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Hope Comes to Visit

Danielle Elliott Smith

45 episodes

6 days ago

Send us a text This year, my word of the year is Audacity—not the loud kind, the tender kind that says: I’m still here, and I’m going to live like it. If you are here right now and/or planning to press play today, thank you. You’ve taken a chance on me—and on this new season. I’m choosing Audacity for its tiny brave steps, presence over perfection, and hope that shows up. Season 2 starts officially starts here. Season one left us with FORTY-THREE episodes of hope and I am damn proud of that...

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Personal Journals,

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Send us a text This year, my word of the year is Audacity—not the loud kind, the tender kind that says: I’m still here, and I’m going to live like it. If you are here right now and/or planning to press play today, thank you. You’ve taken a chance on me—and on this new season. I’m choosing Audacity for its tiny brave steps, presence over perfection, and hope that shows up. Season 2 starts officially starts here. Season one left us with FORTY-THREE episodes of hope and I am damn proud of that...

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Society & Culture

Personal Journals,

Self-Improvement

Episodes (20/45)

Hope Comes to Visit

Season 2 - Light, Audacity, and Showing Up- My Word (and Work) for 2026

Send us a text This year, my word of the year is Audacity—not the loud kind, the tender kind that says: I’m still here, and I’m going to live like it. If you are here right now and/or planning to press play today, thank you. You’ve taken a chance on me—and on this new season. I’m choosing Audacity for its tiny brave steps, presence over perfection, and hope that shows up. Season 2 starts officially starts here. Season one left us with FORTY-THREE episodes of hope and I am damn proud of that...

6 days ago

24 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

When the Paint Chips: Finding Light After Unthinkable Loss with Theo Boyd

Send us a text Content note: This episode includes candid discussion of traumatic loss, suicide, and grief. In this final Hope Comes to Visit episode of 2025, I sit down with award-winning Texas author, grief educator, and podcaster Theo Boyd. Every story has a turning point and she joins me to talk about hers...including her new USA TODAY bestselling book Hope All the Way—and the life behind it. Theo shares the day everything changed: her mother’s tragic death in a farm accident, the unrave...

2 weeks ago

36 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

From Guilt to Guidance: How to Talk About Senior Care with Shona McIntyre

Send us a text Content note: This episode includes candid conversation about aging, dementia, and caregiver stress. What’s the right time to talk about senior care—and how do you even begin? In this episode of Hope Comes to Visit, I sit with Shona McIntyre, a senior care advisor, social worker, and certified dementia practitioner with nearly two decades of experience helping families navigate complex decisions with clarity, compassion, and confidence. We unpack the messy middle: noticing earl...

3 weeks ago

25 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

Kleptomania, Consequences, And Hope

Send us a text This episode includes honest discussion of addiction and legal consequences. What does recovery look like when the compulsion won’t let go? In this conversation, I am privileged to sit with Kelli Bauer, who lives with kleptomania—an often-hidden addiction—and has paid steep personal and legal costs. This conversation is brave and vulnerable. We talk about the difference between “shoplifting” and a clinical compulsion, how shame and secrecy keep us sick, what (actually) helps da...

3 weeks ago

50 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

A Life Bigger Than Grief: Melissa Hull on Grace, Forgiveness and Choosing Joy

Send us a text Gentle note: we talk honestly about grief and child loss—please listen with care and kindness for yourself. What does healing look like when the unthinkable happens? In this episode, I’m sitting with Melissa Hull—author, speaker, coach, fierce advocate, and Drew’s mom. After losing her son in a tragic drowning, Melissa has worked to choose a different ending for herself: love in motion, faith as a daily practice, grief as a path that can still lead to purpose. In this conversat...

1 month ago

44 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

Start Anyway: K.T. Jay on Grief, Courage, Indie Publishing, and Imagination

Send us a text Gentle heads-up: mentions of grief and loss. If you’re new—welcome, I am so grateful you are here. If you’re back again for hope to visit—welcome home. In this episode, I'm delighted to be chatting with K.T. Jay—the Amazon bestselling author of Inkbound Inheritance—to talk about imagination, healing through story, and the courage it takes to begin. We explore how grief shapes us, why stories can steady us, and what it’s really like to indie-publish a debut that lands on the ch...

1 month ago

33 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

Ep 38 Hustle, Heart, Hot Dogs & Hope: Danni Eickenhorst on Feeding a City

Send us a text I love conversations that make you want to show up for people. This is one of them. Today’s guest is Danni Eickenhorst, the heartbeat behind Hustle Hospitality and some of St. Louis’ most beloved spots: Steve’s Hot Dogs, Steve’s Meltdown, The Fountain on Locust, and The Stardust Room. Danni and I talk about what it really means to be “a neighborhood place”: paying people with dignity, creating spaces where everyone belongs, and showing up when a tornado rips through the block. ...

1 month ago

25 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

EP 37 Hope, Hustle & Tiny Tags: Melissa Clayton on Building a Beloved Brand & Hitting Dream Milestones (Like Making Oprah's Favorite Things!)

Send us a text If you’re new—welcome. If you’re back—welcome home. Today I’m sitting down with my friend Melissa Clayton, founder & CEO of Tiny Tags—the personalized jewelry brand born at a kitchen table and now beloved by moms, worn by Meghan Markle, sold in Target stores nationwide, and (pinch-me) featured on Oprah’s Favorite Things 2025. We talk about the quiet courage behind the milestones: bootstrapping for 15+ years, saying no to shiny objects, building a values-first team, ...

2 months ago

32 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

EP 36 From Panic to Peace: Everyday Practices for Anxious Hearts with Amanda Willson

Send us a text If you’re new here—welcome. If you’re back—welcome home. Today I’m sitting with my dear friend of 12+ years, Amanda Willson, a life coach and anxiety expert who has walked this road and now teaches the rest of us how to find steadier ground. This isn’t theory; it’s real tools for real life. We talk about simple practices that change the moment you’re in: 4-7-8 breathing to settle your nervous system, the 5-4-3-2-1 senses reset to get you out of your head and back into your body...

2 months ago

25 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

The Night Laughter Saved My Life: Ron Blake on PTSD, Community, & 522 Boards of Hope

Send us a text A gentle heads-up: In this conversation, we name some hard things — including suicide and sexual assault. If that’s tender for you today, please listen with care, skip ahead, or come back when you’re ready. If you need support in the US, call or text 988. Sometimes hope is a laugh you didn’t expect. At 10:44 PM on November 2, 2015, Ron “Blake” Blake was ready to end his life. A split-second laugh during The Late Show with Stephen Colbert interrupted the plan—and it chan...

2 months ago

41 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

When “Try Again” Isn’t Enough: Sam Bonizzi on Missed Miscarriages, IVF & Finding Community

Send us a text Hope isn’t the absence of fear—it’s the light that keeps you moving when fear won’t leave. In this tender, no-fluff conversation, I sit with Sam Bonizzi, co-author of The Losses We Keep, as she shares how two missed miscarriages upended everything: the shock of hard news in an ultrasound room, the moment she fired a clinic that wouldn’t test her partner, and how she built a real support web—REI + acupuncture + therapy + a circle of women who “got it.” We wade through conflicti...

2 months ago

34 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

From Silent Suffering to Solid Support: Lucy Rose on Healing Chronic Loneliness

Send us a text Some seasons of my life, loneliness wasn’t a passing mood—it was the air I breathed. I didn’t always call it by name, but my body did: tight chest, racing thoughts, that sense of being “with people” and still feeling alone. In this conversation, I sit down with Lucy Rose, founder of The Cost of Loneliness Project, to talk honestly about what chronic loneliness does to us—and how we can gently stitch connection back into our days. We weave together science and story: cortisol an...

2 months ago

45 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

Seen at Last: Dr. Deb Muth on Women’s Health, Functional Medicine, and Finding Answers

Send us a text If you’ve ever been told “it’s normal” when you knew it wasn’t—this episode is for you. I’m joined by Dr. Deb Muth—naturopathic doctor, functional medicine expert, and founder of Serenity Health Care Center—to talk about being seen at last: how to advocate for yourself, ask better questions, and get to root causes instead of living on prescriptions that never explain the “why.” We dig into: Why women are diagnosed 4–5 years later than men for many conditions—and what to do abou...

3 months ago

47 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

Who Gets a Seat at Your Table? Curating Your Life with Clarity, Care, and Courage

Send us a text Pull up a chair and take a breath—then ask the question most of us avoid: who gets a seat at your table, and why? In this solo episode, I treat your table as a living metaphor for your energy, time, and love—and names what it takes to protect that sacred space without apology. We get practical fast. You’ll hear clear, compassionate scripts for late-night crisis friendships, boundary-pushing relatives, and overflowing workloads, plus a four-part framework to sort who stays, who ...

3 months ago

14 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

Back to School: Dr. Gina Barreca on Hope, Grief and How Laughter Gives Us the Mic

Send us a text Humor doesn’t just make us laugh—it hands us the mic. In this episode, Dr. Gina Barreca—award-winning professor, cultural critic, and bestselling author of Gina School—shows how wit turns grief into agency and outsiderhood into belonging. From losing her mother young to pioneering gender-and-humor studies, Gina traces the path where jokes become bridges and stories transform shame into connection. We dig into how many women use humor differently—not as a weapon, but as an invit...

3 months ago

49 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

Planning in Pencil: Candice Suarez’s Life Drafting After Tongue Cancer

Send us a text Content note: candid discussion of cancer diagnosis, surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and recovery. What if hope isn’t “it’ll be fine,” but “I can handle what comes”? That shift changed everything for Candice Suarez. In this conversation, Candice takes us inside a whirlwind season: a misread ulcer during COVID, a tongue-cancer diagnosis, surgery removing over half her tongue, a forearm graft, and weeks of radiation and chemo. She walks us through recovery’s gritty middle—manag...

3 months ago

33 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

Build-A-Bear, Build-A-City: Maxine Clark on Curiosity, Business & Belonging

Send us a text What happens when you treat curiosity like a business plan and community like your bottom line? Maxine Clark—founder of Build-A-Bear and the force behind St. Louis’s Delmar Divine—talks about creating brands that hold people, not just products. We explore the question that keeps opening doors for her: “How can I help?” and the multiplier that guides her work—1+1=100. We don’t run the play-by-play; we sit with the pivots: listening to children, translating insight into action, a...

3 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

Against All Odds: Fatherhood, Loss, and Hope with Richie Treadway

Send us a text Content note: pregnancy loss and medical trauma. Entrepreneur and dad Richie Treadway joins me to talk about becoming a parent later in life, the moment everything fell apart—and the choice to keep going. We don’t relive every detail; we sit with what it took to advocate, to grieve, and to try again. Richie names the kind of love that “changes the way your heart works,” and defines hope as the resilience to not quit against all odds. If you’re somewhere betw...

3 months ago

40 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

Bellamy Young on Caregiving, Liver Disease & the Freedom Beyond Shame

Send us a text Actress Bellamy Young, from the hit TV shows Scandal and Brilliant Minds, joins Danielle to share the story behind her advocacy for liver disease—and the caregiving journey with her dad that began when he was diagnosed with cirrhosis and later hepatic encephalopathy (HE). Bellamy speaks candidly about shame, stigma, and the moment everything changed: realizing liver disease can affect the brain, memory, personality, and daily life. Together, we talk about the hypervigilance of ...

3 months ago

22 minutes

Hope Comes to Visit

The Language of Neurodivergence — Not What Autism “Looks Like”: Parenting, Self-Care & Community with Karen Kossow

Send us a text “I was doing what everybody told me to do… he can make eye contact and have a conversation—he can’t be autistic.” Today, certified Master Life Coach and writer Karen Kossow gets real about the three-year journey to her son’s diagnosis—and what it means to parent neurodivergent kids while discovering your own neurodivergence. As part of the sandwich generation, Karen is supporting her children, noticing patterns in older family members, and learning herself—often all at on...

3 months ago

47 minutes