Friendship struggles and raising girls with Grace Valentine
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
4.9 • 850 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Grace Valentine is BACK! You all absolutely loved the first episode and you will love this one even more. Grace is a firecracker for Jesus. That’s what a grandma would say - but it’s so true. She comes in with such energy and truth that will just fire you up.
She is a speaker, author and podcast host and is impacting thousands of young women around the world. On today’s episode we talk about all things FRIENDS. Friendships are just hard, not just for young girls for us as women. Grace has bible-based true encouragement for how to make and maintain friends.
JOURNAL alert! You will need to take notes for this one. She just casually tosses out profound statements at the speed of lightning. So, buckle in.
My favorite part is when she compared homecoming to the Met Gala. I still laugh out loud when I think about it. She quickly pivots from that joke to the sting of rejection. She also asks amazing questions: will that rejection taint your view or make you wiser and kinder? Or will it make you bitter?
In this episode, we chat about:
- Understanding shallow vs deep friendships
- How to humble yourself in conflict
- Challenges of making and keeping friends
Enjoy!
Courtney DeFeo
(02:58) Navigating College and Post-Grad Life
(05:53) Friendship Journeys and Challenges
(09:00) The Complexity of Friendships
(12:00) Understanding Shallow vs. Deep Friendships
(15:02) Finding Your Community and Dance Floor
(16:29) Navigating Loneliness and Friendship
(20:45) Conflict Resolution in Friendships
(28:08) The Importance of Authentic Connections
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Resources from today’s show:
- Connect with Grace Valentine
- The Better Friend - Grace’s new book
- A Million Tiny Moments
- Sky Ranch Camps
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| 1:10.0 | Music Hey friends. Welcome back to Part of the Mess. I'm your host, Courtney Defeo, and I love my job. Have I said that lately? Like, I literally get to turn on my microphone and talk to the most fascinating people. And we'll get to |
| 1:28.2 | how awesome Grace Valentine is. But I just loved it so much and it blessed me. In fact, I was having |
| 1:33.6 | this is episodes all about friendships and our daughters and just friendships as women. And I was |
| 1:39.0 | having one of those weeks where I was like, you know, on social media too much and saw a couple |
| 1:42.7 | things. And I was like, I'm kind of feeling rejected here. And had to kind of circle my heart about like, oh, no, I |
| 1:48.8 | already really do have a community of vibrant friends and just really kind of wrestled through it as a |
| 1:53.5 | 48-year-old. So I know it's hard for your daughters to process making and keeping friends. And I know |
| 2:00.5 | it's even harder as a mom to watch when they're |
| 2:02.4 | rejected or when they're hurt. But she gives so many amazing pieces of advice here. And they're all |
| 2:08.1 | biblical and they're all so relatable. And so I pray that you'll listen for yourself, listen with your |
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