17: Community, Cause & Calling With Megan Burns
Working Christian Mom with NJ Rongner
Release Date: 10/09/2018
39: Why Online Friendship Matters With Mary Carver
Working Christian Mom with NJ Rongner
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. While you're at it, make sure you follow Mary on Instagram . About Mary: Mary Carver is a writer, speaker, and recovering perfectionist. She lives for good books, spicy queso,...
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38: From Working Mom To Stay At Home Mom
Working Christian Mom with NJ Rongner
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: Join the .
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37: How To Have An Awesome Marriage with OL & Sway Buckley
Working Christian Mom with NJ Rongner
Find OL & Sway On The Internet: Website: Facebook Page: Instagram: 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...
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34: Filling An Empty Cup & Finding An Outlet With Lauren Anderson
Working Christian Mom with NJ Rongner
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. Looking for a community of other Working Christian Moms? Join over 2000 other Working Christian Moms who are sharing life together in our community! Links Mentioned On Air: Instagram: Books Mentioned On Air: About Our Guest: Hi, I’m Lauren, a graphic...
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33: What We Learned In Quarantine with Sarah Morrison
Working Christian Mom with NJ Rongner
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...
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36: Our Big Feelings Are A Gift From God With Elizabeth Thompson
Working Christian Mom with NJ Rongner
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. Looking for a community of other Working Christian Moms? Join over 2000 other Working Christian Moms who are sharing life together in our community! Books To Read: Find Elizabeth On The Internet: Website: ...
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35: Overcome To Become: Trusting Jesus With Our Junk with Tasha Ferguson
Working Christian Mom with NJ Rongner
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...
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32: Choosing A Word Of The Year With Sarah Morrison
Working Christian Mom with NJ Rongner
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.
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31: Let's Get Real About Christmas With Sarah Morrison
Working Christian Mom with NJ Rongner
Is there a right way or wrong way to celebrate the holidays as a Working Christian Mom?
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30: How To Handle Negative Feedback At Work
Working Christian Mom with NJ Rongner
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.
info_outlineMeg Burns is a large family mama (she’s got 4 kids), a serial entrepreneur and has a heart for seeing women thrive.
In this episode you’ll hear:
- How Megan’s cause has changed, but calling has remained steady through the years.
- Why it’s so much harder to start an online shop now, than it was 5 years ago when Meg started hers.
- The thought process behind closing Meg’s online shop, even though the business was thriving on paper.
- Why Meg thinks it’s so important to actively choose love.
- Even when we feel lonely, we’re not alone.
- How Meg and I make work happen, as work at home moms.
- How to set boundaries and how to find boundaries.
This episode is sponsored by my new program to get you set up for success for the Christmas Season, Delight In December. Click here to learn more.
Our big takeaways:
Cause and Calling are two different things.
Your calling is that thing you were born to do, that God put inside of you when he made you. It’s constant. Our cause is how our calling shows up in our lives. And that might shift over time. It may have a season with a beginning, middle and end. But our calling remains steady.
Sometimes we have to end something so we can thrive in a new area.
Megan closed her handmade shop, even though it looked “good” on paper. And in doing so she found freedom to thrive in a new project. That couldn’t really happen until she had the mental space she needed to just focus on one thing, selling Young Living essential oils. When she closed their online shop, her essential oils business exploded.
The boundary lines are in pleasant places.
The cool thing about boundaries is that we get to set them. Setting boundaries can be hard at first, but just like with any other muscle, the more you work it, the easier it gets.
Work at home mamas, decide how you’re going to manage your day and then do it!
Instead of scrolling on social media, use the spare minutes you have wisely. What can you get done in five minutes?
Links mentioned:
The Best Yes by Lysa Turkhurst
About our guest: Megan is a business owner, wife, mom to five, & currently living outside of Minneapolis. She is a big believer in speaking life, encouraging other women, and believes her calling is to encourage & empower women to believe they can make a difference in their homes/communities/schools/or across the world. She loves to read, learn new things, and travel with her family. Connect with her on Instagram.