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Today we'll give you a little bit of a life update while we talk about what we've been doing and where we're thinking about going in the future! Join us in our first video podcast!

Thanks for listening to our last episode about James Clear’s book, Atomic Habits.  This book has really helped us learn new tools to make new habits “Atomic.”  One tool is to make the new habit super small and desirable using the 4th law, making new habits satisfying.  If its fun and satisfying we are more likely to keep going and practice this new habit again and again each day.   Mentioned Resou...

Hello friends! We are glad you have joined us again today to continue chatting about the book Atomic Habits by James Clear.  Today’s episode we chat about making a new habit easy as James maps out in the 3rd section of his book, making desired habits easy and bad habits extra hard.  What habit can you make easier?  One key we discuss today is making a new habit so simple you can do it in 2 minutes...

Today we are talking about making new habits attractive as we continue to share what we are learning from James Clear’s book Atomic Habits.  If you want to create new habits, make them attractive to you so you choose to do it by combining a need to a want such as the need to do the dishes and I want to watch a show.  We can make dishes more attractive and we choose to watch a show while doing the...

Hello Friends!  Thanks for joining us in our conversation of Atomic Habits by James Clear.  The first part of making a new Atomic Habit is to make it obvious and specific.  We are discussing some new habits we are making as small as we can so they are small and achievable to actually make some new positive changes.   Mentioned Resources: Featured book: Atomic Habits By James Clear Kendra Adachi wh...

Today is our first conversation about James Clear’s book Atomic Habits!  We are excited to share what Jesus is teaching us in this season of our lives and glad that we are ready to make habits in a new way that focus on our core beliefs about the person we would like to be. Mentioned Resources: Romans 12:1-2  Atomic Habits By James Clear Lazy Genius By Kendra Adachi   Credits: Follow us on our Fac...

Hello friends!  Thanks for joining us again today to discuss our featured book Building a Resilient Life by Rebekah Lyons.  Community is the word!  We sure have enjoyed reading and discussing this book, so good to see how God is teaching us about community in his word, and in our lives and with the books we read. It's like a beautiful tapestry.  We are thankful for you, listening and being a p...

Hello friends!  Thanks for joining us again today to discuss our featured book Building a Resilient Life by Rebekah Lyons.  The focus today is all about Making Meaning in our lives!   Mentioned Resources: Rebekah Lyons website with lots of information on her newest book Building a Resilient Life . Rhythms of Renewal by Rebekah Lyons  The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi Effortless by Greg McKeown...

Hello friends!  Thanks for joining us again today to discuss our featured book Building a Resilient Life by Rebekah Lyons.  The focus today is all about training with resistance and choosing to grow step by step.  We get to run our own race. We don't need to compare what we are doing to any other person, we are running in our own lane.  It's not always easy but we can learn and grow each s...

Welcome friends!  Today we are jumping back into our conversation about our featured book Building a Resilient Life by Rebekah Lyons.  Let’s get crazy and call anxiety a friend!  What?  Don’t we need to run away from anxiety, not towards it?  Today we discuss this huge perspective shift that anxiety could actually be helpful to us. What if we took the time to listen to anxiety and what it is tryin...

Welcome back to another episode friends!  We are continuing our conversation about our featured book "Building a Resilient Life" by Rebekah Lyons.  We sure do appreciate Rebekah’s transparent and authentic way she writes. It feels like we are sitting down with a cup of coffee and chatting about the deep things of life as we read this book.  So glad we can share our lives and the challeng...

Hello!  So glad you are here to join us in our continued conversation and discussion of Rebekah Lyons’ book “Building a Resilient Life.”  This episode is full of different Bible verses that keep coming to our minds as we both share about what we are learning in this season.  We are happy that God uses so many situations and experiences to speak, whether it's what book we are reading, a convers...

Hello Friends!  Today Corrie and Stephan are sharing about what God is doing in their lives.  They share what they have been learning from God and what He is speaking over them and into their true identity.  The featured book they are reading right now is by Jamie Winship, Living Fearless exchanging the lies of the world for the liberating truth of God.  Stephan and Corrie get vulnerable and share...

Today is the start of our new featured book.  “Building a Resilient Life - how adversity awakens strength, hope and meaning”  Written by Rebekah Lyons In today’s episode we chat about different seasons of adversity in our life that made us stronger even though the situations were challenging.  We also share about others in our lives that are examples of resilient friends that inspire us to keep go...

Hello Friends!  We are wrapping up our featured book, Find Your People , By Jennie Allen , with this question she asks the readers “What if God wants to shake up our perceptions and expectations of what community and family should look like?   We share our stories of when we were feeling at the end of our strength quickly approaching burnout and the desire to quit and leave was intense and felt li...

Hello Friends!  We are in Chapter 8, Deep -Illustration: shovel Goal: Shared purpose, Barrier: Shallow/small talk. Our lives can become fractured and compartmentalized when we only see people in single spheres of our lives. This can lead us to loneliness and isolation. The depth of relationship develops when people see all the parts of our lives: the good and the bad. Friends with shared purpose e...

Hello Friends!  We are now talking about Chapter 7 of Find Your People , By Jennie Allen , Protected, with the illustration of an anvil.  Goal: Accountability and the Barrier: Pride  Who is keeping you accountable? We all need friends to keep us accountable but many of us are lacking the deep friendships that function in this way. We all crave this type of relationship but live in a culture strivi...

Hello Friends!  We are in Chapter 6, Safe today with the illustration of  OPEN DOORS Goal: transparency Barrier: Pain/shame This was a challenging chapter to read and to record,  putting ourselves out there to practice being vulnerable about past friendship hurts and the fear of trying again and again.  We take down some walls brick by brick to reveal our struggles and pain of being a friend and b...

Hello Friends!  Do you feel awkward at making friends?  You are in good company.  Today’s episode we shared how our friendship felt quite awkward at the beginning, but we kept pursuing each other and built a beautiful friendship. There is hope on the other side of awkward beginnings.    Jennie Allen encourages us in chapter 5 of her book Find Your People ,  Close FIRE Goal: proximity Barrier: Busi...

Hello Friends! Welcome back to our conversation of our featured book “ “ Find Your People .”  Chapter 4, Find your People, is our topic of discussion. The necessary ingredients to build healthy friendships are A) availability- say yes friend, B) Humility- being able to say the hard things, and C) transparency- not hiding being open and honest.  Our village of friends is full of people who need us...

Hello Friends! What if we believed we were a valued friend and we have something to bring to each friendship we have?  What if we had a vision for something more?  We talk about just that in this episode.  What if we focused on building a village of friends instead of one best friend forever, to fill all of our relationship needs?  We need community and we can all benefit from a group of friends t...

Do you long for deeper friendships?  Come with us on our journey learning more about friendship with today's conversation about our featured book, Find Your People by Jennie Allen .  Today’s episode we are talking about Ch 2 The connection we crave. ( You will even hear the sweetest lil voice of Tess’ daughter throughout the episode! )  We function best in friendships when we are grounded firs...

Hello Friends! We have a new featured book Find Your People by Jennie Allen .  We need people to help us make a lovely place for friendships with a space for love, learning and laughter.  Join us for this journey to Find Our People.   God’s plan for people is community.  Let’s try to continue to connect despite the hurdles in life.  We can seek and find authentic friendships to do life together in...

Hello Friends! This is our last episode on our featured book, Famous at Home ! We close out our time together by talking about decision 7: Set Values. We also touch on family mission. If we go through life with no thought of our values, we can say yes to everything and live with no real purpose. Join us today as we ponder what it means to discover our family values and be intentional to live them...

Hello Friends! We are reading Famous at Home , and today we are talking about decisions 5 and 6: Enter Your Child’s World and Establish Family Rhythms. Josh and Christi do such a great job in these chapters of encouraging us to be intentional about play, rest, and loving our families well. Presence in our children’s lives isn’t about big gestures but little moments of seeking them out and letting...