The Growth Lounge

What do you do when marriage feels stretched, the day is stressful, and real life is happening in real time?

In this episode of The Growth Lounge, Jessica and Chad bring you into a real, honest, lightly humorous conversation from the middle of one of those kinds of days. They talk about why they intentionally take two months away each year, what that time means for their marriage, and how they use it to reflect, reset, and plan for ...

Welcome back to The Growth Lounge and part three of our Love and Marriage series.

In this episode, Chad and I talk about marriage growth and reconnecting when life gets busy. Many couples experience what we call the slow fade. Not because love disappears, but because raising kids, managing schedules, and the business of everyday life slowly pulls attention away from the relationship.

If you are searching for marriage advice, ways to ...

Marriage is not always beautiful. Sometimes it feels hard, heavy, and uncertain.

In part two of our Love and Marriage series, Chad and I share the middle of our story. Fresh out of rehab and the Navy, unexpectedly stepping into parenthood, financially strained, and emotionally immature, we were trying to build a life while still learning who we were.

We talk about broken communication, damaged trust, counseling, emotional growth, and...

In this kickoff episode of our February Love and Marriage series, I sit down with my husband of 30 years, Chad. We share our real journey from young love to legacy love. We talk about how we met, what we thought marriage would be like, what actually shaped us, and how faith, commitment, and personal growth carried us through the stretching seasons. We are honest about the rocky parts of our beginning and what helped us build someth...

In the last episode in the Women in Wellness Series, Jessica has and in-depth and eye-opening conversation with Lori Bradford, a trusted midlife wellness expert, to cut through the noise around women’s health in midlife.

They dive into hormone replacement therapy, why diet and exercise alone often stop working, and how detoxification and proper gut health directly impact hormones, inflammation, energy, and overall well-being. Lori e...

You are getting 2 drops this week due to some technical difficulties. We are wrapping up our Women in Wellness Series with these last 2 episodes. Be sure to tune in to all of them as each one is unique.

In this episode of the Women in Wellness series, Jessica sits down with Angie Ambrosetti, a mother of seven, adoptive mom, grandmother, entrepreneur, and passionate advocate for holistic health.

Angie shares her deeply personal wellne...

What happens when life looks successful on the outside, but feels disconnected on the inside? In this episode, Emily Roberts shares her journey back to faith, health, marriage, and self after chasing success, money, and approval.

In this episode of the Women in Wellness series, Jessica sits down with Emily Roberts for an honest conversation about what happens when life looks successful on the outside, but feels disconnected on t...

In this episode of Women in Wellness, I sit down with Amy Mick Welch to talk about hormone health, low testosterone in women, and what sustainable wellness actually looks like in real life.

Amy shares her experience with burnout after years in corporate America and how stepping away from that environment led her to take a more thoughtful, data-driven approach to health. We discuss why hormone testing can be an important step for wom...

In Episode 1/Part 2 of my conversation with Harmony, we move into one of the most tender and powerful parts of her healing journey.

Harmony shares openly about her breast explant surgery and how removing her implants brought relief to many of the chronic health issues she had been living with for years. Symptoms that were once confusing, exhausting, and misunderstood finally began to make sense.

We talk about:
• The health issues...

I couldn’t imagine a more meaningful way to launch the Women & Wellness Series for 2026 than by sitting down with Harmony.

Harmony was my very first podcast guest when I launched The Growth Lounge last year, and bringing her back for this two-part conversation feels both full circle and deeply intentional.

In Part 1 of this 2 part episode with Harmony, she opens up about the nuances of each year. How sobriety evolves, what change...

This year stretched me, shaped me, and ultimately changed me.

In this episode, I’m getting real about what it actually looked like to take my power back. Not through a new planner or another quick fix, but by getting radically honest, reflecting deeply, and rebuilding trust with myself and with God.

When my dad passed three years ago, I did what so many of us do when we don’t know what to do with pain... I stayed busy. I jumped into ...

When safety keeps you stuck, fear becomes the wall between you and your next level. In this episode, Jessica Phillips breaks down how your amygdala tricks you into believing comfort equals safety and how that false protection can hold you back from growth. She shares real stories from women at the Rooted and Rising Retreat who faced resistance, fear, and self-doubt, and what happens when you choose to walk through fear instead of a...

The Becoming Series: Coming Home to the Woman God Created You to Be

There’s a sacred messiness in the middle, that space between who you were and who you’re becoming. It’s uncomfortable, uncertain, and if we’re honest… sometimes it just feels funky.

This week inside The Growth Lounge, we’re getting practical. Because unbecoming isn’t just spiritual - it’s somatic. It’s emotional. It’s physical. And the way we move through it matters.

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There comes a moment in every woman’s life when she whispers the words, " I can't carry this any more."

If you’ve been there, or maybe you’re sitting in that space right now, this episode is for you.

This is where my own 180 began. The day I realized that trying harder wasn’t healing me…it was hiding me.

We talk a lot about growth and purpose, but what we often skip over is the part where we have to clear the clutter. The emotional, ...

In Part 2 of my conversation with luxury stylist and transformational guide Jessica Papineau, we go beyond the wardrobe and dive into the practices, mindset shifts, and bold choices that lead to lasting transformation.

Jessica shares how everything from cold plunging to meditation and visualization has shaped her journey—and how those tools can help you shed what no longer serves you. We talk about how clothing holds frequency, why ...

In this powerful 2-part series, I sit down with the incredible Jessica Papineau, visionary founder of CSJ Styling, to uncover the story behind her mission of helping women rise into the most confident version of themselves.

From her earliest days, fashion wasn’t just clothing,it was her lifeline. Growing up in difficult conditions, style became a way for Jessica to express hope, resilience, and possibility. That thread carried her i...

Comfort feels safe, but it’s quietly dividing us. When we refuse to get uncomfortable, when we won’t sit down across from one another and have honest conversations, we lose the chance to really hear, understand, and grow together. Instead, we cling to the sound bites, highlight reels, and media clips that keep us in our corners.

In this episode, I dive into why the solution isn’t “out there” in the noise...it’s within us. It’s in ch...

There comes a moment when the noise quiets down. The house feels different, the roles you’ve held for years start to shift, and you find yourself looking in the mirror wondering… Who am I now?

In today’s episode, I’m opening up about that tender season of life where the busyness fades and what’s left is an awareness of yourself — sometimes for the first time in decades. It can feel lonely. It can feel strange. And yet, this is often...

I had a pleasure of sitting down with Sarah Fui, Sarah is a licensed trauma therapist transitioned to life and business coach. She helps multi passionate entrepreneurs and creatives gain clarity, trust their intuition and overcome self-sabotaging patterns so that they can step into their calling. Aside from being a homeschooling mama of five children, she is also a singer/songwriter, keynote speaker, and host of the Renaissance Ach...