Sharing Passion and Purpose

Nancy Moore
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A weekly podcast providing career and creative inspiration to help you build a purpose-filled life. If you're interested in pursuing a career with passion, tapping into your creative potential and building on your best and brightest resource - YOURSELF - this podcast is the for you!

  1. 3d ago

    The Empty Closet Theory: Why There's Never Room for What Matters | Episode 251: Susan McMurray

    Episode 251 Susan McMurray spent 30 years in a classroom pouring into other people. This past summer she made something of her own: Kindred & Bloom, a magazine-style devotional for women with contributor articles in the front and a five-week devotional in the back, built to be an excuse to gather. We talk about the magazine she loved that stopped publishing, how the first issue's theme, Abide, came out of a class at her church, the women she asked to write for it, and Create and Connect, the fifth week where you put the reading down and make something with your hands. Susan names the thing under all of it: she read that over half of Americans feel unseen. Then she asks about the empty closet. If there is an empty closet in the house, we fill it with crud, and our schedules work the same way. The fix is margin, on purpose. And she is honest about starting: it was scary to take on something that was just hers, she got up at one in the morning to work on it, and her best advice is one line. Do not despise small beginnings. Meet Susan in person: she and Michelle Bruns of Pinspiration join Nancy for a live podcast in Tulsa on November 10, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, craft and magazine included. Tickets at nancymoore.co/events. The magazine: kindredandbloom.co (Kindred & Bloom Co. on Instagram and Facebook). Today's sponsor: Synergy Benefit Advisors (tulsasynergy.com). Join our free online community: skool.com/sharingpassionandpurpose Chapters: 0:00 Coming up 0:36 Sharing Passion and Purpose 0:53 Welcome: meet Susan McMurray 1:45 The magazine she loved that stopped publishing 2:56 One step further: a five-week devotional in the back 3:51 Create and Connect: doing something with your hands 5:20 How the theme Abide came to be 7:32 Family, hospitality, and community in every season 8:27 Permission to slow down 9:31 Is it surreal to have published a magazine? 9:47 Finding your drivers: writing, beautifying, connecting 11:07 Volume one: four issues, four seasons 12:46 November 10 in Tulsa: a live podcast for two 14:48 Where to find Kindred and Bloom 15:53 A keepsake worth gifting 16:20 Over half of Americans feel unseen 16:38 The empty closet theory, and making margin 18:08 A word from our sponsor 19:27 Trusting an idea God puts in your heart 21:00 Up at 1am, working on the magazine 22:54 Rapid fire 23:31 A theme song for this season 24:21 Best advice: do not despise small beginnings 25:12 One book every entrepreneur should read 26:38 A dream not pursued yet: Kindred and Bloom retreats 28:09 What following your passion means 28:56 A question from the last guest: which season are you? 29:59 Thank you, and the inner circle 30:43 Until next time 31:10 Sharing Passion and Purpose outro ABOUT NANCY Nancy Moore is the host of Sharing Passion and Purpose, a weekly podcast offering career and creative inspiration to help you build a purpose-filled life. Pursuing a career with passion, tapping into your creative potential, and building on your best resource: yourself. ABOUT SUSAN MCMURRAY Susan McMurray is the founder and publisher of Kindred & Bloom Co., a seasonal magazine-style devotional for women whose first issue, Abide, pairs contributor articles with a five-week devotional made for gathering with a few friends. She has taught communication at Oral Roberts University for 30 years and built the magazine over one summer off from teaching. CONNECT & GO DEEPER Join Nancy's free community: https://www.skool.com/sharingpassionandpurpose Podcast website: https://sharingpassionandpurpose.com Work with Nancy: https://nancymoore.co

  2. Sep 22

    Protecting What Matters Most | Episode 250: Sara Gadd

    Episode 250 What does it take to protect what matters most? Sara Gadd leads the Human Trafficking Education and Response Program at Ascension St. John in Tulsa and chairs the Oklahoma Coalition Against Human Trafficking, and her message is a hopeful one: knowledge reduces vulnerability, relationships matter more than rules, and everything we do makes a difference. We talk about how a kid who volunteered in Southern California grew into this work one step at a time, the three kinds of parents she sees and why the healthiest place is in the middle, staying close to your kids' world, and being the trusted adult a young person can come to even after a mistake. Awareness works better than fear, and a calm, informed adult changes the outcome. How to help: the Oklahoma Coalition Against Human Trafficking (ocatoklahoma.org). If you are ever worried about someone's safety, do not step in on your own. Call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888 (text 233733) or law enforcement. Anyone who needs help can walk into any Ascension St. John hospital or clinic, or the Family Safety Center. Today's sponsor: Five Star Painting of Tulsa (fivestarpainting.com/tulsa). Join our free online community: skool.com/sharingpassionandpurpose Chapters: 0:00 Coming up 0:30 Sharing Passion and Purpose 0:47 Welcome: meet Sara Gadd 2:26 A calling that built one step at a time 4:36 A young law and what we are still learning 5:20 What most of us picture, and what is real 7:15 Why young people are always protected 7:34 A book for teens: knowledge reduces vulnerability 10:01 What to notice: context over checklists 12:42 Why awareness is for everyone 14:28 Technology: a good tool that needs guidance 17:03 Privacy, sharing, and staying in your kids' world 19:13 A word from our sponsor 20:07 Practical steps for parents: finding the middle 22:41 Be the adult they can come to 25:13 How the community can help: the Oklahoma Coalition 28:55 Everything we do makes a difference 31:43 One more thing: help safely 32:24 Until next time 32:35 Sharing Passion and Purpose outro ABOUT NANCY Nancy Moore is the host of Sharing Passion and Purpose, a weekly podcast offering career and creative inspiration to help you build a purpose-filled life. Pursuing a career with passion, tapping into your creative potential, and building on your best resource: yourself. ABOUT SARA GADD Sara Gadd manages the Human Trafficking Education and Response Program at Ascension St. John in Tulsa, training healthcare professionals to recognize trafficking and connecting survivors with resources. She chairs the Oklahoma Coalition Against Human Trafficking, is the author of a trafficking-prevention book for teens, and was named one of TulsaKids Magazine's Impactful Women of the 918 for 2026. CONNECT & GO DEEPER Join Nancy's free community: https://www.skool.com/sharingpassionandpurpose Podcast website: https://sharingpassionandpurpose.com Work with Nancy: https://nancymoore.co

  3. Sep 15

    The Hard Yes Nobody Warns You About | Episode 249: Shelby Gardner

    Episode 249 Shelby Gardner is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and mom of two spitfire daughters, and one of the most refreshingly honest guests I have had. A year ago she stepped away from a ministry position she loved because she felt God asking her to, expecting life to take off the very next week. It did not. We talk about what that brutal, transformative year has really looked like: watching her old community from the outside, discovering how much of her self-worth was tied to a title, and learning that obedience does not come with a guarantee that "better" looks the way you pictured it. Shelby wrote the devotional Lily Pads: A Heart Study, and I love the picture behind the name. Every season of life is just another lily pad. Not a step up, not a step down; another place to sit, learn, and grow. We talk about why your story is not for you, the Rahab novel she is working on, sharing the hard days of motherhood honestly, and her family's core value that stuck with me most: "We do things scared." Connect with Shelby at shelbygardner.com, where her weekly blog lives along with links to the book. Lily Pads: A Heart Study is on Amazon. Today's sponsor: Five Star Painting of Tulsa (fivestarpainting.com/tulsa). Join our free online community: skool.com/sharingpassionandpurpose Chapters: 0:00 Coming up 0:36 Sharing Passion and Purpose 0:53 Meet Shelby: author, mom, in-between season 3:21 Leaving ministry: the hardest decision 4:46 "I thought my life was gonna take off" 7:41 Obedience without a guarantee 9:44 A word from our sponsor 10:38 Why a devotional 13:10 The lily-pads picture: seasons, not steps 15:48 Your story is not for you 18:00 The Rahab novel 20:10 Sharing the hard days of motherhood 23:36 Rapid fire 25:08 Reba and the wooden spoon 27:46 The greenhouse storytelling studio 29:13 "We do things scared" 30:33 The hard yes that changed everything 32:33 Where to find Shelby + Lily Pads 33:27 Until next time ABOUT NANCY Nancy Moore is the host of Sharing Passion and Purpose, a weekly podcast offering career and creative inspiration to help you build a purpose-filled life. Pursuing a career with passion, tapping into your creative potential, and building on your best resource: yourself. ABOUT SHELBY GARDNER Shelby Gardner is an author, speaker, and entrepreneur. After seven years in ministry, she stepped away to pursue what God had next, a season she writes about with rare honesty. She is the author of the devotional Lily Pads: A Heart Study (available on Amazon), writes a weekly blog at shelbygardner.com, helps run her husband's real estate brokerage in Sapulpa, and is raising two daughters under the family motto "we do things scared." Website: https://shelbygardner.com CONNECT & GO DEEPER Join Nancy's free community: https://www.skool.com/sharingpassionandpurpose Podcast website: https://sharingpassionandpurpose.com Work with Nancy: https://nancymoore.co

  4. Sep 8

    Purpose Can Be Ordinary | Episode 248: Dr. Jessica Rimmer

    Episode 248 Dr. Jessica Rimmer is the CEO of Solomon Strategic Advisors, an executive coach, a keynote speaker, and the author of The Purpose Formula: Learn to be Fully Alive. She is also the co-director of 4word OKC, the faith and work community for women in Oklahoma City that I have come to love, and where I get to speak on September 8. We talk about purpose anxiety, that question so many of us carry around: why am I here, and does it even matter? Jessica walks through the three elements of her purpose formula, design, desires, and disappointments, and why comparing yourself to other women turns design features into design flaws. She explains the Japanese repair art of kintsugi and how the hardest seasons of our lives become the strongest, most useful parts of our purpose. She answers my most asked question, what is the first step for a woman who has no idea what her purpose is, and she tells the story of a stranger at a snowy-day event whose life changed when he heard that purpose can be ordinary. We also talk about whether your purpose changes over time, how Jana Gridley built 4word OKC to 130 women a month, and a rapid fire with a dream Jessica just took the first step toward. Find Jessica at solomonsa.com and on Instagram at @jlrimmer. Her book, The Purpose Formula: Learn to be Fully Alive, is available now. If you are in Oklahoma City, come to the 4word OKC luncheon on Tuesday, September 8, where I will be the guest speaker. Details and tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1995973831460 Today's sponsor: Five Star Painting of Tulsa (fivestarpainting.com/tulsa). Join our free online community: skool.com/sharingpassionandpurpose Chapters: 0:00 Coming up 0:31 Sharing Passion and Purpose 0:48 Welcome: meet Dr. Jessica Rimmer 2:32 4word OKC and the September 8 luncheon 2:58 Why she wrote The Purpose Formula 4:51 Design, desires, and disappointments 6:27 Design flaws or design features? 6:57 Desires and participatory joy 7:47 Disappointments and kintsugi 9:18 The first step to finding your purpose 11:20 Autopilot, routine, and disrupting it 13:17 What alignment with your assignment feels like 14:52 A stranger's LinkedIn post: purpose can be ordinary 17:55 A word from our sponsor 18:49 Does your purpose change over time? 20:34 4word OKC: the group Jana Gridley needed 24:53 Rapid fire 28:10 If you were a season 29:20 To be continued 29:49 Until next time ABOUT NANCY Nancy Moore is the host of Sharing Passion and Purpose, a weekly podcast offering career and creative inspiration to help you build a purpose-filled life. Pursuing a career with passion, tapping into your creative potential, and building on your best resource: yourself. ABOUT DR. JESSICA RIMMER Dr. Jessica Rimmer is the CEO of Solomon Strategic Advisors, an executive coach and keynote speaker. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oklahoma and is the author of The Purpose Formula: Learn to be Fully Alive. She co-directs 4word OKC, a faith and work community of women in Oklahoma City, alongside its founder Jana Gridley. Website: https://solomonsa.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jlrimmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-rimmer-ph-d-916b4354 CONNECT & GO DEEPER Join Nancy's free community: https://www.skool.com/sharingpassionandpurpose Podcast website: https://sharingpassionandpurpose.com Work with Nancy: https://nancymoore.co

  5. Sep 1

    Your Pursuit Is Your Purpose | Episode 247: Miss USA Olivia Jordan

    Episode 247 Olivia Jordan is the first and only woman from Oklahoma ever crowned Miss USA, and she has built an acting career across NCIS, Hawaii Five-0, Dollface and a run of Lifetime leads. She is also one of the most honest guests I have had about what pursuing a dream actually looks like. She set out 15 years ago wanting to be a series regular on a TV show. That has not happened yet. She is still going, and she can tell you exactly why. We talk about how she checks in with herself when the outside voices get loud, why the growth she can measure year over year is the real reward, and what it takes to stop living on someone else's timeline. She tells the small world story of how she found her way into Cody Mayo Studios here in Tulsa, which started with one of my own articles in a dentist's waiting room. She talks about her medallion on the Circle Cinema Walk of Fame, the place she calls the heart of Oklahoma film. And she shares how she is raising her daughter Lola with room for big feelings, using meditation and affirmations they have practiced since Lola was an infant, plus a reminder every mom needs about giving herself grace. Olivia is writing her first TEDx talk, "Your Pursuit Is Your Purpose," and the idea in it stayed with me all week. You are already doing what you are supposed to be doing, just by getting up every morning and moving forward. It is okay if you have not reached the dream job yet. You are moving. Follow Olivia on Instagram at @theoliviajordan. Her TEDx talk is Friday, September 18 at Riverfield Country Day School, the same day as my Gather and Grow Retreat at Five Oaks Lodge in Jenks. Details at nancymoore.co/events. Today's sponsor: Five Star Painting of Tulsa (fivestarpainting.com/tulsa). Join our free online community: skool.com/sharingpassionandpurpose Chapters: 0:00 Coming up 0:30 Sharing Passion and Purpose 0:47 Welcome: meet Olivia Jordan 2:00 How do you know what you are called to pursue? 3:08 Fifteen years in: the honest math 5:35 Coaching actors, and watching them unfold 8:25 Your voice matters, even when it triggers people 10:39 Acting in Oklahoma: Cody Mayo Studios 13:16 The magazine in the dentist's waiting room 14:04 Becoming a coach was never the plan 15:58 A word from our sponsor 17:12 A medallion on the Circle Cinema Walk of Fame 20:24 Raising Lola with room for big feelings 22:50 Meditation and affirmations at four 24:39 Every mom deserves more grace 25:49 What she is passionate about right now 26:51 Taking your power back 29:54 Your Pursuit Is Your Purpose 31:33 Until next time ABOUT NANCY Nancy Moore is the host of Sharing Passion and Purpose, a weekly podcast offering career and creative inspiration to help you build a purpose-filled life. Pursuing a career with passion, tapping into your creative potential, and building on your best resource: yourself. ABOUT OLIVIA JORDAN Olivia Jordan is an actress, model, speaker and acting coach, and the first and only woman from Oklahoma to be crowned Miss USA. The Tulsa native won Miss USA 2015 and finished second runner-up at Miss Universe. She now coaches actors at Cody Mayo Studios in Tulsa, joined the Circle Cinema Walk of Fame in 2026, and is preparing her first TEDx talk, "Your Pursuit Is Your Purpose." She lives in Tulsa with her husband and their daughter, Lola. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theoliviajordan CONNECT & GO DEEPER Join Nancy's free community: https://www.skool.com/sharingpassionandpurpose Podcast website: https://sharingpassionandpurpose.com Work with Nancy: https://nancymoore.co

  6. Aug 25

    From Babysitters to Restaurants — Episode 246: Adrienne Kallweit

    Episode 246 Friends, this one is special. Adrienne Kallweit is somebody I've looked up to for almost twenty years — she and her husband David built SeekingSitters into a national franchise, and when COVID put that business on life support, they went back to their construction roots and started over. Today their whole family works together in the Woodfire restaurant family — Nineteen0Eight, Palace Rooms, and Lollipops — from Bartlesville to the beautifully renovated old Goldie's building at 51st and Lewis here in Tulsa. We talk about being married to your business partner (and why they're "trouble together"), how she can tell when a concept is going to be a hit, why every business needs systems, building a company you could sell so it never traps you, and how she hires people who fit. Plus a brand-new rapid fire — and a big announcement about the book she's been writing. Find Adrienne and all of the restaurants at woodfire.food — and if you visit, tell them Nancy sent you. Today's sponsors: Five Star Painting of Tulsa (fivestarpainting.com/tulsa) and World Travel Service (worldtraveltoday.com). Chapters: 0:00 Coming up 0:36 Sharing Passion & Purpose 0:53 Welcome: a new in-person season 1:24 SeekingSitters, COVID, and the construction pivot 3:58 Bartlesville and the accidental restaurants 8:12 Married to your business partner 12:53 Reading the consumer: 20 years of lessons 16:32 A word from our sponsors 17:26 The restaurant playbook: grow, build, sell 26:14 Sponsor: World Travel Service 27:29 Hiring people who fit 32:04 Rapid fire, a book on the way, and woodfire.food 40:09 Until next time ABOUT NANCY Nancy Moore is the host of Sharing Passion and Purpose, a weekly podcast offering career and creative inspiration to help you build a purpose-filled life — pursuing a career with passion, tapping into your creative potential, and building on your best resource: yourself. ABOUT ADRIENNE KALLWEIT Adrienne Kallweit is a Tulsa entrepreneur who co-founded SeekingSitters, a national babysitting-service franchise, and now leads the Woodfire restaurant family — Nineteen0Eight, Palace Rooms, and Lollipops — together with her husband David and their family, from Bartlesville to the renovated Goldie's building in Tulsa. Find the restaurants at woodfire.food. CONNECT & GO DEEPER Join Nancy's free community: https://www.skool.com/sharingpassionandpurpose Podcast website: https://sharingpassionandpurpose.com Work with Nancy: https://nancymoore.co

  7. Aug 18

    Life Changes in an Instant: How Women Start Over — Episode 245: Tricia Daniel

    Episode 245 Money is one of the hardest things for women to talk about — and Tricia Daniel understands why better than most. She's an MBA and a third-generation financial professional with three decades in corporate finance, and she has still had to start over: after divorce (twice), after being laid off with no backup plan and two young sons, and most recently as a caregiver — just 35 days after her wedding, her husband injured his spine and lost his job. Life really can change in an instant. That's exactly why she founded the Starting Over Wealth Network. We talk about the war-room morning the name came to her, why so many women were never invited into money conversations, how her financial-planner dad started teaching her at the breakfast table when she was three, and what it looks like to intertwine faith and money — I'm still thinking about "money is just a resource that comes from the Source." Tricia is also speaking at the Gather & Grow Retreat on September 18, so this conversation is a preview of what she'll bring to the room. Connect with Tricia: triciadaniel.com — free downloads, her classes, and her six-week Starting Over program (virtual, wherever you are). Her show, Starting Over Wealth: The Podcast, is wherever you listen. Today's sponsors: Five Star Painting of Tulsa (fivestarpainting.com/tulsa) and World Travel Services (worldtraveltoday.com). Chapters: 0:00 Coming up 0:40 Sharing Passion & Purpose 0:57 Welcome: meet Tricia Daniel 1:47 Starting over — twice: Tricia's story 3:58 A word from our sponsor 4:51 The Starting Over Wealth Network: the war-room download 8:54 Why women avoid money conversations 13:22 Starting Over Wealth: The Podcast 15:07 Sponsor: World Travel Services 16:04 Intertwining faith and money 18:47 How to work with Tricia 20:22 Rapid fire 23:30 Gather & Grow Retreat — September 18 25:21 Until next time ABOUT NANCY Nancy Moore is the host of Sharing Passion and Purpose, a weekly podcast offering career and creative inspiration to help you build a purpose-filled life — pursuing a career with passion, tapping into your creative potential, and building on your best resource: yourself. ABOUT TRICIA DANIEL Tricia Daniel is the founder of the Starting Over Wealth Network, a financial empowerment speaker, and a third-generation financial professional with three decades of experience in accounting and corporate finance. Through her own journey of rebuilding after life's unexpected challenges, she helps women release financial shame, build confidence, and create lasting financial legacies rooted in faith and purpose. Learn more at triciadaniel.com. CONNECT & GO DEEPER Join Nancy's free community: https://www.skool.com/sharingpassionandpurpose Podcast website: https://sharingpassionandpurpose.com Work with Nancy: https://nancymoore.co Gather & Grow Retreat (Sept 18, Tulsa): https://nancymoore.co/events

  8. Aug 11

    The Enneagram Saved My Family — Episode 244: Katie Ruley

    Episode 244 This episode is extra special — Katie Ruley was one of my very first guests back when this podcast was audio-only, and now I get to sit across the table from her on video! Katie is the founder of EnLighten Enneagram, and in the five years since we last recorded, her coaching business has grown in ways neither of us could have predicted. We talk about the "scary yes" that started it all, what makes the Enneagram so different from every other personality assessment, and how understanding her family's wiring transformed Katie's marriage and her relationships with her four kids. Her reminder that "a better me is a better we" hit home for me — I think it will for you too. Connect with Katie: enlightenenneagram.com (she's also on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn — and yes, you can even text her; the number is on her website). Today's sponsors: Five Star Painting of Tulsa (fivestarpainting.com/tulsa) and Colonial Title (colonialtitle.com). Chapters: 0:00 Coming up 0:21 Sharing Passion & Purpose 0:38 Welcome: Katie returns to the show 1:27 How a podcast word she didn't know became a calling 5:21 What makes the Enneagram different: motivation, not behavior 6:50 A word from our sponsors 7:44 Saving her family relationships 12:38 "A better me is a better we" 14:37 Who Katie serves: girls' nights to corporate teams 18:40 Sponsor: Colonial Title 19:16 Myths: is the Enneagram at odds with faith? 24:05 Rapid fire + the book she's going to write 31:27 Until next time ABOUT NANCY Nancy Moore is the host of Sharing Passion and Purpose, a weekly podcast offering career and creative inspiration to help you build a purpose-filled life — pursuing a career with passion, tapping into your creative potential, and building on your best resource: yourself. ABOUT KATIE RULEY Katie Ruley is the founder of EnLighten Enneagram, where she coaches individuals, couples, families, and corporate teams to understand the "why" behind how they think, feel, and act. Learn more at enlightenenneagram.com. CONNECT & GO DEEPER Join Nancy's free community: https://www.skool.com/sharingpassionandpurpose Podcast website: https://sharingpassionandpurpose.com Work with Nancy: https://nancymoore.co

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