Embark on an inspirational journey with guests from diverse backgrounds, sharing stories of triumph, resilience, and faith, reiterating the common human longing for belonging. From dreamers to doers, believers to seekers, uncover the extraordinary in ordinary moments and the purpose within every life. Open your heart, mind, and ears to resonate with stories reminding you of your significance, belonging, and purpose. Welcome home to 'Hear Where You Belong'.
Hear Where You Belong
Claim This Podcastby Dea Irby, THE Belonging Strategist
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104 episodes
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Embark on an inspirational journey with guests from diverse backgrounds, sharing stories of triumph, resilience, and faith, reiterating the common human longing for belonging. From dreamers to doers, believers to seekers, uncover the extraordinary in ordinary moments and the purpose within every life. Open your heart, mind, and ears to resonate with stories reminding you of your significance, belonging, and purpose. Welcome home to 'Hear Where You Belong'.
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Recent Episodes
July 21, 2026
He Spent Years Dreaming of Belonging to the Writing World — Then He Wrote His Way In
<p>What do you do when you have been a lifelong lover of books, a dreamer of worlds, and a quiet carrier of stories — but you are convinced you do not belong among the authors whose work fills your shelves?</p><p>If you are T.A. Thompson, you stop waiting. You sit down at your keyboard. And you write your way in.</p><p>In Episode 102 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast, host Dea Irby sits down with T.A. Thompson — novelist, storyteller, avid reader, and insurance professional by day, world-builder by night. T.A. is the author of The Mark, an adult dystopian novel set in a post-apocalyptic world where a geneticist's dark experiment caused everyone on earth to die around age 22. The oldest person in the world is Alexandra — a 25-year-old lone wolf who does not belong anywhere, and whose journey toward community, accountability, and belonging is the heart of the whole story.</p><p>T.A. opens up about what it felt like to write in isolation for years — just himself and his keyboard, occasionally dragging his daughter in to be his sounding board every fifteen minutes after emailing her a new chapter. 😄 He talks about the terrifying process of beta reading — soul-crushing feedback and all — and how it made the book better. He shares the moment he finally overcame his fear and hit publish on Amazon, and why that step felt like putting his baby out into the world for strangers to judge.</p><p>He also gets honest about anxiety, the struggle to connect in networking rooms, and what it actually felt like to finally have conversations with other authors and realize: I belong here too.</p><p>His favorite quote comes from his own book — spotted by his editor and now the line that stops everyone cold:</p><p>We own our messes and our mistakes. It's how we earn the right to own our victories.</p><p>And his parting word is one that hits differently when you have just spent time in a world where nobody lives past 25:</p><p>Cherish every moment. Cherish the people you have. Because it doesn't last forever.</p><p>This episode is for every dreamer who has a story inside them and has not yet found the courage to put it on the page. 💛</p><p>📚 Find The Mark by T.A. Thompson on Amazon now 📖 Arcing and Liber Animarum also available</p><p>#HearWhereYouBelong, #YouBelong, #TAThompson, #TheMarkNovel, #AdultDystopian, #SelfPublishedAuthor, #WriteYourWayIn, #WeOwnOurMesses, #BelongingThroughStorytelling, #CherrishEveryMoment, #AuthorCommunity, #KDPAmazon, #NewEpisode, #ChristianPodcast, #ImaginationOpensDooors, #DystopianFiction, #BelongingMatters, #FirstTimeAuthor, #StorytellerPodcast, #OwnYourVictories</p>
July 14, 2026
Her Late Grandmother Showed Up in a Dream at 2 AM and Said: Write Our Story
<p>What would you do if your late grandmother showed up in a dream at 2 AM — not fuzzy, not vague, but fully present, her voice, her face — and looked you in the eye and said: write our story?</p><p>Brigid Kennedy got up, made a pot of coffee, and started writing.</p><p>In Episode 101 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast, host Dea Irby sits down with Brigid Kennedy — author, speaker, and violin teacher — whose journey into writing began with a calling she never expected and felt completely unqualified to answer. What started as one woman's decision to honor her family's history became Lost: The Lost City of Incan Gold — a sweeping historical fantasy series inspired by her real-life ancestors. Her great-grandfather was an Irish treasure hunter who married a woman in Peru in 1910 before disappearing into the Amazon. He never came back. And for generations, the wound of that unanswered question fractured everything.</p><p>Until Brigid wrote the ending her family never got.</p><p>In this episode, Brigid opens up about watching her family's history slip through the fingers of every generation — the unlabeled photographs, the half-remembered stories, the aunts and uncles who almost had the right name but couldn't quite remember. She shares what happened when she hit the same wall her family always hit — the moment her great-grandfather vanished — and how her grandmother kept pushing her through it. She talks about becoming the first Kennedy to return to Ireland since her great-grandfather left, standing on the cobblestones he ran on as a boy and feeling the full weight of it. She reveals the treasure her family actually found — now sitting in the Museum of Gold in Lima, Peru. And she shares why a New York Times bestseller told her: you didn't write fantasy. You wrote a reclamation.</p><p>She also talks about the violin discipline that carried her through six to eight hours of daily writing, the editor disaster that made her book stronger, and the YouTube series where she reads every chapter herself — complete with the real family photographs.</p><p>Her favorite quote, written right on the cover of her book, is the one that will stop you in your tracks:</p><p>The fates do not punish. They prepare.</p><p>This episode is for everyone who has a calling they have been ignoring. For every woman who feels guilty taking time for herself. And for anyone who has ever felt lost — without history, without roots, without the ending the story deserved.</p><p>It's not about finding the time. It's about recognizing what matters enough to make the time. 💛</p><p>📚 Find Lost: The Lost City of Incan Gold and all of Brigid's content at <strong>BrigidKennedyBooks</strong> on all platforms 🎬 Watch An Author's Dream on her YouTube channel</p><p>#HearWhereYouBelong, #YouBelong, #BrigidKennedy, #LostCityOfIncanGold, #TheFatesDoNotPunish, #FamilyReclamation, #AncestralHealing, #HistoricalFantasy, #WriteOurStory, #AnAuthorsDream, #IrishPeruvianHeritage, #GrandmothersDream, #TreasureHunterBlood, #NewEpisode, #ChristianPodcast, #BelongingThroughRoots, #FamilyLegacy, #AnswerTheCalling, #MakeTheTime, #YouAreNotLost</p>
July 7, 2026
"She Sold Everything, Packed 4 Kids on a Bus, and Found Out Who She Really Was
<p>What if the life you were trying so hard to fit into was never actually yours to begin with?</p><p>That is the question Jessica DeYoung had to answer when she and her family sold everything, packed four kids and a dog onto a 40-foot motorcoach they call Abbey the Adventure Bus, and hit the road full-time across America. Four and a half years. 42 states. Thousands of miles. And one woman finally figuring out who she actually is — without the tight pants, the lipstick collection, and the convenience friends.</p><p>In Episode 100 — yes, ONE HUNDRED! — of Hear Where You Belong Podcast, host Dea Irby sits down with Jessica DeYoung, author, speaker, founder of the Made Whole Movement, and host of the Perspectives into Practice Podcast. Jessica is passionate about helping women move beyond performance, people-pleasing, and hiding parts of their story so they can embrace the freedom, wholeness, and purpose God has for them.</p><p>And in this conversation, she does exactly that — with refreshing honesty, contagious joy, and more than a few laugh-out-loud moments.</p><p>In this episode, Jessica opens up about spending years trying to be everything everyone else needed her to be — dressing the part, talking the part, performing the part — only to discover that the circle closed right up the moment she was no longer convenient. She talks about what God stripped away when she got on the road, and what He replaced it with. She shares the story of Bubble Man on the beach — a retired man who blows bubbles and shares Jesus, and who changed the way Jessica sees what belonging can look like. She gets into the Backroads Bar — her speakeasy-style hobby bar that somehow became one of the most powerful belonging communities she has ever created. And she unpacks the quote she lives by, straight from her own Holy Spirit downloads:</p><p>God rarely asks us to have it all figured out. He's usually just asking us to take the next faithful step.</p><p>This is Episode 100. And it is everything that number deserves — honest, joyful, faith-filled, and full of the reminder that you do not have to earn love. You are already fully known. You are already fully loved.</p><p>Just say yes. 💛</p><p><br></p><p>Find Jessica at the Made Whole Movement and Adventures on Purpose 🎙️ Listen to the Perspectives into Practice Podcast wherever you get your podcasts</p><p></p><p>#HearWhereYouBelong, #YouBelong, #Episode100, #JessicaDeYoung, #MadeWholeMovement, #AdventuresOnPurpose, #AbbeTheAdventureBus, #FullTimeTravel, #JustSayYes, #TakeTheNextFaithfulStep, #BelongingStartsWithGod, #FullyKnownFullyLoved, #StopStriving, #NewEpisode, #ChristianPodcast, #WomensMinistry, #PerspectivesIntoPractice, #NomadFamily, #BelongingMatters, #Milestone100</p>
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