It isn’t easy to maintain perspective when seeing peoples’ perfect lives on the internet. Whether you are looking at their beautiful planners, their perfect homes, or their success in budgeting, there always seems to be opportunity to feel like you aren’t enough.   In today’s episode I am chatting with my friend Jen DuFore, […]

This past weekend at the Go Wild conference in Austin I heard a lot of inspirational ideas and advice. Heidi Swapp was amazing, and she talked a lot about the importance of documenting our lives for our children, so they can feel our love and have those key images to trigger memories. That hit me […]

  When you build a following on the internet you have to make so many decisions as to how much of yourself you are willing to show. Do you bow to trends or stay defiantly yourself? Do you temper what you show in order to reach more people? How do you stay grounded?   In […]

One of the reasons I wanted to get this website up and running is that I wanted to be able to post the lettering/doodling challenge printables somewhere that isn’t Facebook. Why? Because not all of you use the FB. Now that we’ve gotten these out of the way, I present to you the LLLEDD and […]

The response to this new podcast absolutely blows my mind. I’ve heard from so many of you saying you’ve cried, it was what you needed right now, stuff like that. This isn’t to toot my own horn as much as to remind myself that yes, the extra time Jess and I have had to put […]

How do you balance the personal and the professional when you do business online? How do you decide what to share and where to share it when you are so closely identified with your business? Today I’m chatting with my good friend Kristin (of Krissyanne Designs) to understand what life is like when you run […]

There is a lot of information out there on how you can plan out a social media feed that plays to whatever algorithm happens to be the flavor of the month. But HOW do you actually decide what to share if you are looking to remain true to yourself, rather than feeding the social machine? […]

Social media has brought people closer together. We interact each day using Instagram, Facebook, etc… but the lives we see online only tell part of the story. It can be extremely difficult to remember that what you see has been carefully chosen by the person posting. I want to know the WHOLE story. As I […]

I always struggle at the beginning. Whether it is writing a sermon, or deciding how to start a video, or figuring out the best place to jump in at the start of a project, I always struggle. So it makes sense that starting this new blog (and website) would be a bit of a struggle […]