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Stuck No More Voices is the podcast for Christian women leaders who carry a message and still feel like the best kept secret in their field. Theresa Croft is a Visibility Strategist and creator of the Story Gold Method, the process that turns a woman’s story into her message and a pathway for her visibility. With over twenty nine years in media and seventeen in radio, she helps Christian women move from stuck to seen. Every week she digs into what actually gets a woman found. How to uncover the thread God has been weaving through your story. How to say it out loud without copying someone else’s playbook. How to build the pathway so your ideal client can find you and work with you. You will also hear The Calling Table Sessions, a guest series where Christian women tell the truth about the season that shaped them. Grief and gold, handled with care. If you have a message, a product, or a service that could bring hope to the people you serve, pull up a chair. Some stories are not for scrolling past. theresacroft.com

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October 26, 2026Episode 34827 min

348-Melissa Dyess: Day Eight, She Walked Out on a Walker

Send us Fan Mail You can reach Melissa on Instagram by Clicking here. Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Melissa Dyess. Twelve years ago she was in a major accident. The first thing the hospital told her mother was to get the family together. She was not going to make it. Her father had died nine months earlier. Four of her five children were bracing to lose her too. Her mother is a praying mother, and she called coast to coast until the prayer chain was running. Hours later the report changed. She would live, but with a broken back and twelve weeks flat on her back. Then the doctors came in and said they could not explain it, but she needed to get up and walk. On day eight they told her she was too healthy to be there. She walked out on a walker. She also had bleeding on the brain and a broken hip. Today she carries scars and not much else. She calls the scars her receipts, and she will not have them covered up, because they remind her how good God has been. Melissa helps kingdom authors, churches, and ministries get clear, get published, and get their message into the right hands. She has done it for other people for over a decade. Then someone asked her where her own book was. It came from a bird. She was at church, distracted during worship, watching a bird in a window sing his heart out and stop every time the room stopped. She sat there wondering if she was letting a bird out praise her. By the end of the service she had written a poem called The Bird in the Window. That poem became her book, Battle Scars of the Redeemed, which is up for a Kingdom Award. She is now writing book two, and while decluttering she found thirty eight book outlines waiting on her. In this conversation she talks about marrying young and unequipped, the years of emotional and religious abuse that followed, and the season when she went looking for what God actually said instead of what people expected. She talks about how much of her real story lives inside her fiction. And she is clear about something a lot of women need to hear. Not everyone is an author, but everyone can get their story out. She also gives one practical habit worth stealing. Post it notes on the bathroom mirror, so you cannot forget what God has already done. Find Melissa at mpvirtualsolutions.com, on social at Missing Piece Virtual Solutions, or by email at mpvirtualsolutions@gmail.com . This is The Calling Table Sessions on the Stuck No More Voices Podcast. One seat. One woman. One story handled with care. If you are a Christian woman leader with a story that could reach the woman you used to be, there is a seat here for you at theresacroft.com/your-seat. Share this episode with the woman who came to mind while you were listening. Subscribe on YouTube. Share on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Hosted by Theresa Croft, a Visibility Strategist who helps Christian women move from their calling to their story to being found with a message for their ideal audience. Register Click HERE: The Story Gold Method: Learn to connect to your audience with stories from your experiences. The best strategy for content? Your Story Home TheresaCroft.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theresacroft Facebook: https://Facebook.com/theresamcroft YouTube: https://YouTube.com/ @theresacroft More Podcast Episodes on Apple and Spotify

October 22, 2026Episode 34724 min

347-Karin Thompson: They Counted Coffee Granules to Keep Him Calm

Send us Fan Mail A listener note before you press play. This conversation is about childhood abuse and a home ruled by fear. Karin's book available on amazon: My Journey to Enjoying My Life. Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Karin Thomson. Her father came out of the Second World War in Holland carrying things nobody had words for yet. What her family knew was that anything could set him off. Coffee too weak. Coffee too strong. Not enough sugar. They started counting the granules. Twenty seemed to be safe. Twenty one was not. There was no way to get ahead of it, because the problem was never the coffee. She says she never got a childhood. She grew up as an adult. Four sisters in a house with no friends over, no socializing, and one rule that held it all together. Do not tell anyone what happens in this home. When one of them set him off, all of them paid. So they learned not to like each other either. She met the Lord at twelve and held on with everything she had. She has been walking with Him for over fifty years now. But this was the eighties. No Google. A set of encyclopedias that had nothing useful under anxiety and nothing at all under abuse. Counseling was expensive and carried a stigma. So she prayed, and God answered her slowly, one thing at a time. One of the first things He said was that she had to deal with her temper. She pushed back. Doesn't everybody have a temper? Isn't everyone angry like this? No. He told her to count to ten. She says ten did nothing. She had to count to about five thousand before she came back to herself. Then she would look at the situation and realize there was nothing there. What she hated most was seeing her father in herself. She did not want any part of him in her. But that house was the only place she had ever learned anything, so that is what came out. Her book is My Journey to Enjoying My Life. It is her testimony, and it has twelve steps in it that she still does today. She wrote it because plenty of books describe the abuse and stop there. Hers is about how you get out. She is direct about it. If you want to do the work, it is the book for you. If you want sympathy, it is not. She is honest that the questions may never get answered. Daddy, why couldn't you love me. Mommy, why couldn't you take care of me. What she found instead is a different Father, and a different identity to stand in. She has been married forty nine years to a man she calls amazing, and she says the odds against two people with their histories making it even a year were slim. Her last word in this episode is the one to keep. If you want answers, get close to Him. And if you cannot manage anything else, say help me. Find Karin at her website, and on Instagram and Facebook under her author handle. Her book is linked in the show notes. Register Click HERE: The Story Gold Method: Learn to connect to your audience with stories from your experiences. The best strategy for content? Your Story Home TheresaCroft.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theresacroft Facebook: https://Facebook.com/theresamcroft YouTube: https://YouTube.com/ @theresacroft More Podcast Episodes on Apple and Spotify

October 19, 2026Episode 34627 min

346-Lisa Schafer: Bible Studies She Never Meant to Write

Send us Fan Mail Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Lisa Schaefer. Five years ago she was working part time in healthcare and getting buried in office work she was never built for. She prayed about it, and she says God told her to go home. She went, a little like Abram, with no idea why. She thought maybe she was supposed to write a memoir. Trouble was, she is not a writer. She says she does not even want to take down the order before the family gets pizza. So she sat at a blank screen for weeks. She had plenty of material. Twenty five years of homeschooling. Three adopted children with special needs. Infertility. An interracial family. None of it felt right. Then a friend prayed one sentence over her, and the wall came down. She said the place God has redeemed Lisa the most is probably the place she is meant to reach out from. That changed everything. Her father left when she was two. A man abused her when she was five. She carried the shame, and she says she built plenty of her own on top of it. It took four decades before she could forgive either one of them, and by the time she did, she had almost forgotten how heavy it had been to carry. Now she walks women through the same process. In this conversation she talks about the difference between asking Jesus to be your Savior and making Him Lord, and why forgiveness gets so hard when that gap is still open. She talks about starting with the lie underneath the pain instead of the pain itself. I do not feel loved, prove to me I am. She talks about what to do at two in the morning when the memory comes back. And she says out loud what a lot of women are afraid to say, that both of her perpetrators died without ever asking her for anything. She is also clear about what she will not do. She does not sit in the ugliness with a woman and pick it apart. She says you are not your trauma, and she means to get you out. There is a line in this episode you will not forget. A pastor once told her that staying bitter means handing your heart to the very person you would never give it to. Lisa host s The Diary of a Discarded Daughter, available on Spotify, Apple, iHeart, Amazon Music, and YouTube. This is The Calling Table Sessions on the Stuck No More Voices Podcast. One seat. One woman. One story handled with care. If you are a Christian woman leader with a story that could reach the woman you used to be, there is a seat here for you at theresacroft.com/yourseat. Share this episode with the woman who came to mind while you were listening. Register Click HERE: The Story Gold Method: Learn to connect to your audience with stories from your experiences. The best strategy for content? Your Story Home TheresaCroft.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theresacroft Facebook: https://Facebook.com/theresamcroft YouTube: https://YouTube.com/ @theresacroft More Podcast Episodes on Apple and Spotify

October 15, 2026Episode 34528 min

345-Desiree Young: Writing Is Worship and It Is Warfare

Send us Fan Mail Desiree Young releases a special resource for the Calling Table Audience. Click here for free resource: https://forging.storiesofglorypublishing.com/findyourstory She asked God for her marketable skill. He said write. She asked whether He meant finance or accounting instead. Desiree Young started her first book, wrote diligently for three months, and then stalled out for years. What got her moving again was a mentor telling her that when we bury our gifts, we may be denying someone else their breakthrough. Three things you will take from this one. Writing is worship and it is warfare. She says you are not putting words on a page. You are forging a sword, and the forge is hot for a reason. Progress follows a decision, not a feeling. In three years she wrote 30,000 words. In one focused month, she wrote 35,000. Get the vision before you get the words. Who is this book for, and what changes in them when they read it? She now runs Stories of Glory Publishing and has written twelve books. Find her at https://storiesofglorypublishing.com . Share this episode with the woman who has been saying she is going to write that book. Register Click HERE: The Story Gold Method: Learn to connect to your audience with stories from your experiences. The best strategy for content? Your Story Home TheresaCroft.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theresacroft Facebook: https://Facebook.com/theresamcroft YouTube: https://YouTube.com/ @theresacroft More Podcast Episodes on Apple and Spotify

October 13, 2026Episode 34412 min

344- The Story Gold in Your Ordinary Tuesday

Send us Fan Mail Walk through the five steps with her live at the Calling Activation Study, Wednesday, October 14th at 7pm Eastern. Register at theresacroftlive.com/seminar. Most women do not have a story problem. They have a seeing problem. They think they need a huge dramatic testimony before their story counts, so they walk past the moment at the kitchen table and the ordinary Tuesday when something quietly shifted. That is where the gold is. Theresa Croft walks through all five steps of the Story Gold Method in this episode. See the moment, not the whole story. One location, one face, one sentence. Find the sacred turn. Every real story has a hinge, and it is often a whisper rather than a shout. Trace the golden thread. Lay three or four turns side by side and watch them rhyme. She shares the plaque beside her stove that meant one thing in a camper and something entirely different years later, the Valentine’s Day biopsy table and the question she heard there, and the woman who told her years after the fact what those Sunday night emails had done for her. Silence is not the same as no reach. You are counting opens. God is counting kitchen tables. Walk through the five steps with her live at the Calling Activation Study, Wednesday, October 14th at 7pm Eastern. Register at theresacroftlive.com/seminar. Register Click HERE: The Story Gold Method: Learn to connect to your audience with stories from your experiences. The best strategy for content? Your Story Home TheresaCroft.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theresacroft Facebook: https://Facebook.com/theresamcroft YouTube: https://YouTube.com/ @theresacroft More Podcast Episodes on Apple and Spotify

October 12, 2026Episode 34336 min

343-Courtney Garner: Why Testosterone Matters for Women Too

Send us Fan Mail At twenty two she had an upper and lower scope. The nurses told her they had never seen someone her age get both. The answer she was offered was surgery or medication for life. Courtney Garner said no to both and went looking for the root. She is now a board certified family nurse practitioner who has run her own functional medicine practice for six years. Three things you will take from this one. Common is not the same as normal. The fatigue, the mood drop, the sleep disruption. Those are signals, not personality traits. Plug the holes before you refill the cup. She works on the cause and the deficiency at the same time, which is why women notice a difference in two or three months instead of two or three years. Loneliness affects your health, and almost nobody treats it. She made connection one of her pillars and wrote a chapter about her own season of it. Her book is Where Faith Meets Medicine . Buy it here! Find her at h https://wellspotfm.com Share this episode with the woman who came to mind while you were listening. Register Click HERE: The Story Gold Method: Learn to connect to your audience with stories from your experiences. The best strategy for content? Your Story Home TheresaCroft.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theresacroft Facebook: https://Facebook.com/theresamcroft YouTube: https://YouTube.com/ @theresacroft More Podcast Episodes on Apple and Spotify

October 10, 2026Episode 34235 min

342-Dr. Heather Burchfield: Not Here to Be Nice

Send us Fan Mail Be sure to get Heather's Book "Not Here To Be Nice: The Unvarnished Truth About Who You Are and the Purpose and Power You Have IN Christ by clicking here. )A listener note before you press play. This conversation includes depression and a mental health crisis.) Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Dr. Heather Burchfield. She had walked with the Lord for over thirty five years when God handed her something big. Decades of faith did not make the assignment any less terrifying. Then two other things landed at the same time, one personal and one professional. She calls it the perfect storm. Three fronts hitting at once. She ended up in a mental health crisis, at the bottom of what she describes as a hole with no floor. She is a perfectionist, an oldest daughter, type A, academic. She likes to see the end from the beginning. She could not see anything. She just knew God had said do this thing, and most days she could not get off the couch. Then her mother called. Her mama is five foot nothing in high heels and a giant in the faith. Up at four thirty every morning, two hours in the Word, the one everybody calls when they need prayer. Heather stopped picking up the phone, because she knew what her mother would say. So her mother said this instead. I have my car keys in my hand. If you do not do something, whatever that is, I am coming there. Heather is fifty one. She says she is still a little scared of her mother, and she was scared enough that day to get up. Her mother pointed her to Ephesians. She started at chapter one and rebuilt her identity from the ground. Now she writes deep dive Bible studies using original languages, accessible enough for a woman who has never studied the Bible and challenging enough that pastors tell her they did not learn it in seminary. One of them is her own father, an ordained pastor in his late seventies. Her book is Not Here to Be Nice. She makes a distinction in this conversation worth hearing all the way through. Nice is a Victorian idea designed to keep people agreeable. It is dishonest, and dishonest is never kind. She gives a picture for it. If your child runs into the road and you are nice, you tell him to have fun out there. Kindness means you scream and grab him by the shirt. It does not look nice from the outside, but you just saved his life. She says women have been keeping the peace when scripture blessed the peacemakers, and those are two different jobs. She also talks about what she does when the depression comes back, because it does. She names it out loud to her husband. I am falling down again. Then she goes back to the truth, because her anxiety lies to her and only truth refutes a lie. Psalm 139 verses 23 and 24 she has prayed over herself hundreds of times. Her advice about scripture is simple. Just get it in there. You do not know when you are going to need it. Find Dr. Heather Burchfield on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Threads. Her book Not Here to Be Nice and the Not Here to Be Nice Leader's Guide are on Amazon. Her website is heatherburchfield.com. This is The Calling Table Sessions on the Stuck No More Voices Podcast. One seat. One woman. One story handled with care. If you are a Christian woman leader with a story that could reach the woman you used to be, there is a seat here for you at theresacroft.com/yourseat. Share this episode with the woman who came to mind while you were listening. Subscribe on YouTube. Share on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Hosted by Theresa Croft, a Visibility Strategist who helps Christian women move from their calling to their story to being found with a message for their ideal audience. Register Click HERE: The Story Gold Method: Learn to connect to your audience with stories from your experiences. The best strategy for content? Your Story Home TheresaCroft.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theresacroft Facebook: https://Facebook.com/theresamcroft YouTube: https://YouTube.com/ @theresacroft More Podcast Episodes on Apple and Spotify

October 8, 2026Episode 34130 min

341-Jennifer Merrill: The Wine Closet Became a Prayer Closet

Send us Fan Mail She built a house with a wine display room in the center. Two hundred bottles behind a glass wall. Then one fall she dropped to her knees in her bedroom and told God her life was a mess. Jennifer Merrill laid down drinking that day. Everything she had been numbing surfaced, and she had to face all of it. She hired a contractor, took out the glass, built a wall, and turned that room into a prayer closet. Three things you will take from this one. At the root of it was the need to be loved by God. She knew He loved her. She did not believe it. When she came to believe it, the issues got smaller one by one. Getting busy for Jesus almost broke her. She is honest about the performance culture, the burnout, and the spiritual abuse she had to name and walk away from. Rest is not laziness. It is resting in what Jesus already finished. Four different people told her she needed it before she understood what it meant. Find Jennifer at jennifermerrill.net , and on TikTok and Instagram. Share this episode with the woman who came to mind while you were listening. Register Click HERE: The Story Gold Method: Learn to connect to your audience with stories from your experiences. The best strategy for content? Your Story Home TheresaCroft.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theresacroft Facebook: https://Facebook.com/theresamcroft YouTube: https://YouTube.com/ @theresacroft More Podcast Episodes on Apple and Spotify

October 5, 2026Episode 34034 min

340-Windy Houser: He Walked Her Through Deliverance in Her Own Bedroom

Send us Fan Mail She was given her first dose of LSD on her thirteenth birthday. Years later, living off coffee and cigarettes and unable to sleep or eat, she cried out and asked God to show up if He was real. He did. Wendy Houser describes it as a tangible blanket of peace she had never felt before. Hungry for more, she joined the church that was all around her and gave it fourteen faithful years, eight of them teaching the adult women. Then she started studying for herself, and what she found did not line up with what she had been taught. Three things you will take from this one. Access to God is not filtered through a system. Jesus is the mediator, and the Holy Spirit is not reserved for an elite group. Leaving costs something. She grieved it like a death and waited a year before she found the courage. God moved her alone to the middle of nowhere so she could learn to hear Him. He walked her through deliverance in her own bedroom. Find Wendy at gemsofknowledge.com and the Gems of Knowledge podcast. Share this episode with the woman who came to mind while you were listening. Register Click HERE: The Story Gold Method: Learn to connect to your audience with stories from your experiences. The best strategy for content? Your Story Home TheresaCroft.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theresacroft Facebook: https://Facebook.com/theresamcroft YouTube: https://YouTube.com/ @theresacroft More Podcast Episodes on Apple and Spotify

October 1, 2026Episode 33922 min

339-Yolanda Grey: It Was Never Partying. It Was Medicine.

Send us Fan Mail She was a Sunday school teacher who showed up to church hungover most weeks. Not partying. She says the alcohol was medicine, the equivalent of a bottle of Xanax at the end of a long day. Yolanda Gray was the oldest of six girls in a difficult home, a teenage mother, and a woman in a hard marriage for almost twenty years. Sobriety came first. Seven years later, everything else changed. Three things you will take from this one. Our secrets keep us sick. She spent years trying to stop on her own because she was ashamed, and it was telling the truth that finally moved her. You cannot take back a life you do not believe is yours. Identity comes before the choice. Rest is not optional. Shingles laid her out for fifteen months, and she says the hustle we were sold is a lie. Her book is Take Back Your Life is available by clicking here. Find her at yolandagrey.com Share this episode with the woman who came to mind while you were listening. Register Click HERE: The Story Gold Method: Learn to connect to your audience with stories from your experiences. The best strategy for content? Your Story Home TheresaCroft.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theresacroft Facebook: https://Facebook.com/theresamcroft YouTube: https://YouTube.com/ @theresacroft More Podcast Episodes on Apple and Spotify

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