Goodness in Every Season: Stories of Faith and Resilience

Redefining Goodness: Whitney Driscoll and Joyce Prutz on God’s Goodness in Every Season

Host Leilani welcomes Whitney Driscoll and Joyce Prutz to the Hope Books podcast to discuss their contributions to the collaboration Goodness: Shining His Light in Every Season and how they approached the theme of “goodness” from nearly opposite perspectives. Whitney shares her rural Kentucky background, her performance-based view of “good,” and how personal unraveling and bitter, honest conversations with God led her to redefine goodness as belonging to God and flowing through believers. Joyce, a longtime stay-at-home “girl mom,” describes her mother as effortlessly good, recalls life at the “big white house on the corner,” and highlights family traditions like large Christmas gatherings. Both offer encouragement for hard seasons—allowing feelings but not staying there, choosing trust daily—and discuss hope as redemption and an “anchor,” including Joyce’s story of loss and eventual joy with her granddaughter.

00:00 Welcome and Setup
00:56 Meet Whitney
01:52 Meet Joyce
04:01 Defining Goodness
06:40 Joyce Mom Tribute
08:41 Whitney Hard Truths
13:33 Two Paths One Theme
17:08 Advice for Hard Seasons
20:18 Rapid Fire Round
28:37 Living the Message
32:42 Hope and Closing