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Embark on an inspirational journey with guests from diverse backgrounds, sharing stories of triumph, resilience, and faith, reiterating the common human longing for belonging.
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"She Started Drinking at 14 to Numb the Hurt — 30 Years Later Her Dad Went to Get Her" | Ep. 111 with Robert Ruesch (opens the original)
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She started drinking at 14 to numb the hurt. Thirty years later — her dad went to get her. In Episode 111 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast , host Dea Irby sits down with Robert Ruesch — author, writer, husband, and father whose family has walked through more than three decades of addiction, heartbreak, hope, and ultimately recovery. His award-winning book The Long Road Home: A Family's Journey Through Addiction is available on Amazon now. Robert opens up about the prayer he prayed on a Monday ni
They've Never Asked Me — Uncovering the Extraordinary Stories Hidden in Ordinary Lives | Ep. 110 with Kelsey Billingsley (opens the original)
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She was just another baseball mom. Until Kelsey Billingsley got curious and asked a question. What followed was the story of a woman who survived a civil war, fled in the middle of the night after her father was killed, spent five years in a refugee camp digging through bread every morning looking for poison — and built a beautiful ordinary life that nobody around her knew anything about. When Kelsey asked why her closest friends had never heard the story, the answer stopped her cold: They've ne
"I've Been Saving These — 17 Quotes From Our Guests That I Cannot Stop Thinking About" | Ep. 109 with Dea Irby (opens the original)
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What if the most powerful thing you could do today was slow down and sit with a few extraordinary words? In this special solo episode of Hear Where You Belong Podcast , host Dea Irby does something she has never done before — she pulls back the curtain on 17 of the most powerful, memorable, and soul-stirring quotes shared by guests across the seasons. Words she has been carrying around, writing down, and thinking about in the car, in the middle of the night, and while washing dishes. Some of the
Don't Mistake the Fire for the Finish Line — Your Story Is Not Over | Ep. 108 with Cheri Baugh Woods (opens the original)
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Divorce. Widowhood. Leukemia — twice. Multiple brain surgeries. A bone marrow transplant. Any one of those would shake most people's faith to the ground.Cheri Baugh Woods has walked through all of them. And she is still standing.In Episode 108 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast , host Dea Irby sits down with Cheri — author, speaker, retired educator, and International Impact Book Awards Author of the Year finalist — whose memoir Win-Win: Miracles Still Happen has already traveled to the Frankfurt
"You Don't Have to Earn Your Place — You Were Born Enough" | Ep. 107 with Carlene Marie (opens the original)
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Do you rewrite a text three times before you send it? Say yes when every part of you wants to say no? Feel like you have to earn your rest? That is not who you are. That is a story you absorbed somewhere along the way. And it can be rewritten. In Episode 107 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast , host Dea Irby sits down with Carlene Marie — master mind power coach, keynote speaker, and author of Enough Already: Release Self-Doubt, Reclaim Your Worth, Remember Your Light. Carlene grew up as the oldes
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