Everyday Faith Podcast

Pt 1 | The More You Look at Him the Less Everything Else Controls You (feat. Rheanna Arfsten)

What does it look like to raise your kids with eternity in view — when most days feel anything but eternal? That's the question Rheanna Arfsten has been sitting with for years of motherhood. And the answer she's found is both simpler and deeper than most of us expect. It starts with where your eyes are looking.  Rheanna is the co-founder of Freedom Culture and the Occupy Freedom Ministry, a two-time bestselling author, and a homeschooling mom of four who came to faith at 22 with no church background and a painful childhood behind her. God has used every single part of it.  In part one of this conversation, Rheanna shares what inspired her book Raising Nations — and why it's not really a parenting book at all. It's about the eternal substance being built in you as you raise your kids. The transformation that happens not when everything goes right, but when you fix your gaze on God in the middle of everything that doesn't.  We talk about the ski instructor analogy from Colossians 3 that reframed how she thinks about daily life, the morning practice that carried her through her heaviest seasons, and why she believes the greatest gift you can give your kids isn't a perfect mom — it's a mom who keeps pointing them toward a perfect God.  This one ends with a prayer that is worth every minute of the conversation that led up to it.  Join us online! 🧡 askaboutmyfaith.com [https://www.askaboutmyfaith.com/]  💙 facebook.com/askaboutmyfaith [https://www.facebook.com/askaboutmyfaith]  💜 instagram.com/askaboutmyfaith [https://www.instagram.com/askaboutmyfaith/] Wherever you are in your faith journey, you’re welcome here! Subscribe and find encouragement for the everyday moments that matter most!

Pt 2 | The Reel Hope Project & How Intentional Community Changes Everything (feat. Kaycee Stanley)

What if community was never meant to be about finding your people — but about pursuing Jesus together until you become each other's people? In part two with Kaycee Stanley, we're talking about what the Reel Hope Project actually does — and why it matters more than most of us realize. Kaycee and her team make profile videos for kids in foster care who are waiting to be adopted, turning a county file full of hard statistics into a two-minute window into who a kid actually is. Funny. Creative. Worth knowing. Worth choosing.  We hear about the kids who didn't want to be adopted — until they saw themselves the way Kaycee’s team saw them. We talk about what it looks like to sit with someone in grief without rushing them out of it, and why fun might be the most underrated tool for connection in any relationship.  And then Kaycee shares something her mentor told her in her early 20s that reframed community entirely. If the goal is just to be best friends, it'll never hold. But if you're all holding onto Jesus at the center — you'll work through whatever.. That's not just advice for roommates. It's advice for marriage, for small groups, for anyone trying to build something real with imperfect people. If you've been waiting for community to happen to you, this episode is a gentle nudge to start pursuing it — with intention, with vision, and with Jesus at the center. Join us online! 🧡 askaboutmyfaith.com [https://www.askaboutmyfaith.com/]  💙 facebook.com/askaboutmyfaith [https://www.facebook.com/askaboutmyfaith]  💜 instagram.com/askaboutmyfaith [https://www.instagram.com/askaboutmyfaith/] Wherever you are in your faith journey, you’re welcome here! Subscribe and find encouragement for the everyday moments that matter most!

Pt 1 | Intimacy Over Impact: What the Waiting Season Is Really For (feat. Kaycee Stanley)

What does it look like to follow a calling for over a decade before you even see it come to life? Kaycee Stanley is the founder of the Reel Hope Project — an organization she and her husband Pete built to change the narrative around foster care and adoption by telling the stories of kids who are waiting. It's a mission that's deeply personal. Kaycee met her son Tez on one of their own video shoots, and today they have four kids spanning from toddlers to a twenty-year-old finding his way in the world.  In part one of this conversation, we talk about what the long season of preparation actually looked like, how to speak identity into your kids in a way that actually lands, and why calling out who God made someone to be sounds different at five than it does at twenty. Kaycee also opens up about some of the hardest parts of adoption — the complexity of biological family relationships and what it looks like to keep bringing something back to the Lord when the next right step keeps changing.  And she leaves us with a phrase that might just reframe your entire season of waiting: intimacy over impact.  Join us online! 🧡 askaboutmyfaith.com [https://www.askaboutmyfaith.com/]  💙 facebook.com/askaboutmyfaith [https://www.facebook.com/askaboutmyfaith]  💜 instagram.com/askaboutmyfaith [https://www.instagram.com/askaboutmyfaith/] Wherever you are in your faith journey, you’re welcome here! Subscribe and find encouragement for the everyday moments that matter most!

Pt 2 | Three Words Every Mom Needs to Hear - Let It Count. (feat. Tori Benham)

What if God has already placed exactly what you need in your life — and you just haven't let it count yet? In part two with Tori Benham, we're picking up the conversation on lies, community, and what it actually looks like to receive the gifts God puts right in front of you. Tori is a mom of four, emotional intelligence coach, and co-author of Beauty and Battle and Unshakeable — and she shares a convicting and beautiful story.  We talk about the lies that quietly fuel anxiety in motherhood — the subconscious ones you don't even know you're believing — and a three-step framework straight from Scripture to recognize them, renounce them, and replace them with truth. Because sometimes the most destructive thoughts aren't even lies. They just spiral until your greatest ally feels like your greatest enemy.  But the moment that stopped us? Tori hearing three words from the Lord that changed everything. Let it count. The small conversations. The neighbor next door. The kids' friends who show up at your kitchen table. Community doesn't always look like what we expect. But God is faithful in the ordinary if we're willing to receive it.  You are not alone. And the proof might already be closer than you think. Join us online! 🧡 askaboutmyfaith.com [https://www.askaboutmyfaith.com/]  💙 facebook.com/askaboutmyfaith [https://www.facebook.com/askaboutmyfaith]  💜 instagram.com/askaboutmyfaith [https://www.instagram.com/askaboutmyfaith/] Wherever you are in your faith journey, you’re welcome here! Subscribe and find encouragement for the everyday moments that matter most!

Pt 1 | Genesis One and A Mom Who Needed to Hear It (feat. Tori Benham)

When's the last time you paused in the middle of an ordinary day and actually said — this is good? In this first episode of our special May Motherhood series, we sit down with Tori Benham — mentor, mom of four, emotional intelligence coach, and co-author of Beauty and Battle and Unshakeable.  Tori walks us through something she wishes someone had told her early on: that God modeled a rhythm in Genesis One that most moms never give themselves permission to follow. Create. Pause. See the good. Not because everything is perfect — but because you're doing more right than you think.  We also get into the four stages of parenting — babysitter, referee, coach, teammate — and what it looks like to lead your kids toward a season where they actually want you on their team. And Tori gets honest about the thing that trips most moms up: fear. How it sneaks in, shuts you down, and convinces you that you're not capable — when love is the very thing that makes you more than capable.  You are not failing. You are growing. This conversation will help you see the difference. Join us online! 🧡 askaboutmyfaith.com [https://www.askaboutmyfaith.com/]  💙 facebook.com/askaboutmyfaith [https://www.facebook.com/askaboutmyfaith]  💜 instagram.com/askaboutmyfaith [https://www.instagram.com/askaboutmyfaith/] Wherever you are in your faith journey, you’re welcome here! Subscribe and find encouragement for the everyday moments that matter most!