When Faith and Doubt Go Hand in Hand
Coffee + Crumbs Podcast
Ashlee Gadd
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we're taking a slight detour from friendship and hospitality to dive into the writing process with our resident "Writing Yoda" — Callie Feyen. How does doubt fuel our writing? How do we keep a posture of curiosity while witnessing to the world? What might happen to our art if we viewed creativity as part of our inheritance? We hope this conversation gives you a peek into the behind-the-scenes writing process of You're In Good Company, and perhaps even inspires you to write a story yourself (no happy ending required).
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| 0:00.0 | We believe motherhood is a gift, an art, not a science. |
| 0:07.2 | We believe it takes a village to raise our kids and that motherhood is better when we stick together. |
| 0:12.7 | Most of all, we believe motherhood is holy work. |
| 0:16.9 | At the core of our show, we want you to feel safe, known, encouraged, and loved. |
| 0:22.4 | This is the Coffee and Crumbs podcast. |
| 0:28.3 | Hey, friends. |
| 0:29.5 | Welcome back to the Coffee and Crumbs podcast. |
| 0:31.7 | I am here, as always, with my dear friend, Katie Blackburn. |
| 0:34.8 | Hello, friend. |
| 0:35.8 | Hi, friends. |
| 0:37.3 | And today we are joined by our dear, dear, dear friend, Blackburn. Hello, friend. Hi, friends. And today we are joined by our dear, |
| 0:40.5 | dear, dear friend, Callie. Hello, Callie. Hi, guys. Thanks for having me on. Yes, we are so thrilled to |
| 0:46.9 | talk to you today. And before I jump into reading your bio, I'm just going to heap a little bit of |
| 0:52.4 | public praise on you because I don't think I've |
| 0:54.9 | had the opportunity to do that on this podcast before. So what I really, really, really want our |
| 0:59.8 | listeners to know is Callie has taught me more about writing than anyone else that I can really think of, |
| 1:09.0 | in particularly with the work that we've done at |
| 1:11.3 | Coffee and Crumbs. And we actually are going to talk about this a little bit more specifically |
| 1:15.1 | once we get into the meat of our conversation today. But Callie, the number one thing I have |
| 1:19.5 | learned from you in all of the years that I have been writing alongside you is how to not write |
| 1:25.3 | a happy ending. And that has been such a profound gift to me. |
| 1:31.7 | It has made me a stronger writer. |
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