Stay Bright
As educators, we explore essential life topics from a study-based and faith-based perspective. We share tools gathered from the world’s experts, from the scriptures, and from faith leaders. Our vision is that all people will find the knowledge and resources we each need to be filled with hope, increase faith, and build confidence to navigate and find joy through life’s challenges. Join the conversation to strengthen your faith and strengthen your mind. Gain confidence to shine! - Angie & Kristy
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 45
- Years Active
- 2020
25. Power Thinking: The Mind/Spirit Connection
This week, we continue our two week topic of the power of our thoughts. Angie shares four spiritual questions we can ask ourselves to wield this power most effectively. Learn which of these four Ezra…
24. The Power of Thoughts: Manifesting
This week we explore the power of thought! We’ll teach you how we can reframe our thinking to realize the life we really want as we dive into the concept of manifesting. Kristy shows how we must do m…
23. The Seven Levels of Intimacy
In this bonus episode, Kristy and Angie review The Seven Levels of Intimacy by Matthew Kelly. Kelly teaches that intimacy must develop in a linear fashion, step by step. Learn how applying the differ…
22. Love is Not a Rule Free Zone
“Both healthy and unhealthy couples fight. The key distinction is how they fight.” This week we share lessons from Dan Bates, a clinical mental health counselor, on the rules of love which he says m…
21. Intimacy: To Know and Be Known
This week we are sparking a desire to foster more intimacy! Learn the four types of intimacy that psychologists, researchers and experts agree are key in developing deep, abiding and joyful relations…
20. Cast Your Voice In For Good
Stay Bright welcomes guest Hans Rawhouser. Hans shares his perspectives on how to navigate sensitive public discourse without being disagreeable. Learn his peaceful communication beatitudes along wit…
19. Unity Through Skillful Peacemaking
In this week’s episode, we examine anger though its spiritual opposite: unity. Angie shares four strategies from Henry B. Eyring’s talk, “Our Hearts Knit Together as One” to help us become more skill…
18. I Need Help with Anger and That's O.K.
This week we’re taking the shame out of admitting we need help with anger. We’ll share what author Gary Chapman (author of The 5 Love Languages) says are the origins and purposes of anger in his book…
17. Emotionally Navigating a Crisis- Special Episode
This week Dr. Elia Gourgouris, a positive psychology expert certified by the American Red Cross in Disaster Mental Health joins award winning facilitator and coach, Konstantinos Apostolopoulos (Coach…
16. Focused and Frequent Yields Spiritual Growth
How does the idea of small and simple things relate to our spiritual growth? Angie leads a discussion on how focused and frequent nourishment to our spirits will help us sink deep testimony roots. We…
15. Small Acts - BIG Impact
This week is all about small and simple! Kristy shares research and her personal philosophy that when we make the effort to do small and simple things, we can have a BIG impact on others and that wil…
14. Hope and Happiness in Long Term Trials
This week the Stay Bright Podcast hosts Catina Haverlock in a special bonus episode. Catina shares tender lessons and personal wisdom about grief and choosing joy after her life took a sudden and une…
13. From Why Me? to What's Next?
Stay Bright welcomes our first guest to the podcast! Musician Stacie Morris joins Kristy and Angie to share an unexpected lesson she learned about herself when a painful door closed in her life. Angi…
12. Obstacle to Opportunity
This is an episode for anyone who’s ready to look forward and not back! When doors in our lives close, we mourn the loss of what once was. Closed doors are hard. They should feel hard. Kristy leads a…
11. Choose the Good Part: Spiritual Essentialism
Most of us have more things expected of us than we can possibly do. Our spiritual and physical health depend upon our ability to regularly assess what is needful in our lives and to let the rest go.…
10. Living By Design: A Closer Look at Essentialism
Using concepts from Greg McKeown’s Book, Essentialism: The disciplined pursuit of less, Kristy makes the argument that only once we give ourselves permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop sayi…
9. Power Over Worry: Spiritual Tools to Worry Less
Angie poses the question: Is worry a choice? And if so, what can we do to overcome it? She bases her spiritual tools for worry on the principles Paul taught about fear in 2 Timothy: Power, Love and a…
8. The Riptides of Worry: How to Worry Less or Stop Worrying Altogether
Managing emotions is a full-time job! And learning how to soothe worry is a fundamental life skill and a key component to emotional intelligence. In this episode, Kristy leads a discussion that helps…
7. The Crossroads of Shame and Guilt: Are we Hypocrites or Just Human?
In this episode, Angie shares tools to help us turn disabling shame into faithful action. Through the concept of divine discontent, we explore the usefulness of a healthy sense of guilt and how it ca…
6. Take Off The Mask: Are We Hypocrites or Just Human?
In the process of growing into more mature and developed versions of ourselves, we can sometimes compare where we are on the journey to where we feel like we should be. We can be our own worst critic…