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Do you feel like you live in a world of fast food and scheduled chaos? Overwhelmed with meal planning and grocery shopping? Today on Holly's Highlights podcast we have special guest Balaboosta, Linda Lederman, with us to help us make ordinary weeknight meals extraordinary with speed, ease, yum and lots of fun!

From meal planning and easy meal plan and time save hacks, to learning how to become a grocery shopping ninja and actually create an atmosphere at dinner where our family doesn't want to speed eat and leave - Linda is going to help us learn how to serve dinners with side dishes of games and clever conversations.

Don't miss out on Linda's FREE gift to listeners: Easy One Dish Recipe Guide

Connect with Linda at:
email: [email protected]
website: BalaboostasSecret.com
facebook: @BalaboostasSecret
facebook group: @easyweeknightsdinnerforbusymoms
instagram: @balaboostas.secret

This episode sponsored by: Pampered Chef's Independent Consultant, Tina Martin
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Related Episodes on Holly's Highlights Podcast:
Season 1, Episode 7 - Losing Those Covid Pounds

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Ever feel overwhelmed at the thought of your mounding bills or upcoming expenses? How about a house fixer upper list that keeps growing? A travel bucket list where you don't seem to ever venture? Or maybe just a pluthera of gifts to buy for graduations, birthdays, and holidays?

Today we have all the way from France financial guru, Sara Fernandes, with us on Holly's Highlights podcast. Sara will help us become more confident when dealing with money to where we don't allow money to master us, but us master our money. We'll leave today with a better insight as to how to develop healthy financial habits so that we can truly set up ourselves up for budgeting success.

Connect with Sara at Money, Whine and Cheese
Facebook: @thesparklingbudgeteer
www.thesarafernandes.com

This episode sponsored by: David R. York, author of "The Gift of Lift"
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Related Holly's Highlights Podcast Episodes:
Season 1, Episode 12: Year End Finances
Season 2, Episode 11: Preparing for the Unexpected
Season 2, Episode 19: Breaking the Chains of Addiction

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Do you dread that business dinner, social gathering, or even date because you just aren't sure what you will have in common with other people, or if you’ll have anything to talk about at all? Today on Holly's Highlights podcast we have as our special guest famed celebrity interviewer and movie critic, Tony Toscano. Tony will help navigate us through uncomfortable social settings to where we find common ground with anyone we are speaking with, and leave a memorable impression as result.

Tony is a nationally recognized movie critic. His in-depth conversations with such notable stars as Ben Affleck, Mel Gibson, Steven Speilberg, Julia Roberts, Gwyneth Paltrow and Denzel Washington show a different, more relaxed side of celebrities. In fact, in 2002 his show, Talking Pictures, was awarded an EMMY for "Outstanding Achievement in Interview Programming."

Connect with Tony at Screen Chatter.


This episode is sponsored by: Holding Out Help
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Related episodes on Holly's Highlights podcast:
Season 2:
Episode 4 - 3 ways to use your personality assessment results
Episode 18 - How to Develop Friendships - The Gift of Friends
Episode 24 -What does our body language say about us?
Season 3:
Episode 8 - How to have tough conversations

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Planning a summer getaway and need a good book for the beach, or that long car or plane ride, or perhaps some reading material for lounging in the hammock at home? I'd love to share with you on Holly's Highlights podcast five must reads for personal growth/development.

Now, for our non-readers, before I lose you here - might I encourage you to just give it a try. Whether it be 10 pages a day or 10 minutes a day. I wasn't a reader eithr - believe it or not, I still wouldn't claim to be a reader.  I'm more of an achiever and I like how with books you can start and finish something all while learning and growing at the same time - we'll call that a win! 

But there are different ways to get engaged and learn from a good book - whether reading it, listening to it on audio, or even getting involved in a book club for more discussion and perhaps ideas of application from what you read. It helps though if you are reading a book you actually enjoy - so give yourself permission to stop reading a book you aren't liking so much. I personally mark up and write and highlight all inside the books I read - the more notes I make in a book - the more you can tell I enjoyed it.

So, let's pretend you and I are enjoying our favorite beverage together while sitting at a bistro table at the local cafe - and let's take less than fifteen minutes to chat about five must reads for personal growth and development.

This episode brought to you by: Rooted & Co.
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- home-staging 
- Covid-19 cleaning
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As I prepare to head out for a leadership retreat, I'm trying to decide which books to pack for any downtime I might have while away. Looking at my pluthera of books i realize there are some great leadership must-reads that I'd love to share with you in hopes of helping encouraging you in your own professional and personal growth as a leader.

From simplistic easy-reads such as Fish (by Stephen Lundin) to the more in-depth books of Brene Brown, we will walk through five must read leadership books that are sure to help with creating ownership, embed value of courage in developing your culture, outline development for your own personal and career success, cultivate braver and more daring leaders, provide pivotal insights in servant leadership, and both equip and encourage us to meet challenges of today with timeless principles of dynamic leadership.

This episode sponsored by: Holding Out Help
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Phone: 801.548.3492

Related Holly's Highlights podcast episodes:
Book 1
S.1 E.7 - 4 Tips to Have a Grateful Heart
S.1 E.9 - 6 Tips to Avoid Burnout
S.2 E.26 - How to Have an Attitude of Gratitude

Book 2
S.2 E.6 - Building, Developing, and Empowering Teams

Book 3
S.2 E.4 - 3 Ways to Use Your Personality Assessment Results
S.3 E.3 - The Language of Love - What's Your Love Language

Book 4
S.1 E.3 - How to be a Leader Others Follow

Book 5
S.1 E.5 - How to be a Leader of Character


Looking for someone to help you grow and develop in your leadership role, have more positive impact in your role with your team, reach goals, and act as a sounding board with experience and educational perspective on various challenges? I'd love to work with you as a leadership coach for you and/or your leadership team. Visit HollyCurby.com/work-with-me or email [email protected].

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As women we  can relate in our broken humanness the lack of having unshakeable confidence at times. Join me as we vulnerably discuss some of the main areas that rattle our confidence: Imposter Syndrome, the Comparison Trap, or simply feeling stuck.

Perhaps there are 10 tips we can use to tap into that unshakeable confidence. Afterall, as actress/model Blake Lively says, "The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence."

This episode brought to you by: Christy Flater, Beauty Advisor
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More podcast episodes on Holly's Highlights related to today's episode:
- 4 Tips to Have a Grateful Heart

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Let me guess - having tough conversations (or dealing with conflict) is probably NOT on your list of faves. Well, surprise alert - we ALL have to deal with having such tough conversations at some point in our life. The scary part there might be just not knowing what having those conversations looks like.

Well, today on Holly's Highlights podcast we are going to unpack five tips to use when having to have those tough conversations. We'll even take a look at what our options are for decision making within those conversations, and action items that we may want to consider when coming to an end of those tough conversations.

Of course at the end of the day "you can't fix stupid", so we'll even address some other outlying factors that may impact the outcome of such conversations.

Bottom line, we'll come to learn, as well-known speaker Peter Bromberg says, "When we avoid difficult conversations, we trade short-term discomfort for long-term dysfunction," and therfore hopefully be brave enough to start a conversation that matters...no matter how tough that conversation may feel.


This episode brought to you by: Rooted & Co.
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website: rootedandcompany.com
email: [email protected]
phone: 801.449.0602

Mention you heard about Rooted & Co. on Holly's Highlights podcast and you'll receive one of the following, FREE, when buying or selling your home with Rooted & Co:
- home-staging
- Covid-19 cleaning
- home warranty
- $500 gift card of your choice
Contact Rooted & Co. for all the details.


Related Episodes:
- What Does Our Body Language Say About Us?
- How To Be A Barnabas in a Kardashian World
- How to Develop Friendships
- Overcoming Inferiority
- Building, Developing, and Empowering Teams
- 3 Ways to Use Your Personality Assessment
- How to Be A Leader of Character
- How to Be a Leader Others Follow

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Please tell me I am not the only one who has struggled with finding that right balance when it comes to health and wellness? Years ago I was going through one of the toughest, most pivotal moments of my life when my brother encouraged me to stay active and find outlets for my physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

Well, one thing I found was that all four of these, in one way or another, involve REST. Forbes did a great article about 6 pieces of expert sleep advice where they unpacked sleeps effect on our immune health, for fitness, for our brain health, for preventative health, consistency, and overall routine. Experts say that the more we can balance these four areas, the healthier our body systems - which overall effects our health and wellness.

The challenge seems to be in knowing HOW to find that balance? Well, today on Holly's Highlights we are going to take a closer look at exploring these areas, ask some questions for self reflection in each one, identify how you can set goals to acheive that overall balance, and provide resources and tools to equip you for a better health and wellness for the season of life you are in right now.

At the end of it all - as spring has sprung - bloom where you are planted - in health in wellness in all.

Related Holly's Highlights Podcast Episodes:
- Balancing Life - Student Edition
- 6 Tips to Avoid Burnout
- 7 Steps to Goal Setting
- A Season of Rest
- 4 Tips to Have a Grateful Heart
- How to Have an Attitude of Gratitude
- Losing Those Covid Pounds
- Overcoming Inferiority

This episode brought to you by: PostNet Draper
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We can live just about anywhere in the world right now and see, read, or hear about the devastation of what is happening in Ukraine - to the Ukrainian people - it’s heartbreaking. Today we have a special guest from Ukraine who will share with us practical ways we can help those in Ukraine. From what organizations to donate to, the power of prayer, and contacting our government officials; to better educating ourselves, following the Ukrainian social media, and even sharing what we learn with others - you'll learn valuable insights into how you can make a positive impact on the lives of those affected by this tragic war.

Related Holly's Highlights Podcast Episodes:
As Luck Would Have It - The Power of Prayer
Operation Christmas Child
How to Make a Positive Impact in Your Community

Organization Resources:
* World Central Kitchen - takes food across borders nonstop for women and children who are still in Ukraine as well as refugee camps in Poland and Romania
* Come Back Alive - supports the Ukrainian soldiers with needs such as food and supplies
* Red Cross - supports with food, shelter, and medical aid to families who are staying in Ukraine
* CARE - helps support women and families with food, water, shelter, and hygeine kits
* America Cares - provides medicine and supplies in Poland for those leaving Ukraine
* Globus Relief - provides hospital supplies
* Razom for Ukraine - provides medical supplies
* Fight for Right

Related Social Media Resources:
Zelenskiy_offcial
Vitaliyklitschko_official
Savelife.in.ua
Razom.for.ukraine
Kyivindependent_official
Ukrainiansinsolidarity

Connect with Kate:
Instagram (kate_sergyeyeva)
Facebook (Kate Sergyeyeva-Gonzalez)

Related episode on Holly's Highlights podcast:
Season 1 Episode 6 - Operation: Christmas Child

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As St. Patrick's Day approaches we tend to think about those little leprechauns, browse our wardrobe for apparel of green, and give into superstitions of luck. Well, as much as luck would have it in some peoples lives, I have always preferred to say blessed. Basically because I'm not sure I believe in luck (Yikes! I said it!).

No, I believe more in the power of prayer. Now I may have lost you there, but stick with me for a moment. There are some challenges to accepting this thing called prayer which we will discuss on Holly's Highlights podcast today. First - why pray? Or second, if they decide that praying may be worth giving a shot, well, they may not know how to pray.

Join me as we dive into this thing called luck - and discover the power of prayer.

This episode brought to you by: Risen Life Church
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Related Holly's Highlights Episodes:
4 Tips to Have a Grateful Heart
The Hope of Christmas
Lessons from the Leprechaun
Purpose in Our Path
A Season of Rest
How to Have an Attitude of Gratitude

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