Guiding God's Daughters: Get Real and Go Deep Meredith Terpeluk Schoeller

This week, I have a very special guest. Her name is Becky Savage. She is nationally known as the Founder of the 525 Foundation. 

Her non-profit was created to honor her two sons that passed away on June 14, 2015 from unintentional overdose after going to graduation parties. You can find videos of their story, interviews, speeches and news coverage here. 

She lives right here in Northern Indiana and we first met seven years ago, actually the first time she spoke publicly about it.

Their foundation has a simple mission: to educate teens and families and raise awareness about the dangers of alcohol and prescription drug misuse and abuse.

What happened to her is what no one expects happen in their community, let alone their own home. A tragedy to say the least. But in the wake of her immense loss, she has become a beacon of light in our area and other communities.  She has taken what life handed her and has used it for good. Listen to this week's interview and find out:


what happened
how she got through her grief (and continues to)
how the foundation got started
How our kids get a hold of the drugs
how we can talk them about opioids and binge drinking

This was a very real conversation that will make you want to have real conversations with your loved ones. You don't want to miss it. 

If you've got kids who are smoking marijuana (and they think you know it or not), or binge drink on college campuses - you will want to listen to this. 

Even if you are one of those young people who is partaking in any of it, I recommend listening so you can get a very realistic perspective of what could happen.  

I appreciate Becky's candidness in this interview and her willingness to show up to honor her two boys, to love on her two boys who are still here, and to be an example to the rest of us of what we can do when this kind of thing happens in our community, or our family. 300 people a day means it will come pretty close. So don't miss this.

I pray it blesses you and that you pass it along to everyone you know because it’s incredibly important for our next generation.

This is a word from the Lord that came on my way home from the Able Moms conference in Chicago this past weekend, March 4th. It's a reminder for young women - in your 20s and early 30s, and really any woman to remember who you are and what God can do for you and tell you why what you see on my highlight reel didn't come easily. I fought hard for it, and only got it because I ran back to God and leaned on him through ALL of it and continue to today. I want this to encourage you and meet you wherever you are, to remind you that God has a good plan for your life.

We’re in week two of Lent and every year this passage from Psalm 51:10 comes up for many of us.

 “Create in me a clean heart, oh God, and renew a right spirit within me.” ESV

The question is, what does that really mean? 

How can you go deeper with it? 

What might be blocking you from allowing the Lord to clear your heart? 

Are you willing to open your heart to the Lord? 

To look honestly at what's going on with it? 

Take a listen this week and hear how you can.

There is a move of God happening in our nation. We're seeing it as Asbury and even other places now. It also just so happens to be the beginning of lent - the time when Christians take the time to go deeper with the Lord before Easter. Are you wanting to grow spiritually? Listen to this week's episode as I talk about how God is moving not just on these college campuses but also how he showed up at the Super Bowl in players and advertisements. You will hear some interesting recent research by Barna about how more people thank you think in our nation want to grow spiritually. I pray this episode gives you wisdom about how you want to respond to this move of God and whether or not you want to choose to remain in the darkness or live in the light. 

We’ve all been rejected in some way in our lives. Yes, I’m talking about this on the love holiday because I like to get real and this is something that can block us from the love of God and life, really. If we’re not careful it can keep us consumed with feelings and thoughts that hold us back and eventually it becomes our identity. I want to help you get to the root of that and release it to God.

Do you have a mentor in your life? I’m not talking about career mentors, I’m talking about spiritual mentors. Yes, women who come alongside you right in the middle of whatever season you are in and help you walk through things. They have often lived through very similar things and have had seasons of life change them and give them wisdom. But most importantly - they found a way to lean on the Lord and because of that, they can help point you to Him. 



Listen to this weeks podcast as I interview my friend Janet Thompson who has helped train hundreds of women on how to be and find mentors in the church. She built a program at Saddleback Church in California years ago that is still used today. But that’s not all. She’s written multiple other books on various seasons of life including infertility, cancer and even what to do when your husband retires or stays home and is in your space. She shares what she’s lived through and even what others have been through in her books. I think you’ll enjoy it. I pray it blesses you and makes you more intentional about finding a mentor or finding someone you can mentor in your life or church.