Tiffany Bluhm is a writer, speaker, mom, wife and founder of Sip and Savor in Seattle. Her new book Never Alone is out today! In our conversation we discuss our mutual love of food and wine, figuring out your priorities and sticking to them, and the incredible story of how she got her first book deal. We also talk about facial hair removal for women!

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Some of the things Tiffany does NOT do includes cooking dinner (her husband is the cook of the family), grocery shopping (she is a big fan of Instacart -  get $10 off your first Instacart order!), and getting a babysitter for social events (they try to bring their kids with them and use a sitter for date nights).

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You can find Tiffany on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, at www.TiffanyBluhm.com or at SipandSavor.co 

Top Six: Book: Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik Show: Suits, The Crown App: Instacart Lifehack: Precut vegetables, outsourcing as much as possible, using Facebook groups to find people to outsource to Social Media: @sazan Podcast:How I built this

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Today I talk with winemaker Alexandra Atterbury about her passion for wine, food and community. She has opened a winery with her dad and their tasting room Omega Road Winery just opened this past May! We talk about our love of food and wine and even play a game where I tell her a meal and she has to pair a wine with it! She also shares about the incredible group of winemakers in Livermore that she gets to work alongside and learn from.

Next week I talk with author Tiffany Bluhm who's new book Never Alone comes out on February 6! You can pre-order your copy today!

If you enjoy wine, I would HIGHLY recommend you go wine tasting in Livermore! It is one of my favorite places to go wine tasting. We also talk about Leavenworth in Washington which is a lovely little Bavarian tourist town with tons of wine tasting rooms, and is fairly close to Lake Chelan where I have also enjoyed wine tasting.

Some of the things that Alexandra does NOT do include taking out the garbage, saying yes to a lot of things, sometimes time with friends, taking a lot of days off or vacation.

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You can find Alexandra at her winery Omega Road Winery, on Instagram @omegaroadwinery, Facebook OmegaRoadWinery or Twitter @omegaroadwinery.

Top Five: Book: Anything by Brené Brown, most recently Braving the Wilderness, books by Rebecca Campbell, and L'Appart: The delights and disasters of making my Paris home by David Lebovitz Show: Game of Thrones App: Hopper, Duolingo Lifehack: Saying NO! Social Media: @atticuspoetry and @davidlebovitz,

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Nicole Devereaux is a leadership coach, church planter, wife and mom with a passion for perseverance and truth. In her professional work she aims to coach mission driven leaders and their teams and in her personal life she thrives on connection with others, particularly through dinner parties. She regularly hosts 15-40 people for dinner in her Brooklyn apartment! Some of her favorite cookbooks are from the Pioneer Woman and How to Cook Everything. I also recommend Smitten Kitchen.

For Nicole there is no one specific thing that she does NOT do, but rather she looks at each day and determines what she will say yes and no to that day.

You can find Nicole at www.nicoledevereaux.com or on Linked In

Top Five: Book: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Show: The Crown App: Google Maps Lifehack: Setting timers (we talk about the Pomodoro technique - try this timer) Social Media: Adam Grant who wrote Originals, Give and Take, and Option B.

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Stephanie Langford is a homeschooling mom to 5 kids (age range 2-13 years old), wife of 13 years, entrepreneur, podcast co-host, world traveler, author and former professional blogger. She is passionate about living an unconventional life that allows her and her family to take time to enjoy life and traveling.

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Some of the things she does NOT do include cleaning her home, dinner clean up, volunteering, going out a lot, watching TV or movies, playing mindless games on her phone. She chooses to be very intentional with her time and prioritize relationships and self care.

You can find Stephanie on Instagram @entresteph or learn more about her at her blog EntreFamily and her business Ultimate Bundles.

Top Five: Book: Rest by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist, The Road Back to You: An enneagram journey to self discovery by Ian Cron & Suzanne Stabile, The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert Show: This Is Us App: Instagram, Google Calendar Lifehack: Sleep Social Media: friends

Some of the podcasts Stephanie enjoys include The Simple Show (which Stephanie is a co-host of), Typology, Healthy Moms, Read Aloud Revival, (and an episode of What Should I Read Next? which discusses reading aloud) and How I Built This

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Laura Vanderkam is an author, wife, mom of 4 kids, runner, podcaster and choir singer. She is the author of several time management and productivity books, including I Know How She Does It, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 Hours. Her work has appeared in publications including Fast Company, Fortune, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal.

In today's episode we talk about being intentional with our time at home in order to make sure we can fit in the things we want to do. While at work we are usually intentional in what we do, at home we can end up just letting our evenings happen. She suggests that we be intentional with our evenings to ensure we get family time, chores, hobbies and relaxation all in.

Some of the things she does NOT do include making school lunches and cleaning, and she also has a full time nanny.

The thing she is most proud of (besides her family) are her books, particularly her fiction book The Cortlandt Boys.

You can find Laura blogging daily at lauravanderkam.com. She is on Facebook @lauravanderkamauthor, Instagram @lvanderkam , or Twitter @lvanderkam. She also podcasts at Best of Both Worlds.

Top Five: Book: War & Peace, Kristen Lavransdatter, (we also mention Lauren Graham's Talking as Fast as I Can, and Mindy Kaling's Why Not Me?) Show: Does not really watch TV except with her son who likes Paw Patrol and Go Diego Go, and I've watched Mighty Machines with my son. App: Kindle Lifehack: Planning her week out and front loading her week Social Media: Friends

Some of the podcasts she enjoys include What Should I Read Next?, and Happier with Gretchen Rubin.

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Amanda Preston is a wife and mom of 8 children, social worker, founder of A Home for Every Child and blogger at My Lovely Crazy Life. She is passionate about fostering and adoption and being an advocate for children and families.

Amanda and her husband married young and were only 19 and 20 years old when they brought home their first child through foster care. Over the following years their family grew to 8 children as they worked to keep siblings together.

Somehow in the middle of all of this, Amanda earned a degree in social work and founded A Home for Every Child to help support adoptive families.

Some of the things Amanda does NOT do are clean her bathrooms, the PTA, and much baking. She is a fan of the 10 minute tidy though! And when you have 10 people in your family, that's a lot of tidying up!

You can find Amanda at her blog, or on Instagram @mylovelycrazylifeap

Top Five: Book: Kirabo: A journey of faith, love and adoption by Kveta Rose Show: This Is Us, The Fosters App:  My fitness pal Lifehack: Relieving stress by getting life into words by blogging and journaling Social Media: Jillian Harris, Adéye Salem

Some other adoption resources Amanda likes are Carolyn Twietmeyer and Confessions of an Adoptive Parent.

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Rhea Pechter is a children's book writer, illustrator, SAHM to 3 kids, wife, and podcaster. She is the genius behind Little Stories for Tiny People which is a children's story podcast. Her stories are adventurous and quirky, with a common theme of helping children to understand their feelings and have empathy for others.

Rhea has become very protective of her time and learned the value of saying NO. Some of the things she does NOT do include volunteering at her kids school co-op, keeping a pristine house, or spending a lot of time on social media. She has also really become comfortable in her role as a parent and no longer googles everything about parenting. Lastly, she has learned to let go of mom guilt in her life which was just occupying too much mental space.

We talked about starting podcasts and figuring it out as we went along. I used a guide Start Your Podcast by Jacey Verdicchio which I would highly recommend to anyone starting a podcast

You can find Rhea on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, or at her website. You can also download and listen to her podcast here.

Top Five: Book: One More Thing by BJ Novak, Wild by Cheryl Strayed Show: Last week tonight with John Oliver, Grace and Frankie (find the tweets from the woman who overhead the "real life" Grace and Frankie here) App: Overdrive Lifehack: Turn off all the notifications on your phone, go on morning dates with your spouse Podcast:  Write Now, Why Oh Why, 2 Dope Queens, Girl in Space

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Robin Donovan is a triathlete, editor in chief of a trade magazine, consultant and podcaster. She is passionate about health and communications. She melds her passion for both of these in her podcast The Bad Patient, and pursues health in her personal life by training for triathlons and meditation.

She is most proud of the woman she has become and becoming comfortable with who she is, her emotions, and her vulnerabilities.

Some of the things she does NOT do include spending a lot of time on hair and make-up, spontaneous social events, watch sports, commute (she works from home) and very much reading (she only reads when traveling).

Top Five: Book: Triathletes Training Bible by Joe Friel Show: Blacklist App: My Fitness Pal Lifehack: Goal setting Social Media: FitAfter on instagram

Learn more about Robin in Rapid Fire at The Things She Does.

You can find Robin online at www.strategyrobin.com, on Instagram @robinkd.writer, Facebook @robinkdonovan or Twitter @RobinKD.  Her podcast is The Bad Patient where she and another writer discuss health headlines from that week.

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Berry Hykin is a lawyer, horse trainer, mom, wife and scout leader with a passion for her family, horses and the law. She loves learning, curiosity and looking for possible solutions.

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In today's episode we talk about the pivotal experiences that lead her to practice First Nations law, how she is trying to be authentic in who she is, and our mutual love of World War II books.

Some of the things she does not do are clean her house, some of the yard work, volunteer at her kids school and organizing her closets. She actually hired an organizer last year which I was quite intrigued by!

Don't forget to check out Mine-Space over Coffee with Melanie - and make sure you listen to my episode with her on Passions! 

Top Five: Book: What Happened by Hillary Clinton, Neuro Tribes by Steve Silberman, (other books we mention are Hitler's Willing Executioners,  And If I perish) Show: Nashville, Stranger things App: Podcast app. Here are the podcasts we mention: Crooked media - Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Lovett or Leave it, Oh No Ross and Carrie, Right, left and center, Pantsuit Politics, Ezra Klein. Lifehack: Never leave a room empty handed Social Media: her dad on Facebook

Learn more about Berry in Rapid Fire at www.thethingsshedoes.com/episode12/

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Today's guest is entrepreneur and founder of Van City Business Babes Danielle Wiebe. Danielle has a passion for connecting people and building relationships. For the last several years she has lived out this passion by building Van City Business Babes, a monthly networking group for female entrepreneurs, marketers, dreamers and woman who feel they would benefit from networking.

Don't forget to check out Mine Space Over Coffee with Melanie. 

Danielle is very savy with social media and has used it to build her community. But she also states the importance of taking those relationships offline and meeting in person too.

One of the things she does NOT do is accept every invite or opportunity she receives. Although it is hard because so many of them seem like fun or interesting, she is strategic in what she says yes to and makes sure it aligns with her vision. This is very similar to what the founders of The Skimm have said too. If you haven't signed up for their daily news email, I HIGHLY recommend it.

You can find Danielle on Instagram @danilivinglife @vancitybusinessbabes or @businessbabesco. You can find her at Business Babes Collective or on Facebook.

Top Five Book: The Slight Edge by Jeff Olsen Show: Dragon's Den App: Instagram Lifehack: Make a list before bed of everything that needs to happen the next day Social Media: Jenna Kutcher from Goal Digger Podcast

Learn more about Danielle in Rapid Fire at www.thethingsshedoes.com/episode11/

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