You Were Made for This
By John Certalic
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You were made for fulfilling relationships. Listen each week to stories of people finding hope and encouragement in their relationships so that you can too. Host and award-winning author John Certalic, together with his guests, share principles of life-giving relationships.
John’s relationship story starts with his birth to a single mother and placement in foster care for the first 16 months of his life. From this comes four different careers, 53 years of marriage to the same wife, and much he has learned about relationships. John draws from all this, along with inspiring stories from his guests, to share how you can find more fulfillment in the relationships you were made for.
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217: God Will Surprise Us
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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216: Our Past Helps Us Understand Our Present
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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215: Searching for My Birth Father
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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214: People Are Like Houses
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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213: Five Things to Watch for in Your Next Conversation
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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212: Little Things We Do Matter the Most to People
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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211: A Men’s Breakfast Like No Other
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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210: Word of the Year for 2024 - Curious
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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209: The Christmas Story In 2023
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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208: Christmas - A Time to Reflect
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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207: How to Help the People We Love At Christmas
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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206: Thankful for the Stories of Others
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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205: How to Have a Meaningful Conversation
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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204: Deep Conversations
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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203: Three Reasons for Being Stingy in Sharing Your Story
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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202: The Best Stories
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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201: Three Relationship Tools to Remember in September
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Relational Intelligence in the Age of the Artificial Kind
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Good People Are Out There
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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An Unusual Way to Connect With God
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Anniversary of the Most Life-Giving Conversation of My Life
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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What Has Your Father Taught You By Example?
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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200: Give People the Gift of Hope
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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199: How to Help a Friend
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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198: Read Your Way to Better Relationships in 2023
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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197: We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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196: How Will You Be Remembered?
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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195: Words Matter
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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194: Martin Luther King - The Silence of Our Friends
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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193: The Underachievers Bible Reading Plan for 2023
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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192: Word of the Year for 2023: Read
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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191: Wanting the Joy of Christmas to Linger Awhile?
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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190: The Christmas Story In 2022
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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189: O Holy Night - An Unusual History
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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188: Joy to the World - The Unintended Christmas Carol
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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187: This Christmas Carol Invites You
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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186: Thankful for Life After Death
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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185: Thankful for Curious People
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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184: Thankful for Parents Who Discipline Their Children
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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183: Thankful for People Who Inspire Us
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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182: Thankful for “The Last Time I Will Ever…”
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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181: Tenderness Found in Two Unusual Places
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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180: An Unusual Place to Find Joy
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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179: Listen to the Whispers
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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178: Good Relationships in Action
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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177: How to Relate With High-Maintenance People
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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176: The Joy of Relationships by Watching Others
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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175: Reflecting On Stories From Our Past Can Grow Us
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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174: Labor Day - A Time to Reflect
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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173: Celebrate National Relationship Transitions Day
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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172: How to Develop Deeper Relationships
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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171: We're All Connected with Each Other
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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170: When People Disappoint Us
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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169: A Daughter’s Feel-Good Story About Her Father
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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168: How to Live Well
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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167: A Path to Meaningful Conversations
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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166: How to Spread a Little Relational Sunshine
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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165: Nosey People Weaken Relationships; Curious People Strengthen Them
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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164: Little Things That Matter in Relationships
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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163: What You and I Need Most
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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162: The Best Father’s Day Gift For 2022
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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161: We Are Made For Relationships
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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160: Remember the People Who Made Our Life Better
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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159: For an Interesting Conversation Listen to a Missionary
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May 25, 2022 |
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158: What’s On Your Mind?
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May 18, 2022 |
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157: Add This Book to Your Summer Reading List
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May 11, 2022 |
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156: Our Roots Bring Stability to Life
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May 04, 2022 |
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155: How to Find Joy No Matter What
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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154: How to Listen Like a Hostage Negotiator
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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153: Two Stories of How to Reflect the Character of God
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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152: A Better Thing to Do to Help Others
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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151: Hope is More a Noun Than a Verb
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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150: The Joy We See in Others
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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149: What Do I Say to Them?
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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148: What Not to Say When Bad Things Happen to Good People
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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147: Memories Grandparents Make
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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146: More Joy in Our Relationships
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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145: Delayed Gratitude Deepens Relationships
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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144: Initiate with People to Enrich our Life - Part 2
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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143: Initiate with People to Enrich Our Life - Part 1
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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142: One Gracious Blessing After Another
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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141: One Simple Way to Brighten Someone’s Day
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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140: Two Relational Benefits to a Thank You Note
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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139: Why Should I Listen to This Podcast?
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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138: End the Year with Real Christmas Joy
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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137: Bonus Episode - The Christmas Story for 2021
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Dec 25, 2021 |
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136: Make it a Mary Christmas this Year
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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135: Christmas with a Good Man Brings Joy
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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134: A Better Kind of Christmas Joy
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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133: Relationships - The Back Story to the Christmas Story
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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132: Three Unusual Blessings to Be Thankful For
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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131: Thankful to Be the Person God Created Us to Be
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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130: Be Thankful We Can Make Memories for People
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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129: Thankful We Don’t Always Have to Be Right
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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128: The Joy of Relationships
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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127: Don’t Let Fear Drive Us Apart
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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126: Sometimes God Uses Strangers to Care for Us
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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125: How to Relate When They Come Home From College
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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124: Resting In Our Identity Frees Us to Love Well
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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123: Ask Thoughtful Questions and See What Happens
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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122: The Questions We Ask … and Fail to Ask
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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121: Experience the Relational Energy of Fall
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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120: The Best Relationship Advice From This Summer
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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119: An Important Quality to Look for In a Friend
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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118: Relationship Lessons from 3 Unlikely Places
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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117: What to Do When People Criticize Us
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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116: Finding Joy from a Thank You Note
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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115: Become More Self-Aware in 2021
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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114: Learn How to Age Well in 2021
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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113: Our Choices Define Us, Not Our Personality
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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112: Three Ways to Listen Well in 2021
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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111: How to Find Rest in Difficult Circumstances
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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110: Relationships We Didn’t Choose
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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109: Rekindle Relationships by Remembering
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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108: When Our Family Rejects Us Jesus Understands
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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107: Seeing is Believing. Or is it? Listen in
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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106: How to Have a Great Family Vacation in 2021
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May 26, 2021 |
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105: How to Listen Better
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May 25, 2021 |
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104: The Question Behind the Question
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May 12, 2021 |
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103: The Secret to Great Relationships
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May 05, 2021 |
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102: One Way to Find Joy in Our Relationships
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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101: Life-Giving Relationships
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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100: Start Conversations with Remembering
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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099: Share an Observation Instead of Asking a Question
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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098: The Myth of “It Never Hurts to Ask”
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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097: Good Things Happen If We Ask Questions
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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096: Meaningful Questions Create Meaningful Relationships
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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095: What to Do When People Irritate Us
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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094: Self-Awareness Deepens Our Relationships
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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093: Remembering Deepens Our Relationships
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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092: 3 Benefits to Being a Keen Observer of People
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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091: Keeping Your Resolution to Do Good for Others
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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090: Encourage Ourself by Observing Others
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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089: How to Be a Better Observer of People
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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088: Get Them to say "Thank You for Asking"
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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087: Make it a Relational New Year’s Resolution
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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086: How to Begin the Year with Joy
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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085: Finding Joy at the End of 2020
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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083: The Best Christmas Gift - Be with People in Community
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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082: A Christmas Gift of Anticipation
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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081: A Christmas Gift of Deep Personal Connection
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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080: A Christmas Gift of Silence
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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079: Thankful for Simple Gifts Found in Relationships
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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078: Fulfilling Relationships Don’t Just Happen
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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077: To Impact the World is Easier than You Think
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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076: Participate in All Saints Day Like This
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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075: Getting a Letter Helps People Who Feel Isolated
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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074: Relationships During Elections
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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073: Could Curiosity About Others Minimize Racism?
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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072: What I Learned From a Grieving Friend
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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071: How to Help a Grieving Friend
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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070: Building Relationships Eases Racial Tension
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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069: When Our Kids Go Off to School for the First Time
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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068: Our Job is a Means to an End, Not an End Unto Itself
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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067: Self-Monitoring How We Listen
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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066: A Solution Better Than Suicide
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May 27, 2020 |
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065: End With Asking This Important Question
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May 20, 2020 |
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064: Start with this Important Question to Ask
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May 13, 2020 |
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063: Six Reasons Why We’re not More Curious About People
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May 06, 2020 |
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062: Vaccine Now Available for this Relational Virus
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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061: How Changed Thinking Leads to Changed Relationships
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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060: One Perspective on Stay-At-Home You Probably Haven’t Heard Before
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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059: The Last Place You Would Ever Think to Find Joy
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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058: How a Crisis Can Bring Out the Best in Us
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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057: Relational Goodness in Times of Crisis
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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056: Changing How We Think
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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055: How to Overcome our Greatest Relationship Obstacle
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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054: The Greatest Obstacle to Relationships
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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053: An Inconvenient Relationship Reality
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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052: Six Examples of Listeners Using this Podcast Content
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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051: More Than the Music
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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050: Three Reasons Why Relationships Are Worth It
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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049: Sacrifice in Relationships
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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048: Worship Without Words
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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047: What Mary Treasured on Christmas Day
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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046: Where Joy to the World is Found
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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045: Seven Relationship Lessons from the Greatest Christmas Movie Ever Made
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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001: Six Reasons to Listen to the "You Were Made for This" Podcast
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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044: Thankful for the People who Invested in Us
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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043: Thankful for People Different from Me
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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042: Thankful for the Irritations of Life
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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041: Thankful for the Cheerleaders in My Life
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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040: A Square Peg in a Round Hole
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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039: Listener Responses to Relationship Issues
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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038: Motivating Others to Love and Good Works
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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037: The Two-Step Process to Solve Relationship Conflicts
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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036: Investing in Relationships
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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035: Relationships and a Lawn Mower
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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034: Rescuing and Raising a Relative's Child
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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033: The Power of One Simple Question
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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032: What Am I Here For? What is My Purpose in Life?
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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031: The Rhythms of our Relationship with Time
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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030: An Adoption Relationship Story - Part 2
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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029: An Adoption Relationship Story - Part 1
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May 29, 2019 |
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028: A Memorial Day to Remember
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May 22, 2019 |
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027: When He Asks to Marry Your Daughter
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May 15, 2019 |
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026: When You Don't Know What to Do
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May 08, 2019 |
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025: The Toughest Job in America
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May 01, 2019 |
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024: Learning From Our Listeners
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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023: Reminding Each Other of Our Own Stories
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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022: Pay it Forward with Our Stories
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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021: The Most Important Relationship of All
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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020: Relating with People Who Talk Too Much
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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019: Encouraged by a Millennial and Her Gen Z Sister
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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018: Two Sisters - Part 2
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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017: Two Sisters - Part 1
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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016: Two Ways to Care for a Missionary
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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015: When There Are No Words
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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014: Relationship Skills - Level 4
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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013: Relationship Skills - Level 3
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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012: Relationship Skills - Level 2
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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011: Relationship Skills - Level 1
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Jan 23, 2019 |
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010: Two Features of Every Good Relationship
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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009: Shadows Connect Us with Each Other
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Jan 09, 2019 |
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008: How a Wife and her Daughter Brought Healing
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Jan 02, 2019 |
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007: The Year in Review. The Year Ahead.
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Dec 26, 2018 |
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006: The Gift of Joy - Part 2
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Dec 19, 2018 |
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005: The Gift of Joy - Part 1
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Dec 12, 2018 |
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004: The Gift of Even Though
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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003: A Gift for the Person Who Has Everything
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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002: The Gift of a Background Relationship
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Nov 28, 2018 |