I Don’t Want to Optimise Anymore is a conversation with Rach, Britt, and Bec about productivity and hustle culture, barriers to rest, and what we are learning about pursuing rest.

We are interviewing all our regular contributors in Season 1 for you to get to know them better. Khaiah Thomson is a social worker and the author of the Blackwood series.

In today’s episode, we explore:

• Turning your creative hobby into your job and finding ways to get unstuck

• Growing up as a pastor’s kid in the country. Khaiah believed she was a Christian, but when she moved to Perth as a teenager she wrestled with feeling alone and unlovable. God said to her, “You don’t know me.”

• In a time when people want to outsource discipleship of their kids, the value of growing up in a big family where she felt like it was a safe place to wrestle with all her big questions about faith and life. 

• Working as a hospital social worker on the renal transplant team whilst also diagnosed with Polycystic Kidney Disease. We discuss coming to terms with eventually needing a kidney transplant when she wanted to ignore it and learning to rest in the fact that God is in control. 

You’re So Vain, You Probably Think This Podcast is About You is a conversation with Rach, Britt, Maddy, and Bec about our vain interests (see: fashion, deep-diving true crime podcasts, mindless celebrity knowledge, trashy novels, and music you scream-sing in the car with no kids around). The kind of stuff you wonder… “As a Christian, should I even be into this?”

We are interviewing all of our regular contributors in Season 1 for you to get to know them better. Today’s guest is Mariah Hlatywayo, a singer-songwriter and drummer from Perth.

Mariah shared what she learned from struggling with comparison and discouragement, what she learned about God’s love and growing in faithfulness, as well as the influence of this struggle on her upcoming
EP, I’ll Be Counting Still.

We are interviewing all of our regular contributors in Season 1 for you to get to know them better. Today’s guest is Tenielle Neda, a train driver & singer-songwriter from remote Western Australia. She is married to a NZ born camera-man & teacher, Daniel, and they have three precious, young children.

Tenielle shared what she learned from struggling with, “How can God love me?” and feeling alone, and the influence of this wrestle on her upcoming album, The Way of Love.

Sarah is one of our regular contributors at Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner. Sarah shared what she learned from her experience of postnatal depression.

Sarah grew up in a non-Christian family in Albany, met some Christian friends in high school, then Jesus became her Lord and Saviour while at University. She now lives with her husband and two boys, two dogs and a number of chooks on a farm near Tambellup in the Great Southern. She is a school officer by day, and enjoys writing fiction and performing in amateur theatre in her spare time.

Today’s episode is a conversation about what we are learning about pursuing depth in friendships with three of our regular podcast hosts: Rach, Britt, and Bec. The After Dinner Mint is a podcast of Stories I'd Tell You at Dinner. We bring Christian women in Western Australia together through honest stories.

Amy serves on the ministry team at Providence City and is one of our regular contributors at Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner. Amy shared what she learned from her experience of burnout in ministry.

Today’s episode is an interview with Maddy Rhodes, who is one of our podcast hosts of The After Dinner Mint. Maddy shared what she learned from her experience of loss, doubt and despair after a molar pregnancy.

Welcome to the After Dinner Mint, a podcast of Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner. We bring Christian women in Western Australia together through honest stories.