What does it look like to keep choosing life after unimaginable loss?

In this deeply moving episode of Lioness Women: Rooted in Christ, Jen Porter sits down with Barb Hollace — one of the featured women in the upcoming book Lioness: Stories to Awaken Your Roar Within — for a conversation about faith, grief, resilience, surrender, and the unshakable faithfulness of God.

Widowed at just 33 years old after losing her first husband to cancer, Barb shares the heartbreak, questions, and spiritual wrestlings that followed. Years later, after finding love again, she would walk through devastating loss a second time when her husband unexpectedly passed away during the COVID era.

And yet, through every season of suffering, Barb’s story is not ultimately one of despair — it is one of extraordinary hope.

With wisdom, humility, and profound honesty, Barb opens up about:

• what it means to trust God when life does not unfold the way you imagined
• how faith is built through relationship, not religion
• why God’s faithfulness becomes undeniable through lived experience
• the hidden strength of women who quietly endure
• and how pain, when surrendered to God, can become purpose

This episode is filled with tender moments, powerful truths, and reminders that courage does not always roar loudly. Sometimes courage looks like waking up one more day, trusting God one more time, and continuing to love others through the pain.

If you are walking through grief, disappointment, uncertainty, or a season that feels impossible, Barb’s story will remind you that you are not abandoned — and that God is still writing redemption into your story.

Chapter 9 of Lioness is Barb Hollace’s powerful story:
“Protected by Unyielding Faith: Choosing to Live a Life Marked by Resilience, Where Faith Turns Survival Into Purpose.”

Find out more at: https://bereadyministry.org/

Connect with Jen: https://www.jenportercoach.com/