Episode 19: Renovation and Remodeling Tips from a Design Pro
When it comes to home renovation and remodeling, Gabriella Milgrom believes success requires more than a vision; it requires a strategy. That's why this savvy designer and project manager provides clients the tools they'll need up front to create a home they love without feeling like a failure or fraud. For Gabriella, it's all about providing clarity without the fluff.
Episode 18: Building Your Dream Home: Insights from Award-Winning Architect Lance Cayko
Lance Cayko, co-owner of F9 Productions, a fast-growing Colorado architecture and design firm, discusses their innovative designs and unique projects, commitment to quality customer service and clear communication, and the role architects play in building people's dream homes.
Episode 17: How to Create Peace In Your Home
Ever feel like your home is an emotional tinderbox ready to explode at any moment? Struggling to cope with your preschooler's over the top outbursts or a teenager's challenging behaviors? Laura Reardon understands. A sought after parenting coach and Child Behavior Specialist, Laura helps parents develop a plan to create more peace in themselves, more peace in their kids, and more peace in their home.
Episode 16: Take Control of Your Life
Through a decade of experience as a licensed psychotherapist, firefighter, business owner, and mindset coach, Vin Infante has learned a few things about what it truly takes to own your life. Listen as Vin shares his story of overcoming adversity and turning pain into power. His insights can help you take ownership of your life, enrich your relationships, and create a home where you belong.
Episode 15: Home Safety Tips from The Secure Dad
Andy Murphy is passionate about helping families live safer, happier lives. His best-selling book, Home Security: The Secure Dad’s Guide, has helped thousands of people around the world protect their families by making their homes safer. Listen as he shares easy to implement security tips that can reduce your home's chances of being a target for crime.
Episode 14: Living Large in a Tiny House
Burdened by escalating housing costs? Longing for less stress and more freedom to do what you enjoy? The tiny house movement may offer just what you’re looking for. Author, teacher, and entrepreneur Ethan Waldman discusses the benefits and challenges of tiny home living and how to decide whether it’s right for you.
Episode 13: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation
Creativity isn’t all in your head. Sometimes it depends on your surroundings – especially when you’re at home. Using scientific research gathered over 20 years, architect, educator and award-winning author Donald Rattner shares practical techniques for shaping your home for maximum creativity.
Episode 12: Are Inherited Mindsets Holding You Back?
We see the world through the lens of our beliefs, but where did those beliefs come from? Did we choose them, or were they passed on to us like an unfortunate inheritance? Best-selling author Chad Peevy talks about how overcoming inherited mindsets that no longer serve us can help people experience a true sense of belonging in their home, community, and relationships.
Episode 11: You Can’t Feel at Home If You Don’t Feel Safe
Award-winning author Lizbeth Meredith knows you can’t feel at home without first feeling safe. While working as a domestic abuse survivor advocate as a single mom in her late 20s, her two young daughters were kidnapped by their father and taken out of country. The two-year plus ordeal that followed required her to find and use her own voice. Today, she inspires others with her message of perseverance and resilience.
Episode 10: Home Is Wherever We Are (RV Living)
In August 2020, Dan and Sandy Clouser sold their house and most of their possessions and hit the road in their new RV. Traveling the country with their golden retriever, Youkilis, they volunteer at various locations, make new friends, and share their adventures through blogging, social media, and podcasting.
Episode 09: A Multicolored Manger & the True Meaning of Christmas
Remember that Christmas when your Dad built a manger in the living room so your Mom could reinforce the true meaning of Christmas? Chip Alford does.
Episode 08: Common House - A Home Away from Home
A curated third space designed for connection, Common House boasts three locations in Virginia and Tennessee, and already has plans to expand to other cities. Members enjoy everything from restaurants and co-working areas to a pool and fitness center. Josiah Newport, General Manager of the Chattanooga location, describes the house’s offerings and appeal and how it encourages a sense of community.
Episode 07: Building Real Community
Everyone wants to feel like they belong, especially at home and in our closest relationships. Sadly, a growing number of people report feeling lonely and disconnected. What’s the solution? Author, businesswoman, and TEDx speaker Dea Irby believes people experience real community when they are CLAIMed – Chosen, Loved, Acknowledged, Invested in, and Made for greatness.
Episode 06: Why Explore Your Family History?
Genealogist Heather Murphy, host of the Stories in Our Roots podcast, explains how to harness the power of genealogy to live your best life. Home Where You Belong host Chip Alford also shares amazing discoveries about his family’s history he made on a recent trip to the UK.
Episode 05: Ending Homelessness
On any given night in America, more than half a million people experience homelessness. Individuals and families – adults, teenagers, and children – who have no place to call their own. No stranger to the crisis himself, Mike Smith is working tirelessly to put an end to homelessness in his community and state.
Episode 04: Out on a Limb (At Home in a Treehouse)
For many people, treehouses bring back wonderful childhood memories of fun-filled afternoons playing away the hours with a birds-eye view of nature. Today, they’re being used as much more than playhouses; they’re sought-after hotel rooms, Air B&B rentals, and temporary or permanent housing for residents on several continents. In this episode, Chip interviews a Tennessee man who built his own home away from home in a giant Tulip Poplar tree, which happens to be the state tree of Tennessee, near his farmhouse in Goodlettsville.
Episode 03: Get Organized Y'all - The Benefits of an Orderly Home
Define Your Vision. Declutter. Thrive. In a nutshell, that’s professional organizer and productivity specialist Lindsey Hardegree’s formula for helping individuals, families, and companies create their ideal life. Her company, Get Organized Y'all, helps people spend less time dealing with clutter and disorganization and more time accomplishing the things that matter to them. Listen as Chip talks with Lindsey about how to create a home where everything (and everybody) belongs.
Episode 02: Pasta, Passeggiata & Personal Stories
It’s no secret. One of the best ways to get to know people is to share a meal together. That truth comes to life each month in the South Broad area of Chattanooga, Tennessee as a friendly couple prepares and shares an authentic, multi-course Italian meal with a growing number of their neighbors. Listen as Chip talks with Julian and Mary Elizabeth Kaufman about why they started this tradition and what those meals have meant to them and their neighborhood.
Episode 01: How to Love Where You Live
The average restless American will move a dozen times in a lifetime. Aren’t we supposed to put down roots at some point? And how does the place we live become the place we want to stay? In the podcast’s inaugural episode, Chip interviews journalist Melody Warnick, author of This is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are. Learn how Melody discovered what it takes to love where you live and the benefits of “place attachment”.
Episode 00 - Introducing Home Where You Belong
Learn why this podcast is being developed, what you can expect from future episodes, and how you can be a part of the Home Where You Belong community.