Parenting: Raising Resilient, Healthy Adults

Just for YOU, we’ve been busy interviewing some of leading experts on parenting. Because we all want to raise resilient, healthy adults. Basically, the kind of confident, compassionate adult children we want to hang out with later.   On a Personal Note If...

Conversation Skills: Want to Reboot Our Culture Together?

“Cathy, you don’t have the credentials to write a marriage book.” If I heard it once, I heard it dozens of times as I showed publishers my manuscript. Okay, so what credentials do I have? Conversations skills, that’s for sure! Yep, I have a degree in journalism from...

Hot Topics: What We Don’t Talk About in Church

When we started Fireside Talk Radio, almost immediately we knew we wanted to talk about the stuff nobody talks about in church. Really Hot Topics. Too hot to touch.  Or maybe we talk about the counterculture stuff. The kind of stuff we say about entrepreneurship...

Family & Culture: Changing our Culture One Conversation at a Time!

Would I have enough blogs to prove we’re serious about changing the culture one conversation, one family, at a time? You bet! Culture & Family are regular themes on Fireside Talk Radio, as it turns out. Phew! Family & Culture Family and culture are closely...

Rebellious Teenagers: Soothing the Hearts of Teens

So, this is what happens when you let your co-host read the intro. She changes the title of the episode! And here I thought we were talking about rebellious teenagers! Silly me! My mom and I with Anna and her new baby girl. Mom did not deserve a rebellious teenager....

Better Definitions: Change the Culture One Word at a Time!

Anna and I love reclaiming words that get abused in our culture. Take for instance, conservative, moderate, liberal. Gradually, better definitions developed into an obsession with us. Read a few in our Better Definitions Dictionary and you’ll instantly see why....