Created For This

Comparison and identity are topics that are important for us as Christians, as business owners and as women. We're going to dig into the Bible and see what it says about identity and how we can use our identity in Christ to remind ourselves who we are. This show is a continuation of show number 69, Remember Your Identity. If you haven't listened to it, I invite you to go listen now. One of the things I wrote in my devotional book, Created for This, is how powerful God's love is for you. He calls you his daughter and we can find our identity deeply rooted in him. Psalm 139:13-16 says, "For you created my inmost being;     you knit me together in my mother’s womb.  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;     your works are wonderful,     I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you     when I was made in the secret place,     when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body;     all the days ordained for me were written in your book     before one

Katie Fleming is the founder of $1k Mom, a community of moms who are building businesses and raising a family, and doing both well. Weekly, she hosts the Ambitious Motherhood podcast where she dives into interviews with other moms going after their calling, both in their home and outside of their home. She is the creator of the MOM METHOD™ - the methodology to building a profitable business on "nap time hours" without sacrificing your sanity or your family life! She loves handing out permission slips to moms and encouraging them to go after their calling both in their home and outside of the home. Katie is married to her high school sweetheart and together, they have two little girls. Today on the podcast, we're going to be talking about personal branding. Here's what we talked about: - 1K Mom is a call for moms to embrace working in their homes and their businesses. - Network Marketing today doesn't work the way it worked a few years ago. Network Marketers need to connect with people on a personal level, not

Identity is something that, as I've been learning more about and dwelling on identity in Christ, I've seen how important it is in the way I do everything. It impacts your business, your household, how you are with your friends and more. Let's dive into scripture. Galatians 3 - when we put on Christ, we are in Christ. When we become a Christian, it changes everything. Sanctification - we become more like Christ, we put on his identity. It defines who you are, your purpose and your calling. As we think about our identity, I'm going to read you some verses that give me an idea of who I am in Christ, because when we take that step to become a Christian, we may not see an immediate change, it may take time, but change happens. The fruits of the Spirit develop over time. I've become more patient since I was a little kid, and I accepted Christ into my life when I was eight. It's through different things and different life experiences. Romans 1:5-6 says, "Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the

As we wrap up our focus on health and wellness this month, I'm going to share with you my story about hope through depression and suicidal thoughts. *Affiliate links present.* If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts and want to talk with someone, the suicide hotline is 1-800-273-8255 and they do have a live chat option which is https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/. If you're a veteran, you can use https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/. My story takes us back to when I was in the Navy. We were living on the island of Oahu. I was having a really hard time processing the fact that I was so far away from my family, I felt super alone and that my leadership wasn't doing a great job getting us/me acclimated to the Navy command. A command is the headquarters for those Sailors or Soldiers assigned to that area. I felt like the command was not supportive of the Sailors and there was not good moral in the command. There have been a lot of mental health issues in the military on Oahu because of different things.

I'm giving you permission to rest. Yes, you can rest. There are so many people giving us permission to hustle and work really, really hard. I love my work and I love working, but I also feel like we need to be resting. It's not something a lot of people talk about, it's not something we get permission to do very often. So, if you need permission, here it is. Mark 4:35-40 "That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!”Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” There are many stories in t

Join Women’s Integrative Health Speaker, Writer, and Educator Rebekah Fedrowitz as we have an open dialogue about natural health, wellness, and fitness. Rebekah is passionate about helping women escape the traps of our modern approaches to health that leave them always striving for better but often feeling worse. She believes that nutrition and other natural approaches are an important part of the body’s healing process, and with the right nutrition, we all can obtain the complete health that God intended for us to have. She integrates science and scripture for a well-rounded approach to the kind of health women are seeking. ​ It was due to her own health challenges that Rebekah discovered natural health. Amongst numerous certifications and continuing education, Rebekah completed her master’s diploma in nutrition and is board certified in holistic nutrition. Affiliate links are present. We talk about: The Essential Oils Diet by Dr. Eric and Sabrina Zielinski How God wants us well Proverbs 17:22 “A cheerful h

I want to share with you something that's so important to us as Christian and business owners. This is not to add on another layer of things we should be doing. This is important. Please listen to this and don't feel guilty for what you are not doing. As Christians, our bodies are the temple of God. When we become Christians, that's what the Bible says. Therefore, we should take care of ourselves. It's not a trivial thing that people talk about being healthy and taking care of ourselves. Get Moving. As business owners, I know it's hard to take care of ourselves. It's hard for me to find time to prioritize walking two miles. For me, the biggest driver in taking care of myself is being there with my for my kids and my family. I want to be able to run with them and not to have my back issues. I have chronic back pain from being in the military, and knee and shoulder problems. I also know that if I don't keep moving, I'm going to have a harder time. Thankfully, we have a treadmill in our basement. If it weren't f

Katie Bowling started in business by selling button earrings and her business, One Delightful Shop, has pivoted over the years as she's felt God leading different directions. Katie candidly talks about how she has listened to God as he's led her out of a business that was going really well and into something new. She's currently working on another transition and has started working on her passion - home decorating. One Delightful Creative will involve the home decorating aspect as well as some graphic design and hand lettering. She and her husband have a podcast that talks about their creative life. Part of what she loves about interior designing is bringing joy into the home. Every move has pushed them to rely on the Lord which as increased their trust in him. We also talk about marketing and advertising and how it can be difficult as a Christian business owner to want to create a need in people to buy something. Katie shares how she strives for more of a minimalist and capsule wardrobe as she's pivoted. She

We have been given our platforms by God, to be used for his glory. Your social media platform, your stage platform, your relationships - they all are meant for God's glory. So how do we do this? Listen to this episode for more thoughts and how-tos. Matthew 5:13-16 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven."   To listen to my podcast on being rooted in Jesus, click here.

Better Life Bags started when Rebecca made herself a diaper bag. When friends and family prompted her to start making them to sell, she started an Etsy shop. She loved giving part of the proceeds of the bags she sold to a company called Kiva loans which allows you to pick a woman to sponsor in a 3rd world company through a microloan. She would add the picture of the woman she was sponsoring to the bag when she sent it to the purchaser so they could learn about the woman who was being sponsored through their bag. Rebecca and her family moved to Hamtramck, MI where there's a large migrant population. When she started to get too many orders, she looked around the neighborhood and figured out who it was that she would be able to hire. She hired her friend Nadia who was from Yemen. Because of that work, her friend was able to buy bunk beds for her girls. The company now has 15 employees who make Better Life Bags. Rebecca and I chat about how the business has grown and developed, how she shares her faith with the w

Three ways a coach can help your business: 1. Accountability for actually getting things done and making forward progress 2. A questioning guide who helps you understand better where you want to be going or what you want to do 3. Mindset and Jesus - we are what we think Life coaching is forward facing - helping you become unstuck, helping you reach goals, make changes or transition.    Book a call with me to talk about the Priorities-based Productivity Intensive or coaching. Director of Operations through Natalie Gingrich

Social media and marketing expert Jamie Samples joins me on this episode to talk about making the most of Instagram. Instagram is such a great platform for getting to know others and creating relationships. Here are Jamie's tips for growing and using your Instagram well are: Be authentic with your Instagram People want to see the faces of who is behind the account Use direct messages - be authentic with them, but use them Make it work for where you are - yes, have it be pretty but don't be afraid to share what's happening in your life Tools to make it easier: Instazood (DM bot) Later Follow along with Jamie on Instagram/Website/Twitter Her official bio in her own words: I am a social media specialist, marketing professional, speaker and founder of Yellow Barn Media. But that’s only a fraction of who I really am. I am a wife, a mother, a horse enthusiast, an animal lover, an American patriot, a country chick and an eternal optimist with endless energy and a contagious smile. I’m based in Howell, Michigan,

I'm a certified life coach now!!!! Yes, I'm very excited about it. I'm sharing in this episode why I got certified as a life coach and why laundry baskets were important for me during my own experience with a life coach.

Join fellow Life Coach, Diana Kerr, and I as we talk about living boldly for Jesus. This episode is full of practical ways to live out your faith and be counterculture while living boldly for Jesus. Diana Kerr is a Certified Professional Life Coach on a mission to help go-getter Christian women break free from overwhelm and design their time + life for what matters most. She has coached women like Lara Casey, Val Woerner, Gina Zeidler, and others like them who love Jesus and want to approach their lives and businesses with bold intentionality. Diana lives in Milwaukee, WI, with her husband, Kyle, and their son, Harrington. For her free 12-page workbook, 3 Lies about Time Christian Women Tell Themselves & 3 Truths That Will Set You Free go here.  

I'm talking about a lie today that is prevalent in our society. It's the like that you and I can "have it all." This lie is detrimental to us because we, as business owners know we can do what we want to do, BUT we will never have it all. And, we can't do it all. At some point, we're going to have to be content with what we have. I love the verse in 1 Timothy 6:6-11 that talks about contentment because honestly, being content with where I am can be really hard for me. 1 Timothy 6:6-11 New International Version (NIV) - "But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. Those who want to get richfall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. But you, man of

Jill McCormick talks with me about learning to work with from our giftings and our strengths, instead of working at a job or doing something we "should" do. We deep dive into how to avoid burn out and using our energy and our time on things that we leave and what we're gifted in so we can move into what God has for us to do. By using what God's given us, we are doing his good works and glorifying him. Busyness brings pressure and that pressure comes from external expectations and internal expectations of what we should be doing. We also have a very strong monologue ticker that has negative critique which is exhausting. When we don't taken into account what God's asked us to do, we end up trying to do everything and we can't live that way. We are not designed to live that way. As I've studied rest, when we do the things that light us up, we actually get refreshed. We try to fill every void through busyness. And we wear ourselves out. Some ways that we can figure out how we're wired:  Asking Jesus how he wired

If you're new to me, I'm an Accountability Coach, soon to be a certified Life Coach and an Essential Oil Educator. When I recorded this, we had bedbugs who decided to hitch a ride home with me. While this has not been an optimal experience and a rather pricy one to get them taken care of, I'm glad I learned these lessons. *This episode was recorded pre-house heating and currently we're bedbug free. Margin. You may have heard of it before, basically, it's leaving enough room in your life for life to happen. I don't ever want to fill my life so full that I don't have room for something to shift or change. My mastermind that I was selling seats into should have happened. With the numbers it should have worked. And there was interest but there was a lot of "it's not the right time" or "I don't have the money or space right now." Because I haven't had the mastermind, and I'd lost a few one on one clients, I've had the space to deal with the bedbugs and I'll have the free time to deal with the guy coming to heat

Integrating your faith and business - this topic is near and dear to both mine and Lilah Higgins' hearts because we know there are Christian business owners who have so many questions about how to bring their faith into their business and to what extent.  Lilah and I chat about bringing God into your business and how knowing God at a deeper level has brought out the changes that have happened in her business over the last few years. We also talk about TheForge, a leadership training community that she and her husband, Zach, created which brings together business owners who want to focus on leadership and their faith. You can get a 10% off discount of this community with the code "createdforthis". Lilah's transparency on life, mental health, faith and so much more makes this an episode you don't want to miss. Her official bio: Alongside her husband, Lilah Higgins is the co-founder of TheForge, a leadership training community for faith-driven business owners. She also designs and coaches seasoned business owner

Looking for ways to be more productive? These are some of my top three tips that you can implement right now: 1. Limit your social media time. Let's talk about the mindset of social media. Why do we go on social media? For me, when I'm bored, when I don't have anything in my hands to do, or if I'm avoiding doing things then I'll go on social media. I've trained my brain to think that if I don't have something going on, or even if I do, that I need to be going on social media consistently. That's called addiction and that's not being productive. We're trying to live other people's lives through social media which causes so much discontentment with our own lives.  I'm not saying that all social media is bad, I get a lot of clients through social media. We wouldn't say to get clients in Facebook groups if it wasn't effective. If you're looking for ways to help, there are numerous apps you can get. Feed eradicator is one that I've heard of.  Instagram has a way to check and see your usage. Under your activity, it

Biblical rest is more than just sleeping. We as physical beings need that rest. However, we also need Jesus. Bottom line, that is how we are going to find rest.  "You'll never be able to fully rest until you're aligned with God." So what does that mean? Our hearts were made to give God glory.  Matthew 22 Psalm 62:1-2 says, “Truly my soul finds rest in God;     my salvation comes from him. Truly he is my rock and my salvation;     he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.” St. Augustine says in his Confessions, “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” We need to be taking that time with Jesus to refill our hearts and give the true rest and rejuvenation.  Resting can be enjoying things with other people, fellowshiping, taking walks in His creation, worshiping and praying. I want to encourage you to rest in God and put on your schedule to take time with God. Make time to read your Bible and pray.  Put in your calendar a day of rest. This is a gift that has been g