Rooted & Rising: Growth from the Greenhouse
Welcome to the Greenhouse! Join Denise each week as she has conversations with women who have experienced God’s power in their lives. We'll cover everything from relationships and parenting to running a business and building up our communities. We hope these stories inspire and enable you to make an impact in your world.
We at E's Greenhouse equip, encourage, and enable God’s Daughters to embrace their true identity as mighty women in the earth. We offer a variety of resources to help you achieve your goals, including online courses, videos, training manuals, blog posts, live video chats, podcasts & coaching groups. Our team of experienced mentors are here to guide you every step of the way, and we're committed to helping you achieve your full potential. Join us today and take your story to the next level!
Episodes
40 episodes
About How Vision Becomes A Village
What does it take to turn staggering need into steady hope? We sit down with Mary Thrasher to trace a twenty-year arc of faithful work in Uganda: from a pastor’s vision to cottages with house moms, from impromptu classes to a school that welcom...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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25:05
About Yoga Mats & Probate Lawyers
Purpose doesn’t always arrive with clarity; sometimes it looks like a detour. After moving to Wimberley and feeling unmoored, Dixie opened a yoga studio for breathing room and found a community she didn’t know she needed. A sermon about gifts a...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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32:54
About Letting Go Of Success
When the platform is booming and your heart still feels heavy, what do you do next? Denise sits down with Katie to unpack a brave pivot: laying down a wildly successful “Good Patriot” brand to reclaim a truer identity as a daughter of the King....
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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39:21
About A Hike, A Helicopter Ride & A Life Lesson
A waterfall, a stranger’s rescue, and a helicopter ride weren’t on our itinerary, but they became the stories that knit our friendship and deepened our faith. Denise and Jo open up about the hikes that tested their grit, the photos they didn’t ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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29:57
About Leaving For A Garage Sale & Coming Back Missionaries
What happens when two ordinary moms say yes to an extraordinary call? We open our lives to you—our blended family, our co-grandmother bond, the garage sale that turned into a launchpad, and the fragile moments in hospital hallways that redefine...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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21:48
About Whiskey, Jesus, And One Very Rude Rat
A broken heart, a midnight prayer, and a phone call that changed everything—this conversation with singer-songwriter Janie Balderas is a map through the valley and back into the light. We open with her roots as a preacher’s daughter in Austin a...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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27:10
About A Year Of Faith & Christmas Reflections
A quiet fire, a gray sky, and a heart full of gratitude, Denise opens up about a year that stretched faith and sparked a movement of stories. What began as a dream became a growing podcast rooted in Scripture and real-life testimony, designed t...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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17:34
About What Changes When You Believe You’re Worthy
The year stretched long with chemo chairs, late-night worries, and decisions that felt impossible—and yet something shifted when we stopped trying to earn our worth and started living from it. We open up about caregiving through a husband’s lym...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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24:14
About Traveling Mercies And Climbing Trees
What if prayer isn’t a to-do list but an act of love you step into right where you stand? We pick up a heartfelt question on petitionary prayer and follow Tracy’s journey from atheism to a living relationship with God, where asking felt illogic...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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24:20
About Why Sin Hurts Us And How Radical Grace Heals Our Hearts
What if the cross actually worked—and shame is no longer your script? That audacious claim sits at the center of our talk with author and speaker Tracy Levinson as we unpack love, dating, sexuality, and the kind of grace that doesn’t just forgi...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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25:26
About What It Takes To Be A Foster Parent
What does it actually take to love a child who has learned not to trust? We open up about the earliest days of a foster placement, where trauma shows up as testing, escalation, and a search for safety in all the wrong places. Instead of quick f...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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31:31
About Adoption, Identity, And Redemption
A single sentence from a kid—“He’s not really your brother”—can echo for years. That’s where our story begins: with a bright, adopted little girl who suddenly felt other, learned to hide, and tried on borrowed identities to blend in. Then, deca...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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20:14
About Forgiveness That Frees The Heart
What if the grudge you’re gripping is the very thing closing your life to joy? We open this conversation with the raw truth of offense and the slow work of forgiveness, then follow a breathtaking story of rescue and adoption that shows how grac...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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26:12
About How Two Foster Moms Built Faithful Community
What if the friend you’ve been praying for is waiting on the other side of a plan you almost canceled? That’s where our story begins: two foster moms, a quiet resource center, and a nudge that turned loneliness into a lifeline. We trace the pat...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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28:20
About Finding Transformation Where Judgment Ends
What if transformation is both a miracle and a muscle you build every day? We sit down with our dear friend Anne Rolling to trace a faith journey that spans a childhood of scraped knees and sacred hymns, a 59-year marriage, a son’s astonishing ...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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26:53
About Getting Back Up
A made bed, a deck of cards, and a quiet morning turned into the unthinkable: the day after saying goodbye to their puppy, Hazel, Tracy lost her husband Rick suddenly. What followed wasn’t a neat arc of resilience, but a raw, real journey throu...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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18:28
About how a Lifelong Friend Carried Me Through Moves, Motherhood, and the Mountains
A 45-year friendship doesn’t happen by accident. We share how two college dorm moms became lifelong sisters through moves across oceans, career pivots, colicky babies, and a few audacious hikes—including a one‑day push across Big Bend—while hol...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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26:43
About Fear and a Sound Mind
Fear has a way of sounding wise. It borrows the language of safety, responsibility, and planning—until you realize it’s been quietly shrinking your life. We tell the truth about it through stories: the nine-hour flight across the Atlantic with ...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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30:53
About Love & Addiction: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Perseverance | Part 2
If you missed Part 1 of Kate Robbins' story, see our episode from September 9th!What happens when decades of patient love finally bear fruit? Kate Robbins' story pulls back the curtain on a 45-year marriage that endured alcoholi...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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34:29
About Hearing God's Voice in a Noisy World
What if the hardest seasons of your life are actually blessings in disguise? In this heartfelt conversation, Denise and her niece Sydney Powell discuss how God transforms our greatest struggles into our greatest strengths.Sydney s...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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33:33
About Love & Addiction: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Perseverance | Part 1
What does it mean to truly wait upon the Lord when your marriage feels impossible? Kate Robbins takes us on a raw, honest journey through decades of marriage marked by both beauty and profound struggle.From their first meeting in Estes ...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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37:35
About Rebellion & Redemption
Have you ever felt trapped in a cycle of rebellion, knowing deep down something needs to change but unsure how to break free? Sandy Vasquez's powerful testimony might be exactly what you need to hear.Sandy opens up about her journey fro...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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33:12
About Weathering Financial Crisis
What happens when the financial ground beneath your feet suddenly shifts? When paychecks stop coming and insurance unexpectedly terminates? For Ashley Chagnon and her husband Pax, this wasn't a hypothetical scenario but a lived reality that tra...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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33:58
About Faith Through Life's Storms
Have you ever wondered how your deepest struggles might actually be preparing you for your greatest purpose? In this heart-touching conversation, longtime friends Jen Bachman and Denise Jackson take us on a 15-year journey through faith, friend...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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29:03
About Prophetic Art on the Road
What happens when God calls a 60-something grandmother to hit the road in a transit van to create prophetic art for strangers? Sharon Elmendorf's extraordinary journey shows us that divine purpose often arrives in unexpected packages.Fo...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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32:52