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.

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.

“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.