The Collide Podcast

Latest Episodes:

How Not to Pray with Carrie Butler Sep 21, 2022

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Needing to feel more connected to God? Hop on this episode where Carrie Butler invites you into a connection and prayer life that is much different than the one you have been in. This interview covers monastic spiritual rhythms, the danger of hurry, the importance of curiosity, getting to that "comfort space" with Jesus, how to know if God is trying to get your attention, and even how road trips can be spiritual. We promise you will walk away more freed and more invited in your relationship with Jesus because of this conversation!

We love connecting you with resources, so we pulled some of our faves based on this podcast episode. We hope they encourage, inspire and challenge you. Enjoy!

Collide Resources:

Our Personal and Powerful Bible study reminds us that God is able to intersect with our lives in both personal and powerful ways.

The Women of Impact Online Course provides teaching and inspiration from women making a huge impact in the world as they tap into God’s purpose for their lives in the sectors and spaces they’ve been called to. Get inspired and equipped to make an impact with YOUR life.

How to Build Health into Blended Families with Mike and Kim Anderson Sep 14, 2022

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This episode gives so much practical advice, strategies, and tools for blended families. You will walk away with a renewed sense of hope that building health into your blended family is not only possible, it's do-able! Mike and Kim Anderson are the founders of Mike and Kim Coaching and the host of the Blended Family Coaching Show. Hop on, hear their story, and learn how to weave health into your home!

We love connecting you with resources, so we pulled some of our faves based on this podcast episode. We hope they encourage, inspire and challenge you. Enjoy!

Connect with Mike and Kim Anderson at Mike & Kim Coaching

Podcast: The Blended Family Coaching Show with Mike and Kim

Collide Resources:

Bible Study: Our Birds and Lilies Bible study for anxiety seeks to counter what some are calling “anxiety culture,” a phenomenon that impacts women across the world.

Digital Course: The Counseling Bundle is a tremendous online course covering the 12 most common issues women face in counseling featuring tips, tools, and advice from mental health professionals. This course is a great fit for anyone considering whether counseling is for them, or as an option to begin the healing process while waiting to see a counselor.

Digital Guide: The Insight Journal is a free tool to help you pause and take stock of all that you’ve been through, all that you’ve learned, all that you want to leave behind, and reflect on lessons learned in hard times to take with you on the journey ahead.

Connect with Collide at info@wecollide.net or on Facebook or Instagram

Never Forgotten with Bridgette (Cameron) Ridenour Sep 07, 2022

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Have you ever felt like you were living in someone else’s shadow, wondering if your story even mattered?

In this moving episode of The Collide Podcast, we sit down with Bridgette Ridenour—sister to Kirk Cameron and Candace Cameron Bure—to talk about what it was like growing up alongside 80s TV icons while wrestling with feelings of being unseen and forgotten. Bridgette shares her honest journey of learning to rewrite the false narratives she believed about herself and how God is now using her life to bring hope to others who’ve heard “no” far too many times. If you’ve ever struggled with comparison, rejection, or finding your place, this conversation will deeply resonate.

Meet Bridgette Ridenour

Bridgette is the sister of childhood stars Kirk Cameron and Candace Cameron Bure. While she grew up in the orbit of fame, Bridgette's story took a quieter, more difficult path—one marked by rejection, unfulfilled dreams, and feeling overlooked. But through God's redemptive power, Bridgette is now living out a calling to encourage others, using her voice and her experiences to help people embrace the story God is writing for them.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn

What it was like growing up in a famous family while feeling left behind
How God speaks into our “no’s” and redirects us toward purpose
Why comparison can steal your joy and how to overcome it
The power of allowing God to rewrite your story
How to hold onto faith when your life doesn't look how you expected

How This Episode Will Encourage You

Bridgette’s vulnerability will inspire you to trust that God sees you, even when the world doesn’t. Her story reminds us that the parts of our life we think disqualify us may be the very things God uses to bring hope to others. You’ll walk away with renewed faith that your story matters and that God is never done writing it.

✨ Lean into God's better story for your life—and let go of the one the world tried to hand you.

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Connect with Bridgette Facebook | Instagram

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Check Out These Collide Resources Inspired by This Episode

Personal and Powerful - This study reminds us that God intersects with our lives in ways that are both deeply personal and undeniably powerful.

Collide Counseling Bundle - This online course tackles the 12 most common issues women face in counseling, offering practical tools, expert advice, and encouragement from licensed mental health professionals. The course also includes a beautifully designed printed workbook (mailed to your door) filled with exercises, reflection space, and helpful resources to guide your healing journey.

Connect with Willow - Website | Instagram | Facebook

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Reflections on Regret, Lies, Fear, and Time with Willow Weston Jun 29, 2022

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Needing some wisdom, insight, and encouragement? Having some regrets? feeling like you're steeped in negative self-belief? How much power is fear holding in your life right now? Are you numbering your days? These are the kinds of big things Willow Weston, the Founder of Collide reflects on in this episode. Get out a journal and a pen and allow God to meet you in this life-changing reflection time.

We love connecting you with resources, so we pulled some of our faves based on this podcast episode. We hope they encourage, inspire and challenge you. Enjoy!

Our Yes, You Bible study on self-worth encourages women to see beyond their inadequacies so they can be purposed to their fullest potential.

As women we often get stuck believing lies, settling for less than we deserve, and shrinking back rather than owning who we can become. We get stuck assuming things about God and about others. Our FREE downloadable, Getting Unstuck, A Reflection to Help Unleash you into the Life you Desire is chocked full of tools and insights to help you recognize why you might be stuck and to help walk you toward freedom.

Connect with Collide at info@wecollide.net or on Facebook or Instagram

From Shame to Service: One Man's Story of the Power of a Collision with Jesus with Gabe Chartier Jun 22, 2022

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Do you need to be encouraged that God can show up right smack dab in the middle of your pain and shame and not only heal and free you but use your story to help others? That's this man's story right here. Gabe Chartier shares how his heart of service developed from his painful past and his powerful collision with Jesus. God can not only show up in the hardest of places, but He can use those chapters to help people in their hard places. Take a listen to this episode and be blessed.

We love connecting you with resources, so we pulled some of our faves based on this podcast episode. We hope they encourage, inspire and challenge you. Enjoy!

Connect with Gabe: gabrielchartier.com

More Collide Resources:

Our Personal and Powerful Bible study reminds us that God is able to intersect with our lives in both personal and powerful ways.
The Counseling Bundle is a tremendous online course covering the 12 most common issues women face in counseling featuring tips, tools, and advice from mental health professionals. This course is a great fit for anyone considering whether counseling is for them, or as an option to begin the healing process while waiting to see a counselor.
There is great power that comes from recognizing the lies we believe about ourselves. Healing starts there. We’ve created a free downloadable exercise, Overcoming the Lies You Believe About Yourself to help you truly think about the statements you’re believing that are untrue about yourself and God. This resource helps you move from recognizing lies to claiming truths.

Connect with Collide at info@wecollide.net or on Facebook or Instagram

Tap into the More You Were Made For with Candy West Jun 15, 2022

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**🎧 Listen & Subscribe to the Collide Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen.**

What if the delay in your life isn’t denial—but divine preparation?

Candy West brings the fire in this can’t-miss episode of the Collide Podcast. A lead pastor, preacher, author, gospel recording artist, and entrepreneur, Candy sits down with Willow to talk about trusting God’s timing, cultivating purpose in the waiting, and boldly pursuing the “more” you were made for. With powerful stories and deep wisdom, she’ll challenge you to stop settling and start walking in faith toward God’s promises.

Meet Candy West

Candy West is a dynamic leader, communicator, and creative whose career has spanned the music industry, ministry, and entrepreneurship. As a gospel recording artist, Candy has used her platform to preach the gospel and uplift people from all walks of life. Her heart is to empower others to trust God, live on purpose, and “work the wait” while holding on to His promises.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn

Why waiting seasons aren’t wasted seasons
How to be productive while holding out hope
How God uses our stories and struggles to shape our calling

How This Episode Will Encourage You

If you’ve ever found yourself stuck between a promise and a breakthrough, Candy’s message will breathe new life into your faith. You’ll walk away inspired to trust God’s process, lean into His power, and step confidently into your purpose—even in the waiting.

Collide Women’s Conference - Join us for a powerful one-day event filled with inspiration, connection, and encouragement to help you pursue healing, purpose, and deeper faith.

✨ Learn more and grab your ticket at wecollide.net/conferences

Personal and Powerful - This study reminds us that God intersects with our lives in ways that are both deeply personal and undeniably powerful.

Connect with Candy West - Website | Instagram

Work the Wait: Being Productive While Waiting on the Promises of God by Candy West

Connect with Willow - Website | Instagram | Facebook

Follow and Support Collide

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The Psychology and Theology of Money with Nicole Burdick May 25, 2022

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Press play on this episode where Nicole Burdick invites you to explore your own psychology and theology around money. We promise you this conversation about finances is so not boring! In this episode we talk about shame around money, other people's voices in our heads that shape our decisions, getting to the root of what we actually value and so much more. Hop on and spend time with this award winning financial advisor and glean her wisdom for your financial life.

Connect with Nicole at:

https://www.consilium-financial.com/team/nicole-burdick

Or on Facebook

Facebook.com/Nicole-Burdick

Check out these Collide resources:

Finding Connection in Your Marriage When You've Lost it with Dr. Steve and Lisa Call May 18, 2022

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Are you feeling stuck in the same old patterns in your marriage? Have you given up on the connection you'd once hoped for? Are you needing some new relationship tools? This is your podcast! Join Dr. Steve Call and his wife Lisa, co- founders of the Reconnect Institute and be inspired by their own stories of disconnection and their simple tools to help us reconnect. This episode covers it all: conflict, repair, old wounds and how our stories cause new ones, vows not to make, patterns that keep us stuck, shame, curiosity and so much more.

Additional Collide Resources:

The Counseling Bundle is a tremendous online course covering the 12 most common issues women face in counseling. We’ve assembled 10 amazing mental health professionals in creating this bundle and we’d love for your life to be impacted by it.

Collide's Personal and Powerful Bible Study: Does life sometimes feel impersonal? With all of our profiles, passwords, selfies, and computerized customer service, we can easily feel that we are “known” without really being known. We often wonder if God really sees what is going on in our lives. This study discusses and reflects on all the ways God show’s up in personal and powerful ways in our lives.

When God Calls You in an Entirely New Direction with Pastor Jeff Shaw May 11, 2022

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Hop on today's podcast and spend time with Jeff Shaw, an Executive Pastor who shares how God called him from business to ministry. This pastor, leader, husband and dad of a small village pours out his life to invest in others. You too will feel like he has invested in you after you listen to him share his wisdom and story.

Dive Deeper with Collide Resources:

Leadership Inspo Resources

Women of Impact Online Course

Yes, You Bible Study

Paying Attention to What God is Saying to You with Kelli Jensen May 04, 2022

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Spend a moment hearing from spiritual director Kelli Jensen as she invites us to start making space to pay attention to God and what He has to say to us. This episode opens our eyes to our hurried lives that hinder the need we have for soul care. You will be blessed to hear Kelli’s wisdom and invitation. And you will walk away from this conversation wanting more of what Jesus has for you.

Connect with Kelli Jensen on her website at https://kellimariejensen.com/

Additional Collide Resources:

Personal and Powerful: A Collide Bible Study

Birds and Lilies: A Collide Bible Study

The Collide Counseling Bundle: An Online Course