Rooted & Rising: Growth from the Greenhouse

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Welcome to the Greenhouse! Join Denise each week as she has conversations with women who have experienced God’s power in their lives. We'll cover everything from relationships and parenting to running a business and building up our communities. We hope these stories inspire and enable you to make an impact in your world. We at E's Greenhouse equip, encourage, and enable God’s Daughters to embrace their true identity as mighty women in the earth. We offer a variety of resources to help you achieve your goals, including online courses, videos, training manuals, blog posts, live video chats, podcasts & coaching groups. Our team of experienced mentors are here to guide you every step of the way, and we're committed to helping you achieve your full potential. Join us today and take your story to the next level!

  1. MAY 12

    About Building A Business That Honors God Without Losing Your Family with Annie Ward

    A business can be your dream, your plan to provide, and the place you expect God to “bless” in obvious ways, until it doesn’t work. We sit down with Annie Ward to talk about what happens when you do the right things, pray, spend the money, put in the work, and the business still closes. Instead of treating that moment like proof you failed or missed God, we unpack how a closed season can actually be protection, redirection, and formation. We get practical about faith-based entrepreneurship and Christian finances: why providing for your family is good, why creating jobs matters, and why God’s principles can look different from the world’s pressure to chase bigger numbers. We talk about keeping kids and marriage centered, resisting the temptation to carry provider anxiety, and learning to hold plans with open hands. Along the way we share stories of staying out of debt, wrestling with tithing when the budget feels impossible, and discovering that generosity is less about a formula and more about surrender and worship. If you’re trying to build a Christian business, recover from a failed business, or trust God for financial provision, this conversation will meet you with honesty and hope. Listen through to the closing prayer, then share this with a friend who needs courage for their next step, subscribe for more, and leave a review telling us where you’re choosing open-handed trust right now. We love to hear from you! Send us a text

    33 min

  2. MAY 5

    About Why Cutting Your Hair Can Be Spiritual with Hannah Croft

    A tire shop bench and a few words of Spanish turn into a friendship that feels planned, and from there the conversation goes straight into the kind of faith questions most of us carry quietly: How do you know God is leading you? Why does obedience sometimes land you in a harder place? Hannah Croft, a wife and mom of three (four, two, and one), shares what it looked like to move states, live through home construction chaos, and still believe God is present when life feels unsettled. We talk about the wilderness pattern we see in Scripture and in real life: God can set you free and still let you feel stretched. That stretch becomes the place where surrender gets practical, not theoretical. We explore sacrifice through the idea of “oblation,” a pouring out of something valuable as an act of trust, and we name the tension Christians face in a culture that celebrates self above refinement. Along the way, we unpack how to pray with honesty, how to ask God to show you His love, and how Scripture can steady anxious thoughts in a single moment. Hannah also shares her testimony from college athletics: hearing a sermon on idolatry, realizing her identity was wrapped up in her hair, cutting it off as an act of surrender, and later giving her life to Christ at an FCA retreat. The conversation turns toward Christian motherhood too: grieving lost freedom, learning to guard your words, resisting the noise of social media, and finding quiet with God when the “best time” is actually the first ten minutes of nap time. If you want encouragement on hearing God’s voice, spiritual discipline, surrender, and peace in motherhood, press play. Subscribe, share this with a friend who feels stretched right now, and leave a review with the one line that hit you most. We love to hear from you! Send us a text

    37 min

  3. APR 28

    About How God Sees You with Peyton & Victoria

    God sees you. Not just your plans and prayers, but the season you’re in right now: the messy living room, the tired mornings, the doubts you don’t say out loud. I’m joined by my granddaughter Peyton and our social media teammate Victoria for an honest, faith-filled conversation about what it looks like to trust God when life feels loud and uncertain. We talk about the vision behind E's Greenhouse and why Christian community can’t be optional, especially for women who feel isolated in motherhood, marriage, or a new calling. You’ll hear practical ideas for building connection through prayer nights, Bible study, and simple touchpoints like newsletters, plus a clear challenge to stop going it alone and find friendships that strengthen your spirit with truth and grace. We also walk through a hands-on exercise to name your gifts, talents, and soft skills, the ones God can grow even when you feel unqualified. From work-life balance as a work-from-home mom to the Proverbs 31 picture of wise priorities, we keep it real about seasons that move fast. And we go deep on marriage, spiritual leadership, and the long obedience of praying Scripture, while also naming an important boundary: safety matters, and abuse is never something to ignore. If you’re craving encouragement, direction, and a reminder that nothing is wasted with God, press play. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs community, and leave a review with one takeaway you’re going to put into practice this week. We love to hear from you! Send us a text

    41 min

  4. APR 21

    From Darkness To Hope with Mercy

    A poem can carry what a person couldn’t say out loud for years. Mercy joins us from Uganda and shares how she went from fear, silence, and a painful childhood marked by hunger, abuse, and child labor to finding safety at Luluanda Children’s Home and building a life shaped by faith and purpose. Her journey is honest about trauma, but it’s even more honest about what steady love can do over time. We talk about the real hurdles that don’t make it into highlight reels, like arriving with a language barrier so strong she couldn’t ask for help, and the slow work of learning trust. Mercy also shares how her faith grew through Sunday school, Bible teaching, and community, especially coming from a mostly Muslim family. Along the way she surprises herself with what becomes possible: university, teaching phonics, and using her voice as a writer. Then Mercy reads her poem “My Untold Story,” and the room changes. It’s a clear, brave testimony of wounds becoming scars and scars becoming evidence of healing. We also get practical about calling and impact: Mercy’s dreams include equipping disadvantaged girls and young mothers with skills that can lead to income, stability, and renewed hope, plus showing up as a praying “big sister” for the younger kids. If you care about Christian encouragement, trauma healing, orphan care in Uganda, and stories of redemption that feel real, you’ll want to listen all the way through. Subscribe, share this with a friend, leave a review, and consider giving to help Luluanda Children’s Home continue to grow and care for more children. We love to hear from you! Send us a text

    25 min

  5. APR 14

    About God’s Timing And The Mission Heart with Annie Ward

    Prayer can feel like the smallest thing we do, right up until you realize it’s the biggest. We sit down with Annie Ward, a worship leader and missions-minded mom of four, to talk honestly about what it looks like to pray first, serve second, and trust God when your plans keep getting rewritten. From organizing church missions to seeing God move through ordinary acts of support, we keep coming back to one steady truth: God opens doors, gives wisdom, and changes hearts when we actually ask. Annie shares stories from the European mission field that still shape her faith today, including teaching English in Hungary and returning to a Hungarian-speaking region of northern Serbia. We talk about the spiritual reality of places where people know the name of Jesus culturally but don’t know Him personally, and why the global church matters so much. If you care about Christian missions, discipleship, and learning how to be a light without performing, you’ll find a lot to sit with here. Then the conversation turns personal fast: a relationship that starts right as Annie is preparing to move overseas, a proposal on the fourth date, a long-distance engagement, and an elopement in Gibraltar. We unpack what it means to wait without losing hope, to be “planted” when you’d rather be sent, and to see purpose in seasons that look smaller than your calling. We close with a strong reminder for every woman of faith: don’t walk alone, build real community, and ask God for the right people. If this encouraged you, subscribe, share it with a friend who’s in a waiting season, and leave a review so more listeners can find it. What part of your story needs trust and prayer right now? We love to hear from you! Send us a text

    36 min

  6. APR 7

    About A Life Is Saved Twice Through Prayer And Community with Irene

    A doctor looks at Irene’s scans and says the baby has no space to grow. Irene looks at God and says she’s ready anyway. From Luanda Children’s Home in Uganda, Irene Nasike joins us across the distance to share a story that is both brutally honest and deeply hopeful: a life built in service, tested by pain, and held together by prayer.  We talk about her calling as a Christian teacher, how she started as a volunteer when there was no open role, and how years of steady work turned into leadership and legacy as her students grew into confident young adults. If you care about education, child advocacy, or faith-based nonprofit work, you’ll hear what long-term impact really looks like when a community becomes family.  Then Irene opens up about her high-risk pregnancy at 40 with severe fibroids, the fear of miscarriage, weekly scans, and the financial weight of medical care. She walks us through the C-section, the internal bleeding, a second emergency surgery, and the staggering recovery that followed, including devastating complications in her hand. Through it all, she names the “destiny helpers” who showed up with money, presence, and prayer, and she reminds us what it means to walk by faith when the outcome is not guaranteed.  If this conversation encourages you, subscribe, share it with a friend, leave a review, and tell us what line or moment you’re taking with you. We love to hear from you! Send us a text

    33 min

  7. APR 1

    About Tiny House Detours And Coffee Date Friendships with Kristin Taibi

    A canceled plan can feel like rejection, but sometimes it is the exact turn that gets you where you’re meant to be. We’re talking about godly friendship and the surprising way God orchestrates relationships that bless us, steady us, and help us become brave again. From a tiny house on wheels to an unexpected move to Texas, we share how provision often arrives through ordinary people saying yes and how direction becomes clearer when we keep praying and taking the next right step. We also get honest about adult friendship: how hard it can be to build trust, how many of us hide our hearts after we’ve been hurt, and why women need women who will “order our lips” and remind us that God is near. A simple church greeting turns into coffee, encouragement, and eventually real partnership as we build a podcast, trade skills like photography and editing, and watch community form around a calling. Then we go deeper into prayer, hope, and foster parenting. We talk about praying ahead of what you can see, including the wild moment of realizing one of us had prayed for a house years before the other one lived in it. If you’re wrestling with relocation, faith-based community, Christian encouragement, making friends as an adult, or stepping into fostering and adoption, this conversation will give you language, courage, and practical next steps. Subscribe for more stories like this, share this with a friend who needs hope, and leave a review so more women who feel alone can find their way to faith and friendship. We love to hear from you! Send us a text

    32 min

  8. MAR 26

    About When God Says Pick Up The Paintbrush with Donna Lent Russell

    A headstone in an old San Antonio cemetery stopped Donna Lint-Russell in her tracks, and it never really let her go. Years later, that single epitaph collides with a 3 am wake-up, a Max Lucado book, and a painting she could not finish because the woman had no face. We talk with Donna about what it means to hear God’s voice, how grief can silence creativity, and why obedience sometimes looks like picking up a paintbrush when you feel least able to try. Our conversation also moves into Uvalde, Texas, and the unbearable question so many people ask after tragedy: where is God? Donna shares how she prayed for a way to help, then received a clear image that became a memorial painting layered with meaning, from the Tree of Life to 21 doves and carefully researched details meant to honor each child and teacher. We explore the comfort and mystery of faith, the idea of a thin veil between earth and heaven, and the hope that light still shines in darkness. Then Donna tells the story that could save a life: her Thanksgiving heart attack that initially looked “normal” on an EKG because it was on the back of her heart. We unpack women’s heart attack symptoms, troponin blood testing, and the need to advocate for yourself even when you worry about disrupting everyone else. If you care about Christian encouragement, spiritual healing, grief, purpose, and practical women’s health wisdom, this one stays with you. Subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review with the moment that hit you hardest. We love to hear from you! Send us a text

    44 min
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Welcome to the Greenhouse! Join Denise each week as she has conversations with women who have experienced God’s power in their lives. We'll cover everything from relationships and parenting to running a business and building up our communities. We hope these stories inspire and enable you to make an impact in your world. We at E's Greenhouse equip, encourage, and enable God’s Daughters to embrace their true identity as mighty women in the earth. We offer a variety of resources to help you achieve your goals, including online courses, videos, training manuals, blog posts, live video chats, podcasts & coaching groups. Our team of experienced mentors are here to guide you every step of the way, and we're committed to helping you achieve your full potential. Join us today and take your story to the next level!

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