Does your brain ever act like it’s auditioning for a disaster movie? If you’ve ever convinced yourself a delayed text means you’ve lost a friend, or that a weird car sound means you’ll soon be stranded on the highway with only a stale granola bar, this episode is for you.

Loneliness is one of the most painful struggles we face—and it’s one I know all too well. In this heartfelt episode, I open up about my own experience with loneliness after divorce, moving, and starting over.

When life feels unsteady—whether from heartbreaking headlines, personal struggles, or just the low-grade exhaustion of carrying too much—hope can seem far away. In this episode of Diamonds in Dumpster Fires, host Melie Williams invites you to pause, breathe, and remember what is still good.

In this moving episode of Diamonds in Dumpster Fires, host Melie Williams sits down with author and pastor April Yamasaki to talk about grief, faith, and the quiet glimmers of grace that can sustain us in life’s hardest seasons.

Most people think resilience is about surviving disasters or pushing through life’s biggest heartbreaks. But what about the boring days? The Tuesday mornings, the traffic jams, the endless laundry cycles?

Birthdays aren’t just about cake and candles—they’re milestones that remind us of how far we’ve come and how much we’ve grown. In this special birthday episode of Diamonds in Dumpster Fires, Melie reflects on the past year and the surprising lessons resilience taught her through both joy and hardship.

Pastor and author Dawn Mann Sanders shares how a season of heartbreaking losses led her back to the opening pages of Genesis—and how God’s creative order became a step-by-step map for rebuilding a life. We talk about grief, honest faith, rest that feels like peace, and the courage to “seize the moment” when God nudges you toward something new.

Decision fatigue? Faith fog? Fear yelling louder than your intuition? In this episode, Melie breaks down what it really looks like to make decisions when you're standing at a life crossroad—or just overthinking a second date.

If you’ve ever had your week derailed by something unexpected — whether it’s a literal flood or just a flood of problems — this episode will help you breathe, laugh, and remember that God’s got this.

In this episode, I’m joined by anxious attachment coach Sheilanova Cornelio, who specializes in helping people rewrite their emotional stories, untangle shame-based thought patterns, and create the kind of deep inner safety that allows them to thrive in relationships and in life.

What if confession wasn’t about guilt, shame, or punishment, but about freedom?

In this episode of Diamonds in Dumpster Fires, Melie sits down with author, pastor, and rapper Holly Mutlu to explore confession as a radical act of resilience.

Have you ever felt like life is just... relentless? Like the moment you catch your breath, another wave knocks you over? In this raw and hope-filled episode, Melie gets real about what it means to build resilience when everything feels like it’s falling apart.

What if your mindset struggles weren’t a flaw—but just outdated programming your brain’s been running on autopilot? In this episode of Diamonds in Dumpster Fires, Melie introduces the GEM Framework—a simple, faith-rooted, neuroscience-backed approach to help you shift from spiraling to grounded, from stuck to moving forward.

What if resilience isn’t about pushing through, but about coming home to yourself?

Whether you’re rebuilding after divorce, burnout, or just trying to stop spiraling at 2 a.m., this episode offers a new way forward.

What happens when the faith you’ve built your life on starts to crack? When the prayers go unanswered, the pain doesn’t lift, and certainty gives way to silence?

What do you do when life doesn’t look anything like you hoped? In this deeply honest and hope-filled episode, Melie sits down with author, minister, and coffee entrepreneur Nathan Westwick to talk about navigating disappointment, waiting on God, and finding peace in seasons that feel painfully uncertain.

“We weren’t meant to heal without scars—because scars mean we survived.”
In this powerful and deeply moving episode, I sit down with Sylvia Moore Myers—author, speaker, business consultant, and founder of Goldscars LLC—to talk about healing, resilience, and what it means to mend with gold after devastating loss.

We’re back with Part 2 of Unfiltered: Men on Love, Faith & Dating, and my guest today is someone you might remember—Kevin Livermore. In his last appearance, we talked about living as your true self. Today, we're taking that conversation a step further by diving into what it means to show up authentically in the world of modern dating.

What actually is going on in the world of modern dating? This week, I sat down with John Peregrin for a candid conversation about dating apps, mixed signals, and why finding real connection feels harder than ever.

We need to talk about something that gets wildly misunderstood in the world of healing, growth, and starting over: resilience.

In this solo episode of Diamonds in Dumpster Fires, Melie pulls back the curtain on what real resilience actually looks like—and spoiler alert, it’s not the flawless woman with a coffee mug that says still rising. It’s the kind of strength that shows up messy. It's crying on your living room floor one night and leading worship the next. It's not a personality trait you either have or don’t. It's a practice. One you can choose. One you can build.