Welcome to the Gift Guide for 2017, hosted by Nickie Snyder and Rachel Louws!  This podcast is all about women who are pursuing their passion and making it work. Today's episode is more about the "making it work" part with gift ideas for everyone on your list inlucding kids, husbands (or other men in your life), women, foodies, athletes and the person who has it all! We also give you hostess gift ideas and stocking stuffer ideas.

Today's episode is with Victoria Senges, a graphic designer with her own line of stationary. She is passionate about design and helping women and families get organized.  She is so passionate about stationary that she even went to Paper Camp!

We talk about how she is using this phase of her life to work hard and invest in her business, and how she is trying to balance that with having a life.  She is hard working, ambitious and very determined to reach her goals.

Marites Kliem is a real estate agent for over 10 years, wife and mom of two (including a 3 week old at the time of recording). Marites (pronounced Mary-Tess) describes herself as a fiery Philipino who loves cooking, singing and dancing, and is passionate about real estate, particularly helping people strategizing in buying and selling their homes. She is big on goal setting with both short term and long term goals. She shares about getting started and learning to dream big.

Kaara King is a wife and mom of two toddlers who is passionate about sewing and creating beautiful things. She didn't discover her passion until her 30s, but is now thriving and loving sewing clothes for her kids and herself, and also in her Etsy shop Poppie Darling. We talk about overcoming our fears, balancing passions with motherhood, the importance of having something you love to do and how much we love drive throughs.

Erica Miller is a photographer, wife, mom of 4 and co-founder of Young Hip and Married.  She is passionate about marriage and family, photography and being creative.

We talk about how it was hard starting her photography business because she had just moved to the area and didn't know many people, how she and her husband work together and juggle to find time to work and shuffle the kids around to their activities.

What she does NOT do: laundry during her busy summers!

Julia Eckert who is a wife and mom of 3 teenagers who is passionate about theology and ministry. She is a full time graduate student in theology and plans to be a pioneer and teach in theology (this area is very firmly in the old boys club).

We discuss the women who have influenced Julia and why it can be hard to find mentors in a field with very few women which has lead her reading biographies of other trailblazing women including such as Jackie Polinger.

Jill Kaufusi is a fitness trainer, entrepreneur, wife and mom of 4 kids aged 2-10. She is passionate about empowering women and helping them find their strength. She opened her own training studio recently and has some killer online workout programs. We talk about how she started exercising to help control her anxiety, how she loves to help women see the value in working out for themselves, and balances her work in fitness with her 4 kids and husband at home.

Today's episode is with Hannah Hageman, a website designer, wife and mom from Montana. She is a self declared multi passionate who loves to brainstorm solutions to problems and think of new ways to overcome obstacles.  She is an introverted creative entrepreneur who loves to talk with people, but then needs her alone time to create "head space" after.

Today I talk to Trisha Bennett about her passion for fashion and how she became an entrepreneur and started her own children's clothing line.  We talk about the intricacies of fashion production and how she balances it with being a wife and mom of three boys. Her company Darling and Bandit just celebrated their 2nd anniversary and continues to grow. Listen to the end of the episode or go to the show notes to get the special promo code for a discount at Darling and Bandit.

In today's episode I talk with Carissa Youssef, the director of Philanthropy for Canada Food for the Hungry. She is very vision focused and passionate about making a difference.  We discuss how she balances full time work, motherhood, being a wife and a graduate student. She also shares about how intentional she is about her 5 year vision and goal.