2250 SPECIAL PODCAST - Interview with Abby Halberstadt

Brant & Sherri Oddcast

Brant Hansen

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🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Brant talks with author and mom-of-ten, Abby Halberstadt, about the joys, struggles, and eternal significance of parenting. Her new book You Bet Your Stretch Marks releases in September.

Quotes:

“We are forgetting machines. We need to hear the truth again and again."

“Parenting is a long obedience in the same direction.”

“Your identity isn’t in motherhood, it’s in serving Christ.”

“True quiet time doesn’t have to be Instagram-worthy to count.”

“You are planting seeds that may grow into fruit you’ll never see.”

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Brandt and Sherry Oddcast, sponsored by America's Christian Credit Union. To order Brand's
0:06.9	latest book, Life is Hard, God is Good, let's dance, or to find out more about the show, go to
0:13.1	Brantanhanson.com. This is going to be good. We have an interview for you here with Abby Halberstadt or Halberstadt.
0:24.2	I don't know how to say it, but I like putting a little accent wrinkle on there. I think you enjoy that,
0:29.5	don't you? Don't act like you don't. Abby is a happy wife and a homeschooling mama to 10 rad kids, it says here in her bio. I happen to know two
0:42.4	sets of identical twins among those 10. It's so interesting. Her life is so interesting.
0:49.2	Her husband, Sean, have their 10 kids there. They live in the Piney Woods of East Texas. She has written a book called
0:56.0	The, it's called You Bet Your Stretch Marks. She has a humorous approach to things, but she has a ton
1:02.8	of wise things to say about motherhood. I think you're going to enjoy this, whether you're a mom or not.
1:09.9	And yeah, I think she's got a lot of wisdom. Happened to meet her at a thing. They had me there for some interviews at Family Life Today, and then they had her there the same day. And so I met her, and I was like, hey, this is really interesting. And then I found out from my daughter, Julia, that Julia thinks Abby is brilliant. So I thought, that's really cool,
1:30.0	because Julia is very discerning about who she listens to, which is awesome. So interview with
1:35.0	Abby, the author of You Bet Your Stretchmarks. Why is everything so hard for me to say today? I have no
1:40.7	idea. You bet your stretch marks with Abbey Haberstadt. I got to tell you,
1:44.9	when we were a family life today and we had lunch with the hosts and stuff, I came back and I
1:52.8	was mentioning something to my daughter because she's really smart and she's interested in a couple
1:57.0	things we were talking about. And she's like, who are you talking? So I said, Abby, something, she's like, Abby Haberstat?
2:04.2	And my daughter, Julia, is an adult.
2:07.5	She does not care about celebrities.
2:09.7	She does not care about influencers.
2:11.4	I could do an interview with Taylor Swift and she would not care.
2:14.9	I like this girl.
2:16.4	Yeah.
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