Hope in the Storms: Trusting God in Motherhood
Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)
Danielle Bean
4.9 • 810 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This week on Girlfriends, I’m so overjoyed to share my conversation with author and Catholic mom Megan Madden. Megan is a wife to a theologian, mom of seven, and the author of Mary, Teach Me to Be Your Daughter and Through Storms and Still Waters with Ascension Press.
In our chat, Megan opens up about:
🌸 How to surrender your plans to God and trust him deeply—even in the storms of life.
🌸 Practical ways to nurture prayer in the middle of motherhood and family chaos.
🌸 The beauty of authentic femininity and how Mary models it perfectly for us.
🌸 Simple practices for slowing down and finding God’s presence in the little moments.
Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, or longing for encouragement in your vocation, this episode will inspire you to lean into God’s grace and embrace your unique call as a Catholic woman.
✨ Mentioned in this episode:
* Megan’s books: Mary, Teach Me to Be Your Daughter and Through Storms and Still Waters
* Megan’s website: amotherslace.com
* Follow Megan on Instagram: @amotherslace
* The Surrender Novena: daniellebean.com/surrender
* The book Megan recommended: The Privilege of Being a Woman by Alice von Hildebrand
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy in family living. This week we are talking with our special guest, Megan Madden, who is author of Through Storms and Still Waters from Ascension. Can't wait to share this conversation with you. Let's get |
| 0:21.0 | going. |
| 0:26.9 | Hey, girlfriend, how are you so glad you are here? So happy we're able to connect here in the podcast |
| 0:32.8 | where we can talk about all the things that matter most to us as Catholic women, faith, |
| 0:36.6 | family, and the stuff that fills up your everyday as Catholic women, faith, family, and the stuff |
| 0:37.6 | that fills up your everyday life. Today, I'm really excited to share this beautiful conversation |
| 0:42.6 | that I recently had with author Megan Madden. She writes and speaks about faith, femininity, |
| 0:48.5 | and motherhood in such a thoughtful, inspiring way. And you're going to hear this in a minute, |
| 0:53.4 | but in our chat, |
| 0:54.2 | Megan opened up about her journey of learning to trust in God more deeply and her insights on |
| 0:59.0 | authentic femininity and how we can draw closer to our Lord and our lady in the middle of our busy |
| 1:03.9 | lives. But if you've ever struggled with surrendering your plans to God or wondered how to live out your faith as a Catholic woman in |
| 1:13.3 | today's world. I know you're going to love this conversation. We talked a lot about surrender |
| 1:17.9 | here on the podcast. And in fact, for years now, I was going back and looking it up, it's been a few |
| 1:23.7 | years that I've been talking about the surrender novena, especially here on the podcast. |
| 1:30.1 | It was actually four years ago that I first ever shared in the podcast four ways that the |
| 1:36.4 | surrender novena will change your life. And I still believe in that. I still believe the |
| 1:40.8 | surrender novena will change your life. So if you have no idea what I'm talking about, |
| 1:44.6 | the surrender novena is a very simple, short novena that is put together from |
| 1:51.3 | apparitions, I guess you call it, right? Or revelations to Don Delinda Routolo, who was a spiritual advisor for Padre Pio. So imagine this. He's got a lot of |
| 2:04.3 | street cred right there, right? And so our Lord visited him and he wrote down these words, |
| 2:10.4 | these beautiful words that he heard from our Lord in this novena. So each day the novena |
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