Well-Made Woman with Mandy Penn

Send us Fan Mail When was the last time you came to God without an agenda and simply made room to listen? Lately, I’ve been feeling a growing desire to slow down, unplug, and spend more intentional time with the Lord. As a mom, a full-time working woman, and someone who has spent years serving in ministry, I know how easy it is to fill every available moment. So I’ve decided to take a 40-day social media fast and spend that time praying, reading Scripture, and journaling. In this episode of W...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when someone else’s insecurity starts affecting the way they treat you? Maybe it’s the coworker who turns everything into a competition. The friend who has a hard time celebrating you. The family member who seems more comfortable with an older version of you. Or maybe it’s happening in your relationship, and you’ve slowly become responsible for managing someone else’s emotions, jealousy, reactions, or anger. In this episode of Well-Made Woman, we’re talking about...

Send us Fan Mail There are parts of our stories we’re comfortable telling. And then there are the parts we hope nobody ever asks about. The things we’ve done. The things that have been done to us. The seasons we’re not proud of. The mistakes we made. The things we believed about ourselves for far too long. Those are usually the parts shame tells us to keep quiet. But I’ve learned that sometimes the story you’re most hesitant to tell is the one that makes someone else finally say, “Me too. I t...

Send us Fan Mail What if the reason you keep questioning what God is calling you to do has less to do with whether you’re qualified and more to do with who you’ve given authority to? Maybe someone told you that you weren’t ready. That you didn’t have enough experience. That you weren’t the right person. Maybe someone made you feel like you didn’t belong in the room at all. Or maybe no one had to say it out loud. Maybe comparison did it for you. You looked around and decided someone else was m...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the words that shape us most are the ones spoken years ago. Recently, I opened a few storage bins I had packed before college, filled with pictures, awards, letters, newspaper clippings, and pieces of a life I hadn’t looked at in years. What I expected to be a simple trip down memory lane became something much deeper. It made me think about the voices we carry with us. Some people speak words that tear us down. Others see something in us before we can see it in ours...