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How to Not Just Survive But Thrive in Suffering
Jun 23, 2026
59m 57s
Leaning on Faith, Family, and Friends Through Adversity
Jun 16, 2026
43m 05s
Catholic Finishing School: Forming Young Ladies for Heaven and Earth
Jun 2, 2026
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Ordering Love
May 26, 2026
56m 16s
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May 19, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/23/26 |  How to Not Just Survive But Thrive in Suffering | Send us Fan Mail Suffering is not a detour from God's plan for your family. It is the path. Jim and Meghan sit down with Megan Hjelmstad, Army veteran, author, speaker, and women's mentor, to explore the theology and practice of redemptive suffering. Drawing from years of chronic illness, surgeries, and pregnancy loss, Megan shares how suffering united to Christ becomes a doorway to freedom, joy, and deep purpose. Her book, Offer It Up: Discovering the Power and Purpose of Redemptive Sufferin... | 59m 57s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 |  Leaning on Faith, Family, and Friends Through Adversity | Send us Fan Mail Grief has a way of revealing what we are truly made of, and for Maura McGee, it became the unlikely path to peace. Jim and Meghan sit down with Maura, a mother of six and author of It Is What It Is, to hear how her family navigated miscarriage, the murder of a beloved priest uncle, her husband Dave's rare cancer diagnosis, and the loss of her mother all within a few years of one another. With honesty and quiet strength, Maura shares how leaning on faith, family, and friends c... | 43m 05s | ||||||
| 6/2/26 |  Catholic Finishing School: Forming Young Ladies for Heaven and Earth | Send us Fan Mail The teenage years are a critical window for forming young women in virtue, confidence, and a deep Catholic identity. Jim and Meghan sit down with Chantal Howard, Catholic entrepreneur, coach, and mother of seven, to explore how a faith-centered program called Catholic Finishing School is equipping daughters to navigate girlhood with grace and courage. Drawing from over a decade of coaching women and raising five daughters of her own, Chantal shares how this work was born stra... | 41m 16s | ||||||
| 5/26/26 |  Ordering Love | Send us Fan Mail What would change in your family if every relationship were ordered toward God first? Jim and Meghan welcome Sarah McKenzie, a registered therapeutic counselor and mother of eight from British Columbia, Canada, to explore the Augustinian concept of "ordering love" and its surprising power for modern families. Drawing from St. Thomas Aquinas and her own clinical practice, Sarah offers a grace-filled look at how disordered relationships quietly undermine our homes and how faith... | 56m 16s | ||||||
| 5/19/26 |  Keeping Your Kids Catholic | Send us Fan Mail What if the key to keeping your kids Catholic isn't found in a better curriculum, but in the quality of the soil? Stacy Halbach, Catholic author, speaker, and mother of six, joins Jim and Meghan with a hope-filled recipe for raising children who hold fast to Christ. Drawing from the Parable of the Sower, years of personal research, and her own family's beautiful struggles, Stacy reveals what parents can do right now to cultivate a home where faith takes deep root and lasts a ... | 1h 00m 06s | ||||||
| 5/12/26 |  Family Pilgrimage: The Practicals and Spiritual Fruit | Send us Fan Mail What if the most powerful pilgrimage your family could take this year started just a few hours down the road? Jason Spoolstra, creator of the Light and Heavy Pilgrimages YouTube channel, joins Jim and Meghan to make the case that every Catholic family is called to pilgrimage, and that it is far more accessible than most people think. Drawing from nearly two decades of Catholic ministry and years of personal experience leading pilgrimages around the world, Jason unpacks both t... | 50m 26s | ||||||
| 5/5/26 |  Humility, Silence, and the Art of Really Listening | Send us Fan Mail What if the most radical thing a Catholic family can practice is simply learning to shut up and listen? Father Augustine Wetta joins Jim and Meghan for an episode packed with laughter, vivid storytelling, and hard-won monastic wisdom. Drawing from encounters that range from classroom rap battles to an unexpected night with LA gang members, Father Wetta reveals what genuine humility looks like when it is lived out in the messiest corners of real life. What’s in this episode:... | 50m 17s | ||||||
| 4/28/26 |  Overcoming Anxiety for a Radically Free Life in Christ | Send us Fan Mail What if the anxiety you carry every day is not who you are but a temptation you were never created to bear alone? Jim and Meghan sit down with Dr. Jillian Hawks to explore what it truly means to move from managing anxiety to healing from it. Drawing from her personal journey through breast cancer, burnout, and a renewed encounter with God, Jillian shares how surrendering her work to Christ transformed her practice and her own heart. With honesty and hope, she points eve... | 47m 56s | ||||||
| 4/21/26 |  The Power of Catholic Literature✨ | Catholic literatureconversion+4 | Joseph Pearce | EWTN | — | literary scholarEWTN+2 | — | 48m 45s | |
| 4/14/26 |  Breathing Light into Dark Places✨ | faithgrief+3 | Diane Nienas | — | — | grief coachauthor+2 | — | 47m 07s | |
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| 4/7/26 |  Designing the Domestic Church✨ | domestic churchfaith+2 | Paige Rienzo | Designing the Domestic ChurchHGTV | — | sacred spacefaith formation+1 | — | 52m 06s | |
| 3/31/26 |  Timeless Prep: Forming the Whole Person for Life✨ | Catholic educationfaith formation+2 | Aimee Viana | Harvard | — | whole personheaven+1 | — | 55m 59s | |
| 3/24/26 |  Bringing Christ Home into the Family✨ | familyfaith+2 | Allan Wright | Gospels | — | Gospelshome+4 | — | 41m 21s | |
| 3/17/26 |  Teaching the Faith in an Age of Distraction✨ | faith formationmusic+2 | Justin West | Peter's Barque | — | distractionCatholics+2 | — | 44m 45s | |
| 3/10/26 |  Finding your Yes to God as a Young Adult✨ | young adult faithCatholic Church+3 | David James | Mission Service AssociateHeritage+1 | SharonGeorgia+1 | line dancingBaptist+2 | — | 43m 26s | |
| 3/3/26 |  Helping Teen Girls Live a Life of Goodness, Beauty, and Truth✨ | teen girlsbeauty+3 | Brenda Sharman | True Beauty | Atlanta | goodnesstruth+2 | — | 52m 08s | |
| 2/24/26 |  Everyday Joy: How Ordinary Life Reveals an Extraordinary God✨ | joyhappiness+3 | Allison Gingras | Digital EvangelizationHoly Cross Family Ministry | — | ordinary lifeextraordinary God+2 | — | 54m 49s | |
| 2/10/26 |  How Boys Grow Up and Why Some Men Don’t✨ | boysmanhood+3 | Jason Craig | Fraternus | — | Catholictheology+2 | — | 53m 26s | |
| 2/3/26 |  Church Involvement Beyond Sunday Mass | Send us Fan Mail Raising faithful Catholic children in today's culture requires more than checking the Sunday Mass box. Jim and Meghan open up about their own journey of getting involved in their parish, not just attending Mass, but actively participating alongside their kids. From praying in the car to volunteering, they share honest stories of what it looks like to lean into uncomfortable moments and lead by example. This conversation is a practical and hope-filled reminder that the small, ... | 30m 36s | ||||||
| 1/27/26 |  The WHY of Catholic Youth Ministry | Send us Fan Mail The call to reach young people often begins with one person saying yes. Jim and Meghan sit down with Randy Raus, President and CEO of Life Teen, to explore why Catholic youth ministry is experiencing what he calls a super tide moment. A convert to the faith who was challenged to pay attention at Mass by his college girlfriend, Randy shares powerful stories of priestly witness, the Holy Spirit moving in the lives of teenagers, and the critical importance of parishes investing ... | 48m 18s | ||||||
| 1/20/26 |  Evangelization Begins with Joy | Send us Fan Mail What happens when a young man at a restaurant can't stop talking about his brother's food with pure joy? That's evangelization. Jim and Meghan sit down with Fr. Gale Hammerschmidt, pastor of St. Isidore's Catholic Student Center at Kansas State University, to explore what it means to love the faith so deeply that you can't help but share it. With humor, conviction, and stories from campus ministry, Father Gale reveals how joy becomes the foundation for passing on the faith to... | 50m 36s | ||||||
| 1/13/26 |  Cultivating a Catholic Home | Send us Fan Mail What if the greatest gift you can give your family isn't found in perfect schedules or flawless execution, but in the intentional ordering of your priorities? Jim and Meghan sit down with Lindsay Schlegel to explore what it truly means to cultivate a Catholic home. As a mother of five ranging from kindergarten to high school, Lindsay shares how she and her husband have built a family culture rooted in faith, liturgical living, and the recognition that God comes first, followe... | 40m 05s | ||||||
| 1/6/26 |  How Beauty Builds Character, Home, and Community | Send us Fan Mail What if the crisis of beauty in our culture is actually a crisis of encountering God himself? Jim and Meghan sit down with Kate Capato to explore why authentic beauty is not decoration but essential to who we are called to be. Kate shares her journey from childhood wonder at snowflakes to creating oil paintings that invite prayer, healing, and encounter with Christ. With honesty and conviction, she speaks about the transformative power of beauty, the process of creating art t... | 50m 17s | ||||||
| 12/30/25 |  Changing the Landscape of Catholic Wholistic Healthcare | Send us Fan Mail What if true healing required more than just treating symptoms? Carrie Huebner joins Jim and Meghan to share how she's changing the landscape of Catholic healthcare by treating the whole person: body, mind, and spirit. From struggling with infertility to jumping off countless cliffs to follow God's call, Carrie's journey led her to create a practice where faith and medicine unite, where patients are asked about their spiritual health as much as their physical symptoms, and wh... | 43m 57s | ||||||
| 12/23/25 |  Where Early Learning Meets Eternal Truth | Send us Fan Mail Finding trustworthy screen content for young children can feel overwhelming, especially for Catholic parents who want both beauty and truth. Jim and Meghan talk with Tara and Anthony Bonna, the creative team behind Little Saints TV and Raising Saints TV, about how their desire to protect their children’s hearts turned into a joyful family mission. Through early learning, Scripture, saints, and original music, their projects help families teach the faith in simple, engaging wa... | 41m 06s | ||||||
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