#104: More than Just Making It with Erin Odom
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Meet Erin: You may know Erin Odom as The Humbled Homemaker; an author, wife and mother of four who runs a blog sharing the moniker. And while it may look like she has it all together, she openly admits that she too struggles to find time to effectively care for her family, spend time with the Lord and run a full-time business. In the episode, she shares her story of how God used her writing talents to help pull her family out of a very challenging time and what she learned about herself in the process. What we chat about: Keeping faith in your calling, even if you're told it's impossible How being bombarded with trials lead Erin to a closer relationship with and deeper trust in Christ The importance of identifying an income problem verses a spending problem Three ways to help you identify your passion and better understand yourself How living with less can provide you with better contentment Steps on maintaining a thankful mindset, regardless of your status Links mentioned: More Than Just Making It: Hope for the Heart of the Financially Frustrated 16Personalities.com StrenghtsFinder.com Your Retreat: A Guide to Giving Yourself a Personal Planning Day Better Life Bag Where to find Erin: website // facebook // instagram // pinterest Episode Sponsor: Preluvi Preluvi is a family owned, holistic skin care company. Their mission is to provide the whole family with safe, toxic-free skin care products that actually nourish your skin. Co-created by a nutritionist, they believe if it's not pure enough to eat, it shouldn't be going on your skin. With that in mind, they have crafted an incredible line of body butters, face butters, lip balms, and soaps. Use coupon code MSW for free shipping on all orders of $15 or more! Support the show: Shop Amazon Affiliate Link Share the Struggle! Find me on Instagram or Facebook because I want to hear YOUR thoughts on this episode! If you've been encouraged by the show, please share it with another mom. The struggle is real. We might as well do this together!
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| 0:00.0 | This is Emily Thomas and you are listening to the Mom Struggling Well Podcast. Hey friends welcome back. I'm so glad you're here because if you weren't I would just be sitting here by myself this is episode 104 and today I'm going to be talking to Aaron Odom |
| 0:29.2 | you may know her from the Humboldt homemaker, which is her blog. |
| 0:33.2 | And I think at first that sounds, at least to me, |
| 0:36.3 | like, oh, that's so good that she's such a humble person. |
| 0:39.1 | But when you dig a little bit deeper into her story, |
| 0:41.2 | you realize she was humbled because like she had to be in |
| 0:45.5 | 2008 when things started going badly for everybody in America which is interesting |
| 0:50.2 | because I was living in China so I hear about how hard it was but I didn't really |
| 0:54.5 | experience that I was experiencing my own hard things in another country and |
| 0:58.9 | infertility and blah blah blah all that kind of stuff but so in 2008 when there was |
| 1:03.4 | the economic downturn it really hurt her family hard like it did so many other |
| 1:07.0 | people's and they I mean she was on food stamps they just really were hardly |
| 1:11.6 | making it they kept getting pregnant kept having kids just really |
| 1:12.8 | getting pregnant kept having kids so there was just a big struggle there and so she |
| 1:17.0 | from the ashes of that learned a lot of things and she's here today to share |
| 1:21.5 | them with us and I think you're really going to be |
| 1:23.4 | encouraged by what we talk about with contentment and what to do when you have |
| 1:27.6 | more month than you have money at the end of it and what she did when she I mean she |
| 1:31.8 | thought she trusted God before but she also had enough money to kind of meet all of her own needs. |
| 1:37.0 | And so when she literally did not know where the food was going to come from, that's when she realized that all of what she had came from God. Before we get |
| 1:44.7 | started though, I want to tell you about today's episode sponsor, Pralu V. Pralu V. |
| 1:49.0 | Pralu V is a family-owned holistic skincare company, co-created by actually a nutritionist who thought well why are we like |
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