Most of us grew up with siblings, some of us are best of friends with them, some are not, and everything in between. We wanted our children to be as close as we could foster. They are their own beings and will forge their own path, but we wanted to set a beautiful foundation for what relationship could mean in these foundational years through fostering strong bonds between out children. It isn't always easy, but it is always worth it to see those moments of kindness, respect, protection of each other.

Listen in to hear how and why we have had this as a pivotal aspect of our home life.

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We are all trying to live our best life, and part of that is being in the best health we can be, right? But how much time do we spend thinking about the hidden toxins in our daily lives? I know I do in fits and spurts. Somedays I'm all over it, other days convenience reigns. In truth I know we all want the best for ourselves and our loved ones, In this episode Karen and I dive into her professional history, health journey and how she became passionate about finding hidden toxins in daily living and helping people remove them, one step at a time.

Tune in to hear some helpful tips to go low toxin and some easy swaps we can make over time to help us clean up our homes and live our best lives.

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Hello my friends! In this episode I decided to share with you what I think the gatekeeper role really means. We as women hold this role, sometimes effortlessly, sometimes with anxiety, often with grace but what does it mean and how does it really affect everyone?

This is one of the most important roles in our lives and the lives of our families and we need to see it as such. It is a blessing and the crux of shaping our home life and culture.

Listen in to hear how I think it touches every piece of our days!

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Manifesting - it is something we have all heard so much about but seems like this untapped ability, at least to me. In this episode Monica describes many of the twists and turns her life has taken and how she was lead to learning about the brain's inner workings to leverage that to make dreams come true.

Monica is a life coach who focuses on how to reprogram our thinking, using tools we have at our disposal (journaling for example) to really shift the wiring in ourselves to live with more intentionality and get more joy out of the lives we are living.

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Podcast Notes From a Neuroscience Nerd: The Science Behind Living Your Best Life

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Just yesterday a friend was over asking me how I get my children to do things (like shoveling goat poop into the bucket of our tractor to move to a pile for it to season in the back pasture) and I truly didn't know how to answer. I wanted to say, we just do. The truth is it has been years of consistent, sometimes hard, work to make a home culture of cooperation and collaboration where we all live here so we all do the hard, gross, tedious things, so we can all have time to play later.

In this episode I try and expand on how and why we view chores as essential and how our attitude around them has been essential in cultivating the home culture we want for our family.

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This episode is near and dear to my heart. I loved my first conversation with Shiloh Minor so very much I had to have her back, and in truth I think this conversation was even better.

Polarity is a super hot topic in the dating world - but what about once we commit to our partner? What then? How do we maintain the ease we found while dating once we live together, have children together, are truly building a life together? These are all topics we explore in this conversation and I trul think polarity from this angle is life changing.

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Welcome back! In this episode I look at the benefits and sacrifices (they all come up as benefits in the end as I see them!) of our homeschooling journey. Homeschooling is a wonderful privilege our family enjoys, and it is not without it's drawbacks. The truth is the chauffeuring, the financial differences, the time commitment in general, these are all real and often down played - but they are so worth it!

Listen in and see how I see this part of the journey as all good because at the end of the day the pros outweigh the cons every single time.

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I, personally, dislike the term self care - I feel it is often just one more things added to the to do list. In this episode Butch Phelps walks us through how he went from overweight and divorced to married to his best friend, in great shape and feeling better than ever. He really took the time to cultivate a life of his dreams.

Butch really likes to show everyone that to really take care of ourselves, to do anything really, we need to first truly know WHY we are doing it and then the doing becomes immensely easier. In his technique Butch outlines the mind-body connection and how he sees it as essential to understand that piece to create internal safety for muscles to release and allow deep healing and pain free living.

Tune in to hear all the wisdom Butch shares about his journey and how you can become pain fee by really understanding the mind-body connection and work WITH your body to create the safety to heal.

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You Tube Channel The Muscle Repair Shop

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Stretch n' Release: The Missing Piece to a More Pain-Free Life

Massage Works - The Proof: Massage is more than just a luxury; it could change your life

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In this episode I outline the 5 reasons why we have chosen to start and continue homeschooling our 4 children. The main reasons are more lifestyle and less academic, and I forgot one of the main ones: fostering relationships between our children, how could I forget that?!?

Listen in for some real reasons why it works for us and watch for a follow up episode about what I see as benefits and sacrifices we've chosen and found along the way.

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Entrepreneur and author Miles Spencer and I sat down and had a wonderful discussion full of vivid stories inspired by his latest book, A Line in the Sand, which he co-authored with Wells Jones. The book is an adventure saga set against the back drop of the MIddle East. The inspiration came from a real life trip Miles and Wells took where they were in with the people of various regions of the Middle East and were able to stay with them, dine with them and learn about them in ways we do not see in most media.

Miles shares with me some stories of the travels and how family, food, religion and people are the same across cultures.

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A Line in the Sand by Miles Spencer and Wells Jones

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