Stay ConnectedHas something simple ever changed your life? A lunch box note changed mine. A few years ago, my husband wrote a timely message to our son that said: BE STRONG, PROTECT THE WEAK, LOVE EVERYONE. Those six words ignited our family’s mission to love others well.
Each week on Be Love. Do Good. podcast, we’ll share ideas, encouraging words, and stories that inspire you to love outside your comfort zone.
This week we are continuing our series on BE. LOVE in your marriages with Dr. Kelly Flanagan.
Dr. Kelly Flanagan is a psychologist, author, consultant, and speaker who enjoys walking with people through the three essentials of a truly satisfying life: worthiness, belonging, and purpose. His blog writings have been featured in Reader’s Digest, The Huffington Post, The 5 Love Languages, and the TODAY Show. Kelly is the author of Loveable, and he just published his new book True Companions, all about relationships which we will dive into today.
Today we talk about COMPROMISE.
How do you compromise without losing yourself?
What is a healthy compromise in a marriage?
Why is this one of the most important things to have a healthy, thriving marriage?
How can we seek to understand the other person?
How do we live our lives putting each other first?
No matter if you are newly married, in the middle passage, or have been married over 40 years this episode and series will encourage us to love each other well in our partnerships.
Get to know Kelly here:
https://drkellyflanagan.com/
Kelly’s new True Companions book: https://www.amazon.com/True-Companions-Everyone-Relationships-Through/dp/0830847685
Check out our show notes for more: https://www.bestrongstory.com/be-love-podcast
This week we are starting our series on BE. LOVE in your marriages.
This week we have the opportunity to bring back Dr. Kelly Flanagan who is answering all of our marriage questions.
Dr. Kelly Flanagan is a psychologist, author, consultant, and speaker who enjoys walking with people through the three essentials of a truly satisfying life: worthiness, belonging, and purpose. His blog writings have been featured in Reader’s Digest, The Huffington Post, The 5 Love Languages, and the TODAY Show. Kelly is the author of Loveable, and he just published his new book True Companions, all about relationships which we will dive into today.
Today we talk about what makes marriages healthy and thriving.
What are the common things that destroy a marriage?
How can we be proactive in continuing to build true companionship?
Kelly gives us practical advice, shares his communication tips of listener/speaker technique and gives us a place to start this week to better our marriages.
No matter if you are newly married, in the middle passage, or have been married over 40 years this episode and series will encourage us to love each other well in our partnerships.
Get to know Kelly here:
Kelly’s new True Companions book:
Kelly’s first book Loveable
Listen to Kelly’s first interview with us about his book Loveable:
Check out our show notes for more: https://www.bestrongstory.com/be-love-podcast
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Have you ever wanted to create a mission for your life but didn’t know where to start? This is the podcast for you.
We are finishing up our RECOVER and REPLENISH series with an episode on creating our core values and mission statement. This is the how-tos!
Identifying core values and mission for your life helps you say yes to the right things. It helps you decide what to prioritize and what really matters in life. If we don’t do this we can feel ?????? scattered when doing things or be doing the right things.
My friend Jeremy Bedenbaugh of Recreate-Solutions helps us figure all of this out. Whether you are just getting out of college or in midlife you will not want to miss this podcast. Make sure you join Jeremy’s 21 Day Challenge in February to dig into these even more.
And make sure you go to our show notes for specific questions and resources you can use to journal this process.
And if you haven’t listened to the three episodes before this, get caught up here:
Episode 88: RECOVERING from 2020
Episode 89: BUILDING A RESILIENT MINDSET
Episode 90: KNOWING YOURSELF+SETTING BOUNDARIES
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Today is episode 3 of 4 of our series RECOVER and REPLENISH with my friend Jeremy Bedenbaugh, founder of Recreate-Solutions. We talk about knowing yourself and why it is so important to know who we are and why we act the way we do?
How do we distinguish between our false self and our true self? What happens when we figure out who we are? Why it is important to always be learning and transforming.
We talk about boundaries? What happens when others are not ok with our transformation? How do we work through this? How do we say NO in a healthy way that connects to our passion and callings? How do we get past finding our worth in what others think of us, and live out of our worthiness?
In this episode we dig into our own transformation and boundaries. As you will hear in the podcast, I have an aha moment, that I am an overfunctioner. And as you listen you might be too! Jeremy helps us understand when helping others can really be hurting ourselves and others.
Jeremy connects the dots of our true self, what boundaries we need to have to be healthy, and how we can connect our calling to our living for others.
Check out our show notes for more resources, like the 2 circles that saved my life that Jeremy references and questions.
And if you haven’t listened to the two episodes before this, get caught up here:
Episode 88: RECOVERING from 2020
Episode 89: BUILDING A RESILIENT MINDSET
Thank you to your incredible sponsors:
RERUNS: You Shop, Sell, and Earn Money. An incredible way to resell your clothes or buy used clothes. All the proceeds go to charity. Relove, do good.
Hit Your Stride: Hit Your Stride is a professional development company that helps people look and sound smart when they talk.
Call them at 314-401-0066
This week we are continuing our series on Recover and Replenish for 2021. I have Jeremy Bedenbaugh, founder of Recreate Solutions with me again to talk this week about building a resilient mind.
Last week we talked about the emotions we felt from maybe the losses or disappointments of 2020, and that it's ok to recognize those emotions and sit in them, write them out, but we don’t want to just stay stuck in those forever. This week we are going to talk about why mindset is so important. We are discussing how we label things, how we can practice switching our mindset from negative to resilient.
One of my favorite things we discuss is the concept of story vs fact, and how to recognize when we let negative labels attach to our circumstances. You can find this worksheet in our show notes.
What did you learn about yourself, family, business, leadership, priorities?
Today we are going to be talking about mindset. How we stay resilient when things we can’t control happen to us.
Stick with us these next four weeks. This four week format will be like a master class so make sure you listen to the first episode and listen in order. You can find episode one in this series here:
Check out the show notes for questions and resources.
You can also watch our interview on our youtube channel.
Thank you to our sponsor this month
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At ReRuns.com, you can buy and sell quality, pre-loved clothes and earn the same amount of money you’d earn on other sites. We make it simple and easy to shop for high-quality finds from top kid and adult brands, list the items you want to sell, and earn money, just like that.
But then we thought, in addition to giving things we’ve loved new life, what if the simple act of buying and selling could help people in need? At ReRuns, we give all of our profits to deserving charities across the country and around the world. It’s a simple idea with beautiful possibilities.
ReLove. Do good.
How to Recover from 2020 so we can move into the new year with purpose
4 part series (Recovery and Replenish for 2021)
We are so happy to be back with our new series called RECOVER and REPLENISH.
We wanted to make sure BEFORE we got into goals or intentions for 2021, we looked at last year, took time to review and also recover. This month will feel a little like a master class, with questions and extra resources available each week in our show notes, so make sure you check that out. For this 4 parts series I have my friend Jeremy Bedebaugh joining me, founder of Recreate Solutions who works with leaders from every environment to help them start, get unstuck, and most of all get healthy.
We will talk about how to set ourselves up for 2021, making sure we take the time to replenish ourselves before we just forget 2020 and sprint to the new year. We thought it was important to take the proper time to get ready for the new year as 2020 has not been normal and has collectively affected us in so many ways.
I encourage you to listen to each episode in the proper order for the next 4 weeks as they will all play on each other.
GET EXTRA QUESTIONS and RESOURCES in our Show notes:
You can also watch our interview on our youtube channel.
Thank you to our sponsor this month
RERUNS- Second-Hand. People first.
At ReRuns.com, you can buy and sell quality, pre-loved clothes and earn the same amount of money you’d earn on other sites. We make it simple and easy to shop for high-quality finds from top kid and adult brands, list the items you want to sell, and earn money, just like that.
But then we thought, in addition to giving things we’ve loved new life, what if the simple act of buying and selling could help people in need? At ReRuns, we give all of our profits to deserving charities across the country and around the world. It’s a simple idea with beautiful possibilities.
ReLove. Do good.
This is a must listen before you get with your people for the holidays. Many of our families and friends are at odds with how to talk to each other about politics, religion; things that can pull us apart. Our guest today, Sarah Anderson, grew up in a family of politics and she wrote this helpful book, The Space Between Us: How Jesus Teaches Us to Live Together When Politics and Religion Pull Us Apart
Sarah grew up in a family of politics and knows first hand how it can tear us apart. Today Sarah gives us some of the most practical ways we can stay curious, come to the table with a humble posture, and remind our people that our relationship with them matters more than anything else. Sarah is going to help us heal the space between us.
This is such an important topic for this moment in time.
For those who are looking for a better way to engage on the topics that mean the most to them,
for those who are looking to build a bridge with the people politics and religion has isolated them from,
for those who won't settle for the growing space between us and who believe there's a better way.
Connect with Sarah Anderson
Instagram: sbanderson
Purchase her book here:
Get her 3 tips for surviving election season, Since it feels like it is still happening.
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This week we are continuing our Love Everyone series with Dr. Kelly Flanagan, psychologist and author of the book Loveable: Embracing What is Truest About You, So You Can Embrace Life.
Dr. Flanagan is a clinical psychologist and father known to millions for the letters he writes to his children and shares on his blog. Loveable is written to the little one in each of us, who is all too ready to be reminded: you are enough, you are not alone, and you matter.
In Loveable, Dr. Flanagan reveals the core insight gleaned from his years of clinical work: you are here for a reason, yet you cannot truly awaken to it until you have first embraced your truest, worthiest self and then allowed yourself to be truly embraced by others.
We dive into why we lost our truest self, how we can get back to it, and how we can love others even when we disagree on things; because this is where we find ourselves right now.
You will walk away with hope, inspiration, and some tangible ways to start remembering you are loveable.
Get to know Kelly here:
Purchase Loveable here:
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This week we are interviewing Kristin Andrus. She is a mother of 6 and a social media presence who helps families serve and love others. She talks to us about how to be a family whose DNA it is to serve the community. She gives us very practical ways to serve in this season. We talk about why parents are so important to foster loving and serving others in their children at a young age.
You are going to love her spunky attitude, her beautiful heart and get some great ideas of how we can help our kids love others well.
Check out Kristin’s Instagram for awesome parenting ideas:
Instagram: kristinandrus
Our Sponsor Hi-light this month is an incredible company that is helping us make the holidays memorable for our kids.
Check out www.adventprepclub.com
Advent Prep Club is your personalized online planning tool to guide you through the preparation and execution of an Advent activity calendar. Designed for families with toddlers to high schoolers, you’ll get full access to 150+ creative activity ideas, customized templates and printables, resources, how-tos, and helpful tips and suggestions from years of Advent activity calendar experience. In a year full of uncertainty and change, make Christmas 2020 memorable, meaningful and FUN for your family! Visit adventprepclub.com for more information and to sign up.
Today we are kicking off our series Love Everyone. We all say we want to love everyone, but do we actually do it. Today’s guest Adam Weber inspires us every day to ask how we can go out of our way to just love one person today. It’s that simple intention that has changed his life.
Through a deep time of pain, when he didn’t want to love again, he started to think of people who loved him when he was unlovable. This simple habit helped him remember why it was so important to love others because it changed his life. He even wrote a book about it called Love Has a Name: Loving the Different, Difficult, and Everyone Else.
Adam teaches us to look at life differently. He helps us understand that loving others should be the most important thing to do, even if it feels like an interruption in our very busy schedule. It should be the schedule.
Adam is genuine, shares his own struggles with loving others, and helps us find the courage to love those different than us, and the strength to love those who may be difficult to love. This is a must listen episode.
Get Adam’s new book here: Love Has a Name
Connect with Adam on instagram: adamaweber
Did you know we wrote a children’s book? Check it out here: The Lunchbox Note: a story about loving others.
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