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Episode #44: Sarah's Story
Sacred Story Podcast - May 25, 2023 15:30 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn the last episode of this series of Unexpected Turns, host Laura Wilcox talks with Sarah, who became dangerously ill during a stopover visit in Barcelona, Spain, after spending a summer in Uganda. As she reflects on her experiences leading up to her illness in Barcelona, Sarah shares how origi...
Episode #43: Diana's Story
Sacred Story Podcast - May 18, 2023 15:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsContinuing the series Unexpected Turns, host Laura Wilcox talks with Diana, who recalls her decades-long marriage with Rick, a man who supported but did not share her faith in Christ. While Diana warns other young Christian women to marry a man who is already a believer, she also shares how God ...
Episode #42: Sandra's Story
Sacred Story Podcast - May 11, 2023 15:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsContinuing the series Unexpected Turns, host Laura Wilcox welcomes guest Sandra, who shares about a struggle through a dark time in her life. Sandra came to faith as a child and had walked by faith many years when she first faced a crisis of faith because of her mother's death from cancer. Sandr...
Episode #41: Suzan's Story
Sacred Story Podcast - May 04, 2023 15:30 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn the ongoing series Unexpected Turns, host Laura Wilcox talks with Suzan, a woman from Kenya who experienced a traumatic gang rape at the age of 16. Though Suzan had been raised in a Christian home, her sense of abandonment by God and the reactions of some family members to her trauma contribu...
Episode #40: Marissa's Story
Sacred Story Podcast - April 27, 2023 15:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsContinuing the series Unexpected Turns, host Laura Wilcox welcomes Marissa, whose daughter Alice was diagnosed with cancer when she was four years old. Marissa shares how in the days surrounding Alice's initial symptoms and diagnosis, God kept leading her to read the book of Ephesians. Marissa f...
Unexpected Turns #39: Laurie's Story
Sacred Story Podcast - April 13, 2023 15:04 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAs Sacred Story continues the series Unexpected Turns, host Laura Wilcox interviews Laurie, who talks about her crisis as a young Christian woman when she discovered she was pregnant. Not wanting to continue her relationship with the father of the baby, she felt desperate, alone and ashamed. Tho...
Episode #38: Kelsey's Story
Sacred Story Podcast - September 15, 2022 18:53 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsKelsey shares with Laura about the hard places in her life as a young woman which caused her to lean on Jesus. She describes the fun story of meeting her husband Blake on Instagram and the ways they worked through a long distance relationship as they connected. She talks about how her spiritual ...
Episode #37: Nancy's Story
Sacred Story Podcast - September 01, 2022 17:02 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsNancy shares with Laura her story of pursuing fullness in the Lord as she walks through her single years much longer than expected. She shares about pivotal moments, painful break ups, feeling forgotten, adoption, and pressing into Jesus. Nancy married for the first time in her fifth decade and ...
Episode #36: Emily's Story
Sacred Story Podcast - August 25, 2022 19:57 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEmily and Laura talk about expectations in the area of marriage from society. Emily describes her disrupted plans upon graduation from college, and how the Lord opened her hands to receive His dreams over her life. She shares about how wrestling through bitterness and feeling forgotten in her si...
Episode #35: Kaitlyn & Laura Introduce Beautiful Surrender
Sacred Story Podcast - August 19, 2022 16:39 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsLaura Wilcox and Kaitlyn Wurzbach, who serves on the board of Sacred Story, have a conversation about romance, singleness, and marriage in women's stories. Both share openly about their stories of bringing their longings to the Lord while trusting Him in unfulfilled desires and heartache. Laura ...
International Harvest #34: Sofia's Story
Sacred Story Podcast - August 09, 2022 20:45 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsLaura and Sofia share a conversation about Sofia's story of coming to faith in Jesus Christ. Sophia talks about the spiritual climate in the Ukraine and how she felt moved to serve God on college campuses. She describes what it was like to suddenly leave her home country of the Ukraine when war ...
From Amish to Entrepreneur with Sara Bottom
Overcome with Auntie Anne - April 26, 2022 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhen Sara Bottom was eight years old, she got her first job selling eggs at a local farmer's market. She knew she wanted to be "the person counting the money in the register," and her dream of becoming an entrepreneur developed from that moment on. But for Sara's dream to become a reality, she'd...
Overcoming Eating Disorders with Lauren Amber Nielsen
Overcome with Auntie Anne - April 19, 2022 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsLauren Amber Nielsen is an accomplished actor, model, and opera singer who has performed in over 35 musicals. On top of that, she was named Miss Sarasota in and will be competing in the Miss Florida USA pageant later this year. But in the midst of all the accolades and success, Lauren is also an...
Overcoming Eating Disorders with Lauren Amber Nielsen
Overcome with Auntie Anne - April 19, 2022 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsLauren Amber Nielsen is an accomplished actor, model, and opera singer who has performed in over 35 musicals. On top of that, she was named Miss Sarasota in and will be competing in the Miss Florida USA pageant later this year. But in the midst of all the accolades and success, Lauren is also an...
Finding Your Identity with Kathleen Cooke
Overcome with Auntie Anne - April 12, 2022 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhen Kathleen's older brother passed away, she felt the need to step in and replace him for the sake of her parents. "I need to make up for this lost child," she says. "I need to be this person that they lost." But doing so caused an identity crisis as her world was wrapped up in being who she t...
The Impact of Generational Abandonment with Trinity Goedhart
Overcome with Auntie Anne - April 05, 2022 09:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAbandonment is a big issue in many of our lives, and many have experienced it. In fact, my daughter, Lawonna, grew up feeling abandoned by me, and the two of us recently had a candid conversation on a previous episode about that very thing (link). After that interview, I talked with Lawonna's da...
Ending Sexual Exploitation with Dawn Hawkins
Overcome with Auntie Anne - March 29, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsDawn Hawkins describes her childhood life growing up in Colorado as rough. Not only did she grow up in a home with domestic violence and a terrible divorce, but she's also a survivor of sexual abuse. And being a survivor has given her a passion for standing up for human dignity around the world....
Ending Sexual Exploitation with Dawn Hawkins
Overcome with Auntie Anne - March 29, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsDawn Hawkins describes her childhood life growing up in Colorado as rough. Not only did she grow up in a home with domestic violence and a terrible divorce, but she's also a survivor of sexual abuse. And being a survivor has given her a passion for standing up for human dignity around the world....
A Flipped Lifestyle After a Devastating Situation With Jocelyn and Shane Sams
Overcome with Auntie Anne - March 22, 2022 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsJocelyn and Shane Sams weren't anticipating significant life changes as school teachers. They lived a pretty average American life with good jobs, a decent salary, and some security. But after finding out about a devastating situation involving their son at his preschool, the Sams decided to wor...
Overcoming Multiple Losses with Ladye Love Smith
Overcome with Auntie Anne - March 15, 2022 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsLadye Love knows about loss. At fourteen, she lost her closest sister. And as an adult, she lost a baby girl that, medically, she wasn't even supposed to have. But through it all, she's learned more about herself and God's love, and she loves to encourage others. Today on Overcome With Auntie ...
Surviving Addiction and Sex Trafficking with Monica Charles
Overcome with Auntie Anne - March 08, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsMonica took her first sip of alcohol at around ten years old. As time went on, her life started revolving around substance abuse, and to feed the addiction, she began selling herself. When she started dating one of her “clients,” she thought salvation was at hand, and she could finally be free o...
A Book of Simple Prayers with Gloria Gaither
Overcome with Auntie Anne - March 01, 2022 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsGloria Gaither is a gospel music legend. She and her husband, Bill, have written more than 700 songs, and they've created hundreds of award-winning recordings and a dozen timeless musicals that have been sung for decades. And even though they were named ASCAP's Christian songwriters of the centu...
Unpacking the Effects of Shame with Isik Abla
Overcome with Auntie Anne - February 22, 2022 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIsik Abla grew up in what she describes as a culture of shame. As a young girl, she was put down and made to feel worthless because of her gender and fell victim to physical and verbal abuse. This shame took root and created chains that held her in captivity for years, keeping her from experienc...
Overcoming the Loss of a Newborn with Nicole Hostetter
Overcome with Auntie Anne - February 15, 2022 10:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn her high school yearbook, Nicole Hostetter said her goal was to be a mom. It was the one thing she always wanted, and the one thing she felt was her purpose in life. And after getting pregnant with her first child, it seemed as if her goal was being realized. But then she found out her son's ...
A Conversation about Abandonment with LaWonna Goedhart
Overcome with Auntie Anne - February 08, 2022 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhen Lawonna Goedhart's little sister was killed unexpectedly, she watched her parents and extended family go through the emotional trauma of losing a child. But in the midst of all that trauma and sadness, four-year-old Lawonna felt ignored, abandoned, and forgotten. And I, as her mother, still...
Bouncing Back After A Devastating Business Loss with Michelle Schaffer
Overcome with Auntie Anne - February 01, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsMichelle Schaffer is a faith-driven leader and female business owner who has overcome some devastating losses in business. Not only did she and her husband have their new business venture ripped from under them after moving their lives all the way across the country, but they also were then forc...
From Victim to Surviving to Thriving with Catherine Schiffer
Overcome with Auntie Anne - January 25, 2022 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn her formative years, Catherine Schiffer fell victim to daily sexual, verbal, and physical abuse. Through her teens and into her thirties, she fought to survive, battling drug abuse, alcohol abuse, and two failed marriages with many dysfunctional relationships in between. In her forties, she k...
Finding God After Tragedy with Lori Champion
Overcome with Auntie Anne - January 18, 2022 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhen Lori Champion’s dad died, she went numb and could no longer feel the God she’d always known and loved. And then after getting cancer, while pregnant with her first child, she doubted whether she’d actually live and feared the cancer might take her. This week on Overcome With Auntie Anne, ...
A Lifetime of Healing and Redemption after Sexual Abuse with Lisa Michelle
Overcome with Auntie Anne - January 11, 2022 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhen Lisa Michelle was a little girl, she would spend the weekends at a neighbor’s house to get away from the abuse that was happening in her home. Her neighbor was a trusted individual in the community who ran the local mortuary. What no one knew, though, was that this trusted neighbor was actu...
Overcoming a Constant Sense of Dread with Mental Health Advocate Brittney Moses
Overcome with Auntie Anne - January 04, 2022 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsBrittney Moses grew up in a home with loving parents. But their divorce in her pre-teen years upended the life she knew, and she fought to get by. As one struggle after another continued to pile on, her life became about simply surviving. This week on Overcome With Auntie Anne, I’m talking wit...
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