The Mentor's Table
A place where women gifted to lead and teach can gather around this virtual table to feed our souls. In season one, we'll dig into the nitty gritty parts of surrender and develop muscle memory in our souls to truly let go.
Episodes
52 episodes
TABLE READ: Prologue & Introduction From My Book on Surrender
You are invited to join my book development team. Listen in and comment on excerpts and focuses from each part of my book on surrender and spiritual disciplines. Who knows? You may even get a shoutout when the book gets published.Also, w...
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Reflections on Parenting: It's Okay To Say This Word . . . A Lot
Welcome to the Mentor's Table--a place where you can pull up a chair for deeper discussions about spiritual and emotional health with an uncomfortable focus on surrender.This episode may be unpopular, but I know the principle to be true....
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Reflections on Parenting: Incorporating Spiritual Disciplines
How do you teach your children to make Spiritual Disciplines (or as I like to say: Surrender Formation), a regular part of their life rhythm? I tell you what we did, and my prayer is that you take these two principles and use them as inspiratio...
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Reflections on Parenting: The Secret No One Else Is Talking About
I haven't heard anyone else teaching this parenting principle, but it's vital. Even if having children is in your DISTANT future, this episode is for you. We're NOT talking about sleep training, discipline, or communication with your children. ...
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Practical & Spiritual Lessons From Choosing a College for Our Eldest Child
Today I'm bringing some parenting reflections as the season of choosing a college for our first child begins to wrap up. Even if you think this season is too far off to bother learning now, please learn from me some clear first steps that began...
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BONUS EPISODE: On Confirmation Bias & Renewing the Mind from AS WE GROW
I wanted to share this conversation with you because it added so many important layers to our discussion about confirmation bias in February. Join me on As We ...
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Developing Discernment: How to Identify a Counterfeit
As technology develops, discerning something counterfeit from something real is becoming increasingly more difficult . . . IF your approach is wrong. But there IS a way to discern truth no matter how minuscule the false percentage is. It's all ...
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Developing Discernment: When Do I Give People the Benefit of the Doubt?
We are in a season of unprecedented disclosure, which means we have to have godly discernment to know what to do with all these new voices and pieces of information. For too long, we've elevated giving people "the benefit of the doubt" to a spi...
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How to Formulate a God-Honoring Response to Current Events: A Summary
The last four episodes have covered a lot of ground in how to form a God-honoring response to current events, so we thought it would be wise to consolidate a month's worth of information into this one summary. (Click on each WEEK to listen to a...
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How to Formulate a God-Honoring Response to Current Events: Part 4
This week we're expounding on the dangers of confirmation bias and focusing our attention on two key components:1. You must know you're foundational beliefs to understand where confirmation bias will come into play. If those beliefs don'...
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How to Formulate a God-Honoring Response to Current Events: Part 3
What does the term "confirmation bias" have to do with formulating a God-honoring response to current events? Well, . . . everything!In this episode, we'll define confirmation bias, talk about its effect on memory and recall, and d...
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How to Formulate a God-Honoring Response to Current Events: Part 2
In this episode, we'll continue to build our God-honoring responses to current events. Not only are we called to walk in love but to take responsibility for our words that could potentially de-humanize the people we are talking about. Dehumaniz...
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How to Formulate a God-Honoring Response to Current Events: Part 1
This is only one component of a multi-layered and important conversation that followers of Jesus need to work through. My goal is not to prepare you for a debate-team-style win but to prepare you to be a representative of Jesus Christ in your w...
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On the Power of a Table: Tables As Invitations to Relationship
What if all that we're learning about tables doesn't just apply to our physical dining room tables, but rather, what if it applies to all of our virtual tables (i.e., social media platforms)? Who are you inviting to your table? Who ...
On the Power of a Table: Tables As Peace Sanctuaries
In this current cultural moment, conflict and division are rampant not just in the world but in the Church as well. Yet we all have a reminder in our homes that can serve as a symbol of peace and laying down our conflicts. This isn't just some ...
On the Power of a Table: Tables As Altars
Last week, we began our deep dive into the power of a TABLE. Part two of this conversation today focuses on the biblical precedent of regarding our dining table as a type of altar, which means we hosts are then the designated priests meant to r...
On the Power of a Table: The Power & Protection from Gathering Around a Table
Ever wonder why we chose the name, The Mentor's TABLE? I've always been drawn to tables, and as I began to study Jewish culture, I learned that gathering around a table is not only nourishing physically but also relationally. In fact, historica...
An Invitation to Wonder in This Season
This is about as passionate as Joy gets! You're going to want to sit down and make some space to be present while listening to this one. Pull up a chair 🪑 Please note, we are taking the last two weeks of December off. This is a ...
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Making Space for the Sacred & My Advent Rhythms
In this merry season of hustle and hurry, let's commit to intentionally making space for the sacred, simply setting aside small pockets of time to fix our eyes on what's most important--God. For me, this looks like a rhythm of observing Advent,...
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A Personal Update & My Word For This Advent/Winter Season
November was a month full of traveling, and I finally get to share some of it with you! Plus, the busyness of November crashes right into the start of one of my favorite seasons, Advent, and with it comes a noticeable shift in focus. <...
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Whole-Body Gratitude 4/4 "Gratitude & the Brain" (feat. Jenna Zint)
In our final episode of the "Whole-Body Gratitude" series, we're talking about what's going on in our brains when we're focusing on gratitude. More than a dopamine hit, we're getting whole-life change. Wanna learn more? Pull up a ch...
Whole-Body Gratitude 3/4 "Forming Habits That Stick" (feat. Jenna Zint)
Good intentions fall short when choosing to form new habits, even a gratitude habit! Instead, we need concrete handholds that we can place around our new habit that will empower us to see it through until it becomes effortless. That's what we'r...
Whole-Body Gratitude 2/4: Gratitude Habit Inspo (feat. Jenna Zint)
In part two of this interview, we're hearing different forms of Jenna's gratitude habits, and we're noticing which forms of hearing about her gratitude give us the most benefits. Pull up a chair. I know you're going to get some good inspiration...
Whole-Body Gratitude 1/4: Begin With Your Focus (feat. Jenna Zint)
We're trying something new this month--an interview with someone I have so much respect for, and I know you as listeners will love hearing her too. It's my life coach and fellow sister in Christ--Jenna Zint!SHOW NOTESCONNEC...
The Opposite of BELIEF (It's not what you think.)
I used to think the opposite of belief is simply unbelief--either you give mental consent with your mind or not, but according to John Bevere's book Bait of Satan, the Bible has given us the opposite of belief, and we...