Outside the Pulpit

Outside the Pulpit is a podcast for Christians who love God but feel spiritually stuck — and are ready for real, lasting transformation. Hosted by Spiritual Growth Mentor & Christian Transformation Coach Lisa Meador , each episode helps you align your thoughts, emotions, and daily actions with God so you can live the life He created you to live. This isn’t another “try harder” spiritual show. It’s where Scripture meets mindset renewal, emotional clarity, and Spirit-led growth. Lisa teaches practical tools — including her signature Journal With Jesus approach — to help you uncover hidden beliefs, overcome internal roadblocks, and walk confidently in your God-designed purpose. If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing all the “right things” but not seeing change… you’re in the right place. Here, transformation happens outside the pulpit — in real life, with real people, through honest conversations and practical, faith-filled steps. <

Outside the Pulpit is a religion podcast hosted by Lisa Meador, with 36 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Lisa Meador hosts Outside the Pulpit, a religion show with 36 episodes published.

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  Episode #35

  35 Feel It Long Enough to Let it Move

  Oct 6, 202619 minS3

  Why Feeling Your Feelings Changes Everything At some point, every transformation journey arrives at a place most of us would rather avoid. The feeling. Not understanding it. Not analyzing it. Not talking about it. Actually feeling it. In this episode, Lisa explores what she calls The Painful Stupid Helpful Part of transformation. The part nobody wants. The part most of us spend years trying to bypass. The part that unexpectedly changes everything. In this episode: • Why awareness and understanding are not enough • The difference between feeling and wallowing • What emotions are actually trying to tell us • How God designed our brains and bodies to process emotional experiences • What it looks like to stop resisting and start allowing Because healing doesn't begin when we understand the feeling. Healing often begins when we stop running from it. And that may be the most painful, stupid, helpful thing you'll ever do. Transformation happens when insight becomes practice. The Season 3 Resource Guide was created to help you go beyond listening and begin thoughtfully applying what you're learning through reflection questions, exercises, and practical next steps. ➡ Access the Full Season 3 Companion Guide Season 3 Stop Surviving and Start Living Resource Guide - Outside The Pulpit ✍️ If reading is more your thing, I've shared a companion article on Substack that explores this topic a little deeper. Subscribe to have future reflections delivered directly to your inbox. https://outsidethepulpit.substack.com/p/the-answer-i-didnt-want?r=6h1pc2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Send us Fan Mail Support the show Thanks for tuning in to Outside the Pulpit . If this episode encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it—your voice matters, and so does your journey. Support our mission to provide free, healing-centered content: patreon.com/OutsidethePulpit Ready to go deeper? Explore coaching and workshops designed to help you reclaim your voice and renew your mindset: www.lisameador.com Discover skincare that meets you where you are: lisameador.myrandf.com ✨ Not sure where to start? Try the Rodan + Fields Solution Tool Note from Lisa: All content is created with care and intention. Advice should be confirmed with a qualified professional. Guest views are their own. “Circumstances do not control your life. The way you think about them does.” — Lisa Meador

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  Episode #34

  34 What if the Feeling Won't Destroy You?

  Sep 29, 202622 minS3

  What if the thing you've been avoiding isn't actually dangerous? Many women spend years running from grief, fear, rejection, disappointment, loneliness, and shame because they're convinced that if they truly feel it, it will overwhelm them. But what if that's not true? In this episode, Lisa explores one of the most common fears women carry: "If I let myself feel this, I might fall apart." Together we'll explore: Why difficult emotions feel so threatening The difference between a feeling and the fear of a feeling Why avoidance often costs more than feeling How emotions were designed to move Why the breakthrough isn't finding the feeling, but allowing yourself to experience it What if the feeling you've spent years fearing is actually survivable? And what if healing begins when you finally stop running? ️ Listen now. Transformation happens when insight becomes practice. The Season 3 Resource Guide was created to help you go beyond listening and begin thoughtfully applying what you're learning through reflection questions, exercises, and practical next steps. ➡ Access the Full Season 3 Companion Guide Season 3 Stop Surviving and Start Living Resource Guide - Outside The Pulpit ✍️ If reading is more your thing, I've shared a companion article on Substack that explores this topic a little deeper. Subscribe to have future reflections delivered directly to your inbox. https://outsidethepulpit.substack.com/p/why-are-we-treating-emotions-like?r=6h1pc2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Send us Fan Mail Support the show Thanks for tuning in to Outside the Pulpit . If this episode encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it—your voice matters, and so does your journey. Support our mission to provide free, healing-centered content: patreon.com/OutsidethePulpit Ready to go deeper? Explore coaching and workshops designed to help you reclaim your voice and renew your mindset: www.lisameador.com Discover skincare that meets you where you are: lisameador.myrandf.com ✨ Not sure where to start? Try the Rodan + Fields Solution Tool Note from Lisa: All content is created with care and intention. Advice should be confirmed with a qualified professional. Guest views are their own. “Circumstances do not control your life. The way you think about them does.” — Lisa Meador

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  Episode #33

  33 What Did Being Strong Cost You, Really?

  Sep 22, 202624 minS3

  Strong people get things done. They solve problems. Carry responsibility. Show up when others can't. Keep moving when life gets hard. But what happens when strength becomes more than a gift? What happens when the very thing that helped you survive becomes the thing that keeps you from healing? In this episode, Lisa explores the hidden bargain many capable people unknowingly make: As long as I can handle it, I don't have to deal with it. Not because strong people are weak. But because strong people can function for years without addressing what's happening underneath the surface. Together we'll explore: • Why functioning and healing are not the same thing • How strength can become an avoidance strategy • The powerful question that changed Lisa's life • What many capable people are protecting themselves from feeling • Why healing sometimes begins when we stop carrying everyone else's pain long enough to acknowledge our own Because sometimes the strongest person in the room isn't the freest. And sometimes freedom begins with a single question: What would I have to feel if I stopped being strong for a moment? Transformation happens when insight becomes practice. The Season 3 Resource Guide was created to help you go beyond listening and begin thoughtfully applying what you're learning through reflection questions, exercises, and practical next steps. ➡ Access the Full Season 3 Companion Guide Season 3 Stop Surviving and Start Living Resource Guide - Outside The Pulpit ✍️ If reading is more your thing, I've shared a companion article on Substack that explores this topic a little deeper. Subscribe to have future reflections delivered directly to your inbox. https://outsidethepulpit.substack.com/p/the-hidden-bargain-we-make-with-strength?r=6h1pc2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Send us Fan Mail Support the show Thanks for tuning in to Outside the Pulpit . If this episode encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it—your voice matters, and so does your journey. Support our mission to provide free, healing-centered content: patreon.com/OutsidethePulpit Ready to go deeper? Explore coaching and workshops designed to help you reclaim your voice and renew your mindset: www.lisameador.com Discover skincare that meets you where you are: lisameador.myrandf.com ✨ Not sure where to start? Try the Rodan + Fields Solution Tool Note from Lisa: All content is created with care and intention. Advice should be confirmed with a qualified professional. Guest views are their own. “Circumstances do not control your life. The way you think about them does.” — Lisa Meador

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  Episode #32

  32 The Experience We'd All Like To Avoid

  Sep 15, 202619 minS3

  The Experience We'd All Like To Avoid You've discovered the pattern. You've identified the fear. You've recognized the grief. You've found the knot. Now what? Many people spend years developing self-awareness only to discover that awareness alone doesn't create transformation. In this episode, Lisa explores the step that many people unintentionally skip: actually feeling what they've spent years avoiding. Why do some struggles seem to persist even after we've identified the root? Why isn't knowing enough? And what happens when we stop running from difficult emotions and begin allowing them to be processed instead? Join Lisa as she explores why awareness reveals the knot, but healing often begins when we're willing to sit with what's inside it. Because the feeling you've been avoiding may not be the obstacle. It may be the doorway. Transformation happens when insight becomes practice. The Season 3 Resource Guide was created to help you go beyond listening and begin thoughtfully applying what you're learning through reflection questions, exercises, and practical next steps. ➡ Access the Full Season 3 Companion Guide Season 3 Stop Surviving and Start Living Resource Guide - Outside The Pulpit ✍️ If reading is more your thing, I've shared a companion article on Substack that explores this topic a little deeper. Subscribe to have future reflections delivered directly to your inbox. https://outsidethepulpit.substack.com/p/the-part-most-people-skip?r=6h1pc2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Send us Fan Mail Support the show Thanks for tuning in to Outside the Pulpit . If this episode encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it—your voice matters, and so does your journey. Support our mission to provide free, healing-centered content: patreon.com/OutsidethePulpit Ready to go deeper? Explore coaching and workshops designed to help you reclaim your voice and renew your mindset: www.lisameador.com Discover skincare that meets you where you are: lisameador.myrandf.com ✨ Not sure where to start? Try the Rodan + Fields Solution Tool Note from Lisa: All content is created with care and intention. Advice should be confirmed with a qualified professional. Guest views are their own. “Circumstances do not control your life. The way you think about them does.” — Lisa Meador

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  Episode #31

  31 Don't Get Stuck in One Chapter of Your Story

  Sep 8, 202629 minS3

  Have you ever found yourself praying about the same struggle year after year and wondering why it's still there? Like the Struggle Bus just keeps pulling in your driveway? Fear. Anxiety. People pleasing. Resentment. Overthinking. Overworking. At some point, many of us begin asking difficult questions: Why is this still here? What am I doing wrong? Why hasn't God fixed this yet? In this episode, Lisa explores a different possibility. What if the persistence of the struggle isn't proof that you're failing? What if the symptom you've been fighting is actually pointing to something deeper? Together, we'll explore the difference between self-condemnation and curiosity, why symptoms make terrible teachers, and how lasting transformation often begins when we stop asking "What's wrong with me?" and start asking "What is this trying to show me?" Because awareness helps us see the loose ends. Curiosity helps us follow the thread. And sometimes the thread leads us to the very place God wants to heal. Transformation happens when insight becomes practice. The Season 3 Resource Guide was created to help you go beyond listening and begin thoughtfully applying what you're learning through reflection questions, exercises, and practical next steps. ➡ Access the Full Season 3 Companion Guide Season 3 Stop Surviving and Start Living Resource Guide - Outside The Pulpit ✍️ If reading is more your thing, I've shared a companion article on Substack that explores this topic a little deeper. Subscribe to have future reflections delivered directly to your inbox. https://outsidethepulpit.substack.com/p/what-if-youre-not-failing?r=6h1pc2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Send us Fan Mail Support the show Thanks for tuning in to Outside the Pulpit . If this episode encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it—your voice matters, and so does your journey. Support our mission to provide free, healing-centered content: patreon.com/OutsidethePulpit Ready to go deeper? Explore coaching and workshops designed to help you reclaim your voice and renew your mindset: www.lisameador.com Discover skincare that meets you where you are: lisameador.myrandf.com ✨ Not sure where to start? Try the Rodan + Fields Solution Tool Note from Lisa: All content is created with care and intention. Advice should be confirmed with a qualified professional. Guest views are their own. “Circumstances do not control your life. The way you think about them does.” — Lisa Meador

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