Listen to New Episode of PeppTalk Podcast Out Now
Listen to a new episode of PeppTalk—Pepperdine's podcast dedicated to sparking conversations of personal and global significance, featuring world-renowned professors, faculty, and students from across the University.
In partnership with Pepperdine's Boone Center for the Family and hosted by Alexa Borstad and Coby Dolloff, this PeppTalk series centers on relationships. Whether single or married, a parent or a grandparent, a senior professional or just starting out in the workplace, relationships play a significant role in our daily lives. And we all experience the stress that they can produce—the misunderstandings, the confusion, the hope for a different interaction. If healthy relationships are at the center of a flourishing, successful life, why don’t we have an easier time navigating them?
The podcast’s relationship series dives deep into these very questions, offering insights and guidance. To conclude the series, the latest episode explores the one relationship that shapes all the others—our relationship with God.
Episode 12: "Relationship with God" - In this powerful conversation, Dee Dee Mayer, senior director of RelateStrong at the Boone Center for the Family and a trusted expert on relationships discusses what it really means to walk with God. With help from hosts Borstad and Dolloff, they explore timeless wisdom from figures such as Augustine, Paul, and Job, the role of spiritual disciplines, how to stay grounded in dry seasons, and why relationships—not performance—is at the heart of the Christian life. Mayer also offers practical advice on how to seek and sustain a relationship with God through the development of healthy spiritual habits.
Whether you’re seeking deeper faith, struggling in silence, or curious about spiritual growth, this episode offers wisdom and encouragement to pursue a transformative relationship with the One who created you for connection.
Discover why intimacy with God is the starting point for lasting change in every area of your life and how the RelateStrong | Leadership Series can bring lasting hope and healing to your ministry.