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Deepening Your Faith

Dealing with fears and doubts. Obedience, success, hearing God, and more.

Overcoming Adversity

Detours. Disappointments. Spiritual attacks. And when everything goes wrong…

Refining Your Craft

Focus. Handling criticism. Writing transparently. Avoiding superficiality… and more!

The Writing Life

It’s not a job, it’s a journey. Find rhythms, helps, and best practices to keep you moving forward!

Promoting Creativity

Brain health. Soul care. Refilling your creative well. Avoiding burnout. Don’t miss these episodes!

Growing Your Career

Advice from top authors. Longevity. Legacy. Shaping – or renovating – your career.

Concerning Health

Be equipped to keep writing, meet deadlines, and stay productive through challenging health circumstances.

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Emotional Battlegrounds

11 - Emotional Battlegrounds Emotions are an amazing gift from God, but they can also take us on a wild ride when we least expect—or want—it. Come listen in while we identify three key emotional battlegrounds—and the practical ways you can not just endure but win the fight. Show Notes At no other...

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Recovering from Failure

12 – Recovering from Failure The New Year is a time for reflection and review, but too often we find ourselves falling into a trap of feeling like a failure. How can we set new goals when we haven't achieved our old ones? In this episode, we give you simple steps to avoid the snare of failure and...

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Creating with God

13 - Creating with God How do you create in the deep places? When it feels as though your creativity is just...gone? In this engaging interview with Allen Arnold, one-time senior VP at Thomas Nelson and creativity expert, we explore that very question. And the answers just may surprise you! Show...

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The Hazards of Love, part 1

14 - The Hazards of Love, part 1 Love. We long for it. Anticipate finding it and how it will make us and our lives better. And it often does exactly that. But for many, the reality of love isn’t remotely related to the dream of it. How can something so seemingly good become a negative in our...

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The Hazards of Love part 2

15 - The Hazards of Love, part 2 There’s nothing like love—nothing so wonderful, and nothing so potentially hurtful. What do you do when the reality of love isn’t even close to the dream of it? Join us for today’s podcast—a follow-up on last week’s podcast—as we explore the cause, struggle, and...

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Lessons from St. Patrick: Driving Out Your Snakes

16 - Lessons from St. Patrick: Driving Out Your Snakes St. Patrick’s Day is about so much more than just green and leprechauns and clover. There is a wealth of wonder contained in St. Patrick’s history—wonder focused on God’s redemption and power. Come explore the history and the legend of St....

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When You’ve Done Everything Right and Things Still Go Wrong

17 - When You've Done Everything Right and Things Still Go Wrong What if you’ve done everything right—you’ve tackled social media, you’ve refined your skills as a writer, you’ve done all the things your mentors and editor and agent and publisher tell you to do...and your career still doesn’t take...

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The Hazards of Obeying God’s Call

18 - The Hazards of Obeying God's Call Have you ever felt a call from God to step out—really step out—but as soon as you obey, things seem to go wrong? And keep going wrong! What can you do when God’s call takes you not just into the deep, but into a wasteland that you fear will be your undoing?...

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How to be Offensive

19 - How to be Offensive In a world seemingly without absolutes, Christians are being put on the spot more and more when they stand for God’s truth. How do we balance God’s command to love one another with the world’s accusation that we’re being hateful or intolerant? There’s only one way, and...

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When the Deep Never Seems to End

20 - When the Deep Never Seems to End Have you ever felt like the deep will never end? Like you barely make it through one tough place and another one begins? Well, you’re not alone! Let gifted author Robin Lee Hatcher, who has known many deep places in her life and career, share words of truth...

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