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20: Handling Professional Disappointments with Deidra Riggs

Release Date: 11/26/2018

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,...

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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: ...

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...

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.

31: Let's Get Real About Christmas With Sarah Morrison

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Is there a right way or wrong way to celebrate the holidays as a Working Christian Mom?

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.

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Today on the show, I am chatting with my friend Deidra Riggs. In the last few years, Deidra has experienced a string of professional disappointments that were 100% beyond her control. In this episode she shares her experience and some of the fall out from it.

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About our guest: Deidra Riggs is a national speaker, an editor, and the founder and host of JumpingTandem: The Retreat, a bi-annual event for writers, authors, entrepreneurs, and other fabulous people who have an amazing dream. She is wise, thoughtful, and approachable. Deidra is not afraid to tackle tough topics, but does so with grace and vulnerability. She is a storyteller who creates safe space for navigating creative and cultural tension. Deidra invites listeners to pull up a chair to the table and engage with others, with their own questions and doubts, and with the God who knows and loves them beyond belief.J

Deidra has been a featured speaker at Q Women, TEDx, and The City Gates Initiative, as well as several women’s events, including MOMCON, Allume, Winsome Retreat, the Beautiful Life Conference, and Compel. She has been a contributing writer for Incourage, and her work has been featured online at the Washington Post and Today’s Christian Woman.

Deidra is the author of Every Little Thing: Making a World of Difference Right Where You Are, and ONE: Unity in a Divided World. Deidra and her husband are the proud parents of two adult children, and the happy inhabitants of an empty nest. They live in Bloomfield, CT. Instagram / Website

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