Beyond Broke and Hungry is a podcast about building a healthy life that goes deeper than diets, workouts, or productivity hacks.
Host Dara Carlisle shares honest conversations about wellness, faith, and navigating real life as a wife, entrepreneur, and woman pursuing growth.
From practical habits and mindset shifts to trusting God through seasons of change, this podcast is about creating a life that feels strong, balanced, and full.
Because true wellness isn’t just about what you eat or how you train.
It’s about how you live.
Healthy living. Real faith. Full life.
Mat Carriers: What Makes a Friendship Truly Christ-Centered [E81]
In this solo episode, Dara reflects on a recent conversation with a longtime friend that reminded her how much healthy friendships shape our faith, growth, and everyday resilience.
She unpacks the difference between friendships built on proximity and frequency versus friendships built on true intimacy and trust, and shares honest reflections on toxic dynamics she's had to walk away from over the years.
Dara talks through what it looks like to give friends grace as life gets busier and seasons shift — marriage, kids, career changes — without losing the connection.
She also digs into why Christ-centered friendships matter so deeply to her: friends who pray with you, tell you the truth even when it's hard, and point you back to God instead of just telling you what you want to hear.
Drawing on Proverbs 27:17 and the story of the friends who carried a paralyzed man to Jesus, Dara challenges listeners to ask not just what they need from their friendships, but what fruit they're producing in return.
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14 Aug 2026
When the Routine Falls Apart (And Why That's Okay) [E80]
Dara is back on camera (reluctantly) for this solo episode, closing out the summer series with an honest check-in on what happens when a good routine falls apart. Her husband's new job schedule upended the quiet-time ritual she'd built her mornings around, and instead of forcing it back, she talks through what she learned about meeting God wherever she actually is — not in some elaborate version of devotion, but in a fifteen-minute cup of coffee on the couch.
She also gets into the six months it's taken to feel like herself again post-wedding, why she's suddenly become a napper after a lifetime of not being able to sit still, and the idea that rest is less about productivity and more about trust — trusting that the blessings in her life are being handled well enough to actually stop for a minute.
It's a reminder that changing seasons don't call for a whole new system. Sometimes it's just picking the Bible back up, or talking out loud in the car. Three questions close out the episode for anyone wanting to sit with their own season of transition.
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7 Aug 2026
Operation Take Back the Summer: What Worked, What Didn't & What I'm Taking Into Fall | Ep. 79 (Summer Series)
Ever feel like summer slipped away before it was actually enjoyed?
Dara closes out "Operation Take Back the Summer" and the summer series with an honest look at how the season actually went.
This episode covers 5 things:
What "taking back the summer" really meant (hint: it was never about taking the whole summer off)
The wins — more beach time, flexible movement, mindful travel, and real progress paying down wedding debt
What didn't work — an overloaded calendar, not enough empty space, and turning fun into another goal
What Dara's changing before next summer
What's coming with her into fall
She's also sharing why a four-hour beach day with her friend Emma and her daughter is a memory she'll never forget — and why Doug (who doesn't even like the beach) sticking around for an hour and a half meant so much to her.
If this episode encourages you, share it with a friend who needs to hear it today.
📖 Ecclesiastes 3:1 (ESV) — "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven."
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