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Episode 39. Jeff Pitts is a super great guy with a heart for helping others. Today he talks with us about health and fitness, his personal journey from athlete to emotional eater to fitness coach, and why his favorite word is hope.

Episode 38. Winston Simmonds tells us how he started Sand Dune Publishing, and why he created the Between Me And You journal series. We also talk about the importance of asking people we care about for their stories, and sharing our own with them.

Episode 37. Casey Lewis and his family have decided to make 2015 an Adventure Year! Today he tells us what that's all about.

Episode 36. Before 2015 is out, Jonathan and Ashley Longnecker plan to sell their house, pack up their four kids, and travel the US full time in an RV. Today they share with us why they decided to hit the road less traveled.

Episode 35. Stephanie Jones talks about her lifelong passion for giving, shares stories of her giving experiences both great and awkward, and provides tips on how anyone can become a giver.

Episode 34. Renee A. Schuls-Jacobson was a teacher for 20 years and will always be a writer, but this year she also began sharing her paintings with the world. Today she talks about becoming a professional artist and how art helped her find herself again as she worked through a long illness.

Episode 33. Sue Plumb Takamoto shares the inspiring story of the Nozomi Project, an organization that employs and nurtures women affected by the tsunami that devastated Ishinomaki, Japan in 2011

Episode 32. Walk with us as Carolyn Congelosi shows me around her business, Watermark Farm. Listen in as she educates me on horses, show training, and what it takes to run a horse farm.

Episode 31. Willie Morris is here to tell us all about Faithbox, a new subscription service built on three tenets: growth, discovery, and giving. Their goal is to enrich "Christian lives through faith-based content and socially responsible product discovery".

Episode 30. Miriam Lilly paid off $24,000 in dept in 10 months, which made her next goal possible. Now she's set to take a year off and adventure, traveling through all 50 US States in the year between her 29th and 30th birthdays.

Episode 29. Matt Mikalatos joins us again, this time to talk about demons and possession, and what the Bible says about both. Is there a demon hierarchy? What can and can't they do? Who has the authority to exorcise demons? Matt answers those questions and shares examples from around the world.

Alaina and Peyton are working on a school project about suicide awareness, a subject which, in Alaina's words, "a lot of people don't like to talk about because it's a harsh topic. So we figured, why not us?" Listen in as they talk about their project, what it means to them and why they care so much.

If you get a DUI in Virginia, you have to go through the Alcohol Safety Awareness Program if you want to get your license back. Jaime talks about the program, how it works and what about her job makes "every day worth doing what you do".

Debbie and I talk about the startlingly high number of children who are killed or injured by furniture tipping over on them. Debbie shares her personal story of loss, and talks about the organization she and her husband founded to prevent other people from losing the children they love. 

Meet some of the people Tyler might be in the course of a day: school principal, math teacher, comedian, video producer, photographer, podcaster, husband and father.

I asked my mom to talk to me about what it was like when she was growing up. Among other things, we talked about kids running free, unlocked doors, alcoholism, stealing from her aunt's cherry tree, rollerskating into walls, sneaking out at night, and chaining my sister to a swingset. You know...good, clean, innocent fun. 

Jan talks to me about blogging, motherhood, living in Canada and the amazing world of the kindergarten classroom.

Mark talks to me about his fictionalized version of a 10,000 mile cross-country motorcyle trip he made last year.

This is a snippet of a conversation I had with my dad as part of a question and answer series on my blog, steadilyskippingstones.com. 

I've enjoyed listening to Knox McCoy on various podcasting venues, and I finally got the chance to talk to the man myself! Knox is a freelance writer, humor blogger, self-published author, podcast guru, video producer...and we talk about it all.