Welcome to episode 184! This is an incredibly fun, and more unusual episode on travelling with your family: how to make it budget friendly; why we think travel is important and prioritize it; ways to make it less stressful; and what we learned while travelling.

Travel has always been a priority for our family, which doesn't mean it has to be for your family but if you are interested in travelling as a family or wondering what is possible and how to make travel accessible this episode is for you!

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In this episode–

• Why we love travel and think its important
• Encountering God outside of your comfort zone and in the discomfort and unfamiliarity of travel.
• Creative ways to make travel child and budget friendly
• The importance of travelling for moving you and your children out of your comfort zone and into your growth zone.
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Welcome to episode 183 with Jenny Fitzgerald, friend of the Pod and author of our much loved quote: "Any part of your life that is not shimmering with hope is under the influence of a lie."

This was such a hard-hitting episode that will both inspire and challenge you. We hope you walk away feeling strengthened in your faith and inspired to take your thoughts captive, grow in mental resilience, and look for what God is doing in your life, and what is good, not what is going wrong.

• • The importance of looking for the goodness of God
  • What your brain does after focusing on something for 7 seconds
  • Taking your thoughts captive isn't optional
  • The goodness of God can be seen in every area of our life
  • If you're looking for additional resources in taking your thoughts captive check out Jenny and Andy's ministry Imagine Life Ministries.

You can learn more about Jennifer here:

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Welcome to episode 182 with our beloved friend Rachel Kovac. She has a new book out: Their Future is Shining Bright. This is an incredible episode about homeschooling through high school without falling back on rigid workbooks, or trying to hit every traditional milestone.

Rachel is the kind of person who inspires you to live a more beautiful life, to test what are the outer edges of what you can do, and raise your children in a hopeful, productive world.

• • How to help your children remain creative and present in their highschool years
  • Why it doesn't super matter what you focus on in highschool as long as you children to learn
  • The importance of remaining connected to your children in highschool
  • Rachel's website and substack
  • Rachel's new book Their Future is Shining Bright

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