The Kind of Friend Everyone Wants (And How to Be One) with Jeanine Amapola Ward
Stay True with Madison Prewett Troutt
Madison Prewett Troutt
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week on Stay True Podcast, Madi sits down with her best friend, Jeanine Amapola Ward, for an honest and encouraging conversation about trusting God in seasons of transition, and how to be a good, Christ-centered friend through it all. They open up about how change can stretch your faith, shift your relationships, and invite you to surrender control in deeper ways. From navigating different life seasons to doing long-distance friendship, they share what it really looks like to stay connected, intentional, and genuine… even when life looks different. Together, they talk about the qualities of a good friend: showing up consistently, choosing grace over comparison, communicating well, and pointing each other back to Jesus no matter the season.
You're going to want to hear this one!
As always… stay you and stay true!
Topics we dive into:
-Trusting God in seasons of transition
-How to be a good, God-honoring friend
-Qualities of a healthy long-distance friendship
-Surrendering control and trusting God's timing in the middle of the unknown
AND SO MUCH MORE!
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| 0:00.0 | Anyone would be lying if they didn't say that mother had changed their friendships. |
| 0:03.6 | Because it does. It just looks so different. |
| 0:05.4 | It's important to try. If someone invites you somewhere, you say yes. |
| 0:09.1 | The Bible literally says that like God laughs at our plans. |
| 0:11.8 | My whole plan went out the window and it just made me realize God's plan truly is the best plan. |
| 0:17.6 | It creates the most dependence you'll ever have on God. |
| 0:20.4 | How do you create friendships that last? Friendship should be frogs. It creates the most dependence you'll ever have on God. How do you create friendships |
| 0:21.7 | that last? Friendship should be frogs. It should be faithful. It should be reciprocal. It should be organic. |
| 0:27.2 | The next one is growth. And the last one is safe. How do you abide in the Lord in seasons of transition? |
| 0:34.7 | Abiding truly looks like constant communication with Jesus. If I made |
| 0:39.2 | decisions without Christ, sorely regretted it. So it looked like to me pausing, slowing down, |
| 0:45.2 | constantly seeking the Lord. If you do that, you can't mess it up. |
| 0:52.5 | What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of Stay True Podcast. I'm your host, Madison |
| 0:57.8 | Pruitt Trout, and I have really not like a guest on the podcast because she's been on the |
| 1:03.0 | podcast, I think, more than anybody else other than Grant. And she is my best friend. And you guys |
| 1:09.0 | know her very well. You guys have seen our friendship through lots of different seasons of life. And she is a mother, a wife. She's an author. She's a speaker. She's a YouTuber. She's a content creator. She does a lot of stuff. She does a lot of stuff. And she's also a host of Happy and Healthy, and we just recorded on her podcast as well. Welcome, Jeannie. Thank you for having me. I think this is round four on your podcast. I really think it is. Yeah. Me and Grant are in competition. We have recorded, you know, we never got to record. We did on yours in seasons of singleness because I started this when I was married. Yeah, you don't have a podcast then. Because I was going to say we've done a lot of different seasons of life on my podcast. But really it's been, I guess, married and then pregnant and then now having little babies, which is crazy. Yeah. Which wait, whoa, whoa, I'm not pregnant. No, no, no, no, no, no. This is not a pregnancy announcement. |
| 2:02.1 | This is not what you guys think. |
| 2:03.7 | But Duke is how old? |
| 2:05.2 | He's nine months. |
| 2:06.0 | Nine months. And Hosanna's like 14 months, which is crazy. |
| 2:09.1 | I know. And seeing them play together is just like the cutest little thing. |
| 2:14.0 | Like, Hosanna's blowing kisses at him. She keeps trying to kiss him. It's so cute. She was like sitting across the table for him and she, from him at lunch today and she couldn't reach him. And so she kissed the table to symbolize that she was trying to kiss. She's like, this is meant for you. Yeah. I'm like, sweetie, no. We and I are trying to teach her right now that we don't kiss anybody except mommy and daddy, |
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