For the Days You Feel Stuck: Finding Quiet Hope in Hard Seasons | Tanner Olson (Bonus Episode)
Minimalist Moms Podcast | Purposeful Life & Parenting Tips
Diane Boden
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What do you do when life doesn’t go as planned - and you’re just trying to get through the day?
In this episode, Diane sits down with author and poet Tanner Olson to talk about navigating grief, burnout, and uncertainty with honesty and quiet hope. Rather than offering quick fixes, Tanner shares how small moments can help you move through hard seasons with more gentleness.
If you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure of what’s next, this conversation offers simple, comforting reminders that you’re not alone - and that hope can begin, even here.
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- Book: Getting Through What You're Going Through: Notes and Poems for Hoping and Becoming
About Tanner|
Tanner Olson is an author, poet, and speaker. Across the country he shares poetry and tells stories of grace and hope. His work has been described as “hopefully unique and inviting” as it blends faith, humor, and curiosity. Tanner is the author of four books, doesn’t take himself too seriously, drinks his coffee black, and cheers for the Orlando Magic. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife, son, and dog, Pancake.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | For those of you that are new around here, I release bonus episodes that serve a niche part of my audience. |
| 0:05.8 | This episode is coming from a Christian perspective, so if that's not something you're interested in, |
| 0:10.5 | check out one of the other episodes that dropped this week, or join me back to your next week for episodes that you don't want to miss. |
| 0:17.7 | I wanted to create a book that really kind of met people right where they were. |
| 0:22.1 | And I think when you're going through a hard season, like the book is titled Getting Through |
| 0:26.0 | What You're Going Through When You're Going Through a hard season, like, I don't think people want a lot. |
| 0:30.8 | They just need a little bit of hope, a little bit reminded that they can keep going. |
| 0:35.4 | But you know when you're going through something, |
| 0:44.9 | you don't know how it's all going to resolve or change or be made right. And when you slow down, |
| 0:51.3 | everything becomes a little bit, I don't know, harder but better. Rest is not the reward for working. |
| 0:55.0 | Rest is the start that leads into the work. Rest is just a way of worship to trust that God is actually in control of it all. But hope is this is this thing that is |
| 1:02.3 | it is fierce, it is heavy, it is real, it is restorative. When you find your people, |
| 1:07.6 | you feel less alone and you feel like you can actually continue because somebody else |
| 1:13.2 | gets what you're going through. There's like, without community, it's really hard to get through |
| 1:19.5 | the thing. But it's the suffering, the grief, that sorrow that really bonds us to each other. |
| 1:26.1 | This is Diane Bowden and you're listening to the |
| 1:28.2 | minimalist moms podcast. What do you do when life doesn't go as planned and you're just trying |
| 1:33.6 | to get through the day? In today's episode, I sit down with author and poet Tanner Olson to talk |
| 1:38.9 | about navigating grief, burnout, and uncertainty with honesty and quiet hope. Rather than offering quick fixes, |
| 1:45.6 | Tanner shares how small moments can help you move through hard season with more gentleness. |
| 1:50.3 | If you're feeling overwhelmed, uncertain, or just tired, this conversation offers a quiet |
| 1:55.1 | kind of encouragement, the kind that meets you where you are and reminds you that you're not |
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