Total Living Network

From the everyday to the extraordinary,
Aspiring Women takes viewers from today's news headlines to the deepest secrets of the heart, guiding them on a journey to discover hope and truth from a faith-based point of view.

Show Schedule

Aspiring Women airs Monday - Friday 10am

11/17/08 # 0810 What's Your Blend?
11/18/08 # 0118 Be Angry, But Don't Blow It
11/19/08 # 0119 A Mother's Courage
11/20/08 # 0120 Texas Tale
11/21/08 # 0122 Women of Mission

Show Descriptions

Aspiring Women is an Emmy award winning TLN original program that features captivating stories, honest talk and practical insights on the common, challenging issues women face. Through on-location features, dramatic storytelling and lively interviews, Aspiring Women gives viewers something to think about, talk about and share with others.

Beginning its 10th season, Aspiring Women is thrilled with the addition of its newest host, Comedian Chonda Pierce. One of the nation’s best loved comedians, Chonda makes audiences laugh out loud with both sidesplitting humor and hilarious real-life stories delivered in her own unique style.

With a refreshing mixture of friendship, humor and attitude, Shirley Rose, Michelle McKinney Hammond and Chonda Pierce form a dynamic hosting team that leaves no stone unturned as they observe life through their own unique lenses.

THIS WEEK ON ASPIRING WOMEN

# 0810 – WHAT’S YOUR BLEND? (NEW EPISODE)
With a high national divorce rate, step-families are quickly becoming the norm. These blended families come in a variety of shapes and sizes. In this episode of AW, several “steps” share both the challenges and joys that accompany life “in the blender.”

# 0118 - BE ANGRY BUT DON’T BLOW IT
In a fit of rage she grabbed hold of her young son intending to knock him against a wall. At that moment, Lisa Bevere knew she was over the edge. She shares how to break the cycle of out-of-control anger. And Arline Foster was a top manager for haute couture in NYC and Beverly Hills while her husband Fred was a film producer. Theirs was a marriage on the brink of disaster. Hear how they turned loathing into loving.

# 0119 - A MOTHER’S COURAGE
Linda Lambeth’s third child was born profoundly deaf. So she decided to go back to elementary and high school to become her son Ronnie’s listening ears. Find out how Ronnie now runs his own business. It’s a family affair!

# 0120 - TEXAS TALE
Married at 16, she was injured in an ammunition explosion and beaten up by her hard-drinking young husband. She met and married a rodeo cowboy, then a country western singer, shot her fourth husband, a Texas millionaire… and we’re just gettin’ started. Meet Jackie Holland and hear how she finally found her life’s true passion digging in a garbage dumpster. And author, counselor and speaker Shannon Ethridge explores the profile of the sexually addicted woman.

# 0122 - WOMEN OF MISSION
In the world of game show glitz, Susan Stafford was befriended by Hollywood greats from John Wayne to Merv Griffin. Hear how this glamour girl left the glitter behind to work with the lepers of Calcutta. And meet Melinda Wallace, a single and savvy missionary who totes a camera in one hand and holds the hearts of the poorest children in the world in the other.

Shirley Rose

Shirley Rose has been in ministry alongside her husband Jerry for over 30 years. Through her television program Aspiring Women, her books, and speaking appearances, Shirley demonstrates her passion for God and for helping women to be their best in all areas of life.

In 2006 Shirley received the prestigious Excellence in Communications award for her work in Christian media. As executive producer and co-host of “Aspiring Women,”Shirley has developed a program that meets women where they are. It features captivating stories, honest talk, and spiritual insight on the challenging issues women face. This two-time Emmy winning program is syndicated in about 130 cities across the U.S. and in every state on the Sky Angel IPTV network. Aspiring Women also airs in Canada and is broadcast throughout the Arab world, Europe, and even into the Far East. “Aspiring Women” was recently named “Best Television Talk Show” by the National Religious Broadcasters Association.

Michelle McKinney Hammond

Someone once said that writing, when done well, is but a different name for conversation. With her dynamic, girlfriend-in-your-living-room writing style, Michelle McKinney Hammond has released her own special art of conversation onto men and women across the world, with books on living life single, as a woman, in interpersonal relationships and in relationship with God.

Michelle has spent her entire career involved in people's lives and in their living rooms, having moved effortlessly from top advertising creative professional to highly sought after voice-over talent to freelance writer, author, counselor, public speaker and television co-host.

Chonda Pierce

Comedian Chonda Pierce has appeared more than a dozen times on the famous stage of The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN, following in the footsteps of much beloved comedienne, Minnie Pearl. "I may have replaced the gingham dress and price-tag hat with irreverent leather pants, but I have held onto what Ms. Minnie taught me---that comedy can be clean and still be funny!"

This lesson has served Chonda well. After 15 years in comedy, she has an audience of two million faithful fans, five gold-certified comedy albums and a certified platinum DVD for Havin' a Girls' Night Out. She is the author of 9 books including “Laughing in the Dark…a comedian’s journey through depression.” Chonda has worked with Billy Graham, has appeared more often than any other special guest for the nationally acclaimed conference Women of Faith and has received honors as the 2000 and 2001 Gospel Music Association’s Grady Nutt Humor Award recipient.

Outside the comedy arena, Pierce is a spokesperson for World Vision and The House of Hope in Orlando, Fla. She also actively promotes New Frontiers Camp in Dowelltown, TN and The Funny Farm, a cabin retreat for pastors and missionaries started by Pierce and her husband, David, in middle Tennessee.