Recent Podcast Episodes

Nikki and Erin talk about what they expect to find around their holiday tables in this year when our communities feel so divided and emotions are high. They talk about things they will avoid and rituals that give them strength. They mention the Holderness family...

This is the second part of our conversation with writer Danielle Slaughter in which she shares what she told her young son about understanding his racial identity. Nikki, Erin, and Danielle talk about how we make space for tough conversations across racial divides and...

Special guest Danielle Slaughter of Mamademics shares her story of talking to her son about race in her award winning essay “Mommy, I Black.” In this honest conversation about the ways we understand race, Danielle shares her new course about exposing the three P’s:...

The Holy Women Icons Project lifts up "the stories of revolutionary women who are too often overlooked in society or in religious spheres." Angela Yarber talks with us about how we might "draw inspiration from the lives of these women as I canonize them into the...

In this episode, Erin and Nikki are continue to discuss what #muchmore is all about. They tell stories about the amazing women they know and what #muchmore means to them. They wonder what it means to engage the world more fully. Erin and Nikki want you to join them as...

Erin and Nikki are so excited to be back for season two when they will talk about all the ways we are #muchmore than we realize. This duo talks about their summers adventures from bike riding to misplacing their mother. They also discuss which one of them has a...

A few weeks ago, Nikki attended the Wild Good Festival in Hot Springs, NC. It's a retreat she describes as Woodstock for progressive Christians. The experience has given Nikki and Erin an opportunity to talk about wandering and gathering with those we can learn from....

Nikki and Erin are delighted to welcome the very special guest Nicki Salcedo. An Atlanta native, Nicki is a novelist, blogger, and a working mom. She writes a regular column called Intersections at Decaturish.com and has authored a romance-suspense novel, All...

Today we are talking about what it means to find home and how home is what we all really want to find at the end of the day. We were inspired by Hands Free Mama after she was reminded that when students go to middle school, their biggest concern on the first day of...

Like it or not, the Church has made us who we are. In honor of Pentecost Sunday, the “birthday” of the Church, Nikki and Erin talk about their experiences of church from childhood until now.  They sometimes cringe but often celebrate the fact that church is part of...

We’re talking about Mother’s Day. The cards we want to send this year acknowledge the fact that Mother’s day brings delight, pain, grief, and frustration for many of our friends. We name the fierce love of mothers that can change the world. We talk about how Mother’s...

Let's talk about what it means to grow old well. In this episode, Nikki and Erin are inspired to talk about what it really means to age by this video put out by the AARP. They talk about how people of all ages can learn from one another when we all realize the value...

(Editor's note: the initial audio file ended prematurely, so we have uploaded a replacement file. Sorry for the duplication!). Let's talk about how sometimes we don't get what the other person is talking about. Communicating and doing life with other people can mean...

Looking at all we have going on in our lives, we sometimes use the word balance. But do we really want balance or do we need rhythm? Erin and Nikki talk about the difference between failing at balance and dancing to the rhythms of life as inspired by this wonderful...

Check out the latest episode where Erin and Nikki talk about RBF, Sandi Patty, and the merits of just being who you are. Nikki also shares when it might be ok to tell her daughter it's ok to punch someone in the throat as she references one of her favorite blogs,...

This week we have been experiencing holy week as we prepare for Easter. In this episode Erin and Nikki talk in particular about what Holy Saturday has meant to them. They introduce us to Jerusalem Greer and Nikki Giovanni as they talk about what it looks like to live...

Nikki and Erin: definitely not fans of caves or isolation. So, they respond to a fantastic collection of art that happened because of one man's work alone, and beneath the surface. What work happens beneath the surface and what can happen when we do that...

What do you want to be when you grow up? Erin and Nikki talk about the answers we expect when we ask that question, to our children and ourselves. They wonder about what it means to play the music that is still within you, thinking of how Anthony Hopkins released an...

Friendship is important. Yet, as our lives get busier and crazier, maintaining those friendships is so important. In this episode, Erin and Nikki are excited to welcome Dawn Camp, author of The Gift of Friendship, to the show. The three dish about the beauty of...

We love the idea of #askhermore. So we decided to ask each other some really great, probing questions and let you enjoy listening to the answers. In this episode we talk about our favorite party ideas, hard lessons we've learned, graffiti, and coyote ugly. We had a...