A Celebration of the Women Who Made Us This Way: Melissa Radke Returns to the For the Love Podcast

Description:

Melissa Radke is the best friend you never knew you always wanted with a Texas-sized heart and sense of humor to match. She’s also an author, speaker, TV personality, and For the Love fan-favorite, best known for her gut-busting sense of humor, deep honesty, and fierce Southern sass. Melissa first gained a national following with her viral videos about parenting and real life, which led to a reality show (The Radkes) and a bestselling book (Eat Cake. Be Brave.) A fierce advocate for women finding their voice—especially in midlife—Melissa brings laughter and tears to everything she touches. Her newest project, Chicken Fried Women, a collection of stories (with a companion podcast series) celebrates the women—battered on the outside, tender on the inside, some salty, some spicy—who made us who we are.

In this life-giving conversation filled with snort-laughs and tears, we talk about: 

• The incredible women who raised us, taught us, prayed for us, and even humbled us when we needed it most

• The stories that have become legend in our families—Melissa tells a story about her Aunt Melba helping her mother with fastening her girdle in a cramped church bathroom stall that left Jen and Amy in stitches

• The friends who have shown up for us in times of crisis with remedies and solutions that we never could have fathomed for ourselves

Thought-provoking Quotes:

• “I have always thought that people who have an innate gift to find and communicate humor, even in the midst of sorrow, possess a gift of healing. And I can’t number how many times I have been on the other side of someone else’s gift of humor and it has restored me in a way that literally nothing else could.” – Jen Hatmaker

• “Don’t waste another second being around someone who makes you feel like you’re too much. Go sit at a different table. Find a different circle.” – Melissa Radke

• “I am fully committed, as committed as I am to Christ, to the moo-moo. I make no apologies and I thank the person who rebranded it by calling it a kaftan.” – Melissa Radke

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Eat Cake & Be Brave: The Funny Formula For Life With Melissa Radke - https://bit.ly/4j29Yxm

• Fierce, Free & Full of Questions: Melissa Radke Gets Jen to Tell it All - https://bit.ly/4lkzm2Q

• The Radkes - https://www.usanetwork.com/the-radkes

• Saturday Night Live’s Five Timer’s Club - https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/snl-fiver-timers-club-member-hosts

• Chicken-Fried Women: Friendship, Kinship, and the Women Who Made Us This Way by Melissa Radke - https://amzn.to/3FS6azY

• The Chicken Fried Women Podcast - https://www.melissaradke.com/podcast

• Erma Bombeck - https://amzn.to/3DT9NoL

• Leanne Morgan - https://www.leannemorgan.com/

• Tina Fey - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0275486/

• Amy Poehler - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688132/

• Mindy Kaling - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1411676/

• She’s in Love with the Boy by Trisha Yearwood - https://open.spotify.com/track/4EJvW4NHAk7TrIeX44jjXF

Guest’s Links:

Website - https://www.melissaradke.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/msmelissaradke/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MelissaRadkeStretchMarks/

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@MelissaRadke

TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@melissaradke

Podcast - https://www.melissaradke.com/podcast

Connect with Jen!Jen’s Website - https://jenhatmaker.com/

Jen’s Instagram - https://instagram.com/jenhatmakerJen’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/jenHatmaker/

Jen’s Facebook - https://facebook.com/jenhatmakerJen’s YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/JenHatmaker

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