216 - How To Get The Only Applause That Will Ever Matter
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
Release Date: 08/26/2025
219 - The Best Way to Grow Resilience: 3 Life-Changing Secrets
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
I see it in your eyes that can’t mask the tiredness, hear it in the cracks in your voice, feel it with you in the hurried steps and anxious scrolling: life feels fractured. Unsteady. At times, unfathomable. We quiet our questions, assuming God sees coming redemption before we can glimpse it. But we can’t hush the disquiet in our souls. Is there a way to thrive no matter what life throws our way? To grow resilience that keeps hope alive? Links mentioned: To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up Read the written...
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218 - Unwasted Grace: How to Make Much of the Life You’ve Been Given
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
Grace is a trust equation: our nothing plus God’s everything equals ripple-effect redemption. God’s grace, according to my friend Jennifer Sakata–and host of –“is that forward movement that restores connection and rebuilds relationships.” How perfectly this line summarizes 2 Corinthians 5:19! It is central to our good news that God was in the Anointed making things right between Himself and the world. This means He does not hold their sins against them. But it also means He charges us to proclaim the message that heals and restores our broken relationships with...
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217 - How to Grow “Charity of the Heart”: 8 Ways to Build Up Others
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
An others-first mentality seems rare these days. Maybe that’s why “charity of the heart,” as Paul describes it, always makes my gratitude list (1 Cor. 8:1). Life can feel like a race in slow motion, where making space for someone else comes at a cost. But you and I get to be the sort of people who normalize uncommon rhythms–like noticing the people in front of us, getting to know our neighbors, and building others up. We are those who love because we’re outrageously loved (. Who serve because we copy the One who serves us (). Who go lower, not higher. Who build up, not tear...
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216 - How To Get The Only Applause That Will Ever Matter
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
To the one doing the work while someone else gets promoted. To the one diligently practicing, who hasn’t been picked yet. To the one quietly faithful, serving in selfless and unseen ways. To the one holding up the team but never getting credit for it. To the one behind the brilliant ideas, the one always building others up, and the one quick to assume responsibility but not the praise. To the mama making sacrifices no one will ever know about. To the beautiful soul who carefully avoids the spotlight. To the neighbor offering snacks, rides, toys, or encouragement, never expecting...
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215 - How to Know a God Enormous Beyond Comprehension
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
The very lives we live fit like iridescent shapes into the kaleidoscope of God’s plan for this wonderful, aching earth. We bump up against each other as life jostles us. It may feel at times like friction. But look through the kaleidoscope and you’ll see the stunning picture we create together. We’re a colorful assortment of polygons differentiated by shape and shade. And all this difference, together, makes the ever-changing picture beautiful. Together, we point to Him–as God-reflectors and missional neighbors. You and I get to mirror the example Christ set through the way we...
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214 - 3 Genuine Ways To Be A Good Neighbor Today
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
The very lives we live fit like iridescent shapes into the kaleidoscope of God’s plan for this wonderful, aching earth. We bump up against each other as life jostles us. It may feel at times like friction. But look through the kaleidoscope and you’ll see the stunning picture we create together. We’re a colorful assortment of polygons differentiated by shape and shade. And all this difference, together, makes the ever-changing picture beautiful. Together, we point to Him–as God-reflectors and missional neighbors. You and I get to mirror the example Christ set through the way we...
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213 - How To Change Directions When You Want To Run Away
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
It makes all the difference, doesn’t it, whether we’re running away from or towards something? One feels like friction, the other like invitation. One feels like failure licking at our heels, the other like movement itself is a win. I slow to a walk beneath the cloudless sky, pondering a question: When have I been the one running from something? From a decision I didn’t want to make. From conflict I’d rather avoid. From a yes that felt too costly. From a necessary no that could . Links mentioned: 1. To get a short, doable tip in...
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212 - How to Stop Hiding Inside the Peace You Crave (Enneagram 9s)
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
Can we talk about how to stop hiding where it feels safe and cozy and predictable? Because maybe what makes you “come alive,” as Howard Thurman famously wrote, is somewhere beyond the line of where risk meets comfort. Links mentioned: To learn more about Enneagram 8s–including what we appreciate most about you, how you can use your strengths to mirror God’s grace to your neighbors, and (for the rest of us) how we can best missionally love the Enneagram 8s we know–grab the . Each list is available both as phone wallpaper and as a printable pdf. To get a short, doable tip...
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211 - How to Find Grace for Yourself and Others (For Enneagram 8s)
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
You’re a rock that steadies others, die-hard strength that looks out for the weak, focus and grit that helps the rest of us show up more fully in our own endeavors. But beneath your tenacity is a tenderness that can feel unnerving. Some days you struggle to find grace for yourself within your sky-high personal standards. Can we talk about it? Links mentioned: To learn more about Enneagram 8s–including what we appreciate most about you, how you can use your strengths to mirror God’s grace to your neighbors, and (for the rest of us) how we can best missionally love the Enneagram 8s...
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210 - Why Painful Seasons Make for Tender Growth (For Enneagram 7s)
The Uncommon Normal with Twyla Franz
If ever you’ve wished for a fast forward button through the painful seasons of your life, this is for you. You’re full of spontaneous energy and fun ideas. You help the rest of us lighten up and enjoy the adventure of life. You’re bold and bright and brilliant. We’re grateful for your contagious optimism, your eager yeses, your enthusiastic encouragement. Because of you, we try new things that we’d be afraid of otherwise. We also dream bigger dreams, thanks to you. You connect many a person because you have a special way of making everyone feel welcome. Thank you for the...
info_outlineTo the one doing the work while someone else gets promoted.
To the one diligently practicing, who hasn’t been picked yet.
To the one quietly faithful, serving in selfless and unseen ways.
To the one holding up the team but never getting credit for it.
To the one behind the brilliant ideas, the one always building others up, and the one quick to assume responsibility but not the praise.
To the mama making sacrifices no one will ever know about.
To the beautiful soul who carefully avoids the spotlight.
To the neighbor offering snacks, rides, toys, or encouragement, never expecting a thanks.
Here’s good news: the praise that matters most is already coming–from Him.
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1. To get a short, doable tip in your inbox every week to help you get to know your neighbors, sign up HERE.
2. Read the written version of this episode HERE.