🎙 Borrow My Hope

🧩 Season Theme: Unmade
The season theme 'Unmade' refers to the concept of an 'unmade bed' raw, honest, and messy moments in life when things fall apart, identities unravel, and people are confronted with the truth of who they really are.

👣 Guest Introduction:
Meet Cristie Cerniglia a marriage coach certified through Laura Doyle’s Relationship Coaching program. A homeschooling mom of four from Kentucky, Cristie has lived the ups and downs of marriage firsthand. After 30 years with her husband, Rusty, she knows the ache of drifting apart, the frustration of failed fixes, and the quiet loneliness that can settle in even a “good” marriage.

Her turning point came when she discovered the Six Intimacy Skills, which completely transformed her relationship in just 12 weeks. Now, Cristie helps women and by extension, couples rediscover joy, restore connection, and breathe life back into marriages that feel stuck or stagnant.

💡 Episode Highlights:

Cristie’s journey from frustration and distance to reconnection and joy

The Six Intimacy Skills and how they can transform marriages

How small shifts in perspective and response can bring monumental change

Listening and Self Care and tools for fostering deeper empathy and connection

Practicing a Gratitude Drop and Give Me 10 not push-ups, but writing down ten things you’re grateful for about your spouse.

Learning how to receive graciously why it matters and how it changes dynamics

Using a dry-erase marker to leave simple notes of gratitude or encouragement

Why hope is contagious and how borrowing someone else’s hope can help you hold on until yours returns

🔗 Connect with Cristie Cerniglia:
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🎙 Episode Title: The Missing Piece

🧩 Season Theme: Unmade
The season theme 'Unmade' refers to the concept of an 'unmade bed' raw, honest, and messy moments in life when things fall apart, identities unravel, and people are confronted with the truth of who they really are.

👣 Guest Introduction:
Jordan Turbyfill has made a career in craftsmanship, but today he steps into a very different kind of work examining the heart behind our words. Known for his easy humor and quick wit, Jordan admits he’s guilty of tossing out the occasional “yo momma” joke. But what happens when a laugh cuts deeper than intended?

For Jordan, conversations about motherhood carry weight. The raw honesty in NF’s song How Could You Leave Us resonates deeply with himits haunting story of love, loss, and longing for a mother who was physically present but emotionally absent. It’s a reminder that the mother child bond can be a source of comfort or of pain, and that its absence can leave a hole nothing else quite fills. Together, we explore how jokes can become mirrors, revealing both the beauty and brokenness in our relationships, and why missing that connection can feel like the missing piece in life’s puzzle.

💡 Episode Highlights:

The double-edged nature of humor and the jokes we think are harmless.

Why motherhood whether experienced firsthand or longed for is one of life’s greatest gifts.

How NF’s How Could You Leave Us captures the pain of a fractured parental bond.

The lasting impact of losing or never having a healthy mother–child connection.

How love, absence, and humor can all shape identity and belonging.

🔗 Connect with Jordan Turbyfill:
Instagram: @one.contract.flooring

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🎙Messy Prayers

🗝️ Praying for someone—especially your spouse—is like trying to plant seeds in rocky soil.
You know growth is possible, but every time you kneel down, you hit something hard: past wounds, unmet expectations, pride, fear. It takes work to clear the ground. But if you stay with it, roots can take hold—and something beautiful can grow.

👣 Guest Introduction:
Amanda Hayhurst once looked at Christian women and thought they were fake—polished on the outside, probably polished on the inside too. But behind her own smile was a heart weighed down by shame, years of unhealthy coping, and ultimately, an affair that nearly destroyed her marriage.

Just when things couldn’t feel more unmade, Amanda also faced one of the hardest chapters of her life walking through her young son’s leukemia diagnosis. And later, navigating her own health struggles. But instead of giving up, she began to press in. Amanda found herself surrendering the false identities she had clung to for years. Through therapy, community, and a growing relationship with Jesus, she uncovered something deeper than survival: healing.

Now a seminary graduate, author of Pray for Him, and fierce advocate for honest, messy prayers, Amanda shares how God restored her life, her marriage, and continues to heal her heart day by day.

💡 Episode Highlights:

🛑 Why praying for your spouse can feel impossible and what’s really behind the resistance

💔 Amanda’s journey through shame, false intimacy, an affair, and her own health struggles

🩺 How her son’s leukemia diagnosis became a breaking and rebuilding point in her faith

🧎‍♀️ Surrendering unhealthy coping tools, including alcohol, performance, and escapism

📖 The difference between salvation and healing and why God wants both for us

💬 The raw, unfiltered truth about finding intimacy with God through pain

✨ What happens when we finally begin to pray not perfectly, but honestly

🔗 Connect with Amanda Hayhurst:
Website: https://amandahayhurst.com
Instagram: @amandahayhurstwrites

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