The Well

In honor of International Women’s Month we are taking time to acknowledge the many ways the gospel truly is good news for women. In a world that attempts to assign value and varying definitions of what a “successful woman” looks like, we lean into the experience of women in scripture with our guest Florence Schanginger to learn, relate, and celebrate alongside our sisters all that God offers women in every season of life.

In this episode for women of all ages, we discuss what it is to find beauty that is beyond what we typically expect, the truths God is inviting us to see, and how our concept of beauty was shaped as young girls. Based on the new devotional book by Kristi Hickman, this lively discussion is full of depth and personal stories about finding our identity without relying on a mirror.

Cohost Énid & LaToya enter into a new season on the The Well with a special surprise for viewers! Tune in as they discuss their heart postures with the start of the new year and though they take different approaches, their hope is the same - to find Jesus in every season and enjoy the journey with a faithful community along the way.

Noelle Broyles, a former missionary, faithful follower of Jesus, and all around rockstar of servitude, joins us to discuss how sharing the good news becomes our greatest gift. Hear about amazing God-stories of hope for the hopeless, Noelle’s battle with cancer as a teen, and several of her powerful mantras she thinks every woman should know.

Today we’re exploring what it means to build new friendships as adults through the lens of Scripture. God designed us for community, and learning how to create new connections in this season is both a step of faith and an act of courage. Join us as we unpack how to pursue meaningful, Christ-centered friendships in everyday life.

Today we explore the deep truths about leadership and how God defines this in His Word. As soon as any of us decide to make Jesus Lord, we agree to become a person who leads others to Christ. Join us for a lively discussion as we explore what it means to be a leader.

What does it mean to have a victor's mindset versus victim's mindset ? As women, how do we allow God to get us to a victor's mindset and what are some practicals we might apply? Join us as we explore this topic with Marie Burke Toussaint, well-known actress, homeschooling mom, and a tried and true warrior in the faith.

Do I have to entertain in my home to show hospitality? What if I'm not good at hospitality? In this episode we explore what the Bible says and some new and innovative ways to be hospitable. Our guest Sylvia Wyatt is a woman who shines in this area. Together with Énid and LaToya, we explore how to build new relationships, why the heart is more important than the home, and add in some fun stories to inspire us all.

On this month’s episode we sit down with the accomplished and inspiring Ana DeLeon. With years of experience in the corporate world along with seasons of being a stay at home mother, Ana guides our thoughts through what it looks like to thrive in our skill set and life roles given to us by God while warning us of the dangers of burn out. We are reminded of the power of contentment offered to us in Christ during today’s episode. We hope it gives you things to consider and pray about as you lead the life God has placed you in during this season.

We take some time in this month's episode to honor Mental Health Awareness Month by learning about the Metanoia Method with Mind Change Practitioner McKenzie Brewster from Austin, TX. We discuss the scientifically backed practice that engages the subconscious mind as well as Biblical truths in order to experience what God invites us to in Romans 12, a transformation and renewal of the mind. We hope that this discussion brings curiosity to how The Mind Change Method can impact your overall mental wellbeing and faith. Instagram: @mindchangePodcast: The Mind Change Podcastmindchange.com

In this honest and candid episode, we come together to share how God meets us in the messy, complicated parts of life—offering guidance, healing, and unexpected growth. Through honest conversation and personal stories with our guest and friend Makenzie Albert, we explore how faith isn't about having it all together, but about trusting God to work in the chaos. Listen in to laugh, relate, and learn how God can teach us all to embrace every day struggles, knowing that even in the mess, God is shaping something beautiful.  

March is Women’s Month! Join us as we celebrate women and dive deep into how we have a God who sees us as women! Hear Vanessa’s amazing birth story and how God answered her mother’s prayer with a true miracle… and reminded her of it 16 years later!

This month at The Well we celebrate Black History Month by enjoying authentic conversation about various experiences that come with following Jesus in a diverse community. We discuss the power of acknowledging and transcending race in a way that brings glory to God's intention for all nations to be loved, saved, and accepted. As you listen, consider donating to the link below to support The Launch Pad, which is a pilot program by HOPE worldwide that offers transitional housing, mentorship, and life skills to young adults leaving foster care. Our hope is that you enjoy conversations like this year around as the Holy Spirit allows you to love and understand those in your faith community from various backgrounds. Click here to donate to Launchpad

Happy New Year and welcome to Season 3 of The Well Podcast! Your hosts, Enid and LaToya, discuss reflections of 2024 while dreaming of what’s to come in 2025. We discuss what we are learning, leaving behind, loving, and looking forward to. We hope these questions can guide you to reorient your habits and focus as we start the new year or at any point in your journey of faith  that requires a reset! These questions can always be helpful! Find book recommendations below: Books: With by Skye Jethani Winning the War in Your Mind by Craig Groeschel Women Who Think Too Much by Susan Nolan-Hoeksema 

As we close out the second year of The Well, we discuss 5 habits to consider bringing into 2025 for the hope of stronger character and connection to Christ. We are joined by a fellow sister on our North River staff, Nandi Traywick, as we discuss ways God has used these five habits to shape us, challenge us, and ultimately bring us closer to him. We look forward to growing and maturing alongside you as we welcome the new year!

In this month of thanksgiving and gratitude, we explore what the Bible says about adoption. Our guest, Christine Adkins, shares about both her physical and her spiritual adoption and why she is so thankful for both.

For our October episode (delayed release), we join with the Holy Heartbreak podcast, in which Ryan Holland interviews LaToya Massey as they discuss pregnancy, loss, and the role of spiritual community in grief for Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.

Join us for our Back to School special edition! We welcome our uniquely qualified special guest, Kelly Hobby, an experienced teacher, wife and mom, who is also a woman of deep faith. Kelly and Énid discuss some hands-on practicals for our kids of all ages to prepare for a new school year.  Whether you are a campus student or a mom, you will be inspired by this open discussion about anxiety and avoiding the comparison trap. This episode will remind you of all the "back-to-school" feels and how this is a great time for all of us to press the refresh button!

Unwavering spiritual convictions are a must in our journey of faith! This month we are joined by Katey Tanguay as we discuss areas in her faith she has decided to focus on that are foundational and non negotiable. We are invited to consider areas in our own lives that could be non-negotiables in our faith. Join our conversation at The Well and take some time to review or create a few pillar convictions of your own faith! 

As we recognize Mental Health Awareness Month at The Well, we invite a clinical therapist into the conversation. Siba Massey LMSW joins us as we discuss and define various aspects of mental health disorders and navigate the balance of faith and mental health. Historically in circles of faith the topic of mental health has been taboo or laced with good intentions that do not often lead those struggling with the help they so deeply want and need. Join us as we share our own experiences and perspectives on the value of our faith merging in a healthy way with our mental health.  Resources:  Psychologytoday.com– you can search for a local counselor and find who takes your insurance. SAMHSA’s National Helpline, 1-800-662-HELP (4357) (also known as a Treatment Referral Routing Resource) If you are in crisis, or you know someone who is, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline or dial 911 in case of emergency. Call or text 988. Chat 988lifeline.org.

This month at The Well we are joined by our guest, Angelica Yim, as we look at the changing of seasons and discuss the Power of the Seed. We reflect and share on the variety of ways the small decisions and habits we plant as seeds along our faith journeys have the power to be life changing as God takes our seeds and grows them into oaks of righteousness in our lives. Join the conversation and consider what small seeds of faith you can plant now and entrust the growth to God!

This month we are excited to participate in March's celebration of Women in History! What a great opportunity to pause and have a conversation about the women in the Bible who inspire us and challenge us to be aware of God's presence in our everyday lives. We are joined by Christina Maldonado, a ministry leader at The Path Church and a personal mentor to one of our Well hosts! Join our conversation and take some time to reflect on the women in scripture, and in your life, that can inspire and empower your faith and reliance on God!

Join us as we welcome our first guest of 2024 to discuss the power and beauty of living out of the truth of God's love for us! Brie Shoff serves as a teen minister here in Atlanta and has had many life experiences and moments with God that have challenged her to learn that true love can only be found in its most richest form in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. We discuss what false love looks like, how to cultivate and experience Biblical love, and the freedom that comes with knowing how much God truly loves us.  Books that have shaped Brie:On God’s love: - “One Thousand Gifts” Ann Voskamp- “Life of the Beloved” Henri Nouwen- “A Shepherd’s Look at Psalm 23” Philip Keller- “Gentle & Lowly” Dane OrtlundOn Mind Training: - “The Metanoia Method” Heather & Kent McKean- “Emotionally Healthy Spirituality” Pete Scazzero- “Secure in Heart” Robin Weidner- “Winning the War in your Mind” Craig Groeschel On prayer: - “Beholding” Strahan Coleman - “Living like Fools, Praying like Monks” Tyler Staton- “Here and Now” Henri Nouwen- “Practicing the Presence of God” Brother Lawrence

It's our first episode of 2024 and we are excited to be back in the studio together!! Your co-host Enid Tchir & LaToya Massey reflect on 2023 sharing life lessons and scriptures that we've carried in our hearts as a result! We discuss 4 Ls as we enter 2024 that can help us remember what God has done while rooting us in Him for what's to come. There are many meaningful topics and inspiring guests lined up for Season 2 of The Well so follow and subscribe! We look forward to continuing our journey together with you! EXAMEN PRAYER (Reflection with God at the end of the day) Take a moment to become aware of God's love for you even before you begin Ask God for light. To see with his eyes, not your own. Ask for the Spirit to search you (Ps. 139) so that this examen will be a work of his grace, fruitful beyond your human capacity. Give thanks. The last 24 hours was a gift from God. Think of something from the past day that you felt was a blessing or gift from God. Savor it.   Review your last 24 hours. Look for the stirrings in your heart. What do you feel was from God and what was not. How did you respond to what happened throughout the day?  Potential questions to ask yourself to get the juices flowing: For what moment today am I most grateful? Least grateful? When did I give and receive the most love today? When did I give and receive the least love today? What was the most life-giving part of my day? What was the most life-thwarting part of my day? When today did I have the deepest sense of connection with God, others, myself?  When today did I have the least sense of connection? Where was I aware of living out of the fruit of the Spirit? Where was there an absence of the fruit of the Spirit? Of all that happened, what did you respond most strongly to and how did you respond (anger, joy, delight, confusion, frustration, sorrow, etc...? With God, lean into it. Don't try to edit what you were feeling or make them more acceptable. Offer the feelings up to God. Talk to him about them. Try to understand your response as if you're hearing God say: "I'd like to be with you in that reaction you had."   Face your shortcomings or sins. Ask for forgiveness and for God to show you how you can grow and mature. ("Lead me in the way everlasting." Ps. 139)   Look toward the day to come. With God, plan how to live in accordance with his desires. Learn from the previous day's experiences.

The holidays are here and we are excited to celebrate a full of year of The Well Podcast!! Join us for our final episode of 2023 as we discuss the many gifts we have been given as children of God. This is a season we can often see the tangible gifts as our greatest priorities! While beautifully wrapped gifts can be very special, our guest Lin Beaty Ottenweller reminds us of the power and treasure we possess when we acknowledge and experience the gifts God has already given us as His image bearers. Enjoy this year’s final discussion on the podcast and join us next year for more meaningful conversation around The Well! You all are a true gift to us!! Happy Holidays!

This month at The Well we discuss the importance of being rooted in our spiritual disciplines during unpredictable and tiring seasons. From major life transitions, college final exams, and navigating early years of motherhood - seasons of chaos can leave us feeling helpless, exhausted, and overwhelmed and often disconnected from many of our spiritual disciplines that root us in Christ. Joined by a special guest visiting from Boston, Bridget Koha, we laugh and connect over practicals that have helped us cling to God and thrive during seasons of chaos.

This month on the podcast we are joined by another faithful woman, Kerling Eldred, as we discuss the transformative power of choosing joy despite circumstances. Kerling shares the journey God has taken her on through difficult seasons while empowering her through her convictions. She explains how she is rooted in the type of joy that can only be provided by the Holy Spirit.

This month on the podcast we focus our conversation on how to navigate unexpected and uncomfortable seasons of faith. While loving and knowing God is a lifelong journey, we acknowledge that we will have seasons in that journey that make it harder to see the good in our faith. Susan Adkins joins our conversation and shares how she has learned to faithfully navigate family health challenges, her journey of infertility and walking through her family’s own adoption journey while fighting to stay anchored in God’s love and goodness. We discuss many passages of scripture that will encourage your faith no matter where life’s winding roads may lead you. 

After a month off of recording, The Well hosts jump back into the studio to discuss the heartfelt experiences that come along with the topic of Grief. Special guest, Cynethia McClendon, joins the conversation and shares her journey through the faithful struggle of loss. This episode is a sincere look into the very real sorrows that come with life in hopes to give listeners access to the road to Christ in the middle of the darkest seasons. While grief is something we’d all prefer to avoid, the gospel message plays a critical role in these moments and we hope listeners find that to be true for them as well.

As we celebrate the fathers in our community during Fathers Day, we want to reflect on the nature of our Father in Heaven. During this episode we will take some time to discuss our own experiences with our earthy fathers and how that has impacted our perspective of God the Father. No matter what your background is with your earthly father, we are grateful for the chance to experience the character and consistency of God as He has so graciously adopted us as his daughters.

In honor of Mother’s Day, this month’s episode highlights various seasons of motherhood and the unique opportunities they present to allow the gospel to transform us. The desire for ease, perfection, control, and predictability often leave mothers feeling discouraged and disorientated by challenges they face. As we allow the gospel message to interact with the realities of motherhood, we hope that you find Biblical perspective and strength to face unexpected challenges in whatever season of life you are in today.

This episode of The Well Podcast is a discussion surrounding the topic of waiting on God. Our guest shares her personal journey learning to wait on God in various seasons of life. We hope that as you listen it will serve as an encouragement to define your view of God in seasons of waiting in your own life.

This month we take some time to honor International Women's Day and have a discussion about the value of healthy spiritually beneficial friendships. Our guest, Ryan Holland, shares about her journey of building friendships through various life circumstances and transitions. Join us as we discuss Biblical practicals that have helped us build and maintain relationships over the years that have lead us to wholistic maturity as women, intimacy with God, and laughter with those we walk with in life. 

This month’s episode of The Well is dedicated to exploring the truth behind the identity God offers us as women of faith. Varying seasons of life along with unexpected challenges can lead us to define ourselves in ways God never intended for us to be defined by. Join the conversation as we discuss how parenting, divorce, chronic illness and more can never effectively define us as women more than the words of God can. 

Welcome to the Well! A new ministry of the North River podcast. Listen along as your hosts, Enid Tchir and LaToya Massey, introduce themselves and share about how Jesus found them at their own wells. Gaining inspiration from John 4, we hope that as we gather at The Well, we can enjoy the gift of faithful community with women around the world!