Listener Voicemail Day: Five Women Say the Quiet Thing Out Loud

Listener Voicemail Day: Five Women Say the Quiet Thing Out Loud

August 19, 2026 · 54 min

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In this episode, Jen Hatmaker shares listener voicemails where women express their quiet truths and personal reflections.

Description: There is no guest on the mic today. There is you. It is Listener Voicemail Day, one of Jen's favorite episodes to make, and it lands in the middle of our permission series, right after Jen asked you to find your one true sentence and say it out loud. You did. This episode is what came back. It comes in two halves. First, the women who called about Jen's mom, Jana King, who, as Jen puts it, a genre. Have something you need to say out loud? Head to JenHatmaker.com/Podcast, look for the Send Voicemail button, and tell us the quiet thing you finally said, or the one you are still working up to. We are listening. Thought-provoking Quotes: "It is real work as moms to not take our own burdens and gently pick them up off of our own shoulders and place them on the shoulders of our kids." - Jen Hatmaker "Hearing your mom describe a different way of loving and existing was incredibly freeing for me." - Stacy, listener voicemail "It's just a new terror every day." - Sena, listener voicemail "I betrayed myself to keep everyone comfortable." - Gina, from her poem "Backfire" "The truth is, I'm sad because I've given up on myself." - Courtney, listener voicemail "You do not have to…

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