Hey! It's The Luskos

Donna Pisani went to church because she thought the youth pastor was really hot. She married him, and they pastored in Washington, DC for 30 years. Jennie goes one-on-one with Donna about the lie that told her she had no voice, what Jesus did for Mary in the second garden, and the phone reminders that rewired her brain for truth. Plus, a big announcement for the Fresh Life women and Donna’s book Entrusted to Lead.



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Donna Pisani: @donnapisani

Levi: @levilusko

Jennie: @jennielusko

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Time Stamps:

00:00:00 – Nobody’s built for Montana winters

00:13:48 – Two brain cells short of smart, then a doctorate

00:20:58 – Mary, the gardener, and the first sermon ever preached

00:33:24 – You can’t stop a lie, you have to replace it

00:40:03 – “Where are you?” isn’t geography, it’s a father’s longing

00:45:45 – Jennie’s big announcement: Fresh Life ladies are reading this book

Most people hit Leviticus and bail, so Skip Heitzig built a flight plan that gets them all the way to Revelation. Levi and Jennie sit down with their spiritual father to talk Soaring Above It All, a 365-day devotional with no dates on the pages (miss a day, so what?), plus the sermon-as-a-ladder lesson and why young Levi looked like a future pulpit or prison case. Bonus: Chip Lusko and his razor-blade tape editing, and a round of Lies or Truth with Skip's bibliography.



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Skip Heitzig: @skipheitzig

Levi: @levilusko

Jennie: @jennielusko

Fresh Life Church: @freshlife



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Soaring Above It All: https://bit.ly/4gHb9SH

The Bible from 30,000 Feet: https://bit.ly/4iGX2iT

Soaring Through the Bible (kids): https://bit.ly/4x6zqrF

Skip's website: https://bit.ly/4i1CPUJ

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Time Stamps:

00:00:00 – Godfather Skip and a gratitude list longer than his bibliography

00:02:43 – Why 30,000 Feet exists: nobody hangs around 11 years

00:07:05 – Soaring Above It All: 365 days, zero dates, no guilt

00:17:00 – Pulpit or prison? Skip's first read on young Levi

00:34:33 – Chip Lusko cut sermon tapes with a razor blade

00:42:58 – Lies or Truth: Did Skip write a book about Cadillacs?

Your kid sobs one minute and asks to go play the next, and nothing is wrong with them. Counselor Sissy Goff explains why children grieve in doses, like holding their breath underwater, and why even a six-month-old feels the loss. Levi and Jennie share the ice rink moment when two-year-old Daisy spotted a girl with Lenya's hair, plus Levi's one complaint about Sissy's new book: it wasn't written 15 years ago. Bonus: slalom water skiing at 32 mph.



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Sissy Goff: @sissygoff

Raising Boys and Girls: @raisingboysandgirls

Levi: @levilusko

Jennie: @jennielusko

Fresh Life Church: @freshlife



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Get Helping Kids Through Grief: https://bit.ly/4yw4Uc3

Sissy's website and the Raising Boys and Girls podcast: https://bit.ly/4ziMvQa

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Time Stamps:

00:00:00 – Wedding dance floors, Hopetown, and Sissy's one-ski slalom flex

00:11:12 – Levi's only complaint: this book wasn't written 15 years ago

00:20:19 – Grief vs. mourning, and what a six-month-old knows

00:24:45 – Daisy at the ice rink: "Where's my sister?"

00:30:01 – Post-traumatic growth: blessed are those who mourn

00:34:07 – Grieving in doses: the swimming lungs analogy

At 17, Luke Lezon marched into his mom's furniture boutique and announced he didn't believe any of it. She didn't even flinch. Luke joins Levi and Jennie for the story of a 10,000-person Bible study at Texas A&M, a wife he met on Twitter, and how a church split put a 28-year-old young adults pastor in the pulpit every Sunday. Plus Levi looks up what "Gig 'em" actually means, and it is way more violent than anyone expected.



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Luke Lezon: @lukelezon

Levi: @levilusko

Jennie: @jennielusko

Fresh Life Church: @freshlife



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Learn more about Quay Church: https://bit.ly/4yCO3o4

Read Luke's book Your Mess Matters: https://bit.ly/4ea33RZ

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Time Stamps:

00:00:00 – Staff summits and a sauna on top of a cliff

00:07:52 – "Mom, I don't believe any of this." She didn't flinch.

00:14:47 – Gig 'em origin: yes, it involves killing a frog

00:22:11 – Met on Twitter, told her "I'm gonna marry you"

00:40:23 – 1,200 people become 400, and a 28-year-old starts preaching

00:47:14 – Cut robes, not throats: David's cave and a future T-shirt

When John Eldredge met Stasi in drama class, his opening line was "Don't mark me absent." Forty-three years later, Stasi joins Jennie to talk about the monastery bells that pause her ministry's day twice daily, the loss of Brent Curtis just as Wild at Heart was taking shape, and trying on the sentence "I fail, but I am not a failure." Plus a look at her brand new book, The Ladder of Love, out now.



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Stasi: @stasieldredge

Levi: @levilusko

Jennie: @jennielusko

Fresh Life Church: @freshlife



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Get The Ladder of Love, Stasi's new book: https://bit.ly/4ynQ4US

Find the Captivating Retreat and other Wild at Heart events: https://bit.ly/4ynQ7A2

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Time Stamps:

00:00:00 – Monastery bells, the Pause app, and nightly ping pong

00:07:31 – Our story starts shady: drama class, matches, and a scallywag

00:16:50 – Wild at Heart's birth, and the loss of Brent Curtis

00:23:00 – "I fail, but I am not a failure"

00:28:44 – Beauty, Arwen, and the most beautiful woman Stasi ever met

00:40:28 – The Ladder of Love: clay to bride, rung by rung