"The deeper story is one of reconciliation, grace, and learning who God says we are rather than who the world tells us we are." —Donald Williams

Are you letting the first chapter of your life write the rest of your story? This conversation will change how you look at your past, your pain, and your family tree forever.

Today, I’m sitting down with Donald Williams, co-author of Born of Nothing. Donald’s life is a masterclass in shifting a multi-generational trajectory. He grew up in a South Carolina cotton mill village, surrounded by poverty and labeled a "linthead." He broke through that invisible ceiling to earn a Doctor of Education and work globally for the Department of Defense.

But this isn’t just about academic success. It is about heavy, painful contrasts. While Donald was sitting in university classrooms, cousins he grew up playing with every day were heading down a dark path that landed them on death row and in prison. How does one family line produce both prison rows and doctorates? Donald and I strip away religious theory to look at the raw, redemptive reality of how God operates in the grittiest corners of our lives.

In this episode, we dive into:

• The Power of Hidden Intercession: How a grandfather's agonizingly specific night prayers anchored a family tree.
• A Miracle at 3:00 AM: A literal angel wakes Donald up, leading him to save his atheist son from a fatal drug overdose—a son who is now a global pastor.
• Overcoming the Spirit of Shame: The difference between guilt (what you did) and shame (who you think you are), and how to permanently strip off the labels the world gave you.
• The Art of Two-Way Prayer: Moving past one-sided grocery lists to actually listen to the Creator.

Your family history is an explanation of where you've been, but it is not a prophecy of where you are going. What label are you ready to lay down today to step into the true identity and legacy Jesus has for you?

Turn the volume up for this one. It is time to live Spiritually BRAVE.

👉 SUBSCRIBE TO KRISTEN'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL NOW 👈

✅ INTERVIEWING JESUS SHOW NOTES: GUEST LINKS AND RESOURCES
👏 Purchase How Good is God (AMAZON) (BARNES & NOBLE) (USA DIRECT FROM KRISTEN)
➡️ Connect with Kristen on Social Media 🌲 LinkTree
💌 Want to be a guest on Interviewing Jesus? Send Kristen Wambach a message on PodMatch!
Thank you for spending this time with me. I am honored.
See you next week, Kristen

Music Credits by Stockaudios from Pixabay

Have you ever realized that you were completely wrong about a situation, only to find that the mistake was actually a setup for a massive joy upgrade?
This weekend, we are heading into the cellar of the spirit for a raw, honest look at the everyday rhythms that either lock us into frustration or release us into effortless freedom. Kristen Wambach unpacks what happens when our spiritual expectation collides with reality, how to stop nagging the Lord, and the exact practical mechanism needed to tear your future out of contaminated soil. Pull up a chair—it is time to throw on your new garment and step into an immediate reality shift.

EPISODE TAKEAWAYS

• The Reality Matrix: Discover how our spiritual expectations can misread a natural situation, and why laughing at your own human moments unlocks a wave of prophetic joy.
• Uprooting the Trigger Pattern: Learn to identify the specific visual baseline of your negative habits so you can stop them before they cue your emotional cycles.
• The Garment of Ease: Step into a tangible, day-one understanding of grace that acts like a second skin, completely displacing the weight of lifestyle performance.
• The Soil Relocation: Learn the outcome-focused strategy for actively pulling the seed of your calling out of inferior, distracting environments and placing it strictly into resonant truth.

👉 SUBSCRIBE TO KRISTEN'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL NOW 👈

✅ INTERVIEWING JESUS SHOW NOTES: LINKS AND RESOURCES (Full Original Episodes)

👏 Purchase How Good is God (AMAZON) (BARNES & NOBLE) (USA DIRECT FROM KRISTEN)

➡️ Connect with Kristen on Social Media 🌲 LinkTree

💌 Want to be a guest on Interviewing Jesus? Send Kristen Wambach a message on PodMatch!

Thank you for spending this time with me. I am honored.

See you next week, Kristen

Music Credits by Stockaudios from Pixabay

Are you putting in the hours, doing the deep work, and ticking all your boxes of progress—yet still feeling completely invisible to the world around you?
Welcome to the high-performance trap, where chaotic seasons, digital noise, and heavy environment dramas constantly whisper that you are falling short. In this raw, highly anticipated repost episode of the Interviewing Jesus Podcast, host Kristen Wambach tears down performance-based lies to reveal a profound, liberating reality: how God and you celebrate you, even when those around you are completely distracted.

Diving deep into the ancient wisdom of Zephaniah 3:17, Kristen pulls back the curtain on a truth most believers miss. God is not an aloof orchestra leader standing on a pedestal, ticking a baton and demanding perfection. He is a mighty warrior actively moving through the details of your ordinary life, singing a literal, loud soundtrack of triumph over your existence. Moving past old, pre-cross frameworks of judgment, Kristen delivers an immediate, outcome-focused layout to shift your heart from the exhaustion of striving for visibility into the secure rest of your true, intrinsic worth.

EPISODE TAKEAWAYS

• The "Monday-Morning" Choice: Happiness is one of the most powerful choices you can make; you do not have to wait for a massive external breakthrough to experience joy when you choose to celebrate the small stuff, like ordinary consistency and quiet acts of kindness.
• The Validation Shift: Embracing Zephaniah 3:17 permanently shifts your internal perspective from an exhausting cycle of seeking God's approval to simply resting in His preexisting pleasure.
• Clean Relationship Boundaries: Learning to hold your head high and celebrate your daily growth in His presence acts as a critical line of defense that helps you avoid calamity in relationships.
• The Emotional Audit: You possess the structural choice to refuse to defend, carry, or entertain other people's bad attitudes, keeping your own heart in perfect peace because their happiness is not your responsibility.
• Redemptive Imperfection: The cross permanently removed performance-based judgment; your imperfections are no longer areas of rebuke, but the exact places where His grace is most perfectly displayed.

👉 SUBSCRIBE TO KRISTEN'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL NOW 👈

✅ INTERVIEWING JESUS SHOW NOTES: LINKS AND RESOURCES
👏 Purchase How Good is God (AMAZON) (BARNES & NOBLE) (USA DIRECT FROM KRISTEN)
➡️ Connect with Kristen on Social Media 🌲 LinkTree
💌 Want to be a guest on Interviewing Jesus? Send Kristen Wambach a message on PodMatch!

Thank you for spending this time with me. I am honored.
See you next week, Kristen

Music Credits by Stockaudios from Pixabay