From lessons learned while living overseas to her small town library storytime, today author Kim Knowle-Zeller shares how blessings can bind us together. You'll hear how she started offering and receiving blessings and how it may be easier than you think to create a welcoming culture with your own hospitable words. Kim reminds us that building community takes time but encourages us to keep initiating. We hope this episode inspires you to see the power in gathering and offering words that bless others along the way.

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Kim encourages us to invite a friend for coffee while the kids play or start an in-person book club; listen to this bonus episode to see how else we're Taking Friendships Out of the Group Chat.

For more encouragement in your motherhood journey, check out the stories at Coffee + Crumbs.

Show notes:

• Pre-order You're In Good Company

• Pre-order Small Steps by Kim Knowle-Zeller

• The Beauty of Motherhood by Kim Knowle-Zeller and Erin Strybis

• Kim on Substack

• Kim on Instagram

• Kayla Craig

• Kate Bowler

• Every Moment Holy by Douglas Kaine McKelvey

• The last episode of the Risen Motherhood podcast

• Exhale Creativity

• Coffee +Crumbs on Substack