Faith talk for real-life pressure.
The Speakeasy is a conversational Christian show about faith under everyday pressure. Episodes move between solo reflection and guest conversations on Scripture, spiritual habits, marriage, anxiety, youth sports, community, and change.
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The Speakeasy is a Christian conversation show built around the intersection of faith, home, emotional honesty, and spiritual formation. Its episodes often begin with a concrete question: where to start reading the Bible, how to journal without turning it into performance, how to build habits that do not burn a person out, or how to talk honestly inside a marriage. The answers are rarely abstract. They come through personal story, guest testimony, and practical language about prayer, Scripture, fasting, therapy, expectations, parenting, and discipline. Solo episodes carry an intimate, reflective shape. The speaker processes life changes, content shifts, and spiritual lessons while also drawing clear boundaries around private details. That restraint matters. The show values vulnerability, but it does not treat total exposure as wisdom. Guest episodes bring in voices from Christian music, books, public life, youth sports, and friendship. Stephen McWhirter’s episode centers restoration, abuse, addiction, forgiveness, and the God who makes hard things possible. Maddie Joy Fischer’s conversation frames anxiety as a place where fear and self-reliance are confronted with truth. Ben Higgins’ episode uses visibility, loneliness, church, and community to ask what it means to be known beyond admiration. Brian Smith and Ed Usyznski bring youth sports into the realm of discipleship, parental pressure, and gospel-shaped formation. Jeremy Guichet’s appearance turns marriage into a conversation about communication, therapy, expectations, and long-term growth. The Speakeasy can be tender, funny, blunt, and devotional in the same stretch. It is especially strong when everyday practices are treated as spiritual training rather than self-improvement polish. Bible reading can be five minutes. Journaling can be illegible. Marriage can mature through uncomfortable clarity. Parenting can become discipleship. The show is for listeners who want Christian encouragement with texture: hopeful, but not airbrushed; practical, but not mechanical; personal, but not careless.
Made for: The Speakeasy suits Christian listeners, parents, spouses, and people who want candid conversations about Scripture, marriage, anxiety, parenting, and ordinary faithfulness. It especially fits people rebuilding rhythms of prayer, Bible reading, and discipline without pretending the process is neat.
What sets it apart: The show blends devotional teaching with lived-in conversation, moving easily from journaling and Scripture habits to therapy, youth sports, loneliness, forgiveness, and changing family life. Its edge is the combination of warmth, directness, and practical specificity.
The Speakeasy Podcast is a place to have underground conversations out loud. Whether we're diving into theology, politics, culture, real life, or the way they often all intersect, we're going to do it together, with kindness and curiosity. Hosted by Blake Guichet (known as @thegirlnamedblake online) - the best-selling author, Instagrammer, wife, & homeschool mom - the Speakeasy has a place for you, if you want it.The Speakeasy Podcast was formerly the Confessions of Crappy Christian Podcast.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Blake Guichet makes Christian formation practical by connecting scripture and prayer to the untidy routines of relationships, parenting, and daily discipline.
Blake Guichet turns questions about spiritual formation into candid, practical conversation. Interview episodes pair personal testimony with usable guidance on Bible reading, prayer, habit formation, and Christian community, while solo episodes give Guichet room to work through…
This is where your Bible guilt gets traded for five minutes, messy handwriting, and a doable next step.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A candid take on reading the Bible and journaling without tidying every thought first.
In this solo episode of The Speakeasy, the host takes up questions she hears often: where to begin with the Bible and how to keep a journal. She also speaks to those returning to Scripture when it has begun to feel too familiar.
Hannah Seymour offers small, practical ways to begin spiritual habits.
Hannah Seymour and the host of The Speakeasy talk about spiritual discipline in terms of what might fit into a crowded day. Seymour suggests five minutes with a psalm or a few verses, or a short time in prayer.
Ben Higgins and The Speakeasy host discuss loneliness, church community, and the work of being honest with others.
Ben Higgins joins The Speakeasy to talk about the loneliness of feeling visible and admired without feeling known, a subject he explores in Alone in Plain Sight.
Rebecca Lovell and a homeschooling mother talk about giving children room to move and help at home.
Rebecca Lovell, author of Boyhood Resurrected, talks about adventure and work as ways boys can use their energy. The host, a mother of girls who homeschools, brings the idea into her own house.
Jeremy Guichet and his wife discuss how faith and Bible reading have changed their conversations at home.
Jeremy Guichet talks with his wife about how faith has changed their marriage. He remembers noticing how much work she had put into her faith over the years and wondering what he was doing with his own time.
Faith argues for steady Bible reading without the pressure to feel transformed every day.
Bible reading can carry an exhausting expectation: open the book and come away changed. The Speakeasy host and Faith question that pressure. Faith speaks from experience of scripture being used against her, and they consider whether reading plans suit everyone or whether each…
Exploring the possibility and benefits of opting out of traditional healthcare and health insurance systems.
The Speakeasy episode "Where Do I Start?
A couple discusses their 15-year marriage journey, emphasizing personal growth, therapy, and faith while choosing to keep private details private.
["Hannah Seymour joins The Speakeasy to discuss Everyday Spiritual Habits, with the conversation centered on Bible intake, prayer, fasting, gratitude, and celebration for ordinary schedules.", "She describes growing up as a PK, learning daily Bible reading early, and then running into a motherhood season where a 30-minute quiet time no longer fit.", "The most concrete section is her habit-stacking framework: prayer while folding laundry, gratitude while washing dishes, and silence while making the bed or closing the house.", "The Speakeasy host and Hannah both lean on James Clear and BJ Fogg to argue that identity-based change matters more than checkbox Christianity."]
Host interviews Christian artist Stephen McWhirter about his journey through abuse and addiction, radical restoration by God, and the true meaning of forgiveness.
The host shares her personal story of how God shifted her life over the past year, explaining the significant change in her content.
Maddie Joy Fisher and the host share personal stories of anxiety and discuss how relying on God helped them find healing and freedom.
On The Speakeasy podcast, the host talks with former Bachelor star Ben Higgins about his book Alone in Plain Sight, subtitled Searching for Connection When You're Seen but Not Known.
A Christian parent's guide to navigating youth sports, focusing on how to use sports to push children toward the gospel rather than worldly values.
Rebecca Lovell, author of "Boyhood Resurrected," talks with The Speakeasy about how public pre-K, school labels, and heavy screen time can leave boys "sluggish and bored." She describes pulling her son out of a system that felt like it saw him as "broken," then finding homeschooling, outdoor play, chores, and stronger boundaries.
Jeremy Guichet and his wife trace a year of change on The Speakeasy, linking his 4:15 a.m.
The Speakeasy host interviews Faith Lomac, author of No More Boring Bible Study, about making Bible reading meaningful in ordinary life.
Pastor Craig Thompson discusses spiritual warfare against families and how to fight for your family instead of with them.
Dave and Ann Wilson discuss their book on how wives can speak life to their husbands, emphasizing the power of words to build or break a marriage.