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The great June Hunt (author, speaker, radio host & founder of Hope for the Heart - a worldwide Biblical counseling ministry) joins our carpool chat to share her top 5 tips to a joy-filled life. She's heard on over 600 stations world-wide every day - here's what she has to say (and quite possibly sing!) to us about hope & joy. What a treat! We hope you enjoy it. One of the world's leading biblical counselors, June Hunt is the founder and CSO (Chief Servant Officer) of HOPE FOR THE HEART, an international biblical counseling ministry providing biblical hope and practical help to people in more than 60 countries on 6 continents. After decades of teaching and research, June developed 100 topical Biblical Counseling Keys--manuals that systematically explore definitions, characteristics, causes, and solutions for issues ranging from Anger and Depression to Marriage and Parenting. These Keys have become the foundation for the ministry's steady expansion, including the 2002 creation of the Hope Biblical Counseling

Lysa TerKeurst joins Kay & Courtney to chat about faith, trust & hope when life takes a hard turn, even spirals - a place Lysa found herself a little over three years ago. After nearly dying, learning of her husbands marital infidelity and a subsequent cancer diagnosis, Lysa traveled a road she never expected. She openly shares her journey that, though devastating, never fully wavered thanks to the solid anchor of hope and perspective found in faith. Lysa TerKeurst is president of Proverbs 31 Ministries and the New York Times best-selling author of Uninvited, The Best Yes, Made to Crave, and many others including her latest It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way where she honestly shares about handling disappointing, sometimes devastating, life turns. She shares about the sacred nature of suffering and God’s unwavering provision and power to redeem regardless the circumstance or outcome. Find Lysa at lysaterkeurst.com, @lysaterkeurst on Instagram or proverbs31.org SaySomething: a-come-as-you-are vodcast for wal

Authors & media personalities Rebecca Carrell & Susie Larson field questions on identity & worth issues from our Fall 2018 Girl Talk - an evening of inspiration & conversation. This is rare opportunity to hear powerful and raw insight & wisdom. Well worth the listen. Susie Larson is a talk show host, national speaker, and author of fifteen books and many articles. For eight years Susie hosted her own daily live talk show, Live the Promise with Susie Larson. Susie connects weekly with tens of thousands through her Facebook Live interviews and her daily blessings on Facebook. Find Susie at susielarson.com and check out her latest book Fully Alive. Rebecca Carrell is an author, conference speaker, and morning radio co-host on 90.9 KCBI. In 2016 Rebecca founded HeartStrong Faith, a women’s ministry branch of the KCBI radio network. Rebecca is currently working toward her Master’s in Biblical Studies and Theology at Dallas Theological Seminary. To find out more about Rebecca visit LoveServeShine.com SaySomethin

Authors & media personalities Rebecca Carrell & Susie Larson join us for Girl Talk - an evening of inspiration and conversation. Susie Larson chats about identity and self-worth, sharing raw stories from her childhood, struggles with Lyme disease and illness and the fight to stand strong, grounded in understanding of our identity in Christ. Grab some tissues and get ready to be blasted with life-infusing Truth. Susie Larson is a talk show host, national speaker, and author of fifteen books and many articles. For eight years Susie hosted her own daily live talk show, Live the Promise with Susie Larson. Susie connects weekly with tens of thousands through her Facebook Live interviews and her daily blessings on Facebook. Find Susie at susielarson.com and check out her latest book Fully Alive. SaySomething: a-come-as-you-are vodcast for walking life's roads (relationships, friendship, parenting, hardship, entertainment,...) together

Rebecca Carrell shares from the heart offering wisdom and insight into our identity and self-worth at SaySomething's Girl Talk - an evening of inspiration and conversation. With the holidays right around the corner and Christmas decor already lining retailers shelves, why not get a jump on things ourselves with a little soul-hydration today so we don't get caught "thirsty" in the midst of holiday busy, to-do's, stress & pressures. Let's consider together what Truth has to say about our identity and worth that is, has been and forever will be ruled by God's provision, power, healing & hope. Rebecca Carrell is an author, conference speaker, and morning radio co-host on 90.9 KCBI. In 2016 Rebecca founded HeartStrong Faith, a women’s ministry branch of the KCBI radio network. Rebecca is currently working toward her Master’s in Biblical Studies and Theology at Dallas Theological Seminary. To find out more about Rebecca visit LoveServeShine.com SaySomething: a-come-as-you-are vodcast for walking life's roads (re

National speaker and popular author Jennifer Dukes Lee chats with us about control - our issues with it and how to best live under it. "The good part of control: ability to manage a lot and achieve great things all while keeping their kids alive. The bad part: how much it drives us crazy." Join us for a lively and uplifting conversation as we're joined by Cynthia Yanof of Pardon the Mess podcast.

J.T. Olson, author and entrepreneur is founder of Both Hands (one for the widow, one for the orphan). After being orphaned as a child alongside his four siblings, JT went on to start a faith-based non-profit serving orphans and widows. His powerful story will leave you inspired to be an agent for impact. He and Sara live in Nashville with their five children. Find J.T. at bothhands.org or @GiveBothHands on Instagram/Twitter SaySomething: a-come-as-you-are vodcast for walking life's roads (relationships, friendship, parenting, hardship, entertainment,...) together

NYT Best-Selling author Max Lucado joins us to chat about his new book Unshakeable Hope - how hope based on God's promises can inform our lives. "Unshakeable Hope - because it's built not upon what I do, but upon the goodness of God." Max Lucado has spent the last 40 years telling the story of God’s grace in books, in pulpits, on broadcasts, on music tours. He was dubbed “America’s Pastor” by Christianity Today and The New York Times named him one of the most influential leaders in social media. In his latest book, Unshakeable Hope, Max shares truth about God’s promises and their undeniable power to daily inform life. Find Max at maxlucado.com or @maxlucado on Instagram/Twitter SaySomething: a-come-as-you-are vodcast for walking life's roads (relationships, friendship, parenting, hardship, entertainment,...) together

Sally Lloyd-Jones (NYT best selling author, speaker and all-around fun person) shares about her new book: Goldfish on Vacation and adds to the mix a treasure trove of wise tidbits. Whatever you life stage, you will absolutely be encouraged by Sally's wit, her honesty and her perspective. Sally Lloyd-Jones is author of highly acclaimed The Jesus Storybook Bible, Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing and her latest - Goldfish on Vacation. She lives in New York and can be found at sallylloy-djones.com

Oh my word - get ready for a blast hilarity and profound wisdom all wrapped into one package as only Melanie Shankle (bigmama.com blogger, podcaster & NYT best-selling author) can do it. She and Sandra Stanley recently joined us for a SaySomething Girl Talk: - An Evening of Encouragement. The topic? Thriving in the midst of April/May hectic. Well, it's full-on May. Melanie's words are Mary Poppin's spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down so we don't ever simply endure or let tomorrow's to-dos steal anything from all the GREAT today has in store. Enjoy! Be sure to check out Mel's new book Everyday Holy - SO good! Connect with Melanie at bigmama.com for more on this and her other TERRIFIC projects.

Sandra Stanley, author, blogger, & wife to Andy Stanley (founder of Northpoint Ministries) chats about her latest project Breathing Room - the space between our current pace and our limit. "I can look back to certain seasons of my life, chapters of my life, where I had created & maintained breathing room - and those are the seasons where I have the fewest regrets," Sandra shares. Join us as we learn more about creating and maintaining space - especially during the hectic May days. Connect with Sandra at sandrastanley.com where you can find more information about her latest 28-day devotional Breathing Room as well as her wildly popular 28-day devotional Comparison Trap.

Karen Wright Marsh - author, speaker & ministry leader - joins us to chat about age-old (literally) truths, trials and timeless messages that inform today, Whatever you're going through in life, people throughout time have lived it too. A wayward kid? St. Augustine was just that. Depression & melancholy? Martin Luther struggled most of his life. Stressed by performance standards? St Benedict dealt with the same. Feeling alone - even abandoned by God? Mother Teresa's life has a few things to share - as do many other "brothers and sisters in faith" that held tight to Truth's life-line that is steadily available throughout the ages. "You ask for the ancient paths, the well-trodden ones, and then you learn to walk in those and you find rest," Karen shares. She then encourages us as she does her students "through these stories, to look back and find mentors from the past." We hope you will enjoy this delightful and inspiring carpool chat. Karen Wright Marsh, is executive director and co-founder of Theologi

John Stonestreet carpool-diemed with us a few weeks ago, but we saved it for Christmas. As we celebrate the day that Hope arrived alive and well on the scene, John shares how Hope informs today and every day. Especially when things like technology, social media platforms, political impasses, strained relationships and so much more seem to be so powerfully on the scene. "To take seriously the cultural moment without losing hope is to realize that this moment is part of a larger story. And that story ultimately is culminating in the fact that God will, in Christ, make all things new." Enjoy & Merry Christmas! THANK YOU for joining this and so many of our other conversations! We so appreciate traveling the road with you. John Stonestreet is president of the Colson Center, the cohost of BreakPoint, and the coauthor of several books – the most recent with Brett Kunkle called: A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today’s World. John is a highly sought-after public speaker who addr

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! We have a special treat for you today. Rachel Brown and Ginger Ravella chat about thanksgiving, joy and goodness in every circumstances. (CLIP BELOW) What they have to say is beyond good. They were in town for American Airlines Sky Ball celebrating Veterans and their families. So we grabbed them.They know what it’s like to go through life’s biggest tragedies. But they also know GRATITUDE & JOY. Ginger Gilbert Ravella (writer, international speaker, author of Hope Found) & Rachel Faulkner Brown (blogger, speaker and founder of Be Still) are both mothers, wives and military widows. They are committed to sharing their stories in order to encourage and help people meet grief and hardship head on, pointing us to experiencing joy with full confidence in the provision and sufficiency of God. You can find Ginger at theanchorofhope.com and Rachel at: rachelfaulknerbrown.com

Author, speaker & poet Amena Brown shares insight from her new book How to Fix a Broken Record and wisdom on managing the mis-messaging we often tell ourselves. "What's the truth that I should be repeating vs that ugly message that's been repeating." Amena challenges and encourages us to discover and re-align broken record messaging to Truth in the most fun, sister-friend sort of way. Amena Brown is a poet, speaker, author, and event host. Named one of Rejuvenate Magazine’s Top 40 under 40 Changemakers, Amena is the author of five spoken word CDs and two non-fiction books. She has performed and spoken at events across the nation such as Creativity World Forum, IF Gathering, and Chick-fil-A Leadercast, as well as touring with Gungor, Ann Voskamp and the Voices Project Historically Black College and University Tour.

Candace Payne chats about defiant joy & her new book Laugh It UP Author, speaker and Chewbacca Mom, Candace Payne (a viral sensation with over 170M FB views) chats with us about Joy and her new book Laugh It Up. She shares how her family handled tough times. Dire situations and/or hardship (including homelessness) "were never a defining attitude that crushed our entire day - it was a small, brief roadblock or little speed-bump for us to get over." Which led to her contemplating joy and the impact it has in our lives. "Joy is that the thing that satisfies; it lasts beyond whatever is happening around you" - something for which we all long. Candace Payne, author of Laugh it Up, is a viral sensation whose video of trying on a Chewbacca Mask became the most-viewed Facebook Live video to date (170+ million views). She has been featured in more than 3,000 media outlets including GMA, “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” The New York Times, PEOPLE & many more. Candace recently launched a video series with

Carpool Diem with best-selling author Sara Hagerty chats about her new book (Unseen: The Gift of Being Hidden in a World That Loves to Be Noticed) and that for which every heart longs: to be seen, known and understood. "We often feel guilt over our desire to be seen, so we suppress it. But, we were made to be seen," Sara shares. "We have connection and friendships, but there's still a deep knowing that can only come from God." SaySomething: a-come-as-you-are vodcast for walking life's roads (relationships, friendship, parenting, hardship, entertainment,...) together

Shelly Miller, author, speaker & founder of the Sabbath Society, chats about Rest & Sabbath as a part of our daily rhythm & lives. Shelly Miller is a veteran ministry leader and sought-after mentor on making rest a rhythm of life. She leads the Sabbath Society, an online community of people who want to make rest a priority. Her book, Rhythms of Rest: Finding the Spirit of Sabbath in a Busy World, released with Bethany House Publishers in the fall of 2016 and her writing has been featured in publications internationally. Shelly has appeared multiple times on Premier Christian Radio with the Thought For the Day and speaks at venues around the U.S. and UK. She is married to an Anglican minister who resources church planting in the UK and they have 2 kids.

Author, speaker & founder of the Front Yard People Movement, Kristin Schell shares her inspiring story challenging us to experience "freedom from achieving, striving, & doing - just show up and be present and love." Kristin Schell is an author of The Turquoise Table (Thomas Nelson (5/17), speaker & blogger on the subjects of food, faith, and hospitality. Passionate about community, she has served at every level, from grassroots-level work in church and local nonprofits as well our nation’s capital. As founder of the Turquoise Table and Front Yard People movement, Kristin travels the country speaking at conferences and events with an encouraging word on how to open our lives and homes to others. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Tony, and their four kids.

Have performance or perfection pressures ever weighed you down? Does a vacation sound good right about now? Do you sometimes get so caught up in life, you lose sight of the people walking right next to you? It's a sure guess that we've ALL been there. Come enjoy recordings from our inaugural Girl Talk: an evening of encouragement with cup-filling-to-overflowing words of Truth about FREEDOM & ABUNDANCE in the midst at SaySomething's Girl Talk (a laid-back, fun time to connect with women). Up First: author, speaker & blogger Jeannie Cunnion who shares with us about FREEDOM: freedom from stress & pressures, and freed TO joy along the way. Jeannie Cunnion is the author of the popular Parenting the Wholehearted Child and her NEW BOOK: Mom Set Free (Howard Books, 8/2017). Jeannie is a frequent speaker at women's conferences and parenting events around the country. She holds a master's degree in social work, and her writing has been featured on outlets such as The Today Show, Fox News, The 700 Club, and Focus o