Unshaken
A community built on faith, strengthened by family, and grounded in resilience, created for people like you. Welcome to the Unshaken Podcast, where you do not have to navigate life alone. Hosted by Tony and Kristy, this show is about living out Faith, Family, and Resilience when life does not go as planned. Each week, we have honest, Christ-centered conversations about Christian marriage, family resilience, disability and faith, caregiving, disability ministry, church inclusion, and the everyday challenges families face. Through biblical truth, real stories, and practical encouragement, we explore what it looks like to love well, stand firm, ask for help, make room for others, and keep following Christ through seasons that are harder than expected. Whether you are an individual, a couple, a parent, a caregiver, a ministry leader, or someone walking through a difficult season, you will find encouragement, practical support, and lasting hope in Christ. We are building a community where real stories matter, struggles are honored, disability does not disqualify anyone from belonging or leadership, and no one has to feel alone. This is Faith. Family. Resilience. This is Unshaken.
Episodes
🎙️ Episode 81: You Are Not a Project: Disability, Discipleship, and Belonging in the Church
What does a church do after accessibility gets someone through the door?
This episode is about disability ministry, church inclusion, and the difference between welcoming disabled Christians and treating them as indispensable members of the body of Christ. Tony and Kristy talk about discipleship, spiritual gifts, belonging, an...
🎙️ Episode 80: When Truth Feels Far Away: Remembering Our Way Home
What do you do when you still know what is true about God, but that truth somehow feels far away?
Life can scatter our attention through stress, grief, busyness, fear, exhaustion, and ordinary responsibility. In this episode, Tony and Kristy talk about spiritual growth through remembrance and the ways God uses Scripture, prayer, Communion, worship, community, and eve...
🎙️ Episode 79: When the People You Love Get What's Left of You
What happens when the people you love most get the version of you everyone else was protected from?
This episode is about Christian marriage and the way work stress, emotional depletion, and outside pressure can spill into home. Tony and Kristy talk honestly about coming home spent, needing transition time, and learning to give your spouse and family tend...
🎙️ Episode 78: When Your Family Can't Keep Saying Yes
What happens when every yes is good, but together they become more than your family can carry?
This episode is about family boundaries for Christians who are trying to serve faithfully without overloading their household. Tony and Kristy talk about ministry commitments, marriage, hidden workload, and the discernment it takes to decide what your family can faithful...
🎙️ Episode 77: When Help Adds to the Burden
What if the help we offer is making a hard season heavier?
Tony and Kristy look at why good intentions can still add work for someone who is already overwhelmed, and how specific, consent-based, reliable support can actually lower the load without taking away dignity or agency.
The goal is not to feel helpful. The goal is for someone else's burden to become lighter.<...
🎙️ Episode 76: When Your Parents Start Needing You
What happens when the people who have always been your touchstone begin needing you in new ways?
Tony and Kristy talk about the slow, sometimes surprising shift that happens as parents age and adult children begin carrying more responsibility. They explore how to offer practical help while still honoring a parent's dignity, agency, privacy, wisdom, and right to parti...
🎙️ Unshaken Conversation: Gary Steffes: When Trying Harder Is Not the Answer
What if the harder you try to live the Christian life, the more exhausted you become?
In this Unshaken Conversation, Tony sits down with his friend Gary Steffes, who leads Pure Encouragement. Gary shares how God met him in the anxiety and performance pressure of his hockey career, transformed the way he understood confidence, and taught him ...
🎙️ Episode 75: When Your Story Is Not Public Property
What happens when a question that seems harmless starts to feel exhausting? How do we balance grace for people who are trying to learn with the right to protect our own story?
In this episode of Unshaken Podcast, Tony and Kristy talk about questions, privacy, agency, and dignity through the lens of faith, family, resilience, disability, and real life.
They ...
🎙️ Episode 74: What If the Strongest Christian in the Room Needs Help?
What if the strongest Christian in the room is not the person who needs the least?
Tony flies solo for an honest look at how Christians define strength, dependence, weakness, and calling. Drawing from 2 Corinthians 12, 1 Corinthians 1, Mark 10, 2 Corinthians 4, and Hebrews 4, he asks whether our picture of strength has been shaped more by self-sufficiency than by...
🎙️ Episode 73: When School Feels Impossible: What Your Child May Be Trying to Tell You
What if the morning meltdown is not the problem, but a clue to something your child cannot yet explain?
Tony and Kristy talk through the mornings when a child is crying, shutting down, bargaining, complaining of a stomachache, or simply saying they cannot go to school. Instead of treating the refusal as the whole problem, they look for what may be...
🎙️ Episode 72: Make Room Without Keeping Score
Who do you invite when there is nothing in it for you?
Tony and Kristy open Luke 14:12-24 and confront the hidden economy that can turn hospitality into a quiet exchange. They ask what it means to invite people because they belong, especially when disability, age, transportation, food needs, sensory needs, or accessibility make welcome cost more than convenience.
Christ does not confuse ...
🎙️ Episode 71: Are You Waiting for Wisdom or Holding On to Control?
Are you still gathering wisdom, or has preparation become a safer way to avoid the step God has already made clear?
Tony and Kristy talk honestly about procrastination, uncertain outcomes, ADHD initiation, and the temptation to wait for perfect conditions. Grounded in Ecclesiastes 11, they examine the difference between wise planning and using responsibility, ...
🎙️ Unshaken Conversation: Cody Watson: When the Faith You Preach Becomes the Faith You Need
What happens when the truths you have taught for years become the only place left to stand?
Tony sits down with pastor, father, and disability advocate Cody Watson to talk about the medical crisis that changed his family, raising two sons with disabilities, and the moment theology stopped being something he studied and became something ...
🎙️ Episode 70: Can I Fall Apart Here? What Love Requires When Someone Is Hurting
What does someone need from us when their pain cannot be explained, fixed, or hurried away?
Tony and Kristy talk about the pressure to say something useful when someone is hurting, how well-meant words can protect us from discomfort instead of caring for them, and what it looks like to offer steady, trustworthy presence.
Sometimes the safest place love c...
🎙️ Episode 69: Your Child Doesn't Have to Fit In to Belong
Has your child ever wanted friendship but seemed unable to find a place where they truly fit?
In this episode, Tony and Kristy talk honestly about children who feel left out, struggle to make friends, or experience belonging differently because of disability, personality, communication, fear of rejection, or simply not having found the right room yet. They share what they le...
🎙️ Episode 68: When One Child Needs More: Is There Still Enough Love for Me?
When one child needs more time, attention, care, or support, how do parents help every child know they are still loved, seen, and secure?
Tony and Kristy talk about the tension families feel when one child's needs are louder or more urgent, whether because of a new baby, disability, chronic illness, therapy appointments, mental health struggles, aging paren...
🎙️ Episode 67: Who Gets a Front Row Seat?: Choosing What Shapes Your Life
What is shaping you right now, and have you given it permission to sit that close?
In this episode of Unshaken, Tony and Kristy talk about the voices, environments, habits, relationships, and everyday inputs that quietly shape who we are becoming. From childhood warnings about good company to adult realities like coworkers, family culture, church friends...
🎙️ Episode 66: Leading Your Home Without Controlling It
What does steady, Christlike leadership look like in real family life?
In this solo episode, Tony reflects on Father's Day, spiritual leadership, and what it means to help build a home that is more faithful, peaceful, courageous, resilient, and rooted in Christ.
A title does not make a man trustworthy, faithfulness does.
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🎙️ Episode 65: What Makes a Family Feel Like Family: The Small Things That Say You Belong
What makes a family feel like family when the ordinary routines, rituals, and values are easy to overlook?
In this episode, Tony and Kristy talk about family culture, the quiet and loud patterns that shape a home, and what they have been learning as their households have come together in a new season.
The small things are not small when th...
🎙️ Episode 64: When You Need Community but Don’t Have the Energy
What do you do when you deeply want Christian community, but the process of getting there feels exhausting?
In this episode, Tony and Kristy talk honestly about the tension many people carry in church life: wanting to be known, needing community, and still feeling worn out by hallway conversations, small group sign-ups, uncertainty, anxiety, caregiving demands, d...
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