Just One Simple Thing

Send us Fan Mail It’s the beginning of a new year, which means new ideas, new goals, new directions.  And maybe it means new approaches to building your business or ministry. This week, I’m kicking off the Business Builders series. We start makin strategic investments in your work in the areas of coaching, memberships, and training events.  You’ve probably been looking ahead at the new year, setti...

Send us Fan Mail Wow ... where did 2021 go?? It seems like just yesterday we were saying “good riddance” to the dumpster fire that was 2020. 2021 turned out to be better in some ways and disappointing in others. Listen in as I share my top three takeaways from 2021 and what will be different for me in 2022. I don’t know about you, but I enjoy hearing other people share about their lessons learned...

Send us Fan Mail As we move towards the end of the year, many of us are setting goals and making plans for next year.  We have high hopes and great expectations.  But as I look back on the last several years, it is the unexpected things that have made the biggest impact on me and the people around me.  Here in Episode 41 of Just One Simple Thing, I’ll share three ways to embrace the unexpected thi...

Send us Fan Mail The gold standard of goals training is SMART goals. Everyone teaches it. Many people try to do it. But what if your smart goals make you feel dumb? What if there is a better way to have goals that are meaningful and bring you peace instead of stress? In Episode 40 of Just One Simple Thing, I’m sharing a new goal-setting acronym and I think you are going to love it. I’m sure you’ve...

Send us Fan Mail It’s that time of year where we start to think about setting goals for next year. That’s an important thing to do, and I’ll be talking about it more soon, but before we can move forward, we need to pause and take a look back. Join me for Episode 39 of Just One Simple Thing. This episode is a little different ... in these short few minutes, I’ll lead you through a powerful time of...

Send us Fan Mail Throughout the Old Testament, God designated special feasts, festivals and holidays to recognize important milestones ... times of harvest, provision, and deliverance. These holidays combine reflection, celebration, and serving others. In the middle of this busy holiday season, you can use the time to reflect on all that God has done, celebrate the progress you’ve made, and prepar...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever been frustrated when you’ve launched something and no one seemed to want to buy it? I have a secret for you: growing an audience is the wrong goal. Join me for this fun conversation with Esther Littlefield in Episode 37 of Just One Simple Thing as we talk about how to grow a community instead .... And not just any community, but a community that buys or buys in. If y...

Send us Fan Mail Wren Robbins is the host of the Friends of a Feather and Don't Wing It podcasts.  She's a podcast coach who works with female entrepreneurs who want to launch a podcast. She offers 1:1 coaching as well as VIP days. Wren's fun vibe has attracted a growing community, and she shares her best tips for growing your community through podcasting. Connect with Wren on Insta...

Send us Fan Mail A small community can be a powerful catalyst for your business or ministry. But is your small thinking keeping your community small? In this episode, we’ll look at three myths about community that result from small thinking, and bust them by looking at community in the early church. The #toughgrace truth is that you can’t depend on Google, or social media, or Pinterest to get your...

Send us Fan Mail Arabah Joy helps people have a vibrant and flourishing relationship with God through Bible study and other spiritual disciplines.  Listen in as she shares how she grow the community around her blog into a thriving business, and it is different now than when she started. Connect with AJ and download her free resources at ArabahJoy.com ++++++++++ Are you tired from trying to share y...

Send us Fan Mail Y’all are generous people, and I know you are great at giving. But how are you at receiving? As part of our series on building community, we’re going to talk about what giving AND receiving generously looks like. It might be hard to process, and you might not agree with me, but hear me out. It’s probably not surprising that our Biblical inspiration for this series is the early chu...

Send us Fan Mail Eva Kubasiak helps people learn to study the Bible through the community she has grown on Instagram.  Hear what she has to say about creating gifts for your audience, and the biggest mistake she sees people make on Instagram. Follow Eva on IG @evakubasiak

Send us Fan Mail Has someone ever told you that your platform is not big enough for them to work with you? Episode 34 of Just One Simple Thing kicks off a series on building a community instead of a platform. In this episode, you’ll learn three things I love about about building a community, and why I’m okay if I never have a platform that impresses a publisher. If you are trying to build a minist...

Send us Fan Mail As we wrap up the Productivity Myth Busters series, we are going to hit on a couple of popular productivity tips and some tweaks that have helped them work better for me.  Before I dive into that, let me give you a little view of what’s been happening on my side of the mic. The original idea for the series was to look at common productivity tips and hacks, and determine if they re...

Send us Fan Mail As we move towards the end of the year, you may have started thinking about what type of planner to buy for next year. With more of our lives moving online and on our phones, you’ll hear people say that it’s “more efficient” to use a digital planner instead of a paper planner. But is it the best for everyone? Let’s take a look in this episode of the Productivity Myth Busters serie...

Send us Fan Mail Hey and welcome to Episode 31 of Just One Simple Thing, where we are in the middle of the Productivity Myth Busters series. We are looking at common productivity advice that might not be working for us ... and reframing it so that we are creating spacious places in our lives and working within our boundaries. In the last episode, we challenged the myth that you need three prioriti...

Send us Fan Mail In a world that values getting things done, have we gone too far in our pursuit of productivity? Have we stretched our boundaries beyond what God intended and made productivity an idol? In this first episode in the Productivity Myth Busters series, I’ll share how we can start reframing some of our productivity habits so that, as David says in Psalm 16, our boundaries fall in pleas...

Send us Fan Mail If you've ever fallen victim to great marketing for product that wasn't exactly right for you, raise your hand. I’m raising mine too, because we've all been there. So let’s learn how to make decisions that are a little bit better than that, right now, in this busy launch season. If you've been around me for very long at all, you know that I talk often about the...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes we need to stand strong, and others, we need to bend so we don’t break. How do we know the difference? In Episode 28 of Just One Simple Thing, let’s look at how Paul showed flexibility and three practical ways we can incorporate flexibility into our live. I’ve spent most of my life near the southeastern coastlines of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. So hurrican...

Send us Fan Mail It’s been a rough couple of years, hasn’t it? Maybe with all the chaos around us, you didn’t reach your ministry growth goals, you didn’t actually launch that new program you wanted to, you didn’t get the support you hoped for. You might be wondering if you really have the energy or the heart to have high expectations again? In Episode 27, I'll share three principles for deve...

Send us Fan Mail I’ve heard from a lot of the Do ANew Thing community that you are feeling unfocused and unmotivated in a season where we should be excited about ramping up for the end of the year. If you are struggling to get your mojo back after taking some time off this summer, here in Episode 26 of Just One Simple Thing, I have three tips to get you moving forward again. If you are listening t...

Send us Fan Mail As Christians, we can be very conflicted about planning. In one place, the Bible says God knows the hairs on our head, so don’t worry about tomorrow. In another place, it says the wise man plans ahead. What’s a go-getter Jesus girl with wild, audacious dreams to do? Let’s dive in and see why God’s plans are better than anything we could imagine. I am all about making plans to meet...

Send us Fan Mail For the last several episodes, we’ve been talking about Success Foundations ... the things you need in place to build something that will last. Maybe you’ve gathered a list of things you need to do as you explore your purpose, create your pieces, find your people, hone your presence and position your resources. But before you start making a plan to do all the things, there is one...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever wish you had unlimited resources to invest in your ministry or business? What if God has already given you everything you need to do what he has called you to do? In the fifth part of our series of Success Foundations, we are looking at how you position yourself for success by using the resources you have to fill the gaps of what you are missing. We’ll learn how God us...

Send us Fan Mail As Christian leaders, we often feel alone. We sit behind our computers and write, study God’s Word looking for direction and watch our budgets and pinch the pennies. Alone. But God clearly did not intend for us to do this alone. In this Episode, we are continuing our Success Foundations series by examining the four people we need around us. 1. The Partner : When God came calling a...