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

In this powerful and practical conversation, Melie is joined by Monica Bodurka, founder of the Leadership Wellness Group, who blends neuroscience, yoga therapy, and lived wisdom to help people reignite the flame of resilience—especially in life’s dumpster fire moments. 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.

We’ve all heard the phrase “just bounce back,” like we’re rubber balls instead of actual human beings with hearts, brains, and tear-stained sweatshirts. But real resilience? It doesn’t look like a movie montage or a perfectly curated Instagram comeback story. It looks like crying on your living room floor, knitting through the quiet, whispering prayers you’re not even sure God can hear… and showing up again anyway.

What if joy isn’t about feeling good all the time? In this episode, Melie sits down with Charlie Engelmann—educator, speaker, and PhD candidate studying joy—to unpack what joy really is, how it’s different from happiness, and why adversity is actually essential for building a joyful life.

In this honest and heartfelt episode, Melie gets real about what it looks like to rebuild a life after heartbreak. She opens up about the unexpected path her life has taken post-divorce—wrestling with rejection, untangling old expectations, and learning to heal from the inside out.

Welcome back to Diamonds in Dumpster Fires! In this special (and slightly spooky) 13th episode, we’re tackling a topic you might not expect on a faith-based podcast—superstitions, luck, and how they intersect with faith and resilience.

Life throws curveballs, but resilience is the key to bouncing back stronger. In this episode of Diamonds in Dumpster Fires, we dive into The Resilience Blueprint—a practical, faith-based guide to developing resilience when life gets messy.