We are not recording this one from the other side.

Right now we are in the middle of an uncertain season with our family compound — delays, permitting processes, unknowns and a timeline that is not cooperating with our plans. Morale is low. The wait is heavy. And the two of us are experiencing it in completely different ways.

One of us is holding on to hope and practicing restraint. One of us is setting deadlines and wrestling with the uncertainty. Both perspectives are real. Both are valid. And today we are putting both of them on the microphone.

In this episode we talk about what it feels like to be the hope holder when everyone around you is running low, what deadlines really say about our relationship with uncertainty and what the weight of a long wait actually does to a person, a marriage and a faith.

No filter. No resolution. Just two people telling the truth from exactly where they are.

You are not alone in your wait. 🪶

And for all the Ladies out there, here is the link for the Virtual Women's Retreat: Flourish In Hope! Saturday, September 19th, 2026.

Early Bird Tickets are only thru August 23rd! General admissions tickets and VIP will remain available until the day of the event!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/flourish-in-hope-virtual-womens-retreat-tickets-1994586061603?aff=feathered26

An Honest Anniversary Episode About Real Love, Real Life & the Staycationversary

Today we are celebrating four years of marriage. FOUR years. And we want to be very honest with you — it has felt like forty. And we mean that in the most loving, complicated, beautiful, exhausting, life giving way possible. The most romantic thing you can do for your marriage is not the grand gesture. It is the daily choice. It is showing up for each other in the compound, in the new state, in the messy middle, in the season when the getaway is not possible. That is the love story. Right there in the ordinary.

Thank you for celebrating with us today. Thank you for being part of this journey. We are four years in and forty years worth of living has happened and we would not trade a single complicated beautiful exhausting grace filled moment of it.

Chadd & Gina

Hey friends! We're back. And we have missed you more than you know. We are not going to pretend the last few weeks did not happen or give you a cleaned up version of where we have been. We are just going to sit down with you today and tell you the truth. Because that is what this podcast has always been about and we are not about to stop now.