The Podcast
Encouragement for Real Life
The Podcast
Encouragement for Real Life
Welcome to the Encouragement for Real Life podcast!
We both know real life is a mixture of blessings and blunders, celebrations and sadness, and happiness and heartaches. And some days we could use some extra encouragement for our real lives right now.
You’ll find that in each episode. Full of hope, promise, and joy, all in about 15 minutes each week. New episodes drop each Tuesday.
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I’ m so glad you’re here, friend!
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245. You Were Made for More Than Just Getting Through the Day
In this episode, Julie introduces a brand-new series, You Were Made for More, inspired by the release of her new devotional, Made for More: 365 Devotions for the Woman Who Refuses to Settle. She begins by naming a quiet but familiar tension many...
244. How to Love Your Mornings with Jennifer Dukes Lee
In this month’s guest episode, Julie sits down with author and fellow Iowan Jennifer Dukes Lee for a deeply encouraging and refreshing conversation about faith, mornings, and finding God in the everyday rhythms of life. Jennifer shares her...
243. 10 Things That Help You Feel Like You Again
In this final episode of the Top 10 series, Julie shares 10 simple, life-giving ways to help you feel like yourself again. If you’ve been showing up for everyone, carrying a full schedule, and quietly wondering why you feel flat, drained, or a...
242. 10 Things You Are Allowed to Be Bad At
In this third episode of Julie’s Top 10 series, she tackles a quiet belief many women carry: the pressure to be good at everything. After discussing what isn’t actually an emergency and the things we can stop doing the hard way, this episode...
241. 10 Things You Can Stop Doing the Hard Way
Have you ever stopped and realized you’re making life harder than it needs to be? In this week’s episode of the Top 10 series, Julie continues the conversation by naming something many women quietly carry: unnecessary heaviness. After talking...
240. 10 Things That Are Not Actually Emergencies
Have you been living like everything is urgent? In this lighthearted but deeply practical episode, Julie kicks off a brand-new Top 10 series by addressing something many women don’t even realize they’re doing — treating normal life like an...
