Glory & Grit is a faith-based podcast where honest conversations meet real-life faith. Through powerful testimonies, thoughtful reflection, and encouragement rooted in truth, host Stephanie invites listeners to explore what it looks like to trust God through seasons of waiting, working, and winning.
Each episode shares stories of perseverance, spiritual growth, and the quiet ways God reveals His glory in the middle of life’s hardest moments. Whether you're walking through uncertainty, rebuilding after loss, or simply trying to hold onto faith when life doesn’t go as planned, this space is for you.
Glory & Grit : S2E11 - When God Prepares Your Heart for What You Cannot See
What if God begins healing your heart before you understand why?
Amy Eaton loved her larger-than-life, free-spirited father. But beneath that love was a quiet ache: when his plans changed or he was unavailable, Amy often received a deeper message that she was not chosen and did not matter.
Through therapy, prayer, and Christian soul care, God began untangling Amy’s worth from another person’s availability. The healing did not require her father to change or apologize. It changed the freedom with which Amy could love him.
Then, while sitting in rocking chairs with her husband, Amy suddenly said, “I don’t have a lot of time left with my dad.” She stopped postponing a daddy-daughter weekend. About fourteen months later, her father received a terminal cancer diagnosis and died fewer than sixty days afterward.
In this tender conversation, Amy shares how God prepared her heart for a season she could not see, met her during her father’s final weeks, and answered a quiet prayer through Psalm 23.
Sometimes God begins healing your heart before you know why—because He is preparing you to love well in a season you cannot yet see.
KEY TOPICS
• A father-daughter relationship that held both real love and hidden hurt
• When another person’s availability becomes tangled with your worth
• Healing that did not require an apology or a changed relationship
• The rocking-chair prompting and the daddy-daughter weekend Amy almost postponed
• Her father’s final weeks, the ICU conversation, and Psalm 23
KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Love and hurt can exist in the same relationship.
• Your worth is not determined by another person’s availability.
• Healing can begin even when the other person does not change.
• The faithful step may come before the explanation.
• Grief and gratitude can coexist, and God’s kindness does not make sorrow less real.
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4 Oct 2026
Glory & Grit : S2E10 - When You Feel Like What You Bring Isn’t Good Enough
Have you ever admired someone so much that your admiration became evidence against you?
In this solo episode, Stephanie shares how comparison crept into church life and convinced her that what she brought would never be as good—or as worthy of space—as what other women offered. But comparison does more than steal joy. It can make us reject an offering before anyone else has a chance to receive it.
Through a handmade card with two crayons, a ride offered to a woman walking, and a coworker helped by one podcast episode, Stephanie explores how small acts can carry meaning farther than we can see. Doctrine and Covenants 64:33 and Matthew 5:13 remind us that great work can proceed from small things—and that you do not have to be the center of attention to change what is happening in the room.
What you bring does not have to look like what someone else brings to be worth offering.
Key topics
When admiration turns into self-disqualification
Why comparison can make us withhold before anyone has a chance to receive
The card, two crayons, and the child who knew he had been noticed
The ride that shaped both the woman receiving help and the son watching
Small things, faithful influence, and a healthier definition of impact
Key takeaways
Someone else’s gift does not cancel yours.
Small does not mean meaningless.
You may not know who is watching or how far an honest act will travel.
Attention is not the only proof that something is making a difference.
One person helped is not a small result. One person is a person.
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27 Sept 2026
Glory & Grit : S2E9 - The Hug That Never Happened
What does forgiveness look like when the hurt was real—and healing doesn't erase what happened?
Mark Winter grew up loving his father and fearing him. Years later, Mark was a pastor preaching about grace and forgiveness while still carrying wounds from the little boy who had learned that making a mistake meant he was a mistake.
Then a prayer meeting Mark thought was about healing his back uncovered something entirely different. He felt a clear prompting to call his father—and almost ignored it.
What followed was an honest conversation, an unexpected reconciliation, a promise of a hug, and a phone call three hours later that changed everything.
In this episode, Mark and Stephanie talk honestly about forgiveness, grief, boundaries, reconciliation, and why restored trust is a process. Mark also shares what his story taught him about wounds that remain, walls we may keep maintaining, and the grace to keep walking even when healing leaves scars.
KEY TOPICS
Childhood wounds that continue into adulthood
The phone call Mark almost didn't make
Forgiveness when reconciliation is no longer possible
Grief and gratitude existing together
Forgiveness, reconciliation, boundaries, and restored trust
The wall Mark's father built—and Mark realized he was helping maintain
Why cracked pillars can still hold up a beautiful life
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Forgiveness does not make abuse acceptable or erase what happened.
Forgiveness can happen without reconciliation.
Boundaries can remain necessary after forgiveness.
Restored trust, when appropriate, takes time.
Healing may leave scars without allowing the wound to keep controlling your life.
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