Hope Motivates Action

Tragedy doesn’t always happen in isolation. Sometimes tragedy hits an entire community, impacting hundreds of households and thousands of lives. That was the case in December 2021 when the Marshall fire hit the town of Superior, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. With so many families displaced, those impacted could find so

Hope and beauty have a lot in common. They can work together, one can inspire the other, and they can both encourage someone to take action. All three are true for this week’s guest, Nina Kins. After a number of very difficult life circumstances, Nina was just starting to get back on her feet when she received a cancer

There’s no avoiding adversity and challenges. Some we can prevent with careful planning and setting ourselves up for success. But many we can’t. No one can predict a tragedy or accident and be adequately prepared for it. It just happens, and we have to pick up the pieces and manage the aftermath. This week’s podcast gu

Young parents and parents-to-be have so much hope in their growing families. They start to imagine who their babies will become, even from the first positive pregnancy test. But as we all know, not every pregnancy is the same. And some end in tragedy. That was the case for this week’s guest, Lindsey Hannan. And it was

Sometimes adversity is just the thing to bring us to a place where we’re supporting others in our communities. That’s part of the path for Candace Plattor, this week’s guest.  After a 15-year addiction to opioids, Candace has been in recovery and supporting families of addicts for the last 35 years. Candace is an addic

Emotions are all over the place when you’re faced with a life-threatening illness. When it’s your young child with the diagnosis, it’s easy to fall into denial and despair. Instead, this week’s guest took hope, grew her belief, and turned it into faith. When her 11-year-old daughter, Celeste, was diagnosed with pineobl