For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker is a New York Times bestselling author who built a massive following talking about faith, family, and the messy middle of adult life, and her podcast extends that conversation with genuine warmth. She co-hosts with longtime friend Amy Hardin, and their chemistry is the kind that only comes from decades of actual friendship -- they finish each other’s thoughts and disagree without it ever getting awkward. The show has 581 episodes, a 4.6-star rating from over 6,300 reviews, and drops new episodes multiple times a week. Guests range from Anne Lamott talking about writing and grace to parenting experts and marriage counselors, but the through line is always relationships in the broadest sense -- with partners, kids, communities, and yourself as you age. Episodes run 35 to 60 minutes and lean conversational rather than interview-formal. Hatmaker went through a very public divorce and a faith deconstruction that cost her a significant portion of her original audience, and that experience has made the show more honest and less polished in ways that actually serve it well. She talks about the hard parts of midlife -- shifting identities, empty nests, renegotiating marriages, spiritual uncertainty -- with specificity rather than platitudes. The Gen X perspective is strong here, and listeners outside that demographic may find some references land differently. But the core appeal is a host who has publicly walked through upheaval and come out willing to talk about what she learned without pretending she has it all figured out.