Unshaken

🎙️ Episode 43: Building Something Beautiful: Learning to Dream With God

What if this year isn’t about fixing yourself or chasing a list of goals, but about walking closely with God and building something beautiful with Him?

God is not asking you to perform. He is inviting you to walk with Him.
 
Many of us step into a new year already tired, already feeling behind, and already carrying pressure to pro...

🎙️ Episode 42: Learning to Discern: When to React, and When to Wait

Have you ever walked away from a moment wishing you had responded differently? Or felt the pressure to act immediately when something in you said to wait?

Discernment isn’t about having everything figured out. It’s about learning how to respond wisely when life is messy, emotions are loud, and clarity feels just out of reach.

Discern...

🎙️ Episode 41: Celebrating What’s Right: Creating a Home Where People Can Breathe
 

What if the tone of your home could change without fixing everything first?
 
Encouragement doesn’t happen by accident.
 
Most homes don’t drift toward encouragement. They drift toward efficiency, silence, or criticism, not because people don’t care, but because life is heavy and everyone is tired.
 
In this episode, Tony...

🎙️ Episode 40: What If It All Works Out?: Kingdom Optimism for Anxious Days

What if your first instinct did not have to be, "What if it all goes wrong?"

Hope is not denial. It is trust in the God who is already at work.

Today, Tony and Kristy talk about what they call kingdom optimism. Not hype. Not toxic positivity. Just a steady decision to believe God is present, active, and capable, even when the outcome is still unknow...

🎙️ Episode 39: Ready, Not Rushed: Wearing the Armor of God in Busy Seasons

What does it look like to stay spiritually grounded when life feels loud, crowded, and nonstop?

There are seasons when the calendar fills faster than our hearts can keep up. Expectations stack. Responsibilities pile on. And without meaning to, our relationship with God can start to feel like something we squeeze in instead of something...

🎙️ Episode 38: Start Small, Trust Deep: How God Grows What We Can’t Yet See

What if the smallest step you take this week ends up opening a door you can’t even imagine today?

God often does His deepest work long before we can see any evidence of it.

Many of us feel the pull to grow or change, but we hesitate because the beginning feels too small, too quiet, too uncertain. In this conversation, Tony and Kr...

🎙️ Episode 37: The Good You Bring: Remembering Who God Says You Are

Why is it so easy to name what we don’t like about ourselves, yet so hard to see the good God placed in us?

Sometimes the hardest battle is believing what God already says is true.

In this episode, Tony and Kristy sit down for a quiet and honest conversation about identity, purpose, and the way God sees His children. We talk about why our minds run so quickly toward ...

🎙️ Episode 36: You Were Never Accidental: God’s Hand in Every Chapter

What if your story has never once been out of God’s sight?

God has been intentional with you from the beginning and he is still intentional today.

This week Tony and Kristy step into the honest places where life feels unclear, heavy, or confusing. They open the door on their own beginnings, their own hard chapters, and the moments God used to steady them. It is a T...

🎙️ Episode 35: Traveling With Disabilities: Stress-Saving Hacks for the Holidays

Holiday travel can feel overwhelming for any family, but when disability is part of the story the pressure can hit a little harder. This week Tony and Kristy sit down to share the travel rhythms that have helped their family stay steady, even on the busiest days of the season.

You are not behind and you are not failing. There are simple ways to bring pe...

🎙️ Episode 34: Grace at the Table: Loving Family Through Hard Conversations

When love meets misunderstanding, how do you keep peace without losing your voice?

There are moments when family gatherings carry more tension than joy, when you’re trying to honor everyone and still protect the ones God has placed in your care. In this episode, Tony and Kristy open up about the grace it takes to have hard but healing conversations with exte...

🎙️ Episode 33: Doing Life with God: Finding Faithfulness in the Everyday 

How do you build a daily rhythm with God when your mind doesn’t run on schedules?

For Tony and Kristy, faith has never been about perfect streaks or structured routines, it’s about presence. This conversation opens with honesty about dry seasons, neurodiversity, and the guilt that creeps in when devotion feels inconsistent. Together, they remind us that God do...

🎙️ Episode 32: Gratitude: The Quiet Way We Fight Back

Some days everything hits at once, the spilled drink, the hard call, the flat tire, the ache of transition. Gratitude feels impossible, almost tone-deaf to how heavy life really is. But what if gratitude isn’t pretending everything’s fine? What if it’s standing in quiet defiance against the things trying to steal your joy?

Gratitude isn’t denial. It’s resistance.

In this episode, ...

🎙️ Episode 31: Every Burden Isn’t Yours: Putting Down What God Didn’t Give You

Have you ever reached a point where you’re doing everything for everyone and still feeling like you’re failing anyway?

Sometimes faithfulness isn’t saying yes to more, it’s finally putting something down.

In this solo episode, Kristy opens up about a season where life was packed too tight—work, school, moving, parenting transitions, emotional pressure, and...

🎙️ Episode 30: Fly Loose: Finding Peace in Letting Go

What if the peace you’ve been fighting for isn’t found in holding tighter, but in loosening your grip?

Peace begins where control ends.

In this funny, tender, and deeply honest episode, Tony and Kristy talk about the illusion of control and how clinging to it often costs us the calm we crave. From a McDonald’s Happy Meal flying out the window to the everyday pressures of parenting...

🎙️ Episode 29: Created in God’s Image: How the Bible Sees Disability

What does it really mean to be fearfully and wonderfully made?

Your value was established in creation, it’s not up for negotiation.

In this powerful conversation, Tony and Kristy open the first part of their How the Bible Speaks to Disability series by returning to the very beginning—Genesis 1. Together they explore what it means that every person bears God’s image,...

🎙️ Episode 28: Your Story Matters: Ordinary, Messy, and Still Unfinished

Have you ever wondered if your story is too ordinary—or maybe too messy, to matter?

God doesn’t waste chapters, He redeems them.

In this heartfelt conversation, Tony and Kristy open up about why every story carries weight, even when it feels small, broken, or unfinished. From classroom moments and invisible friendships to their own “dark ages” of dating, they sh...

🎙️ Episode 27: We Weren’t Meant to Walk Alone: Finding Strength in Fellowship

What happens when we stop carrying our burdens in silence and step into the gift of community?

You don’t have to carry what God meant for others to help you lift.

In this encouraging conversation, Tony and Kristy share how a marriage retreat turned into more than just time away—it became a reminder that God designed us for fellowship. From laughter with old...

🎙️ Episode 26: Burn the Ships: Six Months of Unshaken and What’s Ahead

What does it really look like to go all in when God gives you a vision?

Obedience always costs something, but it’s never wasted.

In this milestone episode, Tony and Kristy pause to reflect on six months of Unshaken—not to count numbers, but to remember God’s faithfulness. From a green binder full of handwritten devotionals to a lightning-bolt vision for Unshaken C...

🎙️ Episode 25: When You Don’t Feel Enough: You’re Not God’s Plan B

Ever feel like you’re falling short—as a spouse, a parent, a friend, or even in your faith? Those moments of not enough can cut deep, leaving you wondering if God is disappointed or if you’ve somehow missed His plan.

God never called you His backup plan, He called you His masterpiece.

In this episode, Tony and Kristy open up about their own recent struggles—long night...