Joy Is a Choice: Raquel Marcelle on Faith, Loss, and Living in Your Soft Season

What if everything that was supposed to break you was actually building you? Raquel Marcelle knows. This week, Amy and Jenny sit down with one of the most magnetic voices on social media right now — a New Orleans native who started creating content at 50 because her kids told her she was funny and had something to say. Turns out, they were right. One walk through her neighborhood, one stranger in a garden, and 3.4 million views later — Raquel is here to tell us exactly how she lives a soft life. In this episode, we're talking about: What kept a marriage together after a husband's incarceration — and why counseling was the thing that kept giving them one more shot Raising a child with epilepsy, losing a bonus daughter, and how faith doesn't remove the hard, it just walks through it with you What "soft living" actually means when you've earned it the hard way How Raquel went from fighting Raquel to flourishing Raquel — and what that transformation really required The moment God used a sweaty, no-makeup walk to reach 3.4 million strangers This is the episode you send to the friend who's in the middle of her hard season and needs to hear that her soft one is coming. "If my mom couldn't give me anything else, she gave me God. And that was the greatest gift she could have ever given me." Follow Raquel Marcel on Instagram and TikTok — and don't miss her Masterpeace account where she's helping women master God's peace, one post at a time. Follow here: https://www.instagram.com/iamraquelmarcelle/