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Stuck No More Voices Podcast | Season 8: The Story SeasonYour story matters. And so does the woman waiting to hear it.In Season 8, The Story Season, we're exploring the power of our stories, the faithfulness of God woven through our experiences, and how our testimonies can become bridges to the people we're called to serve.Through honest conversations, biblical encouragement, and The Calling Table Sessions, you'll hear from women who have discovered purpose, courage, and God's goodness in unexpected chapters of their lives.Whether you're a Christian woman leader, speaker, author, or creator, this is a place to recognize the gold...
354-Tess Vergara: Abandoning Your Soul and Calling It Faithfulness
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Burnout, identity, and what it means to come back to your own soul.
A listener note before you press play. This conversation includes domestic violence and a season of deep despair. If you are struggling, call or text 988 in the US.
Tess Vergara spent thirty years as an accountant. She was the superwoman, the supermom, the one who could do anything God put in front of her. Then in 2012 she woke up and did not want to be here anymore. She looked in the mirror and could not find...
353-Tammy Dove: They Said Let Him Go. God Said Twenty One Days
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Tammy's book is When Hope Rises, on Amazon
A listener note before you press play. This conversation includes childhood sexual abuse, a near fatal accident, alcohol, depression, and a moment of suicidal thoughts. If you are struggling today, please reach out to someone you trust. In the US you can call or text 988.
Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Tammy Dove.
She was sexually abused starting at six. Shame followed her into a lifelong battle with her body and...
352-The Letter I Wrote on the Plane Became His Eulogy
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I was on a plane home from Dallas writing a letter to my dad. I had made some calls at the conference and something in me knew he was not doing well. I wanted the words ready in case there was not much time.
Then I stepped off the plane. My mom was there. My brothers. My aunts and uncles. And a Catholic priest.
Five seconds is all it takes sometimes.
That letter became part of his funeral. I was asked to give the eulogy, and the...
351-Rachel Kerr Schneider-The Widow Chose Red
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Her husband was diagnosed with ALS during a routine executive physical. Two to five years. Go home and get your affairs in order.
Rachel Kerr Schneider asked God for healing for two years. At the start of the third year she realized she needed to prepare for a different kind of life. Their boys were seven and eleven at diagnosis. Ten and fourteen when he died.
Three things you will take from this one.
Faith d...
350-Melissa Jean Rod: The F Word Nobody Expects. Forgiveness.
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Her memoir is The Daddy Files, an award winner that reads like a memoir and a workbook together, with questions and prayers at the end of every chapter.
Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Melissa Jean Rodd.
She grew up not knowing her birth father. As an adult she found him. Then, years after he had died, she learned he was not her birth father at all.
Her mother knew who was. She would...
349-Dr. Melissa Turner-Your Nervous System Picks the Familiar Hell Every Time
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A listener note before you press play. This conversation includes the loss of a family member to violence.
Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Melissa Turner.
She spent almost eight years as a retail pharmacist. She still dreams about that store. Both drive thru lanes full, a line at the register, two phones ringing, closing time coming...
348-Melissa Dyess: Day Eight, She Walked Out on a Walker
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Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Melissa Dyess.
Twelve years ago she was in a major accident. The first thing the hospital told her mother was to get the family together. She was not going to make it.
Her father had died nine months earlier. Four of her five children were bracing to lose her too.
Her mother is a praying mother, and she called coast to coast until the prayer...
347-Karin Thompson: They Counted Coffee Granules to Keep Him Calm
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A listener note before you press play. This conversation is about childhood abuse and a home ruled by fear.
Karin's book available on amazon: My Journey to Enjoying My Life.
Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Karin Thomson.
Her father came out of the Second World War in Holland carrying things nobody had words for yet. What her family knew was that anything could set him off. Coffee too weak. Coffee too strong. Not enough sugar.
They started counting the...
347-Karin Thompson: They Counted Coffee Granules to Keep Him Calm
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A listener note before you press play. This conversation is about childhood abuse and a home ruled by fear.
Karin's book available on amazon: My Journey to Enjoying My Life.
Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Karin Thomson.
Her father came out of the Second World War in Holland carrying things nobody had words for yet. What her family knew was that anything could set him off. Coffee too weak. Coffee too strong. Not enough sugar.
They started counting the...
346-Lisa Schafer: Bible Studies She Never Meant to Write
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Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Lisa Schaefer.
Five years ago she was working part time in healthcare and getting buried in office work she was never built for. She prayed about it, and she says God told her to go home. She went, a little like Abram, with no idea why.
She thought maybe she was supposed to write a memoir. Trouble was, she is not a writer. She says she does not even want to take down the order before the family...
345-Desiree Young: Writing Is Worship and It Is Warfare
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Desiree Young releases a special resource for the Calling Table Audience.
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She asked God for her marketable skill. He said write. She asked whether He meant finance or accounting instead.
Desiree Young started her first book, wrote diligently for three months, and then stalled out for years. What got her moving again was a mentor telling her that when we bury our gifts, we may be denying someone else their breakthrough.
Three things...
344- The Story Gold in Your Ordinary Tuesday
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Walk through the five steps with her live at the Calling Activation Study, Wednesday, October 14th at 7pm Eastern. Register at theresacroftlive.com/seminar.
Most women do not have a story problem. They have a seeing problem. They think they need a huge dramatic testimony before their story counts, so they walk past the moment at the kitchen table and the ordinary Tuesday when something quietly shifted.
That is where the gold is.
Theresa Croft walks through all five steps of the Story Gold...
343-Courtney Garner: Why Testosterone Matters for Women Too
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At twenty two she had an upper and lower scope. The nurses told her they had never seen someone her age get both. The answer she was offered was surgery or medication for life.
Courtney Garner said no to both and went looking for the root. She is now a board certified family nurse practitioner who has run her own functional medicine practice for six years.
Three things you will take from this one.
Common is not the same as normal. The fatigue, the mood drop, the...
342-Dr. Heather Burchfield: Not Here to Be Nice
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Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Dr. Heather Burchfield.
She had walked with the Lord for over thirty five years when God handed her something big. Decades of faith did not make the assignment any less te...
341-Jennifer Merrill: The Wine Closet Became a Prayer Closet
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She built a house with a wine display room in the center. Two hundred bottles behind a glass wall. Then one fall she dropped to her knees in her bedroom and told God her life was a mess.
Jennifer Merrill laid down drinking that day. Everything she had been numbing surfaced, and she had to face all of it. She hired a contractor, took out the glass, built a wall, and turned that room into a prayer closet.
Three things you will take from this one.
At...
340-Windy Houser: He Walked Her Through Deliverance in Her Own Bedroom
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She was given her first dose of LSD on her thirteenth birthday. Years later, living off coffee and cigarettes and unable to sleep or eat, she cried out and asked God to show up if He was real.
He did. Wendy Houser describes it as a tangible blanket of peace she had never felt before. Hungry for more, she joined the church that was all around her and gave it fourteen faithful years, eight of them teaching the adult women.
Then she started studying for herself, and what she...
339-Yolanda Grey: It Was Never Partying. It Was Medicine.
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She was a Sunday school teacher who showed up to church hungover most weeks. Not partying. She says the alcohol was medicine, the equivalent of a bottle of Xanax at the end of a long day.
Yolanda Gray was the oldest of six girls in a difficult home, a teenage mother, and a woman in a hard marriage for almost twenty years. Sobriety came first. Seven years later, everything else changed.
Three things you will take from this one.
Our secrets keep us sick. She spent years...
338-Danielle Childs-Dig the Ditch. He Will Provide the Water
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Two days before the new year she stood in front of a blank board and said out loud, I have nothing. God said, good. It is supposed to start blank.
Danielle Childs has built businesses, sold businesses, and spent decades in corporate America. From the outside it looked like she had it made. Inside she spent thirty years attaching her heart's desires to people, objects, and outcomes that could never fill them.
<...337-Erin Mohr: She Entered Her First Pageant at 50
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Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Erin Mohr.
At fifty she decided to enter a beauty pageant. She had never talked about pageants once in her life. When she told her daughters she was in, they asked if she was having a midlife crisis.
She calls it a God idea.
Her reason was simple. If she could do it, any woman could do the thing she has been sitting on. It does not have to be a stage. It just has to...
336-Carol Holesak: A Jewish Girl From Brighton Beach Who Met the Messiah
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A listener note before you press play. This conversation includes the loss of children, domestic violence, and a mental health crisis.
Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Carol.
She grew up Jewish in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, and says she thought the whole world was Jewish. She b...
335-Bring the HI to the AI. Shay Sparks on Staying Human in an AI World
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You are the prophet. AI is the scribe.
Today's Calling Table Session is with Shay Sparks. A woman who has built her whole practice around helping business owners lean on AI as a tool without losing the human spark that made their business real in the first place.
Shay opens up about the abusive relationship that started her healing journey, the Christian counseling that helped her rewrite the inner voice she did not know she had, and the moment she realized Sparks was not just her last name. It...
334-You Are Not Delusional. You Are Prophetic. Keep Writing Your Story.
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Years ago I sat with my journal and wrote out a dream life. Studio lights. A red coat. My hair curled just enough. My real life that day looked nothing like it. A marriage under strain, money pressure, and a rental home we lived in because someone had tried to burn ours down.
I wrote a life I had no evidence for. Not one shred. Then recently, in the middle of interviewing a woman for the Calling Table...
333-Lisa Atkinson: The Day God Said, I Will Get the Glory
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You survived the thing you were not sure you would survive. Now what? They call it moving on. My guest calls it coming home to yourself.
In this Calling Table Session, Theresa Croft sits down with Lisa Atkinson, a life-giver who helps women who have walked through the unimaginable rediscover who they are and reclaim the life still theirs. Lisa shares the accident that changed everything at nineteen, thirty years of caregiving through chronic pain and addiction, the loss of her husband, and the audible promise from God that carried her...
332-Makenzie Shelton: I Don't Do It All. I Never Did.
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Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Mackenzie Shelton.
For six years she built a real estate business while raising a family, and she did it the way high achieving women usually do. All of it. Perfectly. Herself.
Then early in 2020 she found out she was pregnant with her fourth. At about ten weeks she lost the baby, with complications so serious she came close to needing a transfusion. She did not feel right for months.
...
332-Makenzie Shelton: I Don't Do It All. I Never Did.
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Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Mackenzie Shelton.
For six years she built a real estate business while raising a family, and she did it the way high achieving women usually do. All of it. Perfectly. Herself.
Then early in 2020 she found out she was pregnant with her fourth. At about ten weeks she lost the baby, with complications so serious she came close to needing a transfusion. She did not feel right for months.
...
331-Coach Cheryl Weaver: She Had an Abortion. Then God Spoke.
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A Note Before We Begin
Today’s conversation includes discussion of abortion, pregnancy loss, and the emotional and spiritual impact that can follow. If you have experienced an abortion, some of what you hear may bring up difficult emotions or memories. Please listen with care and give yourself permission to pause if you need to.
If you recognize that there are places in your own story that still need healing, you do not have to process them alone. Co...
330-He Does Not Waste a Chapter of Your Story
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What if David had looked at the giant and decided the risk was too high? What if Esther had kept quiet to keep her crown? What if Mary had heard the angel and said this will cost me too much?
Every one of them had a reason to say no. Every one of them said yes anyway.
We have been reading about their courage for two thousand years. Heaven may be waiting on yours.
This episode came out of one song played over and over until it...
329-Elaine Mingus: Yesterday's Success Is Today's Baseline
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A listener note before you press play. This conversation includes grooming by a church leader, an eating disorder, and drug addiction.
Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Elaine Mingus.
Her father moved the family out of Houston to keep his kids away from the big city. They started going to church in a small Texas town. The youth pastor there was grooming Elaine and several other girls in the group.
When it came out...
328-Cheryl Killilea: the Depths of Divorce to a Roadmap for 6,100 Women
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Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Cheryl Killily.
In 2019 she walked into a worship service in Wisconsin and left baptized the same night. She had not planned it. She did not even have dry clothes with her. She just knew she had to go up.
She thought God was about to restore her marriage.
A year later her husband of eighteen years asked for a divorce.
She got angry at God. Then...
327-You Are Not Stuck. You Are Committed to a Thought- with Deanna Keith
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Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Deanna Keith.
Her first memory on this earth is being assaulted at three years old. Her second memory is telling her mother.
The abuse lasted until she was fifteen.
She met her husband Stan forty years ago. He led her to the Lord and he set up the counseling that started her healing. Two weeks after their wedding, at twenty three, she had a...
326-You Do Not Find Your Story. You Notice It.
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You keep saying you do not have a story. The truth is you have hundreds. You just have not noticed them yet.
In this episode, Theresa Croft sets you free from the idea that your story is buried treasure you have to dig up. Your story is not lost. It is hiding in plain sight, in the ordinary moments you walk right past.
Theresa shares the five-second moment, the tiny beat where something in you shifts, and shows you eight everyday places your stories are already waiting. Your old...
325-Elana van Deventer: Told She Was Stupid at Eight, Now She Builds With Dr. Leaf
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Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Elana van Deventer.
She had a serious brain injury at four years old. She had to learn to walk again and speak again. She forgot the whole thing until her sister reminded her years later, but her mind never forgot the beliefs it built around it.
School labeled her learning disabled. In grade eight her math teacher told her she was stupid and would get nowhere. She says the hardest part...
324-Calling Table Sessions with Yara Garcia
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Yara Garcia sat down at the table and told the truth about ministry, loss, and what it takes to rebuild. She is a pastor, a mentor, a psychology major, and a facilitator certified in the mind renewal work of Dr. Caroline Leaf.
Yara married a pastor and served beside him. Seven years in, he was diagnosed with cancer. After he passed, she kept going because God told her to keep going. Then came a church split...
323-The Story That Makes Her Trust You
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What if the story that changes your business isn't your biggest success—but the moment God changed you?
In this episode of the Stuck No More Voices Podcast, Theresa Croft shares why stories create connection in a way facts never can. You'll learn how to discover the moments that build trust, help women see themselves in your message, and reveal God's faithfulness through your own journey.
If you've ever wondered how to share your story without ma...
322-The Story That Signs Clients
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Get access here to The Activation Study and learn how your calling goes into a story with a solution for your ideal client!
Visibility that does not lead to signed clients is not visibility. It is a hobby. Today we get straight about the difference, because the goal was never more views. It was more clients, every month.
In this episode, Theresa Croft breaks down why brilliant women build big audiences that never convert, and the three pieces that change it. Your calling, which makes you...
321-Your Story: Discovering God's Faithfulness in Every Chapter of Your Life
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Your Story Was Never Just About You
Have you ever wondered why your story matters so much?
What if the greatest purpose of your story isn't simply what happened to you—but what it reveals about the faithfulness of God?
In this heartfelt episode, Theresa Croft explores how God uses every chapter of our lives to prepare us for the people we're called to serve. Whether you're a Christian business woman, coach, speaker, au...
Episode 321- Your Story Was Never Just About You
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Have you ever wondered why your story matters so much?
What if the greatest purpose of your story isn't simply what happened to you—but what it reveals about the faithfulness of God?
In this heartfelt episode, Theresa Croft explores how God uses every chapter of our lives to prepare us for the people we're called to serve. Whether you're a Christian business woman, coa...
320-The Call Was in You First | How God Uses Your Story to Prepare Your Voice
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For link to next Live The Calling Activation Study click here.hree years ago, I asked God one simple question:
"Can I really do this?"
Looking back, I realize I was asking the wrong question.
God wasn't deciding whether I was qualified. He was preparing me to carry the calling He had already placed inside me.
In this episode of Stuck No More Voices, I share the journey God has been taking me on through healing, identity, and discovering that visibility...
319-Your Story Is the Strategy
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You have the resume. You have the track record. You have prayed over every assignment God has placed in your hands. And the room still does not know your name.
In this episode of the Stuck No More Voices Podcast, Theresa Croft opens up why the story you have been leaving out is the one your ideal client is waiting to hear.
You will hear a life giving sound bite from Paul Getter, taped in...
318-The Call Was in You First
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As a kid, I loved being on a stage. I had no idea God was already calling me. He was. And He placed something in you too, long before you had words for it.
In this episode I talk from my heart, right after our first Calling Activation seminar. I share three things. Your calling came first, set in you by God before any credential. Your story is how that calling reaches the woman who needs it. And story based visibility...
