Mary Carver is a new friend, although we've been circling each other for quite some time and FINALLY met. Y'all, my internet friends are real! 

This episode of the podcast is a true girlfriend chat where Mary and I talk about raising girls, working online how it's so hard to explain to explain our jobs, Hallmark movies and the gifts of pop culture.

Mary is the host of the The Couch Podcast with Mary Carver. Make sure you go check it out here. 

While you're at it, make sure you follow Mary on Instagram @MaryCarver . 

About Mary: Mary Carver is a writer, speaker, and recovering perfectionist. She lives for good books, spicy queso, and holiday movie marathons—but she lives because of God’s grace. Mary writes with humor and honesty about giving up on perfect and finding truth in unexpected places on her blog, MaryCarver.com, and talks about pop culture and why it matters on her podcast, The Couch. She is the author of Women of Courage: A 40-Day Devotional, as well as a regular contributor to incourage.me and MomAdvice.com. Mary lives in Kansas City with her husband and two daughters.

What do you do when God calls you back to home life after working? In this episode, Karly Pancake shares WHY she left her job as a teacher to come back home to her kids. Karly is passionate about adoption and foster care. This episode is a little bit different than the ones we normally share on this show, but it's such an important conversation. 

Connect with Karly:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wefostertruth/ 

Join the Working Christian Mom Community on Facebook. 

Find OL & Sway  On The Internet: 

Website: www.MarriedpreneurLife.com

Facebook Page:  facebook.com/marriedpreneurlife

Instagram: Instagram.com/MarriedpreneurLife

Podcast: Marriedprenuer Life Podcast

About Our Guests. 

OL & Sway Buckley are Co-Creators of MarriedpreneurLife.com and the hosts of the Marriedpreneur Life podcast where they help mission-minded marriedpreneurs create momentum in life and business.

The Buckleys are equipping couples with their proprietary processes to have accelerated productivity through the Marriedpreneur Method and increased profitability through the Marriedpreneur Map. Their primary purpose is to help married couples scale and create multiple revenue streams WITHOUT sacrificing their marriage (even if they don’t work in business together).

OL is a former internationally award-winning banker, turned entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of RO Strong Real Estate & Financial Education firm as well as the CEO of OL Buckley Consulting.

Sway is the CEO of a creative arts staffing firm as well as the founder of Smart Artist Institute Consulting. Together, the Buckleys collectively help align couples to walk purposefully, powerfully, and profitably in sync.

The Buckley’s work has been featured in HuffPost, Southern Dallas Business & Living Magazine, CBS affiliates, BET, and more. They’ve known each other for nearly 20 years and this year will make 11 years of marriage. They reside in New Jersey.

Lauren and I chat about her motherhood story as a mama with a medically fragile son and how she discovered radical self care and began to fill her empty cup through finding an outlet. 

Lauren has an amazing online program designed to teach us how to make spectacular bakery level decorated sugar cookies. You can learn more about that here. 

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Links Mentioned On Air: 

Instagram: 

Morgan Harper Nicols 

Setema Gali Jr

Air Fryer Guy 

No Crumbs Left 

Books Mentioned On Air:

• Traffic Secrets by Russel Brunson
• The Choice by Dr. Edith Eva Edgar

About Our Guest: Hi, I’m Lauren, a graphic designer-turned-cookier, obsessed with creating more joy in life and in the kitchen.

I grew up knowing I wanted to have a creative career. If you asked my mom and dad, they would have told you my curly hair was proof of my creativity. I chose graphic design to make my mark on the world, but after having kids, I needed a different outlet. I needed more joy, and cookies gave me that. 

I decorated my first cookie when I was going through the hardest years of my life. I had a baby with a serious medical condition, and my life changed in an instant. My son’s needs were so tremendous that I left my graphic design job and became his around-the-clock caretaker. Eventually we found some stability, and I decided to bring something into my life that was just for ME: cookie decorating!

Over the last four years, I’ve taught myself the dos and don’ts of baking and decorating cookies through a lot of trial and error. Now, I want to share the basics and techniques that look impressive, but are easy to master. My goal is to inspire you to jump in and choose to have more fun and joy in life—through cookies! 

I hold a bachelor of arts degree from Ricks College, Idaho in graphic design. The design degree and my passion for design and art comes in very handy running a cookie business. After over 20 years running various art departments, and my own graphic design firm, I’m able to bring my experiences full circle as I share my baking and decorating passion to different outlets and formats online, reaching all over the world. 

I’m also the mother of three amazing kids, a heart mom, and am married to my soul mate and best friend. Find me at Lolly’s Home Kitchen. 

Sarah Morrison and I are back to discuss what we learned in quarantine. Covid-19 gave us a few gifts, a few lessons and a few discoveries. We recapped our Word of the Year thoughts, spoiler alert, I couldn’t remember mine! If you want to hear more about our Word of the Year discussion, we share all about it in episode 32. 

Sarah and I also chat through what choice we made for our children’s academic year for 2020-2021 and mine MIGHT surprise you. 

This spring, Sarah developed an amazing program to help us all connect with our children in just 5 minutes a day by speaking their perfect language. You can learn more about that here. 

Looking for a community of other Working Christian Moms? Join over 2000 other Working Christian Moms who are sharing life together in our community! Click here to join. 

Links Mentioned On Air: 

Connect with Sarah On Instagram 

School Work Life Facebook Community 

God has given us the gift of feelings, on purpose and for a reason. Elizabeth Thompson is a big feeler and well, I’m not. In this episode, we chat about navigating our feelings with Jesus, how big feelers and not so big feelers need one another and how we handle mom guilt. 

Elizabeth has a brand new book out called All The Feels which is a #1 Best Seller on Amazon. You can check it out here. 

Looking for a community of other Working Christian Moms? Join over 2000 other Working Christian Moms who are sharing life together in our community! Click here to join. 

Books To Read: 

Six Of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Laura Hope Whitaker on Instagram 

Find Elizabeth On The Internet: 

Website: ElizabethLaingThompson.com  

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/alizzylife

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elizabethlaingthompson/

About Our Guest: 

Elizabeth Laing Thompson is the author of All the Feels, When God Says, "Wait," and When God Says, "Go." She writes at ElizabethLaingThompson.com about clinging to Christ through the chaos of daily life. As a speaker and novelist, she loves finding humor in holiness and hope in heartache. Elizabeth lives in North Carolina with her preacher husband and four spunky kids, and they make her feel humbled but happy, exhausted but exhilarated, sometimes stressed but often silly—well, you know . . . all the feels.

Tasha and I and I are both launching / relaunching our podcasts on the same day and we chat about how our personality plays a role in our launch style and in life. We also talk about the joys of being a girl mom, the power of owning her story, and how achieving her career goals almost cost her everything. Tasha shares openly about her journey to trusting Jesus with her junk in this episode and it is a story of beautiful grace. 

Tasha has a brand new podcast that just launched today called Overcome to Become. Search it on iTunes or your favorite podcast listening app. 

Looking for a community of other Working Christian Moms? Join over 2000 other Working Christian Moms who are sharing life together in our community! Click here to join. 

Recommendations: 

Books: 

• Get Out Of Your Head by Jennie Allen 
• The Prayer Circle 

Podcasts To Check Out 

• Allie Worthington 
• Steven Furtick’s Sunday Message
• TD Jakes
• Lisa Whittle 
• Jo Saxton 
• The Office Ladies 
• Lord Today 
• Hope For Women: Exchanging Father Wounds 
• Bobby Bone

Find Tasha On The Internet: 

Website: www.latashaferguson.com 

Facebook Page: facebook.com/thelatashamferguson 

Instagram: Instagram.com/latashamferguson

Podcast: Overcome to Become Podcast

Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/womenarestrongertogether/

About Our Guest: 

Latasha is a speaker, writer, and the host of the Overcome to Become Podcast . She equips and empowers women with the tools to overcome anything that dares to stand in between them and who God called them to be. Her life is proof of this truth: our past and imperfections do not have the power to diminish our purpose. She is also a passionate educator who has spent the past 17 years serving in the roles of teacher, assistant principal, principal, and now director of instruction.  She has been married for 15 years and has four beautiful girls ranging from 21 to 6 years old. In her downtime you can find her curled up with a book, spending time with family and friends, or on a foodie adventure.

Sarah Morrison is back to share her Word of the Year process with us. Together, she and host NJ Rongner discuss what a word of the year is, why it matters and how you can pick one too. 

Find out more about Sarah's Word of the Year workbook and workshop here: https://sarahmorrison.com/

Join the Working Christian Mom Community here: http://www.workingchristianmom.com/community/

Is there a right way or wrong way to celebrate the holidays as a Working Christian Mom? 

Join NJ and Sarah as they discuss: 

• How they do (or don't) do Advent
• How to set your self up for success in a busy season. 
• Where to "cheat" and where not to skip when it comes to doing #allthethings 
• How to keep Jesus at the center of your chaos. 

Connect with Sarah: https://www.instagram.com/thesarahmorrison/

Join The Working Christian Mom Community: http://www.workingchristianmom.com/community/

Negative feedback at work can be a HARD pill to swallow! Man, it never feels good! In this episode, NJ shares how she handled recent negative feedback she got at work and what she's doing to grow in the areas her management team brought to her attention. 

Looking for a tribe that gets you? We've got over 1500 other Working  Christian Moms waiting to be your friend! Join us here! 

After a long hiatus, the WCM podcast is back! In this episode, NJ shares what caused the long break between show releases and why it has taken her so long to get back into the swing of things with the show. 

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