Glory & Grit

Stephanie Doss Ladner
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Glory & Grit is a faith-based podcast where honest conversations meet real-life faith. Through powerful testimonies, thoughtful reflection, and encouragement rooted in truth, host Stephanie invites listeners to explore what it looks like to trust God through seasons of waiting, working, and winning. Each episode shares stories of perseverance, spiritual growth, and the quiet ways God reveals His glory in the middle of life’s hardest moments. Whether you're walking through uncertainty, rebuilding after loss, or simply trying to hold onto faith when life doesn’t go as planned, this space is for you.

  1. 2d ago

    Glory & Grit : S2E11 - When God Prepares Your Heart for What You Cannot See

    What if God begins healing your heart before you understand why? Amy Eaton loved her larger-than-life, free-spirited father. But beneath that love was a quiet ache: when his plans changed or he was unavailable, Amy often received a deeper message that she was not chosen and did not matter. Through therapy, prayer, and Christian soul care, God began untangling Amy’s worth from another person’s availability. The healing did not require her father to change or apologize. It changed the freedom with which Amy could love him. Then, while sitting in rocking chairs with her husband, Amy suddenly said, “I don’t have a lot of time left with my dad.” She stopped postponing a daddy-daughter weekend. About fourteen months later, her father received a terminal cancer diagnosis and died fewer than sixty days afterward. In this tender conversation, Amy shares how God prepared her heart for a season she could not see, met her during her father’s final weeks, and answered a quiet prayer through Psalm 23. Sometimes God begins healing your heart before you know why—because He is preparing you to love well in a season you cannot yet see. KEY TOPICS • A father-daughter relationship that held both real love and hidden hurt • When another person’s availability becomes tangled with your worth • Healing that did not require an apology or a changed relationship • The rocking-chair prompting and the daddy-daughter weekend Amy almost postponed • Her father’s final weeks, the ICU conversation, and Psalm 23 KEY TAKEAWAYS • Love and hurt can exist in the same relationship. • Your worth is not determined by another person’s availability. • Healing can begin even when the other person does not change. • The faithful step may come before the explanation. • Grief and gratitude can coexist, and God’s kindness does not make sorrow less real. Continue the conversation: https://gloryandgritpodcast.com

  2. Oct 4

    Glory & Grit : S2E10 - When You Feel Like What You Bring Isn’t Good Enough

    Have you ever admired someone so much that your admiration became evidence against you? In this solo episode, Stephanie shares how comparison crept into church life and convinced her that what she brought would never be as good—or as worthy of space—as what other women offered. But comparison does more than steal joy. It can make us reject an offering before anyone else has a chance to receive it. Through a handmade card with two crayons, a ride offered to a woman walking, and a coworker helped by one podcast episode, Stephanie explores how small acts can carry meaning farther than we can see. Doctrine and Covenants 64:33 and Matthew 5:13 remind us that great work can proceed from small things—and that you do not have to be the center of attention to change what is happening in the room. What you bring does not have to look like what someone else brings to be worth offering. Key topics When admiration turns into self-disqualificationWhy comparison can make us withhold before anyone has a chance to receiveThe card, two crayons, and the child who knew he had been noticedThe ride that shaped both the woman receiving help and the son watchingSmall things, faithful influence, and a healthier definition of impactKey takeaways Someone else’s gift does not cancel yours.Small does not mean meaningless.You may not know who is watching or how far an honest act will travel.Attention is not the only proof that something is making a difference.One person helped is not a small result. One person is a person.Continue the conversation: https://gloryandgritpodcast.com

  3. Sep 27

    Glory & Grit : S2E9 - The Hug That Never Happened

    What does forgiveness look like when the hurt was real—and healing doesn't erase what happened? Mark Winter grew up loving his father and fearing him. Years later, Mark was a pastor preaching about grace and forgiveness while still carrying wounds from the little boy who had learned that making a mistake meant he was a mistake. Then a prayer meeting Mark thought was about healing his back uncovered something entirely different. He felt a clear prompting to call his father—and almost ignored it. What followed was an honest conversation, an unexpected reconciliation, a promise of a hug, and a phone call three hours later that changed everything. In this episode, Mark and Stephanie talk honestly about forgiveness, grief, boundaries, reconciliation, and why restored trust is a process. Mark also shares what his story taught him about wounds that remain, walls we may keep maintaining, and the grace to keep walking even when healing leaves scars. KEY TOPICS Childhood wounds that continue into adulthoodThe phone call Mark almost didn't makeForgiveness when reconciliation is no longer possibleGrief and gratitude existing togetherForgiveness, reconciliation, boundaries, and restored trustThe wall Mark's father built—and Mark realized he was helping maintainWhy cracked pillars can still hold up a beautiful lifeKEY TAKEAWAYS Forgiveness does not make abuse acceptable or erase what happened.Forgiveness can happen without reconciliation.Boundaries can remain necessary after forgiveness.Restored trust, when appropriate, takes time.Healing may leave scars without allowing the wound to keep controlling your life.Continue the conversation: gloryandgritpodcast.com

  4. Sep 20

    Glory & Grit : S2E8 - When the Answer Still Requires Recovery

    The surgery finally happened. After months of pain, an unexpected cancellation, cardiac testing, and more waiting, Stephanie could finally say that the prayer had been answered. But she was not suddenly on the other side of everything. Recovery had just begun. In this solo episode, Stephanie shares the story behind the delayed surgery and the surprising adjustment that followed it. She explores the finish line we sometimes attach to answered prayer: the quiet belief that if an answer truly came from God, life should already feel easier. Through Luke 17:11–19 and Philippians 1:6, this conversation makes room for gratitude and difficulty to exist in the same chapter. An answer can be real while healing, rebuilding, learning, or adjusting is still in progress. KEY TOPICS The long road from a canceled surgery to the procedure finally happeningWhy answered prayer does not always feel like an immediate finish lineThe words “as they went” in Luke 17 and faithful movement through a processHow to name what changed, what still needs care, and the next faithful action KEY TAKEAWAYS Ease is not the only evidence of an answer.Gratitude does not require dishonesty about what remains difficult.A continuing process does not automatically mean God has been absent or unfaithful.Sometimes the answer is the beginning of the next faithful process. Continue the conversation: https://gloryandgritpodcast.com

  5. Sep 13

    Glory & Grit : S2E7 - When Everything Changes at Once

    What happens when the future you carefully planned changes one week before closing? Kim Hardy and her husband had finally sold their home after a year on the market. Their boxes were packed, another home was waiting, and then her husband unexpectedly lost his job. With their daughter finishing her senior year and their family facing financial, housing, health, and emotional changes, Kim began recognizing that God had prepared them before the crisis through prayer, Psalm 91, and earlier reminders of His provision. In this episode, Kim shares how uncertainty taught her to notice God’s care in ordinary moments, strengthen her marriage through prayer, ask for help, surrender control, and write down His provisions as stones of remembrance. KEY TOPICS Trusting God when carefully made plans suddenly changeRecognizing spiritual preparation before a crisisFinding God’s provision in small, ordinary momentsPrayer in marriage and written stones of remembrance KEY TAKEAWAYS God may begin preparing us before we understand what lies ahead.His faithfulness does not always look like receiving the outcome we planned.Writing down small provisions helps us remember what fear makes us forget.Trust is often practiced one ordinary day at a time. Continue the conversation: gloryandgritpodcast.com

  6. Sep 6

    Glory & Grit : S2E6 - When Everything Matters But You Can't Do Everything

    When every responsibility matters, it can feel as though everything is urgent, everything is yours, and everything must happen now. But caring deeply does not create unlimited capacity. In this solo episode, Stephanie shares the moment her computer exposed just how exhausted she had become: she fell asleep with her hands on the keyboard and woke to a row of letters stretching across the screen. Through Mosiah 4:27 and Mark 6:30–31, she explores why diligence must live alongside wisdom, order, honest limits, and rest. This conversation is not about caring less. It is about discerning what is yours for now, what can wait, where help is needed, and what was never yours to carry alone. KEY TOPICS Why meaningful responsibilities can all begin to feel urgentDiligence, wisdom, order, and human strength in Mosiah 4:27Why Jesus called the apostles to rest while needs still remainedThe four-part Capacity Sort for making one faithful adjustment KEY TAKEAWAYS A real need is not automatically your assignment for this exact moment.Your limit is information—not automatically an indictment of your faith, discipline, or love.Rest is not something you earn only after every need disappears.Faithfulness is doing what is yours without destroying yourself over what is not. Continue the conversation: https://gloryandgritpodcast.com

  7. Aug 30

    Glory & Grit : S2E5 - When Faith and Grief Share the Same Heart

    What happens when you trust God and your heart is still broken? Rachelle Boyd-Huff knew how to walk other families through death as a hospice nurse. But when her own father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died three weeks and one day later, professional experience could not protect the daddy's girl in her from the pain of losing him. In this conversation, Rachelle shares how she advocated for her father, honored his desire to die at home, and held onto his final birthday message. She also speaks honestly about the grief that remained after caregiving ended, the struggle to recognize herself without her father, and the support she received through therapy, medication, rest, faith, and an unexpected community. KEY TOPICS When the hospice nurse suddenly became the grieving daughterHonoring her father's wishes and advocating through his final daysIdentity, therapy, medication, and learning to live after caregivingWhy grief and faith can coexist in the same heart KEY TAKEAWAYS Professional knowledge cannot remove the pain of losing someone you love.Grief has no fixed timeline, and needing help does not mean faith has failed.Faith may look like taking one small step on a difficult day.God can continue carrying us even when grief remains unfinished. Continue the conversation: https://gloryandgritpodcast.com

  8. Aug 23

    Glory&Grit : S2E4 - When You’re Doing the Right Things & Still Don’t Feel Like You’re Moving Forward

    You are praying, showing up, and doing what you know to do—so why does it still feel like you are not getting anywhere? In this solo episode, Stephanie explores quiet progress: the kind of growth that may be happening even while the answer has not come and life still feels unfinished. Through her experience with a delayed surgery, Alma’s seed image, and Galatians 6:9, she considers how God may be changing the person standing in front of the door even before the door opens. KEY TOPICS • Why finished outcomes are not the only evidence of progress • Recognizing changed responses, steadiness, and recovery • The seed, the unseen harvest, and faithful waiting • Why waiting is not the same as passive avoidance KEY TAKEAWAYS • An unfinished life is not the same thing as an unchanged life. • A setback is not automatically a reset. • Sometimes progress means asking for help or changing the plan. • You can take one faithful next step without controlling the outcome. Continue the conversation: https://gloryandgritpodcast.com

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Glory & Grit is a faith-based podcast where honest conversations meet real-life faith. Through powerful testimonies, thoughtful reflection, and encouragement rooted in truth, host Stephanie invites listeners to explore what it looks like to trust God through seasons of waiting, working, and winning. Each episode shares stories of perseverance, spiritual growth, and the quiet ways God reveals His glory in the middle of life’s hardest moments. Whether you're walking through uncertainty, rebuilding after loss, or simply trying to hold onto faith when life doesn’t go as planned, this space is for you.

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  • Creator
    Stephanie Doss Ladner
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    34
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Stephanie Doss Ladner