🎙️ Episode 71: Are You Waiting for Wisdom or Holding On to Control? Are you still gathering wisdom, or has preparation become a safer way to avoid the step God has already made clear? Tony and Kristy talk honestly about procrastination, uncertain outcomes, ADHD initiation, and the temptation to wait for perfect conditions. Grounded in Ecclesiastes 11, they examine the difference between wise planning and using responsibility, research, or readiness to protect ourselves from risk. ...
Jul 28
35 min
🎙️ Unshaken Conversation: Cody Watson: When the Faith You Preach Becomes the Faith You Need What happens when the truths you have taught for years become the only place left to stand? Tony sits down with pastor, father, and disability advocate Cody Watson to talk about the medical crisis that changed his family, raising two sons with disabilities, and the moment theology stopped being something he studied and became something he had to live. Faith becomes more than a doctrine when it ha...
Jul 25
48 min
🎙️ Episode 70: Can I Fall Apart Here? What Love Requires When Someone Is Hurting What does someone need from us when their pain cannot be explained, fixed, or hurried away? Tony and Kristy talk about the pressure to say something useful when someone is hurting, how well-meant words can protect us from discomfort instead of caring for them, and what it looks like to offer steady, trustworthy presence. Sometimes the safest place love can create is one where a hurting person no longer has to hol...
Jul 21
36 min
🎙️ Episode 69: Your Child Doesn't Have to Fit In to Belong Has your child ever wanted friendship but seemed unable to find a place where they truly fit? In this episode, Tony and Kristy talk honestly about children who feel left out, struggle to make friends, or experience belonging differently because of disability, personality, communication, fear of rejection, or simply not having found the right room yet. They share what they learned from their own children, Tony's experience growing up w...
Jul 14
37 min
🎙️ Episode 68: When One Child Needs More: Is There Still Enough Love for Me? When one child needs more time, attention, care, or support, how do parents help every child know they are still loved, seen, and secure? Tony and Kristy talk about the tension families feel when one child's needs are louder or more urgent, whether because of a new baby, disability, chronic illness, therapy appointments, mental health struggles, aging parents, or another hard season. Love can move toward the greatest...
Jul 7
37 min
🎙️ Episode 67: Who Gets a Front Row Seat?: Choosing What Shapes Your Life What is shaping you right now, and have you given it permission to sit that close? In this episode of Unshaken, Tony and Kristy talk about the voices, environments, habits, relationships, and everyday inputs that quietly shape who we are becoming. From childhood warnings about good company to adult realities like coworkers, family culture, church friends, social media, and familiar places that may not be healthy, ...
Jun 30
39 min
🎙️ Episode 66: Leading Your Home Without Controlling It What does steady, Christlike leadership look like in real family life? In this solo episode, Tony reflects on Father's Day, spiritual leadership, and what it means to help build a home that is more faithful, peaceful, courageous, resilient, and rooted in Christ. A title does not make a man trustworthy, faithfulness does. 🔵 For Deeper Study: https://unshakenpodcast.org/leading-your-home-without-controlling-it/ From Joshu...
Jun 23
29 min
🎙️ Episode 65: What Makes a Family Feel Like Family: The Small Things That Say You Belong What makes a family feel like family when the ordinary routines, rituals, and values are easy to overlook? In this episode, Tony and Kristy talk about family culture, the quiet and loud patterns that shape a home, and what they have been learning as their households have come together in a new season. The small things are not small when they keep telling someone, "You belong here." 🔵 For Deeper Stu...
Jun 16
33 min
🎙️ Episode 64: When You Need Community but Don’t Have the Energy What do you do when you deeply want Christian community, but the process of getting there feels exhausting? In this episode, Tony and Kristy talk honestly about the tension many people carry in church life: wanting to be known, needing community, and still feeling worn out by hallway conversations, small group sign-ups, uncertainty, anxiety, caregiving demands, disability-related barriers, grief, or simply a low social battery. ...
Jun 9
43 min
🎙️ Episode 63: When Your Home Feels Like an Airport: A Busy Home Can Still Be Gentle What happens when your home starts feeling less like a refuge and more like a terminal, with everyone rushing to the next gate? In this episode, Tony and Kristy talk about the pressure busy families carry when schedules, activities, responsibilities, work, school, and constant transitions begin to shape the emotional tone of the home. They share honestly about the difference between healthy structure and emot...
Jun 2
50 min
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