44: Dare to Dream Again

How do we cope when we feel like our dreams have been taken from us? Dare to dream again with my friend, Hollie Jo Hepler. She’s a mother, a lover of Jesus, ministry leader in the local church, and radically committed to helping women activate their God-given gifts so they can change the world. She’s a speaker, podcaster, and a High Performance Leadership Coach. I’ve known Hollie Jo since I was in high school and I just adore this girl.

Main Topics from the Episode:

  • What do you do when you feel like your dreams have died?

  • It’s okay to start over

  • MRKH syndrome + infertility 

  • IVF

  • Gestational Surrogacy

  • How to turn your pain into powerful for a testimony of hope

  • Overcoming a victim mindset

  • Divorce

  • Trauma + Therapy

  • What do you do when God doesn’t answer your prayers?

LINKS FROM THE SHOW


Your Best Birth Course
Get 50% OFF your first year of FLODESK
Free Guide! 4 Keys to a Positive Birth
Hollie Jo’s Surrogacy Journey on GMA
Life on Purpose Podcast with Hollie Jo
Hollie Jo’s Instagram
Hollie Jo’s Website

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43: Devotional - How brokenness teaches us humility

Today on the podcast I’m sharing a devotional with you as I unpack how brokenness teaches us humility. Through our brokenness we learn that we are entitled to nothing. Everything is a gift. EveryDAY is a gift. We get to choose how we spend it. The people we have in our lives are blessings from the Lord. Some days we just have to choose to see them that way. The Lord gives and He takes away. It’s the reality of our world. We will all experience brokenness in our lives. We will know grief and pain and excruciating loss at some point.

Jesus will be near to us all, if we cling to him. In our brokenness we must go to him with our anger, our sadness, our pain. He can handle it all. And it’s in that place that the Lord is so good to turn our brokenness into something new. If we give it all to him, he will be faithful to transform it. Maybe not in a day or a year or 10 years. But one day, that deep loss and pain will be made into something completely new. If we trust Him to do it in His time.

If you have a prayer request, I’d love to prayer for you! Email me at alise@alisemarsh.com

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42: Tiny Image Bearers

This is the first time I’ve had a guest on the show in a hot minute and I couldn’t think of a better way than to kick off this season. Jenny, really does embody what it means to walk out being an image bearer of Christ. Jenny and I met 2 years ago. You’re going to love Jenny. She’s been married almost 14 years. She’s a homeschooling mama to 5 kids and a former nurse. Today, she’s going to share a little bit with you about her journey through embryo adoption! Enjoy friends! 

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Your Best Birth Course
Kangen Water

National Embryo Adoption Center

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41: 2023 Happy New Year!

Hello there! I just need to tell you straight out of the gate, THANK YOU. Thank you for being here. If you’ve stuck with me over the years, thank you. Thank you for listening when I can only seem to get out 1 episode a year. Thank you for staying, when there is plenty to pull you away.

The older I get the more bitter sweet this time of year is. I’m learning that joy & sorrow can co exist. On this earth we often don’t find joy without experiencing sorrow. The joy comes OUT OF the sorrow. JOY & SORROW can co exist. They always have. Joy & Sorrow run around like BFFs all over history. We have a perfect Savior who hung on the cross, died for us, and experienced pain and sorrow, BECAUSE of the JOY He would experience being with us. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Jesus chose a life with us over any pain He would experience. The very place where we have experienced our deepest sorrows, will be the very place the Lord has promised to bring us the most satisfying joy. We can only know the fullness of joy, when we have experienced deep loss.

We find joy when we are able to take all of the pain and sorrow we’ve experienced and see how the Lord is using it for his good. For his glory. Sometimes, this process takes decades. It can take a lifetime to see how the Lord can turn sorrow into joy. Sometimes, we won’t experience the fullness of the Lord’s restoration on this side of Heaven. But, he has promised he will bottle up our tears, count them all, and turn them into goodness. There’s hope in the pit of despair, that our great God can take our suffering and use it for his glory. Every time we heal a little piece of our broken self, we take back our inheritance in Christ. We kick the devil in the teeth, and we GAIN oh how we GAIN spiritual treasure.

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Your Best Birth Course
Kangen Water

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40: Heroes Are Made in Times of Battle

So, ready for the BIG NEWS! I’M PREGNANT. Yep… CRAZY! We will just start with the big exciting news right out the gate. I found out I was pregnant about 10 days after leaving WA in our 5th wheel. God is funny :)

Friend, can I encourage you to gather your people. Your community. The people who are going to show up for you, bring you food when you need it, take your kids, walk your dog, and see you through the storms of life. The people you’re going to sit next to at the table for hours after dinner and laugh with. Don’t waste your time on fringe relationships right now. You don’t have time for that. God has too much He wants to do in you.

Do you ever sit back and think:

God choose ME…

MEEEE to live at such a time as this. He knew what would happen in our culture and He said, “I choose you.

“I choose you to raise a generation that will stand for Jesus and bring back a revival that will usher in the glory of God. I knew everything that would fall and I decided that I wanted YOU in the fight. In the battle for freedom and truth. I choose you for such a time as this.”

Does that ever just humble you and bring you to your knees?

WOW.

I don’t know that I’m worthy, but Jesus send me. Use me. I want my life to be a life of service to your Kingdom. I’m praying for you! Be encouraged, you’re not alone!
You are loved my friend.

Until next time!

xo,

Alise

LINKS FROM THE SHOW


Your Best Birth Course
Kangen Water

Pathways to Healing and Freedom

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39: SEASON 3 - Full Time RV Living & A New Season!

Welcome back to the Perfectly, Wonderfully Made Podcast! I’m so excited to share with you in this season! Join me for some updates & encouragement today!

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Your Best Birth Course
Kangen Water

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38: Postpartum Life: Being Made Into Something New

Well, my friend I’m so excited to talk with you today about Postpartum life! We’re going to cover some good stuff today!

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Postpartum Shopping List: 

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

The First 40 Days Book
Meal Train
Postpartum Exercise
Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders
Benefits of a Postpartum Doula
Engorgement & Breastfeeding Support
Your Best Birth Course

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37: Chelsey Matley: Learning to hold everything with an open hand

In this episode, I chat with Chelsey Matley. I was Chelsey’s doula about 18 months ago and have had such a great time getting to know this girl! 


Chelsey is a follower of Jesus, wife to her husband Kevin, and mama to her baby girl Evelyn Golden. She’s a freelance makeup artist born and raised in Seattle, WA. She loves the PNW, film, music, watching the birds on her bird feeder, reading books with Evelyn, watching reruns of The Office and finding new recipes to cook. She’s pretty cool :) and you are going to love our honest conversation today. 


We chat about their trial of infertility, overcoming challenges in their marriage, being a working mom, and her breastfeeding journey. Go follow this girl on instagram while you’re listening at @chelseymatley

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LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Leggings
Stain Remover
Sound Machine
Chelsey’s Website
Devotional
Your Best Birth Course
Patreon

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