Billie Jauss, author of Distraction Detox, helps us release emotional barriers, restructure priorities and find peace in chaos.

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Today's Guest: Billie Jauss is an international speaker, author, and podcast host with over 35 years of experience navigating life as the wife of a Major League Baseball coach. She shares her story and insights as a speaker while promoting the work of Compassion International. Billie is on a mission to help women connect with people, conquer distractions, and find peace in life’s chaos so they can share God with those He has placed in front of them.

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Things We Talk About:

• Distraction Detox book
• Jenn Hand of Coming Alive Ministries
• Hawaii
• Experiencing God Bible Study
• Experiencing God Devotional
• New Mercies Every Morning Devotional
• Making Room book
• 3 Up + 3 Down Strategy
• 2 Timothy 1:7
• Baseball Family book

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• Producer: Jeanna Lesausky

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Lisa-Jo Baker, author of the gripping memoir, It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping, discusses how it is not too late to rewrite parts of our story and positively impact generations.

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Today's Guest: Lisa-Jo Baker is a bestselling author with a BA in English/prelaw from Gordon College and a JD from the University of Notre Dame Law School. Lisa-Jo has lived and worked on three continents in the human rights field. Originally from South Africa, Lisa-Jo now lives just outside Washington, D.C., where she met and fell in love with her husband. Their story together spans decades, languages, countries, books, three very opinionated children, and one dog.

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Things We Talk About:

• It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping memoir
• MOPS
• Mr. Holland's Opus
• Surprised by Motherhood by Lisa-Jo Baker
• Blood, Dirt, Water
• Luke 8:43-48
• Katie's endorsement for Lisa-Jo's memoir

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• Producer: Jeanna Lesausky

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Lee Nienhuis and Shannon Popkin, co-authors of Comparison Girl for Teens, discuss the various ways we compare femininity and how to move forward in freedom.

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Today’s Guest: Shannon Popkin encourages women to open their Bible, drink deeply of God’s story, and live like it’s true through her speaking, writing, and podcasting. Shannon’s other books include Control Girl,Comparison Girl, and Shaped by God’s Promises. Shannon hosts the Live LIke It’s True podcast.

Things We Talk About:

• Genesis 1:27
• Comparison Girl for Teens book
• Mama Bear Apologetics by Hillary Ferrer
• Mama Bear Apologetics: Guide to Sexuality by Hillary Ferrer
• An Impossible Marriage: What Our Mixed-Orientation Marriage Has Taught Us About Love and the Gospel by Laurie Krieg
• Live Like It's True Episode with Kelly Needham

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Lee Nienhuis and Shannon Popkin, co-authors of Comparison Girl for Teens, discuss the roots of comparison and how you can thrive beyond measure.

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Show Sponsor: Comparison Girl for Teens: Thriving Beyond Measure in a World that Compares by Lee Nienhuis and Shannon Popkin

Today's Guest: Shannon Popkin encourages women to open their Bible, drink deeply of God's story, and live like it's true through her speaking, writing, and podcasting. Shannon's other books include Control Girl, Comparison Girl, and Shaped by God's Promises. Shannon hosts the Live LIke It's True podcast.

Things We Talk About:

• Ep. 205: It's Hard to Be a Girl
• Matthew 23:12
• Matthew 20:16
• Matthew 23:11
• Romans 2:11
• Ep. 32: Comparison with Shannon Popkin
• Interview with Shannon Popkin co-author of Influence
• Interview with Shannon Popking author of Control Girl
• Comparison Girl Discussion Guide- ComparisonGirl.com

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• IG Handles: @leenienhuis @katie_m_reid @shannonpopkin

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Lee Nienhuis, co-author of Comparison Girl for Teens discusses the challenges of being a girl in this present day.

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Things We Talk About:

• Comparison Girl for Teens by Shannon Popkin and Lee Nienhuis
• Julia Roberts Instagram post
• AXIS's culture translator
• Ep 182: International Day of the Girl with Cindy Bultema
• Ep 28: Facing Rejection (Friendship Court reference)
• Martha + Mary Sisterhood Group
• 1 Timothy 4:12

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Ellie Hamilton, mom of three, encourages us to get outside more often and experience the wonder of God's creation.

Today's Guest: Ellie Hamilton is a wife and mom to three amazing kiddos, ages 1,3, and 6. Jesus has been her Lord and friend since she was about eleven years old, and she can’t do any part of motherhood without Him. Ellie stays home with her kids, and homeschools her six year old. Her family lives in northern Michigan and you can find them outside pretty much every day of the year, no matter the season. Ellie's mission field right now is her kids and every day she strives to intentionally disciple them.

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Things We Talk About:

• Take It Outside
• 1000 Hours Outside
• Laundry, meals, and naps outside
• Bringing peace to chaos
• Genesis 1:1-5
• Get up before the kids
• Purge the excess
• Put the house to bed
• "Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is take a nap." -John Ortberg
• Psalm 19
• John 15:4
• 1000 Hours Outside on Instagram
• 1000 Hours Outside Trackers
• There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather book

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Angela Correll, author of Restored in Tuscany, encourages us to slow down and experience restoration wherever we live.

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Angela Correll is the author of Restored in Tuscany along with Grounded, Guarded and Granted, a trilogy of novels that became Amazon bestsellers and have been adapted to the stage for sold-out audiences at the Pioneer Playhouse, Kentucky’s oldest outdoor theater. The novels and the memoir each include settings in both Kentucky and Italy. Angela and her husband Jess, co-founders of Wilderness Road Hospitality, recently made a second home in a small hilltop village through restoring a former horse stable inside the medieval walls of a tiny town.

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Things We Talk About:

• Restored in Tuscany
• Grounded book
• Guarded book
• Granted book
• The Pioneer Playhouse
• The Memoir Project by Marion Roach Smith
• Pruning good things to make room for the best
• My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers
• Wilderness Road Hospitality
• Kentucky Soaps & Such
• Jonah 3
• Sabbatical

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• IG Handles: @leenienhuis @katie_m_reid @angelacorrell

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