Hear Where You Belong

Dea Irby, THE Belonging Strategist
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Embark on an inspirational journey with guests from diverse backgrounds, sharing stories of triumph, resilience, and faith, reiterating the common human longing for belonging. From dreamers to doers, believers to seekers, uncover the extraordinary in ordinary moments and the purpose within every life. Open your heart, mind, and ears to resonate with stories reminding you of your significance, belonging, and purpose. Welcome home to 'Hear Where You Belong'.

  1. 4 days ago

    "I've Been Saving These — 17 Quotes From Our Guests That I Cannot Stop Thinking About" | Ep. 109 with Dea Irby

    What if the most powerful thing you could do today was slow down and sit with a few extraordinary words? In this special solo episode of Hear Where You Belong Podcast, host Dea Irby does something she has never done before — she pulls back the curtain on 17 of the most powerful, memorable, and soul-stirring quotes shared by guests across the seasons. Words she has been carrying around, writing down, and thinking about in the car, in the middle of the night, and while washing dishes. Some of these will make you laugh. Some will make you sit very still. And some — she is just going to warn you — are going to hit somewhere deep. From Benjamin Disraeli to Maya Angelou. From Miles Davis to Elisabeth Elliot. From Cheri Baugh Woods to Alison Gieschen. From cotton mill villages to the open sea. These are the words that stopped Dea cold — and she has been saving them just for you. Quotes about belonging. Faith. Suffering. Purpose. Courage. Comparison. Calling. And the kind of wisdom that only comes from people who have actually lived it. No guest today. Just Dea. And 17 quotes worth slowing down for. 💛 There are seven days in a week — and someday is not one of them. Today is the day. Go listen. 💛 #HearWhereYouBelong, #YouBelong, #IveBeenSavingThese, #17Quotes, #SoloEpisode, #SpecialEpisode, #BelongingMatters, #QuotesOfWisdom, #ChristianPodcast, #NewEpisode, #MilesDavis, #MayaAngelou, #ElisabethElliot, #FaithAndBelonging, #WordsThatChangedMe

    "I've Been Saving These — 17 Quotes From Our Guests That I Cannot Stop Thinking About" | Ep. 109 with Dea Irby

  2. 1 Sept

    Don't Mistake the Fire for the Finish Line — Your Story Is Not Over | Ep. 108 with Cheri Baugh Woods

    Divorce. Widowhood. Leukemia — twice. Multiple brain surgeries. A bone marrow transplant. Any one of those would shake most people's faith to the ground.Cheri Baugh Woods has walked through all of them. And she is still standing.In Episode 108 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast, host Dea Irby sits down with Cheri — author, speaker, retired educator, and International Impact Book Awards Author of the Year finalist — whose memoir Win-Win: Miracles Still Happen has already traveled to the Frankfurt Book Fair and the London Book Fair before it ever officially launched in the United States.Because it is not her book. It is God's book. And He took it exactly where He wanted it to go.In this episode, Cheri opens up about the marriage that fell apart six months in — when she discovered her military husband had quietly married another woman in a different state while still married to her, and was engaged to a third. She shares the leukemia diagnosis that came decades later — and the moment God spoke to her in the hospital and said: if I take you home, that is the ultimate win. But if I keep you here — you win again. Because I still have a purpose for you.She also shares the miracle of her brother — a retired Navy SEAL — being a 100% bone marrow match. The surgery that literally changed her blood type from O-positive to A. And why she now calls herself a Navy SEAL by proxy. 😄Her greatest accomplishment? Seeing God use every single chapter of her journey — the ugly ones, the hard ones, the ones she never planned — to give hope to others.Her parting word is the one I want ringing in your ears:Don't mistake the fire for the finish line. This is a chapter — not your whole story.And her free 3-day mindset reset is waiting for you at CheriBaughWoods.com.Choose hope. Your story is not over. 💛#HearWhereYouBelong, #YouBelong, #CheriBaughWoods, #WinWinMiraclesStillHappen, #DontMistakeTheFireForTheFinishLine, #YourStoryIsNotOver, #ChooseHope, #NavySEALByProxy, #MiraclesStillHappen, #LeukemiaSurvivor, #BoneMarrowTransplant, #NewCreationInChrist, #GodHoldsThePen, #FaithThroughHardship, #NewEpisode, #ChristianPodcast, #BelongingInChrist, #WinWinMindset, #KeepShowingUp, #Romans8

    Don't Mistake the Fire for the Finish Line — Your Story Is Not Over | Ep. 108 with Cheri Baugh Woods

  3. 25 Aug

    "You Don't Have to Earn Your Place — You Were Born Enough" | Ep. 107 with Carlene Marie

    Do you rewrite a text three times before you send it? Say yes when every part of you wants to say no? Feel like you have to earn your rest? That is not who you are. That is a story you absorbed somewhere along the way. And it can be rewritten. In Episode 107 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast, host Dea Irby sits down with Carlene Marie — master mind power coach, keynote speaker, and author of Enough Already: Release Self-Doubt, Reclaim Your Worth, Remember Your Light. Carlene grew up as the oldest daughter in an Irish Catholic family outside Boston — the strong one — where she unconsciously fused her worth with achieving, pleasing, and never falling short. She lost her father at 18, carried everything with dignity and pride, built a life, raised children, and then found herself at a crossroads she never expected — an empty nest, a ended marriage, and the question she had never let herself ask: Who am I — without all of it? The answer changed everything. And now she helps others find theirs. In this episode, Carlene opens up about the quiet not-enough script that runs in the background of most people's lives without them even knowing it. She unpacks the neuroscience of why positive thinking alone doesn't work. She walks through her signature Compass Method — Connect, Calm, Curious, Claim — a four-step tool rooted in science and spirit for any triggered moment. She shares the Viktor Frankl insight about the space between stimulus and response where all our power lives. And she tells the story of using her own compass on a Sunday afternoon with her husband — box breathing quietly on the couch — in a moment that made her laugh and proved the whole thing works. 😄 Her favorite quote right now is from St. Catherine of Siena — and it will stay with you: Be who God meant you to be — and you will set the world on fire. And her parting word is the one she leaves with every client and every room she walks into: Your name has only ever once been spoken by God. Your time is now. Remember your light. 💛 📖 Enough Already — available September 22nd on Amazon🌐 Find Carlene and the Compass Method at her website #HearWhereYouBelong, #YouBelong, #CarleneMarie, #EnoughAlready, #CompassMethod, #YouAreEnough, #ReleaseSelfdoubt, #ReclaimYourWorth, #RememberYourLight, #MindPowerCoach, #LimitingBeliefs, #NewEpisode, #ChristianPodcast, #WomensMinistry, #BelongingStartsWithin, #SetTheWorldOnFire, #SacredReturn, #InherentWorth, #StopProvingStartLiving, #YourTimeIsNow

    "You Don't Have to Earn Your Place — You Were Born Enough" | Ep. 107 with Carlene Marie

  4. 18 Aug

    There Are No Wrong Notes — What 100,000 Business Phone Calls Taught Me About God | Ep. 106 with Tom Vander Well

    At 14 years old, Tom Vander Well had a vision — standing in a pulpit, hearing God say: you are going to proclaim my word. He just had no idea what that would actually look like. In Episode 106 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast, host Dea Irby sits down with Tom Vander Well — CEO of Intelligentix, Amazon international bestselling author, speaker, actor, playwright, and host of the Wayfarer Blog and Podcast. Over thirty years, Tom has analyzed more than 100,000 business conversations across every industry imaginable — and discovered something nobody expected: Every great customer service principle traces back to Scripture. Tom opens up about preaching across the state of Iowa at 15, the six years of pastoral ministry that were — in his words — awful, and the divine appointment with his old mentor Chuck that redirected his entire life into business. He shares how God taught him spiritual truths through phone calls, collections teams, and corporate America. How a chapter-a-day blog he started in 2006 now reaches readers in Hong Kong, Singapore, and China. How his daughter told him his grandchildren and great-grandchildren will one day hear his voice and know him through those 5,000-plus posts. He also shares the Miles Davis story — and the three words that became his favorite quote and the most beautiful picture of God's grace he has ever encountered: There are no wrong notes. Because God redeems every single one. The wrong chord Herbie Hancock played on stage. The six years in the wrong pulpit. The divorce. The detour. All of it — redeemed. His parting word is the one he has been living for twenty years: Be faithful to what God calls you to do. Live for something eternal. And somewhere in Hong Kong or Singapore or China — someone reading a chapter-a-day blog is proof that faithful is enough. 💛 📚 Find This Call May Be Monitored on Amazon🌐 Join the chapter-a-day journey at tomvanderwell.com🎙️ Find the Wayfarer Podcast on Spotify, Apple, and all major platforms

    There Are No Wrong Notes — What 100,000 Business Phone Calls Taught Me About God | Ep. 106 with Tom Vander Well

  5. 11 Aug

    "If You Have a Pulse, God Has a Purpose — Finding Your Gold Thread" | Ep. 105 with Jason Ward

    What if every seemingly random moment of your life — the teacher who handed you a piece of paper, the girl you met in an ice cream shop, the photography class you never meant to teach — was never random at all? That is what Jason Ward discovered standing on a mountaintop in Oklahoma, coffee in hand, asking God: how did I get here? And God answered. In Episode 105 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast, host Dea Irby sits down with Jason Ward — creative director, photographer, entrepreneur, author, and founder of Storm the Beach Advertising. An Appalachian boy from Paintsville, Kentucky, and the first man in his family in more than a century not to become a coal miner, Jason spent more than twenty years chasing success in advertising, education, and business — only to discover that where he truly belonged was where God had been leading him from the very beginning. In this episode, Jason shares the piece of paper his seventh grade science teacher handed him that set his entire career in motion. The NASA letter that arrived on his birthday and launched his art career. The grad school door God tried to close politely — and Jason put his boot through anyway. The girl in a Fort Worth ice cream shop who brought him back to God. The photography class he was handed on a Friday afternoon that started on Monday whether he was ready or not. And the mountaintop moment where God showed him — in a single compressed vision — how every single thread of his life had been woven together with precision. He also introduces the concept that has been reshaping the way he helps people: the gold thread. The unique story God has been weaving through your life all along. And the black threads — the adversary's attempts to choke it out. His free 12-question AI quiz at jasondward.com will help you find yours. His favorite quote from a recent sermon stopped him cold: If you have a pulse, God has a purpose. And his parting word — the truth God dropped on him in the editing stage of his own book — is the one every creative, entrepreneur, and dream-chaser needs to hear: Your true calling will never be self-serving. This episode is for everyone who has been pulling a plow when God built them to run. 💛 📚 Find Find Your Gold Thread on Amazon and Audible🌐 Take the free gold thread quiz at jasondward.com #HearWhereYouBelong, #YouBelong, #FindYourGoldThread, #IfYouHaveAPulseGodHasAPurpose, #JasonWard, #StormTheBeachAdvertising, #GoldThread, #BlackThreads, #RacehorseNotAPlow, #TrueCallingNeverSelfServing, #AppalachianBoy, #NASALetter, #CreativeEntrepreneur, #NewEpisode, #ChristianPodcast, #FaithAndPurpose, #GodWovenPlan, #FindYourCalling, #BelongingMatters, #YouWereBuiltToRun

    "If You Have a Pulse, God Has a Purpose — Finding Your Gold Thread" | Ep. 105 with Jason Ward

  6. 4 Aug

    They Walked 2,770 Miles Across America — and Were Never the Same Again | Ep. 104 with Rick & Jane McKinney

    What happens when God tells you to put the sole of your foot down from one end of America to the other — and you say yes? Rick and Jane McKinney found out. 2,770 miles. Twenty miles a day. Six days a week. Six months. From Santa Monica Pier to the steps of the Supreme Court. And the biggest transformation? Not in the thousands of people they met along the way. In them. In Episode 104 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast, host Dea Irby sits down with Rick and Jane — church planters, world travelers, authors, and lifelong misfits who have spent their entire lives taking the road less traveled and watching God show up every single time. In this episode they share the prayer that changed the way they see every human being they meet. The woman named Evelyn who pulled over on a scorching Oklahoma day and became a lifelong friend. The tattooed motorcycle accident victim named Joe — and the woman who climbed into a ditch in her Sunday dress to pray with him. The neighborhood everyone warned them to avoid — where they received the warmest reception of the entire journey. And the baptism on Rick's last Sunday that was eighteen years in the making. Their book And So We Walked tells hundreds of stories from across America — and their ministry Road Less Traveled has been living out Robert Frost's famous words ever since. Rick's favorite quote says it all: I took the road less traveled by, and it has made all the difference. Jane's is Romans 8:28 — the verse she trusts no matter where God leads them next. And their parting word is the most tested advice they have ever given: You can't go wrong saying yes to God. 💛 📖 Find And So We Walked at rickandjanemckinney.com #HearWhereYouBelong, #YouBelong, #RickAndJaneMcKinney, #AndSoWeWalked, #WalkingAcrossAmerica, #TheRoadLessTraveled, #IslandOfMisfitToys, #MisfitsForGod, #JustSayYes, #Romans828, #BeingJesusToSomeone, #NewEpisode, #ChristianPodcast, #FaithAndAdventure, #YouCantGoWrongSayingYesToGod, #BelongingMatters, #JoeInTheDitch, #MinistryCouples, #GodUsesMisfits, #EveryPlaceTheSoleOfYourFoot

    They Walked 2,770 Miles Across America — and Were Never the Same Again | Ep. 104 with Rick & Jane McKinney

  7. 28 Jul

    One Moment at 13 Changed Everything She Believed About Herself — Until Jesus Said Otherwise

    "This episode includes a brief mention of sexual assault. Pat shares her story with grace and hope — no graphic details." What happens when a traumatic experience at 13 years old quietly rewrites everything you believe about yourself — and sends you searching for belonging in every wrong place for the next 17 years? That is Pat Domangue's story. And what God did with it is extraordinary. In Episode 103 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast, host Dea Irby sits down with Pat Domangue — women's ministry leader, Bible teacher, founder of On Fire Ministries, author of four Bible studies, and host of the H.E.R. Podcast. For more than 24 years, Pat has dedicated her life to helping women move beyond simply reading God's Word and truly experiencing the life-changing transformation that comes through a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. But that passion was born from her own story. Pat opens up about the sexual assault at age 13 that shattered her identity — making her feel like a bad person, unworthy of acceptance, unworthy of love. She shares how she spent years searching for belonging in all the wrong places, how God got a hold of her at 30 years old, and how He did it not through counseling or rehab — but through His Word. Just her and Him. From the inside out. She talks about the year she had no friends — because the old ones would have pulled her back — and the three-day fast she did not even know how to do, praying for one thing: Lord, give us friends. And how God used a chemical spill on a dark Louisiana road at midnight to answer that prayer in the most spectabulous way imaginable. She also shares the moment her 10-year-old daughter sat on the front row listening to Pat share her testimony — and what she said on the ride home that Pat calls her greatest accomplishment. And the night God called her into ministry — writing in the margin of her Bible: Pat Domangue will never teach. God's response? Oh, that's exactly where we're going. Her favorite quote comes from A.W. Tozer — and it will make you stop and ask yourself a very honest question: The first thing you think about when you think of God is the most important thing about you. And her parting word — straight from Ephesians 1 — is a declaration of belonging that will anchor you. He chose us. He adopted us. He made us accepted in the Beloved. 💛 🌐 Find Pat and her free 21-Day Spiritual Detox at onfire-ministries.org #HearWhereYouBelong, #YouBelong, #PatDomangue, #OnFireMinistries, #AcceptedInTheBeloved, #IdentityInChrist, #HERPodcast, #MyMakerAndMe, #BibleStudyForWomen, #SayingYesToJesus, #TransformationThroughHisWord, #BelongingIsGift, #Ephesians1, #NewEpisode, #ChristianPodcast, #WomensMinistry, #GodChangesEverything, #AWTozer, #TrueIdentity, #ChemicalSpillMiracle

    One Moment at 13 Changed Everything She Believed About Herself — Until Jesus Said Otherwise

  8. 21 Jul

    He Spent Years Dreaming of Belonging to the Writing World — Then He Wrote His Way In

    What do you do when you have been a lifelong lover of books, a dreamer of worlds, and a quiet carrier of stories — but you are convinced you do not belong among the authors whose work fills your shelves? If you are T.A. Thompson, you stop waiting. You sit down at your keyboard. And you write your way in. In Episode 102 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast, host Dea Irby sits down with T.A. Thompson — novelist, storyteller, avid reader, and insurance professional by day, world-builder by night. T.A. is the author of The Mark, an adult dystopian novel set in a post-apocalyptic world where a geneticist's dark experiment caused everyone on earth to die around age 22. The oldest person in the world is Alexandra — a 25-year-old lone wolf who does not belong anywhere, and whose journey toward community, accountability, and belonging is the heart of the whole story. T.A. opens up about what it felt like to write in isolation for years — just himself and his keyboard, occasionally dragging his daughter in to be his sounding board every fifteen minutes after emailing her a new chapter. 😄 He talks about the terrifying process of beta reading — soul-crushing feedback and all — and how it made the book better. He shares the moment he finally overcame his fear and hit publish on Amazon, and why that step felt like putting his baby out into the world for strangers to judge. He also gets honest about anxiety, the struggle to connect in networking rooms, and what it actually felt like to finally have conversations with other authors and realize: I belong here too. His favorite quote comes from his own book — spotted by his editor and now the line that stops everyone cold: We own our messes and our mistakes. It's how we earn the right to own our victories. And his parting word is one that hits differently when you have just spent time in a world where nobody lives past 25: Cherish every moment. Cherish the people you have. Because it doesn't last forever. This episode is for every dreamer who has a story inside them and has not yet found the courage to put it on the page. 💛 📚 Find The Mark by T.A. Thompson on Amazon now 📖 Arcing and Liber Animarum also available #HearWhereYouBelong, #YouBelong, #TAThompson, #TheMarkNovel, #AdultDystopian, #SelfPublishedAuthor, #WriteYourWayIn, #WeOwnOurMesses, #BelongingThroughStorytelling, #CherrishEveryMoment, #AuthorCommunity, #KDPAmazon, #NewEpisode, #ChristianPodcast, #ImaginationOpensDooors, #DystopianFiction, #BelongingMatters, #FirstTimeAuthor, #StorytellerPodcast, #OwnYourVictories

    He Spent Years Dreaming of Belonging to the Writing World — Then He Wrote His Way In
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Embark on an inspirational journey with guests from diverse backgrounds, sharing stories of triumph, resilience, and faith, reiterating the common human longing for belonging. From dreamers to doers, believers to seekers, uncover the extraordinary in ordinary moments and the purpose within every life. Open your heart, mind, and ears to resonate with stories reminding you of your significance, belonging, and purpose. Welcome home to 'Hear Where You Belong'.

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  • Creator
    Dea Irby, THE Belonging Strategist
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    111
  • Rating
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