Best Melissa Radke Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 101 No Topic Off Limits: Marriage, Motherhood, and Melissa Radke 40:42

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When Melissa Radke shows up, you know it’s going to be real, hilarious, and completely unforgettable. If you know Melissa, you already know you're in for laughs, real talk, and probably a few “Did she just say that?” moments (the answer is yes, and we love her for it). Melissa and I are diving into all the things: podcasting behind the scenes, the …

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A Celebration of the Women Who Made Us This Way: Melissa Radke Returns to the For the Love Podcast 1:09:08

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Description: Melissa Radke is the best friend you never knew you always wanted with a Texas-sized heart and sense of humor to match. She’s also an author, speaker, TV personality, and For the Love fan-favorite, best known for her gut-busting sense of humor, deep honesty, and fierce Southern sass. Melissa first gained a national following with her v…

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Ep 26 The Impact Laughter and Memories: Melissa Radke, Remi Radke, Annette Lee and Melba White 32:48

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Incredible Bonuses! Have you ordered your copy of Melissa’s new book Chicken-Fried Women: Friendship, Kinship and The Women Who Made Us This Way? Order Chicken-Fried Women Today because you do not want to miss out on these amazing bonuses! (https://www.worthypub.com/chicken-fried-women) Summary In this engaging conversation, Melissa Radke shares he…

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Episode 103 Friendship, Hardship, and ADHD-ship with Heather MacFadyen 33:29

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This week, I’m joined by my dear friend and Sidetracked co-host, Heather MacFadyen. We’re talking all things summer—from the ADHD interventions I swear she’s staging, to her full-on Enneagram 4 vibes. We laugh, we cry (okay, not really), and we keep it super honest. But we also get into the deeper stuff—the lessons we’ve both learned this past year…

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You Called, We Listened: Your Stories, In Your Words 1:09:19

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Description: Today, we’re playing a few of our favorite messages and responding to what you, our listeners, have shared. Whether it’s midlife realizations, hard-won wisdom, or letting go of stuff that just isn’t serving you anymore—this is about all of us learning from each other. Thank you to Alice, Ann, Sarah, Ashley, #1 Becky and “Badass Becky” …

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How to Become a Good Writer with Author Sharon Arpana Edwards 56:49

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Sharon Arpana Edwards, who was born in India, is the author of three books, the most recent being an adaptation of the biblical book of Job in limericks titled There Once Was a Man Who Suffered (paperback 2022; hardback 2023). It was preceded by an award-winning 100-day devotional titled The Blessing of Melchizedek (2016); and a collection of stori…

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Marketing Strategies with Cassidy Grigg 49:53

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Cassidy is a content strategy expert who speaks your customers’ language. A copywriter + digital marketing content expert.By Comedian Nazareth

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Help! My Kids Don’t Know How to Do Anything : Building Life Skills This Summer :: Katie Kimball [Ep 525]

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Today Katie Kimball is here to show us how to help our kids gain life skills that last and contribute to the family. Katie founded a program called Life Skills Now which covers topics from oil changes, to cooking, to entrepreneurship. She shares that competence equals confidence and with the rise of anxiety and depression, we want to give our kids …

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Help! My Kids Don’t Know How to Do Anything : Building Life Skills This Summer :: Katie Kimball [Ep 525] 54:41

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Today Katie Kimball is here to show us how to help our kids gain life skills that last and contribute to the family. Katie founded a program called Life Skills Now which covers topics from oil changes, to cooking, to entrepreneurship. She shares that competence equals confidence and with the rise of anxiety and depression, we want to give our kids …

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Ep 28 From Online to Real Life. A Friendship Story: Honey & Mikki 30:07

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Summary In this episode of the Chicken Fried Women podcast, host Melissa Radke introduces her guests Honey and Mikki, who share their unique friendship story that blossomed from The Radke Family membership. The conversation explores themes of connection, the challenges of female friendships, personal growth, and the importance of faith in their liv…

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Episode 102 Unexpected Miracles in Progress with Chip Waggoner 40:00

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This week’s episode is a really special one — and kind of a full-circle moment for me — because Chip Waggoner and his son Benjamin were actually my very first podcast guests ever! I still remember that very first recording, and now here we are, years later, sitting down again to reflect on their incredible journey and how God has continued to show …

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Secrets of Adulthood: Gretchen Rubin on Living a Happier, Simpler Life 1:02:50

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Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential observers of happiness and human nature. In addition to hosting the award-winning podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin, where she shares practical strategies for building a happier, healthier, more creative life, Gretchen is also the bestselling author of The Happiness Project, The Four Tendencies, B…

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Craving Peace? How Sabbath and Nature Can Restore Your Soul :: Eryn Lynum [Ep 524] 51:30

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Today Eryn Lynum joins me to share about the beautiful connection between nature and rest. Sabbath has become such a hot topic right now but Eryn had to learn from age 14 how to rest like her life depended on it when she was diagnosed with Addison's disease. She is now a homeschooling mom of four, a master naturalist, author, and business owner. He…

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Title: Maggie Smith on Art and the Gift of Our Attention 1:11:20

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Description: … We need art and beauty now more than ever We need creators to create And Jen admits to being a metaphor whore Thought-provoking Quotes: “The thing that really kept me going was writing. Writing was the way that I came home to myself.” – Maggie Smith 8:00 Nobody wants my cookbook. The next step will be call Doordash – Maggie Smith 9:0…

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Introducing: Aspire with Emma Grede 2:53

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Build the life of your dreams and learn from the world’s most successful people. Emma Grede, one of America’s richest self-made women - wants you to make the most of your life. On ‘Aspire with Emma Grede', learn through thought-provoking conversations with some of the most successful and smartest minds on the planet. Each episode will unpack their …

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Navigating Senior Year: College Prep, Family Talks, and Faithful Waiting :: Lee Cordon and Barrett Ball [Ep 523]

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Today we are live and in person in my office with Lee Cordon and Barrett Ball! My real-life friends have created a comprehensive guide for senior year and beyond. We cover the logistical, emotional, and spiritual challenges that every family walks through—from managing the college application process to preparing for big transitions at home. This c…

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Navigating Senior Year: College Prep, Family Talks, and Faithful Waiting :: Lee Cordon and Barrett Ball [Ep 523] 1:04:58

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Today we are live and in person in my office with Lee Cordon and Barrett Ball! My real-life friends have created a comprehensive guide for senior year and beyond. We cover the logistical, emotional, and spiritual challenges that every family walks through—from managing the college application process to preparing for big transitions at home. This c…

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Ep 27 The Journey of a Southern Comedian: Ellen Skrmetti 39:13

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Summary In this episode of Chicken Fried Women, host Melissa Radke welcomes comedian Ellen Skrmetti. They discuss their shared experiences as Southern women, the challenges of motherhood, and the journey into stand-up comedy. Ellen shares her insights on storytelling, the importance of humor in life, and how her faith influences her work. The conve…

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Episode 100 What does the Holy Spirit Sound Like Anyway? With Libin Abraham 31:33

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We’re kicking off this week’s episode with part two of Sappy Cynthia—my newest segment, where I share a little more of the real-life stuff going on over here. This week, I’m talking about my daughter’s college graduation and what made me cry (which was basically most things). Then we jump into another great conversation with my pastor and friend, L…

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Helping Kids Do Hard Things, Strong-Willed Kids, and Growing Through Failure :: David Thomas & Sissy Goff [Ep 522]

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Today our favorite counselors, David Thomas and Sissy Goff, are back to talk about their new project- children’s books! So much has happened over the last few years and they are beginning to see the onset of anxiety drop to age 6 from 8 years old previously. They created these books to give kids the words and emotional tools to do hard things and d…

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Helping Kids Do Hard Things, Strong-Willed Kids, and Growing Through Failure :: David Thomas & Sissy Goff [Ep 522] 51:33

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Today our favorite counselors, David Thomas and Sissy Goff, are back to talk about their new project- children’s books! So much has happened over the last few years and they are beginning to see the onset of anxiety drop to age 6 from 8 years old previously. They created these books to give kids the words and emotional tools to do hard things and d…

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Encore Matrescence: Unraveling the Myths and Realities of Being a Mother with Lucy Jones 1:19:43

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Description: …Today we’re revisiting the profound biological, psychological and social shifts experienced when becoming a mother - a process known as "matrescence.” Jen sits down with science journalist Lucy Jones, who experienced a seismic identity shift that arose after the birth of her first child. Lucy and Jen unpack groundbreaking neuroscience…

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Ep 25 Nashville and New York Adventures: Melissa Radke, Remi Radke, Annette Lee and Melba White 29:53

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Incredible Bonuses! Have you ordered your copy of Melissa’s new book Chicken-Fried Women: Friendship, Kinship and The Women Who Made Us This Way? Order Chicken-Fried Women Today because you do not want to miss out on these amazing bonuses! (https://www.worthypub.com/chicken-fried-women) Summary In this lively conversation, Melissa Radke shares humo…

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Abby Wambach and Amanda Doyle Remind Us That We Can Do Hard Things 1:18:36

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Description: In the span of a single year, Abby Wambach lost her beloved brother, her wife Glennon Doyle was diagnosed with anorexia, and her sister-in-law Amanda Doyle was diagnosed with breast cancer. For the first time, the trio who host the wildly popular We Can Do Hard Things podcast, all found themselves simultaneously lost, looking for answe…

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Episode 99 Living in the Spirit with Libin Abraham 33:21

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Well, we’re starting the show today with a segment I’m calling “sappy Cynthia.” Graduating two kids in the next 10 days has brought out all the feels, and last night was Brett’s last baseball game—talk about full-on nostalgia (alongside a stomach bug I’m currently fighting). But on today’s show, I’m joined by Libin Abraham, the pastor of my church,…

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From Blockbusters to Blanket Forts: Patricia Heaton on Parenting, Faith, and Comedy [Ep 521]

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Today Emmy-winning actor Patricia Heaton joins us for a candid conversation on motherhood, career, and raising four boys. We talk about the pressure parents feel to over-schedule kids, the beauty of simplicity (just give them a cardboard box!), and how God ordered her journey through motherhood and acting. She and her husband, David Hunt, are in th…

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From Blockbusters to Blanket Forts: Patricia Heaton on Parenting, Faith, and Comedy [Ep 521] 50:05

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Today Emmy-winning actor Patricia Heaton joins us for a candid conversation on motherhood, career, and raising four boys. We talk about the pressure parents feel to over-schedule kids, the beauty of simplicity (just give them a cardboard box!), and how God ordered her journey through motherhood and acting. She and her husband, David Hunt, are in th…

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April 2025: Lily Brooks-Dalton’s The Light Pirate 47:57

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Description: The April 2025 JHBC selection, The Light Pirate, is a haunting, lyrical, and original story that takes place in the near future, set against the backdrop of climate-ravaged Florida, with parts of the state going underwater and being abandoned by those who used to call it home. The story follows Wanda—a luminous child born out of a deva…

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Ep 24 More Randomness, Family Stories and Memories: Annette Lee and Melba White 18:38

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Incredible Bonuses! Have you ordered your copy of Melissa’s new book Chicken-Fried Women: Friendship, Kinship and The Women Who Made Us This Way? Order Chicken-Fried Women Today because you do not want to miss out on these amazing bonuses! (https://www.worthypub.com/chicken-fried-women) Summary In this lively conversation, Melissa Radke shares humo…

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Episode 98 “Let’s Not Do That” with David Thomas and Sissy Goff (A Parenting Essentials) 37:17

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This week on MESSmerized, I have the dream team—David Thomas and Sissy Goff. We’re talking all things parenting, and if you’ve ever tried to have a deep conversation with your teenage son and got nothing but a grunt and a request for bacon, this episode is for you. We tackled the big stuff: anxiety in kids, the social chaos our girls are navigating…

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Top Chef’s Kristen Kish on Last Chances, Making Big Changes and Living a Life That’s Accidentally On Purpose 1:07:51

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Description: She’s become a leading voice in the culinary world and today stars as the lead host of the same cooking competition show that launched her career. Kristen Kish was eliminated from Bravo’s season 10 of Top Chef, only to make a triumphant return through a Last Chance Kitchen opportunity that cleared the way for her to beat out the remain…

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Ep 23 All Sorts of Randomness: Annette Lee 20:54

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Incredible Bonuses! Have you ordered your copy of Melissa’s new book Chicken-Fried Women: Friendship, Kinship and The Women Who Made Us This Way? Order Chicken-Fried Women Today because you do not want to miss out on these amazing bonuses! (https://www.worthypub.com/chicken-fried-women) Summary In this conversation, Melissa Radke engages in a light…

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The Shift: Overcoming Self-Sabotage, Imposter Syndrome, and Critical Inner Monologues :: Mary Marantz [Ep 520] 59:18

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Do you often feel like something is holding you back? You can’t quite get to where you want to go professionally, relationally, or in personal habits and goals? Today Mary Marantz is here to tell us about the mental shifts that change everything. Mary’s story is riveting from growing up in a single-wide trailer in the mountains full of dirt and mem…

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The Shift: Overcoming Self-Sabotage, Imposter Syndrome, and Critical Inner Monologues :: Mary Marantz [Ep 520] 59:17

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Do you often feel like something is holding you back? You can’t quite get to where you want to go professionally, relationally, or in personal habits and goals? Today Mary Marantz is here to tell us about the mental shifts that change everything. Mary’s story is riveting from growing up in a single-wide trailer in the mountains full of dirt and mem…

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Ep 22 Cookies and Conversations with Remi Radke 27:43

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Incredible Bonuses! Have you ordered your copy of Melissa’s new book Chicken-Fried Women: Friendship, Kinship and The Women Who Made Us This Way? Order Chicken-Fried Women Today because you do not want to miss out on these amazing bonuses! (https://www.worthypub.com/chicken-fried-women) Summary In this episode of the Chicken Fried Women podcast, Me…