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You are in for a treat with our two dynamic, literally “world changers” who are heavily involved in serving communities – from two profound lenses.

Our first guest: First Lady of Tennessee, Mrs Crissy Haslam.

As First Lady of Tennessee, Crissy has introduced a three-part initiative that focuses on the interplay between family engagement and literacy improvement in Tennessee. She has been traveling the state to stress the importance of parents as first teachers, parents as education partners, and also to raise awareness for the exponential value of reading on grade level by the 3rd grade.

We appreciated her distinction of "politics" vs "public service". You'll love her!

Our next guest: Brad Dennis is the Search and Rescue Director for KlaasKids. Which oversees the search and rescue of missing and exploited children.

His rescue efforts have been chronicled on CNN, The Early Show, The Today Show, Dateline, MSNBC, and 48 Hours.

His tenacity is contagious.

Great Resource to get involved when you don't know where or how: called2rescue.com

http://ow.ly/IaEzi

So, what can you tweak by 1% to for amazing results?

What if your 1% was taking just 5 minutes of your evening to incorporate this simple discipline?

Each night, or at the end of your work day, write down the six most important things that need to be accomplished the next day. Let go of tomorrow’s worries by prioritizing the tasks the night before. In the words of Elsa, Let It Go. Knowing that you have taken the time to think about the next day, and put it on paper, you can relax and get the rest you need to tackle it... tomorrow.

Let’s learn more tips from Small Business Big Pressure: A Faith-Based Approach to Guide the Ambitious Entrepreneur author Darryl W. Lyons, CEO and CoFounder of PAX Financial Group. We will also be talking to Krista Evans from Bloom, a ministry for church planters’ spouses.

Are you standing (or sitting) at a fork in the road?

Joining us this week is our special guest, Karen Swallow Prior. She is a Professor of English at Liberty University. She is also the author of Fierce Convictions: and Literature in the Soul of Me. She contributes to Christianity Today, The Atlantic, and Relevant magazine, among other publications.

Her books include Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More - Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist (Thomas Nelson 2014) and a literary and spiritual memoir, Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me (T. S. Poetry Press 2012).

We’ve probably all heard the saying by Stephen Covey: The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

There’s a lot of “main” stuff happening in this quote. The point? Keeping our focus on the main thing and not allowing the business, screams and interruptions of life to distract us from doing what really matters.

This week on Girlfriendit Radio we are excited to have our fun loving, people loving, and a dynamic leader of the ministry of Bloom (encouraging and equipping church planter’s wives and other ministry leaders, Debbie Jones. We are going to get real with our struggles of keeping the main thing the main thing and share some tips on staying focused. This will be a great launching pad to running into a new year – highly focused on the main things!!!

Join the discussion on Girlfriendit FB.

Our guests this week on Girlfriendit Radio both contagiously approach life as an adventure and live to write about it all.

NLB Horton: An award-winning author, she’s passionate about her faith, archaeology, women’s issues, and the environment. She writes contemporary suspense with a thread of romance, from the crossroads of faith and espionage.

Carla McDougal: Award-winning author and speaker, Carla founded Reflective Life Ministries in 2008. Her latest book, My Prayer Chair, won multiple awards in 2013.

Get ready to be disrupted from the ordinary! It will be contagious!

What have you seen or experienced that just hurts your soul?

We just want to prepare you for our show today and the dark subject matter. It is an area of life that is disturbing and sometimes invisible.

Handcuffed to a doorknob for months by a man she originally thought was her boyfriend.

Then handed over to a middle-aged woman who transferred her to traffickers in Las Vegas.

Held there with other victims in an abandoned warehouse and forced to work as a teen prostitute.

Taken back and forth across the country for the same purposes.

This is Chong Kim’s dramatic story from 1995 until the day she escaped in 1997. Chong provides chilling insight into how organized crime runs its sex trafficking operations in the US. Women and children are being enslaved to satisfy the twisted desires of clients.

Chong Kim, is the Woman Whose Story Served as the Basis for Megan Griffith's Film Eden.