Finding faithful friends with Tammie Floyd
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
4.9 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Parenting was never meant to be done alone, but building meaningful community can feel challenging in the middle of full and busy lives.
In this episode, Tammie Floyd shares wisdom from years of parenting and ministry, with a focus on friendship and the importance of community for moms. The conversation explores what it looks like to cultivate life-giving relationships, why support matters in every season, and how God often provides the right people at the right time.
We also talk about the role of the local church in a child’s faith journey and why consistent involvement can have a lasting impact.
This episode is a gentle reminder that we need each other—and that intentional community can make all the difference.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and Family Background
04:59 Challenges of Parenting in a New City
10:03 Navigating Adult Friendships
14:59 Building Community Through Church
19:58 Raising Kids in Faith
20:51 Engaging Kids with Faith-Based Content
23:09 Navigating the Transition to Young Adulthood
27:02 The Importance of Community in Parenting
29:06 Prioritizing Church in Family Life
31:18 Three Key Themes in Parenting
35:59 Finding Joy and Humor in Parenting
39:39 Closing Thoughts and Prayer
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
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| 0:39.0 | slash gifts to explore the 2026, moms, dads, and grads gift guide today. The link is also in my |
| 0:45.7 | show notes today. Hey friends, welcome back to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm your host, Courtney DeFaio, and I am delighted to introduce you to a new friend, Tammy Floyd. |
| 1:04.8 | But before we get there, I need you to go to my Instagram, not Pardon the Mess, but Courtney Defeo. |
| 1:09.2 | And look at the video I posted for |
| 1:11.1 | Larson's birthday. I stayed up for like an hour or two the night before her 17th birthday. And I was like so amused finding all the crazy pictures of her. She was just wild. I mean, wild, wild. And you wouldn't know it now if you saw her. She's like super put together. But she was my wild one. and I mean so many pictures of her upside down flailing off of this things. |
| 1:31.3 | Pretzels in her nose. I mean, just crazy time, but I did a little birthday montage to Wild Thing, the song, and it just made me giggle. And so I heard from so many of you that were like, oh my gosh, this is my little one. She's for right now, Is she ever going to turn out as she going to jail? And so as Tammy and I talk about at the end of this episode, her daughter, Faith, was apparently like that too. And so it makes sense that her and Larson have found each other. But Tammy Floyd is the wife of Daniel Floyd, and they are a new couple to our town. We are so delighted to have them in the |
| 2:01.2 | Dallas-Fort Worth area. And selfishly, I just wanted to get to nowhere, and I've been praying |
| 2:05.3 | about these last few episodes of the school year, and who was going to be on, and it just really |
| 2:09.7 | kept pressing on my heart to have Tammy. And so she and Daniel came here last August to take over |
| 2:16.1 | Gateway Church. They're the new pastors of Gateway Church. |
| 2:19.1 | And Larson and her daughter, Faith, go to school together, and they just became fast friends. |
| 2:23.8 | And so I wanted to just pick her brain from a pastor's standpoint just about friendship and |
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