If you want to be home with your kids but can’t shake the work God put on your heart, Mary K. Tiller has been there. She joins me to share how she went from a reluctant stay-at-home mom with a newborn and a toddler to building a writing and editing career in the margins of her day on a cattle ranch in East Texas.

Mary K., co-host of Writing Off Social, tells me about the afternoon her father-in-law’s overloaded peach tree showed her what God was asking her to prune, and why she walked away from good writing opportunities when her family needed more of her. She opens up about asking her husband for specific time and putting email response times in her signature so she could finally step away on weekends. If you’re trying to balance work and motherhood, you’ll leave with permission to start small and leave margin right where you are.

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What does the Bible say about success for Christian moms who feel like they’re never doing enough?

If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re accomplishing enough, earning enough, or making the “right” choices for your family, this episode of Discovering HOME is for you. We’re taking a closer look at what biblical success really means—and what changes when we stop measuring our lives by the world’s standards and start measuring them by faithfulness to God.

I’ll share part of my own story, including why I took an $80K pay cut to be home with my daughters, and what that decision taught me about obedience, surrender, and trusting God with the outcome. We’ll look at Jesus as our ultimate example of success and consider what it means to faithfully steward what God has entrusted to us—even when there’s no applause, visible fruit, or guarantee that our choices will look successful to the world.

This episode is for the Christian mom who is tired of striving and wants to discover a more faithful, freeing definition of success.

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What if coming home wasn't the end of your gifts — but the beginning of a new season? One mom's story of leaving her career, trusting God's provision, and finding purpose at home.

In this conversation, I’m joined by Leslie Ramírez. Leslie is a wife, mom, and the host of Good Regardless podcast. Leslie understands what it's like when God calls you out of your career into a more intentional life at home. We had an honest conversation about leaving a career, becoming a stay-at-home mom, learning to live on one income, and trusting God with a future that doesn’t look the way you originally imagined.

Leslie shares her journey from a career-focused life into motherhood and a more home-centered way of living, including the difficult seasons that helped reshape her identity and deepen her relationship with God. We talk about what happens when our careers become part of how we define ourselves, and what it looks like to discover that our true identity is found in Christ.

We also talk honestly about the financial and relational side of becoming a stay-at-home mom—including the vulnerability of depending on your husband financially, the importance of communicating about the kind of family life you want, and what it means to trust God as your ultimate provider.

If you’re a Christian working mom wondering whether you could actually afford to leave your career, how one income could work, or whether coming home means giving up your purpose, this conversation will encourage you to consider a different possibility: coming home doesn’t mean losing your purpose. It may be the beginning of discovering a new way to live it out.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Leaving a career and becoming a stay-at-home mom
• Learning to live on one income
• Marriage, provision, and trusting your husband
• Moving from financial independence to dependence on God
• Finding your identity beyond your career
• Motherhood and home as a calling
• The pressure to “have it all” and cultural definitions of success
• Why coming home doesn’t mean becoming purposeless
• Using your gifts and career skills in a new season

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