Wildly Hopeful

11/02/2026

11/01/2026

October in no particular order.
Thank you, God. 🤲🏻

10/30/2026

I’m not sure I ever thought I would see myself wearing a sweatshirt with a drawn portrait of my dog on it, but here we are. We made it to this place. Wherever this is.🐾

We’re here. And it makes me laugh.

this is the first silly life update
you didn’t ask for.

🎙️What About This?
We’re Back Baby: Life Updates You Didn’t Ask For
And Christmas Has Entered The Chat. 🐾🎄✨

10/27/2026

We know the character of Jesus is good.

He is Gentle.
Patient.
Full of compassion.

And really want to become more like Him.
But then….

Someone disappoints us.
Our plans get interrupted.

And that one friend says that one thing that hits
a little too close to home. Suddenly, abiding in Jesus
feels less like a peaceful invitation and more like
a very specific challenge, Amen?

Because it’s one thing to admire the way He loves,
forgives, and tells the truth. It’s another thing to be
able to practice that kind of love when you’re tired,
been hurt, and overlooked, or convinced you’re wrong.

This week on Wildly Hopeful, I welcome author, YouTuber, and Happy & Healthy podcast host Jeanine Amapola Ward for an honest conversation about getting to know His character and learning to remain close to Him when following His example feels hard.

For any of our friends who wants to be more like Jesus but keep discovering how much you still need Him, pull up a chair.

Me, it’s me.
I’m that friend.

Hi. Let’s spend some time with Him together.

🎙️Episode 61
Am I Doing This Right, God? Talking About Abiding
with Jeanine Amapola Ward.

10/21/2026

Have you ever worried that there wouldn't be enough grace
for tomorrow? I know I have.

Have you ever exhausted yourself trying to figure out
how you would survive something that hasn’t
even happened? If you said yes.….

Oh, friend. Me too.

This week on Wildly Hopeful, I’m sitting down with
my dear friend Katie to talk about all things grace
and her beautiful new book, Grace Will Be There:
Finding God in the Life We Aren’t Ready For.

And what a conversation we had!

We talked about the prayers that haven’t been
answered the way we hoped they would.

The courage to be honest with God when life hurts,
and the grace that meets us in the circumstances that
we never would have chosen.

But we also laughed!

Because as Katie reminds us, to
“Let joy be the oxygen in the room.”

There is something beautiful about discovering
that laughter, friendship, college football, ordinary
mornings, and the smallest gifts of an otherwise
chaotic day can all remind us of God’s goodness.

We don’t have to pretend the hard things
aren’t hard to recognize His grace.

We can grieve and still laugh.

We can have questions and still trust Him.

We can be wildly hopeful without
knowing how the story unfolds.

We don’t have to stockpile tomorrow’s
courage. There is grace for today.

🎙️Grace for the Life You Didn’t Plan
with Katie M. Kelley is on Wildly Hopeful.
Episode 60

Listen wherever you stream your podcasts.
And send this one to a friend who needs to know
she doesn’t have to figure out the whole story today.

With wild hope,
B

10/15/2026

She studied fashion. Then she studied theology.

Somewhere in the middle of the life she was living,
Monica Ritchie discovered that what she believed
about God needed to be unraveled before she could
really understand His character more deeply.

Because spiritual formation isn’t just a makeover.

It’s the slow, sacred work
that takes place over our lifetime.

And sometimes that means what He is forming in us
begins with what we thought we already knew about Him.

And now her story has become a book, Fashioned by Faith.
My friend Monica is back at the Wildly Hopeful table, and
we’re getting into the parts of her story that took her from fashion school to seminary, including the things she had to wrestle with about God and faith along the way.

I love that she’s willing to tell those parts, too.

Because we don’t stop needing to know Jesus more
deeply just because we’ve spent years learning about Him.

And I don’t think we’re ever finished
being formed by Him.

What’s forming your faith?

I think that’s a question worth sitting with.

🎙️Episode 59 | Wildly Hopeful
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

07/18/2026

In our wildly hopeful era.💙

07/18/2026

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07/18/2026

Can we all collectively celebrate for a second?
Okay…… cue the confetti.

Because What About This? is BACK, baby!
And I have missed these
little Friday chats so much.

If you’re new around here, these convos are
where we ditch the script and just… talk.

You + me and whatever’s been living
rent-free in my brain that week.

Like, the things I’ve been noticing.
Conversations I can’t stop thinking about.

My latest fave finds.
The funny moments.
The hard moments.

And all the random rabbit trails that
somehow end up pointing us back to Jesus.

Basically… all things life in the middle.

Some weeks we’ll laugh.
Some weeks we might cry a little.
Most weeks we’ll probably do both.

Think of it like grabbing coffee with a friend
who starts every conversation with oh wait-
okay … but what about this?” ☺️

So reheat your mug
or ice your latte.

Get comfy, and come hang out with me.

I’ve got so much to tell you.
Let’s talk about this.💙

07/18/2026

Some conversations are hard.
And some conversations are holy.

Sometimes they’re both.

They’re the questions we rehearse
in our heads but never say out loud.

The ones we whisper to God.
The ones we wonder
if anyone else is carrying too.

Because we’re afraid
of being misunderstood.

Afraid of being judged.
Afraid someone will tell us
we’re too much… or not enough.

So we stay quiet.

But silence has never been
where freedom grows.
Honesty is.

And I believe there is something sacred about
bringing our honest questions into the presence
of Jesus and trusting the Holy Spirit to lead us.

Today my dear friend Christy Osborne and I
are talking about Christian women + alcohol.

Living free.
Coping.
And our hearts.

Not to put alcohol on trial.
Not to hand you someone else’s conviction.

But to create a safe place
where we can simply ask,

“Lord… what am I really reaching
for when life gets heavy?”

I don’t know what this conversation
will stir in you.

Maybe nothing.
Maybe everything.

But my prayer is that you leave listening a little
more closely to the gentle voice of the Holy Spirit.

Because maybe courage
doesn’t always look like
having the answer.

Maybe it looks like being brave enough
to be willing to ask the question.

If you’ve been carrying one quietly…
Friend, pull up a chair.

There’s a place for you here.

🎧Episode 55- The Things We Don’t Say Out Loud