The Simple Lives We Live
Some of the most extraordinary stories don't come from celebrities or history books. They come from everyday people - your neighbor, your grandmother, the man who runs the corner store, or the woman sitting next to you at church.
On The Simple Lives We Live, we sit down with ordinary people to uncover the beautiful, hard, faithful, and fleeting moments that shaped their lives. Stories of love and loss. Of grit and grace. Of family, faith, and the simple days we didn't know we'd one day miss.
So please join me each week as we capture voices and memories that deserve to be heard and remembered. Because the truth is, ordinary people live the most extraordinary lives.
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The Simple Lives We Live
Latest Episodes
If You're Gonna Walk on Thin Ice, Dance | Stan Koppinger
Stan Koppinger grew up one of four boys in a tiny house in New England, ND, where his dad’s whistle called them home for lunch. He started at the bank at 17 and spent 45 years as the guy they sent in when a bank was in trouble, from Dickinson a...
Sherry - Beyond The Conversation
Sherry and I kept talking after the interview, and it turned into some of my favorite stories!In this Beyond The Conversation, we talk about growing up before cell phones, when you came home when the streetlights came on, and why a princ...
A Life Spent Caring for Others | Sherry Libis
In Sherry Libis's second grade classroom, kids who talked too much had to wear a paper bag over their head. Sherry grew up in Eureka, South Dakota, playing fort on the cement bags at her dad's lumberyard, and spent 31 years in education in Beac...
Reba - Beyond the Conversation
In this Beyond the Conversation episode, Reba and I go a little deeper into her experience of motherhood and the lessons she learned along the way. We talk about raising kids, setting boundaries, keeping life simple, and the perspective that co...
You're Gonna Be All Right, Just Hang On | Reba Olsen
At a big family reunion, Reba Olsen joked that if she didn't meet Mr. Right by the next one, she'd join the nunnery. She met Chuck in Laramie the very next day. The youngest of six kids from Oneida, near Pierre, South Dakota, Reba grew up in a ...