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The Soul Talks PodcastLoyalty, Legacy, & the Detroit Lions: A Small Talk with Cindy Halstedn this heartwarming Small Talk, Theresa sits down in Detroit with her dear friend and founder of Secure Coaching, Cindy Halsted, for a conversation that blends family legacy, loyalty, friendship, and football. Cindy opens up about the emotional roots of her lifelong love for the Detroit Lions—stretching back to her immigrant grandparents, her father’s coaching legacy, and the Monday Night Football ritual she shared with him as a child.Together, Theresa and Cindy explore what the Lions’ cultural transformation can teach us about leadership, belief without evidence, and staying with people even when they’re struggling. They tal...
2025-12-0314 minThe Soul Talks PodcastYou Can't Give What You Don't Have | Parenting & Healing with Cindy Halsted - S2: Ep25Get ready for such a powerful and insightful episode on complexities of parenting—especially when you're still healing yourself. In Episode 25, Cindy vulnerably shares her journey as a mom navigating fear, control, and faith during a season when her daughter was struggling deeply. She opens up about the ache of watching someone you love numb their pain—and the prayer that shifted everything: “God, help me see what You see when You look at Anna.” This episode is full of wisdom for parents and caregivers who want to show up with love rather than fear. Cindy invites us to reflect on how o...
2025-05-2824 minThe Soul Talks PodcastSeen, Soothed, Safe & Secure with Cindy Halsted - S2: Ep24In Part 3 of our Soul Talks conversation with Cindy Halsted, she opens up about her crawl out of depression—and the two things that helped her start healing:She needed it to be normalized—to know it's not her fault and that even with strong faith, life can be incredibly hard.She needed safe people—wise counselors and trusted friends to help her explore childhood wounds and feel seen.Cindy shares how healing requires us to feel:✔️ Seen✔️ Soothed✔️ SafeOnly then can we begin to feel secure.She also reflects on how her own unhealed wounds—especially around being objectified as a woman—shaped ho...
2025-05-2123 minThe Soul Talks PodcastHaving Faith Through It All with Cindy Halsted - S2: Ep22We are back again today with Cindy Halsted! In this honest and powerful continuation, Cindy opens up about the complexity of being seen—how her beauty and femininity shaped her early experiences, from pageants to dating, and the tension of presenting a polished version of herself vs. simply being herself.She also shares how her faith became deeply personal—formed through times of pain and depression. While she never questioned God, she wrestled with questions like “Am I enough?” and “Am I okay?”From facing challenges as a young woman to the demands of motherhood, Cindy’s story is a profound remin...
2025-05-1521 minThe Soul Talks PodcastLiving with Purpose, Healing with God with Cindy Halsted - S2: Ep20This week on the Soul Talks Podcast, Theresa Bruno welcomes transformational leader Cindy Halsted—a woman whose life is marked by deep spiritual insight, emotional healing, and intentional living.With advanced degrees in counseling, and certifications in coaching and trauma-informed modalities. Cindy shares how her journey through pain, performance, and purpose has shaped her powerful ministry today. In this heartfelt and inspiring conversation, Cindy opens up about growing up in a spiritually rich but emotionally complex home, and how the loneliness she carried as a child ultimately drew her closer to God. She reflects on the identity crisis she faced af...
2025-05-0722 min
Wild & SublimePride: more love, more openessPanelists discuss issues facing LGBTQ+ folx inside their respective groups and across affinities, offering skills and strategies to combat isolation and forge bonds. Plus an interview with drag artist Cindy Nèro about her art and mentorship, and Karen’s Sermon on the Pubic Mound. From the June 2024 live show.GET TIX for our sixth anniversary live show in Chicago: Oct. 11, 2024!In this episode:Interview with drag artist, mentor and storyteller Cindy NeroPanel with Channyn Lynn Parker, CEO of Brave Space Alliance; Luke Romesberg, Director of Youth Housing from Center on Ha...
2024-09-141h 01
City Chapel NYCOn Expectancy, A Conversation with Cindy HalstedA few years ago Cindy, Founder of We Want More, shared with Jeremiah that deep-life transformation occurs in environments that are 1) safe, 2) vulnerable, 3) expectant and 4) Spirit-empowered. On Sunday, we double-clicked on "expectancy," asking Cindy to share from her journey with God on the importance of "expectancy" and how God's goodness and character forms the basis of our hope.
2024-06-0939 min
The We Want More Podcast2021 Year-end wrap up with the WWM Field TeamAs 2021 (and Season 3 of the podcast) comes to a close, the entire We Want More Field Team, Bruce and Cindy Halsted, Kim Tingler, Sunni Jones and Ryan Burnham, reflect on how God has moved in the lives of so many this past year. They discuss favorite memories, events, and highlights of 2021, and offer a glimpse of what God has in store for 2022.
2021-12-2239 minThe We Want More PodcastParenting (Part 2) with Bruce and Cindy HalstedIn this episode, Ryan and Kim continue the discussion around parenting with Bruce and Cindy Halstead (founders of We Want More). As a follow-up to the previous parenting podcast, this episode contains more practical tools, advice, and perspectives on how to connect with your child’s heart, while also leaning in to what is happening in your heart as parents. The episode contains many references to recourses the team trusts and has utilized. Below is the full list of tools and resources:1 Daystar Ministries: daystarcounseling.com / raisingboysandgirls.com. They have Podcasts & Books including: a Intentional Parenting, Sissy Goff, Da...
2021-12-1759 minThe We Want More PodcastReleasing Prayer on Parenting with Cindy HalstedIn this meditation Cindy walks us through a prayer for our children, and for ourselves – helping us to see our children as God sees them.
2021-12-0820 minThe We Want More PodcastEmotional Health: Conversation with The ParksIn this episode, Kim Tingler and Cindy Halsted interview David and Jean Park, close friends of the ministry and leaders at We Want More, who have recently gone through some major life changes. The Parks share their story around identity and worth as individuals, as a couple, and now as parents. They reflect on their childhoods, their relationships with their own parents, and the intense pressure to perform and please others. They openly discuss their patterns of dealing with pain through escape, and the impacts of this on their marriage and their parenting. Through a fallout from years of...
2021-11-1259 min
Exploring the Midwest with Jody HalstedIllinois Travel TipsUnfortunately Illinois Tourism was unable to join me for this episode of the broadcast. So I recruited 3 fabulous Illinois travel writers to join me today.
Cindy Ladage is a book author, blogger, and a farmer's wife with 3 grown children and 2 grandchildren. Dig into her passion of agricultural history at Traveling Adventures of a Farm Girl.
Karthika Gupta is a culture and travel writer, photographer and podcaster based in the Chicagoland area but originally from Bombay, India. Through her content creation skills she aims to bring cultural narratives to the forefront. She is also the founder of CulturallyOurs, a platform that...
2021-05-0333 minThe We Want More PodcastGriefCindy Halsted and Ryan Burnham interview Isabel Packevicz as she shares the story of losing her dad and together they explore the process of grieving.
2020-12-0935 minThe We Want More PodcastHospitalityOne of our key values at the More House is to host with excellence. In this episode Cindy Halsted shares her tips and wisdom around creating environments where people can feel seen, known and loved.
2020-11-1938 min
The We Want More PodcastCindy's StoryCindy Halsted, a founder of We Want More shares her journey through depression, isolation, and heartache into discovering more of God and more of life.
2020-09-1454 min