After explaining her decision to homeschool and telling some funny stories from her own homeschooling journey, Mandy discusses different types of narratives, how context changes how we view our own personal narratives, and then she teaches how to use the "3 to 1 Rule for Complaining" in order to protect your interpersonal relationships.

In this episode, Mandy discusses sensory issues, stagnation vs. growth, the importance of building your resilience and the danger of letting anxiety limit your potential.

In this episode, Mandy takes on the subjects of love and vanity and how vanity can affect how we see ourselves, how we approach relationships and even how we worship God. She uses Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis to explain the difference between embracing self-love and learning to be your authentic self, resting in God’s love. 

SPOILER ALERT! In this episode, Mandy fully indulges her love of C.S. Lewis and gives a quick summary of the major events of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and part of Prince Caspian in order to use the different characters in that second story to establish 5 types of people and explore how they differ when it comes to listening and pursuing God’s will for their life. Listen and find out which character you are.

Don't let the kids listen with you for this one because in this episode Mandy gets into a very controversial subject... Santa Claus. Also discussed, cultural terrorism, comfortable lies vs offensive truth, assessing those who are "teachers" in your life, and how to be a good accountability partner.

In this episode Mandy discusses critical race theory, the damaging over-use of labels in both Psychology and in our day to day life, and how the way we identify ourselves and those around us can lead us to disconnect from others and limit our own potential.

In this episode Mandy tells the story of the Roseto Mystery. She addresses how to fight Covid-19 related anxiety and discusses the value of community to your physical and emotional health.

In this episode Mandy tells how leading worship at "The Pursuit of Wholeness" conference for an organization called Coming Out, Inc. changed the way she approaches worship, she shares some funny stories about toxic church people and discusses how the modern church is creating Christians bred for slaughter, seeking comfort instead of repentance, unable to "do the work of an evangelist". The world is going to hell and the church is too busy with infighting to notice.