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Doing What You Love to Cover Mom Guilt with Jacquelyn Rodgers Jul 16, 2020

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Jacquelyn Rodgers is another creative mom that I'm trying to keep up with! We talk about how she continues her love of being creative to cover up mommy guilt. She started as a working mom in consumer goods and now has created Greentop Gifts a line of Black holiday products for her son and now we can all have it!

Key Takeaways

Use something you love to do to combat any mommy guilt you may have and still support one of your hobbies.
Walk around, get dressed, and keep your desk hidden are her tips to make working from home easier.
How Greentop Gifts came to be in just a few months - out of an idea for something she wanted for her son!

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Pivoting Between Work and Motherhood with Sabrina Seymore Jul 09, 2020

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For Sabrina Seymore, motherhood came naturally to her. She is an event planner and entrepreneur while growing a community of confident women called The Prevailing Woman.

Key Takeaways

Sabrina shares her plans to transition to a new field and how she's thought out all of the steps
Why your goals for your kids might come before your personal goals at times
How to mother your own way

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Why I Believe You Need to Wake Up Earlier Jul 03, 2020

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Even before I was stuck in quarantine, I wasn't doing what I needed to wake up earlier than my children and get a few things done. I realize that the morning is a great time to knock out some work, write in my journal, or just shower alone - but I have been slacking. Now, I'm getting serious about waking up earlier and this is how I'm going to do it. Listen to the episode for more details and join us in The Dawning to challenge yourself to wake up earlier for 10 days.

Benefits of Waking Up Earlier

Reduces Stress
Gain Time
Time to take care of yourself
Healthier Day

How to Become a Morning Person

Pick the time you want to wake up everyday - be consistent
Start with a list of what you want to do
Use Technology to Your Advantage
Plan at Night
Be Flexible and See What Works

Join The Dawning, a challenge to help us all get up earlier and see the benefits of a great morning routine.

Members of the challenge will get:

Daily emails with journal prompts, a prayer or meditation, and to do list template that you can fill in
Text reminders
Access to the pop up Facebook group

Building a Habit of Prayer as a Mom with Chrystal Evans Hurst Jun 25, 2020

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Prayer has helped Chyrstal get through some of the hardest times in her life. Hard days are going to happen for everyone, so building in times for prayer, talking with God, and hearing from Him can make you that much more able to handle the difficulties and ups and downs of motherhood.

Key Takeaways

How prayer changed Chrystal during one of the hardest seasons of her life
Dealing with disappointment from unanswered prayers
Why it’s so important to have raw and authentic conversations with God
How to wait on God’s answers to your prayers, and still have peace
Why your prayers matter for more than just you

Get your copy of Chrystal's new book: The 28 Day Prayer Journey!

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Finding the Good in a Hard Situation and Season Jun 18, 2020

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Whew, it's a lot going on in the world today. But you also may have a lot going on at any point in time. Finding the good in your situation can certainly help you get through it.

This week I'm talking about what I'm taking away from the quarantine and social issues regarding racism that have come up once again. There are things that I'm able to do that I would have missed out on or not done if I was at work all day being my normal distracted self.

I also shared what some of you said you were taking away from all this into your "new normal".

Seeking Our Own Way to Parent with Erykah St. Louis Jun 05, 2020

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Erykah St. Louis is a mother, wife, activist, and artist who is working daily to figure out how she wants to parent.

I'm glad we had this conversation about why it takes time to really figure out how we want to parent, what we want to expose our children to, and what works best for us.

Hearing other moms like Erykah talk about what it takes to make these transitions towards becoming better parents is encouraging.

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Motherhood with a Chronic Illness with Jewel Gibson May 28, 2020

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Jewel Gibson is a woman with many hats, wife, mom, educator, and blogger. She's also a sufferer of a chronic illness from the early days of motherhood to today. She's developed systems and processes to make sure that she does what she needs to manage her illness while staying on top of her responsibilities and taking care of herself.

On this episode we talk about:

How being a mother has been impacted by her chronic illness
What she does to make sure her family and sons are knowledgeable of her illness
How she practices wellness each day

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REPLAY: What Working With Your Husband Looks Like with Kariss Farris May 22, 2020

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Kariss Farris is a mom, wife, photographer, and blogger working with her husband. She met her now husband in college and had a different vision for her life. She was always focused on arts and graphics - but her husband helped her to see a new passion - photography. That passion has now become a part of their calling as a couple.

Kariss and her husband, Josh, are now working together and parenting together daily and have figured out what works for them. They didn't start off smoothly - in the beginning there was a time of transition and growing pains.

They were able to overcome and push past issues pertaining to possession over the business and having different direction and vision for the business. These communication tricks that Kariss and her husband used could help in any relationship: they got help, defined their roles, and are making it work so that each of them are happy.

Perfection is unattainable and there's no such thing as balance, only priorities.

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Kariss carves out time in her schedule so that she can focus on the priority in front of her. As for mom guilt - she doesn't indulge in it.

I realize that mom guilt is a choice, and I can choose not to allow satan to tell me I'm not good enough in a certain area.

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REPLAY: The struggles of not living near family - how Onyi Azih makes it work with two young boys May 14, 2020

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Today on the podcast I interview Onyi Azih!

She blogs at Sincerely Onyi and on the podcast we talk about the struggles of not living near your family and how she manages that with two young boys.

She shares how she handles living away from family, trusting others to be around your children, and how she plans to instill her culture and values with her sons.

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Managing All the Different Parts of You + Mental Load and Motherhood with Dr. Jessica Young Brown Apr 25, 2020

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Dr. Jessica Young Brown is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in faith and mental health - discussing how they intersect together. She's also a mom and wife - so she knows that world too.

We discuss how she continuously evaluates whether she's in tune with her core values, advice for step parents and how they play a role in the child's life, and managing tough relationships.

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