{"podcast":{"title":"Junk to Jewels Podcast with Georgette Beck","slug":"junk-to-jewels-podcast-with-georgette-beck-6740500","podcast_index_feed_id":6740500,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/dreamtoachieve/feed.xml","website_url":"https://dreamtoachieve.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/17588509/0_-_26-7-30_resize_Junk_to_Jewels_Podcast_Cover_Soloawb5d.png","author":"dreamtoachieve","episode_count":74,"summary":"Have you ever felt like your life's broken pieces couldn't possibly become something beautiful? This show was made for you. Junk to Jewels Podcast with Georgette Beck is a podcast about turning life's hardest moments into purpose, healing, and hope. Georgette is an author, speaker, and founder of the Bella Healing Hearts Foundation. With a Master of Arts in Human Services - Marriage & Family Counseling, she brings both professional insight and personal experience to every conversation — because heart matters truly matter. Each week, Georgette and her guests explore the real, raw topics that shape our lives: healing from divorce, loss, abandonment, rejection, and grief; navigating blended families, stepparenting, and remarriage; wrestling with faith, depression, self-worth, and life purpose — and finding beauty on the other side of all of it. Episodes feature stories from Georgette's own journey, affirmations, scripture, wisdom from books she loves, and guest speakers who share their own Junk to Jewels transformations. This podcast was inspired by Georgette's book, Junk to Jewels: A Journey from Brokenness and Despair to Beauty and Delight, available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.c…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-22T18:21:23.649116+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/junk-to-jewels-podcast-with-georgette-beck-6740500"},"episode":{"title":"Mercy in the Mess: Lori Stanley Roeleveld on Writing Through Loss, MS, and Estrangement","slug":"mercy-in-the-mess-lori-stanley-roeleveld-on-writing-through-loss-ms-and-estrangement","published_at":"2026-07-24T19:30:11+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/junk-to-jewels-podcast-with-georgette-beck-6740500/mercy-in-the-mess-lori-stanley-roeleveld-on-writing-through-loss-ms-and-estrangement","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/junk-to-jewels-podcast-with-georgette-beck-6740500","url":"https://dreamtoachieve.podbean.com/e/mercy-in-the-mess-lori-stanley-roeleveld-on-writing-through-loss-ms-and-estrangement/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ezfx7dq7787acq7z/J2J-LoriStanleyRoeleveld-AudioOnly.mp3","summary":"Episode Description In this episode of the Junk to Jewels™ Podcast, Georgette sits down with author, speaker, and coach Lori Stanley Roeleveld — self-described \"disturber of hobbits\" — for a conversation that moves from a complicated childhood in Hope Valley, Rhode Island to a lifetime of persevering faith. Lori shares what it was like growing up in a home shaped by untreated mental health struggles and alcohol, coming to Christ at age four during a televised Billy Graham Crusade, and spending her early school years reading and writing alone in the school library after testing years ahead of grade level. She opens up about her father's 65-year career as a firefighter and 51 years as fire chief, his remarkable transformation, the sudden estrangement from her mother and brother the day her father died, her husband Rob's MS diagnosis, and a near-fatal dog attack on the job. Lori and Georgette also dig into the writing life — Lori's viral 2014 blog post that reached over two million readers, her process for writing seven award-winning books (including her newest, God's Abundant Mercy), and what it means to live on \"the Lord's faith payroll.\" It's a rich, honest conversation about mercy, resilience, and finding the jewels in the junk. Listener Takeaways How childhood hardship — and even being labeled \"different\" — can become the training ground for a lifelong ministry of words Why success can be just as spiritually dangerous as failure, and the importance of asking God to keep sanctification ahead of platform growth How to hold onto faith through parental estrangement, chronic illness in marriage, and unexpected trauma A practical writing process (the \"madwoman, architect, carpenter, judge\" method) for anyone trying to write in the margins of a full life What it looks like…","meta_description":"Episode Description In this episode of the Junk to Jewels™ Podcast, Georgette sits down with author, speaker, and coach Lori Stanley Roeleveld — self-desc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3634,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/junk-to-jewels-podcast-with-georgette-beck-6740500/episodes/mercy-in-the-mess-lori-stanley-roeleveld-on-writing-through-loss-ms-and-estrangement/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/junk-to-jewels-podcast-with-georgette-beck-6740500/mercy-in-the-mess-lori-stanley-roeleveld-on-writing-through-loss-ms-and-estrangement.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}