Created for This with Danielle Roberts

Creator of She Illuminates, Strategist and Mentor, Chamel Evans joins me on the Created for This podcast today. She's is a faith mentor, encourager, and designer for Christian creatives, and entrepreneurs.

Her brand fuses Biblical truth with creative application to empower Christian women to live out their truest authentic selves, love and influence those in their circle with grace, break free from mental roadblocks, and chase their callings with fire through faith-infused mentoring, strategy/design, and actionable resources.

With a husband, a full-time job, three little boys, and a home to manage, Chamel understands the struggle of making time for God, overcoming fear and procrastination, and the sneaky guilt and envy that comparison brings. Chamel knows how passionate our God-given dreams need our hearts and not our fears, so she is on a mission to help women knit them together, successfully, so that they can live the lives they love. A life full of faith & massive influence -- on God's terms.

In this episode, she's sharing with us how her journey has led her back to a 9-5 job and running her business at the same time. I ask the practical things she's doing to stay on top of life and thriving. I'm so excited to share Chamel with you because she's been a bright light of truth in my life.

You can find her on her website or Instagram.

It was January. It was cold. I had a baby who was a few weeks old and I was taking a break in the shower, doing one of my favorite shower activities - praying. I found myself praying for my business, for my clients, and suddenly, God called me to quit my biggest client.

I was a little shocked considering we used that money to buy food for the family. More importantly, I wasn't ready to quit working with my beloved client. The thing is, after that, I started to understand that God calls us out of something good so he can fulfill his mission. That mission is the next best thing he's called me to. And that's huge and special.

I continued to pray and ask God for a timeframe and I finally got one. Again, I questioned God if this was right. I also went back and forth with him on the timing, thinking I knew better.

Having a Christ-centered business means it's not always going to be convenient or expected, but it's almost always according to God's plan.

With that being said, I told my husband we would be expecting a financial change. God provided - my husband got a raise and a better paying position in his company. As we prepared for the change, I saw other things fall into place because when God calls us into something, he equips us for that next step.

Money mindset for Christians are is so important. In this episode, Felicia and I talk about money, owning a business and debt reduction. There are a lot of limiting beliefs in the church about money. I really appreciate how Felicia is open about her own money beliefs and shares how she coaches Christians to coins.

For more of Felicia, here are some places you can find her:

Her website

Instagram

Facebook

Christians to Coins Prayer Facebook group

I'm getting real about money and talking honestly about our finances. My money mindset has changed and I've had some new revelations and wonderful revelations from the Bible. Listen in as I talk through them with you.

We as business owners can be senders for missionaries as well as being missionaries in our own towns.

Study on Rest "Reclaiming the Sabbath" from Sarah Kootz.

Youth With A Mission (YWAM)

5 Lessons Learned from Rest

To follow SJ in all of the different places, here are the places and links for her:

Christian Women in Business's website and Instagram

The Automation Girl website and Instagram

Heather Boersma shares how her life experiences led her to finding a place of rest. As she dug deep in her relationship with Christ, she found her identity and also found that she had been working for love instead of working from love. This realization changed her striving to thriving.

She's teaching the next generation this lesson and others in her upcoming book Letters from a Big Sister, which has letters from Jenna Kutcher, Jess Connolly, Kristiene Dimarco and more. 

Join in on our conversation now by listening to the podcast as we talk about rest, identity and how God equips us for what he wants us to do.

Heather is a speaker, author, wife and mom who has shared her story with thousands of teen girls and women across Canada, the United States, and Australia over the last 12 years. She began touring with a ministry for teen girls called Beautiful Unique Girl with singer/songwriter Amanda Cook in 2005 and spoke at over one hundred events, impacting thousands of teen girls. She continues to speak at summer camps, women’s retreats, conferences and more. Heather has a B.A. and B.Ed in High School English and Theatre and has taught in both public and private school settings. Heather wrote for and hosted a TV show called Beautiful Unique Girl that airs on Hope Television and online. Heather published a youth devotional book called Dream Big (affiliate link) (Word Alive Press, 2012), has written 2 ebooks, and has had articles published in Tapestry magazine, Brio, Susie, The Influence Network blog, (in)courage blog and more. Heather currently lives in the Canadian prairies, but dreams of one day living on the coast. She is Mama to three wildly wonderful children, Cohen, Claire and Byron, and their Australian Shepherd, Bailey. Her husband Alex is an entrepreneur and business owner who is always ready for an adventure, especially if it involves playing in the mountains or the ocean.

Follow her on her website or Instagram account.

You can learn more about Letters from a Big Sister and watch the book baby come to life on their Instagram.

I'm so excited to have Meghan Birt joining me in this episode of the Created for This podcast! She's going to talk about one of my favorite things - taking care of our bodies and minds. 

Meghan is a chiropractor, educator, and healthy living encourager. She's also a wife and mom to one sweet girl (with a second on the way). Dr. Meghan’s love of natural health started many years before getting her chiropractic degree. Healthy food and nutrition was the catalyst into becoming a chiropractor and she was able to achieve healing in her own body through natural means. Dr. Meghan wants to inspire a love of health in women and believes every individual has the opportunity to live their healthiest life possible, which can be achieved through natural approaches.

Meghan's top 3 tips for us are:

1. Fuel your body well. In the episode, we talk about the supplement Fruits and Greens. You can use this link to buy your own. I use this daily and it's made a noticeable difference in the way I feel.
2. Sleep.
3. Self-care. 
4. (BONUS) Use the resources available to you. We talked about Meghan's Just Enjoy Health Academy, Young Living Essential Oils (my link to sign up as a Young Living member or check out the oils) and Beauty Counter (Meghan's affiliate link).

Want more of Meghan and her health knowledge?

Join Meghan's Facebook group

Meghan's Meghan's Instagram account

Inga Lizdenyte shares her story of facing death from an auto accident in Lithuania when she was 19. Her story is truly amazing, awe-inspiring and so encouraging to live a life devoted to God and be recklessly in love with him. 

Inga's a life coach and has some great advice for anyone going through life (whether good or bad). Don't miss this episode - I was blown away by her!

Find Inga on her website, Facebook page or her Instagram.

Buy her book now on Amazon - "UNSTOPPABLE. It’s a Choice" (This is an affiliate code and I do get a commission at no cost to you when you buy the book through this link. Thank you!)

I wanted to pop in quick and share with you what's on my heart for you. These are things that I do when I need some encouragement for my day.

- The first one is one that I use when I feel like my kids are crazy, when I need to pray and be encouraged, so basically every day. It's worship music! I pull up my nifty YouTube app and listen. The one that I love right now is So Will I (100 Billion X) from Hillsong United and Rooftops from Jesus Culture.

Worship music is great for when I need inspiration, so I can get in the mood and in the zone. When I start writing something, I pray and ask Jesus for his words to flow through me. It's someone else singing and praising God so I can write and still be praising God.

- Secondly prayer. Whether that's with you alone, with your kids or your partner. If you have a friend to type "hey, can you pray for me today" is so good! That's why I talk so much about having an inner circle who is willing to pray for you, for your business. If you have times when it's a rough day when you've been up all night, it's necessary.

My girlfriend and her husband are in town sharing about their missionary journey and what's next so I was up late last night coming up with a few different ideas as to how to do something with what they were sharing. She was talking about wanting to use their experiences to teach kids about mission work so in my head, like every good creative entrepreneur, I was up thinking through writing something up.

It's so powerful to have those people who can pray and lift you up, pray for zest and zeal for their day.

- The last thing that gets me excited and going for the day is to make a to-do list so I'm not having to remember everything in my head, but rather, having it on paper so that I can scratch things off as they get completed.

If it's on paper and I've got a pocket of time, I'm able to work on something small. My husband and I were talking about to-do lists. Someone was talking (possibly JP Morgan) and saying something about "show me how to make a million dollars and I'll give you x amount of money." Someone sitting with him wrote on the top of a piece of paper "to-do list" and gave it to him. While making a to-do list might not make you a million dollars, but it makes a difference in how much you get done.

I read The Fringe Hours a few years ago and it made a huge difference in how I view time and productivity. We've got 24-hours in our day and if we use eight of those hours, or if you're like me and you want 10 hours of sleep, that leaves time to cook, eat, go to the bathroom and shower, kids and family and girlfriends who want to go do things. That takes away those hours. So if you write down what you want to do for the day or the week, then set priorities for the day, you get things done.

Jessica's point was that in tiny pockets of time you've got, you can work towards getting things done. It makes me super excited to get my list done. I can do things when my husband gets home, or I got a text for a free Redbox which I'm totally going to go get. I deserve a break and I want to make time for it.

I will always be one for to-do lists, unless you get super overwhelmed by them, then we'll figure something else out for you. 

That's my encouragement for today - go make it a great day!

Basic Girl Marketing Strategist Danielle Cevallos is joining me today on this episode. Danielle is a teacher by day and marketing strategist by night. She helps women start and grow businesses that are both profitable and purposeful. Her experience ranges from missionary to online personal trainer to copywriter to online shop owner and she is now committed to helping women earn more money so they can do more good!

You can find her at her website or Instagram.

Listen in on this excellent interview to find out what steps you can take now to start marketing your business better, what Danielle thinks about manifesting clients and why her business is called Basic Girl.