Flawed & Favored: Recent Episodes
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Angie talks with Renee about the tools she uses to begin and build relationships with everyone around her, and we mean EVERYONE. She's great at doing that and she encourages the rest of us to use the tools we have to go deeper with our current friends and seek out friendships like teachers to help us grow in areas that we need and want to grow.
Farren and Angie talk about the topics they'll be discussing with guests on this podcast this fall and update everyone on what they've been doing and learning through the summer months while they've been on break from the podcast.
Hugh and Ronda Laybourn were hippies and if you have seen the Jesus Revolution movie, their lives were very similar to the stories you see in the movie. They share what they looked like for them then and how their life is different now because of it.
They both challenge us to think and live differently and to have a deep relationship with God that might not fit in the box that we have made for Him.
Janet Bly is an awarded author (blybooks.com) of over 15 inspirational books as well as over 20 western fiction novels with her husband, Stephen Bly, over the years.
The Blys were in Southern California in the early 70s and were right on the ground for the movement that brought many hippies to a relationship with Jesus Christ. As they lived and served beside a church with a basement coffee shop and an apartment complex across the street, they poured into the lives of many others.
You'll get to hear all about their journey and about how they started to write and went on to share their stories with millions of readers through the years. We are so thankful the Janet listened the the words, "You Do It" at an important time in her life.
Don't miss this episode!
This couple is CREATIVE! Tom & Holly Bingeman have used their gifts and brought their kids along to do big projects that help kids learn, overcome fear, stay active and they share with us HOW they do it.
You can check out their new book, Squeaver Tales at www.squeaver.com or subscribe to their fitness resources on youtube at Taz Kids Fitness.
Do you want to know what makes friendship last? These ladies, Debbie Ward & Ronda Laybourn, can share their secrets! They talk about how to show up for each other and just be intentional in life. From family time to friend time together. Listening to these ladies helps you laugh and not take yourself too seriously!
Sharing stories of parenting and getting to know your kids and friends, running a business while showing your employees that you care about them, and being intentional with your time and talents.
Terra is incredibly down to earth and such a fun person that will tell it like it is! She chose to focus on her health in new and different ways over the last couple years and just found out what worked for her. The neat thing is, she brought so many other people along with her as well! She does that on a regular basis, brings people along to improve their health, their marriages, and their overall level of fun!
Check out this episode and find something you want to do better, and think of who you can bring along with you in doing that!
Mentions:
Better Together Counseling
Marriage 365, marriage365.com
It's what most New Year's resolutions are about....Eating better and working out! We can help you get back on track! Or, really, that's all up to you. However, our friend and Registered Dietician Nutritionist, Jennifer Raykovich, is on the podcast discussing eating right and having a plan to be successful for the long term.
Angie and Farren also share some things they have learned about nutrition and most importantly about how taking care of our spiritual, emotional, and physical bodies involves getting some help at times. Consulting the experts is always helpful to point you in the right direction.
Resources mentioned:
myplate.gov
diabetes.org
eatright.org
trimhealthymama.com
MyFitnesspal app
"Skyjo"-the family card game Angie mentioned...
We talk about our money history, money mindsets, shifting those mindsets, getting out of debt, developing better financial habits, making sacrifices, and staying the course.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Financial Peace University
The Principle of the Path by Andy Stanley
Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
Other Resources:
FAV Journey Goal Mapping
Minimum Target Outrageous Goal Setting
Angie talks with Jesse Quintana, a Family Coach, who assists individuals to build the resources they need to move out of poverty. Jesse shares very useful and timely tips on ways we can reach out to others in need and help them in the most effective way without being hurtful. He's full of useful insights and experiences that will open your eyes!
Helpful Resources Mentioned:
Books:
Toxic Charity by Robert D. Lupton
Bridges out of Poverty by Ruby Payne, Phil DeVol, & Terie Dreussi Smith
Tony and Kathleen share how they stay committed to each other, what they teach their kids about dating, and working through challenges.
Resources Mentioned:
Laugh Your Way to A Better Marriage by Mark Gungor
Spouse-Ology Game
Vertical Marriage book by Doug & Ann Wilson
Andrew Powell, Pastor of Canyons Church in Clarkston, Washington shares how things started to look different in his church once they focused on showing their community how much they were "FOR" them. They continually work to love their community by serving individuals, non-profits, and jump at any opportunity to help. They give a great illustration of being the hands and feet of Jesus. Andrew also shares his sweet journey with his wife and son and how it all came together!
Marilyn Nutter and April Dawn White share about their new book, Destination Hope.
Destination Hope: A Travel Companion When Life Falls Apart offers camaraderie and a beacon of hope for women who feel alone in loss, struggle, or change of circumstance. This book is not a self-help book filed with platitudes from people who think they have life figured out. Instead, Marilyn Nutter and April White link arms with the audience and encourage their readers through stories of their own hardships in widowhood and chronic illness. Readers are encouraged to see loss and hardship as part of life's journey and are constantly reminded to turn their gaze upwards, to the Purveyor of Hope. Within the pages of Destination Hope comes a sisterhood, a bond, that can be formed only through the mutual understanding of loss and the need to find hope among hardships.
Although waiting isn't fun, God does a lot to develop us before our dreams are fulfilled. It's up to us to recognize that or we can just sit and wait in the hurt and not get all that God wants for us-He wants us to be mature and complete-not lacking anything.
The Favored Journey team has been studying "Relationship Goals" by Michael Todd and you can listen for details to sign up for an online discussion on the book or e-mail info@favoredjourney.com.
Overview:
Catch up with your Favored Journey Team (Angie & Farren) as we introduce the next series...Relationship Goals.
Single, dating, married, ready for mating? Ha! We're talking Relationship Goals with Brittany Wilkerson as she shares some of her biggest takeaways from Michael Todd's book Relationship Goals.
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Samuel Maynes makes everyone laugh with his voices and impersonations, but most of all, he has a heart for helping people understand and apply God's word to their lives. He shares about how he does that and how he and his wife strive to be faithful on a regular basis even through the hard times.
Do you ever ask yourself how to fulfill your roles and responsibilities when it feels like there is more than your can handle? Heather talks about knowing your season and being mindful of what you are called to do in that certain season. Approaching each season we're in with prayer, scriptures, and wise community are key components to fulfilling the roles in your life.
This is one episode that you will definitely want to sit down to listen with a note pad! Heather is full of wisdom and we're so happy that each of you get to hear her today!
Do you still pursue your spouse? Do you listen to understand? Do you spend more time fighting in marriage or fighting for your marriage? Well, this week we’re back with Dan & Heidi Cornell for PART 2 of our interview with them. Last week was all about parenting and this week…it’s all about healthy marriage and communication!
Dan and Heidi are a fun couple! They share their story and some of their background. Dan is an elementary school counselor and Heidi is an elementary school teacher. They are the parents of three children all out of the house now and, as Heidi shares, by the grace of God they still have great relationships with their kids!
They share some great tools to support kids understanding their feelings and processing those feelings in a healthy way.
Heidi refers to http://www.consciousdiscipline.com as a great resource for teachers and families to help their kids in building resilience skills.
Are there any people in your life where every encounter with them leaves you emotionally exhausted. The backhanded compliments, constantly playing the victim, the confusion creator, the chaos craver, the humble hater…these people seem so sweet on the outside, but on the inside they’re arrogant, manipulative and maybe even narcisstic …where only the people closest to them begin to see the real person underneath and feel the destruction they manufacture. Well, today to kick off this series on Creating Healthy minds…since it IS Mental Health Awareness Month….we’re talking with Licensed Counselor Angie Hernandez-Harris about TOXIC people…what the traits are, how we need to listen to that internal alarm that says danger when we’re around certain people, and how to respond. She also provides so many great resources in this episode.
CONTACT INFO:
Angie Hernandez Counseling, LLC
Email: angiehernandezcounseling@gmail.com
PH: 208-863-6037
RESOURCES:
Toxic People: 10 Ways of Dealing With People Who Make Your Life Miserable by Dr. Lillian Glass
The Highly Sensitive Person's Guide to Dealing with Toxic People: How to Reclaim Your Power from Narcissists and Other Manipulators by Shahida Arabi
Power & Abuse Cycle http://www.ncdsv.org/images/PowerControlwheelNOSHADING.pdf
The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
The Gottman Institute https://www.gottman.com/
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
Unf#ck Your Boundaries: Build Better Relationships Through Consent, Communication, and Expressing Your Needs by Faith Harper, PhD
The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker
Cassie shares how she was able to get through hard things and grow in beautiful ways. Cassie works with leaders that minister to teens and encourage them in pursuing and growing in their faith. She is a wife, mom, leader, airbnb superhost, and fan of laying in her hammock!
First, we are celebrating surpassing our 1000th download! Yay! Thank you to all of you who have tuned in and listened. We hope you've been encouraged by the stories of our amazing guests. Also, thank you to our guests for sharing your stories and being an inspiration for others!
Next, since we're just finishing up our Beauty Out of Ashes series, we share some of our own beauty out of ashes moments and how we worked through some tough moments.
Last, we share what's coming up on the podcast. May is National Mental Health Awareness Month...so we will be interviewing guests on mental health issues ranging from identifying toxic behaviors and mom rage to just how to create and maintain a healthy mind.
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Niki was diagnosed with a brain tumor and had to undergo surgery with very little preparation. It was a whirlwind of surgeons, decisions, and little preparations before she had to be admitted for surgery leaving her husband at the elevator not to be by her side until she was fully released from the hospital. She shares in that time how she never felt alone thanks to her faith and trust in Jesus Christ.
Have you ever felt unworthy…or trapped by an addiction, not knowing who you are or how valuable you are? Well, in this episode we chat with Stacia Morfin about how she lived with those thoughts and how she turned her life around… and in the most unlikely place…PRISON. It was during that time where she grew closer to God and restored the cultural identity she had been missing for so long.
Stay connected with Stacia & her business Nez Perce Tourism, LLC. (She also has a gift shop where you can order beautiful handcrafted items made by tribal artists). You can also find her FB and IG info on her business site as well. Just click here: https://nezpercetraditions.com/
A few of the resources mentioned in this episode are:
Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts by Jennie Allen
Armor of God by Priscilla Shirer
Priscilla shares how God carried her through the hardest period of her life as her husband left. She encourages other women who are facing something similar of the value that God sees in them and how He repeatedly showed examples of how He values women through the Bible.
She encourages others that God can help them get through hard things as well and be able to pour into other people as well. Priscilla has done this through a ministry to women moving from point "A to B" and she's made a deep impact on other families through her surrogacy journey as well. She has a beautiful story to share and she's a lovely person inside and out!
Special guest and dear friend Nikki Hoover talks about pursuing God’s heart for racial reconciliation through Latasha Morrison’s Be the Bridge organization.
The Be The Bridge way of bridge-building focuses on justice and reconciliation turning up the voices of the marginalized and requiring that others listen, educate themselves on history, and grow their empathy muscles.
Website:
Be the Bridge
Books:
Be the Bridge Book
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Other Recommended Podcasts:
Be the Bridge
Black History for White People
Code Switch
Reverend Danelle Crawford McKinney addresses how she was raised to choose between reformed tradition (Christianity) and her cultural background as an Indigenous woman. In raising her own family, she's learned that she doesn't HAVE to make that choice. She embraces and finds strength in both.
The Dakota Odowan: Hymns in the Dakota Sioux Language
Doctrine of Discovery
Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation
We so often don't realize the beauty God planned in creating all the different cultures that He did. Dr. Paul Smith shares about serving churches in various cultures and the beauty of praying together, eating together, and doing life together. He also shares about leading a church through a global pandemic and all that happened in 2020. In pure Dr. Smith style, there were moments of distraction as well!
First Alliance Church of Lexington, Kentucky
First Alliance Church-Lexington, KY podcast
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Bijeon shares about the Korean Church and the heart for worship among Korean believers. He talks about pastoring through the COVID pandemic and serving the Korean Church in new and dynamic ways through a challenging time.
Farren & Angie talk about what parenting tips have been helpful to them and what they are working on. They discuss helping kids through anxiety, implementing tools for responsibility, and having intentional conversations with your kids on a daily basis.
Raising Worry Free Girls by Sissy Goff
Accountable Kids System
Farren from the Favored Journey Team is joined by her sisters Sarah Penney & Iris Chimburas.
They talk about their parenting styles, what they learned from their parents and what lessons were most impactful from their childhood, how their parents dealt with racism. how they served others, and how Farren and her siblings carry that into their own families.
These sisters like to laugh. Iris tends to say "hell" a bit, but they are an imperfect, close family who likes to tease each other, support each other and care for each other's kids as their own.
As we open our lives to our podcast listeners, we want to make sure we're showing our authentic selves. What better way than to do an unscripted interview with the ones that know us best...our husbands Travis Wilkerson and Nate Titus.
- First, they tell the story of how we met.
- Next, Travis & Nate discuss what surprised them about marriage and parenting.
- Third, we get an opportunity to share the great qualities that we admire in each other and how it helps the marriage.
- Fourth, the struggles...what they look like and how we move through them
- Last, the question we ask in every interview...what's your FAVORite thing right now?
We hope this interview helps you and encourages you, or if anything...maybe it just makes you feel better about your own marriage like, "Man, at least we're not like the Wilkersons or the Titus'!" Thank you for tuning in to the Flawed & Favored Podcast.
Josh & Rachel each went to Kenya as short term missionaries and they felt God’s calling to stay...and get married...and go to medical school (Josh)...and have their children (all 4) in Kenya! This is a couple who isn’t afraid to do the uncomfortable! They have spent 13 years in Kenya and are preparing to transition to life back in the states which is scary when your kids have only known Kenya their whole lives. They have come alongside Josh’s parents to help children in the Tumaini Children’s Home and have said “yes” to God at every turn!
Scott & Staci Baldwin were high school sweethearts and have been side by side through 28 years of marriage. Through the loss of their son, they launched a foundation to help hundreds of families walking with a child through a serious illness. They talk through supporting each other and helping other families and what helps them to get it all done!
Check out their auction fundraiser, which is now VIRTUAL so everyone can participate:
2021 Jackson's Pay It Forward Foundation Auction Jan 28-30, 2021
Learn how Angie stalked her Flawed & Favored team member Farren (kidding), how Farren taught her kids about money, how she gets them engaged in their chores, how it is to be a multicultural family in a non-diverse area, why she still continues to seek God and pour into other women.
Farren's Bio
Article Mentions:
How We Used Mason Jars As A Simple Budgeting Tool
From Entitled to Empowered: How We Taught Our Kids About Money
Angie discusses being married to an entrepreneur, tells leaders to ask "so what" in regard to their effectiveness, she also touches on the under-resourced communities and how the church has fallen short in serving them, and she discusses some hidden rules for communication with impoverished, middle class and wealthy communities and resources to help in understanding differences.
Angie's Bio
Book Mention: Toxic Charity
Meet our podcast team (Angie & Farren) from FavoredJourney.com
Hear about what topics they plan to tackle including marriage/relationships, faith, finances, parenting, and racial reconciliation, and the church.
Book Mention:
Dream Big by Bob Goff
