Episode 142: Emily Vogeltanz

Today’s guest is Emily Vogeltanz. She's a mom, wife, a country girl living in the city, and a church builder. She has worked with Passion Conference + Passion City Church for 16+ years in various roles. She currently helps lead Passion City Cumberland and the Grove which is a monthly women's gathering.

I was so excited to sit across the table from her. We talk about marriage, kids, ministry, fear, travel, dreams and what we want most of our own hearts to believe. This is one of those episodes that is packed full of goodness—that feels like you literally sat down with a friend over coffee. 

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Connect with Emily:  Instagram

Takeaways From Our Conversation:

  • Stop comparing yourself to someone else and bloom where you are. Trust Jesus with your life to do what he wants you to do. Learn to love who God made you to be.

  • Dream big dreams and go for it! Step out and use your gifts. Be a contributor somewhere. Do the next right thing - you just have to show up. Don’t think about writing a book or chapter. Just show up and be ready. Then, if you stumble or fail, show yourself some grace.

Discussion Questions

  • How does fear keep you from stepping out?
  • Do you struggle to feel like you are falling behind? But in what ways has your life been on pause? How has that defined who you think you are?
  • Do you struggle to dream? What do you want the next 10 years to look like?
  • In what ways has comparison stolen your joy of whatever phase you are in currently?
  • What helps you to understand your worth?
  • What is one thing you want to do this week based on today's conversation?

What did you enjoy about this episode? What was your takeaway. Let's continue the conversation  on Instagram or Twitter or you can send me an email here. 

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Episode 141: Melanie Dale

It’s that time again for another crossover episode with my good friend, Melanie Dale. Each month, Melanie and I sit down and have a conversation about a topic that we are both surviving and that we could lighten up about. So one part is here and the part of the conversation is on her show, Lighten Up with Melanie Dale. So be sure to hop over there when are you are finished listening to this one.

This month we are talking about our emotions—specifically about anger. We talk about the last time we were angry, what triggers our anger, what helps us control our anger and what helps us control the anger before we erupt like a volcano.

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Discussion Questions

  • What causes anger to rise up in you? (traffic, children, etc)
  • What external and internal things trigger your anger? 
  • What pressures do you put on yourself that tend to have anger rise up?
  • What helps you to create margin?
  • What helps you control your anger?
  • What can we do to make sure this is a safe place to talk about our emotions?

What did you enjoy about this episode? What was your takeaway. Let's continue the conversation  on Instagram or Twitter or you can send me an email here. 

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Episode 140: Sarah Beckman

Sarah Beckman joins me today. She is a mother to 3 kids between the ages of 17-21. If you are a mother entering in the high school phase, she would be a great person to friend. Our conversation is focused around her book which is called Alongside: A Practical Guide For Loving Your Neighbor in Their Time of Trial. We have a practical conversation around how to come alongside someone you knew who is walking through a difficult season or circumstance. We talk about what loving your neighbor really looks like, excuses we often give to not step in and what we can do in light of each excuse.

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I can’t tell you how timely my conversation was with her. We recorded in mid-July and less than 2 weeks later, I had the opportunity to put into practice what we talked about. This month alone, I have experienced the death of several people. And this conversation helped prepare me for how to handle that.

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Takeaways From Our Conversation:

  • Relationship tiers:

    1 - family

    2 - friends

    3 - people we see on the soccer field/acquaintences

    4 - an association (like my sister’s friend)

  • “Busy is not an emotion.” (Sarah Bragg) To combat busy, do something you are already doing and then do that to help someone. Make a specific offer, only offer what you can do.

  • "When we cultivate a mentality of ‘I can’ then there’s a lot of things we can do to love someone in their trial.” (Sarah Beckman)

  • “I don’t know what to say” To discern between helpful and unhelpful things to say:

    • Acknowledge / Affirm / Express (your empathy, that you will be there)

    • when you’re not sure what words to say maybe say no words

Discussion Questions

  • What is your response when you see someone in need? (Do you feel overwhelmed? Do you go into fix it mode? etc)
  • What excuses do you hear or give to not step in when someone is in need or is hurting?
  • Talk about a time when you were hurting or going through a hard season or a new season and how someone came alongside you. What was helpful and/or what wasn't helpful?
  • What tends to keep you from stepping into the mess of others?
  • Do you feel compelled to step into every mess or do you struggle more with stepping into any mess?
  • Take some talk about talk about the relationship tiers (family, friends, acquaintances and associations). Think through people you know who are going through something difficult. Place them into those categories. Based on what Sarah talked about, what could you do to help those people?
  • What is something you can offer someone in need that is in your gifting or skill set?

What did you enjoy about this episode? What was your takeaway. Let's continue the conversation  on Instagram or Twitter or you can send me an email here. 

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Episode 139: Hettie Brittz

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Hettie Brittz joins me for today’s episode. She has been married to her husband for 25 years and they have three kids (2 teenagers and one in college). She is also a speaker, author, and a foremost voice in parenting advice and personality styles. She is from South Africa but is currently residing in the United States. She has created a course to help people understand how they are wired and codeveloped the Tall Trees Profile which helps parents understand their child’s temperament.

I have to say that this was one of my favorite conversations. There is something vulnerable about it. I have a great desire to understand myself better and to understand my children better. We have a conversation about how understanding how you are wired will help you parent better; how working with traumatized kids helped her see how understanding temperaments was the key to helping unlock the heart and she unpacked the different temperament types. She said, “When you understand what our kids need, we get the motivation to parent.” What we talked about gave me so much hope. I felt understood. And I started to understand my girls better. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did. 

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  • Stopping once a day to look around and celebrate what you have instead of focusing on what is left to do

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Connect with Hettie:  Facebook // Website // twitter // Ministry

Takeaways From Our Conversation:

  • What is the difference between temperament and personality? Personality is what we show to the world. Its like what grows above the ground and how they express their design in the world. Temperament is like how the root system nourishes what grows above the ground. Its your God given soul DNA. It doesn’t change. Its a clue to where that path is leading.

  • Tall Tree Profile Types:

    • Boxwood tree - introvert, you can prune them into any shape you like, boundaries, rules, want to know what’s expected, what’s right and wrong

    • Pine Tree - introvert, takes stress away, bring peace, stubborn in a quiet way, thinkers more than doers or talkers, like being spectators rather than participants, they don’t want to be alone, but don’t want to be on center stage

    • Palm Tree - extroverts, people, fun to be had, living life full, bright side, resilient, optimism, also in discipline too, not easy to bend and shape

    • Rose Bush - extroverts, don’t want to be cuddled, grown up before one, tantrums first, strong willed, don’t need a mom, thorns, pride, competitive, achieve

  •  I asked if there were certain types there were more difficult to work together. She said, “That depends—do you want to grow or have it easy. When temperaments clash there are opportunities to grow.” Mic Drop. That has been shifting the way I see conflict in our house. 

Discussion Questions

  • Do you ever feel like motherhood is not in your strengths?
  • Hettie talked about how having no control in parenting was the most difficult thing. What has been the hardest thing about motherhood for you?
  • Knowing what causes burnout, what is one thing you could do this week to help with that?
  • What is one area of emotional intelligence that you could flex in your own life?
  • If you have taken a personality or temperament profile, what were your results? How have you seen these take shape in how you parent?
  • What does burn out look like for you in motherhood?
  • How can you give your child what they perceive as love?
  • How do you handle conflict? 
  • What is something that really stood out to you about this episode?
  • If you have taken the tall trees profile, what were the results? What surprised you?
  • What is one thing you can do to help love your child based on their profile?

What did you enjoy about this episode? What was your takeaway. Let's continue the conversation  on Instagram or Twitter or you can send me an email here. 

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