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Oct 2026

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Listen Linda Media Network is a global podcast and media platform dedicated to amplifying voices, inspiring audiences, and creating opportunities for storytellers, authors, entrepreneurs, ministry leaders, and change-makers around the world. What began as the Listen Linda Podcast has evolved into a growing media network reaching listeners in 88 countries and territories worldwide through podcasting, streaming, publishing, and digital media. The network is home to impactful conversations that educate, encourage, empower, and entertain. Through professional production, global distribution, strategic promotion, and collaborative partnerships, Listen Linda Media Network helps independent creators expand their reach beyond local communities and connect with audiences across the globe. Featured programming has reached listeners in dozens of countries worldwide, including shows such as Gentry’s Journey and The Wounded Warrior Podcast with Dr. LeShawn Fernandez . Whether you’re looking for inspiring stories, faith-based conversations, author interviews, business insights, personal development, or community impact discussions, Listen Linda Media Network is committed to bringing you content that matters. Amplifying Voices. Impacting Lives. Inspiring the World. 🌎 Reaching 88 Countries Worldwide and Growing.

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October 12, 2026Episode 1035 min

UnErased w/ Trish Lacy: You Don’t Get The Rest Of My Life (Season 1 Episode 10 (Finale) )

Send us Fan Mail “You don’t get the rest of my life.” That’s the line I end this season with, because I’m done letting someone else sit at the center of my story. The finale is me telling the unfiltered truth about what my tears were really about: not missing the past, but walking back through it, grieving what I survived, and facing the hard reality of what I normalized just to get through another day. If you’ve ever searched for signs of narcissistic abuse, emotional abuse, gaslighting, or coercive control and wondered whether you’re “overreacting,” I want you to hear this clearly: your experience is real. I also talk about what people rarely explain when they tell women to “just leave.” Leaving isn’t one brave moment. It’s the long aftershock: relearning how to cook without criticism, laugh without fear, decide without defending yourself, and build a home that finally feels like you. My daughter and I start over with small rituals that become sacred, and I learn boundaries that protect my peace even when other people call it bitterness. When friends or family cling to the “good guy” image, I share how it feels to be questioned after years of questioning your own reality, and how I stop trying to prove what I already know. Therapy changes everything. I’m grateful for the kind of support that names narcissistic abuse, equips you with tools, and protects a child’s confidentiality so her voice can grow instead of being used against her. I also share resources that helped me practice letting go, release guilt, and move from survival mode to wholeness. The season ends, but the mission doesn’t: building a doorway out of silence for anyone who’s been dismissed, doubted, or made to feel invisible. If this resonates, subscribe so you don’t miss what comes next, share this with someone who needs language for what they’re living, and leave a review to help more listeners find the show. Support the show

October 12, 202641 min

Trust The Process

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve been praying, waiting, and wondering why nothing looks different yet, this message meets you right there. We’re talking about what it really means to trust the process when life feels uncertain and your emotions are loud, because “we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7) is not just a verse, it’s a way to survive and grow. We share a personal story of walking through pregnancy complications, scary medical reports, and the choice to keep faith when the outcome wasn’t guaranteed. From Proverbs 3:5-6 to Hebrews 11:1, we unpack how trusting God doesn’t require you to fake strength or pretend you never have questions. Faith can be honest and still be steady, and you can bring your doubts to God without walking away from Him. We also get practical about the waiting season. Waiting doesn’t mean you stop living. We talk patience, perseverance, and spiritual maturity, plus the kind of boundaries that protect your healing. We cover discernment, wise counsel, releasing control, and holding hope through hard days with Romans 8:28. You’ll leave with clear reflection questions you can pray through right away, especially if you’re trying to control what God is asking you to surrender. If this encouraged you, subscribe so you don’t miss what’s next, share it with someone who’s in a waiting season, and leave a review to help more people find this faith and healing message. Support the show

October 5, 202622 min

Mind Your Assignment

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever caught yourself knowing every detail about someone else’s life while your own goals feel stuck, this one hits close to home. We’re digging into a blunt, freeing reminder: mind your assignment. Not as a cute slogan, but as a real framework for focus, stewardship, and peace when the internet constantly invites you to monitor, judge, compare, and comment. We walk through why distraction is so sneaky and why “being observant” can turn into neglect. Using two vivid stories a farmer obsessing over a neighbor’s harvest and a student roaming the classroom during a timed assignment we connect the dots to faith and accountability. God is the instructor, not us, and when we spend our energy critiquing other people’s papers, we often haven’t even started our own work. From social media and the attention economy to relationships, parenting, business growth, and mental space, we keep it practical: attention is a resource, and where you send it is where your life gets built or broken down. We talk about how admiration can slide into comparison, why comparing timelines makes you rush decisions you were never told to make, and how freedom shows up when you stop engaging with everything you notice. We also ground it in Galatians 6:4 and a simple challenge: take inventory and identify your assignment right now. If this resonates, subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a reset, and leave a review with the one area you’re choosing to water again. Support the show

October 4, 2026Episode 146 min

When Disobedience Creates A Drought In Your Life

Send us Fan Mail That one line from Amos 4 keeps echoing long after we stop recording: “Yet you did not return to me.” We start Season 4 with a direct Sunday message from Dr. LaShawn Fernandez that asks what happens when God calls us to change and we keep choosing our own way. If you’ve felt spiritually dry, stuck in repeating cycles, or tired of making excuses you don’t even believe anymore, this conversation is meant to interrupt you in the best way. We walk through Amos 4:6–8 and connect the idea of “drought” to the warning signs we ignore like strained relationships, unchecked habits, and priorities that keep drifting. We also talk honestly about the difference between being in church and being transformed, and why obedience to God is more than emotion or routine. Along the way we reference Deuteronomy 28, Haggai 1, 1 Corinthians 14:33, 2 Chronicles 7:13–14, and Luke 13 to keep the message biblical and balanced: consequences are real, but so is mercy, and suffering is not a license to blame people who are already hurting. You’ll hear us push for practical next steps: prayer, humility, wise counsel, telling the truth, making amends, and choosing peace over confusion. We also reflect on how easily we “listen” to technology while doubting the God who has already proven Himself, and we close with a raw reminder that fighting for your mind and healing in silence does not make you weak. If this message helps you, subscribe, share it with someone who needs a reset, and leave a review. What is one step you can take today to return to God? Support the show

September 28, 2026Episode 930 min

Unerased Hosted by Trish LacyEpisode 9: He Contacted My Therapist, Then Recorded Our Daughter

Send us Fan Mail Someone once tried to get ahead of my story by emailing my therapist first and warning her that I’m “very convincing.” That line still makes my stomach drop, because it captures the trap so many people live in during emotional abuse: if you cry, you’re unstable, and if you stay calm, you’re calculating. I’m Trish Lacey, and I’m taking you through the receipts I’ve kept for years: emails, recordings, and text messages that show how co-parenting conflict can turn a child’s feelings into a debate that adults try to win. I talk about therapy as a turning point, not as a neat solution, but as a place where I can finally name patterns like gaslighting, triangulation, and credibility attacks. I also share what it felt like when my private life followed me into my professional world, and then tried to follow me into the room where I was supposed to heal. The hardest part is hearing how careful a child becomes when she’s stuck between adults. We get into privacy while dressing and showering, phone monitoring, and the difference between protecting a child and controlling her voice. I also share how I try to protect my daughter’s confidence as a young Black girl learning to love her skin, her features, and her right to take up space without criticism. If you’re parenting through high-conflict custody or navigating narcissistic abuse dynamics, I hope you leave with one grounded takeaway: stop treating your child’s words like evidence and start treating them like truth worth listening to. Subscribe for the rest of the season, share this with someone who needs it, and please leave a review so more parents can find Honey Race. Support the show

September 21, 2026Episode 837 min

UnErased with Trish Lacy: Episode 8-When Her Pain Became My Purpose

Send us Fan Mail Your body knows when something is wrong, and so does your child. I’m Trish Lacey, and this chapter of my story centers on the moment I stopped treating healing like a private journey and started treating it like protection. With a gentle content warning up front, I share what happened after I left my marriage: the boundaries that felt uncomfortable at first, the small pockets of joy that helped me breathe again, and the sobering realization that my daughter was not just watching me recover, she needed healing of her own. We talk about the kind of emotional abuse and coercive control that doesn’t photograph well, especially inside co-parenting and custody exchanges. I describe what it looks like when a child feels rejected, when they don’t have a real space to belong, and when fear shows up in the body through startle responses, panic, and whispered phone calls asking to be picked up. I also tell the story of one Saturday night I will never forget, when my eight-year-old was told to pack her things and leave, and how that confrontation changed me in a way I cannot undo. Along the way, I connect the dots between trauma, boundaries, and the fierce clarity that arrives when you refuse to let a child carry an adult’s emotions. We close with the truth that became my anchor: you don’t need the person who harmed you to confirm what happened before you begin again. If you’re parenting, reparenting yourself, or trying to heal from narcissistic abuse and emotional neglect, I hope this offers language for what you’ve lived and permission to choose peace. If this resonated, share it with someone who needs it, subscribe for what comes next, and leave a review so more survivors and parents can find this conversation. Support the show

September 14, 2026Episode 644 min

Unerased Hosted by Trish Lacy Episode 6: The Wedge I Invited In

Send us Fan Mail Love doesn’t fall apart all at once. Sometimes it unravels through small moments that shouldn’t matter but somehow do: a dinner that gets labeled “competition,” a conversation that gets interrupted on purpose, a text that says “Don’t tell Trish,” and a home that starts to feel less like a sanctuary and more like an emotional battlefield. We walk through the real mechanics of toxic stepfamily dynamics and blended family conflict, including triangulation, loyalty conflicts, and the exhausting pressure to keep everyone comfortable while you’re quietly disappearing. I share what it felt like to watch the rules shift, to have normal boundaries treated like betrayal, and to realize my nervous system was living in hypervigilance. We also talk about why you don’t need a diagnosis to validate your experience, and how “just live in the same house and don’t talk” isn’t peace, it’s erasure. The hardest part is the kids. I open up about the moment my daughter’s sense of fairness cracked, and the moment her fear forced the truth into the open. Leaving wasn’t about winning, replacing anyone, or loving less. It was about finally choosing respect, safety, and a home where peace is real. If you’ve ever felt used, blamed, or sidelined in a blended family, this will put language to what you’ve been living. Subscribe to Unyerased, share this with someone who needs it, and leave a review with the one line that stayed with you most. Support the show

September 14, 2026Episode 737 min

Unerased Hosted by Trish Lacy Episode 7: I Couldn't Get Out of My Car

Send us Fan Mail Your mind can talk you into enduring almost anything, but your body keeps receipts. I’m Trish Lacey, and I’m sharing the day I pulled into my own driveway and could not make myself walk into the house, the same home I worked for, decorated, and raised my daughter in. That moment didn’t come with a dramatic fight. It came with a heavy silence, the kind that trains you to monitor footsteps and tone, and it forced me to admit a hard truth: leaving gave me a way out, but it did not immediately give me my peace. I walk you through the slow damage of gaslighting and betrayal, the way repeated secrets and shifting explanations make you question your memory, your instincts, and your worth. We talk about stepmother boundaries, why loving a child does not mean accepting mistreatment, and how kids absorb tension even when they don’t know the details. Then we get real about what happens after you leave: the relief, the terror, the guilt, and the grief that shows up when the chaos finally quiets down. Freedom is opening the door. Healing is learning how to walk through it without looking back every few seconds. We also unpack the messy middle of separation, co-parenting, and divorce. A surprise FaceTime reveals a new girlfriend around my child without the conversation we agreed on, and it becomes a lesson in control versus love. From mediation to child support to hidden financial decisions, I name financial abuse for what it is and share practical steps to protect yourself: know your money, your credit, your accounts, and what’s in your name. Stick around to hear about the Uny Race Journal Collection and how it helps you start writing your own healing story. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs it, and leave a review so more women can find this message. Support the show

August 10, 2026Episode 858 min

Avoiding Instruction Leads To Destruction Every Time

Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to sabotage a calling is to get addicted to being right. We’re talking about teachability, rules, and the kind of correction that stings at first but saves you later, because avoiding instruction can lead to destruction and we’ve all watched it happen in real time: opportunities lost, relationships cracked, businesses stalled, and leaders who had talent but refused accountability. We dig into Scripture (Proverbs, Romans, and more) to separate arrogance from confidence and control from godly instruction. I also share a poem called “Rules” to make one point impossible to ignore: creation runs on order, and power without order becomes damage. From there we walk through Saul’s story and the danger of partial obedience, then contrast it with David’s willingness to serve while he waits, and Jesus choosing “not my will, but yours” as the clearest picture of strength through submission. We also get practical about an unteachable spirit, the trap of yes-people, and why flattery can bury you faster than correction ever will. To keep discernment at the center, I leave you with three filters: does the instruction violate God’s Word or just your ego, does the person have fruit or only opinion, and is it trying to elevate you or simply entertain and humble you. If you’re building in leadership, ministry, marriage, or business, this is a reset for your mindset and your circle. Subscribe to the Listen Linda Podcast, share this with someone who needs it, and leave a review with the biggest takeaway you’re choosing to apply. Support the show

August 10, 2026Episode 62 hr 6 min

Peace In The Storm

Send us Fan Mail The storm is not always a sign you missed God. Sometimes it is the proof you are moving. I sit with the person who followed the call, made the leap, stayed obedient and then watched the waves rise anyway, because that moment can make you question everything you thought you heard. We go straight to Mark 4 and the disciples’ boat that starts taking on water while Jesus is still on board, then we pull that truth into real life: cancer, loss, betrayal, addiction, divorce, financial stress, anxiety, and the quiet kind of survival nobody claps for. I talk about faith that looks like getting out of bed, sending the email, feeding the kids, whispering one sentence to God, and choosing not to quit. We also name the pain of praying hard while God feels silent, and why honesty is not a lack of faith. Then we get practical about finding peace in the storm. Peace is not control. Peace is not getting your way. Peace is fear not driving the boat. We talk boundaries, unlearning survival habits, and what it means to stop living like it is still raining long after the clouds moved on. If you have ever felt suspicious of calm, stuck in hypervigilance, or tempted to rebuild chaos because it is familiar, this conversation gives language and a path forward. I also share why testimony matters, how to tell the truth without using your story as revenge, and how Through the Rain Volume 2 is inviting women to write about where they found peace, not just what they survived. If this hits home, subscribe, share it with someone who is tired, and leave a review so more people can find hope when the weather gets rough. Support the show