The Open Spaces Podcast
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Summer Update: Viral Videos, Meaningful Conversations & What’s Coming Next
Summer has been full—in the best way. In this special update episode, we’re catching you up on what’s been happening behind the scenes at Open Spaces and giving you a glimpse of what’s ahead this fall.
Parenting: Raising Kids Without Pretending to be Perfect
Brooke and Elizabeth Mosser, founders of Intentional, join Jeff and Jourdan for an honest conversation about parenting, marriage, and healing — and why vulnerability, not perfection, is what creates safe spaces for our families to grow.
Parenting: A Lifetime of Learning (A Conversation with Buddy Burks)
Parenting is never something you fully figure out. Jeff and Jourdan sit down with Buddy Burks for an honest conversation about staying teachable and growing as a parent for the long haul.
With Buddy Burks
Parenting: Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World
How do you raise kids with wisdom and confidence in a culture that's confused and broken around sex and identity? A practical, grace-filled conversation for parents who want to lead the conversation instead of avoiding it.
Parenting Through Divorce
How do you parent well when a marriage ends? An honest look at co-parenting, grief, and extending grace to the kids caught in the middle.
Talking to Kids About Porn
A candid, age-appropriate guide to the conversation most parents dread — and why silence does more harm than the talk ever could.
Honoring Our Moms
Celebrating the women who shaped us — the complicated parts included — and what it really means to honor a parent as an adult.
Owning Your Identity
Who are you when the labels fall away? Finding your identity in Christ instead of performance, approval, or your past.
Finding True Intimacy (feat. Rita Springer)
Worship leader Rita Springer joins us on closeness with God and others — and why real intimacy always costs us our masks.
With Rita Springer
Community: What We Learned
Closing out our Community series with the biggest lessons on being known, staying, and doing life with other people.
Community: Family Secrets and Forgiveness
What happens when the secrets finally come out? A conversation about generational patterns, confession, and the long road of forgiveness.
Community: The Messy Beginnings
Every real community starts out awkward and uncomfortable. Why the messy beginning is worth pushing through.
Community: You Make Sense
On being fully known and still fully loved — and learning to offer that same grace to the people around us.
Community: Don’t Fight Alone
Isolation tells you to hide. We talk about why your battles were never meant to be fought by yourself.
Community: The Power of Being Known
Kicking off the Community series with the risk — and the reward — of letting people truly see you.
Catching Up!
Life updates, behind-the-scenes, and what’s ahead for Open Spaces — a candid catch-up with Jeff and Jourdan.
Practical Steps for the Struggle
Beyond willpower: concrete, grace-filled steps for walking through temptation and ongoing struggle.
What I Needed Growing Up
Looking back at the words, support, and truth we wish we’d had — and how to give it to the next generation.
Top 5 Questions Answered
You asked, we answered. The five questions listeners send us most often, tackled honestly.
The Impossible Becomes Possible
When God does what only God can do. Stories of redemption that rewrote what we thought was over.
Navigating an Unconventional Relationship
Marriage doesn’t always look like the highlight reel. An honest conversation about building something real through the hard parts.
Embracing What You Don’t Understand
Faith in the unanswered questions — learning to trust God when the story doesn’t make sense yet.
Desires and Faith Collide
What do you do when what you want and what you believe pull in opposite directions? A vulnerable conversation about surrender.
The Secret that Changed Everything
Where the story begins. Jeff and Jourdan open up about the hidden struggle that nearly broke them — and the God who didn’t let it.