Challenges Won't Stop Me

Updated: 18 Jun 2025 • 126 episodes
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Challenges. Uggh. Life is full of challenges. How do you navigate those unexpected turns in your path? You could crumble and believe life isn't fair, giving that challenge permission to defeat you. But that's not you who you are. Neither are the courageous women who our host, Melony Brown, interviews. These women chose to fight to overcome life's tough challenges. They share their stories, as well as the strategies and habits that strengthened them and helped them maintain a 'challenges won't stop me' mindset.Throughout the season, Melony publishes video solocasts to share messages and resources to strengthen you for your current challenges and those that are right around the corner. Discover what kind of journey navigator you are when life's tough challenges intersect your path. Take the quiz at journeyonquiz.comInterested in sharing your overcomer story? Email me at melony@melonybrown.comMy book "Challenges Won't Stop Me: An Interactive Survival Guide for Overcoming & Thriving" is available on Amazon.

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My guest, Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Chandler, is a chaplain in the Georgia National Guard. She returns to share her way of life interview, focusing on what God imparted during her husband’s fight with COVID-19 and after he passed away. Having the love of her life pass away from COVID was devastating. God brought Psalm

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Every person alive in 2020 was impacted by COVID-19 in some form or fashion. My guest, Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Chandler, was no exception. She serves as a chaplain in the Georgia National Guard. Married twenty years and then having to navigate a divorce during a deployment to Afghanistan prior to COVID was a difficul

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Fellow stroke survivor, Lori Vober, joins me again to chat about God’s miracles.  While she suffered a hemorrhagic stroke when she was twenty-nine years old, Lori believes surviving it is a miracle. She is grateful for all the miracles she experienced during her recovery and all the years since then. Being grateful is

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May is Stroke Awareness Month.  Strokes can happen to anyone at any age. When I had a stroke in 1972 at age 2, that wasn’t the case. Back then, strokes happened to people 65 years and older who were unhealthy: obese, smoker, drinker, and rarely exercised. My guest, Lori Vober, is also a stroke survivor. Her hemorrhagic

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Amanda Schaefer joins me again to discuss a strategy she relies on when challenges intersect her path. She believes peace and listening to God"s voice are intricately interwoven. Amanda shares how we must know the identity of each of the voices we hear: our own voice, God"s voice, the voice of the world, and the voice

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Today"s guest is Amanda Schaefer.  She is the host of A Cup of Gratitude podcast and a speaker. She"s also the author of several books, including her newest release titled "Holy Plot Twists: God Is Still Writing Your Story." Amanda"s fought to overcome numerous challenges throughout her life. She knows that Jesus is al

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