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People Skills That Strengthen Friendships, Marriage, and Family :: Debra Fileta [Ep 554]
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01/05/26
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Moms, life throws us into so many conversations every day...
Talking with our kids, navigating our husband’s work party, connecting with other moms, or building our own friendship. All of these moments show who we are and how we communicate.
Today, Debra Fileta, counselor, author, and podcaster, joins me to share practical tips on how to communicate effectively with friends, family, and loved ones. In our tech-driven world, we’ve lost many opportunities for genuine connection, and often we don’t realize how we come across when meeting new people or entering a room full of strangers.
Debra shares insights from her new book, People Skills, to help us connect in deeper, more authentic ways. Here’s some of what we cover:
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Talking with our kids, navigating our husband’s work party, connecting with other moms, or building our own friendship. All of these moments show who we are and how we communicate.
Today, Debra Fileta, counselor, author, and podcaster, joins me to share practical tips on how to communicate effectively with friends, family, and loved ones. In our tech-driven world, we’ve lost many opportunities for genuine connection, and often we don’t realize how we come across when meeting new people or entering a room full of strangers.
Debra shares insights from her new book, People Skills, to help us connect in deeper, more authentic ways. Here’s some of what we cover:
- Relationships and people skills: The strength of your relationships depends on the skills you bring into them.
- Communication matters: In a tech-driven world, real-life interactions with tone, body language, and facial expressions are more important than ever.
- Understanding communication styles: Learn the four types—assertive, aggressive, passive, passive-aggressive—and how to navigate them.
- Practical tips for being a great conversationalist: Honor your story, honor theirs, and create space for give-and-take in relationships.
- Instagram: Debra Fileta
- Facebook: Debra Fileta Truelovedates.com
- Website: Debra Fileta, M.A. LPC (@debrafileta)
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- Helping Our Kids Foster Friendships :: David Thomas and Sissy Goff [Ep 338]
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Previous Episode
In this episode, author, podcaster, and speaker Mary DeMuth returns to share the inspiration behind her latest work, which spotlights overwhelmed women in the Bible—women whose stories have often been minimized or overlooked. From Mary the mother of Jesus to Hagar to the widow with two mites, these women model faith, resilience, and wholehearted trust in God.
We talk about how Christmas can be both beautiful and heavy. Mary opens up about her own seasons of overwhelm, from her water breaking on Christmas Eve to sleeping in a barn the week before Christmas. She reminds us that Mary, the mother of Jesus, lived through the deepest fears a mother can face, yet she remained faithful as a disciple. Here is some of what we cover:
We talk about how Christmas can be both beautiful and heavy. Mary opens up about her own seasons of overwhelm, from her water breaking on Christmas Eve to sleeping in a barn the week before Christmas. She reminds us that Mary, the mother of Jesus, lived through the deepest fears a mother can face, yet she remained faithful as a disciple. Here is some of what we cover:
- Why Christmas often heightens grief, trauma, and unmet longings
- The consumerism of the holiday season vs. the simplicity of God with us
- What Shalom really means: wholehearted, whole-bodied peace rooted in surrender
- Jesus’ care for the overlooked, the aging, and the marginalized
- The definition of “Whelm” which refers to out-of-control stress, “overwhelmed” is that same stress amplified beyond capacity
- Instagram: Mary DeMuth // Healing from Trauma (@marydemuth)
- Facebook: Mary DeMuth
- Website: Mary DeMuth
- Nobody's Mother: By Sandra Glahn
- 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge: By Mary DeMuth
- Most Misunderstood Women of the Bible: By Mary DeMuth
- The Most Overlooked Women of the Bible: By Mary DeMuth
- The Most Overwhelmed Women of the Bible: By Mary DeMuth
- Podcast - Pray Every Day Mary DeMuth
- Church Hurt Checklist
- Building the Family You Never Had :: Mary DeMuth [Ep 156]
- Nobody’s Mother :: Dr. Sandra Glahn [Ep 443]
- From Overwhelmed to Anchored: Replacing the Lies of Motherhood with God’s Truth :: Erica Gwynn [Ep 544]
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Next Episode
My friend and Sidetracked podcast co-host, Cynthia Yanof, joins me to discuss her new book, How’d I Miss That?
Cynthia shares hilarious and poignant stories about family and kids that help uncover deeper truths—reminding us that God has a plan, and there’s no formula for this parenting journey. We often stress over things that feel big at the moment, like preschool registration or making the “right” sports team, but what really matters is having an eternal perspective—focusing on who our kids are becoming at 25 and who we are becoming as parents. In this episode, we talk about:
- How to pray audacious, faith-filled prayers over our kids
- Trusting the process, even when it doesn’t make sense in the moment
- Why not all friendships are meant for every season of parenting—and being intentional about your inner circle
- And we wrap up with some fun hosting tips from Cynthia
Connect with Cynthia Yanof:
- Instagram: Cynthia Wilkinson Yanof (@cynthiayanof)
- Website: Cynthia Yanof
Links Mentioned:
- How’d I Miss That?: By Cynthia Yanof
- Sidetracked - Podcast - Apple Podcasts
- Draw the Circle: By Mark Batterson
- Pre-order Cynthia’s book and then fill out this form to join us LIVE on Jan 27th at 7:30 pm CST
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- Raising Kids Who Can Stand Alone :: Cynthia Yanof -Summer of Mentorship-Wk 2 [Ep 415]
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