A Welcome Grace with Beth Williby

In today's episode, I'm sharing some of my mom's best and most versatile advice.  It's not just for parents, y'all!  But, of course, that's the lens through which I see the world.

We also discuss last week's Wednesday Wondering question and hear from listener Sonya as she tells us about traveling without kids.

Don't forget to go to Instagram or Facebook to answer the Wednesday Wondering question! This week's question is:
WHAT IS THE BEST ADVICE YOUR MOM EVER GAVE YOU?

For more information on this and all episodes, please visit https://awelcomegrace.buzzsprout.com/  or email Beth at (awelcomegrace @ gmail dot com) or you can find me at @bethwilliby on IG!

In this week's episode, we're looking at life in the middle of taking a trip without taking the kids along for the ride. 
We begin with a look back at last week's Wednesday Wondering question and hear what listener Rebecca is in the middle of in her life.
Then, we move on to tackling three questions about traveling just as a couple and without our kids:

• Why is it beneficial?
• How can my three top tips make it easier to do?
• What are the things my husband and I love most about traveling together?

Don't forget to go to Instagram or Facebook to answer the Wednesday Wondering question!  This week's question is a two-parter:
What is your favorite part about traveling with your partner?
OR
What keeps you from taking a trip for just the two of you?

For more information on this and all episodes, please visit https://awelcomegrace.buzzsprout.com/  or email Beth at (awelcomegrace @ gmail dot com) or you can find me at @bethwilliby on IG!

Welcome to Season 3 of the A Welcome Grace Podcast!  This season we are taking a look at life from right where we are.  Right smack dab in the middle of all of the awesome, awful, exciting, exhausting, boring, and extraordinary bits of it.

What is the same this season?  What is different?  Take a listen and find out!

Then, go to Instagram or Facebook to answer the Wednesday Wondering question!  This week's question is:
What are YOU in the middle of in your life right now?

For more information on this and all episodes, please visit https://awelcomegrace.buzzsprout.com/  or email Beth at (awelcomegrace @ gmail dot com) or you can find me at @bethwilliby on IG!

Kids might get a summer vacation, but God doesn't!  Am I right?  But it sure can seem that once school lets out and our routines vanish, our families' faith lives can go on a serious break.  Today on the show, Meg Hunter-Kilmer is here to give us some suggestions of ways to keep that fire of faith alive even in the heat of the summer and she shares with us some "unofficial" patron saints for all of our favorite summer things.

What we talk about:

• Meg's new book that was just released AND her upcoming second book
• Why seeing ourselves in physical depictions of the saints is so important
• How to keep our faith practices alive in our families over the summer
• Why "The Chosen" isn't just another crappy piece of Christian entertainment
• Saint Stories with Meg
• Meg's "unofficial" patron saints of summer

Who is Meg Hunter-Kilmer?
Meg Hunter-Kilmer is a hobo missionary. After 2 theology degrees from Notre Dame and 5 years as a high school religion teacher, she quit her job in 2012 to live out of her car and preach the Gospel to anyone who would listen. 50 states and 25 countries later, this seems to have been a less ridiculous decision than she initially thought. Meg is also the author of the new book, "Saints Around the World."

Where Can I Find It?
Meg's website -- Pierced Hands Blog
Making Pilgrimages to American Saints
Find out more about Meg's book -- Saints Around the World
Follow Meg on IG -- @mhunterkilmer
Don't forget to use promo code WELCOMEGRACE to get 10% off at The Bookshelf before July 1!

For more information on this and all episodes, please visit http://awelcomegrace.com or email Beth at (awelcomegrace @ gmail dot com) or you can find me at @bethwilliby on IG!

Do you love to travel but hate all of the research and decision making that goes along with it?  Feel like maybe you need some tips and tricks from a seasoned traveler and a seasoned mom?  Well, listen in because this episode is for you!  Today, I have the absolute gut-bustingly funny pleasure of chatting with travel designer and mom of three, Courtney Cleveland.

What We're Talking About:

• What is a travel designer?
• What are travel flows?
• Courtney walks us through how to have our best days in two different cities
• We share our best tips and tricks for traveling with kids

Who is Courtney Cleveland?
After college, Courtney spent over a decade traveling all over the country with live event companies. Through this experience, she fell in love with maximizing every second of her time in a city - working and playing.  All the Best Days evolved out of a desire to see people really LIVE and LET GO and LEARN along the way.  She has recently launched her own travel design business - All the Best Days Travel Design - help plan personalized trips specifically for individuals and families.  Courtney lives in Dallas with her husband, 3 kids and 2 dogs.

Where Can I Find It?
Courtney's website -- All the Best Days
Follow Courtney on IG -- @courtclarkcleve
Don't forget to use promo code WELCOMEGRACE to get 10% off at The Bookshelf before July 1!

For more information on this and all episodes, please visit http://awelcomegrace.com or email Beth at (awelcomegrace @ gmail dot com) or you can find me at @bethwilliby on IG!

Welcome to Summer Vacation, y'all!  On today's episode, I sit down with book lover and bookstore owner Annie B. Jones to chat all about our favorite summer/beachy reads.

Books Mentioned in the Episode:

• Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
• A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Sex & Vanity by Kevin Kwan
• One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
• Anne of Green Gables (series) by L.M. Montgomery
• Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling
• Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Revival Season by Monica West
• Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
• City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
• Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey

Who is Annie?
Annie B. Jones is the owner of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, where she also hosts weekly episodes of From the Front Porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.

Promo Code!!!
Shop with The Bookshelf online (www.bookshelfthomasville.com) and earn 10% off your purchase using WELCOMEGRACE before July 1.

For more information on this and all episodes, please visit http://awelcomegrace.com or email Beth at (awelcomegrace @ gmail dot com) or you can find me at @bethwilliby on IG!

Why is being "perfect" not all it's cracked up to be?  And what principles can we use to guide us toward concentrating on what really matters?  That's what Beth is discussing on today's episode with The Lazy Genius, herself, Kendra Adachi as we flip the script on perfectionism.

Topics Covered Today Include:

• How perfectionism effected Kendra's life
• Why so many of us tend toward perfectionism in different areas
• Being a Lazy Genius is the antithesis of perfectionism
• Kendra gives us a "starter pack" of 3 Lazy Genius principles to help us overcome our perfectionism

Who is Kendra Adachi?
Kendra Adachi is the New York Times Bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way and creator of The Lazy Genius Podcast. As a systems expert and professional permission giver, Kendra helps others stop doing it all for the sake of doing what matters. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and three kids.

Quick Links from the Episode:
Kendra's website The Lazy Genius Collective (you can find links to all her things here)

The A Welcome Grace Mailbag is OPEN!

• In today's Mailbag segment, we hear from listener Haley who wants to know a little bit more about the transition that happens when baby #2 comes along.

Got a question about a past episode or ideas about the future?  Want to share your big news with the world?  Have a question about parenting or faith or "women stuff" or life in general that you'd like for me to share my take on?  Click on the link below to send me some mail and you may just be featured on an upcoming episode of the podcast!
Write to me at the A Welcome Grace Mailbag!

For more information on this and all episodes, please visit http://awelcomegrace.com or email Beth at (awelcomegrace @ gmail dot com).

Buckle in, friends. In today's episode, we go there. Mental health, therapy, relationships, PPD and PPA...all the things! In today's conversation with therapist and social worker Tara Nicolson, we are flipping the script on women's mental health and therapy.

Topics Covered Today Include:

• how the pandemic has effected women's mental health
• what mental health issues are most prevalent in women today
• who can benefit from therapy
• how to know if therapy is the right next step for you or someone you love
• Beth describes her own struggles with post-partum depression and anxiety

Who is Tara Nicolson?
Tara is a wife, mom, and psychotherapist from New Jersey who has a goal of helping women in particular.  She is also the founder of the ministry Visitation Motherhood.  Visitation Motherhood is meant to bridge motherhood, faith and mental health with the hopes of opening up dialogue about the intersection of those topics.

Quick Links from the Episode:
Follow Tara on Instagram @thecatholicmotherhoodtherapist
Visit Tara's website
Suicide Prevention Hotline -- (800)273-8255

The NEW A Welcome Grace Mailbag is OPEN!

• In today's Mailbag segment, we hear from former guest, Jean Heaton, who comes seeking an opinion on the fine line between "an alcohol problem" and "a problem with alcohol."

Got a question about a past episode or ideas about the future?  Want to share your big news with the world?  Have a question about parenting or faith or "women stuff" or life in general that you'd like for me to share my take on?  Click on the link below to send me some mail and you may just be featured on an upcoming episode of the podcast!
Write to me at the A Welcome Grace Mailbag!

For more information on this and all episodes, please visit http://awelcomegrace.com or email Beth at (awelcomegrace @ gmail dot com).

If you thought that fashion, faith, style, and worthiness were not all interconnected in our female brains, think again!  This conversation today with author and fashion expert Nicole M. Caruso broadened Beth's perspectives on all of those topics in the very best way again and again.  Prepare to have yours broadened, too!

Topics Covered Today Include:

• Nicole's background in the fashion and beauty industries
• The #worthyofwearing movement -- what it is and why it matters
• How that movement/mindset can help us flip the script on more than just our clothes, but our self-esteem and self-worth, too
• Small steps we can take to make those changes in our own lives
• How to encourage our daughters to see their own worthiness and express their own unique styles
• Nicole's new book launching at the end of May 2021

Who is Nicole M. Caruso?
Nicole is the author of forthcoming book with Sophia Institute Press called Worthy of Wearing: How Personal Style Expresses Our Feminine Genius. She is also a professional makeup artist and beauty consultant, former Beauty Editor of Verily Magazine, and homeschooling mother of 3. Nicole’s mission is to inspire women to invest in their self-worth with her movement #worthyofwearing. She wants women to live an integrated life where faith and style meet. On her website nicolemcaruso.com, she shares expert style and beauty advice, tips on healthy living, and reflections on marriage and motherhood. She and her husband are raising their family right outside Washington, DC.

Quick Links from the Episode:
Follow Nicole on Instagram
Follow #worthyofwearing
Check out Nicole's website
Order "Worthy of Wearing" from Sophia Institute Press

The NEW A Welcome Grace Mailbag is OPEN!
Got a question about a past episode or ideas about the future?  Want to share your big news with the world?  Have a question about parenting or faith or "women stuff" or life in general that you'd like for me to share my take on?  Click on the link below to send me some mail and you may just be featured on an upcoming episode of the podcast!
Write to me at the A Welcome Grace Mailbag!

For more information on this and all episodes, please visit http://awelcomegrace.com or email Beth at (awelcomegrace @ gmail dot com).

It's almost certain that there isn't a woman out there who doesn’t have some issue with her body.  Whether she’s tall or short, plus size or petite, “healthy or unhealthy”.  No matter how much or little she exercises or what or how much she eats.  We all want to be better, do better, feel better, look better.  And throw aging and the crazy hormones of pregnancy or menopause in there and, well, it all just feels like a whole lot.  So today, Beth sits down with Angela Brown to discuss flipping the script on women's health and wellness.

Topics covered today include:

• The moments Beth & Angela both realized their health scripts needed flipping
• Angela's thyroid health journey from stressed out college student and former athlete to thriving health and fitness professional
• Angela's top three health and wellness factors for women to consider at any age, but especially as we age

Who is Angela Brown?
Angela Brown is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition and Healthcare Practitioner and a licensed Physical Therapist in Missouri.  She started practicing physical therapy over 22 years ago and then added in functional medicine almost 7 years ago. She and her husband Matt own a gym where she practices both physical therapy and personal training. And she has also become a thyroid health coach, helping with women with hypothyroidism regain their energy and balance their hormones utilizing lab testing and nutrition.

Quick Links from the Episode:
Angela's website
Follow Angela Brown - Thyroid Health (@angelabrowncoach) on Instagram
Follow Angela Brown Thyroid Coach on Facebook
Sweat Gym in St. Louis

The NEW A Welcome Grace Mailbag is OPEN!
Got a question about a past episode or ideas about the future?  Want to share your big news with the world?  Have a question about parenting or faith or "women stuff" or life in general that you'd like for me to share my take on?  Click on the link below to send me some mail and you may just be featured on an upcoming episode of the podcast!
Write to me at the A Welcome Grace Mailbag!

For more information on this and all episodes, please visit http://awelcomegrace.com or email Beth at (awelcomegrace @ gmail dot com).