All the T.H.I.N.G.S. with Kristen Schindler

Follow Lilly Anna Grace a seven-year-old little girl who loves to play outside and see beautiful things in nature.  When her birthday gets close, Lilly has the perfect idea for her first pet. Follow Lilly as she gets her first pet, goes on adventures with it, and all the while tries to find the perfect name for her new pet!!!

What defines you? Is it your job? Maybe something you do? Is it your family? What if everything you had defined yourself by disappeared? How would you feel? How would that affect the way you were able to show up?

In this episode, Shawree Johnson shares her real, raw, honest story of navigating parenthood, setting boundaries, familial stressors, how she literally hit rock bottom in the soup aisle, and how she realized that she needed to focus on self-care. This need was the pivotal change that helped her to better communicate her needs with her husband and launch her blog to help other moms who are navigating similar seasons.

Shawree Johnson is a mom of three and mommy blogger of Mind, Body, Spirit, Bliss. You can check out her blog and follow her here https://mindbodyspiritbliss.com/.

Are you living an authentic life? Do you have safe places to share how things affect you and how you are dealing with them? When is the last time you did a self-assessment on how you are handling what is going on in your world? How do you focus on the 'service' component when it comes to your life? How do you balance your H in your things specifically your mental health?

In this episode, Brandi shares how important it is for women and moms to share their authentic journies even the parts that are hard. Brandi shares how mental health matters have been part of her parenting journey and how she has navigated them as well as how her relationship with her children has grown through those times.

Brandi Brace is a homeschooling mom of 8 who loves the Lord, getting her hands in some 'dirt therapy', and values authentic friendships and alternative ways to heal our bodies.

Do you have a list of goals that you feel are literally impossible? Ones that sound great but you really aren't sure how you will EVER accomplish them? Or maybe you have started many many things, only to figure out they weren't the right fit, but sounded good in the beginning. You are in good company friend!

In this episode, Sarah shares about her journey of discovering how she has met her own impossible goals and now is giving back and helping other women to achieve theirs too! She also shares 3 Steps to help you execute and make your goals a reality!

Sarah Arnold-Hall is a high performance coach, entrepreneur, and visionary of seeing others accomplishing the goals they set out to reach.

To find out more information about Sarah and her Impossible Girls Facebook Group visit:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/impossiblegirls/media

To learn more about Sarah visit:

https://www.saraharnoldhall.com

What does that 'little voice' in your head tell you daily? Is it speaking positively to you or is it bullying you? What seeds are you planting in your mind's garden? 

In this episode, Rich shares how most often the biggest bully we face in life is ourselves. Once we can master putting that bully and the negativity in it's place, that's when we truly start living our best 'kickin' life'.

Rich Grogan is a devoted believer, husband, father, and martial artist. He is a motivational speaker, podcaster, and author. He is working on bringing his "Bullyproof" program to schools to help motivate and encourage kids that they are powerful and can take control of their futures.

To find out more information about Rich and "Bullyproof" please visit:

https://grogansbullyproof.com/

To listen to his podcast visit:

https://www.bullyproofpodcast.com/

When is the last time you felt like you took the WRONG step? Maybe you showed up and thought, wow, I am not the right person for this job, responsibility, or place in life. I am not qualified or cut out for this?

In this episode, Sam shares how those experiences in life were the exact lessons he took from the collegiate and then professional soccer fields and how they have helped him to have a positive mindset. That shift in mindset made all the difference moving forward and equipped him in order to show up strong as a husband, parent, and in the business world.

Sam Fink is a devoted husband, father, son, professional soccer player and insurance agent.

To find out more information how Sam can help you with insurance needs visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFMn1sQPSU0

https://www.aadvantageins.net/team/

Are you truly Growing in your life? Are there new hobbies or interests you have always wanted to try? Are you currently DREAMING? Have you ever decided to completely change your trajectory but it seemed like a big scary step?

In this episode, Whitedove shares how the lessons she learned on starting a sustainable farm have helped her to see the possibilities of learning new things, dreaming, and digging in while being in a completely different world. Using these lessons has helped her to grow her business after the farm and in this episode, she shares honestly what that looked like.

Whitedove Gannon is a wife, mother, author, podcaster, and business strategist. Her creativity in seeing the possibility for entrepreneurs and help others blast through the status quo and propel them into growing their business moving forward.

Parenting teens can be very difficult and tiresome waters to navigate, but it doesn't have to be. Dr. Cameron Caswell tells us "Teens act out because they feel misunderstood. Teens feel misunderstood because they ARE misunderstood.  If we learn to understand our teens we remove their need to act out. Then we can change our focus from reining them in to rising them up."

In this episode, Dr. Cam. offers hope to parents as to what their teens desire in relationships with their parents, ways to Show Up Strong for your teens, and how we need to do less of the doing and more of the listening and supporting during this season of parenting. 

Cameron (Dr. Cam) Caswell, PhD is an adolescent psychologist, family success coach, teen translator, author, and the host of “Parenting Teens with Dr. Cam” podcast. She is on a mission to help parents build strong, positive relationships with their teens through improved communication, connection, and understanding using her PRIME Parenting Method. Dr. Cam is the mom of a teen too, so she not only talks the talk, she walks the walk!

To find out more information or contact Dr. Cam visit askdrcam.com.

To listen to Dr. Cam's podcast visit https://www.askdrcam.com/podcast.

Content Warning: This episode covers topics of Sexual Assault and PTSD. 

Have you ever felt the need to build brick walls around your heart? Around your mind? Have you locked doors to protect your heart?

How does it feel to live locked behind those doors?

What happens when those doors come blasting open and how do you deal with that?

In this episode, my guest, Kim Lengling, talks about how a sexual assault as a young woman had her become a 'wall builder' and how she dealt with that wall crumbling. Her story is one of resilience, self worth, and showing the power of taking control of a very difficult situation.

Her story shows how the power of healthy healing can change your life and how finding peace can truly shift your heart at a soul level.

Kim Lengling is a Christian and veteran living with PTSD from MST (Military Sexual Assault). She began writing in 2004 and is an author and freelance writer. She has found over the years that her writing is cathartic. She believes sharing her story as well as other's stories, helps to provide a light where there may be none. She believes in changing the world, or someone's world, one story at a time.

To learn more about the work Kim does please visit:

https://www.facebook.com/shelikestowritewords https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlylengling/

To check out Kim's Podcast "Let Fear Bounce" here:

https://anchor.fm/kim-lengling1

What kind of words did you hear as a child? Were they uplifting? Encouraging? Discouraging? Demeaning? How do you feel when you hear someone tell you that you 'CAN'T' do something?

The words that fill our brains as children truly do register and formulate the beliefs we hold closely. It is crucial that children hear positive encouraging words because those words are the seeds that start to grow without our hearts. With the right nurturing, those seeds will create an amazing harvest!

In this episode, my guest, Chris Tice, talks about his childhood and how that affected his beliefs about what he 'could' do and what others felt he wasn't able to do, and how that affected him.

But one person made all the difference! Listen how the positive words of one person literally change the trajectory of his life, his future, and his parenting!

Chris Tice is a leadership coach focusing on leadership communication, training and development, and safety/crisis management and avoidance.  He is also an inspirational speaker in which he focuses on mindset and forgiveness to live a healthier inspired lifestyle.  Chris has been in leadership for the last 20 years and enjoys helping others to become greater servant leaders.  Chris along with his wife Micaeh, founded EagleFire Enrichment as a leadership solutions company.