Welcome back to the Coffee and Bible Time podcast. For those that may be listening for the first time, our podcast is an offshoot from our main platform YouTube. Our channel is called Coffee and Bible Time where our goal is to help people delight in God's Word.

We also have a website in storefront with Bible studies, prayer journals, courses, and more.

But before we get started, a word from our sponsor.

I'm Mentor Mama, and today we are going to be talking about cultivating relationships through meaningful

conversations. Having conversations with other people just seems to be getting harder and that is

affecting how we are connecting to others in our families and churches and communities.

So why are we feeling so isolated?

And what can we do to improve our communication with others to build stronger relationships?

Well, our guest today, Dr. Heather Holliman, author of the book, The Six Conversations, Pathways to Connecting Again in an Age of Isolation and Incivility, is here to shine a light on this topic and answer questions that can help move us forward in connecting with others by

having better conversations. Dr. Heather Holloman is an associate teaching professor at Penn

State speaker and author. She designs advanced writing curricula for the English department and loves

helping students thrive professionally. She has written eight books, including the bestseller,

seated with Christ, living freely in a culture of comparison, and an award-winning book on evangelism co-written

with her husband, Ashley Holliman, called Sent, Living a Life That Invites Others to Jesus.

And we do also have a podcast on that amazing book, which we will put a link to. Heather also serves with

faculty commons in the professor and graduate student ministry of crew. She has two daughters and

three cats, which I love, and she blogs daily at Heather Holloman.com. She also has a podcast called The Verb with Heather Holliman.

When she's not writing or teaching, Heather is growing a plum orchard, looking for turtles

in the woods, or gathering with friends for dinner in a movie. Please welcome Heather.

How are you? I'm so excited to be on your podcast. This is going to be a

great conversation. I just know it. Yes, it absolutely is. It's just I'm so delighted to have

you back again. And I just feel like this is a topic that's just so desperately needed.

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