Fun With Annie F. Downs: Episode 899
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
When people transition out of your life, plus Annie F. Downs on being single and not-so-serious, and how to set boundaries with your parents.
Featured musical artist: About a Mile
Roundtable: When People Leave
Your best friend moves to a new city. Or a sibling leaves home. Or you change churches. All of these have one thing in common: They reset your social circle, plus they bring a sense of grief and loss. When people exit your life, how do you learn to adjust? Our guests talk about departures that have forced them to move on and make new friends, plus how they persevered and saw God’s hand in the transitions despite the struggle to say goodbye.
Culture: Annie F. Downs From the Inside Out
If you’ve ever listened to the podcast “That Sounds Fun” with host Annie F. Downs, you’re certainly familiar with her spunk, energy, and wide array of guests and topics. This week she’s on “The Boundless Show” chatting with Lisa about singleness, accountability in everything, how to navigate a career change, how she plans her show, and where she’s trusting God right now.
Chase the Fun: 100 Days to Discover Fun Right Where You Are
Inbox: Boundaries With My Parents
Are you an adult whose parents still want to know every bit of your business? You’re not alone. How can you maintain a good relationship with your mom and dad while still setting appropriate boundaries and building independence? Counselor Kari A weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | Boundless show. |
| 0:12.2 | All right, friends, welcome to this week's episode of the Boundless Show. |
| 0:15.3 | Lisa Anderson here with you as we are ready to finish out April. |
| 0:20.4 | I hope you had a great Easter. Later on in this show, |
| 0:24.3 | we're just marching straight on, y'all. Okay. We have got an inbox where someone is asking, |
| 0:29.3 | how do you set healthy boundaries with your parents during the first few years of adulthood? |
| 0:34.9 | Kind of as you're making that transition, What does that look like? One of our |
| 0:38.0 | counselors will weigh in on that. And then for our culture segment, if you have ever listened to the |
| 0:43.5 | That Sounds Fun podcast with Annie F. Downs, you are in for a treat because she is here in the studio |
| 0:50.1 | with us. She is a lot of fun. She is single. She is super random. We enjoy getting to know her |
| 0:57.7 | and learning from her. And so she's going to talk about lessons she's learned, how she does |
| 1:03.1 | her own show, what it looks like to be Annie F. Downs, the relationship she has, including |
| 1:08.5 | accountability. So all the things you're going to be encouraged by |
| 1:11.3 | that. Okay, here we are for our roundtable, and because we like talking about relationships, |
| 1:16.7 | but not always just dating and stuff like that, today we're going to talk about when people |
| 1:21.8 | come and go in your life. So we often think of this in the context of friendship. And I don't know, if you're like me, |
| 1:30.0 | I remember being in college. And when I left college, I just assumed that I was going to go |
| 1:33.8 | move and be back by all my college friends and we'd pick up where we left off. And then I moved |
| 1:38.8 | back to where I went to school and all my friends had left. And was super bummed I'm like hey where'd they all go and |
| 1:44.3 | oh they actually had jobs so they went and moved like for their jobs and I was still floundering |
| 1:49.2 | so that's the thing so hopefully my stories won't be the only sad ones around this because I've got |
| 1:55.5 | John Joni and Georgia here whoa all the Jijit Jujan J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J. Welcome, you guys. I said you grouped us into the |
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