Weekly Livestreams from The Good Stuff Family
6/27/25
Janine smalley might be an angel. A legit angel…Whose heart level is always set on unconditional compassion. Both For people when they need “A person” most and for anything with breath in its lungs. If it breathes, Janine loves it. Often until their last breaths. She Serves. Selflessly. Protects without bias or judgement and Loves. Loves. Loves. It’s the Janine Smalley way. TO LOVE BIG. To Lead by example. Her career comes naturally as a mental health nurse at University Hospitals in Cleveland. I mean, example after example like she was BORN to go above and beyond. People People People Not “patients”. It’s her 24/7 CALLING to CARE. It’s also second nature for Janine to love on “second hand” furry and feathered, lost, abandoned, forgotten friends at her WHISPERING ACRES FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY. I Imagine it’s hard to hide angel wings under overalls, but the rescues there feel it… like we all do. Janine Smalley is an advocate to the end when all of us need one most. Stepping up sometimes as a straight up stranger is her super power. It’s true… some call Janine Smalley a legit guardian ANGEL. In fact that’s how I met her.
6/20/25
Invited In Disability Ministry celebrates and creates spaces of belonging for adults with disabilities and their families and the people behind it are The Good Stuff to the bone! My friends Dan and Christine Boyle do this in a variety of ways through multiple ministries and foundations that currently support and encourage people with disabilities. In this podcast we talk about how we met years ago (God WEAVES! Now Watch Him Work:) and all the ways they’ve been Seeing The Good in others and BEING The Good FOR them. I love them so much.
6/13/25
Friday morning… Means we’re all back to take a seat around the virtual Gratitude Table. So PROUD of Incarnate Word Academy legendary record breaking basketball teams and beyond. A ***141***game winning streak just snapped, but the story goes way beyond IWA’s basketball powerhouse accolades. Dan Rolfes is a living, breathing walking miracle (cue the Matthew West song😉 It’s powerful FAITH and HOPE bigger than Hoops. A story that stirred huge numbers of people watching around the world to say “I’ll have what coach Dan Rolfes is having;) What are you grateful for? Want to grab a cup of coffee and join us? Because of all the things we don’t understand… Of this much we’re sure…. We are Better Together.
6/6/25
She’s a pioneer. A trailblazer. And a beautiful soul. 86-year-old Kim Emmons Knor first jumped out of a plane in 1959… and never stopped. She is a living legend who took Gold at the 1962 skydiving World Championships. Now she is 801 jumps into her goal of 1,000 (But who’s counting? :) and will do about 35 more in the next week at “SIS (Sister’s in Skydiving) Boogie” in West TN. The story within this already incredible story is in the friends she’s made along the way❤️🙏🏻👏 Like fellow SIS Boogie Jump sister, Jenn Jones who joins us as well. We love them and you will too.
5/30/25
86-year-old Kim Emmons Knor breaks a personal record for # of jumps in one day on her way to 1,000 jumps! -Downloads and Good Stuff people along the way on our weekend roadtrip to Columbus. -National Cancer Survivor Day is this Sunday, June 1. Shout out to Timmy Tusick, maybe our fave Good Dude/Good Stuff Warriors still inspiring so many.
5/23/25
Nancy Mino is sunshine personified. And it has shown up now 29,878 times in mailboxes…hand crafted cards for 19 years now going to mostly strangers. Want to grab a cup of coffee and settle in with us for this conversation with a 2 time cancer survivor who is Seeing The Good in others and Being The Good For Them? Because of all the things we don’t understand, of this much we’re sure. We Are Better Together.
5/16/25
"In this world you WILL have trouble. but take heart! I have overcome the world." -John 16:33 Navigating through some of the greatest griefs. The PEACE of GOD filter to process it all. This morning as we gather around the virtual Gratitude Table...we take up the topic of HOW that exactly works? That sometimes seemingly nebulous and elusive PEACE that Paul talks about also talks about in Phil 4:6-7. Plus a huge shoutout to Rose Farmers for excellent customer service and THE MOST BEAUTIFUL Roses! Also, friend Ted Reardon shares a powerful download from earlier this week.
5/9/25
Our friend, 28-year-old Olivia DePiore, continues to rock the extra chromosome! Modeling since she was 18, now she is going to be the first person in history with Down Syndrome to walk the Red Carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21.
5/2/25
She’s a pioneer. A trailblazer. And a beautiful soul. 86-year-old Kim Emmons Knor first jumped out of a plane in 1959… and never stopped. She is a living legend who took Gold at the 1962 skydiving World Championships. Now she drives herself around the country to jump zones all clamoring to have her as she’s determined to complete 1,000! Jumps! And we’ll say “we knew her when”;) she was on #770 And get this! In the next two days alone, she plans to do something like a half dozen more! The story within this already incredible story is in the friends she’s made along the way:) We love Kim and you will too.
4/4/25
I once was asked when I started an new anchor job at an ABC affiliate a question I wasn't ready for. It was for an in house publication article to "get to know me". "If you could spend some time with 2 people living or dead, who would your 2 dream picks be?" I blurted out "Mother Teresa and Princess Diana." This was a long long long time ago by the way:) Recently I stumbled onto some great motivational Mother Teresa quotes that she lived by. There is so much POWER in her HUMILITY. For some insight into them we turn to someone who has been inspiring me for years!!!...one of my all time FAVE beautiful, genuine souls with a heart for really serving others. "Ms. Przada". We really do go WAAAAYYYY back:) my IWA freshman homeroom teacher whose legacy is such the living good stuff!!! She joins us this morning.
3/28/25
What's in a name? The Best Part of Waking Up IS Waking Up "Fear not, for i have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine" -Isaiah 43:1
3/21/25
Incarnate Word Academy State CHAMPS for the **15th** time! The road to get there this year for Coach Dan Rolfes and team... is a beautiful hard fought for story of extended family and faith. On March 15th last year, Coach Rolfes had a serious heart attack leaving the semi finals for the state championship in Columbia MO. On Thursday they were back in Columbia a year later on a 16 game winning streak with a story of grit and grind and divine design that goes beyond the basketball dynasty he's built. Faith in action is the story within this State Championship story. IWA! We're behind you ALL THE WAAAAAYY!!! Thanks for all your hard work in leading by example in what it takes to get through the hard stuff and onto The Good Stuff/God Stuff. "We have this HOPE as an ANCHOR for the SOUL firm and secure." -Hebrews 6:19That's the verse we're leaning into this week.
3/14/25
"God has given each of you a GIFT. Use them well to SERVE ONE ANOTHER." -1 Peter 4:10That's the verse we're looking at this week. What do those words in action look like you ask? I found it last weekend in all the GOOD STUFF people behind St. Baldrick's Foundation in St. Louis. Laura Wulf and Matt Sanders for example! Seeing The Good in families of cancer warrior kids and BEING The Good FOR them.
3/7/25
-Celebrating birthday boy Robert Kilo for more reasons than one. -We catch up with Jen Woolf who organized a huge giving chain for her new neighbors after someone spray painted racist grafiti on their home. So grateful for how she showed up with contagious GOOD STUFF in the wake of the ridiculous ignorant stuff. And wait until you hear how she has been leading by example ever since.
2/28/25
Today Griswold/Griswald/Grizzy the rescue cat...NOWWWWWW we knooooow the REST of the story:) bahaha! Good Stuff! A reminder of how The Good Stuff we do today can be far reaching. So let's get up and show up shall we? And speaking of doing just that!!!!..WHAT A GOOD STUFF STORY from our friend Ruthie! Gotta be God at work how she and husband John met new friend Marvin. Can't be coincidence, the new birthday friends who met over Hibachi. God. At. Work.