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
54 episodes
About Building A Business That Honors God Without Losing Your Family with Annie Ward
A business can be your dream, your plan to provide, and the place you expect God to “bless” in obvious ways, until it doesn’t work. We sit down with Annie Ward to talk about what happens when you do the right things, pray, spend the money, put ...
About Why Cutting Your Hair Can Be Spiritual with Hannah Croft
A tire shop bench and a few words of Spanish turn into a friendship that feels planned, and from there the conversation goes straight into the kind of faith questions most of us carry quietly: How do you know God is leading you? Why does obedie...
About How God Sees You with Peyton & Victoria
God sees you. Not just your plans and prayers, but the season you’re in right now: the messy living room, the tired mornings, the doubts you don’t say out loud. I’m joined by my granddaughter Peyton and our social media teammate Victoria for an...
From Darkness To Hope with Mercy
A poem can carry what a person couldn’t say out loud for years. Mercy joins us from Uganda and shares how she went from fear, silence, and a painful childhood marked by hunger, abuse, and child labor to finding safety at Luluanda Children’s Hom...
About God’s Timing And The Mission Heart with Annie Ward
Prayer can feel like the smallest thing we do, right up until you realize it’s the biggest. We sit down with Annie Ward, a worship leader and missions-minded mom of four, to talk honestly about what it looks like to pray first, serve second, an...
About A Life Is Saved Twice Through Prayer And Community with Irene
A doctor looks at Irene’s scans and says the baby has no space to grow. Irene looks at God and says she’s ready anyway. From Luanda Children’s Home in Uganda, Irene Nasike joins us across the distance to share a story that is both brutally hone...
About Tiny House Detours And Coffee Date Friendships with Kristin Taibi
A canceled plan can feel like rejection, but sometimes it is the exact turn that gets you where you’re meant to be. We’re talking about godly friendship and the surprising way God orchestrates relationships that bless us, steady us, and help us...
About When God Says Pick Up The Paintbrush with Donna Lent Russell
A headstone in an old San Antonio cemetery stopped Donna Lint-Russell in her tracks, and it never really let her go. Years later, that single epitaph collides with a 3 am wake-up, a Max Lucado book, and a painting she could not finish because t...
About Faith In The Caregiving Trenches with Alejandra Aguilar
Six sand dollars on a quiet walk became the turning point Alejandra Aguilar needed when fear was loud and the next step felt impossible. She joined me to tell the story of becoming a full-time caregiver after her dad’s stroke, while raising two...
About Dancing Into Deeper Faith with Lauren Lowry
What if your strength wasn’t the point—and surrender was? We sit down with our friend Lauren Lowry, a pastor, designer, wife, and mom, to trace the messy, beautiful path from self-reliance to a lived partnership with God. From learning to worsh...
About a Survivor’s Faith, Grit, And Calling To Advocate For Kids with Tiffany Bedford
What if the thing that once broke you became the very tool you used to help others heal? That’s the heart of our conversation with Tiffany Bedford, who moved from Texas foster care to entrepreneurship and, now, to law school with a clear missio...
About Being Still, Making Space, & Becoming Who You’re Called To Be with Nancy Williams
What if your calendar became a doorway to peace instead of a source of pressure? We sit down with our dear friend and counselor Nancy Williams to reimagine the new year through a single, weighty idea: intentionality. Not vague intentions or rig...
About Parenting An ADHD Firecracker Without Losing Your Mind with Betsy Mosley
What happens when a quiet, detail-loving mom raises an extroverted sparkplug who can’t sit still, and then finds herself called to special education? We open up about parenting an ADHD daughter, learning to release control, and discovering how ...
About When Letting Go Brought Love Back with Abbie Fly
What if the love story you’re clinging to only grows when you let it go? We sit down with Abbie Fly, oldest of four, marketer by day, fitness coach by sunrise, and high school girls’ mentor every week, to trace a path from campfire faith to a r...
About How Vision Becomes A Village with Mary Thrasher
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...
About Yoga Mats & Probate Lawyers with Dixie Newnam
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...
About Letting Go Of Success with Kate Bertino
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....
About A Hike, A Helicopter Ride & A Life Lesson with Jo Wilson
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 ...
About Leaving For A Garage Sale & Coming Back Missionaries with Shannon Tyson
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...