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Michelle and Somer are moms, wives, women called to work, best friends and co-leaders of She Works His Way - a discipleship community for working women.

Dear friend,

We know it deeply. It is so hard to juggle work, home, and spiritual life. As working women, we've wrestled with tough questions:

• How can I be effective in my work, and stay committed to the Gospel?
• How can I be dedicated to my family, when my job is so demanding?
• Why am I working so hard, and still so unfulfilled?

Sound familiar? Like you, we see a culture that promotes success at all costs, and working women are falling for it. It's happening every day. Priorities are shifting. Things are getting done . . . but are we doing what matters most?

And that's why we wrote this book. This is the story of how we traded the lies of the world for the truth of our loving Father--the lessons we learned that challenged culture's "good things" so we could find the greatest thing.

The book is really a conversation--a conversation that pushes back against our culture with a Gospel-centered approach to work and womanhood, for the glory of God and the good of others.

Let's get to work. His way.

Michelle + Somer

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Dr. Halie Schoff is a chiropractor and integrative health practitioner with a passion for helping people understand the root cause for their ailments and using natural means to bring the body back to balance. Dr. Halie has had extensive training on whole food nutrition, hormone balance and gut health. She is outspoken on breaking the stigma that "common does not mean normal", and just because symptoms such as bloating and period pain might be common to many, doesn't mean we have to experience them. She is on a mission to help people reclaim their health and rebalance their body through nutrition and lifestyle. You can connect with her on instagram, @drhalieschoff or tune into her weekly podcast Alpha Health and Wellness Radio where she teaches you how you can be the ALPHA of your health!

This episode kicks off with our guest, Dr. Halie Schoff, sharing her personal experience with her mom's breast cancer journey. Halie shares how much she learned through that process and how it reiterated the importance of focusing on "root cause" medicine.

Kari and Halie move into discussion surrounding the importance of metabolic health and the role fasting plays with proper metabolic health. Fasting helps encourage healthy detox and having healthy detox pathways that keep things moving is so important to our health. Staying well hydrated, dry brushing, sweating daily, restorative deep sleep, and using essential oils topically are a few ways you can start today working toward improved detox and lymphatic drainage.

Kari and Halie move into discussing the role detoxing our environment plays into the way our body functions and our long term health.

We wrap this episode with Kari and Halie discussing the steps you can start taking today to better yourself for today, tomorrow, and the days to come.

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Jenn Pike is a Functional Nutritionist and Medical Exercise Specialist. She specializes in women's health and hormones and is the Bestselling author of "The Simplicity Project" as well as her two cookbooks The Simplicity Kitchen and The Simplicity Body. She is the founder of the global and revolutionary women's health programs Then Hormone Project, Synced and her Simplicity Body Movement series. These programs are dedicated to teaching women what they should have known about their bodies all along; the incredible healing abilities, wisdom and power their bodies hold and how to bring them to life.

You can catch her weekly tips and tools on her podcast The Simplicity Session and her youtube show Simplicity TV. She sits on the Advisory Board for STRONG Fitness Magazine and contributes to CHCH Morning Live, CTV, Global, CP24 and Breakfast Television.

As an inspired Wife and Mom of two, she understands that true well-being is a journey to be enjoyed not a struggle to be forced. She will inspire you to create more Simplicity and Ease in all you do.

This episode kicks off with Jenn explaining the purpose of our adrenals and the signs and symptoms one may experience if there is any sort of dysregulation. Almost all areas of our lives can affect the performance of our adrenals…..stress, the exercises we do, and quality of sleep to name just a few.

Jenn shares the importance of finding a provider that is truly willing to listen to you and that really cares about your well being. Finding the root causes and issues with adrenals will require looking at how you want to feel and how you are currently feeling.

Kari, Julie, and Jenn discuss the most comprehensive testing for adrenals and also for thyroid function.

Thyroid issues can be complex to diagnose and even to treat. This just compounds the importance of utilizing the correct diagnostic tools and finding a practitioner that is willing to truly listen to you, dig deep, and try different approaches until you find what works best for your body.

This episode wraps with Jen sharing practical ways you can start today to improve the function of your adrenals and thyroid.

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Clara is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Personal Trainer and self-proclaimed wellness enthusiast on a mission to equip, empower and encourage women to build a healthy relationship with food and exercise, steward their body well, and achieve their optimal version of health in a way that is practical, sustainable and enjoyable, and all without restriction, obsession or overwhelm. She takes a refreshing, joy-filled and realistic approach to health that is a much needed breath of fresh air in the midst of all the nutrition noise and dogmatic diets. She also works as a clinical dietitian where she provides support and education to patients suffering from a wide range of debilitating, chronic conditions, so she sees firsthand the powerful effects that our daily food and lifestyle choices can have on our overall health.

This episode opens up with Kari and Clara discussing how Clara's journey with nutrition began in high school and continued into college, where she discovered that she could make a career out of her interest in nutrition and earned a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist degree. Clara began working in the hospital setting and saw how truly important our dietary choices are and just how little some people know about how to make the best choices with nutrition. Clara and Kari discuss some of the limitations that Clara has to work against in the hospital setting.

Clara and Kari discuss the importance of taking ownership of our health and how it is the place we need to start in order to see change. This can look like changing our diet, being our own advocate in the healthcare setting, etc.

This episode wraps with Clara and Kari debunking the myth of work-out more and eat whatever you want (junk food). Clara shares how important the nutrition we fuel our bodies with is so important and that exercise shouldn't be a punishment for what we ate.

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Meredith is the co-founder of QuantumHealth.TV, the world's first video streaming channel focused on decentralizing health education, where medical experts break down the emerging science of circadian health and quantum biology. As an ICF- accredited Executive Coach, Meredith has lived and worked on 3 continents helping clients from all over the world to improve their lives by changing their beliefs and habits. She began her career working in media, covering entertainment and interviewing movie stars before she shifted into communications and coaching.

Now, through Quantum Health TV, she is helping people suffering from chronic illness by providing accessible information that is years ahead of what most doctors and naturopaths are currently practicing. Meredith is married with 3 children and she is a proud global nomad.

This week's episode kicks off with Meredith and Kari discussing the differences between "normal" fatigue and the unfortunate experience of chronic fatigue. Meredith explains how she would do things we know to do to replenish our energy but she just always felt like her battery was depleted and could not be recharged.

After a trip to the doctor revealed normal lab levels, Meredith enlisted the help of several different professionals (acupuncturist, naturopath, and dietician) to tackle her issue of chronic fatigue. She found little relief from her symptoms but soon plateaued and things went stale.

Luckily, Meredith had watched a video in the past, from what she labeled at the time as a "crazy doctor", that talked about the importance of light and our light environment. She decided to watch the video again and this time the information took on a whole new meaning to her. This led Meredith on a journey of learning all about circadian biology and the effect natural light has on our body, mind, and soul.

The episode wraps with Meredith explaining the basics of circadian biology in an easy to understand way. She leaves listeners with feasible ways to start taking the upgrade today in this area of health.

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Zermina is a Registered Nurse, holistic health, and functional nutritionist specializing in women's health. Her journey to becoming a Functional Medicine Practitioner was rooted in her own health challenges. Her love of science and belief in food as medicine inspired her to enroll in a graduate program for nutrition science and advanced studies at the Institute of Functional Medicine to better understand how to approach chronic illnesses more holistically.

After 11 years in clinical practice and working as an RN, Zermina founded Living Wholelistic, her independent consulting practice where she leverages her expertise in functional medicine and integrative nutrition to help women balance their hormones, heal their gut, and optimize their chances for conception. Through comprehensive lab testing, she identifies the underlying imbalances and helps patients thrive through personalized nutrition plans, lifestyle, and supplement protocols. Her passion lies in empowering and educating women on taking control of their health and fertility.

This episode opens up with Zermina sharing her journey as a young girl with PCOS and how her experiences spurred her passion to pursue healing in a more natural way and led her to a career in functional medicine.

Zermina and Julie discuss the criteria evaluated to diagnose PCOS. Zermina and Julie discuss the importance of doing your research, asking the right questions, and the importance of finding a provider who is truly going to listen to you and your symptoms in order to run the proper tests, and not simply approach your diagnosis of PCOS as an "umbrella term".

Zermina and Julie discuss the different lifestyle changes that can be incorporated to assist in healing the body from PCOS. Zermina stresses the importance of having a personalized treatment plan and how different the journey looks for each woman.

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This episode is an extra special one for lots of reasons. Our guest today, Chloe Mullis, is a special person in Kari's life. She helps Kari with her kids and other things to help Kari's household run smoothly. Chloe will begin her college journey this fall and shares with us a unique perspective on a young lady's journey with food, body image, and nutrition as a whole. Chloe's story reminds us that you are never too young to influence others with the choices you make and your obedience to the Lord.

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Erica Matthews is a daughter of the King, wife, and Momma to her 3 year old little girl, Londyn. A little over a year ago, she was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer. Through holistic cancer treatment, she has learned about how powerful our immune systems are. This led her to partner with the immune system company. She is an entrepreneur at heart and through her cancer diagnosis, her spiritual alignment coaching business was born. Through her Spirit led coaching, she teaches women to surrender to who God has called them to be through step by step methods. Her passion is watching the transformation unfold in these women. Erica gets to help women step into alignment to their highest self, teach them how to take back their power, and find their voice.

When she's not working, she loves to be adventurous with her daughter and hubby, anything with friends, hiking and biking, and loves to travel with her hubby.

This episode kicks off with Erica sharing her journey to receiving the life altering, seemingly hopeless cancer diagnosis. Erica admits that for the first few months post diagnosis, she leaned into the "human" response of fear, anxiety, and overwhelm. But God………

Erica shares that her relationship with Jesus was transformed through her battle with cancer. She began to hear from God and trust in his sovereignty. Erica credits her faith for guiding her treatment path and for providing her the courage to pursue more holistic treatments and trust that God would provide the healing and knowledge.

We wrap up this episode with Erica and Julie discussing the importance of immune health and how we can best support our bodies.

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