E226: Hoping Against Hope: A Love Story Written By God w/Stephanie Gray Connors | Lila Rose Show
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🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode my dear friend Stephanie Gray Connors—renowned pro-life apologist and global speaker—joins me to share the behind-the-scenes story of how she found love at 40 (yes, I played matchmaker!).
Stephanie gets real about the heartache of waiting, the tension between her calling and her longing for marriage, and the unexpected ways God showed up—through deep friendship, purpose-driven work, and eventually, a saintly husband.
If you’ve ever wondered whether it’s too late for your dreams, this conversation will remind you: God’s timing is perfect.
Stephanie’s website: https://loveunleasheslife.com/about
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:37 - Stephanie’s background
00:10:48 - Cozy Earth
00:11:44 - Career vs Family
00:22:15 - Good Ranchers
00:23:30 - Career vs Family Pt II
00:27:30 - I would cry myself to sleep
00:34:39 - EveryLife
00:35:49 - Friendship and the best moments in my life
00:42:00 - Common Needs
00:44:08 - Being loved vs being recognized
00:45:49 - Singleness in 30s
00:51:01 - 50 y/o who got married
00:55:17 - We idolize many things
01:01:00 - Mad at God
01:03:00 - Holy people get overlooked
01:19:05 - Would you go through it again?
01:20:48 - Are women too picky?
01:22:57 - Stephanie’s book on IVF
Transcript
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| 0:29.9 | We all have common needs to be recognized, to be love and to have someone to share life with. |
| 0:35.2 | I remember you were so terrified of not getting married. |
| 0:38.3 | For those years, the amount of times I got mad at God and he's like, you would be ugly crying on my |
| 0:43.1 | couch about being single. Each person has to wrestle with, am I being too picky? And I was certainly |
| 0:48.4 | told that. There is this narrative that there's something wrong with you if you don't get married |
| 0:52.5 | in your 20s. What's your take on that? |
| 0:59.0 | At the exact moment, he's praying over me, and I know the exact moment because you were involved. |
| 0:59.5 | I was. |
| 1:09.9 | When God plans something for you, when He will something for you, all hosts of things will come into play that you couldn't even possibly imagine could occur. |
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