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Life Happens with Barb & Michelle

Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt

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🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

When hope feels distant, lean into this truth: you were created for these times. There is power and purpose in the actions you take today — all you need is a little faith. 💫

This week on Life Happens with Barb & Michelle, we’re talking about navigating unprecedented times by grounding ourselves in hope and leaning into faith. Join us for an encouraging conversation about taking purposeful action today while holding a vision for a better tomorrow.

💬 Barb vulnerably shares the hopelessness she felt during aging and divorce — and how she moved through those fears by trusting faith.

💬 Michelle explores the difference between hope and faith, and how she’s learned to navigate dark seasons with a realistic belief that things can get better.

✨ Episode Highlights

Faith in action: Rising above despair and taking meaningful steps toward a better tomorrow.
You were made for these times: Trusting your worth and stepping into your purpose right where you are.
Things can change: Believing in the collective power of community, compassion, and action.
You’re not alone: Finding strength in connection during shared grief and uncertainty.

Remember — in unprecedented times, the greatest thing we can do is have faith that the actions we take today are planting the seeds of hope for tomorrow. 🌸

Dive deeper: Here’s the full Clarissa Pinkola Estés piece we reference in the episode:https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=2195

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💛 Episode Topics:

Cultivating hope in a better tomorrow
Trusting that your actions are impactful
Leaning on your community
Feeling your feelings through the difficulties
Embracing the present moment fully

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Hi, friends. And welcome back to Life Happens with Barb and Michelle. We are so thrilled that you're back with us again this week. We've got an exciting conversation for you all. And I can't wait to dive in. Hey, Mom. Hi, Michelle. How you doing? I'm great. I'm excited to have this conversation, especially for like this time of year. We're on the cusp of holiday time there's lots of energy going on
0:24.7	life is difficult as we talk about i think every episode and i think that you have a really
0:32.6	interesting concept to dive into this week to i mean we always have the intention to help and I almost gave
0:40.9	away the whole, that's okay, dive right in, to help people navigate times. But as I was going to say,
0:48.2	we want to talk about hope and what hope means and how hope has been, what role hope has played for your life and then what it can
0:57.4	mean for all of us. I love it. Yeah, I'm especially excited to talk about this topic. Because life is
1:03.9	hard and it's not like it's any harder, but it feels like it's harder. Sometimes we interpret it in our
1:09.7	own way and we know what it feels like
1:12.0	out there. So there is going to be suffering. There's all kinds of things that happen in our daily
1:15.4	lives. And so I feel like it's kind of our mission, right? Michelle, it's kind of our mission to
1:20.7	help people navigate the hardships in life and navigate the suffering that comes our way so that we
1:26.4	don't pile on more suffering
1:27.7	and so that we can actually kind of stay the course and really look at life as, yes, this is
1:33.3	really hard.
1:33.9	This is really difficult.
1:34.9	It seems impossible or it seems insurmountable.
1:37.9	But there's a little spark inside of all of us that we want to tap into that I got this.
1:42.5	I can weather this storm.
1:45.0	You know, as Maya Angelou says, every storm runs out of rain. I can weather this storm because I've got what I need
1:50.1	or I've got what it takes. So I'm excited to talk about some of the aspects of that today.
1:55.3	Yeah. And, you know, we are living in interesting times. and it does, you always say that life has always
2:04.7	been difficult.
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