Bekah Bowman (Episode 6)

Bekah Bowman is a coach's wife, a special needs mom, speaker, and author of Can't Steal My Joy. She is passionate about bridging the gap between churches and families with disabilities.  On this episode, she shares her story raising two sons with terminal illnesses, how joy and grief can coexist, and her vision for how …

Jamie Corbin (Episode 5)

Jamie Corbin is an educator and storyteller who has been navigating whiteness and non-whiteness her entire life thanks to her own interracial adoption at birth and her interracial marriage to her best friend, Kelvin, in 2011.  She is raising her three Afro-Latina daughters to change the world with love, by first loving themselves deeply and …

April Kolman (Episode 4)

April Kolman is the host of the No Ordinary People podcast and while she prefers the conversations she has with other people on the show, in this episode, she gets to share about her own story. She shares how she went from staunch Republican with highly conservative values to writing in the name of social …

Charity Lewis (Episode 3)

Charity Lewis is the host of the podcast Charity Speaks, a candid conversation at the intersection of Christianity, Blackness and Womanhood. Charity has the heart of a shepherd, is a student of Torah, and has a passion to "act justly, love mercy, and live humbly." She is a community advocate with degrees in law and public …

Caitie Fredrickson (Episode 2)

CONTENT WARNING: In this episode we discuss mental illness and suicide, so please be aware of that before listening. Caitie Fredrickson lives with her husband and weenie dog Baron in SW Washington, and she has bipolar disorder. On this episode, we discuss how she knew something was wrong, how her mental illness affects her everyday …

Shawanda Bonner Morgan (Episode 1)

Shawanda Bonner Morgan is a dear friend and a high school teacher in Lakeland, Florida. In this episode, she shares with us about her pandemic wedding, the importance of story, how she connects with her students, and the impact we have on one another. She opens up in a vulnerable way about her own story …

Welcome to the No Ordinary People Podcast! (Episode 0)

It's here! The No Ordinary People Podcast is officially out into the world! This labor of love starts with a short episode introducing you to the podcast: how the idea was birthed and what inspired the name. I’m so excited for this journey and am so grateful to y’all for joining me. You can listen …