Episode 231: Interview with Jim Wilder
Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women
Release Date: 10/13/2025
Episode 245: Interview with Rachael Clinton Chen
Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women
Rachael Clinton Chen, MDiv, is a formative voice in the movement toward healing from spiritual abuse. As a trauma care practitioner and pastoral leader, she weaves together theology, psychology, and story to accompany individuals and communities toward a kind of wholeness and resilient faith that tells the truth and pursues repair. She serves as a lead instructor for the Allender Center at The Seattle School and is co-host of the with Dr. Dan Allender. Rachael is a stormborn woman of the Oklahoma plains and received a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Oklahoma Baptist University....
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Episode 244: Interview with Janyne McConnaughey
Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women
Janyne McConnaughey, Ph.D., award winning author and trauma-informed advocate, lived with the effects of childhood sexual abuse from the time she was three years old until she entered therapy and began her healing journey at the age of sixty-one. Realizing healing was possible for survivors, she first authored three memoirs describing the effects of childhood trauma and the paths to healing. Her most recent publication is Trauma in the Pews: The Impact of Trauma on Faith and Spiritual Practices. Janyne’s passion is encouraging other survivors of childhood trauma to seek...
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Episode 243: Interview with Katie Douglass & Brittnay Tausen
Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women
Katie Douglass & Brittnay Tausen join us to talk about their book .
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Episode 242: Interview with Curt Thompson
Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women
Inspired by deep compassion for others and informed from a Christian perspective, psychiatrist Curt Thompson shares fresh insights and practical applications for developing more authentic relationships and fully experiencing our deepest longing: to be known. He's written several books, including:
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Episode 241: Interview with Adam Young
Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women
Adam Young is a trauma therapist and the host of The Place We Find Ourselves podcast. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with master's degrees in social work (Virginia Commonwealth University) and divinity (Emory University). Adam regularly speaks at conferences and currently serves as a fellow with The Allender Center. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife and two children.
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Episode 240: Interview with Natasha Smith
Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women
Natasha Smith is a grief advocate, speaker, and podcast host. She is the author of Her work has appeared in Guideposts, Propel Women, Influence magazine, her.BIBLE, and elsewhere. She and her husband, Clinton, have four children and live near Raleigh, North Carolina. You can find her online at .
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Episode 239: Interview with Faith Chang
Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women
serves at Grace Christian Church of Staten Island, where her husband is a pastor. She is an editorial board member of the SOLA Network and co-hosts the Westminster Kids Digest Podcast at WTS Books. Her writing on theology, motherhood, ministry, and the Christian life has appeared on Westminster Kids, The SOLA Network, The Gospel Coalition, and The Lausanne Movement. Faith addresses the struggle of Christian Perfectionism - and how God works with us as a "people in process." Through meditations on God's character, she helps women find peace by encountering the love and mercy offered to us...
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Episode 238: Interview with Trillia Newbell
Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women
Trillia Newbell is the author of the kids’ books Creative God, Colorful Us and God’s Very Good Idea; a Bible study on Hebrews 11, A Great Cloud of Witnesses; and a Bible study on Romans 8, If God Is For Us, as well as the books Sacred Endurance: Finding Grace and Strength for a Lasting Faith; Enjoy: Finding the Freedom to Delight Daily in God’s Good Gifts (2016); Fear and Faith: Finding the Peace Your Heart Craves (2015) and United: Captured by God’s Vision for Diversity (2014). Her writings on issues of faith, family,...
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Episode 237: Interview with Jenn Suen Chen
Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women
Jenn is an author, speaker, spiritual director, and coach. She loves coming alongside people to help them grow in their relationship with God through spiritual direction, coaching, and intentional story work in the context of a safe-enough community. She believes storywork to be an important component of our discipleship journey. She wrote the book Dim Sum and Faith: How our Stories Form our Souls.
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Episode 236: Interview with Yana Janae Conner
Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women
, MDiv (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary), is a writer and Bible teacher. Her debut book is Living Beyond Offense: Doing the Hard Work of Forgiveness God’s Way. She has served in full-time ministry for 15 years in both church and parachurch contexts and has contributed to Jude 3 Project’s Through the Eyes of Color; Swing Low, Volume 2: An Anthology of Black Christianity in the United States; and the She Reads Truth Devotional. She is the host of the podcast Living Single with Yana Jenay and serves as the adult ministry director at Vertical Church in Hillsborough, NC.
info_outlineJIM WILDER has been training leaders and counselors for over 27 years on five continents. He is the author of nine books with a strong focus on maturing and relationship skills for leaders. His coauthored book Living From the Heart Jesus Gave You has sold over 100,000 copies in eleven languages. Wilder has published numerous articles and developed four sets of video and relational leadership training called THRIVE. He is currently executive director of Shepherd's House Inc., a nonprofit working at the intersection of brain science and theology, and founder of Life Model Works that is buidling contagiously healthy Christian communities through equipping existing networks with the skills to thrive. Dr. Wilder has extensive clinical counseling experience and has served as a guest lecturer at Fuller Seminary, Biola, Talbot Seminary, Point Loma University, Montreat College, Tyndale Seminary and elsewhere.