Climbing Fierce

Climbing Fierce

Hosted by: Claudia Dempsey and Hannah Shafer

A podcast dedicated to helping devoted Christ followers on the higher journey as they climb toward the plans, purposes, and presence of God. We welcome you to journey alongside us as we explore common hang ups, set...

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Hardship Series: The Difficult Process of Unmasking Authenticity

What do you do when work becomes an addiction? In this week's episode, Claudia and Hannah interview Greg Faulls, a pastor, blogger, and seminary educator on his journey of recovery from workaholism. Greg transparently...
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Hardship Series: One Woman's Journey Through Sickness

In this weeks' episode, Claudia is joined by Toni Perry, an instructor of digital media and journalism. Toni transparently shares her remarkable journey through a prolonged season of infirmity. As she reflects on what...
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Hardship Series: A Mother's Journey Through Grief

Hardship will take different forms, last for different intervals, and differ in degree and depth, but the pain and loss they insert into our lives will share some definite similarities. It is often at this juncture of...
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Accessing Peace in an Anxious World

The jump in the mental health crisis is not a secret to anyone. 40 million adults (19% of the population) deal with a diagnosed anxiety disorder. While we can’t change our genetics, our past life events, or maybe even...
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Designing a Blueprint for Effective Decision-Making

The average American makes nearly 2,000 decisions per hour. Many of us don't think much about the little decisions that we make every day. But the accumulation of these small choices will impact our lives. In this...
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How Do I Know if I Need a Fresh Perspective?

We are all going to falter in our perspectives from time to time. No one is immune. But then there are those times when our perspective isn’t just a bit skewed. It’s totally out of alignment. in this episode, Claudia...
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What if This Hardship Is Where God Wants to Meet You?

In this episode, Claudia and Hannah discuss the beautiful truth that God is a table-setting God. Throughout Scripture, God not only uses imagery of a table as a metaphor for our provision, but he actually want to...
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Why Does God Make Us Wait?

Waiting is part of the human experience. But why does God make us wait? In this episode, Claudia and Hannah explore 4 reasons why God makes us wait: He is protecting us, preparing us, refining us, or reminding us. As...
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The Pursuit of Confidence

In this final episode of our mini-series on personal confidence, Claudia and Hannah discuss 7 common causes of underconfidence and some important questions to consider when assessing your current level of confidence....
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Confidence Rises and Falls on the Fulcrum of Limiting Perspectives

Understanding what we are thinking about ourselves is one of the most pivotal aspects of confidence development. Why is this? Each of us, like characters in a play, is working off of a script, a subconscious narrative...
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Why Confidence is so Critical

In this episode, Claudia interviews founder of the College of Confidence and host of the Confidence Podcast Trish Blackwell. They discuss common confidence pitfalls for women, how to move past a "not-enough" mindset...
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Unlocking the Confidence Code

Welcome to Climbing Fierce Season 2, a mini series on personal confidence! In this episode, Claudia and Hannah kick off the series by discussing what confidence actually is, how personal confidence is deeply connected...
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