This is she's equipped with Jennifer Allwood, a podcast for Christian women in business who want to earn more from their God-given talent, grow their impact, and lead with faith.

Well, hello, friends. Welcome back to the podcast. I know I'm dressed really casual today. Listen, it's supposed to be spring in Kansas City. We've had nothing but storms here for, it seems like, on and off for a week. The high is only 65 a day. It's rainy. It's 56. It's super weather friends. So I am in a sweatshirt, but I am really excited to chat with you. And so I got to tell you about a book that I was reading last week. So for those of you who don't know, I am an avid reader. I used to literally get in trouble by my father when I was young because he would tell me,

get your head out of that stinking book because I just, I love to read.

And love, love.

And so, you know, as a child, I think I did it probably just to be taken away into, you know,

another place, another time, get my mind off just things at home. And then as an adult, when we first started having children, I really just was reading books that were like, how to be a better mom, how to be a better wife, how to be a better Christian, how to be a better business owner, how to build your business, how to do all those things. And I got to a point where I was like, you know what, I am so done with how to be a better, you know, book reader. And because it just was feeling like pressure. And, you know, there's only so much pressure you can take. And there's so much information out there. There's so many books. There's so many

podcasts. There's so many opinions. There's so many everything. It began to feel just really

overwhelming to me. So I went back to my first love, which is reading books that are not true.

And every time I say this, I'm like, is it fiction or is it not fiction? And it's one of those

things like my brain just

refuses to retain. It's almost like the sizes of the cups at Starbucks. It really doesn't

freaking matter. So I'm just reading books about other people's lives. Whatever that is. Is it fiction?

Is it nonfiction? Now I just got to know. Hey, Siri, what is a nonfiction book?

Here's some info about nonfiction.

Nonfiction is real.

It doesn't, is this a mind bend for anybody else?

This is why I can never remember it, because nonfiction is real.

Fiction is not real.

I feel like the word with the non in front of it should be for the stories that are made up. It just doesn't make sense in my brain. Also, if I'm going to Starbucks, I'm ordering a large. So there, I never go, but if I was, I just refuse to learn their words. Whatever. Don't they say like Grande? Yeah, no, not doing that. Okay. So I'm reading a book last week. And it was by Abby Jimenez. If you don't know

who she is, she writes a great love story. And the book was called The Night We Met. So I was actually

driving somewhere and was listening to it on Audible. And she was talking in her book about a book,

so the character in the night we met was talking about a book

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