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“As a leader, no matter where you are, you must have boundaries and be clear about what is okay.” Jennifer Chapman The lack of boundaries at the workplace has been identified to be among the primary root cause of burnout among leaders. The dilemma that most leaders face, therefore, is how can they establish healthy boundaries at work? Our guest today, Jennifer Chapman, advocates for leaders to set healthy boundaries by identifying their areas of interest and delegating all other tasks for better productivity and increased engagement with their teams. Jennifer Chapman used to be a workaholic, known as the go-to person for getting things done and managing the most difficult clients at a Fortune 500 consulting firm. She thrived in challenging situations, proving to others time and time again that she was invincible. Eventually, Jennifer's mental and physical health began to suffer, so she decided to create a new professional and personal life that aligned with what she valued most. She created the job she wants and a new independent confidence, and she continues to bring her authentic self into all of her work. She is more successful—in terms of happiness, financial security, and her ability to help others— than she has ever been. Today, Jennifer is an expert leadership coach, working with STEM managers and leaders who want to increase productivity and performance by strengthening their confidence and people skills. When Jennifer isn't developing the next generation of influential leaders, she can be found spending time with her husband and five children and hitting the trails with their beloved dog! In today's episode, our guest will talk about the benefits of delegation in leadership. She will also shed more light on why setting boundaries in leadership is ideal and how managers can learn to let go. Listen in! Social Media www.ambitionleadership.com  www.linkedin.com/in/coachjenniferchapman/  www.facebook.com/ambitionleadership          I have lived in a bunch of different places and I am a mum to two biological kids and three awesome step kids. [4:00] I have a lot of accountability to myself and to others to make sure I am taking good care of myself. [5:14] I left the consulting firm I was working for on leap day and the first year and a half was super scary. [11:24] When I was at the consulting firm, I had the opportunity to work at a scientific organization as a consultant, onsite for three years. [6:10] I noticed that I enjoyed working with all these different kinds of scientists. [6:24] I have a gift of showing those with a more scientific, data-driven, task-focused mindset why paying attention to the people side of things is going to help them and their bottom line. [6:53] I am also married to a mechanical engineer, and it has been a great partnership. [7:11] If you keep hanging on to responsibilities and you don't shift what your perspective is as you move up in an organization you will burn out. [9:42] I often have my clients organize their duties and responsibilities into tasks that energize them and those that deplete them of their energy. [10:15] They then delegate the things that drain them to get as many of those things off their plates then they are left with the work that they love. [10:28] I love to find out from my specific clients where the breakdown is happening to help them personally to get to a place where they feel confident delegating and making room for the work they love to be doing. [11:26] One thing to keep in mind is whatever you say yes to, you are saying no to a whole bunch of other things, and the opposite is true. [13:10] I find it easier for stem leaders to let go when they can keep their minds focused on what it is that they want and whether the things they are doing are going to have more of it. [13:34] In my previous position, I was often asked by the people above me who my second team was and which people I was training to take my place so that when I get promoted, there would be someone to take the lead. [14:35] In the science industry and tech industry, there is usually one right way to get from point A to point B, yet it is not that way all the time in other things. [15:33] If you think more about what needs to get done instead of how it needs to get done, you will be able to empower your direct reports with so much more autonomy. [15:50] As they have those experiences their confidence increases and they are grateful to you for giving them the experiences. [16:05] Commercial Break. [16:38] When the intelligence and accomplishments of applicants are the same when deciding to offer someone a position, the soft skills or people skills will be the differentiator. [19:20] A lot of people who have gotten ahead in their career without worrying about it are realizing that to be competitive and be employed, they have to stop and think about it. [19:34] I work with clients to help them be clear about what is theirs to own and what is not theirs to own. [23:45] You're the leader and guide, but it is not entirely up to you to make everybody this perfect person that a lot of people never become. [27:19] As a leader, no matter where you are, you must have boundaries and be clear about what is okay. [28:25] Before you chastise your direct reports for not having good enough boundaries and avoiding burnout, look at your behaviors and ask yourself if you are modeling what you are asking them to do. [31:20] …………………………………………………. Thank you to our July Sponsor: Entrepreneur's Guide to Financial Well-Being Imagine starting a long journey without a map…or even a clear idea of the obstacles ahead. 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I got to interview Jennifer Anne Gordon. Jennifer Anne Gordon is an award-winning ballroom dancer, performer, and choreographer, Past jobs have included professional actress, a magician's assistant, a gallery director, an artist, a burlesque performer, as well as a horror novelist. When Jennifer is not busy writing or performing, she is an avid traveler who loves to photograph abandoned and forgotten places. We spoke about: Her journey to now. What motivates her. Weaknesses she turned into strengths. Advice for the audience. And much more. This episode is sponsored by Nova Zora Digital experts in digital marketing. Check out Real Talk Podcasting for all things podcasting. *Disclaimer: The views and opinions on Roman Prokopchuk's Digital Savage Experience are those of the guest's alone as their own, and the host's alone as his own. Information provided by the guest is fact checked to the best of our abilities. By providing background information to the show, the guest acknowledges that it is as accurate as possible. The show does not endorse, promote, or is in association with the guest's business interests.* --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/roman-prokopchuk/support

My guest enjoyed writing these little notes/rhythmes  for her mother to discover, as much as her mom loved uncovering them. It's hard when you only get to visit with your loved ones only once a year.  That's just one of the reasons Jennifer decided to leave 'bread crumbs' of love for her mother to happen upon.Well, this tradition of leaving notes of sentiment went on for at least 10 years and it wasn't until Jennifer's mother died that she found a box full of individual plastic bags, each containing a years worth of small pieces of paper with words of love and admiration.Kate Fell, Jennifer's mother was a very accomplished pianist but had to give it all up because of WWII and supporting her daughter while her husband served for his country. When Jennifer was a young girls, she recalls sneaking out of bed and crawling near the top of the stairs so she could listen to her mother play the piano.  She was enchanted by her mother's love of Chopin and Brahms and still listens to classical music today while she writes. My guest had the endless support of her maternal grandmother  as well as her mother. They were always there for her. Jennifer says as a mother, looking back their love and devotion helped her raise her own daughter the way she had been raised.Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009164918375Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/jenniferfellhayes/

Jennifer Gillman is one of those entrepreneurs that is always ahead of the curve. She has the uncanny ability to see what trends are ahead and get in front of the crowd. Although she is a “recovering” attorney, she loved practicing law. She simply found another calling. As you will see, she's had several pivots. She also has the unique ability to recognize easily when something isn't working for her. She doesn't waffle. She moves forward like lightning. This is a lady who has really mastered the art of being comfortable being uncomfortable. Now she helps rainmakers connect with law firms so they can reach their full potential. And she can tell in 5 minutes if you really want to keep practicing law. Included in this conversation: What she would have done if she didn't go into law How did she become a recruiter? The deal she struck to pivot to recruiting What a recruiter really does Tips for people who want to break into recruiting How she evolved from associate placement to “law firm matchmaking” Millennials Being comfortable being uncomfortable Business challenges in the beginning Who is a good fit for Jennifer's services How she “matches” law firms How she vets her clients When it's time for you to hire Jennifer She can assess in 5 mins if you still want to practice law What it looks like to work with Jennifer What is the hottest practice area right now? When Jennifer can match a rainmaker associate How her practice changed during COVID-19 Her vision for the Gillman Strategic Group Hottest geographic areas for growth right now Proust Questionnaire Jennifer's Reading List: The Savage Truth by Greg Savage The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann The Success Principles by Jack Canfield Referral of a Lifetime by Tim Templeton Find Jennifer here: www.GillmanStrategicGroup.com Jgilllman@gillmanstrategicgroup.com If you think you would be a cool guest for Wake Up Call, tell me why. DM me on social media. Follow me on social media here: www.Instagram.com/theprev www.Facebook.com/wakeupcallthepodcast www.Twitter.com/wakeupcallpod If you liked this episode, please RATE, REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE! XOXO

It's my 100th episode! For this very special episode, I invited back my very first guest (in episode 4), Jennifer Goforth Gregory. Jennifer focuses on B2B technology content marketing writing. She is a leader in the content marketing writing world—she literally wrote the book “The Freelance Content Marketing Writer”—but like so many of us, the pandemic brought many challenges. She went from working home alone to having her husband and two teenage kids around all the time. And she lost a anchor client quickly, leading her to panic and fear she'd lose all her work. However, she ended up having the best income year of her freelance career in 2020.   During the pandemic, Jennifer struggled with how much to work, faced with a high demand of technology writing. Plus, her husband was laid off and she became the sole breadwinner and felt the financial pressure. On the other hand, her kids would be heading to college soon and she wanted to embrace the “gift of time” and spend plenty of quality time with them.   But because she felt she needed some higher-paying work, she took on an email writing project that was a risk for her. And she realized she was good at it and has since earned about $25,000 writing emails as a copywriter.   Jennifer says her work has three variables: the client, the niche and the type of writing. She realized, through the new email writing project, that she can only have one new variable when she's trying something new. In this case, it was an existing client in a niche she knew well. Just a new type of writing.   Jennifer was also open about her situation and told existing clients that her husband got laid off and she was looking for more work. That's how she was offered the initial email writing project.   This pandemic year taught Jennifer to take a better look at her strengths and weaknesses and be honest about what she's not good at.   One “hidden blessing” from this past year was that Jennifer joined a weekly Zoom meeting with about five other writers, initially to share job leads. They helped her launch a training class, figure out how to price projects and how to handle failure.   Most of Jennifer's work comes to her directly, from people finding her on LinkedIn, coming across her website or seeing articles she's written that are similar to their needs. She thinks it's a mistake for freelancers not to use LinkedIn more.   Do you know your “why?” Why are you a freelance business owner? Jennifer tells the story of how she was supposed to moderate a conference panel when she learned that her son, a senior in high school, was selected for a golf match at the same time. One of her “why”s has been to spend more time with her kids, so she knew she had to be at the golf match. She found a replacement moderator and went and was honest with people about why she was absent.   When Jennifer has a hard personal or work decision, she stops and asks herself, “What am I going to regret when I'm 80?”    Jennifer released her book, “The Freelance Content Marketing Writer,” two years ago. She's been blown away by the success. She self-published and has covered her publishing costs. Now, any proceeds go to her dog rescue. She plans to update the book in 2021 to add in new lessons.   Jennifer's Facebook group of the same name, “The Freelance Content Marketing Writer,” now has over 6,000 members.   Jennifer launched a training class, “Make More Money as a Freelance Content Marketing Writer,” and now offers a self-paced version of that class.   Jennifer gives tips on finding the perfect client for you. One of the mistakes freelancers make is they mainly qualify their clients based on price—are they going to pay my rate?—and that should just be the beginning. Instead, you should look for clients that meet your strengths and your weaknesses.   Jennifer actively chooses her clients, not letting them hire her. It's a mutual decision. She tells them on the initial phone call that she is actively picking her clients and is interviewing them to find if they're a good fit.   Jennifer also talks about Zoom video calls, which has been a debate in her Facebook group. Some writers hate that seemingly everyone wants to do Zoom video calls now, while other writers find them more helpful. Jennifer thinks video chats are a great way to initially meet with a client to see if they're a good match. It can also be helpful when doing content marketing interviews with sources.   Jennifer encourages freelancers to actively ask their clients for referrals. And want to get more referrals? Then, give them out frequently for other freelancers. They will return the favor.   Jennifer also makes sure to update her website regularly with new articles in her portfolio. Clients have commented that they like that her clips are very recent.   Biz Bite: Follow up with the people in the “who viewed your profile” section on LinkedIn   Resources: Episode #4 of Deliberate Freelancer: Work Only with Nice Clients, with Jennifer Goforth Gregory   Jennifer's book “The Freelance Content Marketing Writer”   Jennifer's Facebook group: “The Freelance Content Marketing Writer”   Jennifer's courses   Jennifer's website   Jennifer on LinkedIn  

When Jennifer called in from Pennsylvania to talk about her swingers club, 'the' Eddie Scozzare was hanging on every word and didn't miss a detail, which we learned during Friday's highly anticipated 'Moment of the Day'.  Enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jennifer Wesselhoff is the President & CEO of the Park City Chamber of Commerce | Convention & Visitors Bureau (Chamber/Bureau). She has served in the position since October 2020. The Park City Chamber/Bureau is responsible for the marketing and management of Utah’s preeminent luxury tourism destination, driving revenues in excess of $1 billion annually. Park City is home to the Sundance Film Festival, the nation’s largest independent film event. The town’s two ski resorts served as major event sites for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games and the Utah Olympic Park continues to attract Olympians to Park City for high-altitude training. The town also is the headquarters for the US Ski & Snowboard Association (USSA). Park City hosts ski and snowboarding world championships on an annual basis and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has selected Utah for its next Winter Olympic bid in 2030. More than two million skiers hit the local slopes each year at both Park City Mountain, featuring the nation’s largest ski terrain, and Deer Valley Resort, consistently rated amongst the top ski resorts in North America. In summer months, more than one million visitors flock to Park City for hiking, blue-ribbon fly-fishing and biking on its 400-mile trail system. Prior to arriving in Park City, Jennifer was CEO/President of the Sedona Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Bureau, which she joined in 2007. During her tenure, she led Sedona, Arizona to national recognition as a destination. Jennifer guided the Sedona Chamber’s accreditation as a Destination Management Organization, led the development of Arizona’s first Sustainable Tourism Plan, and saw tourism grow to become Sedona’s largest industry, with a $1 billion annual impact and 10,000 tourism-related jobs. She most recently represented the region on the Governor’s Economic Recovery Task Force. Jennifer developed and launched successful brand strategies for Sedona, including the “Sedona, the Most Beautiful Place on Earth” campaign and the “Find Your Room to Play” campaign. Jennifer is a Certified Destination Management Executive with Destination Marketing Association International and is a frequent speaker and consultant on sustainable tourism best practices. She was the former Sedona Certified Film Commissioner with the Association of Film Commissioners International. Before joining the Sedona Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Bureau, Jennifer taught English in Japan and spent three years in the hospitality industry in Interlaken, Switzerland. She is conversant in three foreign languages and holds bachelor’s degrees in French and Communications from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. When Jennifer and her husband Rick are not running, biking and hiking, they enjoy cooking and traveling with friends. Destination on the Left is joined by Jennifer Wesselhoff, the President and CEO of the Park City Chamber of Commerce, Convention, and Visitors Bureau. On our podcast, Jennifer shares her passion for sustainable tourism and talks about the steps you can take to implement it in your own community. She teaches us what DMOs can do to better communicate with their communities and grow the destination organically. And she also explains how the pandemic has provided destinations with an opportunity to rethink tourism for years to come. What You Will Learn: Jennifer’s journey into the travel and tourism industry Jennifer’s passion for sustainable tourism and the steps you can take to implement it in your own community How to balance the four pillars of sustainable tourism Why DMOs need to put more focus on communicating with their residents and local communities How the pandemic has provided destinations with an opportunity to rethink tourism Attracting quality vs. quantity when it comes to visitors The Park City Chamber of Commerce, Convention, and Visitors Bureau Destination on the Left is joined by Jennifer Wesselhoff, the President and CEO of the Park City Chamber of Commerce, Convention, and Visitors Bureau. On our podcast, Jennifer shares her passion for sustainable tourism and talks about the steps you can take to implement it in your own community. She teaches us what DMOs can do to better communicate with their communities and grow the destination organically. And she also explains how the pandemic has provided destinations with an opportunity to rethink tourism for years to come. Becoming a Leader in the Pandemic Jennifer started her journey in Park City in October of 2020—an interesting time to say the least. Starting a new position, with new people, in a new organization is enough to test any leader, let alone when it is taking place in a remote work environment. Jennifer, however, brings a ton of experience to the table, and she was able to find her stride quickly through the use of creativity and collaboration. Her passion for sustainable tourism has helped her develop those skills day in and day out, and it is a concept we can all benefit from exploring in our own organizations and communities. The Four Pillars of Community Jennifer defines sustainable tourism as a way to balance the four pillars of the community, and it lifts up everyone who is apart of it. The pillars are: creating and retaining a vibrant economy, the visitor experience, impact on quality of life, and protecting the environment. While Jennifer always took a data-driven approach to destination marketing, the four pillars of community helped her reshape the lens with which she looked at the data. It gave her a new perspective for addressing unique challenges within the community, and it provided her with an opportunity to partner with other organizations and businesses in the region to solve those challenges. Sustainable tourism is something any destination can adopt to transform the core principles of the community, and there is so much to gain from it. Website: https://www.visitparkcity.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-wesselhoff-8960599/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/park-city-chamberbureau/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VisitParkCity Twitter: @jennwesselhoff

Jennifer Tamborski is a Digital Marketing Strategist, Facebook Ads Expert, and a Fractional Chief Marketing Officer. Before Jennifer started working with Kathy, she only took home $5 an hour in pay, and she had been working on her business for eight years by that point! Today, she is consistently hitting six-figures in her business and couldn’t be happier. In this week’s episode, Jennifer shares her journey and why it became so critical to start taking her business seriously.   Key takeaways: Who is Jennifer and how did she get started in this career field? Jennifer’s rates were way too low. She had been doing this for eight years and when Kathy told her to double her rates, she almost choked! When Jennifer focused on her niche, she ended up being way happier! How did Jennifer go from VA to a digital marketer? Start where you are now and then be open to learning and growing further into your selected career path. Jennifer’s mindset has also completely changed! Are there certain clients in your roster where you just dread hearing from them? Time to end that relationship! If you don’t love what you do, it’s time to move on! How does Jennifer balance work and family? Jennifer realized she was doing everything wrong in her business. What does Jennifer’s team look like? What does a digital marketing strategist do? How has Jennifer helped Kathy over the years? She loves working with her! If you can’t have fun, what’s the point in doing it?   Resources: Virtualmarketingexpert.com Jennifer on LinkedIn   Quotes:   “Everybody has more in them than they think they do.”   “It’s never about skills. Your business is not going to grow if you just focus on skills.”   “Your mindset is what expands your business.”  

In this episode, I interview Jennifer Gonzalez, the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Host of Cult of Pedagogy. Cult of Pedagogy is one of the most respected and followed educational resources for teachers available. Cult of Pedagogy is more than just the amazingly well written and applicable posts on her blog, it's more than her incredible podcast; Cult of pedagogy provides books, videos and other amazing resources to help teachers around the globe, but most importantly it is a community for teachers who love teaching and want to become their best.  Jennifer and I have an amazing conversation about how Cult of Pedagogy came to be, how it has been helping teachers during this pandemic, and we look ahead at the future of education. Jennifer is absolutely brilliant, and we have a lot of fun. Buckle-up. Jennifer Gonzalez taught middle school language arts for seven years. Half that time was spent in the greater D.C. area, the other half in southcentral Kentucky. She earned National Board Certification in 2004. Then, after having her first child, sheleft teaching to be a stay-at-home mom. In 2008, She was hired by a local university to teach pre-service teachers. This work gave her new passion for preparing and supporting educators. When Jennifer was in the classroom, shefelt alone in her nerdiness. The teachers' lounge was never a safe place for her emotionally or intellectually, and finding others to share her real thoughts and feelings with took a lot of work. She learned to stifle the urge to gush about some new strategy She was planning to try or to open up about a struggle She was having with her students. She came to expect that her genuine questions would be met with sarcasm. With the creation of her site Cult of pedagogy, She hopes to create what shedid not have herself: a vibrant, encouraging, stimulating community of teachers, supporting each other toward excellence. She believes if we can reach across the limits of geography and find each other, there's no limit to the amazing things we can accomplish. (From Jennifer's Cult of Pedagogy site, pronoun changed to third person.) Mentioned in this episode:  Follow Jennifer of Twitter: https://twitter.com/cultofpedagogy Jennifer's website: www.cultofpedagogy.com The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cult-of-pedagogy-podcast/id900015782 Complete this form if you would like to receive a free FREE Wired Educator Podcast Sticker: https://forms.gle/RsEBuVwkapeGTc9D6 This link will take you to ALL of Kelly's social media: https://linktr.ee/kellycroy Sign-up for Kelly's newsletter here. Kelly Croy is an author, speaker, and educator. If you'd like to learn more about Kelly or invite him to your school or conference to speak please send him an email. • Listen to Kelly's other podcast, The Future Focused Podcast, and subscribe to the more than 42 episodes to help you level-up your leadership and design a more dynamic life. • Subscribe to The Wired Educator Podcast with over 194 episodes of interviews and professional development. • Visit Kelly's website at www.KellyCroy.com. • Looking for a dynamic speaker for your school's opening day? • Consider Kelly Croy at www.KellyCroy.com • Order Kelly's books, Along Came a Leader and Unthink Before Bed: A Children's Book on Mindfulness for your personal library. • Follow Kelly Croy on Facebook.  • Follow Kelly Croy on Twitter.  •  Follow Kelly Croy on Instagram               

THE DAY HAS COME! Love-Centered Parenting is now available and I’m so unbelievably excited to share it with you. Coming into the launch of this book, I asked you all what your book-related questions were, and you delivered.  Listen as Jesse interviews me using your questions to get to the bottom of what this process has been like, what it takes to write and publish a book, and why this isn’t your average parenting book.  Honestly, until Jennifer Dukes Lee brought it to my attention, I never intended to write another book. I was on the verge of burnout from my previous books and all the work that I was putting in with Money Saving Mom, and I was adamant that I wouldn’t write again.  I gave myself about a year to say “no” to requests and opportunities and instead focused inward and on my family, and the stirrings started back up. When Jennifer came to me asking about another book, I had finally reached the point that I felt I had more to say.  The process of writing this book was so much better than any of my previous books too. We signed the contract on the book just before finding out we were pregnant with Kierstynn and I used the time to really dig in on the topic and research and writing from a place of peace.  I’m sharing it all. Everything that went into this process, how it differed from my previous books, and why this really is the book for every parent. I did write it from a Christian perspective but the concepts are really just heart-centered.  If you haven’t already gotten your copy, request it at the library. I’m hoping to reach as many people as possible with this message and that includes free reads at the library. I hope you love it as much I loved writing it and keep an eye out for ongoing discussions because I have so much more to say on this topic.   In This Episode:  [00:33] Welcome back! My new book is finally launching.  [01:42] Jesse is interviewing me on this very pivotal launch date.  [02:37] Did I intend to ever write another book?  [05:34] Why this writing process was the best out of all the books I’ve written.  [08:05] What was the most difficult of this process?  [09:57] The best and worst aspects of writing a book and getting it published. [13:07] How I find a focus, topic, or direction for my books. [15:17] My advice for how to start writing your first book.  [18:50] How did I come across my current publisher and agent?  [21:45] Have I ever gotten tired of the subject that I am writing about?  [23:49] Can a non-religious person benefit from this book?  [25:09] What I’m most excited about with this book.  [28:43] Jesse shares his pride in how this book is impacting lives.    Links and Resources: Crystal Paine Crystal Paine on Instagram Crystal Paine on Twitter crystal@moneysavingmom.com Money Saving Mom Money Saving Mom on Facebook Money Saving Mom Deal Seekers Facebook group   Love-Centered Parenting by Crystal Paine Published by Chandler Bolt Jennifer Dukes Lee

Today on the show, we welcome Jennifer Barrett. She is the author of “Think Like A Breadwinner” - a wealth building manifesto for women who want to earn more and worry less. A financial journalist first, Jennifer then moved to the management track, working for Newsweek, New York Times, Hearst, NBC, CNBC. Now she works at Acorn - an app to help people save more money. We talked about how she worked at DailyWorth - one of the first sites to focus on reaching women with money knowledge. And now thankfully, there are many sites that are trying to reach women. Jennifer stresses how important it is for women to find your people. Female leaders and female managers who feel like they’re the only in their company need to seek out other women and organizations to support and inspire them. Chief is a female only network Jennifer joined that is expanding all over the country. There are more similar groups - Luminary, The Riveter, Hey Mama, AllBright, Dreamers and Doers being a few. Jennifer shares more about the Acorns App. It’s the spare change investing app. When you use your debit card, they round up the purchases and invest the change. It makes investing so much easier. Jennifer’s book, “Think Like A Breadwinner”, was written from her own experience living in New York in a one bedroom apartment with her husband and toddler. She had been at Newsweek for 7 years and hadn’t negotiated her salary during that time. Even though she thought of herself as independent, Jennifer realized she wasn’t truly independent, she was just treading water. She knew she needed to be more proactive. After further reflection, Jennifer realized if she had been raised like a man who expected to be the breadwinner, she would have made very different choices. Then she asked herself, going forward, what kind of choices would she make if she was thinking like a breadwinner. Jennifer talks about how with each paycheck, use it as an opportunity to be less dependent on the next paycheck. Every time you have money coming in, ask yourself what is the most I can take out of this check to put towards my future, to start growing that money. One day you will be less dependent and not live paycheck to paycheck. It was also important for Jennifer to start negotiating like a breadwinner. She shares how it was difficult at first and how important and helpful a female network can be in this situation. Previously to being in management, Jennifer thought what they’re offering is what they can afford. She learned that there is usually budgeted ranges for salaries with the expectation that a candidate will negotiate. Parents talk to their daughters differently than they talk to their sons. Parents talk to their daughters about budgeting and shopping smartly, clipping coupons. They talk to their sons about building credit, investing wisely and all the skills you need to be a successful breadwinner and provider. Even though Jennifer had great role models in her parents, they didn’t have conversations about money. She also didn’t have any conversations with school counselors or advisors. When Jennifer got a job she began a cycle of overspending and then earning more. With her own children, Jennifer has taught them about pricing, investing and they have open conversations about money too. The definition for success Jennifer gives is being able to have the life and the impact she wants to have and to support the people and the causes she cares about. The 3 words that come to mind for her when she thinks about the word money are freedom, power and impact. Jennifer’s website - www.jenniferbarrett.com Jennifer on Instagram - www.instagram.com/jbarrettnyc The educational arm for Acorns.com - www.grow.acorns.com

Bucks County Bytes welcomes you, Jennifer, from Farmgirl Coffee located in Kitnersville, PA. Home to so many farms and beautiful countryside and the most welcoming of communities that believe in supporting all small businesses located in Bucks County.When Jennifer and I first met, it is because I was told about this amazing coffee shop not far from home and that I should go visit...and that I did. When I walked into Farmgirl Coffee, I mentioned who I was and who introduced me...and Jennifer and Kayla were just overwhelmed and offered me coffee and such deliciousness from their shop...oh my! So good! The coffee and pastry were so good! This organic coffee is so wonderful I couldn't stop talking about it! Made my day so much better and the love and support from our local community just made me love Bucks County even more! Little did I know it would be weeks before they would be on the show due to all the snow, and all the farm problems that we are all so used to!So I finally present to you, Jennifer, our Farmgirl Coffee owner from our very own Kitnersville located right here in Bucks County.Subscribe and share and don't forget to leave a review for both Farmgirl Coffee and Bucks County Bytes!Farmgirl Coffee contact info -FacebookFarmgirl CoffeeInstagramFarmgirl CoffeePhone and email(484) 907-2048farmgirlcoffee@gmail.comBucks County BytesBucks County Bytes linksSupport the show (https://paypal.me/msexpresso?locale.x=en_US)

You guys know I'm very enthusiastic but we have a story for the ages with Jennifer Bradly from the Flipped Lifestyle Community! Jennifer has been on the podcast a few times now because she is just crushing it in the membership game! In that interview where we had Jennifer on the Membership Masters Podcast we came up with a crazy, “what if this works” strategy to offer her membership on a limited, but extended Free Trial strategy. When she did sent out the offer to her list, she got 806 members off that single offer! Today we are going to break down how Jennifer had this life-changing moment, what happens next, and how you can have a wildly successful offer too!     Show Notes Jennifer has a speech therapy membership (https://www.speechtherapyplans.com) for speech therapists where they can access materials to use throughout the entire year with their students! Jennifer started her membership back in 2017 - since then she and her husband have gotten to quit their 9 to 5 and are now both ALL IN on the membership model! Fast-forward to today - she now has over 1,500 members!! Last year, Jennifer sent out an email to her list offering 4 months of her membership FREE!  She had 806 people take her up on the offer!  On today's podcast we will tell you how she did it...   Throwing mud on the wall! (12:00) When Jennifer sent out her offer to her list people thought, “there has to be a catch!” There wasn't and Jennifer wasn't crazy - but her offer was crazy successful! She got 453 NEW active members and renewed 45% of her trials and all she had to do was be patient! It is absolutely INSANE what can happen when we throw mud on the wall as entrepreneurs. When I first came up with this offer, I didn't think Jennifer would actually do it and we didn't know if it would be successful or not, (but isn't it a great thing that Jennifer did)?!   Why do we fear sending out emails? (17:30) I have sent thousands of emails and I still have this fear of emailing my list sometimes. It definitely happens on your first email, your first offer, or your thousandth offer. Jennifer felt it too when she sent out this offer (understandably so). She wondered if everyone would quit, what would happen on the other side of this offer, everything in her head was wondering if it was the worst thing she had done. But, then she remembered that those members weren't her current members anyways!   How do you serve a large number of people coming in at once? (23:00) To keep her churn down Jennifer did a couple things: Sent out a weekly email (every Sunday) to her members with weekly plans for SLPs that week and a few updates of the sites. A reminder of what there is to offer in the membership. Tons of emails reminders that this renewing payment was coming up. She prepped for her retention, she took sprints at the beginning and end, now the waters are steady!   What are the downsides to one-click up-sells, options, or orders? (27:00) Anytime you do a one-click anything, people will ALWAYS buy the wrong thing and they will always be horrifically mad when they do. A lot of membership owners hold themselves back or fear getting 100 new members because 50 will cancel. 373 people rejected Jennifer through this offer! Jennifer had to deal with the rejection and tried not to look at cancellations. She didn't look at the data until it was done. Her promotion was still successful even though that many people cancelled! Don't become obsessed with your unsubscribes, open rates, or anything that takes your eyes of the big picture!   Offering a simplified membership. (34:00) Jennifer just started her second membership, a bare-bones version at a lower price. This has been really successful her Jennifer for those people that just want the absolute basics or simply can't afford anything more right now. There are other ways to do this - we do this with affiliates as our down-sell!

We review German gore-great OLAF ITTENBACH's 2010 meditation on horror, NO REASON, from new scans of the original masters! When Jennifer awakes in a pool of blood and mutilated corpses, it's just the start of her journey to redemption! Hear our take on this "thinking person's" gore flick, and UNEARTHED FILMS' incredible-looking new transfer, coming May 2021! https://www.diabolikdvd.com/product/no-reason-unearthed-films-blu-ray/ (PRE-ORDER HERE at DIABOLIK DVD) or https://grindhousevideo.com/products/no-reason-blu-ray-pre-order?_pos=2&_sid=f04c6750b&_ss=r (PRE-ORDER HERE at GRINDHOUSE VIDEO!) Check out more releases at https://www.unearthedfilms.com/index.php (UNEARTHED FILMS: www.unearthedfilms.com) Host/Reviewer: Nate Wyckoff Support this podcast

This week on Down The Garden Path, we speak with author and blogger Jennifer McGuinness about her new book Micro Food Gardening, hitting shelves in April 2021. Jennifer began regularly blogging as Frau Zinnie in 2011. You can find Jennifer’s writing, photography and personal gardening experiences in her Connecticut garden on her website, along with interviews with garden experts. Jennifer follows organic gardening methods growing both ornamental and edible plants. She likes to experiment with growing compact and dwarf edibles in containers. When Jennifer is not in the garden, she works in the communications field as a writer and editor. She is also a professional photographer and available for gardening lectures. What is micro food gardening? Here's an excerpt from Jennifer's book Micro Food Gardening: WHAT IS CONSIDERED A MICRO VEGGIE, FRUIT, OR HERB? Generally speaking, it is any plant that is approximately 18 inches (46 cm) or smaller when the plant has reached harvest size. Some plants, such as vines, may grow a little larger but still produce mini-size fruits. Veggies, fruits, and herbs all offer an edible component, which makes them different than a plant considered ornamental, which does not feature any edible parts. There are even some micro edible flowers, which can add a splash of color to salads, ice cubes, and cakes. Join us this week for our conversation with author and blogger Jennifer McGuiness. Jennifer answered our many questions: What inspired you to write Micro Food Gardening? In the book, you talk about setting up your small space and the considerations when doing so. Can you share with our listeners what they need to start micro food gardening? Is it best to start from seed? Do garden centres carry these dwarf vegetable cultivars? If growing from seed, where do you recommend looking for micro food varieties? Jennifer advises to search out dwarf plant seeds at any seed company paying particular attention to the plant size. Garden centres may carry dwarf plant varieties as well; now you know to look for them. Containers are an important feature in growing micro plants. Micro Food Gardening covers different types of containers and their pros and cons. Many of the projects featured in the book use common containers in really creative ways. You have so many inspiring DIY projects in the book: what is one you hope readers will try? Which project do you think would be most successful on a balcony? Jennifer's favorite project from the book? The Strawbery Cake Stand project (shown on the book's front cover). You can find Jennifer online here. Micro Food Growing: Pre-Order Special Micro Food Growing will be available to order April 6th. Click here to order your copy. Pre-Order Special: Order your copy of Micro Food Growing by April 5th and Jennifer will send you a collection of recipes. All you have to do is email her a screenshot of your order (frauzinnie@gmail.com). About Your Hosts Each week on Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. As the owner of Down2Earth Landscape Design, Joanne Shaw has been designing beautiful gardens for homeowners east of Toronto for over a decade. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible.

Stories in this episode: Brett’s charge to defend a man who has committed heinous crimes is almost too much to bear until a desperate plea to God in the middle of the courtroom restores his hope; As a new judge, Carey faces a crisis of conscience when a temple recommend interview offers new insight; When Jennifer is unfairly judged by her colleagues, the consequences send her into a bitter tailspin that only a vivid dream from heaven can stop. View shownotes at LDSLiving.com/thisisthegospel Follow us on instagram and facebook @thisisthegospel_podcast Show Notes + Transcripts: http://ldsliving.com/thisisthegospel See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jennifer Garner is an American actress, Golden-Globe winner, mother of three and activist. Listen to this episode and learn:   When Jennifer started acting and her favorite movie role  How Jennifer spent her time in quarantine  What movie Jennifer wants to make  and her favorite movie  The high and low points in Jennifer’s career  What is the biggest miracles in Jennifer’s life  Why Jennifer loves to support children’s hospitals 

Family Camping, whether in a tent, pop-up camper, a towable trailer, motorhome, or any other type of RV, unites families through great memories! That's what we talk about in this 331st episode of the RV Podcast. And through our special podcast guest - a Mom and Grandma who has passed along a love for the outdoors and family camping to her children - and the remembering of Jennifer and me with own experience with our kids.  We hope that this article and our podcast will inspire newcomers to try it out and cause others to rekindle a love affair of the great outdoor and family camping. You can listen to the podcast in the player below or scroll down this page for shownotes and a transcript of the interview, plus links and resources about all the things we talk about.  There is great power in family camping Jennifer and I have camped our entire married life. I grew up in a family that hunted and fished but we never really camped. When Jennifer and I got married, one of the first things she insisted on was that we would be a camping family. She grew up camping and spent family vacations in tents and trailers along the shorelines of our Michigan Great Lakes.  The first big expense we made as a married couple was a 13-foot Shasta trailer. As we started having kids, we replaced it with a Coleman pop up camper. And although we camped in state and county cames every time we could, our preferred style even way back then was boondocking - though no one called it that then. It was truly off the grid, with no hookups, down a rough two-track carved out of the woods in Ogemaw County and along the Rifle River. This Coleman Popup was what we used for family camping back in the '70s. That's our favorite spot along the Rifle River in northern Michigan. My sister and her family owned a bunch of raw acreage up there and even in this empty nest stage of our life, we take our RV to the exact same spot as often as we can. Photo of the tent Jennifer and I used from the 80s through the 90s Our three kids grew up camping and the memories we made around campfires, hiking deer trails, taking innertubes down the swift-moving river, and being together made memories that we all still laugh about today. After our kids went to school and grew up, Jen and I sold the popup and turned to tent camping for many years. We've been in small Class B and Class C motorhomes since 2012. Our daughter, Wendy camps in a tent with her family and has passed her love of family camping to her husband, Dan, and daughters, Elizabeth and Rachel. Son Jeff didn't have to work to convince his wide Aimee to camp, She, too, grew up in a camping family and they camp every chance they can in a travel trailer with their kids Jovie and Jax. And all of us get out a couple of times a year for big family campouts. Our third child, Scott, along with his wife, Lauri, and grandsons Zachary, Nick, Matthew, and Jacob, lives in Nashville. And while he is not doing much camping these days because of work responsibilities, we expect him to do so.  Here's a video of one of those summer family campouts we do with our grown kids and grandkids, this one from Silver Lake along Lake Michigan. That was from a couple of summers ago. Here's our latest family campout, this one taken just this fall, right around Halloween time. The benefits of Family Camping Here's a list of 7 camping benefits that Jennifer and I can quickly identify: Disconnecting from devices and connecting with one another Having quality one-on-one-time away from the daily routines of home, work and school Learning about God's creation, the natural world, wildlife, and the seasons not from a book but by seeing it and living in it Learning how to handle challenges together, be it mechanical problems on the road, sudden storms, or sorting out personal issues. There's nothing like being in a confined space together to quickly get to issues that otherwise may simmer and b...

On today’s episode, we are talking with Jennifer Racioppi, astrologer and holistic health counselor. Jennifer is full of knowledge on the power of astrology and she shares her advice in her new book “Cosmic Health: Unlock your healing magic with astrology, positive psychology and integrative wellness.”In our conversation with Jennifer, she opens up about her past and how she discovered astrology. When Jennifer was a teenager she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and she turned to astrology, spiritually and integrative medicine to understand her personal health journey. Her book teaches readers how to use astrology and planetary patterns to apply an understanding to your individual natal chart and how that impacts your emotional, spiritual and physical health. Get Jennifer's book: https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Health-Astrology-Psychology-Integrative/dp/031653529XFollow her on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/jennracioppi/

Jennifer Hazzard; now a professional life coach and strategist has had a loooong fashion history.  Nolan met Jennifer during Fashion Week '18 and little did she know, he was out to make her his new fashion bestie. We find out how her stellar connections from the hospitality industry led her to a career in fashion public relations. Jennifer reveals her stories on people, places and things that she couldn't "make up" if she tried. She spills the tea on all that went down on a typical Tuesday night at the Soho House and beyond.......no celeb left unturned.  Plus, Jennifer gives the scoop on the worst fashion crimes that have taken place during her career and most importantly, we reminisce about our fave fashion shows that we oh so miss! When is fashion week coming back?!?  We can't take it.  We get her take on the future of NYFW. You won't want to miss it! Time Stamp  [ 1:50 ] About Jennifer Hazzard and how Nolan picked her up [ 14:50 ] Why the hospitality industry isn’t sustainable   [ 20:20 ] Fashion crime reports from Soho House  [ 37:30 ] We reminisce about our most favorite fashion shows   Resources jennifer@jenniferhazzard.com Website: jenniferhazzard.com About Jennifer Hazzard Jennifer Hazzard is a professional life coach and strategist who works with individuals and groups to help them maximize their strengths and reach their full potential. Jennifer leads a variety of coaching and NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) workshops where she provides tools to increase confidence, motivation and achieve goals. She worked on leadership coaching with executives and groups. She also works with people one on one to help them find balance in their lives, improve their relationships, work more effectively, clarify and obtain their goals and be the best version of themselves.  Jennifer’s decades of working in the fashion and hospitality industries have led to her acquiring an arsenal of skills that have helped people get on their desired life path. She strives to guide and lead others to their truth and freedom through self-discovery, emotional awareness and mindset development.​ Determined to help as many people bridge the gap between their unconscious and conscious mind, she became certified in Life coaching, Motivational Coaching, Social and Emotional Intelligence Coaching and also earned a certification in Advanced NLP Communication from the Society of NLP with Richard Bandler. In addition to being a certified Life Coach, Jennifer recently became a certified Transcendental Meditation teacher. She also is currently studying Ontological Coaching with Accomplishment Coaching to become certified with the International Coaching Federation. She has received priceless information and knowledge that she willingly shares with others in hopes of bettering their lives.  Raised in Orange County, Ca and currently living in New York City, Jennifer is said to have the relaxed approach to life mixed with the go-get’ um energy of her beloved city.  When Jennifer isn’t coaching, she can be found meditating in Central Park, hitting up a Pilates or yoga class, strolling the city with her dog, whipping something up in the kitchen, trying the newest face mask or creating playlists on Spotify! She also spends a lot of her time volunteering with NY Cares and working with children and the elderly.  Quotes “Working sixteen hours a day making chump change will kill anybody’s soul.” -Jennifer Hazzard "I love an 80’s bush." -Jennifer Hazzard

In The Maverick (Broken Arrow Books, 2020), author Jennifer Valenti plugs into the current zeitgeist of young women who struggle to defy the casual sexism of men in power. Jane Valiante is elated when the hottest tech company in the world offers to fly her from Florida to New York for the job of her dreams. After a long day of interviews, Jane feels insecure about her chances, but then she receives an invitation to the holiday party from the CEO and Founder, Peter Wright. She happily accepts, and has a lovely, if perhaps overly boozy time. Unfortunately, Peter ends up in her hotel room, where he overpowers and rapes her. Then he leaves. Although she’s traumatized, she doesn’t let it stop her from accepting a position in Peter’s company. What is it going to take to propel Jane on a journey of self-discovery that will allow her to learn who she is and what she is capable of? Jennifer Valenti was born in New Hampshire, grew up in Florida, hailed from Boston, and is mostly a New Yorker. Moving around meant learning to adapt quickly, which came in handy as a single mother raising two amazing young men (and a dog with separation anxiety.) For every failure, she enjoyed equal success with careers in film and television, technology, and consulting, the latter two of which were against much of her will. She earned a BA and MBA, and is currently a senior executive in business consulting. When Jennifer is not working, writing, cooking, or baking, she is an avid world traveler, and has so far visited 110 countries. G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com) if you wish to recommend an author (of a beautifully-written new novel) to interview, to listen to her previous podcast interviews, to read her mystery book reviews, or to check out some of her awesome recipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In The Maverick (Broken Arrow Books, 2020), author Jennifer Valenti plugs into the current zeitgeist of young women who struggle to defy the casual sexism of men in power. Jane Valiante is elated when the hottest tech company in the world offers to fly her from Florida to New York for the job of her dreams. After a long day of interviews, Jane feels insecure about her chances, but then she receives an invitation to the holiday party from the CEO and Founder, Peter Wright. She happily accepts, and has a lovely, if perhaps overly boozy time. Unfortunately, Peter ends up in her hotel room, where he overpowers and rapes her. Then he leaves. Although she’s traumatized, she doesn’t let it stop her from accepting a position in Peter’s company. What is it going to take to propel Jane on a journey of self-discovery that will allow her to learn who she is and what she is capable of? Jennifer Valenti was born in New Hampshire, grew up in Florida, hailed from Boston, and is mostly a New Yorker. Moving around meant learning to adapt quickly, which came in handy as a single mother raising two amazing young men (and a dog with separation anxiety.) For every failure, she enjoyed equal success with careers in film and television, technology, and consulting, the latter two of which were against much of her will. She earned a BA and MBA, and is currently a senior executive in business consulting. When Jennifer is not working, writing, cooking, or baking, she is an avid world traveler, and has so far visited 110 countries. G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com) if you wish to recommend an author (of a beautifully-written new novel) to interview, to listen to her previous podcast interviews, to read her mystery book reviews, or to check out some of her awesome recipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How does it feel to sit down to the first Thanksgiving you and your husband and children have shared together in three years? The Cunningham family is grateful. Navy Reserve Lt. Jennifer Cunningham left for a deployment to Djibouti just two days after her husband retired from active-duty service.  Her deployment was extended as COVID-19 pandemic protocols were put in place. When Jennifer finally made it home to her family after 14 months, she came home not only to changes in her daughters and husband but to the entire world around her that no longer felt familiar. During this episode host Lesley Lykins and Lt. Jennifer Cunningham discuss gratitude and resilience.

Jennifer Farber Dulos was a woman to be envied. Educated and attractive, she came from a wealthy New York City family, lived in beautiful Connecticut mansions, married a handsome educated man, and had five healthy children. After 13 years of marriage to her Greek-American husband, Fotis Dulos, he became aggressive and unfaithful. He told Jennifer that he had fallen out of love with her, but he didn’t want to move out of the family home. Instead, he wanted to move his new lover and her daughter in with them. Not surprisingly, Jennifer was not on board with this plan. She moved out under the cover of the night, taking the children with her. Join us at the quiet end as we discuss the disappearance of Jennifer Dulos. When Jennifer vanished, she and Fotis were still deeply entrenched in a lengthy and intense divorce battle. As Jennifer tried to move forward and focus on her children, Fotis was realizing that he could lose custody of his children and go bankrupt. Although he denied having any involvement in his estranged wife’s disappearance, a trail of evidence revealed dark and sinister secrets.

We are Spiritual beings having a physical experience!    If you’re like host, Laura Prisc, you’ve wondered, and maybe even asked, what your purpose is in being here – on the planet, living this life. Much of Laura’s life has been lived in search of the answers to those and other big questions. So, it’s no surprise that when she and guest, Jennifer Urezzio, met, they hit it off and jumped right into this conversation.    When Jennifer began asking those questions, she received deep insight into her work, which is helping others tune into themselves, recognize their personal Soul Language, and use that knowing to frame how they show up in their lives and work.    “This makes Soul tangible, in yourself and in your business,” she explains. “It allows us to put words to that thing we know deep within…” it’s what’s true about and within us… and it’s speaking to each of us all day, every day, if only we’d tune in and listen!   Soul Language helps us understand our mission in life – what we’ll be known for here, and our ‘soulful personality,’ how we show up and use our unique gifts with others.    As Jennifer aligned more and more with her inner voice, what she calls Divine Voice, she was able to clearly articulate the concepts of Soul Language and how it works in life and in business. She went on to (literally) write the book and develop a program to expand this knowing and way of living with others. Today, there are a number of certified Soul Language practitioners helping others connect more deeply with themselves.  One way to do this is to create a daily sacred practice that works… When we feel separate from our higher power, that separation shows up in our lives as lack, pain, and suffering. Participating in a daily sacred practice that fits who you are will allow you to create in a more powerful way, feel more at peace, and know that you are safe no matter what challenge may appear in your experience. As a spiritual renegade, your sacred practice needs to be flexible. This conversation will have you asking some of those big questions, if you aren’t already engaged in that exploration. And if you’re ready to discover and align with your Soul Language, Jennifer is ready to help!    Jennifer’s Bio Jennifer Urezzio is the founder of Soul Language – a paradigm that puts tangibility to Soul so a conscious connection can be established to enable crystal clear decisions for success. Jennifer is also a master intuitive and the author of two best-selling books. Currently, she has trained over 30 practitioners worldwide in Soul Language. At this time there are over 5,000 individuals all over the world connecting to their Soul Languages.   Jennifer has worked with and supported hundreds of successful, highly creative individuals with resolving blocks in their creative process so that new opportunities can be received and created.   Her clients consistently relate how Jennifer provides an environment where they feel safe to open up and be vulnerable. She helps them regain their strength and express their big purpose and mission. Jennifer has even been described as “liquid nitrogen” because she has the ability to see the core of possibilities within each individual’s energy field. She is a master at asking the soul-searching questions that allow individuals to understand and perceive new pathways of success and greatness in their lives.   In just one session, clients report that new possibilities open up for them which allows them to express their creativity, stardom, and greatness in whole new ways to the world. Many of Jennifer’s client reviews can be found at: https://bit.ly/2Ec2MOd.    Connect with Jennifer:  https://www.facebook.com/jenniferurezzio https://www.facebook.com/SoulLanguage/ https://www.instagram.com/soullanguagefounder/ https://twitter.com/SoulLanguage https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferurezzio/ http://www.youtube.com/c/JenniferUrezzio www.soullanguage.us By Phone: 862-368-5877   FREE GIFT: https://www.soullanguage.us/sacredpractice/

Jennifer Anderson is a mom, wife, registered dietitian, and creator behind the brand Kids Eat in Color. When Jennifer was a new mom, she learned that feeding kids is sometimes tricky. When her first kid fell off the growth chart, she realized how much effort can go into feeding a child. With a Master’s of Science in Public Health, in International Health and Human Nutrition from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Jennifer completed her dietetics coursework through the University of Northern Colorado. Through the same institution, she organized her own dietetic internship, focusing on policy and organizational management in the Washington DC metro area. Jennifer is passionate about teaching parents that they’re doing a great job – regardless of whether their kids eat their veggies (or whatever food) today – and to enjoy their kids and their mealtimes instead of feeling angry, defeated, and frustrated.  Today, Jennifer shares some wonderful insights into how we, as parents, can improve our child’s feeding while holding a loving, firm boundary around meals, and how we can feel more connected to our kids – because our connection to our family and our children is so much more important than whether they eat a carrot or not! In this episode, you will hear: First foods you can introduce to babies and how to prevent picky eating The importance of high-iron foods What happens when your child doesn’t eat what you put on the table? How to teach kids to eat more than just comfort food Snacking tips and giving bedtime snacks Not using food as a punishment or reward What degrades progress towards picky eating How to offer dessert and why you need to get them off the pedestal The chocolate chip or M&M experiment to diminish kids’ obsession with treats  The importance of having a detailed meal plan and sticking with it Incorporating vegetables and introducing new things Other common issues parents are struggling with How to improve food security in your child’s feeding Where to find food resources when you don’t have enough food for your family The impact of family meals on your kids’ growth Supporting Resources: Jennifer can be found at: Kids Eat in Color: https://kidseatincolor.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kids.eat.in.color/ Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/kids.eat.in.color/ Subscribe and Review Have you subscribed to our podcast? We’d love for you to subscribe if you haven’t yet. We’d love it even more if you could drop a review or 5-star rating over on Apple Podcasts. Simply select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” then a quick line with your favorite part of the episode. It only takes a second and it helps spread the word about the podcast. Episode Credits If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment. He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, coaches, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world. Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com  

Jennifer Dopazo is a graphic designer specializing in Brand Identity, Interaction Design and UX/UI Design. She's the founder of multimedia design studio Candelita and a 3-time American Graphic Design Award winner. Jennifer helps organizations attract their dream clients by translating their big vision into an awesome digital experience with a unified brand. She's worked with companies like The New York Times, Pepsi and Nickelodeon, along with authors like Danielle LaPorte. Here's what we covered on the episode: How Jennifer's podcast company asked if I'd be interested in hosting Jennifer on my podcast, to which I said yes because we've never had someone on the podcast to discuss membership design before Jennifer tells the story of how she dropped out of business school and went back to painting school, where her teacher suggested she go into design How Jennifer's brother was talking to his friend whose sister works as an illustrator and how they connected her and Jennifer Jennifer explains that the sister was a professor at the school in Venezuela that Jennifer went to and how she explained that the design school is great because it's more than graphic design or illustration, it's visual communication Jennifer enrolled in school and in three years was graduated and wondering what to do next, when her brother suggested she move out to NY and complete a postgraduate course After graduating college, Jennifer worked in a small studio her professor founded doing government and non-profit work Jennifer explains that she's kept her business small and how she is in the front, working one on one with clients while she has developers and a designers helping her in the back Jennifer expresses how keeping her business small has made for better connections and better client care Jennifer is friends with Nathalie Lussier, creator of AcessAlly who reached out to the community and asked people if they'd be interested in being part of what they were launching and learning a new way to offer a different service, which is how Jennifer got involved in memberships Why Jennifer loves working in memberships is because she gets to see many different professionals, from different backgrounds come to her and say, I want to build a learning platform Jennifer starts by defining her clients' customer journey and asking them what they want their members to learn/do so they can map it out and create a list of tasks to accomplish Jennifer explains how some platforms have too many bells and whistles that overwhelm members and how you need to decide if you want to have a platform or if you want to host it yourself How it can be hard to keep members' retention after a while and how Jennifer walks her clients through keeping them engaged with new content and different interactions Jennifer gives examples of how to keep members engaged through community involvement, becoming an ambassador, offering different content, or specialized events. How Jennifer tackles clients wanting to use other platform ideas and how she walks them through an exercise that gives them clarity on what they actually need for their platform Why Jennifer tries to discover what the minimum requirement is for each member to come back and feel that they are learning and why it's not good to throw everything at them when they login When Jennifer's clients go through this exercise and gain a better understanding of why they like the reference they picked, it can sometimes be a branding issue and not an experience issue Jennifer shares her loves for processes and how she always starts with discovery work, which is all about your member persona, understanding the user journey, and understanding the design and architecture Jennifer likes to keep her clients very involved and feels it makes them trust you more when they get to see your process How Jennifer believes everyone has their own process that works best for them and how doing that process will make for the best delivery One tip Jennifer has for creatives who want to create their own methodology is to document what your process to deliver looks like, so then you can give yourself specific tasks that need to be done Keep it simple by splitting up your framework into six phases and defining what before and after looks like for each phase How LinkedIn has been Jennifer's best friend for finding consulting opportunities with big companies like, The New York Times and how just talking about the past work she's done on her LinkedIn has helped her gain clients Jennifer shares that when it comes to accepting work, make sure you feel out if they are a good fit for you and make sure to take care of your space because it can be uninspiring to accept the wrong project or say yes to everything that comes your way Jennifer discusses the awards she has won, which have mostly been print work and shares that they have been projects that came her way through friends How one award winning design was a book cover that she loved working on because it was nice to get away from the computer and work on some illustration Connect with Jennifer on her website, the Candelita website, Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn Links mentioned: AccessAlly Connect with Jennifer on her Website Candelita Website  Connect with Jennifer on Instagram  Connect with Jennifer on Facebook Connect with Jennifer on LinkedIn   Like what you heard? 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Jennifer Adams Bunkers is a serial entrepreneur and she is the Founder of TruKid, TruBaby, Fysik, Truebuddy, Velocity Source Group, and Funopolis Toy Company. She’s grown TruKid, a company that sells natural products for kids, to well over seven figures. When Jennifer is creating businesses, she has one goal in mind: to make life a little bit easier. As a mom of six children, it is not always easy to balance being an entrepreneur and a mom. Her goal is for each of her six kids to own their own business. Her son, Freddy Bunkers, owns and runs HyperGo, a company that produces full body wipes. In this episode.. It’s one thing to catch the entrepreneurial bug and then go on to build a great brand, but it’s a whole new level of impressive if you can get your kids to do the same. Entrepreneurs secretly have that dream, and not many have been able to see it come to fruition. But Jennifer Adams Bunkers has found a way to not only build multiple successful businesses while raising her kids, she has also helped her son, Freddy, turn his idea into a viable market product that’s currently enjoying huge success. So how did Jennifer get her kids so interested in business and how has she encouraged them to find their own path? Join Dr. Jeremy Weisz on this episode of the Inspired Insider podcast as he talks with Jennifer Adams Bunkers, and her son, Freddy, about their respective entrepreneurial journeys. Jennifer talks about how she raised six kids while successfully growing businesses, how she encourages her kids, and how being in EO San Francisco has helped her in her business; and Freddy shares what it’s like to have his mom as his angel investor and how he explores his own style of doing business. Stay tuned.

Jennifer called in today and shared a memory of herself as a young girl. She was fearless and free. She would standup on tables and sing. She loved the attention and the feeling of preforming and making people smile. However at some point as we get older we become more cautious. We start caring what other people think of us. We start comparing ourselves to others and limiting what we do say and think. When Jennifer attended the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston she learned so much by being around other musicians but she also realized how it changed the dynamic of music for her. She realized she was not the younger version of herself that she loved and admired. The girl who would sing and have fun regardless of what others think. Jennifer shares how life can be a full circle, we don’t care what others think - then we care too much - and then as we get older we reclaim ourselves and stop caring as much. Maybe there is a perfect balance in the circles, rhythms and dance of life. Jennifer reminds us to keep moving forward. Find Jennifers music here: https://youtu.be/z5XyRqifgXM Instagram: http://Instagram.com/jennifercmessina Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3kyLVB9TN4BpHrAGLxYE5G

As parents contemplate their options for Fall 2020, the terms "online learning" and "virtual instruction" have become more commonplace than "unprecedented." Many students struggled to access their education in Spring of 2020, which made parents wary of the new digital components for Fall 2020. But what is that digital component and how can you advocate for the teaching modality your child needs? Lucky for us, Dr. Jennifer Walsh Rurak, Ed.D, is with us today and she talks to us about what successful instruction over the internet can look like. What is the difference between online learning and virtual instructional? Which is best for your child? They aren't mutually exclusive and they aren't the same. So join us to learn about what the differences are and how you can advocate for your child. Jennifer is the District Vice President for Fusion's Northeast area. She earned her Doctor of Education degree with a concentration in Educational and Instructional Leadership from Northeastern University. Additionally, she has a Master of Science degree in Educational Leadership/Administration and a Master of Science degree in Special Education both from Canisius College, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Education and Exceptionalities from SUNY Cortland. Prior to joining Fusion Academy, Jennifer spent nine years as a school principal working in public school settings in New York State and taught at the middle school level prior to becoming an administrator. In addition, she has worked as an adjunct graduate professor in the Educational Leadership department at St. Lawrence University. When Jennifer is not working, she enjoys running, Pilates, and boating. Jennifer is excited to be a part of the Fusion team and believes deeply in the power of one-to-one education. You can find Jennifer on the Fusion Academy website: https://learn.fusionacademy.com/ A Tale of Two Approaches: Online Learning and Virtual instruction: https://www.fusionacademy.com/blog/a-tale-of-two-approaches-online-learning-versus-virtual-instruction/  

When Jennifer and Sarah adopt 6 children from underprivileged homes, they are seen as heroes. Their presence on Instagram and Facebook highlighting their perfect family is the modern day dream. All this changes when the children start coming forward, one by one, with signs of abuse. It all culminates one night just two years ago when Jennifer and Sarah have reached their tipping point. Listen to us go over the details and the reveal the harrowing story that is The Hart Family. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/2girlsandcautiontape/message

When Jennifer first started her business, she experienced similar pain points many business owners have to deal with including having to manage all business operations, not knowing where to start with marketing, and being overwhelmed with everything that needs to be done in a limited amount of time. That is when she focused her efforts […]

Welcome back Jordan!  At least for a short little while.   Jennifer Pan seemed like your run of the mill young professional.  In actuality, she was living two lives in order to hide from her overbearing traditional Asian parents.  When Jennifer's parents gave her an ultimatum...she thought she could solve it in another, less savory manner.   A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story by Jeremy Grimaldi    Donate to our Patreon! Follow us on Instagram! Follow us on Twitter! Email us - bumblebuttpodcast@gmail.com  Intro/outro music is titled 'LOSE' from New Totally Radical by EXIT MINDBOMB

When Jennifer felt called to plant a church she could not have known the way her existing faith community would treat that call. How do you move forward in your call when your church is holding you back? Is there room for questioning the status quo? Join Josh and his guest Jennifer Dawn Watts as they discuss these ideas and many others in this weeks episode of Church Hurts. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/churchhurts/support

Imagine giving birth to twins eight weeks early while both yourself and your spouse are suffering from COVID-19. That's exactly what happened to Jennifer and Andre Laubach. When Jennifer first entered her third trimester, she started feeling symptoms of the novel coronavirus. A short time later her husband Andre also began to feel ill. At just 32 weeks, and awaiting COVID-19 test results, Jennifer's water broke and she went into labour.

Fire In The Belly Podcast #029: Deep Health Coaching With Jennifer Byrne DESCRIPTION Nourish to flourish! That’s Jennifer Byrne’s, our guest for today, advice to everyone listening in.  It’s easy to be happy and be impactful to everyone around you when you’re self-aware—not only with the mind, body and soul, but also with your relationships and everything that surrounds you. Jennifer has always been passionate about helping others. Before she became the go-to Deep Health Coach, she endured a 12-year abusive relationship. This has brought her emotional turmoil. But she was able to get out of this because of mindfulness, accountability, and determination. She is ‘done’ with toxicity. Her mind is now always set to better her health, fitness and nutrition. Start listening to know about her 360-degree approach and more in this episode of the Fire In The Belly Podcast.  KEY TAKEAWAYS   Jennifer entered an abusive relationship when she was in her early 20s, endured it and finally broke free from it after 12 years. She has always felt that she has been a single parent; she was parenting alone, even with her partner around. It was difficult to cope and understand what was happening. She resorted to vices to anaesthetise the emotional pain. But she also remembers that during that time, it was going to the gym that would add (even a small bit) of happiness every day. Build yourself from inside out. Be your own cheerleader every single day. When Jennifer started her journey to healing, it wasn’t easy at first. She was transitioning from a destructive environment to finally owning her freedom, her independence. She started building her knowledge and adding more to her skill set. This and with the help of her loved ones, she was able to stabilise herself, her relationships, and her life. Nourish to flourish. Jennifer always works on herself. She has always ben mindful about her nutrition and physical health. This has helped her a lot, especially through awful times. That is why she set up her business—she wants everyone to realise that they can attain the healthiest and happiest versions of themselves.  Face the truth. Acknowledge what’s working, and what is not serving you. Don’t lie to yourself. Be responsible. It’s easy to live honestly. We stop making excuses for ourselves when we know our abilities as well as our limitations.   BEST MOMENTS   “Strive for progress, not perfection.” “And that has saved my sanity… being active and exercising.” “I’m still on a journey. I’m still healing myself.” “I have always been passionate for what I do. I know what I do works because I’m a living proof.” “I don’t like being called the victim of domestic violence. I’m not a victim; I’m not a survivor. I don’t like the words being attached to it… I was just being honest with myself.”   VALUABLE RESOURCES Listen to Fire In The Belly Podcast in Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fire-in-the-belly/id1499375061)! Follow Jennifer Byrne’s Facebook Page and schedule a one-to-one coaching here: https://www.facebook.com/jenniferbyrne.ie/ ABOUT THE GUEST Jennifer Byrne is a Deep Health Coach, Personal Trainer, and a Best-selling Author. Her mission is to shift the mindset of the health and fitness industry away from the diets and exercise to lose weight attitude. With a 360-degree approach, Jennifer uses a system called ‘deep health coaching’, with proven tools and strategies that achieve amazing results that will change your life!   'Health is not just about the weight you lose, but about the life you gain' Connect with Jennifer on LinkedIn: https://ie.linkedin.com/in/jbyrnecoaching Jennifer Byrne Official Website: https://jenniferbyrne.ie/  ABOUT THE HOST The ‘Mighty Pete Lonton’ from the ‘Mighty 247’ company is your main host of ‘Fire In The Belly’.  Pete is an Entrepreneur, Mentor, Coach, Property Investor, and father of 3 beautiful girls. Pete’s background is in Project Management and Property, but his true passion is the ‘Fire in The Belly’ project itself. His mission is to help others find their potential and become the mightiest version of themselves. Pete openly talks about losing both of his parents, suffering periods of depression, business downturn and burn-out, and ultimately his years spent not stoking ‘Fire In the Belly’. In 2017, at 37 years of age that changed, and he is now on a journey of learning, growing, accepting, and inspiring others. Pete can connect with people and intuitively asks questions to reveal a person’s passion and discover how to live their mightiest life. The true power of ‘Fire In The Belly’ is the Q&A’s - Questions and Actions! The ‘Fire In The Belly’ brand and the programme is rapidly expanding into podcasts, seminars, talks, business workshops, development course, and rapid results mentoring. CONTACT METHOD https://www.facebook.com/mightypetelonton/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-lonton-4b83184 https://www.facebook.com/groups/430218374211579/ Support the show: https://www.facebook.com/groups/430218374211579/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Yvette Hampton and Jennifer Elia, Founder of Sound Foundations Homeschool, as they discuss how to nurture a love of learning in our children and how to teach to different learning styles. Schoolhouse Rocked Backstage Pass members have access to this full interview, which includes over an hour of content, including the video, "Eliminating Homeschool Overwhelm" and the 30-minute Bonus Video, "10 Steps to Homeschool Success."  You can get a free copy of Jennifer's program, 10 Easy Steps to Transform Your Homeschool and Home!  on the Sound Foundations Homeschool website. Jennifer Elia, homeschool consultant, blogger, and Amazon best selling author, is Founder of Sound Foundations Homeschool which is dedicated to giving homeschool moms the tools they need to thrive in their home education career. Jennifer is leading the Sound Foundations Homeschool movement, equipping moms to provide an education that celebrates her child's unique and special gifts without burning out. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children whom she has been educating at home for the past 10 years. When Jennifer isn’t busy researching the best curriculum solutions, she enjoys gardening, crafting, and writing. Watch the video of this full interview on the Schoolhouse Rocked Backstage Pass website. Connect with Jennifer Elia: You can find Jennifer on Facebook and Pinterest.  Jennifer’s website: https://soundfoundationshomeschool.com Read Jennifer’s books: ●      Sound Foundations: A manual for building a thriving and successful homeschool ●      Homeschool Moms Want You to Know ●      Making the Decision to Homeschool 30 Day Journal Photo by Rachel on Unsplash Are you looking for a new Math Curriculum? CTCMath specializes in providing online video tutorials that take a multi-sensory approach to learning. Creative graphics and animation, synchronized with the friendly voice of internationally acclaimed teacher, Pat Murray, make learning math easy and effective. Visit CTCmath.com today to start your free trial today.  Whether you are just considering homeschooling for the first time or you are a homeschooling veteran in need of a little encouragement, the Homegrown Generation Family Expo is for you. Registration includes immediate, life-time access to over 35 hours of encouraging video and audio, and a wealth of homeschool resources. Do you believe in homeschooling? Help spread the word that homeschooling is good for students. It’s good for families. It’s good for AMERICA!  Go to SchoolhouseRocked.com/support and join the movement to spread the word about homeschooling through movie theaters nationwide. Interview transcript (this is an automated transcript. Spelling and grammar errors are guaranteed!) Speaker 1 (00:42): Hey everyone. Welcome back to part two of my interview with Jennifer Elia. On the last episode we talked about eliminating homeschool overwhelm that every homeschool mom faces and we also talked about just the importance of finding support both globally and locally in your homeschool. And so today Jennifer is back with us again. Welcome back to the podcast, Jennifer. Speaker 2 (01:06): Thank you. Glad to be back. Speaker 1 (01:07): Yeah, I'm so glad to have you back. She is the founder of Sound Foundations Homeschool. She's a homeschool mom to four kiddos and she has been a public school teacher and a college professor. She's gotten lots and lots of training under her belt today. She speaks from experience and also from just education herself and knowledge of having been a teacher. And so one of the things we kind of started talking about at the end of our last episode was we were talking about nurturing a love of learning and our kids, and I have found that too, the one of the most important things that we do as homeschool parents and also one of the hardest things that we do as parents because we can, we, we talked in the last episode about, about the gaps that we all feel like our kids have when we kind of get this frantic, Oh my goodness, our kids are going to have all these holes in their education and what are we going to do? Speaker 1 (01:58): And you were talking about how it's important to teach them how to love learning because everybody's going to have gaps in their education. But if they, if they learn how to learn, then they can learn anything. And I've told this story actually before. I've told this story before on the podcast, but I grew up really hating school. I genuinely hated school. And I remember my senior year of high school I just felt like, Oh, thank the Lord, it's done. It's over. I never have to open up another book again. I enjoyed reading for fun, but I did not ever want to open up anything academic ever again in my whole life. And I just felt like, okay, I've checked off that box. I never have to learn anything again as long as I live. And I really wish, now I have a very different opinion about that and view of learning of course. And now I enjoy learning as an adult, but I wish that I had grown up with a desire to learn and a love for things because everything that we learn can, can and should point us towards our creator and having a deeper relationship with him. So I want to talk about the two things of, you know, one nurture, why we need to nurture that love of learning in our kids. And then two, how do we accomplish doing that? Speaker 2 (03:19): Yes. Well, the first thing is that like I said in the last one, I love to do research. Like that is a great passion of mine. I love, I actually love writing research papers. But now that I'm out, most of what I do my research on is education or something like that. However, I was working for global learning day for a while. And one of the things that they wanted me to find out about was preparing people to be lifelong learners, but also preparing them for getting out into the world and being productive adults. And so I really dove into that research and when I found is that when led top skills that employers want are people who can learn, like know how to learn and are, are willing to self-educate so they're willing to keep learning and they know how to take a topic and find out about it. Speaker 2 (04:18): And I realized that homeschooling really sets us up for that because if you're in a brick and mortar school you are, yes, you're checking off those boxes and you're trying to get from first grade to second and second to third and pass this test and earn that certificate. And then in the end it's considered like a completion, like you're done. But really when you think about graduation, it's called a commencement because it's supposed to be beginning the next chapter. And so it should never really end. So I think that when we're thinking about preparing our kids for wanting them into a world and preparing them for like, you know, future ready careers, one of the biggest things that we can teach them beyond STEM or investing in expensive chemistry equipment or any of that is really how to learn because of the world that they're going to be living in is going to be completely different than what we're doing right now. Speaker 2 (05:09): And that's one thing that I've seen over and over again in these studies about STEM is that the people that are high up in the technology are saying, listen, the coding you're teaching your kindergartners is not going to exist when they get out. So instead of focusing on that, focus on teaching them how to adapt and learn and love that and also be creative in their learning. So you were saying like, how do we start that? And I think really it's igniting that, that spark. When kids are really little, they, they get fascinated by something. So everyone has their little quirk that they love. Like we were talking earlier about my oldest just loved Thomas the tank and she couldn't, I mean, every single engine that there was and telling you what they did and, and where they lived and what their number was and whatever. Speaker 2 (06:01): And so they didn't study a few years ago about children like young children preschool and toddlers and how they obsess on something. And people get upset because we were in this academic mindset that all they want to learn about is dinosaurs. But they found that when you let them dive into that, they become much better learners and their brains develop more much more productively then if you're exposing them to everything and trying to get them to, you know, learn Spanish and know physics also, there's stuff that they're trying to teach preschoolers now. So I think that sometimes we need to step back from where we want them to go and see where they are, especially when they're young and let them chase that passion a little bit. It's hard to do as moms, as homeschool moms because we worry, well if they only want to like my oldest loves horses. If they only want to learn about horses, then you know, where does chemistry and algebra fit in? And that will come. But you need to nurture that that passion within them and let them dive into it. And as they learn how to dive into their passion, they're going to keep reading and learning and studying. And that kind of sets them on the path of understanding how to learn. So now when a new problem comes up, they can go about it to problem solve through it. Speaker 1 (07:25): Right. Can we, I want to take a break and then when we come back, can we give some very practical ways to do that with kids and I want to talk about kids with maybe some different learning styles and how that would work with them. Okay. Sound good? Okay. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. The home grown generation family expo is here. You'll be encouraged by Kirk Cameron, Heidi st John, Sam Sorbo, Andrew Patois, ginger Hubbard, Lee Borden's, and many others. You can still register and have lifetime access to the replays of the entire event. Don't miss out on this exciting expo. Register today for only 20 dollars@homegrowngeneration.com that's homegrown generation.com Hey guys, this is Brooklyn Hampton. Have you left a review for the schoolhouse rock podcast yet? If you haven't been positive show right now and go do it. Don't worry. I'll wait. Speaker 1 (08:23): Have you done it yet? Great. Then back to the show, we are back with Jennifer again and we're talking about nurturing a love for learning and our kids. And, and what I want to talk about specifically is every kid has a different, or every one of us is made with a different bent, a different learning style, a different personality type. And so as far as learning styles, you know, you've got those who are kinesthetic, those who are visual, those who are auditory. I know there could, the list can go on and on with those, but those would be, you know, the three basics. And then you have different personality types as far as you've got the introverts and the extroverts and those who kind of fall in between. And so can we talk a little bit about, and maybe kind of break that up into the different learning styles and, and personality traits that kids have and how we can foster that love for learning in those kids. So how, how do you, I mean do you want to go one by one? I don't know. I did not prepare you for this. I'm sorry. I, Speaker 2 (09:26): Well, I think in general the learning sales are often discounted. When I was in public school, there was this whole differentiation of lessons and so you needed to try to touch all the learning styles. So the are reaching everybody. But I think sometimes we're afraid to foster that learning style that our child was born with. So we worry that if, for instance, for a kinesthetic learner, if we have them do everything physically, so like when they're learning their times tables, if they are you know, multiplying like how, how far they ran, you know, so like we have them run it and then they multiply that out. Or if they are topping up and down to learn how to count or they are physically moving things from one place to another, you know like the all about spelling where you move things. Speaker 2 (10:20): There's many different versions of that. But we worry that if we, if we just focus on that, then they won't learn how to learn. But in fact, like we're nurturing their gift. And I think that one big thing that's essential to fostering that level of learning is nurturing their gift and how they learn. Because while they need to be exposed to everything in life, you'll be exposed to auditory and visual if you're a kinesthetic learner. So if the best way for you to learn fractions is by cooking, you know, making cookies, it's much better for you to learn how to do that then to struggle through it in a workbook because you're not going to get as much out of it. And that's not like a really a detriment. So I would say overall like, be willing to step back and see how your child learns and be willing to foster that after level of learning. Speaker 2 (11:16): So if you want, I guess if you want to go one by one and think of some ways to do that. So if we already started with kinesthetic, with kinesthetic, anything that is physical like, and it doesn't have to be like outside physical, you know, like running around climbing monkey bars, although that it's very helpful. It can just be like moving things. So instead of drawing a line from one side to the other, you're physically moving things from one container to another, or you are you know, using marbles to count instead of tally marks. Does simple things like cooking, really any of those practical skills can be transformed into a lesson because there's so much math and science and creativity and everything we need to do in everyday life that we often discount. You know, even doing the laundry, you need to balance it right? Speaker 2 (12:10): And you need to sort the colors and you need to decide which temperature and what are the temperatures going to do to this kind of clothing. So everything can be a learning opportunity. It's not that you need to spend a day learning how to do laundry, but for that kinesthetic learner, it's something that they can get their hands on and their minds around to learn it. So I feel like sometimes kinesthetic is a little bit easier because it's easier to imagine, you know, like you can see them doing it. At least for me, it is. For auditory learners, we, we really discount auditory learners, I have to say, because we are so focused on like the visual reading and doing work and workbooks and tests and stuff, which is all visual. It's not auditory. And there's also been, you know, again, lots of people moving away from lectures or [inaudible] extended listening. Speaker 2 (13:11): However, that is a great skill for kids to have. And auditory learners need that. Like they thrive on having all that rich information coming into them. So audio books podcasts, lectures, there's going to get so much out of that. Yes, they're just, it seems like they're just passively sitting there not doing anything, but that is what feeds their soul and gets them excited. And so I really, you know, my, my kids are audio book junkie and I've had people say to me, but don't you make them read books? And they're voracious readers. My younger two don't read yet, but they will sit and listen to audio books for hours. And I always say, if you can read with your fingers, why can't you read with your ears? You know, it's, it's the same thing. So they are devouring this literature. I'd rather have them do that than not read anything because they're frustrated. Speaker 1 (14:08): Right. And Andrew poodle, I would agree with you. We've, we've talked with him about that on the podcast and in the movie. Speaker 2 (14:14): This is why I love Andrew. So I always say that he's my, like my homeschool. Like heartthrob Speaker 1 (14:22): Well, you're not the only one. I'm sure my husband teases me that I'm a groupie, but anyway, as long as you don't have posters of him up on [inaudible]. But I always like, you know, hear his voice in my head when I got back and I'm like, Oh, we should get bracelet. Says Hey, what would Andrew do? What would Andrew do? He just read a book or we just read a book he would listen to. Did you know actually that he, he'll talk about reading books himself, books that he's reading. I know almost every book that he reads, he actually listens to, he, he does almost all audio books himself. Yeah. And and, and that's amazing. I mean, you look at someone like him who's so well versed and well educated and, and he speaks on this a lot and he himself has an audio but guy, you know, he's not a Tory learner and so he, he's a musician of course. So that makes sense. And that's how he enjoys reading is through audio. Speaker 2 (15:16): Yes. And so same story really, you know, no matter how it's, it's the same as like reading a play versus seeing a play. Sure. The same thing, you know, you're still reading Shakespeare. So then the last one would be the visual learner. And these are people that might actually thrive on workbooks, but you really don't want to get stuck in workbooks. So you want them to have a way to not only express themselves visually, but to receive information visually. So really engaging books with lots of pictures. Encyclopedias, not, you don't want water and down with pictures. But there are some wonderful, my boys are really into animals and they have some, you know, volumes, they're like this thick with beautiful photographs and tons of information. But the photographs are really just so engaging that it pulls you in. And that even if you can't read the text or you can't get everything, you're getting information from that. So like infographs would be another thing if you're looking, they would probably, you know, visual learners would probably love to make up an infograph to PowerPoint presentations, things like that, that are engaging their eyes and and getting them thinking. Speaker 1 (16:32): Yup. Yup. And I think I find of most curriculum that are out there today, or she'd say curricula out there today I feel like people are doing a better and better job of creating their, their texts to meet the needs of all of these different learning styles. And so they'll have, you know, the reading portion of it, but then they'll have activities that go along with it, which are great for both of those. And as mom, you know, you can read to your children so that they're not having to sit there and read on their own. And in reality it's going to be much, much better learned when mom reads it out loud. So then they're getting that auditory as well as the visual, if they're following along with you. But then mom typically will read it correctly where the kids oftentimes will not, they'll skip words, they'll mispronounce a mispronounce words. Speaker 1 (17:22): I almost said ms pronunciate don't know where that came from. They will mispronounce words. And so it really is, and again, we talked about reading in the first episode to your kids. And so that's just a great way for them to get that auditory learning. But then mom is sitting there with them and you're still building that relationship and being able to read the texts with them. And that's aside from just fun books and, and you know, great literature that we get to read with our kids. Let's talk very quickly about the, the two different personalities and why, I guess it would be really three cause you've got the introverts, the extroverts, and then those who kind of fall in the middle and helping to nurture that love of learning and kids with different personality styles. Speaker 2 (18:11): Yes. So I have kind of a mix in my family and I am most definitely an introvert. Most of my children are extroverts though. But I realized that when I try to do group learning with them, it's harder to harder on some than others. And so we need to kind of limit what we do together. However, my extroverts need that interaction. So they, like my son thrives on, he has a zoom based Spanish class and he just, that's like his favorite class ever. Cause he can see people and he can talk to them. And so he has a science co-op that he goes to and we do a fine arts co-op. So they're kind of like, they need that constant stimulation of joining things. And one thing that I've realized is that sometimes we get into that habit of joining everything cause we want our kids to be socialized and make sure that they're meeting enough people for some children. Speaker 2 (19:05): That's very painful though. So for my extra words, I need to find a balance though. And so what I do is I let them join things that are going to teach them what I want them. You know, what they need to learn. And then we fill in the gaps. So we're not like when they do a science code, we don't do science elsewhere, you know, this way we have time for other things. And so that gives me enough time to bring them there and let them experience that without feeling like we're constantly behind. And the same with like they're in four H and they do presentations and research and whatever. So I count that towards their language arts and take that out of the language arts. So that gives us time to participate in four H. So I think that is an important balance. You have an extrovert if sometimes not to get caught up in trying to get them out there so much. Speaker 2 (19:53): And then trying to keep up with work, find a way that you can use what they're doing out there to take away from what you need to do, like in books at home. Right. And find outlets online for an introvert. I think you still need to get them out there. You know, you don't, but I don't think that we need the push kids to do things that they don't necessarily want to do all the time. I think though that there is a place where you have to be, well, you need to learn how to live in the world. So we're going to go to, we have book record club quarterly where the kids go and present a book report to our group and then they sit and listen to all the book reports. And so from my one tile beds of painful experience, but I'm like, this is part of what we do, you know, so it's only quarterly and the rest of the time I let it go. Speaker 2 (20:47): So defining strategic ways to give that little taste of having to be in front of people to get over the fear of it, at least without overburdening them, with having to be somebody that they're not. And then providing quiet study, you know like I know an online course was just not in the cards for that child. So I'm providing a more quiet you know, lots of reading and journaling and stuff. And supporting that, you know, that is valid learning. Just as you know, doing public presentations is, it's the same thing. Speaker 1 (21:25): Yeah. Great advice. Great advice. We are out of time but I would love it if you would come back. We most people know we have the backstage pass membership site and one of the things I really want to talk to you about is you talk about 10 easy ways to transform your homeschool and home. Will you stay on with me for an extended version for our backstage pass members and can we talk about that with them? Yes, definitely. Okay, sounds awesome. So thank you guys for listening today. If you are a backstage pass member, you can go on backstage pass membership site and we will continue this conversation with Jennifer talking about 10 easy ways to transform your home and home, homeschool and home. And if you are not a backstage pass member, go on SchoolhouseRocked.com and just click on backstage pass and you can get information on that. Speaker 1 (22:13): And there are some great resources on there that is a really fantastic way to support the ministry of Schoolhouse Rocked - the podcast, the movie, the blog, social media, everything that we have going on here and get some great behind the scenes footage from the movie. Great. Just great encouragement on there. We have lots of podcast interviews on there and extended versions from the podcast, but we also have many of the actual interviews from the school house rock to movie on there, people to full interviews and I'm so you'll have access to all of that stuff and we have a lot more stuff that's coming on backstage pass membership site, so we would love for you to join us there as well. Thank you guys for listening. Thank you, Jennifer. Where can people find out more about you? You can find me on SoundFoundationsHomeschool.com and Facebook and Pinterest at Sound Foundations Homeschool. Okay, great. We'll link those in the show notes and you guys have a great, great day and we will see you next time. Bye bye.    

Join Yvette Hampton and Jennifer Elia, Founder of Sound Foundations Homeschool, as they discuss how to eliminate homeschool overwhelm, find support, and nurture a love of learning in your children. Schoolhouse Rocked Backstage Pass members have access to this full interview, which includes over an hour of content, including the video, "Nurturing a Love For Learning" and the 30 minute Bonus Video, "10 Steps to Homeschool Success."  You can get a free copy of Jennifer's program, 10 Easy Steps to Transform Your Homeschool and Home!  on the Sound Foundations Homeschool website. Jennifer Elia, homeschool consultant, blogger, and Amazon best selling author, is Founder of Sound Foundations Homeschool which is dedicated to giving homeschool moms the tools they need to thrive in their home education career. Jennifer is leading the Sound Foundations Homeschool movement, equipping moms to provide an education that celebrates her child's unique and special gifts without burning out. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children whom she has been educating at home for the past 10 years. When Jennifer isn’t busy researching the best curriculum solutions, she enjoys gardening, crafting, and writing. Watch the video of this full interview on the Schoolhouse Rocked Backstage Pass website. Connect with Jennifer Elia: You can find Jennifer on Facebook and Pinterest.  Jennifer’s website: https://soundfoundationshomeschool.com Read Jennifer’s books: ●      Sound Foundations: A manual for building a thriving and successful homeschool ●      Homeschool Moms Want You to Know ●      Making the Decision to Homeschool 30 Day Journal Photo by Kinga Cichewicz on Unsplash Are you looking for a new Math Curriculum? CTCMath specializes in providing online video tutorials that take a multi-sensory approach to learning. Creative graphics and animation, synchronized with the friendly voice of internationally acclaimed teacher, Pat Murray, make learning math easy and effective. Visit CTCmath.com today to start your free trial today.  Whether you are just considering homeschooling for the first time or you are a homeschooling veteran in need of a little encouragement, the Homegrown Generation Family Expo is for you. Registration includes immediate, life-time access to over 35 hours of encouraging video and audio, and a wealth of homeschool resources. Do you believe in homeschooling? Help spread the word that homeschooling is good for students. It’s good for families. It’s good for AMERICA!  Go to SchoolhouseRocked.com/support and join the movement to spread the word about homeschooling through movie theaters nationwide. Interview transcript (this is an automated transcript. Spelling and grammar errors are guaranteed!) Speaker 1 (00:00): Hey everyone, this is Yvette Hampton. Welcome back to The Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast. I am so glad that you are with us today. It is always such an exciting thing to just know that there's someone else on the other end listening and hopefully being encouraged by this podcast and by the guests that we have on. It is my greatest desire to encourage you in your homeschool journey. Speaker 1 (01:04): Whether you have been homeschooling for a really long time or you're just thinking about homeschooling and trying to figure out what this whole home education thing is all about. And so it is always my pleasure to bring exciting guests on the podcast with me. And today is no different. I have a really great homeschool mom. She's a blogger. I'm, her name is Jennifer Elia. She is the founder of sound foundations, homeschool and she has a homeschool mom. It's been even homeschooling for how long? I'm trying to share this for our 11th year. Your 11th year. Okay. So you're in this for awhile. Yeah. So Jennifer, welcome to the podcast. Thank you. Thank you. It is an absolute honor to have you on. Tell us briefly about your family and what you do. Speaker 2 (01:51): So I have four children. My oldest is 15, my youngest is almost three, so we have like the team can hot spring going on. And I was originally a public school teacher. I got my masters in teaching and so my whole thesis was based on how to teach in reach all children so that they can reach their highest potential. And I realize I'm doing that, but the school room was not the place to do it. And so that's what started my journey, looking at homeschooling with husband. And I actually started researching it before we even married. And then when my daughter got my oldest started getting close to school, we kept going back and forth and back and forth and we finally took the leap and said, we'll just do it for kindergarten and here we are 11 years later still homeschooling. Speaker 1 (02:41): That is great. I love that you were a teacher in the classroom. You also were a university or a college professor. Did you college you taught at it? Community college. Okay. Okay. And then you also, you taught, what did you tell me? French. Spanish. Speaker 2 (02:57): I taught French at the college for 12 years. And I also, when I was in public school in public school for five years I did a mixture of French and Spanish. But then I also did the math and reading resource room. So I worked with students who had special needs, which was part of what, through my my study for my masters though, like learning how to really help them. And that's, that's where I realized that these children are being labeled by what they can't do and we're in the system. We're not focusing on their great gifts and giving them the tools to really shine because they were special, just as special as the kids that were at the top of the class. They just weren't getting the opportunity to show everybody that. Speaker 1 (03:40): Yeah. Which is one of the great benefits of homeschooling is that we get to focus on the gifts that God has given to each one of our children, antichrist as well as moms because each mom is gifted in a specific way. And so we get to teach our children according to the gifts that God's given us as well. Yes, that's a blessing. So I want to talk about a few things with you today because you have a wealth of knowledge and information and experience with homeschooling. And one of the things that you talk about a lot on your blog mean that you've spoken on is homeschool, overwhelm, and just eliminating that overwhelm and moms. So let's, let's talk about that because that is something that I know every mom experiences. It does not matter how long you've been homeschooling, whether you've been homeschooling five minutes or five years or 15 years. We all get to that point where we are completely just overwhelmed because homeschooling is not just sitting down doing curriculum with our kids and a few activities and then it's done. It's life. It's everything around us. It's the academics, it's the care for our homes, it's the care for our families. It's any activities we have outside of that. And it can become very overwhelming to where it becomes almost burdensome sometimes. And I'm so, so let's talk about that. Speaker 2 (04:59): Okay. So when I was leading up to starting to homeschool I'm a researcher, so I read everything I could get my hands on about homeschooling. And I remember in one of the books I read, it said like don't make any decisions. In February it was talking all about how February is like this really hard month and you want to quit. And I kept thinking as I'm reading this, and I hadn't homeschooled yet, but I had taught for several years. Like this woman obviously just didn't have our act together. Like if she'd just planned better and then we hit our first February and it was so overwhelming and we were halfway through a year and things weren't going as I had planned, you know, wasn't the same as being in the classroom. I figured I had classroom experience, I have a master's, I have all these material, like this is gonna work. Speaker 2 (05:46): And the longer I went into it, the more I realized that it's not about school. Like it's not school at home. Right. It really is a lifestyle. And trying to, the school within your life and within your home was just completely overwhelming because while you're doing math, there's still laundry piling up and there's dishes and there's phone calls and there's dust bunnies and you know, you need to try to find a way to balance all of that. And I was trying to just, you know, this is school and when school is over, then I'll be, you know, like the housewife. And the mom and whatever and it just wasn't working. So I realized very quickly that I needed to find a way to make this work. And I've realized that one of the problems is that we've all grown up with this school mentality. Speaker 2 (06:35): Like that's what we know. We know going to school, we know sitting in a desk, Mmm. We know like going through marking periods and having homework and then when we come home, all of us want to escape the school in some way, but we don't know how to do it. Like we don't know how to have our children at home because in society they've always gotten on that bus. Well they haven't always, but like in our recollection in, in our, you know, what our family has passed on to us, that's what's happened. And so we need the kind of step back and reorganize our priorities and learn how to live together and learn while we're living. Or it does get completely overwhelming because the laundry and the dishes, no matter how organized and I've tried, like every system there is no matter how organized you are, it's going to be there. Speaker 2 (07:24): And the fact of the matter is that you have children in your house like living and working and playing there all day long. It's never going to look like better homes and gardens. And I think that that is one thing that people get caught up in because I know before it was a blogger, I loved reading blogs and that's how I got into it. And often on blogs we put the, this fantastical version of our life out there. And so then you think, well, I need to do it like her and I need, you know, if I could just buy this curriculum get this schedule, you know, whatever it is, pray this many times a day, then, then my life all fall into place. And what I know now, like being on the other side of the blogosphere is that most of that is marketing. There are some people that are extremely put together and they ha they manage to keep their house beautiful all the time. But the reality is the bed is very stressful. And so eliminating overwhelm is really accepting like your own humanly limitations and relying on grace on that. What you're giving your children is enough. And if your house isn't perfect, it's okay because you really need to weigh what your priorities are within your family, within your homeschool that you can't do everything. You just need to find a balance. Speaker 1 (08:47): Yeah. Let's take a really quick break and then we will come back cause I want to talk a little bit more about this. The home grown generation expo is here. You'll be encouraged by Kirk Cameron, Heidi st John, Sam Sorbo, Andrew Patois, ginger Hubbard, Lee borns, and many others. You can still register and have lifetime access to the replays of the entire event. Don't miss out on this exciting expo. Register today for only 20 dollars@homegrowngeneration.com. That's homegrown generation.com. Speaker 3 (09:24): Hey guys, this is Brooklyn Hampton, daughter of the host of the schoolhouse rock podcast. Do you love this show than stop listening. That's right. Pause the show right now and go leave a review on iTunes or in your favorite podcast app. Let others know how much you love it. Don't worry. I'll wait. Did you do it? Great. Now back to the show. Speaker 1 (09:46): We're talking about how to avoid homeschool overwhelm, and before the break we discussed how sometimes we expect things to look a certain way, but it can never really look that way because that's not reality. And you know, we, I think we have this idea that we need to look like this. Pinterest, perfect homeschool mom, because we see it on Pinterest recently on Facebook. We see it on all the blogs and it looks like all these other, these other moms have it together. And then we start to feel guilty and feel poorly about ourselves because we think, well, why don't I have it together? What's wrong with me? Why can't I get my act together? Yeah. And I think oftentimes that guilt causes more overwhelm in our minds because then we're, we're trying to do even more so that we can, we can be these other be like these other perfect homeschool moms. Speaker 1 (10:36): And as you mentioned before, that's just not a reality. We can't, we can never do that. And I forget who I was talking to. It was some time a while back and it was a homeschool dad actually, and he said, I've realized that I will never, as long as my children are home being homeschooled, I will never have the perfect clean house and have a perfect my, my children, perfectly educated and, and have it all because you cannot have it all. It's not possible. It's still, so then because we come in with this idea that we're bringing kind of the traditional school as we know it into our home, get overwhelmed because it's not working. And then we just at times feel like just throwing up our hands and saying, okay, this, I'm done. I can't do this homeschool thing. Clearly I'm not good at it. That is never where we want moms to be. You know, we exist as a ministry schoolhouse rock to encourage moms and say, you, you've got this, you can do this. You can do it through the strength and the power of the Holy spirit. And he's gonna he's gonna fill in all of the gaps, but give some very practical advice to moms who are feeling really overwhelmed and they're just feeling like, I, I just can't do this another day. Everything's a mess. My life is chaos. How in the world do they move forward? Speaker 2 (11:58): Well, I first want to start with news, mentioned the gaps. And I think that that is something that we get caught up in because when I started homeschooling, like I wanted to do cover everything. I wanted to give my kids the best education ever and there was not going to be a single gap anywhere. And what I realized after years is that every education has gaps. I mean, you could spend $150,000 a year for the best prep school there is when your child will still have gaps in their education. So, as a homeschool mom, we need to not fall into that trap of feeling like if we don't teach them everything, then we will have, then we'll fail. You know, because learning is a lifelong process and what we need to really do is give them the roots and the love of learning so that they can become lifelong learners and become well educated as a matter of practice, not just when they're in school. Speaker 2 (12:55): So I think that's the first place to start because I know that when I started kindergarten, like I was trying to teach her everything there was to ever teach, you know, and at one point I had like 12 different subjects on the roster and now that we're coming towards the end and she's, you know, probably about a year or two away from finishing because she's just rapidly wants to get through it. I realized that there's no way that I could have taught her everything. And every once in a while I think, Oh, there was this and there was that and I realized all I can do is give her that foundation, like that sound foundation, which is where I came up with the name and the wings and you know, set her free and know that I did the best that I possibly could. Was it perfect? No. Could I have done something better? Yes. But at the end of the day, I did everything I possibly could and I gave it my all. And I just let God do the rest. So I think that's a first place to start to eliminate overwhelm. Speaker 1 (13:54): Yeah. Let me say something on that really quickly too, is I feel like if we push our kids so hard because we feel like we have an agenda that has to be met, we've got all these boxes that we need to check off. Oftentimes what I've seen happen is that it really puts us, puts a strain on our relationship with our children because then it becomes so much about the academics and checking off the boxes instead of building that relationship with our kids. And like you said, and we're actually going to talk about this in the next episode, is nurturing a love of learning and teaching our kids how to learn. And so I, I think building that relationship with them is so much more important than the academics because when you have that, then they're going to be more willing to learn anyway. You know, I hear about moms who their kids are kicking and screaming and throwing tantrums and they're like, you know, they don't want to learn. Speaker 1 (14:46): They don't want to do anything with school. And oftentimes I'm like, just take a step back, drop for a little while. And by school, I mean the academic part of it, but drop the academics for a little while, build that relationship with your kids and then slowly bring it back in. You don't have to do everything at once. I mean, you said no, you, you know, you had a list of 12 different things you had to do and you realized that there's just no way that's going to work. But building those relationships with our kids and then slowly bringing in the other things that you want them to learn and teach them how to love learning those things. Speaker 2 (15:22): Yes. Yes. And I was, when I was caught in a very bad season of overwhelm and struggle with my homeschool, I went to a homeschool conference and Andrew kudo, I happened to be there, go. I didn't really even know who he was before I went there and I went to all of his conferences and at the end I got to actually speak to him and I kind of poured my heart out and he's like, it's okay. Like you're doing okay. I'm like, but she's not. He's like, it'll come. It's like, just keep reading and you know, it'll be okay. And he said, and one thing that he said in one of his conferences that I kind of live by is when nothing is working, just read good books. And so that's one of the, you know, like that's really what it comes to him. And that's where learning comes from, right, is books, not textbooks and workbooks and tests. Speaker 2 (16:08): So if it's all holding apart and you're overwhelmed, just find a good pile of book and your kids will be learning. Even if it's not on your schedule, even if it's not like something you can check off on the curriculum, they're learning and it gives you a chance to decompress. So we have regular reading week built into a year when everybody just read. And so if they're behind on their academic reading, then they read that for the week. But otherwise they just find something to read and it gives me a chance to kind of catch my breath in between trimesters, but it also lets them just chase their own interests and not just be stuck in a list of what they have to read. Speaker 1 (16:47): Right, right. Yeah, totally. I love, love good books. And there's there are few better ways to build relationships with our kids than just sitting down with them and just reading a really good book with them. So the other thing that I know you're passionate about and I have found to be very, very important in homeschooling, especially when we're feeling overwhelmed, is finding support. And I always, it's so funny cause when I think about finding support, you know, oftentimes people, especially kind of that millennial crowd will think, well, I'll just go on Facebook and I'm going to find people there to help support me. And there are a lot of great resources on Facebook and there are a lot of really well meaning people and a lot of really wise people on there who, you know, oftentimes I'll read comments, questions and comments and I'll think, yes, you're right on. And then other times people will put questions on there and there will be answers. And I'm like, no, you are so you, no, no, no, don't do it that way. And so there's that social media and of it, but then there's also of course, local support that people need. So how have you found ways to find good support in your homeschooling and then how do you suggest other people to do that as well? Speaker 2 (18:00): It took me a long time to find that because I really had to get out of the school mentality and out of the circles that were connected to the school I came from a long line of public school teachers, so everybody that I knew was somehow, you know, connected the school. And then when my mom friends, like all their kids went to school, I just lost that whole safety net. So there are more homeschoolers out there than anybody realizes. And I realize that some people live in very rural areas, but I guarantee you there's somebody who's homeschooling there. And I wish I had known that from the beginning that I hadn't just pinned, falling, like blog all across the country because I never realized we lived on a little Lake and there were actually three other homeschool families that lived on that Lake. Speaker 2 (18:44): And it took me years to find out that they even existed. Wow. So now with social media, it's easier to find them though, I feel. So if you'd go on Facebook and you put in like your local town or your state and homeschoolers, something will show up. And we are tapped into a very wonderful group of homeschoolers that I actually found randomly to a blog that I followed. There was a spinoff local Facebook group of people who followed it and I actually connect, most of them were homeschoolers. It turned out and I kept it with them and that's how we got involved with them. And it's amazing resource because even though we're spread out pretty far, I mean I'm on the Northern reaches of it. Some people are up to like two hours South or West of here. And we try to meet in central locations. Speaker 2 (19:32): It really is wonderful cause our kids have that support and I know that they understand me and they speak the same language. Because I think that's a big thing when you start homeschooling and people don't understand it. It's hard to get that support and you don't want people to know they are struggling because you don't want them to say, well see, I told you it never works. Or obviously you just can't do this because that's already in the back of your mind. Like, I'm not qualified. I can't do this. I'm never going to succeed because of the fear. And you need to shut that out. Like don't let the devil get your year because you know that's not the truth, but it's already there. And the only, the last thing you need is for someone to actually say it to you and then it makes it like it's real. Speaker 1 (20:15): Right, right. Yeah. Finding that support is so, so important and people who will will really encourage you and your walk you know, just finding those like-minded families who will say, let's do this together. Yes. So we are out of time for this podcast, but will you come back again? Yeah, let's, let's do a part two because I actually want to talk with you more about nurturing that love of learning in our kids. And then we have a few other things that you have some ways to transform your home and homeschool suggestions on that as well. So, okay, so let's come next time we will talk more about that. Thank you guys for listening today. Jennifer, where can people find out more about you? If you go to the SoundFoundationsHomeschool.com or you can find me on Pinterest and Facebook at Sound Foundations Homeschool. Okay, great. And we'll put all of those links, of course, in the show notes that people can find them there. So thank you guys. Have a fantastic day and we will see you back here next time. Bye.  

Read by Nennis.When Jennifer listens to the birds chirping outside her bedroom window one morning, she believes that they seem upset about something. Using her computer skills, she learns to talk to them and save the day. 

Jennifer Levin is a millennial and was faced with the shocking news at 32; she had to put her father in a nursing facility because of his Parkinson's disease. At the time, she was heavily focused on her career and living in a different state than her father. sShe felt terribly alone and isolated during that time because none of her peers could relate. Jennifer shares her experience on what it was like caring for her father as a millennial. when her career was just starting to blossom.   Key Takeaways: [1:05] Jennifer was 32 when she realized her father’s illness was more serious than what she thought it was. [7:05] How do the experiences of a millenial caregiver differ from somebody who is a bit older? [10:25] It becomes really hard to care for someone when you are still single and dating, which a lot of millennials still are. [11:15] It was tough for Jennifer because her career was just launching and she just started living independently (no roommates) when she found out her father needed extra care. [18:45] At work, Jennifer didn’t really tell work about her caregiving status. How did Jennifer handle her work and life responsibilities? [24:40] Millennials aren’t talking about elder care, so Jennifer felt very alone and isolated in her journey when her father was sick. [29:40] Because social media portrays a certain level of ‘life’s perfect’ it was hard for Jennifer to find other people in her situation. This is why she created The Caregivers Collective so that people can support each other. [32:15] Jennifer has noticed that millennial caregivers turn their knowledge into a career because they don’t want to let their resources go to waste and have people go through the same thing they went through. [36:20] When Jennifer was going through this journey, work didn't feel like a priority anymore and it made her realize what was really important in her life. [42:15] What are the upsides to being a younger caregiver? [43:35] How can we better support millennial caregivers?   Mentioned in This Episode: Thecaregiverscollective.com I Became My Father’s Parent at 32 The Working Daughter book

This week is all about Mindset… and who better to discuss this topic than special guess Jennifer Gluckow of the Sell or Die Podcast. Jennifer is an avid believer in having a positive mindset throughout all aspects of your life and you can see that throughout the episode. This week we want to do something special. Luigi has taken up the 30 day challenge of not getting on his phone in the morning… We challenge you to do the same and tell us how it affects your mindset over the course of the challenge.   Where you can find Jennifer: http://www.twitter.com/JENinaNYminute (www.twitter.com/JENinaNYminute ) http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifergluckow/ (www.linkedin.com/in/jennifergluckow/) http://www.instagram.com/jeninanyminute (www.instagram.com/jeninanyminute)   Timestamps: [2:30] – Working with Jeffrey Gitomer [4:50] – How Jennifer got into sales [8:45] – When Jennifer realised the importance of mindset [15:00] – Finding the motivation to change your mindset [17:50] – Lui takes up the 30 day challenge… you should too!! [22:15] – Stop looking at your phone and social media! [24:20] – What do you do when you start to have a negative headspace [28:20] – Why you should change the way you are doing things. [29:10] – The traits that successful people have in any industry [36:40] – The actions that Luigi is going to take after after this podcast [37:20] – The biggest influence in Jennifer's sales career [41:05] – Is sales an art or a science?

Altered Population is an investigation into filicide in South Carolina hosted by Jennifer Wells. In today’s first episode of Season 2, Jennifer heads to Columbia to meet with attorney, Jay Bender, in the hopes of securing a press pass and learning when the trial date is. After meeting with Mr. Bender, Jennifer headed back to the Clerk’s office to request the case file, but was denied by Lisa Comer, who stated the gag order as the reason. Jennifer then retained an attorney, recommended by Mr. Bender, who helped set her plan in motion, with the help of her family, therapist and trainer. On April 18th, 2019 Jennifer wakes early to take the first ferry out 6:30am. With time to spare, she gets to the dock and gives Mallory a call in Singapore to check in. After that, she settled into a bench seat on the ferry, as all the seats with tables were taken, but she just couldn’t get comfortable. Crossing one leg over the other, Jennifer realized she had on one bootie and one full boot. She’d completely forgotten that she tried on different options early in the morning to see what would look best.Not sure what to do, Jennifer texts Mallory to share her embarrassing news. Mallory asks why Jennifer is on her way to Columbia in the first place, and she shares that it’s to meet with Jay Bender, an attorney with many First Amendment cases under his belt. Her intention is to get a press pass so she can ensure her presence at the trial. When Jennifer started planning her return to Lexington Country, she found Jay’s name, a known authority on the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act. After a quick text from Helen solved the problem of the two different shoes, Jennifer was ready to get to Columbia for her appointment.Jay Bender wasn’t anything like Jennifer imagined–he reminded her of Santa Claus as he was welcoming and friendly. She came prepared to the meeting, with her notes and folders, knowing which judge would try the case and when the general session would occur. Mr. Bender talked quickly and with confidence and Jennifer scrambled to take as many notes as she could so that she could do her research after the meeting. After refusing to be paid for his time, the meeting ended and Jennifer spent the drive home imagining what it would be like for her family when it was time for trial. Jennifer realized that her road was leading straight back to Comer’s office. On Thursday of the same week she drove to Lexington County Courthouse and exchanged pleasantries with Ms. Linda in the records room. The pleasantries ended abruptly when Jennifer wrote down the indictment number of the case file she requested and handed it over to Ms. Linda. She reminded Jennifer of the gag order, and Jennifer agreed, but she said she already had the case file for up to October. All she needed was any new information from October up to today. Ms. Linda proceeded to explain what a gag order was to Jennifer, who also stood her ground and asked to speak to someone else who would release the file and simply redact the prejudicial information. Ms. Linda went to get Comer.Lisa Comer eventually came down the hall and informed Jennifer that she couldn’t give her any information today. Jennifer explains that she has the file from October of 2018 and simply wishes to view the changes on the file. Lisa says in no uncertain terms that she cannot inspect the file, even though there has been movement on it since last October. Jennifer went to her car and emailed Mr. Bender to catch him up and ask to retain him as her attorney. She explained that she’d researched the case law he cited, familiarized herself with Rule 605 of South Carolina Appellate Court and submitted Form 1 to Judge Griffith’s office. Mr. Bender was headed out of town but gave Jennifer the name and number of an equally qualified attorney for her to contact. Jennifer finally had someone on her side; her new lawyer was young, confident and intelligent, and together with her family, therapist and trainer they set a plan in motion.Key Takeaways in Today’s Episode:2:25 Jenny two shoes3:09 Today’s meeting in Columbia is with Jay Bender, an attorney who specializes in First Amendment cases3:26 Jay Bender is the authority on the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act4:54 Helen saves the day5:40 Two questions Jennifer asked herself6:05 Mr. Bender wasn’t anything like Jennifer imagined6:57 Jennifer had all her research ready to lawyer-up7:40 Jennifer furiously took notes as she listened to Mr. Bender8:29 We will be in good hands with Judge Griffith8:52 The 29th of the month was not far off9:47 A sudden change in mood with the exchange of the indictment number10:23 Jennifer stands her ground12:07 Lisa Comer is not violating the gag order for anyone12:42 Permission from a judge is required for Jennifer to view the file13:27 Jennifer seeks to retain Mr. Bender as her attorney14:21 Mr. Bender 2.015:00 Finally, someone is on Jennifer’s side15:18 The team of people that set Jennifer’s plan in motion15:41 The plan’s structure begins to formLinks/Resources:Tweet us @altpopulation and we will follow you backVisit us on our website at www.alteredpopulation.com

After selling her company, Jennifer Faught found herself with a loss of identity. Through internal work and with the help of a women's mastermind group Jennifer found her passion in helping others succeed and became an executive coach with PETRA Coach. Jennifer finds fulfillment in helping business owners develop themselves and their employees personally as well as professionally to see the impact on the success of the business.  Jennifer is a great example of what can happen when women take the time and effort to invest in themselves through coaching, finding a community, and doing the work of getting out of their comfort zones. She has so many great things to say for any leader or person who’s looking for new ways to grow and develop. In This Episode: In this episode, Jennifer explains how she helps leaders develop a growth mindset through her coaching work. She shares her journey of moving from healthcare to entrepreneurship to coaching, including the difficult process of finding her identity and her tribe after she sold her second company. Jennifer and Leah both believe it’s important to share experience instead of giving advice, and they break down the difference between the two to explain why that matters.  When Jennifer decided to become a coach, she first had to overcome her limiting beliefs and a fear of failure, and she opens up about how that process gave her more confidence. Through coaching, she’s learned to get out of her comfort zone and she explains how she coaches others to do the same. Jennifer also teaches listeners how developing a one-page personal plan can help them find direction and know what type of coach they should hire. Leah and Jennifer discuss the things and people that have impacted them the most, from mentors and champions to books to self-care practices.

Dartmouth College professors Half Zantop and Susanne Zantop were hanging out at home, waiting for their friend to arrive for dinner, when two boys showed up at their door. The boys said they were working on a school project. Could they ask Half a few questions? Half obliged. He’d devoted his life to academics. Of course he would help 16 year old James Parker and 17 year old Robert Tulloch. But James and Rob weren’t there for a school project. In fact, there was no school project. Then, Kristin talks about a phlebotomist named Bryan Stewart. When Bryan and Jennifer Jackson first got together, things were great. But Bryan quickly became abusive. When Jennifer left Bryan, his threats escalated. The thought of paying child support for their infant son enraged him. He promised Jennifer that their son, Brryan Jackson, wouldn’t live to the age of five. Around that same time, Bryan “joked” with coworkers that as a phlebotomist, he could inject his enemies with disease-tainted blood, and they’d never know what hit them.  And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases. In this episode, Kristin pulled from: “Brryan Jackson: My father injected me with HIV” by Lucy Hancock, for BBC News “A positive life: How a son survived being injected with HIV by his father,” by Justin Heckert for GQ Magazine “Man accused of injecting H.I.V. in son,” by Jo Thomas for the New York Times “Mother testifies that defendant hinted at son’s death,” CNN “Brian Stewart (phlebotomist)” Wikipedia entry In this episode, Brandi pulled from: “The Dartmouth Murders” by Denise Noe, The Crime Library “Hearts of Darkness” by Alex Tresniowski, People Magazine “Dartmouth professors’ murderer to get new sentence” by Peter Schworm and John R. Ellement, The Boston Globe “Man convicted in 2001 murders of professors asks for early release” by Elliot Zornitsky, The Dartmouth “2001 Dartmouth College murders” wikipedia.org          

How CBD Dog Health saved Olivia with Jennifer Pak. Jennifer is the owner of Olivia, a 13-year-old Maltipoo who was found to have tumors after Jennifer adopted her. When Jennifer found warts on Olivia she became using topical creams then slowly realized this method wouldn't help her. That's when Jennifer found CBD Dog Health.

On this month’s theme of adventure, we’ll be taking a look at lifestyles! Specifically, following your intuition — you know, that little voice inside your head telling you what you probably should do, but you don’t entirely know whether to trust it or not. It’s important to remember that adventure can mean traveling and going on these incredible trips… but it also can happen between your own two ears.   Our guest today (and good friend), Jennifer Pastiloff, has definitely followed this little voice of hers! She travels the world, guiding people through her unique hybrid of yoga-related movement, helping them manifest their dreams and embrace their imperfections! When she’s not traveling the world, she’s spending time with her husband and son, in their home in Los Angeles. She has also started a really cool Instagram called, @NoBullshitMotherhood, all about raw parenting and the honest-to-god sh*t show it can sometimes be. And her recently published book, On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard, shares the story of her life and how she grew into the exuberant woman she was meant to be all along by battling the demons within and winning.   Today you’re in for a real treat with Jennifer! We talk about so many different aspects — from pain and shadows to growth and change. The many turns in her life have been incredibly unexpected, but also incredibly profound and valuable. She shares about all that life has thrown at her, how she has adapted to the unexpected, how her career has developed and unfolded, and how to pay attention to the good sh*t and appreciate your wins.   In this conversation, we love how she paralleled the way that we are vulnerable in our relationship with how she is vulnerable in her own struggles with her anxiety, depression, and hearing loss. We hope you listen to today’s episode and ask yourself the same questions she asked herself in her biggest times of growth: In what ways are you blocking yourself from opportunity and growth? And what are the things that can actually make you really happy even if they don’t fit the regular script that society hands us?   Topics Discussed: [:35] About today’s episode with our good friend, Jennifer Pastiloff. [:58] Sharing our review of the week! [1:59] Sophie shares a topical quote on this topic. [5:00] More about today’s guest, Jennifer Pastiloff. [8:35] What adventure is — especially in today’s episode. [10:52] Sophie shares another quote that reminds us of Jennifer. [12:40] Today’s conversation of the podcast. [14:14] Jennifer talks about her first unexpected moment: having a child later in life. [18:00] Jennifer speaks about her journey to getting to the point where she was building her career at 35. [21:20] Before finding her career, Jennifer reflects on the programming that prevented her from changing her life. [27:57] What Jennifer discovered when she became a yoga teacher. [30:40] When did Jennifer begin to take yoga beyond the asana practice into ‘manifestation yoga’? [38:00] Jennifer’s experience with having a child later in life. [44:09] The importance of flexibility in your life and adventures! [50:46] How Jennifer is similarly aligned with our mission of radical transparency. [52:42] Why we’re all kind of assholes sometimes! [56:37] Pay attention to the good sh*t and appreciate your wins. [59:04] What has been Jennifer’s proudest moment? [1:02:57] What has been the best advice Jennifer has ever received? [1:03:30] What has been one of Jennifer’s most difficult moments to-date? [1:05:11] When Jennifer is anxious or depressed, what self-care tools does she use? [1:09:07] What ignites Jennifer?   Mentioned in this Episode: Jennifer Pastiloff @NoBullshitMotherhood on Instagram “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.” — Kurt Vonnegut Timequake, by Kurt Vonnegut On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard, by Jennifer Pastiloff “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — Mary Oliver Wayne Dyer Suze Orman Bruce Lipton Shape House   Find out more about IGNTD: IGNTD.com IGNTD.libysn.com   Subscribe to the Podcast iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify   Follow us on Social Media! Facebook: IGNTD Instagram: @IGNTD.me Sophie’s Instagram: @Sophie.Jaffe Adi’s Instagram: @DrAdiJaffe   If you enjoyed this podcast… Please let us know what you want to hear about! Tell us in the comments or send us an email at info@igntd.com.   About Our Sponsor: Philosophie Superfoods The Philosophie offers cleanses and other nutritional products that are unlike any of the other supplements and detoxification programs on the market. Why? Because they actually nourish the body with whole, live, nutrient-rich foods. Each of the Philosophie superfoods and protein blends is vegan, raw, gluten-free, and has absolutely no filler ingredients.

Jennifer comes on the podcast discuss generational trauma, and its impact on families. Jennifer tells her complex story of how adoption, and disruption of the mother/child bond affected her family for generations. When Jennifer's daughter became pregnant as a senior in high school,  she, along with her family, decided to place the child for adoption. After the placement they came to the realization that adoption wasn't all that was promised, and the trauma left an open hole in the heart of their family. Despite discovering all this, and coming to terms with it, Jennifer had a deep down feeling that something else inside her had driven her to think that having her daughter place the child was ok. Through the help of counseling, Jennifer realized how having a mother who placed a son for adoption before her birth, and then abandoned her at age 5- affected how she bonded and related with her children. We wrap up talking about how to end the generational trauma we all carry, the trauma that was passed down to us from the generations that came before.   Contact Jennifer:  facebook   For more information on Adoption Advocacy Podcast, and to participate in this episodes discussion board, please visit: http://www.adoptionadvocacypodcast.com   Find the podcast on social media: facebook twitter instagram  

In this episode of the Devan Kline podcast I sit down with Jennifer Lawrence, long time Burn Boot Camp client and Lawrenceville, GA Franchise Partner. When Jennifer fell in love with Burn, she felt it was her mission to bring that love, passion and transformation to other women across the country. Leaving her job in the advertising industry, Jennifer jumped head first into changing lives and hasn't looked back since. Follow me on Insta @devan.kline and download my book on Audible!    

Today’s guest, Jennifer Goforth Gregory, is a six-figure freelance content marketing writer who has firmly embraced the business mindset. Jennifer, who wrote the very useful and praised book “The Freelance Content Marketing Writer,” will only work with clients she deems nice. And she trusts her gut to figure that out. She also looks at each potential client as a partnership between equals, not as if she’s applying for work. It changes the dynamic, showing she’s in demand and that she can be choosy. And it leads to working with only the best clients. Learn how she does it and how you can implement these tactics in your own freelance business. SHOW NOTES 2:44 Learn how and why Jennifer became a freelance content marketing writer. 4:58 Connections really matter, Jennifer says. And being nice and helping other freelancers helps you also, besides being the right thing to do.  7:00 It’s important to know when a client or project is not the right fit. Look for the red flags and trust your gut feeling. 9:40 Jennifer looks back at the year she started thinking—and acting—like a business owner. That was the first year she broke six figures. 10:16 Jennifer believes it’s important to work only with nice clients. As freelancers, we have a choice who we work with. 12:02 When Jennifer first talks with a potential client, it’s not a job interview. She sees it as two equals looking to do business together, not just whether she can land new work. 15:00 Even successful freelancers like Jennifer sometimes fall into the trap of taking on projects because they feel desperate for money. 17:02 Melanie may not like the word “hustle,” but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to market and network constantly. The key is to figure out the types of marketing you’re comfortable with. 20:15 Hear why it’s important to ask for referrals from clients and ask your clients if there are other projects in-house that you can work on. 24:00 Know that you’re not a good fit for every client. And that’s OK. 28:00 Jennifer explains why she decided to write her book, “The Freelance Content Marketing Writer.” 31:17 Jennifer talks about a passion outside her work: dachshund dog rescue. 34:00 Biz Bites from Jennifer: Have a Freelance Buddy: Jennifer runs all new clients and proposals by her freelance buddy. Outsource Tasks: Jennifer pays others to do things she’s not good at—like proofreading, transcribing and house cleaning—which actually saves her money. Resources:Jennifer’s book, “The Freelance Content Marketing Writer: Find your perfect clients, Make tons of money and Build a business you love.” Jennifer’s Content Marketing Writer Blog  The Freelance Content Marketing Writer Facebook Group

Jennifer Elder works with financial leaders to become more strategic, stay ahead of the competition, and be more successful. As a consultant and keynote speaker, Jennifer is known for being energetic and enthusiastic, and she has the natural talent for taking complicated topics and making them simple, practical, and immediately implementable. CPA Practice Advisor named Jennifer one of the Top 25 Women in Accounting in 2018. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants named her a Woman to Watch in 2015. She has been awarded Outstanding Educator by the American Institute of CPAs five times. And in 2018, Jennifer earned the designation of Certified Speaking Professional, making her one of only 10 people worldwide who hold both the CPA and CSP designations (but maybe I can push that number from 10 to 11 in 2019). Becoming a Future-Ready CFO & Accountant In the past, the role of the CFO was primarily looking in the rear-view mirror at the historical financial statements and reporting it to the other people in the car. This tells you where you have been, but it doesn't necessarily tell you where you’re going. “And there's too much change, too much risk out there. The CFO now has to shift that perspective and look forward. They have to start to be able to look into the crystal ball, see what's coming down the pike.” Future-ready CFOs, and future-ready accountants in general, have to think about what's going on in the world and how it might affect your organization, which means you want to be looking at trends. What are the trends in the world at large? What are the trends in your industry? In the accounting and finance world right now, the trend everybody's looking at and talking about is technology. How are things like artificial intelligence going to change everything? When Jennifer teaches classes on the skills of the future and presentation skills, she breaks it down into five words you need to focus on to really add value to your organization: what, so what, and now what. The what is data. The so what is why should they care? If we're talking about the what, we're just presenting the data that we think somebody needs to get, but we have to think about it from our client’s perspective. “Step out of your own head, get into the head of your audience, and think about what's important to them.” Now what, then, is the action that’s going to help your client move forward. Change Your Mindset is now being distributed on C-Suite Radio. You can find Change Your Mindset and many other outstanding business podcasts on C-Suite Radio by going to www.c-suiteradio.com. Resources:Learn more at http://sustainablecfo.com/Check out jenniferelder.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferhelderTwitter: https://twitter.com/sustainablecfo -- Change Your Mindset is produced by Podcast Masters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will be interviewing, marriages about what it means to be a marriage after God. https://Marriageaftergod.com and order our new book Marriage After God Our friend Lara Casey, Author of Cultivate and Make it Happen said this about Marriage After God: “ There is a short list of books I’m stashing away for my three small kiddos to read when they are older—Marriage After God is one of them.” Also, would you take a moment today and follow us on Instagram https://instagram.com/marriageaftergod "Belief propels people from a place of dreaming, to a place of doing." - Jennifer Smith, Marriage After God Book Dear Lord, We pray for the husband and wife reading this book. May Your Holy Spirit use this book to inspire their hearts to boldly chase after You and say yes to the extraordinary invitations You have prepared for them. We pray this couple will grow in their understanding of the power and purpose of their marriage. Reveal to them the specific plans You have for them. We pray You would use this marriage to do incredible work to build Your kingdom. In this dark world, may You protect this couple from the attacks of the enemy! May You cleanse them from sin and continue to shape them into the husband and wife You created them to be. May they realize they bear Your image and that they are a light in this world and a beacon of hope to the lost and lonely. We ask You to guide this couple and unite them as a team to carry out the unique purposes You have for them in Jesus’s name. Amen! In Jesus’ name, amen! READ: [Aaron] Hey we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God. [Jennifer] Helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage. [Aaron] And today we're kicking off our 16-week Marriage After God series. [Aaron] Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast. Where we believe that marriage was meant for more than just happily ever after. [Jennifer] I'm Jennifer, also known as Unveiled Wife. [Aaron] And I'm Aaron, also known as Husband Revolution. [Jennifer] We have been married for over a decade. [Aaron] And so far we have four young children. [Jennifer] We have been doing marriage ministry online for over seven years through blogging and social media. [Aaron] With the desire to inspire couples to keep God at the center of their marriage. Encouraging them to walk in faith every day. [Jennifer] We believe that Christian marriage should be an extraordinary one. Full of life. [Aaron] Love. [Jennifer] And power. [Aaron] That can only be found by chasing after God. [Jennifer] Together. [Aaron] Thank you for joining us on this journey as we chase boldly after God's will for our life together. [Jennifer] This is Marriage After God. [Jennifer] Guys I am so excited for this. I feel like as exciting it is to launch a new book, this podcast series is just as exciting. I feel like we need to celebrate. I feel like we need-- [Aaron] Ice cream. [Jennifer] Ice cream and cake and confetti. Or I don't know what to do [Aaron] Yeah, birthday cake, cake, ice cream. [Jennifer] I'll take any of it. [Aaron] On birthday cake cookies. [Jennifer] I'm just so excited for this series and we have some really exciting stuff for you guys. Thanks for joining us. [Aaron] Before we talk about the series and get into it. We just want to ask you if you've been following along in this podcast and you love the content, you love just the things that we're bringing up. How we're sharing the vulnerable areas of our life. And things that God's teaching us, would you please just take a moment and leave us a review. The reviews are how podcasts get seen by new people. They get ranked based off of how many reviews we get. If you would love to, we'd love to have you write a review. And the easiest way to do that is to leave a five-star review. It can be a four-star I guess. [Jennifer] Be honest. [Aaron] Yeah, a star review, be honest, is easy. Just tap the star at the bottom of the podcast app. But leaving a text review is the most powerful way you can help support this podcast if you want. When it comes to iTunes and how they rank this podcast. [Jennifer] Another way to support this podcast is to shop on our store. If you go to marriageafterGod.com, you can check out our resources and help support us through buying through our store. One of the books that we want to highlight, is our new book, which this series is based off of. And that's Marriage After God. Go to marriageafterGod.com and go order our new book. I also want to share with you guys our friend, Lara Casey, author of Cultivate and Make It Happen, said this about Marriage After God. "There is a short list of books I'm stashing away for my three small kiddos to read when they're older. Marriage After God is one of them." [Aaron] What a cool idea. [Jennifer] I know, I love that idea, and I wanted to share that because I think it's such a neat idea and I want to do that for my kids. I wanna have a list of books to give. [Aaron] It's good, because how many times you're like, "man what books should I read, or what books are out there." 'Cause we can't read every book. Having a stack of books and hey, we've read these. [Jennifer] And they matter. [Aaron] These books matter, they've blessed our lives. Here you go and handing that off as a wedding gift to your kids. We actually should start that. [Jennifer] Cool, and I also want to encourage you guys to take a minute and just go follow @marriageafterGod on Instagram. [Aaron] Yeah, that's our new page. Jennifer has her Unveiled Wife page. I have my Husband Revolution page, but our Marriage After God Instagram account is where we both come together and we share stuff and we share stuff about our podcast and things that are coming up. And it's a community for husbands and wives. [Jennifer] Okay, moving on to our ice-breaker question. [Aaron] What was the hardest part about writing our new book, Marriage After God? [Jennifer] I felt like the thing you kept saying over and over again is, "I really just wanna quote scripture." Throughout the whole thing. [Aaron] That was what's hard for me, because I kept comparing what I was writing to what the Bible already said. [Jennifer] The Bible's so much better. We just need to tell them-- [Aaron] I'm writing this thing, and the Bible already said this way better than I could ever say it. That's what it felt like. But what was hard for you? [Jennifer] I think for me it was figuring out how to write it together. We done it in the past, but-- [Aaron] Never to this extent. [Jennifer] Not to this extent. You wrote most of this book and I just helped I feel like. [Aaron] You wrote a lot. [Jennifer] Oh, I know, but-- [Aaron] I feel like we actually wrote pretty equal amounts. In the beginning I did a lot of the writing for the initial draft and then you added so much more color in the edit. [Jennifer] I feel like you did a lot of the teaching aspect. And I added the stories and things like that. But it was a really good balance I think of both of our voices. I did enjoy that about writing this book. I would say the other hardest part was, we started writing the book when we had three kiddos and I was pregnant and then we started the editing process after having four. [Aaron] I feel like we are always writing a book while we're pregnant or just having a baby. [Jennifer] Yeah, we like to keep things interesting. [Aaron] Yeah. [Jennifer] That was, just logistical finding time to be able to do that. [Aaron] Yeah, and the other thing for me, not just that I kept comparing what I was writing to the Bible, which is good, because the Bible is everything anyway. And all we're trying to do it point people to the Bible. I think the hardest thing for me is this is the most I've ever written ever. And I've never written a book like this. It was challenging spiritually. It was challenging technically, 'cause I've never done it. But I'm really surprised at what we're able to pull off in this book. It had to have been Holy Spirit driven. [Jennifer] I'm excited about it. [Aaron] I'm really excited about it. I'm glad that we're starting this 16 week series to talk about the concepts that are in the book. The book is why the podcasts exist. The podcast came out of, we did the contract for the book, and we're like, "hey, let's do a podcast so we can actually start talking about it now. This idea of a Marriage After God." And encourage marriages with all this free content leading up to the book. And we're not gonna stop it after the books, this is our new thing. Doing a weekly podcast together, we love it. It's kind of funny, the Marriage After God book, the podcast, and now we're gonna be talking about the book more to pull the concepts directly out of the book and talk about them. We'll get into a little bit more about that in a minute. But, before we start, Jennifer, would you like to share a quote from the Marriage After God book? [Jennifer] Sure, this quote is found in the introduction, which this kind of kicking off the series is going to be centered on the introduction of Marriage After God. That's what we have for you guys today. This is a quote from the introduction of Marriage After God. "Belief propels people from a place of dreaming to a place of doing." [Aaron] Yeah, if we don't truly believe something, we're not going to act on that belief. No one ever does that. A belief is what causes us and propels us forward to do the things that we actually believe. I love that, "belief propels people from a place of dreaming to a place of doing." Instead of sitting back like, "oh, that'd be wonderful if it was true, or that's be wonderful if I could, but I can't so I'm not gonna." [Jennifer] Yeah, and I love that we're starting out with this quote because I feel like it's the whole purpose of why we wrote this book was to encourage couples to believe and do. [Aaron] Yeah. [Jennifer] To believe what God can do with their marriage and then do it. [Aaron] Well and believe what God already says about us. Believe what the Bible says about us. Believe what is the truth. To open our eyes to what God has for us. [Jennifer] Okay, as we jump into the introduction of Marriage After God, which, are we gonna read for them? [Aaron] Yeah, I think we will read the whole introduction from the book. Not right now. [Jennifer] Okay. We're gonna do that in a little bit. But first we're gonna answer some questions. These first few questions are just ones that I came up with that I think will help you guys understand where we're coming from. From in writing Marriage After God. And then we're gonna also, after we read the introduction, answer some questions that they had, right? [Aaron] Yeah, I spent some time today on your Instagram. I don't know if you knew this or not. [Jennifer] I didn't know that. [Aaron] And on my Instagram doing live videos and asking our followers if they had any questions about the book. [Jennifer] Okay. [Aaron] Man some good questions came out of it. I wrote down as many as I could and some of them are similar so I think we complied them into a general question. And we're gonna try and answer your questions about the book, in the hopes that you guys get so excited about this because it's a book for you. We wrote this book for you, for all of the followers that have been following us since the beginning. [Jennifer] Well hold on, that's one of the questions I have. [Aaron] Oh, okay. [Jennifer] Let's jump in. Why did we write the book? [Aaron] For all of you. [Jennifer] No, why. [Aaron] We wrote the book, we wrote the book out of a necessity that we saw in our own life. We saw what God was doing with us and we saw where God had taken us. And I think we realized that there was some people that thought that we were special or that people like us are the only ones doing something and should be doing something and not everyone has something to do that God doesn't have a part and a role to play for everyone in the body. And our heart was like, "no, we're just being faithful with what God's given us, but we want you to be faithful with what God's given you." [Jennifer] Um hum. [Aaron] I think that's where it came from. It's why we did the Marriage After God gathering a couple years ago. [Jennifer] Um hum. [Aaron] Was like hey, how can we have an intimate gathering. We had 12 couples come and we're like how can we inspire these couples to just go and just chase after God boldly. Chase after his will for their marriage and to be used as a marriage in unity to move his message in his kingdom forward. [Jennifer] Yeah, that's our hope and desire for this book is that people would recognize that we are all part of his body building his kingdom. [Aaron] Yeah, there's no one part that, oh those are the people, 'cause they have something special that God's gonna use them. Actually the Bible tells us something very different. It says that we're all, all parts of the body, and not one part can say to another part that you don't belong. And that's what it is. This Marriage After God is that we belong to the body of Christ and that there's power in our unity. In our oneness. [Jennifer] Another reason we wrote the book was because we were actually walking out some of the things that we share over the last decade of time being together. The things that God revealed to us, little treasures and-- [Aaron] Things we're still learning of course. [Jennifer] Exactly, that's what I was getting to, is that we're even still learning what it means to be a Marriage After God, but the things that we have learned or the things we've overcome, or the victories we've had. We wanted to share about it as a catalyst to encourage marriages out there because we all need that encouragement. We all need to be reminded that we're here to do something and that our marriage has great purpose. We wanted to kind of come alongside them. I have this picture in my mind of holding each other, linked in arms and marching forward. [Aaron] Yeah, Christian marriages all over the world being used to glorify God, to spread the message of his goodness and it comes down to like this one sentence. The idea of the book. God has meant for more for our marriage than just happily ever after. [Jennifer] Um, hum. [Aaron] That our health in our marriage, our strength in our marriage, our joy in our marriage. All of those things are not just for us to enjoy. But that they're there to push us forward and be used for God. It's not just so that we can be like, "oh we're good, we reached it. Now we're like happy and this is all we need to focus on." We're excited. That's why we wrote the book. That's the big why. [Jennifer] Awesome. Okay, why did we title it Marriage After God? [Aaron] Ooh. See questions that I didn't know were coming. Why did we title it-- [Jennifer] The first thing that comes to my mind is we had originally wrote the devotionals which we shared about in the last episode, but Wife After God and Husband After God were 30-day devotionals that we really felt strongly were purpose to encourage husbands and wives to kind of chase after God in their individual role. Being a husband and wife-- [Aaron] His picture for them and what he wanted for them. [Jennifer] Right and to draw them closer to God and closer to each other. When we thought about this book, we wanted it to be unifying. The natural progression was Marriage After God and it's the idea and picture of a marriage chasing boldly after the purpose that he has for a marriage. [Aaron] There's mighty power in a husband chasing after God for their family even if his wife's not. There's mighty power in a wife chasing after God and serving him and loving him and being an example to her husband even if he's not. But man, the power of a husband and a wife chasing after God together and wanting his will for their life. Right there is the depth of this book. Is what we're trying to get at is, no no no. It's not just be happy where we're at, what does God have us together for? Why did he bring us to unity? Why did he make us one? 'Cause there is a meaning. There is a purpose behind it and we talk about it in the book. [Jennifer] Um, hum. That's so good, okay now that all of their ears are itching and they want to get their hands on this book, who's it for? [Aaron] This book is specifically for Christian married couples. I would not hesitate for a second to give it to someone who's not a believer. Because we preach the Gospel in the book quite a bit. [Jennifer] Even marriages who feel like maybe they're hanging on by a thread or maybe there's just some conflict there that they can't seem to get over. It doesn't have to be for a marriage that is mature, or is already chasing after God together, or both are equally yoked. It literally is for every marriage. [Aaron] Yeah, and the idea is that it's meant to be read together. It could totally be read separately, but I would totally encourage anyone who when they get the book, to read it with their spouse. Reading out loud together, or having their own copies and then talking about it as they go. But, it's for marriages. Also, I would see engaged couples reading this to prepare themselves where God wants their heart to be for marriage, so that they're working toward it now and they're praying about it now and they're saying, "okay Lord, we're gonna come together and we want this to be for you." It could totally be powerful for engaged couples as well. [Jennifer] For any age. For any however long married. [Aaron] Yeah, absolutely. [Jennifer] It doesn't matter how many kids you have. There is no prerequisite to read this book. [Aaron] Yeah, we didn't write it for a specific, the millennial Christian marriages. We wrote it for Christian marriages. Again, if they're not believers, this would be a great book to put in the hands of someone who doesn't believe yet and say, "hey, you want to see what God has for your marriage? Read this book." [Jennifer] Okay, so what do we hope the impact will be for the Marriage After God book? [Aaron] I hope that it sparks power and excitement in the hearts of husbands and wives around the world. [Jennifer] Um, hum. [Aaron] To say, wow, wait wait. God's good and he loves us and what he's doing in our marriage is awesome, but he wants us to move forward. He's got a plan for us together in how we're gonna use our talents, resources and gifts for his kingdom. And that we actually see action come out of this book. [Jennifer] That's what I was gonna say is action. [Aaron] Yeah, I think the other thing, and this is gonna go into some of the questions is, marriages leading and inspiring and encouraging other marriages. [Jennifer] Yeah, the same hope that we desire for this book to become a catalyst in your life, our hope would also be that then you become a catalyst in someone else's life. [Aaron] Oh absolutely, it's not just to point people back to us at all, actually. It's to point people to God. To His Word and to His will for their life. There's a few questions right around this idea and these are questions that people asked me in the live Instagram videos we did today. [Jennifer] Cool, okay, last question before we read the introduction and then we'll get into those questions from our listeners. It is, how can those listening right now join us in becoming a movement starter? This goes back to our hope of what we hope this book does. They might here the word movement starter and go, "what's that?" What can we encourage them to do right now? [Aaron] We called it a movement starter 'cause there's people that have been following us and are excited for what God's doing in marriages around the world and in their own marriage and for the kingdom of God. We hope that people are gonna take this book and they're gonna be like, "hey, we wanna spread the message of what God's doing, we wanna encourage other couples." The first thing I'd say is start praying. If you want to be a movement starter with us, start praying for the people that God is calling. That he wants to light a fire in. That he wants to draw out. The second thing I would say is pre-order a book. It's online right now, pretty much anywhere you buy books. Amazon, Barnes and Noble. I would suggest Amazon because they have a pre-order price guarantee where if the price lowers at any point during the next few months that you get the lowest price and they refund you the difference, which is awesome. [Jennifer] And I just want to note for people coming back to this episode or listening to it past the date and it's not necessarily for pre-order anymore, just ordering the book helps spread the message. [Aaron] Yeah, thank you for the ever greenness of that. Getting the book. And then I would say the last thing, and this is something you should start praying about now, is start praying about the two or three or four couples in your life right now that God might want you to invite over to your house to do a study with. Going through this book together. [Jennifer] That's good. [Aaron] Yeah. [Jennifer] I wanna add too, one way that they can also participate in being a movement starter for this message of being a Marriage After God. Earlier we asked them to go follow us on Instagram @marriageafterGod and I wanna encourage you to post your Marriage After God story. Post a picture of you and your spouse together and share a little bit about what it means to you to be and have a Marriage After God and use the hashtag Marriage After God. Because we see those and it is such a powerful testimony of what God is doing in this world and when we share our testimony of what God's doing, his heart is revealed to the world. And so we want to utilize the power of social media to also further this message. And so if you do that and you tag Marriage After God, we see it, we're gonna repost as many as we can, and I just want to say thank you right now for those who already have been sharing their Marriage After God story and the ones that will. [Aaron] Now, whether we're allowed to or not, I don't know. We're gonna read the entire introduction. It's a few pages, it's not very long. And this is from the book, Marriage After God. What if I told you that your marriage has a purpose far beyond happily ever after? What if I told you that the unity between you and your spouse was created for something extraordinary? God, your Creator and your Savior, has created you and your spouse with complete and perfect thoughtfulness. God, your provider and your heavenly Father has unlimited resources in immeasurable creativity. God, who is patient and loving, is pursuing you and your spouse every single day. Inviting you to participate in the extraordinary things He is already doing. Do you believe God wants more for your marriage than for you to just make each other happy? Do you believe God can do anything? Move mountains, open doors and part seas to get you to the place where he wants you the most? Belief is powerful. Belief propels people from a place of dreaming to a place of doing. Belief in God is confidence and trust in Him. Believing God made you and your marriage with great purpose is the beginning of an incredible adventure you will never regret. When Jennifer and I consider what spurred us toward a desire to serve God together, we agreed that it was our belief that God could and would use us as team for His glory. And that belief gave us the courage to say yes to Him over and over and over again. Even and especially during the hard times of our story. We said yes to God when we decided to stay together when it felt easier to walk away. We said yes to God when we chose to love each other even when we didn't feel so in love. We said yes to obeying His word when we did everything we could to get out of debt. We said yes to God when he showed us ways we could serve His body. And we said yes to God when he invited us to share our story. Not all of our yes' to God were easy, however, our mutual desire to please God is what helped us to say yes and to persevere. When Jennifer and I got married, we had a united desire to serve God together. We didn't know exactly what it would look like, but we were willing to explore the opportunities He had for us as a married couple. Throughout our time of dating and being engaged we prayed we would have an extraordinary marriage. However, we didn't stop there. We didn't only ask God for an extraordinary marriage, we also prayed God would use our marriage to do extraordinary things to build His kingdom. Since we said, "I do." And committed our marriage to the Lord, we have been on a journey of saying yes to God. A journey we both agree has been quite extraordinary. Not only because of the experiences we have had, or the accomplishments we have reached, but because God is extraordinary. And he longs to bring his extraordinary into our lives. He is the reason we have been able to endure this journey together. We have experienced both poverty and abundance. We have traveled to different parts of the world as missionaries motivated to share the Gospel with others. We have started businesses and ministries. We have overcome destructive sin patterns. We have grown our family size intentionally striving to leave a legacy with our children. And we continue to participate in God's plan for our lives as He invites us to do all that He prepared for us to do together. But it is all because of God. He gets the glory in our lives. [Jennifer] Our journey has not been void of the enemies attacks to thwart God's purpose for our marriage. In fact, the enemies flaming arrows in combination with our own sin almost destroyed our marriage. Pornography addiction, emotional eating, irrational jealousy, foolishness and constant battles of selfishness and pride have all been difficult areas of our marriage that we have had to battle. The hardships we have encountered in marriage have been painful. We have often wrestled with doubt and insecurities about our relationship with each other and with God. Yet no matter what we faced, and no matter what we will face in the future, we continue to pray that God will give us an extraordinary marriage and that He will use our marriage for his extraordinary purposes. [Aaron] In 2011, Jennifer and I launched our online marriage ministries, husbandrevolution.com and unvieledwife.com. To share with husbands and wives what God was teaching us about marriage. When we began these ministries, we had no idea what they would become. Motivated by a perspective that our lives are a ministry for God to work through. We said yes to God when he invited us to share our story with the world. In a way we were already familiar with, blogging. [Jennifer] Through these two sites we share daily marriage prayers, encouragement, biblical teaching on faith and marriage, date night ideas and reviews of Christian books and movies. We share personal stories of what we have experienced in our own marriage and how God continues to transform us into the husband and wife he created us to be. Since the first day we created these ministries, our desire has been to encourage married couples to turn their hearts toward God and trust in Him with their marriage. With the few tools we had in our tool belt we got started and this adventure quickly grew into an unimaginable reach into the hearts and homes of couples all around the world. With the influence we were gaining in the lives of other married couples, we asked the Lord to use us to encourage them to be biblical men and women. We were confident that if we could inspire them and challenge them to be people who read God's Word and desire His will for their lives, that God would move in these marriages and use them for the marvelous work He desires His people to do. We imagined hundreds of thousands of strong, thriving marriages reflecting God's love story and impacting the lives of others as they faithfully live out all that God has called them to. We envisioned husbands and wives being unified in their relationship and in their parenting, full of joy and contentment. We could see communities being blessed by the lives and examples of these couples. We could see relationships being healed. Needs being met. Talents being used. Businesses and ministries being started. And the lost being saved. Because husbands and wives said yes to God. Working together to build his kingdom. [Aaron] Eager to see husbands and wives embrace what God has for them, we wondered how we could inspire them to start considering the purpose of their marriage and help guide them to set the foundation necessary to fulfill that purpose. We wanted to point them to the Word of God and prompt them to answer some challenging questions. We felt led to write two devotionals that would lead a husband and wife through God's Word and invite them to consider how they can actively pursue an extraordinary God-centered marriage. We co-authored and self-published Husband After God and Wife After God. 30-day devotionals that have been read by 1000's of men and women. Not long after publishing our devotionals, we began to receive messages from couples asking what they could read next to encourage them on their marriage journey. So we began to consider what resource we could provide next to inspire husbands and wives to consider chasing after God. This is the seed that would grow into the message of Marriage After God. We knew God wanted more couples to pray the same prayer we have been praying and to experience his extraordinary purpose for their lives. Yet, we believed it was also a message God wanted us to experience in our marriage for ourselves. He wanted us to mature in our relationship with each other and with Him. We wouldn't say we are done experiencing what it means to have a Marriage After God. In reality, this will be a message we will continue to live out and pursue until Christ returns or we are called home. However, God has given us an incredible opportunity to present this message to others through this book. To inspire husbands and wives who want to chase after Him. And to do His will together. And we are eager to see how God uses this book to do His work in all of our lives. [Jennifer] A Marriage After God is an extraordinary journey of making ourselves known to God, knowing God and being willing to let Him use our marriages for His purposes. And Marriage After God is one that can faithfully say what the people of Israel said in Exodus 19:8. "All that the Lord has spoken, we will do." Happily ever after is a nice thought and a good thing to hope for. But it should not be your end goal. There's an amazing purpose for your marriage. More than just making each other happy. We desire you to pursue kingdom purposes with your marriage. To be a testimony to others of God's love and amazing grace. This world we live in has been tainted by darkness, but you are called to be the light of the world. It is you and your marriage that should be the light people long to experience. But you cannot be a light for others if you are allowing your marriage to be overrun by darkness. Those who belong to God have been created for so much more. You have been created for so much more. And your spouse has been created for so much more. Our vision for this book is to get you and your spouse excited about using your marriage for God. We desire that you two experience the incredible intimacy of unity as you boldly chase after God's will and purpose for your marriage. [Aaron] This book is for the marriages who are ready to finally see what God brought them together for. Maybe you and your spouse have been having conversation about what is next. What you should be investing in, or how you can be used by God to effectively fulfill the purpose he created you for. The purpose he brought you together for. You have been in a great place in your marriage and with God, but there is a tugging on your heart to do something more. You picked up this book because you don't want to be stagnant. You want to experience this extraordinary. Our hope and prayer is that this book takes you on a journey of discovery, inspiration and affirmation as God invites you to work together as a team for His glory. [Jennifer] If you and your spouse are in a different place, a broken place where you are barely hanging on, our hope is that this book will be the very thing to convince you to turn your heart back toward God and have the courage to change your perspective of your spouse and your marriage. Maybe it'll be the very thing your marriage needs to push you closer to the only one who can help you put it back in order. [Aaron] So we welcome you. No matter what condition your marriage is currently in and we challenge you to take this adventure with us to commit your marriage to God. And see how he moves in your life, your spouses life, and the many other lives he will impact because you were willing to say yes to Him. Everything begins with a first step. Reading this book is your first step. We pray it won't be long before you and your spouse are running with your hearts aligned with God's toward the extraordinary good work God has already prepared for you to do. [Jennifer] You were created for this. Ephesians 2:10 confirms this declaring. "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." You and our spouse were made by God and your marriage relationship was designed by Him to do good works for His name sake. Works that he had in mind long before you were created. You can believe this truth and so be empowered to walk in the extraordinary purpose you have been uniquely created by God to do. [Aaron] So that was the introduction to Marriage After God. [Jennifer] Who's read to jump in? [Aaron] Yeah. [Aaron] Yeah, it's convicting reading our own books sometimes. [Jennifer] Yeah, we have tears in our eyes every time we have the chance to read it, which has been several times now. We get this stirring in our hearts and this question of what do we do next? What are we gonna do for Him? [Aaron] What we're gonna answer some questions that people from the community have given us about the book. And then we're gonna close with the prayer that was at the end of the introduction. It's actually in the book. There's a prayer that we put in there. The first question is, will there be questions in the book, journal or discussion questions? [Jennifer] Yeah, at the end of every chapter, there are a set of one to three questions that have to do with that chapters topic. [Aaron] There's another question that goes along with this. Is it a book or is it a devotional? A devotional is smaller chunks of content with questions to discuss. But we wanted to clarify that this is a 16 chapter, 50 plus 1000 word book with questions at the end. It can be used like a devotional, but it is definitely a book. It's a hard cover book with a jacket. It's definitely distinct from a devotional. Especially like our Husband and Wife After God devotionals. Which are like a hundred pages. This is significantly [Jennifer] Larger. [Aaron] Larger, yeah. [Jennifer] Okay, so the next question is, can the questions be done as a couple? [Aaron] Oh, absolutely. Our hope is that this book is done-- [Jennifer] Together. [Aaron] With your spouse. [Jennifer] Our recommendation is that you actually use the questions in the back as discussion questions going into a date night, or maybe you guys have time set aside to read the book together. Maybe you read that chapter and then you use the questions to stimulate that conversation. [Aaron] Yeah, maybe it's like a nightly routine. You guys read a chapter together. Discuss the questions together and that was the intention of them. But yes, there'll be questions at the end of each chapter. Yes, you can do them separately and then maybe talk about them together. But we totally always encourage couples to do them together. [Jennifer] Can small groups go through the book? [Aaron] We said this in the beginning. Our heart is that [Jennifer] You do. [Aaron] You do. Yeah, this would be so awesome if when we started hearing testimonies of couples saying, "hey we invited two of our married friends over and we're doing this every week now." 16 week Bible study would be amazing and just reading a chapter kind of like a book club. Read a chapter as a group and then come together and discuss the questions maybe. Some of the questions might be too intimate to do in a group, but hey. [Jennifer] You never know. [Aaron] Yeah, that would be amazing. I'm excited to hear about that. This is kind of along the same lines. Someone says would you recommend a husband and wife go through the book first and then do a group? [Jennifer] I would say yeah, just so that you can wrap your head around what the message of a Marriage After God is. And then jump into it. I feel like you would have a better experience overall facilitating a group like that. [Aaron] Yeah, but if you are wanting to do this right away. Let's say you have a bunch of friends or like hey let's just do this together and get-- [Jennifer] You absolutely could do that. [Aaron] Absolutely. Either or, but if you are the only one that got the book and your friends don't know about it yet, maybe go through it first. And then invite them. Yeah, absolutely if you wanted to do it together right away, that should probably be really fun because you'd be experiencing the book at the same time. [Jennifer] Cool, okay so the next question is. I can never say these two words together. [Aaron] Will there [Jennifer] Will there be video lessons with this book? [Aaron] Probably eventually. Definitely not when the book launches. Unless we like hustle. But yes, there's gonna be eventually a workbook. There'll eventually be videos to go along with it. [Jennifer] That was one of the questions too. Is there a study guide to go along with it? [Aaron] Yeah, those will come later. My wife and I do all those together. And it's pretty much just us, so we will produce stuff eventually. This was a really cool question I got. Someone said we'd love to know if there's gonna be other groups doing it together? And they said it in a way like it'd be scary doing it on our own, like being the only group doing it. And they said it'd be awesome if we knew that hundreds of other groups were doing it at the same time. Or doing it so you'd be like, "oh, we're not the only ones doing this together." [Jennifer] It's a global community, kind of doing the same thing. [Aaron] I don't know how we're gonna do this, but I think we, Jennifer, should think about how we can have some sort of sign-up where people can say, "hey, we're doing this just so that other people know that it's being done." [Jennifer] I love that and I know this. With so many people on social media, if you take a picture of your group and-- [Aaron] That's exactly what it should be, yeah. [Jennifer] Use the hashtag Marriage After God. When that posts and we see it, we'll repost that and then people will start to see it happening. [Aaron] That's a great way of doing it. If you're meeting with a group, every single time you meet, take a picture. And post it and we'll post about it. And what that'll do is, that'll encourage other people like, "hey, we got the book, let's do a group." That's a great idea. [Jennifer] Okay, you mentioned this already, but can engaged couples get the book and read it? [Aaron] I say yeah. I don't feel like that there's any content in it that's inappropriate for an engaged couple. [Jennifer] The only thing I will say is depending on the questions in the back of the book, if there's intimate ones or one's that maybe you can't relate to because you're not married yet, save them to discuss till after you're married. [Aaron] Yeah. [Jennifer] Because if they're engaged, they usually have a date. [Aaron] What might also be cool, is if the couple wanna go through the book separately and then after they get married discuss the questions on how they thought they might answer or-- [Jennifer] Oh that's cool. [Aaron] Some sort of fun, like go through the book during the engaged season. [Jennifer] Maybe use them as journal questions. [Aaron] Yeah. [Jennifer] Write about it. [Aaron] Talk about how I might answer that after I'm married, or after I'm a wife, after I'm a husband. And then come together and go through it together again and see how your answers match up maybe. That'd be a really fun exercise. Here's a question that someone asked. Will there be a bundle discount for churches, for groups? [Jennifer] First of all, what is a bundle discount? [Aaron] They buy a bunch of books, 20 books, 25 books, and they get a discount as a group discount. Yes, I don't know what that looks like and it's gonna definitely happen after the book launches and I don't know when, but we will definitely let people know how that'll work so churches can definitely get bundle discounts. [Jennifer] Okay, the next question is. Does it have our personal testimony as a marriage in it? [Aaron] That's what's cool about this book is much of the book is principles and ideas and concepts that the Lord taught us through very specific times in our life. [Jennifer] Yep. [Aaron] Difficulties, successes. [Jennifer] Conversations. [Aaron] Conversations, relationships we've had. You did the chronological story thing in the Unveiled Wife. [Jennifer] Yeah, which there's way more detail about our marriage story in there. [Aaron] But from your perspective. [Jennifer] And just from my perspective. [Aaron] Where this is the last 12 years of our marriage and it's lots of stories, lots of relational things. [Jennifer] And it's both of us. [Aaron] And it's both of us. [Jennifer] A lot of stories that I couldn't have shared in the Unveiled Wife because they happen after the fact. [Aaron] Exactly. Yes it does, but they're used as illustrations for the ideas that we're trying to convey, so yes and yes. What can a single person expect to get out of this book? This is kind of along the lines as the engaged thing. [Jennifer] I think that a single person reading this book will get really fired up for the desire of marriage. Which they probably already have. But they'll be really excited to jump into marriage with that heart of prayer to have an extraordinary marriage to use their marriage for God to build his kingdom. I think their perspective of marriage will be have a Godly and biblical foundation. [Aaron] Yeah, singles are definitely not the intended audience for this book, but if someone read it, that's thinking, "man, I wanna prepare for marriage, I wanna be preparing my heart and my mind." It'll definitely, introspectively point them to say, "wow, am I actually thinking this way?" What am I thinking marriage is gonna do for me versus what is our marriage gonna do for God? I think it'd be really powerful for someone thinking about marriage, preparing for marriage to go through it, although it's not the intended audience. That was a handful of the questions that we got. I love the group questions that people are excited to do them in groups and I can't wait to start seeing photos posted. I think that was a great suggestion. [Jennifer] I know. If someone wants to be a movement starter, a Marriage After God movement starter, remind them what they can do. [Aaron] Pray, just pray for the hearts that God's calling that who's gonna get this book. Pray for us. [Jennifer] Pray for marriages, because they're under attack just by the enemy. [Aaron] Pray that God's will just be done in this world through us. Get a copy of our book. [Jennifer] Go order right now, please. [Aaron] Amazon.com, search for Marriage After God. You'll find that it's a big read book. [Jennifer] With pretty sparkles of gold. [Aaron] Then start praying and asking what couples in your life God might want you to invite to do a home group at your house with this book. I hope that answered some questions for you guys. I hope you guys are excited like we are for the book Marriage After God. It comes out June 4th. And before we close today. Oh you know what we never told anyone? [Jennifer] What the series-- [Aaron] What the series is gonna be like [Jennifer] Okay, brace yourselves. [Aaron] Okay, the next 16 episodes of the Marriage After God podcast are all gonna be geared around topics from the Marriage After God book. [Jennifer] But how cool is this guys? We have awesome people coming on. We're gonna interview them about being and having a marriage after God. [Aaron] Yeah. We haven't done any interviews on this podcast. It's not every, actually no every-- [Jennifer] It's every episode. [Aaron] Is gonna be an interview. That's so cool. The next 16 episodes are gonna be interviews with friends of ours. People that we've done ministry with in the past. All sorts of cool people. You should be excited about that. We are excited about it. Before we close, I'm gonna read the prayer from the end of the introduction of our book. Would you join us in prayer? Dear Lord, we pray for the husbands and wives reading this book. May your Holy Spirit use this book to inspire their hearts to boldly chase after you and to say yes to the extraordinary invitation you have prepared for them. We pray this couple will grow in their understanding of the power and purpose of their marriage. Reveal to them the specific plans you have for them. We pray you would use this marriage to do incredible work to build your kingdom. In this dark world may you protect this couple from the attacks of the enemy. May you cleanse them from sin and continue to shape them into the husband and wife you created them to be. May they realize they bear your image and that they are a light in this world and a beacon of hope to the lost and lonely. We ask you to guide this couple and unite them as a team. To carry out the unique purposes you have for them. In Jesus name, Amen. [Jennifer] Amen. [Aaron] Thank you for joining us on the first episode kicking off our Marriage After God series on the Marriage After God podcast. [Jennifer] So much Marriage After God. [Aaron] Yeah, lots of Marriage After God. We hope you're being inspired. We hope you're getting excited. God's got huge plans for you. We know it. He's got plans for us. It's not like he's only got plans for us, that's why we wrote this book. He's got plans for all of us. We're part of his body and we just pray that you would know that. That you would know that he wants to show you why he created you and why he brought you and your spouse together. We love you. We thank you for joining us and I pray that you look forward to the next 16 episodes and we'll see you next week. [Aaron] Did you enjoy today's show? Find many more encouraging stories and resources @marriageafterGod.com. And let us help you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.

When Jennifer attempted to talk to her kids about Martin Luther King, Jr., she tripped over her words. How do we talk to children about tough topics in a meaningful way? And how should we discuss historical events without repeating racist narratives? She and Monika "befriend discomfort" to try to figure that out. Books mentioned: We're Different, We're the Same by Bobbi Jane Kates (Random House) Happy in Our Skin by Fran Manushkin (Candlewick) The Colors of Us by Karen Katz (Square Fish)    

MEET THE GUEST: Jennifer Elia, homeschool consultant, curriculum creator, blogger, and author, is Founder of Aurelius Cabrini Homeschool Resource Center which is dedicated to giving homeschool moms the tools they need to thrive in their home education career. Jennifer provides one-on-one consulting, personalized and original curriculum plans, and practical advice for those just beginning their homeschool journey, as well as those who just need a little boost. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children whom she has been educating at home for the past 10 years. When Jennifer isn’t busy researching the best curriculum solutions, she enjoys gardening, crafting, and writing. You can find Jennifer on Facebook and Pinterest. Where To Connect with Jennifer Online: https://aureliuscabrini.com https://soundfoundationshomeschool.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/homechoolmomtomom/ Grab Jennifer’s book Sound Foundations on Amazon! https://www.subscribepage.com/helpforstrugglingstudentsblog Connect with Mia Francis-Poulin! Find out how you can work with Mia at www.racreative.co Catch up with Mia on Instagram. Join the Mama, Build Your Empire Group on Facebook.

Ray Hoffman interviews Jennifer Collins, President and CEO of JDC Events. Jennifer’s first events were her own family reunions which she evolved from cookouts to city tours and dine-arounds. She worked on social events while in college, and when she started working at PR firms, she saw how they were handling events and felt that she could make a business of it. She turned to business events, and then to government contracting. Jennifer has taken what she has learned through planning purposeful events over the years and written it in her book, Events Spark Change. She shares the importance of the mission statement for every event and how events bring about change.   Key Takeaways: [:21] Ray Hoffman welcomes Jennifer Collins and asks about her book, Events Spark Change: A Guide to Designing Powerful and Engaging Events and the journey that brought her to becoming an event planner. [:34] Jennifer planned reunions for her family and felt she was good at it. [:43] About 100 people would normally attend the family reunions, held in Boston, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and other locations, first where they had a majority of the family and then where they wanted to go. [1:05] From that experience, Jennifer saw that she really loved the effect that the reunion had on the family — so joyful and so much of a connection. People felt that they were able to bond deeper on another level. That sparked Jennifer’s thought process about planning events, that she enjoyed it and she might be good at it. [1:38] These thoughts came to Jennifer while she was a college student at American University. After she graduated, she got jobs with public relations firms in Washington, D.C. [1:56] The first family reunion she planned was when she was around age 19 or 20 as a sophomore. Her grandmother from Atlanta and her siblings had originally organized the reunions as cookouts. The importance of families coming together is the impetus for Jennifer’s involvement in the reunions. [3:17] Later reunions included zip lines, tours, travel to different cities for activities, dine-arounds, and a lot more than cooking out. [3:37] The first professional event Jennifer planned was a 60th birthday party for a dear friend. She wanted to bring around 30 of her closest friends to Jamaica to celebrate it. That was during a time when Jennifer’s company was doing more social events. [4:10] Then Jennifer started getting away from social events and moved into corporate events. [4:17] When Jennifer started her company, she was employee #1 and the only employee for a while, in her basement apartment near American University. She enjoyed doing the work and was looking for events to plan for people who really needed the support. [4:43] From there, she was able to develop it into more, still part-time, in connection with her full-time work in the public relations firms. As the PR firms started doing events, Jennifer realized she could make that into a business. She wanted to develop something even more professional. [5:13] Jennifer managed her business on her own for four years, part-time. When she found it was too difficult to do part-time, she had to ‘fish or cut bait.’ [5:34] She went full-time on her own when she got one of the largest nursing home companies in the U.S. at that time as a client, who wanted to celebrate their sales team and build an incentive program. [5:48] That helped Jennifer to get out on her own. It was also two weeks before September 11, 2001. At that time, events stopped. Hospitality stopped. People stopped traveling and getting on planes. Jennifer lost the account, although they did pay her. The client felt, given the tone of the country, it wasn’t the best time to celebrate. [6:20] It took about three or four years for the industry to come back. So Jennifer was doing other things, such as substitute teaching, to stay on her own. She built up again, getting referrals from her former co-workers in the public relations firms. She decided to shift into the government contracting market for longer-term, higher-value contracts. [6:54] You have to ‘have a stomach for it’ to get into government contracting. Jennifer learned what kinds of certifications would be helpful to compete with other companies. She had to go to industry days to meet with contracting officials and small business representatives and figure out what agencies were buying. It was a lot of footwork. [7:29] Meanwhile, Jennifer continued in substitute teaching and started working with other companies as an onsite event manager. She got projects from a temp agency for event professionals. [8:09] Jennifer thought she knew a lot then, but she knows a whole heck of a lot more now. Jennifer has a very curious attitude. She always wants to know more — how to do something different, better, how to build it. [8:38] Jennifer got involved in industry organizations and became a certified meeting professional. She kept up with professional continuing education to learn how to plan events better. [9:13] UC Davis was looking for a planner in the D.C. area. They had a campus building in D.C. They wanted a planner for a cocoa symposium in partnership with Mars, Inc. Jennifer answered their ad, met with them, and “the rest is history.” [9:57] That was Jennifer’s breakthrough moment. It was the largest event and relationship she was able to develop up to that time, in 2005. [10:20] In 2005, Jennifer was just learning the extent of running a business with all its parts. She realized she could not do everything by herself. She had to bring in partners. She played many parts in her business to bring people together to build it. [11:20] She hadn’t accounted for the politics of dealing with different organizations and cultures to bridge people together to produce what they needed. Jennifer describes event building as a puzzle and the event planner as a conductor leading an orchestra. [12:10] Earlier in her business, Jennifer just looked at it as a task. She had a list and she had to check things off the list and get things done. She didn’t yet look at it as the picture of how everybody needed to work together. [12:34] Jennifer wrote in her book that an event without a mission statement is susceptible to failure. She explains the importance of the mission statement. Many organizations decide to have an event, but don’t work out what it takes to produce it. There are so many factors that go into it, especially money. [13:06] If you want an event to do something, you have to really get at the why, what it’s going to change, and whom it’s going to impact. [13:15] You have to set measurable goals. It’s like looking at a map. If you don’t know where you’re going, how do you know that you were successful? [13:30] You have to really use this event as a way to drive your message. Events drive messages. If you’re not really able to drive it in a way that people will receive it, or understand what you want to impart to them, then it’s not going to be successful. [14:09] The cocoa symposium was an event where UC Davis and Mars Inc. wanted to be seen as the leaders within the cocoa science field. This symposium helped them position themselves as such. They took the symposium to Ghana where the majority of cocoa is grown.[14:51] From the symposium, the first plan was developed for Africa on how to make the cocoa farms more productive — how to provide the farms with the tools and skills needed and to make more money while all parts of the cocoa product chain could flourish. It was a defining moment for the partnership and for Jennifer to take part in it. [15:35] There are some who think the big, glitzy, glamorous events are only the most impactful. No matter how many people are involved, what’s most impactful is the event purpose — how they bring people together and create certain connections — how they can create engagement that can change lives and organizations. [16:25] The stakeholders of an event bring sponsorships, money, and credibility. Having a variety of event experts together creates impact. [17:06] What is the SPARK model? Sensory — engage the five senses to create a much more memorable and engaging experience. Purpose  — identify why you are doing this and what you want to achieve. Activations — put everything into motion. Resources — use the time, talent, funding, and venue. Know-how — bring experts and expertise. [18:49] Jennifer has spent the last 15 years learning the power of connections and that all it takes to create a change in this world is one person or one community at a time. Events help you to think differently and bring that change to help someone else. It doesn’t have to be elaborate. It’s what you can take away to help another.   Mentioned in This Episode: Jennifer Collins, JCD Events American University, Washington, D.C. Events Spark Change: A Guide to Designing Powerful and Engaging Events, by Jennifer D. Collins JDC Events UC Davis Mars, Inc. Stephens.com This Is Capitalism

When Jennifer was 24, she was passed over for a job she had her heart set on. While hindsight has given her some perspective on the size of that disappointment, Jennifer and Becky discuss how even small disappointments can be extremely painful. Jennifer's new book, It's All Under Control, is for women who are facing really hard things and just trying to keep it all together. Read more thoughts on disappointment: Good Things Are Scary; Disappointment is Comfortable Links from this episode: It's All Under Control: A Journey of Letting Go, Hanging On, and Finding a Peace You Almost Forgot Was Possible by Jennifer Dukes Lee The Happiness Dare by Jennifer Dukes Lee Love Idol by Jennifer Dukes Lee Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell Landline by Rainbow Rowell Attachments by Rainbow Rowell Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell Decision Making and the Will of God by Garry Friesen The Next Right Thing with Emily P Freeman Connect with Jennifer:BLOG: JenniferDukesLee.comFACEBOOK: facebook.com/JenniferDukesLee TWITTER: twitter.com/DukesLee INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/DukesLee Connect with Becky: BLOG: BeckyLMcCoy.com FACEBOOK: facebook.com/BeckyLMcCoy TWITTER: twitter.com/BeckyLMcCoy INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/BeckyLMcCoy PINTEREST: pinterest.com/BeckyLMcCoy NEWSLETTER: BeckyLMcCoy.com/3truths Have a product or service Sucker Punched listeners would love? Send me an email at podcast@BeckyLMcCoy.com for advertising information. Share your Sucker Punched story at BeckyLMcCoy.com/Podcast Please subscribe to and rate this podcast to help others find Sucker Punched.  

Jennifer Allwood is the founder of home decor site The Magic Brush, as well as a business coach who focuses on helping people in creative fields–art, decorating and design–make a career out of doing what they love. A home decoration specialist who has appeared on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Jennifer has over half a million social media fans and coaches over 2,000 business owners on a monthly basis. Her podcast, The Jennifer Allwood Show, aims to give listeners the support and resources they need to succeed. In this episode, Jennifer discusses what challenges creative entrepreneurs need to prepare themselves for, the importance of social media in getting your creative business off the ground, and how a follower in need pushed her to give back to her community.   Show Notes: What is Jennifer most excited about in her life right now? Recently moved into a new house and husband has retired, so she’s focused on redecorating her home and just running her business from day to day. How did Jennifer first leap into entrepreneurship? After buying a house when she was only 21, Jennifer went back to school to take computer courses as she didn’t think she could make a career from her decorating alone. After being laid off from a computing job, she spent a lot of time at home wondering how she could make ugly things gorgeous, so she sought out local decorating classes and went door to door looking for interior designers. Why was her small decorating business so successful so early on? She had a firm grasp of social media and how to use it effectively to score clients and attract business. What unique challenges do creatives face in running a business? Failing to understand that social media is the storefront of the 21st century, and that in order to draw clients you need to be social and build trust. Did Jennifer always have entrepreneurial ambitions? Never. But when she saw the benefits of social media early on she realized there was a market for her work and saw an opportunity. Considers herself fearless when it comes to trying new ventures. What are some basic steps a creative entrepreneur should take? Check out Jennifer’s Hobbyist to Business Owner starter pack: https://bit.ly/2nGUox3 (https://bit.ly/2nGUox3) Have your site, branding and social media on lock from the outset. Acquire tax ID number, move beyond your immediate social circle. What is the biggest misconception that creative people have about achieving financial success? The “starving artist lie,” that it’s impossible to make a decent living income in the creative space. Thinking of money as inherently evil when the actual problem is love of money for money’s sake. Money is actually a tool that you can use to afford yourself greater opportunities. When did Jennifer first recognize her drive to make a difference and give back? She and her husband are longtime practising Christians, so they have been getting involved with social issues and charity for a long while. Was moved by an online follower’s plight to start giving away items she didn’t need. Wants to make sure other people’s struggles are seen and addressed. What’s Jennifer’s advice for someone looking to turn around the struggling artist mentality or help with their perception of money? Seek out a mentor, be it a therapist, counselor or job coach. What organization is Jennifer especially passionate about? Run to Stop It, which helps victims of the sex trafficking industry find treatment, support and a role in society. Who has been the most impactful person in Jennifer’s journey to do well and achieve financial success? Her children. Who has been the most impactful person in Jennifer’s drive to do good? God. When Jennifer is having a bad day, what does she do to get herself out of her funk? Turning her focus toward other people’s problems rather than her own. What book does...

Jennifer Yen is the Founder and CEO of Purlisse, a skincare company that is the culmination of Asian wisdom and modern philosophy. As an actress, Jennifer’s skin suffered from being subjected to heavy make-up and a rigorous filming schedules. After unsuccessfully using various high end and natural skincare products on the market, Jennifer turned to her grandmother’s Asian beauty secrets to heal her skin. These family rituals inspired her skincare line Purlisse. When Jennifer’s television career as a superhero finally came to a close, she became an entrepreneur and superhero for skin care! Jennifer’s entrepreneurial career was not met with instant success. Her vision was ahead of its time and required a good dose of endurance before the market was ready for Purlisse. Today Jennifer is able to utilize the popularity of Asian skincare by leveraging influencers over multiple social platforms. She also encourages us to remember that our customers are influencers too. Now that is wisdom to live by! Follow Jennifer at @purlisse on Instagram and Facebook and @jenyen1 on Instagram. You can find out more about the Purlisse skin products by going to www.purlisse.com. Don't forget to follow us at @libertyforher on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Please let us know your thoughts about this episode by using the hashtag #LIBERTYSessions and please rate and review us—it helps to know if this podcast is inspiring and equipping you to launch and grow your ventures.

We step away from the normal format of the show in order to hold space for the passing of Larry Harvey. Burner Podcast team members Navjeet Sarna and Tori Massie join Arash to read messages and stories written to and about The Man in the Hat.    Listen on iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio, iHeart Radio, Mixcloud or SoundCloud.        *******************   Lynn Marie Morski... I attended my first burn amid much strife in my capoeira life. I had wanted to play in the orchestra that leads the capoeira games, but my low status in the group prevented me from doing so. In capoeira,` your cord (belt) color is a rank like other martial arts, and only the higher cords were allowed to play instruments.But not on the playa. I went to a capoeira class my first day and there were no cords, no hierarchy. When it came time to play, I asked who was going to lead the orchestra. They said whomever could lead...So *I* led. For the first time ever. And I've never looked back. Thanks, Larry, for creating a hierarchy-less paradise for me to find my strength and my home in the orchestra. ******************* Arthur Mamou-Mani... Larry Harvey - you are in our thoughts. The Temple 2018 will be here for you and for the community that you have so deeply inspired and changed for the better. ******************* Amy Vogler…. The result of your little beach bonfire party has changed the course of my life in so many aspects, and exposed me to more love, compassion, & creativity than I thought possible; within the community, and within myself. Thanks for your participation! ******************* Kat Ripley…. R.I.P. Larry Harvey Thank you so much for all you have done for humanity. I think it would be impossible to overstate the positive impact you made across the globe. I don’t know if I can make one one hundredth of an impact on this world as you have, but I promise I will try. ******************* Absinthia Vermut…. I first remember Larry when I was still at Burning Man, two days after the Man burned in 1995. I celebrated my 25th birthday on playa, fell madly in love with Burning Man, and I stayed to clean up. I just couldn't leave! A year earlier, I had moved to San Francisco, a dream I had since I first visited as a young girl. I never dreamed I would find something like Burning Man in an incredible location like Black Rock Desert, but there I was. Home. Two years later, I remember Larry pulling my then boyfriend, Paul Addis, and me into a meeting late one night on Hualapai Playa. We were there with maybe two dozen others as he explained that the sheriff had relieved the gate of its cash, and he needed us to walk around and collect cash donations from participants. Of course, we did. He offered me a lifetime ticket to Burning Man for $500. I was a starving artist and couldn’t afford it, but more importantly, I thought it was a terrible idea and a huge waste of money. There was no way this thing would continue! Turns out Larry was as much of a pitbull with Burning Man as I have been with my absinthe. That was right around the time I started bootlegging absinthe, and Larry was a huge fan, perhaps my biggest. Since his passing, a friend told me that there was a night when Larry, Flash, and Peter were craving absinthe and set out into Black Rock City to find some. To find me. As they wandered through camps asking if Absinthia was camped there, they left a trail of participants asking, “Was that….Larry Harvey?” I have memories of him at the Anon Salons, holding court with a neon green glass in his hand. One memory in particular stands out, where he had five glasses and was quite belligerent. Marian was there and while she was annoyed by his behavior, we also found it hilarious and endearing. A performer named Magenta was there that night and met him on that fifth glass of absinthe, and then wowed us all by spinning in circles with a knife on her scarved head.I once witnessed Larry managing his fame. I was in first camp and saw him on the poop deck. I walked up to say hello, and he said a very formal “Yes, hello” without looking up. A moment later, he did and caught my eye, “OH! Hello dear, how are you?” It was clear that he heard “Hello Larry” often from people he didn’t know. It was interesting to be treated like a stranger and then recognized by a man whom everyone knew. Ah, playa celebrity. But of course, he was more than that. So much more. The moment made me stop and think what it must be like to walk through Black Rock City as Larry Harvey. Have you ever thought about that? The last time I saw Larry was burn night 2017. I was walking back from the burn to Marian’s absinthe bar to serve my absinthe, my burn night tradition. I had just witnessed a man dive into the fire, and I was completely shell shocked. I remember telling Larry this, and he, too, seemed shell shocked. We didn’t have that nice warm welcome that we usually have. It was too intense of an evening for us all.My favorite story of Larry occured burn night in 2015. I arrived at Marian’s pop up absinthe bar, and no one was around. I found a black baseball cap that said, MEOW, in the bar, and put that on without a second thought. I wandered over to first camp to drum up some interest. I walked in, and Larry caught my eye and gave me a huge smile. Now, Larry had never ever flirted with me before, he was always like an uncle to me, my crazy Uncle Larry, but on this night, I was dressed as Marian, with an all black outfit, a long blonde wig, and the last minute addition of the MEOW hat. Perhaps the only night I have ever not worn green on playa, I was Absinthia dressed as Marian serving Absinthia’s absinthe in Marian’s pop up bar. Larry didn’t leave my side all night. He escorted me back to the bar and I served him and many others absinthe that evening. A lot of absinthe. I said, “MEOW” a lot; what else does one say when they are mimicking Maid Marian? Larry told the story of how he had almost been arrested earlier that night during the burn. The Man was taking forever to burn, and Larry was getting worried. He also wasn’t wearing his Hat - I had witnessed him toss it into the crowd at the GLC a few years prior. He just wasn’t as recognizable without it, and beneath the slowly burning Man, a young LEO, as Larry described him, stopped him and asked him what he was doing so close to the Man, with people lying on the ground nearby watching it burn. “I am worried about it falling,” Larry said.“Well, that is not your concern. Get out of this area.”“Listen, son…” Larry started to say.“Son? Don’t you condescend to me! Now leave this area before I have you arrested and taken away!”Larry loved this story and told it several times that evening. We continued drinking absinthe, talking about such things as what to do about the Plug and Play camps, Larry sharing his ideas about building small Temples in the keyholes, and more. When the evening wore down and we all had more than enough absinthe, Larry offered to drive me, still dressed as Marian, home. I was all the way out in Illumination Village at 3 o’clock and A that year, and welcomed the ride. Larry spent about ten minutes debating with himself whether or not to drive his golf cart or his Jeep, and in the end, the Jeep won. He tried to unlock the door with his key, and I had to hold his arm to help him get the key in the lock. I went around and got in the passenger side to see him put a half full glass of absinthe in the cup holder! “Larry! You are driving me home with a glass of absinthe in the cup holder?” “Of course I am, dear, now let’s get going.” He drove out onto the playa and headed to my camp. “OMG LARRY that is a piece of art!” I hollered when a big something jumped out in front of the car. He slowed down and narrowly missed it. When found my camp, he seemed determined to drive me all the way to my door. Now, IllVille is home to a lot of fire art, which means there are propane tanks, gas lines, and art everywhere. A bad place for anyone to drive, but like I said, he really wanted to drive me to my door. We got to a spot where he had to stop, and I jumped out before he could drive any further into dangerous fire art, grabbed my case of absinthe, and gave him a big hug. I told him I loved him. He seemed embarrassed, and turned his Jeep around and drove home. Thank you, Larry. You created a world I never dreamt I would find. Thanks to you, I found my Island of Misfit Toys and a place where I belong. I came to the playa a shy photographer, hiding behind my camera, and there I found my dreams, my crazy absinthe induced green fairy dreams, and I made them a reality. I am a different person now. We all are. Like all of us, you are flawed, you are human, you are loved. You and your friends gave us the landscape to make magic happen. You left one hell of a trace, my friend.Cheers, Absinthia Vermut ******************* Rebekah Waites... I only met him a few times so don’t really have any stories. I just know that he loved Church Trap and talked about it in interviews. Found out after that he carried a picture of it in his journal. Finding that out meant a lot to me. Only story I have was one on his bday at a party at Headquarters. I didn’t know anyone and am a bit shy. Jennifer Raiser invited me and when i got there told me to go say hi to Larry. When I tried to introduce myself he snapped “I just woke up.” So i ran away. Haha! When Jennifer asked me later if I said hi to him, I said I tried to but it didn’t go over very well. So she told me to go say hi again. This time I caught him in the line for tacos and started to say who I was. His response: “who???!” “Larry... it’s me. Rebekah. Rebekah Waites who did Church Trap.” Aaaaaaaand then I got the biggest hug from Larry and we talked for a moment. It was awesome. I’ll never forget that. ******************* Danielle White... Larry Harvey passed into his next journey. Thank you for the amazing growth, change and experience that this incarnation brought to my life. I am eternally grateful.

Jennifer gets a LOT of questions from many different types of people. Chief among those questions is how she got to where she is in her career. People want to know how she’s managed to make such an impact through her entrepreneurship and her speaking career, so Jennifer has dedicated an episode to the answers of those questions and more. The real reason that Jennifer got to where she is now is because of the others who made an impact on her over the years. She starts at the beginning: how her early life was shaped by growing up in a literal log cabin. From there she ended up in a career that wasn’t quite HR – back then it was called Personnel. Jennifer shares the story of her first job out of college. Her manager told her where her office was, let her know there was a pile of books there, and that she’d have to figure out the Personnel department alone because he had no idea what it was. Jennifer was overjoyed at the prospect. When Jennifer decided to be a stay-at-home mom, her 2-year-old son quickly let her know that it wasn’t a good idea. He ASKED to go to daycare, and Jennifer recalls how it felt to be fired by her own son. She also shares the interesting opportunity at a Japanese automotive company that came her way a few months later. Jennifer decided she wanted to be a speaker and consultant but gave herself an arbitrary limit of having at least 20 years in her professional career first. In the meantime, she joined an old, broken company to help turn it around. It was after she accepted the job that she learned she would most likely be replacing herself if she did well. Long story short, it did go well and Jennifer found herself out of a job. She took several months off and started, after 18 years, seriously considering entrepreneurship and speaking, so she hired a coach. The first thing he had her do was write a marketing plan for herself. From that point on, his advice shaped Jennifer’s future, including the ‘remedial’ networking plan for introverts. As Jennifer began to test the waters of entrepreneurship, her new network pointed out some of the flaws in her plans. These issues were the kind that would sink new businesses before they start, including not knowing what she was selling. They told her to learn it, so she ended up going into executive recruiting at the very place where she began building her network. In early 2016, Jennifer took what she learned and finally made the step into entrepreneurship and speaking. It happened organically. She was an early LinkedIn adopter and was asked by the executives she knew to speak on how to build a network using the platform. It wasn’t easy, though. For the first year, Jennifer struggled despite the help and support of her peers. It was when Mike Sipple, Jr., gave her a book called Just Do Something, and it changed everything from page 1. At least, it removed the mental block that Jennifer had that was preventing her from succeeding. Jennifer is a person of faith, so it was exactly what she needed to take the next step personally and professionally. While Jennifer still struggled a bit, she began making real progress, and she wraps up with the lessons she learned. What was it that finally made everything click? What were the steps she took once that happened? And how has it turned out for her? And how YOU can take when Jennifer learned and apply it to your own story? People/Resources/Links Mentioned: Centennial, Inc. Mike Lynch - President - Mike Lynch Career Consulting Mike Sipple, Sr. - CEO of Centennial, Inc. Mike Sipple Jr. - President of Centennial, Inc. Bonita Martin - Sr. HR Business Partner at Harmon Sharlyn Lauby - Author & Publisher at HR Bartender Robin Schooling - VP Human Resources at Hollywood Casino Baton Rouge Book: "Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach To Finding God's Will" by Kevin DeYoung  SCORE - Free small business advice Freshbooks.com  Give us a hand getting the word out: Do you want to spend your personal and professional time making a lasting impact on others? Do you want to be the kind of leader people love? Subscribe today and we will bring you new ways to change the world every single week.

2018.4.11The Living Full Out Show wants to support you in overcoming hesitation. Perhaps there was a time when you felt you were unqualified for a career. Maybe you wanted to make a major purchase or change in your life but were unsure if the timing was right. If you go through life refusing to take risks, you may miss out on the rewards you could get. By trusting in your ability and coming up with a strategy, you can surpass limitations your mind imagines. Our first caller is Beth, whose daughter is struggling to figure out what she wants to do after graduating high school. Nancy shows Beth to have camaraderie with her daughter by sharing how she handled the journey after high school. Beth can remind her that there is freedom in the ability to choose ,even if there is uncertainty. By researching career personality tests, Beth can support her daughter with more options to find a job she can be passionate about. Our second caller is Fiona, who is having difficulty staying motivated. Nancy tells Fiona to remember how important she is to her loved ones when she wants to curl into a ball. Fiona can refocus her negative thoughts by realizing there are people she has yet to meet who will be inspired by her. Understanding that there is a purpose she needs to fulfill can give Fiona the resolve to open up again.Our inspirational guest is Crystal Woodam-Miller, a survivor of the Columbine shooting. Trapped in the library, Crystal held to her faith that she could survive despite fear. Relying on her friends as support, Crystal found the clarity to make an escape. Instead of allowing tragedy to control her, Crystal chose to share her experience to give hope to other victims. Despite exhaustion from media exposure and survivor’s guilt, Crystal resolved to live her life with renewed purpose in honor of the friends she’d lost.Our final caller is Jennifer, who feels exhausted as a third year college student balancing work and studying. Nancy instructs Jennifer to envision how successful and happy she will be after she has her degree. When Jennifer gets fatigue, she can think about the clients she will assist more effectively because of her struggles now. When you get distracted by the achievements of others, you may feel less capable for success. Instead, envision the life you want to have and tap into your resolve to make it happen. Understanding what your goals are and making a plan to achieve them can lessen anxiety. By refusing to give into hesitation, you can be more confident and live full out.

2018.4.11The Living Full Out Show wants to support you in overcoming hesitation. Perhaps there was a time when you felt you were unqualified for a career. Maybe you wanted to make a major purchase or change in your life but were unsure if the timing was right. If you go through life refusing to take risks, you may miss out on the rewards you could get. By trusting in your ability and coming up with a strategy, you can surpass limitations your mind imagines. Our first caller is Beth, whose daughter is struggling to figure out what she wants to do after graduating high school. Nancy shows Beth to have camaraderie with her daughter by sharing how she handled the journey after high school. Beth can remind her that there is freedom in the ability to choose ,even if there is uncertainty. By researching career personality tests, Beth can support her daughter with more options to find a job she can be passionate about. Our second caller is Fiona, who is having difficulty staying motivated. Nancy tells Fiona to remember how important she is to her loved ones when she wants to curl into a ball. Fiona can refocus her negative thoughts by realizing there are people she has yet to meet who will be inspired by her. Understanding that there is a purpose she needs to fulfill can give Fiona the resolve to open up again.Our inspirational guest is Crystal Woodam-Miller, a survivor of the Columbine shooting. Trapped in the library, Crystal held to her faith that she could survive despite fear. Relying on her friends as support, Crystal found the clarity to make an escape. Instead of allowing tragedy to control her, Crystal chose to share her experience to give hope to other victims. Despite exhaustion from media exposure and survivor’s guilt, Crystal resolved to live her life with renewed purpose in honor of the friends she’d lost.Our final caller is Jennifer, who feels exhausted as a third year college student balancing work and studying. Nancy instructs Jennifer to envision how successful and happy she will be after she has her degree. When Jennifer gets fatigue, she can think about the clients she will assist more effectively because of her struggles now. When you get distracted by the achievements of others, you may feel less capable for success. Instead, envision the life you want to have and tap into your resolve to make it happen. Understanding what your goals are and making a plan to achieve them can lessen anxiety. By refusing to give into hesitation, you can be more confident and live full out.

Relationships can be challenging enough, but for people with MS broaching the topic of dating and MS could seem like a daunting task.When Jennifer was speaking at a MS support group, she met her husband Dan. Both with varying degrees of symptoms due to MS, Jennifer and Dan have built their relationship on strength, trust and a deep understanding of each other that most of us could only dream of.The Digmanns tell us how they navigate different obstacles they encounter as a couple living with MS and share tips on dating after diagnosis. The Digmanns believe you should never give your disease more credit than it deserves and dating with MS is not impossible…we all have issues when it comes to dating.

In this episdode, coaches Gina Sannasardo and Jen Pestikas will highlight some amazing tips on life lesoon.  Our listeners will feel energized, well-equipped, and inspired when faced with an obstacle.  Here Jen is an authority in her field as a coach as she helps others how to "Move Forward".   You walk away with  practical advise, clarity, and courage. Jennifer has worked in financial services for the past 15 years. Most recently, Jennifer has earned her corporate coaching designation with IPEC and started her own life and leadership coaching business, How Winning is Done. Jennifer is passionate about helping women who experience perfectionism and self-doubt to learn how to become friends with themselves and take purposeful action in their lives and careers. When Jennifer is not working to make positive change in her organization or helping women be the best version of themselves, she can be found having fun with her husband and daughter. Jennifer can be found at howwinningisdone.com.  Gina is the proud owner of Peace, Joy, and You Coaching where she supports Women of Faith Business Owners that are struggling with work-life balance, arent bringing in enough revenue, and are always seeking clients.  Gina creates powerful paths that lead to amazing freedoms, abundant profits, and God's peace within them. She is successful in helping these faithful business owners because she shows them thow to infuse faith at the very core of their business!

When Jennifer received a promtion on her full time job and was no longer traveling for work as much, she was left with alot of free time. Her mom planted a seed and encouraged Jennifer at the age at 12 to create invitations and Christmas cards and later on in life a close friend asked Jennifer to help plan her child's birthday party. From that, Anything Goes Celebrations was born.

What do you do if you can't get excited about your book after you started? Is there any way to rekindle the passion you have for your subject matter and book focus? Jennifer Miracle-Best is a speaker & consultant on a mission to help heal the world of ignorance and hate by helping people understand the intricacies of sexual and gender identity. When Jennifer started her book she intended to transfer her message from the stage to a wider audience via a book. A problem bubbled up when she realized she wasn't excited about putting her information in written form. Something was missing.  Listen in on how some slight tweaks to her book structure changed her perspective and revitalized book's focus.  If you'd like to learn more about Jennifer and how you can book her for an event, check out http://www.jennifermiraclebest.com If you'd like to reach out Amy or learn more about her writing services, go to http://www.voicepenpurpose.com.

Jennifer Kem is a Brand Strategist and Marketing Expert, and the creator of Master BrandTM, the first program for small business owners based on the brand ideologies of larger, impactful brands. Her 16+ years of experience creating advertising campaigns, developing innovative products and services and guiding C-level executives to align their business strategy with their brand (both publicly-traded and privately-held) has produced millions of dollars in revenue for companies like Verizon, Oracle, Microsoft, Blue Cross Blue Shield and innovative start-ups in Silicon Valley. In the past 8 years, Jen has focused her passions and purpose to help entrepreneurs get seen, get heard and get paid, using her superpower of "smelling the money" in your business. Jennifer was living a life trying to prove to others that she can do everything. This caused her to live a life that was out of control and out of alignment. When Jennifer invested in a mentor that taught her to have the pursuit of anything instead of the pursuit of everything, that is when she was able to step into her own power and live an intentional life. Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Jennifer's episode, Jennifer's website, resources, gifts and so much more.

To visit show notes page and resources, go to: www.MLMNation.net/283 Who is Jennifer McCune? Jennifer McCune earned a PHD in Spanish and decided to pursue academia before she realized that it turned reading from her passion into a job. She eventually got a job working for the Department of Defense and had 3 kids before she encountered network marketing. When Jennifer first discovered MLM, she was hesitant at first but decided to join because it would be a great learning experience. It turned out to be a good decision because a year later she was laid off from her job but fortunately she had a solid MLM business built already. Today Jennifer is a MLM leader, a 6 figure earner and loves the fact that network marketing allows people to give back in ways they couldn’t before.

To visit show notes page and resources, go to: www.MLMNation.net/283 Who is Jennifer McCune? Jennifer McCune earned a PHD in Spanish and decided to pursue academia before she realized that it turned reading from her passion into a job. She eventually got a job working for the Department of Defense and had 3 kids before she encountered network marketing. When Jennifer first discovered MLM, she was hesitant at first but decided to join because it would be a great learning experience. It turned out to be a good decision because a year later she was laid off from her job but fortunately she had a solid MLM business built already. Today Jennifer is a MLM leader, a 6 figure earner and loves the fact that network marketing allows people to give back in ways they couldn’t before.

To visit show notes page and resources, go to: www.MLMNation.net/283 Who is Jennifer McCune? Jennifer McCune earned a PHD in Spanish and decided to pursue academia before she realized that it turned reading from her passion into a job. She eventually got a job working for the Department of Defense and had 3 kids before she encountered network marketing. When Jennifer first discovered MLM, she was hesitant at first but decided to join because it would be a great learning experience. It turned out to be a good decision because a year later she was laid off from her job but fortunately she had a solid MLM business built already. Today Jennifer is a MLM leader, a 6 figure earner and loves the fact that network marketing allows people to give back in ways they couldn’t before.

In our interview with Jennifer Bednez with Sweet Surprises we discover how SCORE helps her to go from corporate America to a successful owner and entrepreneur. When Jennifer managed herself out of her job after 14 years, she found herself at home and depressed. On an introduction with the owner at that time, Jennifer found herself in the retail world and loving it. As one thing led to another Jennifer found herself considering ownership of the business when the owner shared her desire to retire and sell. Entered in SCORE. Jennifer found herself in need of assistance to create a business plan. She felt very comfortable with the numbers side of the plan but what about marketing, retail and taxes? All this was out of her realm of knowledge. Fortunately, SCORE provides ongoing support and the ability to meet with mentors who specialize in specific subjects providing support throughout the life of a business. Jennifer found herself meeting with her mentor who helped her to take those baby steps, as she called them, and provide her with the confidence to create a successful business. Jennifer loves the way she can call on her mentor anytime she wants, if she is facing a big decision, she can call him for advice. He sometimes provides her with names of subject matter experts to assist with the situation. She even finds herself sharing those successes with him as well. If we were to hone in on the one reason Jennifer and entrepreneurs like Jennifer enjoy their experience with SCORE , it's the continued support and having someone there anytime for any reason. Make SCORE your best kept secret for the success of your business.

Learn True Health is honored to present Jennifer Saltzman, popular Pilates instructor, for a second time. In this Episode Ashley and Jennifer discuss the importance of spiritual health. Think about community and realize we have so much to give. Rise to the occasion. Give to others, receive gratefully from others, and think about something other than “me.”  We are all one. The book Commitment to Love by Maureen Moss had a very positive effect on Jennifer’s life.  It is about the spirit, about perspective, laughter, challenges and trials.  When Jennifer was in her 20’s and had just finished her Pilates training, she became very ill.  She had pain in her gut, couldn’t walk, was bedridden and on welfare. She was in a spiritual vacuum. Listen to her agonizing description of her life at that time and be prepared for the uplifting moment that changed her life forever. Prayer defines Jennifer’s life. When she was in great pain she prayed “God, please do not let any of this suffering be in vain.  Let me be used to bring health and well-being to others.” She says this prayer has been answered on many levels, and she is grateful now that Learn True Health with its listener base is helping her share her experience and spirituality with a broad and receptive audience.   Here’s What You’ll Discover: There are forces of good that lead us to what we need The Japanese are so healthy because they are involved with and depend upon their community Mental health has to be affected by other parts of our health: emotional, spiritual and physical. We have so much to share and to give   Health AH-HA Moment: Whoever created us knows us   Your Challenge: For the next 7 days drink one half your body weight (convert pounds to ounces) in water per day, e.g. if you weigh 150 lbs, drink 75 ounces of water per day.  For an extra super healthy boost add Dr. Wallach’s plant derived minerals. Contact jennifer@takeyoursupplements.com if you would like to learn more about plant derived minerals.   Resource:  To chat with Jen about the supplements she takes: jennifer@takeyoursupplements.com  BOOK: Commitment to Love by Maureen Moss    

Mary Beth could tell Jennifer wanted to be alone for a while and as they parted Jennifer resolved herself in her own mind to make her peace with her dad.  However, as she walked toward his grave curiosity got the better of her.  She walked instead to where she had seen the woman earlier.  It was obvious by the signs on the ground that she had been standing there for a while watching them.  The thought brought a chill down Jennifer's spine as she speculated about the woman's motivations.  When Jennifer did finally make it down to his grave all she could think about was how her father had tried to warn her about her husband, but her rose colored glasses would not allow her to listen.  While driving out of the cemetery she noticed that same solitary figure lurking half hidden behind a tree.  This time Jennifer would know the truth.