Grit 'n' Grace: Good Girls Breaking Bad Rules

In our very divided world, people are craving love. Karen Ehman, author of Listen. Love. Repeat., shares inventive ways to create meaningful acts of love in our everyday world, sharing the heart of Jesus everywhere we are. Karen helps us to develop the gift of paying attention and acting.

In Tricia Lott Williford's interview (episode 65), she talked about who she'd invite to her dinner party. In this follow-up episode, Cheri and Amy create the dream team that would surround their dining room tables. Listen and create your own list of people who would be invited to your soiree! It's a revealing list of shared respect.

With the power and vulnerability of personal stories, Tricia Lott Williford shares the secrets of finding confidence, trashing "trolls", and living with joy. Listen in to find out her dinner-party tool for finding the confidence-builders you let into your life!

In this sometimes serious, sometimes hilarious (the word naked might be mentioned... just sayin') episode, Cheri & Amy discuss what it takes to create real change in our lives. They also reveal the little girl inside that they'd like to recapture, and Cheri tells a story that will leave you doubled-over. Don't miss this one!

Who is the girl you wanted to be and where did she go? Chrystal Evans Hurst leads us on a rescue mission to find and recapture the best part of ourselves. She encourages us to move toward change but also shares the mechanics of forward movement.

What could be better than a well-behaved child? A child who has learned to love Jesus! Cheri and Amy process their successes and failures in parenting and think about how they'd do it differently with a do-over. If you need to leverage both grit and grace in your parenting, this one's for you!

Erin MacPherson, author of Put the Disciple Into Discipline: Parenting with Love & Limits, clarifies the purpose of discipline in a child's life. As parents, we want to create Jesus-followers, not just good citizens. Creating an atmosphere of  grace and mercy along with consequences is just one key that Erin shares in this highly practical interview as she teaches us to shape our child's heart not just influence their behavior.

It's so much easier to be "normal", but Cheri & Amy process the adventure inserted into life when we make the unexpected choice... the Jesus choice. With their usual humor and transparency, they unpack the uncommon ways we can enhance our relationships and decisions every day. You can find out Amy's super hero status in this episode too. Be assured that it's NOT Wonder Woman!

We live in a world that wants us to be ordinary-- be like everyone else, look like everyone else, act like everyone else. Carey Scott, author of Uncommon, calls us higher to live an extraordinary, God-honoring life. In this inspiring interview, It's a challenge that will stir your heart and move you forward!

Cheri & Amy discuss the painful truth that perfection and performance actually strip the life from our relationships rather than nurturing them. That's hard for reforming perfectionists, who try to do it all right in an attempt to connect with others, to grasp! Tune in today to hear their freeing conclusions and some funny thoughts about hairy legs.

Mary DeMuth, author of Worth Living: How God's Wild Love for You Makes You Worthy, talks about re-writing your story to live beyond perfection. Instead of shooting for the perfect performance, she encourages us to live in the freedom of being loved and the joy of our current success. Mary also shares the secret to security. Don't miss this one!

For perfectionists and people-pleasers, reaching out to "those other people" can feel awkward and even wrong. How do we get past our self-made obstacles to reach out to our neighbors with true love? Cheri and Amy share the lessons they're learning as they let go of perfectionism and follow the ways of Jesus as He loved others.    

Amy Lively, author of How to Love Your Neighbor Without Being Weird, shares winsome ways to reach out to those next door and in our natural paths. She helps us live the important command to "Love your neighbor as yourself" through intentional but natural means. It doesn't have to be scary, either. Amy Lively makes it fun!

Motherhood is truly a tangle of emotions, motives, and outcomes. How do we live above the muddle and clear the obstacles of pride, protection, and judgment? Cheri & Amy vulnerably share some of their mothering failures and the ways they're learning to become free to give grace to themselves and other moms.

In their conversation with Lynn Cowell, author of Magnetic: Becoming the Girl He Wants, Cheri & Amy discover the beauty of living beyond the social networking highlight reels and the pressure of parenting perfectly. Instead, Lynn shares about how to engage our children's hearts with our own struggles and build up our friends with understanding.

Cheri & Amy celebrate the one year anniversary of Grit 'n' Grace by reflecting on all they've learned. There's a bad rule that's been overcome (of course!) and a new perspective that's been embraced with gusto. Listen in to hear their favorite moments, the grit it's taken do a new thing, and the moments of grace that have permeated the year.

Join us for a walk down memory lane! This pre-birthday episode features highlights from our interviews with Kathi Lipp, Jennifer Dukes Lee, Suzie Eller, Michele Cushatt, Sheila Wray Gregoire, Lucille Zimmerman, Glynnis Whitwer, Wendy Pope, Shaunti Feldhahn, Emily Freeman, Cindy Bultema, Jill Savage, Mary Snyder, Denise Hughes, and Holley Gerth. We hope you'll enjoy this hope-filled year in review.

In Cheri & Amy's interview with Holley Gerth, she challenged us to be vulnerable and "go first" in friendship. There's both grit and grace involved in those kinds of friendships and mentoring relationships. As we embrace the grit of putting ourselves out there and the grace of not thinking it all depends on us, supportive friendships form.

Holley Gerth, author of You're Already Amazing, discusses how we can become wiser mentors, more generous friends, and influencers with greater impact just by embracing the beauty of how we're made. To get us started, Holley gives a quick and practical 4-step approach to put your amazing-ness to work in the world. She also shares how realizing she's an HSP has added richness to her life.

How do we build the deeper relationship with God for which our souls long? Lingering and soaking in His Word. Cheri & Amy shrug off formulas and share a wide variety of practices that lead us closer to God and develop a passion for scripture in our hearts.