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For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

by Jen Hatmaker

New York Times bestselling author Jen Hatmaker has arrived in the middle years, and she couldn't be happier about it.Jen has navigated the ins and outs of life, from career to parenting, marriage (and divorce), spiritual evolution, and the joys of being a hardcore Gen Xer.With each weekly episode, Jen serves as our "everywoman" guide to all the seasons, past, present, and future, as she walks excitedly and tenaciously into the second half of life.Some weeks, Jen brings her perspective straight to you, just her and the mic, talking through the things we're all navigating. Other weeks, she pulls up a chair for some of the most interesting and accomplished guests around, plus a few of her favorite friends, bringing insight, expertise, and a whole lot of heart to the most relevant topics of our time.While Jen has plenty of wisdom to share (and some pretty hilarious stories, too), she doesn't claim to know it all. From her honest solo reflections to her compelling conversations with guests, she's here to reassure you that you're not alone in this game of life.It's "For the Love" of all that is good, justified, exasperating, exhilarating, real, fun, and so much more.

Latest episodes

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Dr. Galit Atlas on the Wounded Child Running Your Love Life

#23 trending · Relationships

Description: Why do we keep doing the same thing over and over in love? Same argument, same shutdown, same spiral, same reach toward somebody who cannot or will not reac

Sep 25
54 min

Zibby Owens on Losing the Plot, Starting Over, and Building a Life Around Books Description:

Description: Calling all book lovers, calling all readers, calling everyone who has faced down a reinvention in the middle of life. Zibby Owens is one of the book world’

Sep 23
57 min

Encore: Psychologist Mary Pipher on Flourishing as We Age

Description: Mary Pipher has spent her whole career noticing the gap between what the culture says is happening to women and what is actually happening to them. She did

Sep 18
40 min

Secure-ish: The Real Goal of Self-Worth with Dr. Marisa G. Franco 

Description: Dr. Marisa G. Franco is back — and this time, she's turning the lens inward. Marisa is the New York Times bestselling author of Platonic and a psychologist a

Sep 16
46 min

Encore: Barbara Brown Taylor on Being the Saint of Small Things

Description: Barbara Brown Taylor gave us the question that ends every episode of this show, so it feels right to hand the Sacred Work series over to her. In this encore

Sep 11
36 min

Priya Parker on Fighting Well, and Why Conflict Is Not Sin

Description: Think about the last real fight you had with someone you love, then think about what you did with it. Most of us swallowed it and called it peace. Priya Par

Sep 9
1 h 06 min

Adrienne Brodeur on Family Myths, Wounded People, and Honest Fiction

Description: Some families run on rules nobody ever wrote down. Here is your role. Here is what we talk about. Here is who gets forgiven and who gets blamed. We accept t

Sep 4
48 min

Your Life Is the Assignment: Jen Hatmaker Solo Episode

Description: For twenty years, one question has followed Jen everywhere she goes: what am I supposed to be doing with my life? It comes in the comments, the voicemails,

Sep 2
56 min

Jodi Picoult on Banned Books, Buried Truths, and the Story Behind Hollow Bones

Description: Jodi Picoult is back, and she brought her thirtieth novel with her. If you have been in a book club at any point in the last thirty years, you know the nam

Aug 28
51 min

Your House Is Talking to You with Myquillyn Smith

There is a specific kind of overwhelm that hits when you walk into your own living room and everything in it seems to be asking you for something. Finish this puzzle. Put

Aug 26
38 min

Listener Voicemail Day: Five Women Say the Quiet Thing Out Loud

Description: There is no guest on the mic today. There is you. It is Listener Voicemail Day, one of Jen's favorite episodes to make, and it lands in the middle of our pe

Aug 19
53 min

Encore: The Conversation You Have Been Avoiding for Years: Dr. Rick Hanson

Some of us will sit in years of low grade misery rather than have one uncomfortable conversation. Jen will be first to raise her hand. She has put off a confrontation so

Aug 14
1 h 05 min

Amena Brown on Getting All the Way Free

Description: Nine years is a long time between visits. When Amena Brown was last on the show in 2017, she was a spoken word poet booked solid inside white evangelicalism

Aug 12
56 min

Bonus Book Club edition. Guest: Annie Hartnett, The Road to Tender Hearts.

Description: In this Book Club edition of For the Love, Jen sits down with novelist Annie Hartnett to talk about The Road to Tender Hearts — a book Jen calls heart-wrenc

Aug 7
46 min

Say the Quiet Thing Out Loud: Jen Hatmaker solo episode

Description: Jen is coming to you from the last two days of Me Camp in Canada, eyeballs on the lake, four weeks into having the volume turned down on every channel. And

Aug 5
48 min

The Sacred Yes: Jen Hatmaker & Tyler Merritt on Choosing Your Body

Description: Some yeses cost us something. Some of them save us. Jen sits down with her partner, actor, author, and speaker Tyler Merritt, hours after his chemotherapy

Jul 29
1 h 20 min

The Sacred Yes: What My Mom Taught Me About Courage, Curiosity, and Starting Again

In our Sacred Yes series, we've explored what it means to choose courage, curiosity, and joy in the second half of life. Who better to join than the woman who quietly tau

Jul 22
1 h 12 min

Introducing: Money Moves with Jill Schlesinger

There’s a lot of dopey financial advice out there. Jill Schlesinger is here to call it out, answer your questions, break down the financial news that actually matters, an

Jul 20
24 min

[ENCORE] The Sacred Yes to What's Next: Leanne Morgan on Midlife Reinvention, Second Acts, and Dreams That Are Worth Waiting For

Description: What if your biggest breakthrough hasn't happened yet? In this joyful and deeply encouraging conversation, Jen sits down with comedian, author, actress, and

Jul 18
40 min

Dinner With Strangers: Jess Janz On The Friends We Haven't Met Yet

Dinner With Strangers: Jess Janz On The Friends We Haven't Met Yet We're more connected than ever—and lonelier than we'd like to admit. What if the answer isn't finding

Jul 15
1 h 05 min

Chart trend

Position in the Relationships chart (US), last 90 days.

#4
all-time peak
29
days in the top 10 since Nov 2024

Chart positions

Where For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Sep 27, 2026).

#25 ▲ 2 Relationships US

What listeners say

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I absolutely have fallen in love with everything Jen Hatmaker , pod cast book club , Substack ,I’ m all in , just love Jen ‘s authenticity and humor . As a 60 year old trying to make this next decade a place where I can show up as my best self , hearing Jen speak to so many issues women our age share ( she’s younger than me but I have myself convinced I’m younger than I Am )love everything about this Podcast definitely my favorite !

Hopesenuf · Jul 2026

Loved the recent episode, “When life outpaces you…”. Not celebrating that you’re in that hard spot in life, but felt like the type of openness that brought us all here in the first place. Beautiful, and honest and very relatable.

learnbyhand · Jul 2026

I recently found Jen, her pod and her latest book after she guested on another pod. Parts of my story overlap but much of it is my own of course because we are different people. Despite the fact that I’m 15 years older and have done a ton of mindful work on moving through the good, the bad and the ugly of life with awareness, I am learning so so much! Again (sigh). Thank you for being real, freaking funny, well spoken, and thoughtful. You get right down to it and I appreciate you.🤍

judes-g · Oct 2025

Please don’t whisper when you’re chatting before the guest comes on. I’m not sure it’s intentional but when you are emphasizing an important point you both tend to whisper which is hard to understand. I sometimes have to rewind to understand what you said. I hope you take this as a help not a complaint. ❤️

BNoethlich · Jul 2025

I followed Jen Hatmaker from the beginning. Though I always had hesitations, I appreciated her humor and storytelling. Over time, after reading and studying more deeply, I’ve come to see that while Jen claims to follow Jesus, she’s reshaped Scripture to fit her own version of Him. Ladies, be like the Bereans—test everything against God’s Word. When you do, you’ll see how far her teachings drift from biblical truth. I pray she has a true encounter with Christ and turns from leading others astray. For a thoughtful perspective, listen to Alisa Childers’ podcast episode on Awake. May the light of Christ expose deception and draw us all closer to Truth.

DeeCin7 · Nov 2025

Long time listener. Without any personal disrespect intended, the addition of Amy is not a plus for me. Really changes the flow and feel of the whole podcast. The beginning chat/ banter is painful and I find myself skipping ahead to the main conversation. The questions Amy asks land awkwardly and her lack of finesse drawing the subject out actually brings the professionalism of the interview down a few notches. Again, not personal but definitely not an improvement for me.

learnbyhand · Dec 2024

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