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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. 
 
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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. 
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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.