More Than Small Talk with Suzanne, Holley, & Jennifer (KLRC)
Sep 10, 2026 · 22 min · 9 segments
You are a matriarch. Whether you can receive those words easily or tend to resist them because you don’t feel worthy, they’re still true. Paige Allen, author of Matriarchs, takes us deeper into the…
Paige AllenGuest
Suzie EllerHost
Holley GerthHost
Jennifer WatsonHost
And you are on the front lines engaging with women all the time in your actual life.
And I feel like we write books because they speak to our own hearts, but also because we feel like they are for such a time as this.
So can you talk about that? Like, what are you seeing in the lives and hearts of women? And why do you feel like this book is needed now, maybe more than ever? Yeah.
They are dealing with really difficult personal things in their families while also you know, oftentimes having to work and provide.
And so even as I was writing this book and studying these women, I realized that a lot of women today, you know, God is not necessarily asking us to birth a nation, but I come across so many women and they know the Lord is asking them to create a new type of legacy in their family line.
Like they just like, you know, the things that have happened in the past, it's going to run into me.
and not just in their families, in their workplaces, in ministries and mentoring other women.
So I felt like this book was really timely because I just think we're in a season where women, yes, they're caring so much, but they're also caring.
So it just, it just felt like the time was now to say, you know what? You are a matriarch God.
You know, I had someone say to me just not too long ago, and it was a younger woman, and she said, Susie, I'm looking for women who have created markers so that I can find my way to And I think that speaks to your very first chapter, which is the power of your yes.
And you are on the front lines engaging with women all the time in your actual life.
And I feel like we write books because they speak to our own hearts, but also because we feel like they are for such a time as this.
So can you talk about that? Like, what are you seeing in the lives and hearts of women? And why do you feel like this book is needed now, maybe more than ever? Yeah.
They are dealing with really difficult personal things in their families while also you know, oftentimes having to work and provide.
And so even as I was writing this book and studying these women, I realized that a lot of women today, you know, God is not necessarily asking us to birth a nation, but I come across so many women and they know the Lord is asking them to create a new type of legacy in their family line.
Like they just like, you know, the things that have happened in the past, it's going to run into me.
and not just in their families, in their workplaces, in ministries and mentoring other women.
So I felt like this book was really timely because I just think we're in a season where women, yes, they're caring so much, but they're also caring.
So it just, it just felt like the time was now to say, you know what? You are a matriarch God.
You know, I had someone say to me just not too long ago, and it was a younger woman, and she said, Susie, I'm looking for women who have created markers so that I can find my way to And I think that speaks to your very first chapter, which is the power of your yes.
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