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What Matters

Podcast door Katarina Miletic and Patrick Johnson

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What Matters is a podcast about stories that go deeper. Hosted by Katarina Miletic and Patrick Johnson, it’s a space for conversations that don’t skim the surface but get to the heart of what shapes us. Each episode brings meaningful voices to the table — writers, creators, and everyday visionaries whose stories illuminate courage, connection, and the power of ideas to transform our lives.

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aflevering When survival becomes prayer and God meets us at 3 AM artwork

When survival becomes prayer and God meets us at 3 AM

In this episode, Katarina and Patrick sit with a tender, deeply honest reflection on spiritual life in survival mode. Inspired by Jason Gaboury’s luminous piece, Spiritual Practice When You’re Just Trying to Survive, they explore the quiet truth that prayer often begins where our strength ends. 3 AM wakefulness. Fear we can’t reason away. Thoughts we can’t silence. The impossibility of focus. And the smallest, most vulnerable turning toward God — sometimes just three whispered words. Together, they talk about what prayer really looks like when life feels overwhelming, why God meets us in our actual condition rather than our ideal one, and how the bare minimum becomes its own sacred practice. This is a soulful conversation about honesty, compassion, and the gentle presence that holds us even in our exhausted, fragmented moments. Jason’s original piece can be found here [https://jasongaboury.substack.com/p/spiritual-practice-when-youre-just ]

30 nov 2025 - 39 min
aflevering Notes on living while breaking (the tender work of carrying grief) artwork

Notes on living while breaking (the tender work of carrying grief)

In this episode, Katarina and Patrick reflect on a luminous piece by Jennifer Edewaard, whose writing captures grief with rare tenderness and precision. Her work, Living While Breaking, is a meditation on what it means to carry what cannot be fixed — and to keep living with a heart that refuses to harden. Jennifer’s lines open the door to a quiet, powerful conversation about the nature of mourning, the rituals that hold us together, and the gentle resistances that help us stay soft in a world that often asks us to be otherwise. We explore the truth that grief doesn’t disappear; it changes us. It becomes a companion, a teacher, a presence that shapes how we see love, time, memory, and God. And we speak about the small mercies that help us continue — the acts of tenderness that remind us something still grows. Jennifer’s original piece can be found here. [ https://jenniferedewaard.substack.com/p/living-while-breaking ]

24 nov 2025 - 36 min
aflevering The What Matters story standard: how we choose the stories we share artwork

The What Matters story standard: how we choose the stories we share

In this special episode, Katarina and Patrick open the doors to the heart of the What Matters podcast. For the first time, they share the guiding principles behind how they choose the stories they read — and why certain pieces resonate more deeply than others. Together, they explore the What Matters Story Standard, a gentle but precise compass built around emotional truth, universal themes, sincere voice, natural conversation potential, and the quiet brilliance found in lived experience. This episode is an invitation into their creative and spiritual process: how they listen, what they look for, and why the podcast is built not on performance, but on presence. It’s a glimpse behind the scenes — and a piece they’ll reference again for future writers and listeners who want to understand the depth and intention behind each episode. If you’re curious about what makes a story truly matter, this conversation was made for you.

24 nov 2025 - 23 min
aflevering The joy of less: what a small home can teach us about living well artwork

The joy of less: what a small home can teach us about living well

In this episode, Katarina and Patrick explore the tender, grounded story by Camilla Dugonjic — an American writer living in rural Slovenia who reflects on the surprising gifts of small-home living. Her piece, Life Lessons From a Small Home, opens a gentle conversation about simplicity, enoughness, belonging, emotional clarity, and the quiet spiritual grounding that comes from living with less. Together, we talk about the beauty that reveals itself when space is limited, how family closeness becomes a daily rhythm, and why a smaller home can feel like a deeper life — warm, honest, and filled with meaning. If you’d like to read Camilla’s original story, you can find it here: https://camillaleiladugonjic.substack.com/p/life-lessons-from-a-small-home [https://camillaleiladugonjic.substack.com/p/life-lessons-from-a-small-home]

16 nov 2025 - 30 min
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