Podcast

HomePartner With Us 127. Signs of an Untrustworthy Narrator Today’s Out of the Ordinary Book: All Fall Down by Ally Carter Book 1 in the Embassy Row series How the Books We Read Help Us Better Understand the Lives we Lead: Lisa-Jo is suspicious of her own point of view and here is why Christie…

HomePartner With Us 126. Understanding the Choices We’ve Made Today’s Out of the Ordinary Book: Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, by Alexander McCall Smith What this story teaches about your story: How to understand the choices we’ve made What to do when life feels like it’s narrowing in, rather than widening out The power of choosing what…

HomePartner With Us 125. Navigating through Hard Headlines Today’s Out of the Ordinary Book: A Prayer for Orion: A Son’s Addiction and a Mother’s Love, by Katherine James Key Conversation Points: Why Lisa-Jo was jealous of a mother living through every parent’s worst nightmare? Whether Lisa-Jo or Christie tends to be the more judgey and…

HomePartner With Us 124. Can You Trust Us? INTRODUCING: Out of the Ordinary BOOKS! Where we believe that the books we read help us better understand the lives we lead. Every week we will share an out of the ordinary book and how it can help you make sense of your story too. These aren’t…

HomePartner With Us 123. Something New Is Coming! This is a story about something new growing out of the podcast. We’re entering our third season of The Out of the Ordinary Podcast. Christie and Lisa-Jo have poured out hundreds of stories grown out of the soil of their ordinary lives. Today they share about how…

HomePartner With Us 122. A few of our favorite SPRING things! This is a story about a spring tradition. With each new change of the seasons, it’s become our tradition to record a new intro to celebrate what we love about that particular turn of the earth. So come March 20 we had to share…

HomePartner With Us 121. REUNITED (and it feels so good!) This is a story about finally being back in the same place one year later! This podcast has always been rooted in a specific place, Christie’s 100 year old farmhouse, Maplehurst. It’s where all the episodes have been recorded in person until 2020 when everything…

HomePartner With Us 120. A Pandemic Year in Review This is a story about crossing the line in the sand, the threshold we’ve all stepped over that now marks one full year of pandemic life. This is the third and final installment of our short “Re-entry” series. Here is how two storytellers unpack the complicated…

HomePartner With Us 119. What Travel Teaches Us About Re-Entry This is a story about what being suspended with toddlers at 30,000 feet teaches you about reentry. And how road trips across states can surprise you into thinking about where you best belong. As the world slowly steps back into March and crosses the one year…

HomePartner With Us 118. How Storytellers Process Re-Entry This is a story about a mom sitting in her car staring into space in the school parking lot surprised by how badly she just needed to sit and cry for a moment. As the world slowly steps back into March and crosses the one year mark…