Expectancy in a Culture of Hurry | Hannah Brencher | Episode 392

The Speakeasy

The Girl Named Blake

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

As we hit the halfway point of December, this episode is a deep breath and a reset. In a season that pushes hustle, consumption, and constant motion, this conversation invites us to slow down and reclaim awe, wonder, and expectancy—especially as we approach Christmas.

Hannah Brencher joins the Speak Easy Podcast to talk about Advent, rhythms, mental health, and what it looks like to resist hurry in a world that rewards burnout. Together, we explore why slowing down can feel so uncomfortable, how noise steals our awareness of God's presence, and how intentional practices—stillness, margin, and presence—help us actually experience the season instead of racing through it.

This episode is for anyone feeling overwhelmed, behind, or spiritually distracted. Whether you're new to Advent or returning to it again, this conversation reframes December as a cool-down, not a ramp-up—and reminds us that peace has a pace.

"Expectancy grows when we make space to notice God."

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Slow down. Make space. Don't miss this season.

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0:00.0	Hey, friends, welcome back to the Speakeasy podcast. We are halfway through the month of
0:04.1	December and my intention for this entire month was to keep our eyes on Jesus.
0:08.5	Ours personally in my home and then also our collective internet community eyes on slowing down,
0:18.4	pausing enough for awe and wonder to enter your life, cutting out what is
0:24.1	unnecessary and ensuring that we don't let small but important things take the place of
0:32.4	the most important thing. Hannah Brencher is one of my favorite voices on that subject beyond Christmas, but she's also
0:41.2	one of my favorite voices about Advent. I do her Advent study every year. She's also become a friend
0:47.4	and someone that speaks into my life and somebody that I get to, I feel like, follow in her
0:52.0	footsteps as far as slowing down and unplugging.
0:55.7	Her books are fantastic.
0:57.2	She's a incredible writer, but she's a great conversationalist.
1:01.3	Come to find out, this is one of her, or she said, I think, her actual first episode,
1:07.0	podcast episode, about Advent, which is wild to me.
1:10.5	And so this is our halfway through the month check-in.
1:13.8	I think we say the wrong date of the month, a whole bunch in this episode.
1:18.7	I think we say the like 16th that came out, the 17th.
1:21.1	I don't know.
1:22.2	I don't pretend to be the best at keeping those guys being straight.
1:26.7	But the heart of this is, all right,
1:28.4	we're halfway there. We're a week and a half out from Christmas or a week out from Christmas.
1:33.6	How do we finish well? How do we ensure that we don't get whipped up into a frenzy?
1:39.4	Because this is the easiest time of the year to do it. This weekend is our busiest weekend of the, of the,
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