Show notes
What does it take to rebuild a life twice, once alone and once together?
Garth and Melanie Epp both walked through seasons that broke them completely. Melanie lost custody of her two-year-old son after a two-year court battle. Garth found himself separated, then homeless, working a solo night shift in a sawmill while raising his kids every other weekend with no place of his own to put them to bed. Neither of them expected to end up where they are now: married over 11 years, running a coaching business together, and raising a blended family that looks nothing like the life either of them came from.
In this episode, Garth and Melanie walk through the full arc of their individual healing before they ever met. Melanie shares how a stranger naming her "victim mentality" at a workshop changed the direction of her life, and Garth explains the mindset shift that got him out of survival mode and into a season of real growth. They also open up about their first date, where they laid out every hard fact about their lives before ever asking for a second one, and how that honesty let them move fast without the baggage most people carry into a new relationship.
We also get into the reality of blending two families: the years it took to build trust with Garth's kids, the Christmas they threw out every tradition and replaced it with a Mexican fiesta, and the advice they'd give anyone trying to merge two households into one that actually works.
⏱️ What's Inside:
00:00 – A two-year custody battle and losing everything
05:00 – Melanie's path to faith and confronting a victim mentality
11:00 – Garth's separation, homelessness, and rebuilding from a sawmill night shift
21:00 – Choosing who to surround yourself with in a season of despair
31:00 – Their first date and the radical honesty that made it work
36:00 – Blending two families and the Mexican fiesta Christmas
45:00 – Building Your Limits Lifted together
52:00 – What happiness actually looks like for both of them
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📖 Book → I Don't Think So by Melanie Mitchell-Epp, available at yourlimitslifted.com/book-bootcamp
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