + Some BIG News!

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190. Helping Kids Thrive in Mind, Body, and Spirit (with Jodi Mockabee)

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189. It's Okay to Be a Beginner

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188. Good Boundaries and Goodbyes (with Lysa TerKeurst)

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187. Loving Someone Well Even When We Disagree (with Michele Cushatt)

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186. A Crazy Travel Story

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185. Every Moment Holy (with Douglas McKelvey)

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184. A Life Update + Prepping Our Hearts for Advent (with Ruth Chou Simons)

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183. A Love-Stretched Life (with Jillana Goble)

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182. Start with Hello: Simple Ways to Build Community (with Shannan Martin)

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181. What is Kathrynne doing after high school?

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180. Why You Should Read Aloud with Your Kids (with Jennifer Pepito)

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179. An Interview with Jesse

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178. From Street Kid to Foster Dad (with Peter Mutabazi)

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177. Setting Healthy Boundaries for Your Family (with Rachel Norman)

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176. An adoption update + how to follow through with your goals

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175. Raising Emotionally Strong Boys (with David Thomas)

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174. Teaching Your Kids to Set Goals

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173. Our Fitness, Family, & Personal Goals for the Fall

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172. Micah's Birth Story

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171. My Unexpected Hospital Stay

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170. Making Sabbath Rest a Priority (with Bob & Linda Lotich)

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169. Helping our teens deepen their relationship with Jesus (with Angela Perritt)

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168. Helping your kids fight less & get along better

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167. How I Found Time to Write a Book

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166. Raising Teens: Answering your burning questions

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165. Wisdom from a mom of 14 (with Nicole Homan)

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164. How to Stop Fearing the Future & Live in Hope Today (with Nicole Zasowski)

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163. What We Wish We Have Known Before Having Kids

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162. Making Time for Romance When You Have Kids

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161. Unexpected Lessons from Down Syndrome

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160. 5 Things I Do Every Morning (Part 2)

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159. I got caught in the comparison trap!

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158. When you feel hurt and offended...

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157. Why Your Prayers Might Not Be Answered

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156. A Different Perspective on Foster Care (with Jamie Finn)

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155. 3 Questions to Ask When Your Child is Frustrated

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154. 5 Things I Do Every Morning

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153. 8 Ways I Simplify My Life

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152. What I Learned From a Year of Intentional Proximity

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151. Surprise! I'm 15 weeks pregnant!

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150. What We Learned in 2021

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149. Our December Bucket List

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148. Only Jesus Gets to Tell You Who You Are

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147. How We {mostly} Stopped Arguing

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146. A Surrendered Yes (with Rebekah Lyons)

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145. Our Unexpected Adoption News

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144. You Were Made for This Moment (with Max Lucado)

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143. A Love Languages Quiz

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142. Worship Suffocates Worry (with Katie Reid)

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141. Living a Grace-Filled Life in a Stress-Filled World (with Ruth Chou Simons)

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140. When Your Prayers Aren't Answered Like You Hoped

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139. Do This One Thing Every Morning (with Alison Lumbatis)

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138. How to Keep Going When Life is Hard (with Lisa Whittle)

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137. Dating vs. Courtship: Our honest thoughts

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136. Don't Miss Out on This Superpower! (with Jeannie Cunnion)

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135. Answering your burning questions

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134. Our Experience with Covid

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133. Our Best Strategies for Raising "Twins"

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132. Family Breakfasts: What We're Doing Instead of Family Dinners

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131. A crazy travel story

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130. You Get What You Expect (+ some thoughts on raising teens)

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129. My System for Keeping on Top of Emails

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128. Finding Peace in the Midst of Chaos

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127. Living Out Your Calling (instead of being limited by lies) with Paul Angone

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126. Addressing the assumptions

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125. Stop Saying "I Can't"

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124. Unexpected Lessons from a Year of Foster Care

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123. How I Became More Extroverted

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122. Love-Centered Parenting

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121. Bad Attitude? Feeling Frustrated? Try this!

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120. How to Nix Your Negative Narrative (with Jon Acuff)

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119. Phones, Social Media, and Being Present With Our Kids

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118. 4 Strategies to Feel Less Stressed

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A Trip to Disney + a New Baby! (what a week!)

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116. The Big Day is Here!

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115. Un-hurrying Your Heart with Jennifer Dukes Lee

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114. An Honest Conversation About Faith with Angie Smith

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113. An interview with Kathrynne

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112. How We're Preparing for the College Years

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111. Answering Your Burning Questions

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110. How I Got Over My Fear of Negative Reviews

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109. 18 Years of Marriage: 10 Lessons We've Learned

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108. How to Love Someone You Disagree With

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107. Better Habits: 5 Steps to Start & Stick With Them

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106. 10 Things We Learned in 2020

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105. Holding Both Grief and Gratitude

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104. Sharing Some Good News!

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103. Forgiving What You Can't Forget (with Lysa TerKeurst)

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102. Soul Care During Stressful Seasons

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101. Honest Confessions of a Control Freak

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100. Raising Worry-Free Girls (with Sissy Goff)

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99. Answering Your Burning Questions

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98. Staying Calm in the Midst of a Volatile Election Season

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97. How We Chose Our Kids' Names

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96. Standing Strong (with Alli Worthington)

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95. Our Rules for Kids & Phones

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94. How to Stop Living in Fear

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93. A Woman's Highest Calling (with Jamie Ivey)

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92. How to Change Your Life in 15 Minutes a Day

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91. How to Have a Great Morning Routine

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90. Our Best Advice for Brand-New Homeschool Parents

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89. An Update on Our Foster Care Journey

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88. Answering More Burning Questions

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87. How to Parent a Passive Child

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86. How to Talk to Your Spouse About Money (with Shaunti Feldhahn)

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85. Jesse's Advice for Raising Financially Responsible Kids

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84. Our Family's Favorite Games

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83. How to Parent a Strong-Willed Child

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82. Our Favorite TV Shows

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81. Kierstyn's Birth Story

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80. Parenting in the Middle of a Pandemic

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79. Our Craziest Travel Stories

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78. Creative Ideas for Family Fun at Home

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77. Answering your burning questions as a family (Quarantine Edition)

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76. BIG updates from our house (with a guest appearance by Kathrynne)

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75. Parenting with Confidence (with Becky Keife)

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74. Fear, Unknowns, & Courage (tornadoes, COVID-19)

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73. Overcome Burnout and Get Your Joy Back (with John Eldredge)

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72. How to Fall in Love With Your Life

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71. "How do you stay so positive?"

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70. How I Read 15 Books in January

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69. Answering all your pregnancy questions

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68. Secrets to a Happier Marriage (with Matt and Lisa Jacobson)

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67. Romance and Intimacy: 10 Ways to Keep the Sparks Flying

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66. How to Break Up With Your Phone

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65. Our Journey to Becoming Foster Parents

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64. My Word for 2020 (+ my goals for this week!)

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63. What Worked and What Didn't Work in 2019

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62. How to Talk to Your Kids About Money

284

61. Christmas Traditions & What We're Doing Differently This Year (a conversation with our kids)

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60. What to do When You Fail

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59. The Enneagram and Marriage

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58. Building Father-Daughter Relationships

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57. Why & How I Stopped Drinking Coffee

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56. South Africa Trip Recap (with Jesse and Kathrynne)

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55. Breaking Free from Anxiety, Stress, & Survival Mode (with Aundi Kolber)

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54. Jesse Answers Your Burning Questions

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53. 4 Strategies to Survive Stretching Seasons

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52. My Unplugged Sundays Experiment

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51. Our HUGE announcement!

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50. 4 Rhythms You Need in Your Life (with Rebekah Lyons)

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49. Finding Good Friends

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48. Helping Our Kids Overcome Shame (with Kristin Maher)

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47. The Power of a Morning Routine

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46. Modesty, Legalism, and Grace

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45. The Apps & Tools We Use to Plan Our Day

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44. Our #1 Tip for a Stronger Marriage

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43. The Lies We Believed

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42. Haters Gonna Hate

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41. Building a Relationship of Trust With Your Kids

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40. Our Favorite Things

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39. My Struggle with Anxiety (with Jesse Paine)

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38. Marriage and Business: An Honest Conversation (with Jesse Paine)

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37. Why We Stopped Homeschooling (an interview with our kids)

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36. How to Find Couple Friends (with our local friends)

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35. How Foster Parenting Has Changed Our Lives (with Fran Maynard)

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34. Emotions & Wholehearted Living (with our pastor, Eric Hoffman)

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33. How to Be Married to a Strong Woman (with Jesse Paine)

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32. What it's like to be a Highly Sensitive Person (with Anne Bogel)

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31. Eat Well & Spend Less Time in the Kitchen (with Lisa Burns)

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30. Why We Moved to Nashville (with Jesse Paine)

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29. What is the Enneagram? (with Leigh Kramer)

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28. The Secret to a Happier Marriage (with Audrey & Jeremy Roloff)

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27. Digital Minimalism (with Cal Newport)

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26. How Myers-Briggs Saved My Marriage (with Meg Tietz)

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25. The Year My Body Broke Down (with Jesse Paine)

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24. Parenting a Difficult Child (with Jami Amerine)

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23. Answering Your Burning Questions (with Jesse Paine)

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22. How to Be Brave (with Melissa Radke)

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21. The Year That Changed the Trajectory of Our Lives (with Jesse Paine)

325

20. Stop Procrastinating and Do the Next Right Thing (with Emily P. Freeman)

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19. Making Family Dinner a Priority (with Tiffany King)

327

18. Infertility, Open Adoption, and How to Love When It’s So Hard (with Rachel Nielson)

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17. The Hardest Year of Our Marriage (with Jesse Paine)

329

16. The Outfit Formulas That Changed My Life (with Alison Lumbatis)

330

15. How Practicing Gratitude Will Change Your Year (with Erin Port)

331

14. Why You Should Choose a Word for 2019 (with Monica Wilkinson)

332

13. How I Broke Free from Legalism (with Jesse Paine)

333

12. How to Create a Home That Serves Your Family (with Myquillyn Smith)

334

11. The Real Reason You're So Tired (with Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith)

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10. How to Find Your Blue Flame (with Jennifer Fulwiler)

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9. Law School Struggles, Free Groceries, and a Pregnancy Test (with Jesse Paine)

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8. How to Find More Time to Read (with Anne Bogel)

338

7. 10 Minutes a Day to Less Stress and Better Health (with Bonnie Gray)

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6. Shame, the power of story, and a real look at the writing life (with Katie Ganshert)

340

5. Courtship Rules and Our First Kiss (with Jesse Paine)

341

4. How I Got Over My Fear of Hospitality (with Jen Schmidt)

342

3. The Secret to Being a Happier Mom (with Jeannie Cunnion)

343

2. How to Stop Feeling So Overwhelmed (with Jennifer Dukes Lee)

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1. Why "The Crystal Paine Show"?