Amanda has a lot to say about how we watch over our heart and attitude as we take on projects. She has a biblical perspective that has helped her think through her values, what is important and her goals in a way that is helpful and right. She has no shortage of ideas or energy but she has learned to be content and thankful with the work that the Lord has brought to her hand. While she loves to pursue various hobbies, she knows that her identity and worth in this life or the next is found in Christ- not in the success or failure of a venture. She provides sweet encouragement for moms who are working through some of these thoughts and great questions to ask ourselves to find a good place to start when we feel like we are maxed out or overwhelmed. If you have ever thought about starting a venture Amanda is a great resource to hear how she thought through monetizing some of her skills.

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In this Take 5 episode Katie talks about her logo, the bee, and the inspiration behind it. She also shares her heart about why she started the podcast and how it came to be.

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Hillary Rudd is a new friend and a northern California lover. She has a clothing company and has thought through how she can glorify God where she is at in her business. Ethics and integrity are of the utmost priority. She talks about how she has been shaped by the input of others and how that has help set the tracks in her life. She shares great wisdom she heard growing up from her parents. Even in the midst of her growing business she is finding ways to help and serve others. Hillary has a teachable spirit and a creative and entrepreneurial bent.

She talks about how she went about starting her business and has very practical and important things that any business owner needs to consider. In addition, Hillary has great ways for us to shop and think ethically and be a fair labor consumer. While serving others through her business, Hillary is swimming upstream against “fast fashion”. She reminds us that the things we do and how we treat people does matter and very important.

She is a creative mind through and through and talks about how she gets things done through writing lists and takes everyday as it comes. She has learned how to glorify God in each season and has lead her through many choices. How we treat people reflects what we believe about them. It is important to glorify God in EVERY area of life, not just in our areas of strength. Hillary has great *non-professional* nuts and bolts logistics for new business owners including how to get an EIN number, Sellers permit and when to pay that, and a great recomendation for creating a website. She is really industrious and it is inspiring to think about the ways we can produce things with our time and creativity.

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Emily is a beautiful and gracious friend. She is a pastor’s wife, mother of 3 boys and a wedding and portrait photographer. She has “real talk” about what balance actually looks like- it is more like a seesaw than a perfect well oiled machine. She talks about living the life that the Lord has given to you without comparing to others. She also gives encouragement and “permission” to young moms to focus on the joy of being at home.

She has worked to enfuse beauty, grace and kindness into her business, which sets herself apart from others in her industry. She views her career as a service industry and a way to honor Christ where she is at and do her best work for her clients. God has given her an eye to see beauty all around her and she seeks it true beauty and not just the pretty.

Her great wisdom and insight about how to find contentment and patience in her business. Emily has a sweet outlook on life and her goals and really looking for ways to slow down, build relationships with her boys and others. Many things make her life rich even if we are not rich. The Lord has given her a sweet grace to take things as they comes and watching over her heart with all diligence. She has seen the blessing of living in the now for the glory of God. Be encouraged and find a new strength in some of the areas where you need some perspective. We talk about taking our thoughts captive and making decisions based on truth and not based on our emotions or how we are feeling. Her candid look at how she has let her priorities get out of whack and how the Lord has helped her keep her eyes on Him. As a woman who loves the Lord o

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Ann Tatum, owner of Duct Tape & Denimtalks about how she turned a hobby into job and how, over the years she learned how to generate an income doing the things she loved while she was raising her girls. She has a varied background and always has a project up her sleeves. Hear from Ann as she talks about how her ventures have grown and changed over the years. She has held her plans with an open hand as each season has come and gone.

Hear how her business Duct Tape and Denim got it’s name and how she is blazing her own opportunity and been a learner of life. She also reveals the name of her dream HGTV show. Her practical and helpful *not professional* business advice is a must hear for anyone thinking about starting a business including how to narrow down what business opportunity would be a good fit for you in your season. She gets down to brass tacks about the realities- challenges and joys of running a small business. How she follows her husbands lead and supports him while pursuing and growing her business is great wisdom.

Because she sets her own hours, she is able to balance her priorities and keep the Lord first in what she does. Hearing how she finds balance is helpful and really helpful for someone determining how they spend their days. She shatters the common myth that we can do it all, with great actionable steps about how to prioritize our time that we can implement today. Ann prioritizes time in a way so that per priorities are in line and before adding things into her schedule she ask

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Renee has attended NorthCreek Church since she was 3 years old and has been shaped by the women and people that God has brought into her life. She is a single woman who has used her time and the discipleship of others to create a ministry of discipling young women to wait well, use the gifts that God has given you.

She talks about how God used the ending of a relationship with a long-term high school boyfriend helped set the tracks for her future and how that was a foundational time in her spiritual growth. Being involved in a local church has been crucial to Renee finding her identity in Christ and having a personal walk with the Lord. The lady who was discipling her has provided an amazing stability and mutually beneficial relationship.

Renee is living out the life that God has given her and grown in contentment over the years. Studying the Providence of God while serving at the church in Sunday School was pivotal in her understanding who God is and how He works in our lives. Her faith has been cultivated through serving the body of Christ.

She paralells how she has grown professionally and how she has found the balance of pouring herself into work and serving the church. She maximized her season of life and was able to grow and develp professionally, Knowing that God’s timing is perfect, she came to a crossroads of chosing what and whose plan was she on in life. Since she was unmarried in her thirties she learned to trust that God’s timing is perfect and where her identity was found.

As Renee began to serve in college ministry she was

In this very first episode Katie is joined by her husband Gavin, who helps her describe and talk about the goals and directions of Go Talk To Katie