What happens when the room you thought would fill with light… stays dark? And what if that disappointment was actually the beginning of something real? Welcome back to Laugh on and Levitate with Rachel El Shamy

This week I'm sitting down with someone I've known for over twenty years — and honestly, she was on my list from day one. Angie Day Peters is a mother of six, an author, a storyteller, and one of those rare people who carries joy like it's just who she is— not something she performs.

But this conversation goes deep. We talk about growing up in a home split between religion and brokenness, what it felt like to be handed a note in the middle of a church service that said "you are out of control, thus sayeth the Lord" — and why that moment became a turning point. We talk about purity culture, about grief, about the decade of bliss and the season that nearly broke her. About writing books in a week during lockdown, and sending a manuscript off to a publisher with shaking hands just days ago.

And we talk about laughter. Not the polished kind — the kind that makes you think you might wet your pants in front of your kids. The kind that comes back after a long winter.

Angie has a way of saying the thing you didn't know you needed to hear. This one's going to stick with you.

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