You Called, We Listened: Your Stories, In Your Words

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Description: Today, we’re playing a few of our favorite messages and responding to what you, our listeners, have shared. Whether it’s midlife realizations, hard-won wisdom, or letting go of stuff that just isn’t serving you anymore—this is about all of us learning from each other. Thank you to Alice, Ann, Sarah, Ashley, #1 Becky and “Badass Becky” Also, Sydney Hatmaker said some hurtful things to us about us broadcasting our bare old lady feet on the podcast and we had to take a minute to discuss a new dress code policy. Thought-provoking Quotes: 18:00 Sometimes the tool is just language – Amy Hardin 21:00 Tools all in use but still suffering – Jen 27:00 I want to shake people and pull things over. I’m not sure that’s the appropriate response. – Jen 29:30 If we don’t counter messages, others will take over. – Jen 47:00 Make a list of your accomplishments to use for momentum – Amy 48:00 I think we are at our best in the second half of life – Jen 58:00 I want out of the rat race – Jen Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Reclaiming Your Power: Moms Demand Action’s Shannon Watts on Living a Life of Passion and Purpose - https://jenhatmaker.com/podcasts/series-64/reclaiming-your-power-moms-demand-actions-shannon-watts-on-living-a-life-of-passion-and-purpose/ Camino de Santiago - https://santiago-compostela.net/ Midlife Isn’t a Crisis, It’s a Comeback: Maddie Corman on Being Accidentally Brave - https://jenhatmaker.com/podcasts/series-64/midlife-isnt-a-crisis-its-a-comeback-maddie-corman-on-being-accidentally-brave/ Betrayal Trauma - https://www.verywellmind.com/betrayal-trauma-causes-symptoms-impact-and-coping-5270361 Brené Brown - https://brenebrown.com/ Books by Brené Brown - https://amzn.to/3FgwnIt The Tears of Things: Living Prophetically in an Age of Outrage with Richard Rohr - https://jenhatmaker.com/podcasts/series-64/the-tears-of-things-living-prophetically-in-an-age-of-outrage-with-richard-rohr/ Trump administration says it’s cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts - https://apnews.com/article/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-cuts-6292f48f8d4025bed0bf5c3e9d623c16 Kendra Adachi - https://www.thelazygeniuscollective.com/ Escaping the Productivity Trap: Kendra Adachi’s Lazy Genius Perspective - https://jenhatmaker.com/podcasts/series-64/escaping-the-productivity-trap-kendra-adachis-lazy-genius-perspective/ Frances Mayes - https://www.francesemayes.com/ Connect with Jen!Jen’s Website - https://jenhatmaker.com/ Jen’s Instagram - https://instagram.com/jenhatmakerJen’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/jenHatmaker/ Jen’s Facebook - https://facebook.com/jenhatmakerJen’s YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/JenHatmaker The For the Love Podcast is presented by Audacy. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, everybody, welcome to the show.
0:08.7	Welcome back.
0:09.9	This is a really fun day.
0:11.4	I've been looking forward to this one.
0:12.9	Yeah, I like these.
0:13.9	I do too.
0:14.5	We are having listener voicemail day.
0:18.0	So, you know, for our, for those of you who listen all the time and every week,
0:22.4	which is so many of you, thank you for an incredible subscribers. You guys are the best. You always hear
0:27.4	me do this thing. Like, hey, you can leave a message for us over at genhattmaker.com on the podcast page.
0:33.0	And a bunch of them have done it. Yes. And what that means is that every so often, we have listener voicemail day, where we have
0:44.0	listened to your awesome messages.
0:46.5	We've selected some of them.
0:48.3	And we are going to play them today and we're going to respond to them because they
0:51.7	include, well, awesome stuff.
0:53.4	Yeah.
0:53.7	Y'all did not disappoint. They did not disappoint. As if we ever thought that you would.
1:00.8	You are smart. You are tender. You are funny. We've teared up in several cases. Hit reply or repeat, repeat, repeat. You're nailing this.
1:14.3	And so, first of all, thanks for doing that. Thank you for voicemailing us. Like we, we sincerely love to hear from you.
1:24.1	And we don't have a podcast if you're not listening to it. So exactly.
1:28.6	Yeah, this is a fun thing to center like the whole reason we do a podcast. Yeah, it turns out
1:33.6	our listeners, excellent content. Oh my God, I know. It's so true. I remember one time,
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