Ep. 130: Six Words for Family Success (A Chat with Arlene Pelicane)
M Is for Mama Podcast
Abbie Halberstadt
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
One of my favorite things when I have guests on is when they combine biblical principles with actionable steps for more peace, joy, and order in our homes.
Arlene Pelicane does this so well in today’s episode in which we discuss the biblical principles that undergird family interactions in areas that span everything from technology to marriage.
I know you’ll be encouraged to stay the course (or maybe recalibrate your approach) as you hear Arlene’s articulate, passionate, and encouraging arguments for approaching everything in our homes with God’s Word in mind.
Guest Info:
Arlene Pelicane
Check Out Her Podcast - Happy Home Podcast
Get Her Books - Making Marriage Easier, Screen Kids, and Parents Rising
Want to Learn More About Arlene? Visit Her Site Here
Bible References:
Nehemiah 8:10
1 Thessalonians 5:18
Romans 3:10
Exodus 20:1-17
Genesis 18:16-33
Isaiah 30:18
Proverbs 9:10
Ruth 1-4
Matthew 1:1-17
Matthew 7:13
Matthew 25:21
Romans 3:23
Matthew 5:16
Luke 6:34
Matthew 5:39
Colossians 3:23-24
Links:
The Gentleness Challenge
Penny Reward System
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the MS for Mama podcast. I'm your host, Abby Halberstadt, |
| 0:09.4 | happy wife, Mom and a 10 Bible Believing Christian. And it may not be very professional with me |
| 0:13.7 | to admit this, but I am recording this intro after midnight on a morning slash night, whatever this is, I've lost track |
| 0:25.3 | when we are leaving early in the morning for a trip and I realized that I forgot to record |
| 0:31.3 | the intro to the lovely interview that I did with my guests today. So here I am. |
| 0:36.7 | If you watch the video, you'll see that the lighting is completely different. |
| 0:40.5 | And I just completely blinked on that one, ladies. |
| 0:42.9 | I was going to say Angelomen. |
| 0:44.2 | And I guess there are some gentlemen that listen, but mostly ladies. |
| 0:47.3 | However, I do have a wonderful guest for you today. |
| 0:50.3 | And I think you're going to be really encouraged by her upbeat, frank, Bible-based |
| 0:58.6 | advice that is both grounded in the principles of God's word, which is my favorite, |
| 1:05.8 | but also really practical and really actionable. So we're going to dive right in. |
| 1:09.9 | Okay, friends, I have a treat for you today. My guest, Arlene Pelican, we were just, I was just asking her how you say your last name. And she was assuring me that it is Pelican now. We were wondering if it was maybe something else, Pelicanet or something a little more exotic in the past. But my friend Arlene is here today. I've been able to be on her |
| 1:28.5 | podcast and have a conversation with her in the past. And I really appreciated her gospel focus, |
| 1:33.6 | her biblical focus, in her family focus. And we're going to cover a range of topics today. |
| 1:38.3 | But just before we get started and dive in, Arlene, maybe just tell everybody if they haven't had a chance |
| 1:43.8 | to meet you yet, who you are, what you do, kind of what you're about. Yeah. So it's great to be with you. I am one of those that really wanted to be a wife, really wanted to be a mom. And then in my time, it was like, Lord, why is this waiting so long? So, you know, I graduated in the late 80s from high school and a lot of my friends |
| 2:02.3 | were getting married in their early 20s and I went to college and I started working. And I was like, |
| 2:06.7 | where is Mr. Wright? So finally, when I did get married at the old age of 27, which obviously now is not old at |
| 2:14.1 | all, but at the moment it felt very old. I was very happy to to meet this Mr. Prince Charming, my husband, James. We've been married 27 years, and then we thought, oh, let's have kids, and that's going to be easy. And then that wasn't easy either. I struggled with infertility, miscarried at 26 weeks, these kinds of things. But God was so close, so faithful. And we have a boy and two girls. And |
| 2:34.6 | they're now a young adult, a college graduate, Ethan, one in college, Noel. And then Lucy, |
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