Plans to Prosper: Navigating Next Steps

Madison Lafrenz

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RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY
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A podcast all about navigating careers and adulthood while staying steadfast in our faith.

10/03/2025

Purpose Over Past: Called Into Something Greater

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Tiara Ward, who I first met at Northwest Missouri State University. Today, Tiara lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas and serves in full-time ministry with Lightbearers, a college ministry group. After years of chasing earthly things and pursuing a career for a paycheck, she shares her journey of faith, what led her to ministry, and the ways God has transformed her life and calling.

58 min
02/05/2025

Finding Your Way as a Christian Mom

Rylee Triggs and I met when she started dating one of my childhood friends. Her husband and I grew up just down the road from each other and graduated high school in the same class. Her husband and my husband also became good friends at Iowa State, and then came my friendship with Rylee! As a fellow mom to a toddler girl, I love that we share so many of the same values about keeping God at the core of our families and relationships. It’s a tall task to raise a family in this Earthly world while ensuring they know the only true love there will ever be, but it’s an absolute honor to be able to do so while also having friends who are doing the same.

48 min
04/03/2024

It's Cool to Be a Christian

I met Ivie Kate through a mutual friend (thanks, Kaylynn and Texas Tech!), and I could tell from the first time I met her that she had such a pure heart. Although Ivie Kate and I have only been around each other a true handful of times, I feel like we always pick up with each other so easily—another example of her true heart for Christ. :) I loved hearing Ivie Kate’s background and how she chose to become a speech pathologist. At the young age of seven, she knew this is what she wanted to do with her life. (So cool!) Even when her under grad program at Texas Tech didn’t line up perfectly, she still knew this was the career she wanted to pursue and how she would serve the Lord and others. I hope you’ll listen along to hear how she made this decision, how she has let God lead her to new places she wanted to say “no” to, and how she stays steadfast in her faith no matter the season of life.

51 min
02/08/2024

God is Good All the Time, All the Time God is Good

My friend Erica Lain joins me to share her journeys through motherhood, moving to rural southern Iowa, choosing a career that fulfilled her, and glorifying God through it all. If you’ve never heard Kirk Cousins and pig manure discussed in the same conversation, you will today. ;)

47 min
01/25/2024

Chasing Our Earthly Dreams While Serving Our Heavenly Father

Emma is an Iowa State girl through and through, and she credits so much of her success and finding her passion in the swine industry to her time and the people she met while at Iowa State University. Emma works in the swine industry and raises beef and dairy cattle with her husband, Levi, in Wisconsin. Aside from any of these pieces of her life, her true identity is a woman of faith. She has such a shining light for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and it truly shows when you talk with her. You’ll never leave a conversation with Emma wondering if she actually enjoyed her time with you—you can feel that she does. She grew up in a faith-practicing household and it helped mold her into the woman she is today and the habits she has formed in her adult life. The one thing we won’t hold against her—she is a Green Bay Packers fan. ;)

46 min
01/10/2024

Faithful Leaps and a Faithful Heart

Lexi Marek Beeler's passion for the ag industry--specifically women in ag and show pigs--is very evident. She also has a huge passion for connecting people and making it one small world to live in. She has taken a handful of leaps of faith in her few years in the career world, and she discusses how she has leaned on her faith and signs from God in order to take the biggest leap yet--start her own marketing consulting business. Lexi has a way of making everyone feel at home when they are around her, and she found comfort in her Catholic faith as she grew older and went out on her own.

46 min
12/20/2023

God-Given Talents

Cole Netten, dad, husband, former college athlete, and professional videographer joins me for a discussion on all the hard truths we need to hear as Christians. Pursuing our God-given talents for the glory of God above money and materialistic items will provide more happiness than any high salary ever will. Cole discusses leaving his first job out of college after three weeks because he knew it was not where his heart was--not where God was calling his heart. That decision paid off, and he is now a full-time freelance videographer and happier than he has ever been. This one reminded me of the Parable of Talents in Matthew--using our talents for the glory of God and not for our own satisfaction.

57 min
12/15/2023

The Greatest Reward of All

My childhood friend, Taylor Lynch, shares about pursuing the Lord when it doesn't always look rewarding in an Earthly manner. Choosing the career path that allows you to chase your dreams while still pursuing God's will for you is the ultimate goal. No Earthly earning is more rewarding than our eternal salvation.

44 min
12/05/2023

From Lockers to Lifestyles: Our Faith-Fueled Journeys

My high school friend, Matt Kerns, joins me as we dive into our lives from childhood to adulthood. Matt works in the animal health industry and was raised in the pork industry. He shares the way he has incorporated his faith into his career and continued to chase his earthly dreams while staying constant in his love for the Lord.

52 min
12/05/2023

Unfiltered Faith: Motherhood, Faith, and Finding My Way

Chloe Thompson is a young mom and wife with an unapologetic love for the Lord. Take a peak into her faith journey and how it has evolved over the years when God put her in places she least expected she'd be.

43 min

10 Episodes

A podcast all about navigating careers and adulthood while staying steadfast in our faith.

Creator

Madison Lafrenz
Years Active

2023 - 2025
Episodes

10
Provider

Madison M Lafrenz