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Hosted by Dea Irby, THE Belonging Strategist · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 107 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'.
Dea Irby, THE Belonging Strategist hosts Hear Where You Belong, a education show with 107 episodes published.
At 14 years old, Tom Vander Well had a vision — standing in a pulpit, hearing God say: you are going to proclaim my word. He just had no idea what that would actually look like. In Episode 106 of Hear Where You Belong Po
What if every seemingly random moment of your life — the teacher who handed you a piece of paper, the girl you met in an ice cream shop, the photography class you never meant to teach — was never random at all? That is w
What happens when God tells you to put the sole of your foot down from one end of America to the other — and you say yes? Rick and Jane McKinney found out. 2,770 miles. Twenty miles a day. Six days a week. Six months. Fr
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? If you are T.A.
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? Brigid Kennedy got up, made a
What if the life you were trying so hard to fit into was never actually yours to begin with? That is the question Jessica DeYoung had to answer when she and her family sold everything, packed four kids and a dog onto a 4
What if the hardest year of your life — the one with the suicidal child, the estranged daughter, the house fire, and the ministry you had to give away — was actually the year God gave you the desire of your heart? That i
You can sit in a room full of people and still feel completely alone. Being included is not the same as belonging — and Dr. Stuart Jones has spent his whole life learning that difference from a brother the world often ov
What do you do when everything around you — the house, the store, the school, the church — belongs to the cotton mill? When your grandfathers started working at age 9? When your daddy quit school in 8th grade because he
What does it take to stop trying to be a duplicate — and finally step into being the original God designed you to be? That is the question Reverend Kevin T. Taylor has been answering his entire life. And in Episode 96 of
What do you do when the thing you feared most actually happens — and then happens again? Kathy Rogers knows. And somehow, impossibly, beautifully — she is not bitter. She is not broken. She is a woman whose faith grew un
What happens when success on paper no longer feels like alignment in real life? That is the question Laura Patac spent years avoiding — and then finally, bravely, answered. Laura is a storyteller, leadership speaker, Gal
What if the most powerful thing you could do for someone wasn't give them your advice, your money, or your time — but help them see who they already are? That's the question at the heart of this conversation, and David A
What if everything you've been striving to become… you already are? The Reverend Ryan Wiksell — Episcopal priest, church planter, and co-author of The Last Seder of James — joins Dea Irby for one of the most theologicall
What if the thing that made you feel like you didn’t fit… was actually proof you were designed to stand out? In Episode 91, I sit down with Elana Etten—and this conversation will stay with you long after it ends. She’s a
What do travel, retreats, the book of Acts, and a big bold personality have in common? My guest Amanda Hietter — and this conversation is one you are going to want to sit down for. Amanda is the CEO and owner of Across t
Have you ever spent your whole life trying to fit in — with every group, every room, every relationship — only to end up exhausted, alone at the lunch table, and still feeling like you don't quite belong anywhere? That w
What would you do if you sold your house, your horses, your cars — everything — packed onto a 43-foot sailboat, and sailed away into the unknown? That's exactly what today's guest, Alison Gieschen, did. And eight years,
What if the deepest sense of belonging you’re searching for isn’t found in performance, approval, or even community—but in knowing exactly whose you are? In this powerful and thoughtful episode of Hear Where You Belong,
What happens when the people who are supposed to be “home” feel like strangers—or are absent altogether? In this deeply moving episode of Hear Where You Belong, I sit down with author and recovery leader Ashley Kinkead,
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Amanda Hietter
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host of The Motherhood Experience Podcast
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Alison Gieschen
award-winning author
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Ashley Kinkead
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1 appearance on this show
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