#131 Watching Your Dream Grow with Carissa Bleeker
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Carissa is wife to Phillip and mother to Eleanor. She's an adoptive mama, painter, Bible teacher, gardener and avid learner. She is the co-founder and co-director of McKinney Roots, a non-profit 100% food donation garden that supplies organic, fresh picked fruits, veggies, herbs and eggs to the food insecure in McKinney, TX. If you would like to volunteer with McKinney Roots or help support them financially, visit mckinneyroots.org and click donate. For $30 a month, you can sponsor a raised bed in the garden. The funds cover the cost of planting and harvesting that bed and their general operating budget. What we chat about: trusting God and finding contentment during a season of waiting learning to grieve with your spouse the joys of being a mother the amazing story of how God lead Carissa to start McKinney Roots advice for women who are called to do something big, but feel overwhelmed Links mentioned: BraveLove Connect with Carissa: website // instagram // facebook Episode Sponsors: Daily Harvest: 3 free cups using promo code MSW Zip Recruiter: try it for free by visiting ziprecruiter.com/msw Pursuit Community: get $325 off registration for the Mastermind Retreat in Nashville, TN using promo code MSW at checkout 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 | Are we doing? Are we having a fashion talk today talking about the Oscars? |
| 0:03.5 | Okay. So Brennan, I'm sure we'll never listen to this, but he'd probably be embarrassed. |
| 0:09.1 | So there's a girl, I've never seen her before, uh, somethingza Gonzalez she had a gorgeous as like it's a yellow |
| 0:17.1 | dress and she's just a beautiful girl right and he said you could probably bounce a dime off that dress. |
| 0:24.0 | Whoa! Yeah, I was surprised at that and I said I was wearing a robe. I'm in a robe phase, like a real big plush robe, because it was late at night and I just, |
| 0:36.2 | I want to wear a robe, it's cold here. |
| 0:38.7 | And I said, I think you could bounce a dime off this robe. |
| 0:42.4 | And I think you could. Bless you. Goodness gracious. |
| 0:46.1 | This is Emily Thomas and you are listening to the mom struggling while podcast. cast. Hey friends welcome back. Welcome back. I'm so glad you're here. This is |
| 1:09.6 | episode 131 of the Mom Struggling Well Podcast and I am talking today to a girl named |
| 1:15.1 | Carissa Bleaker. I'm gonna tell you more about her in a second but first I wanted |
| 1:18.9 | to give you this amazing idea that I had for my marketing department, which is all of you. |
| 1:24.4 | Spring is coming and so this is just it's just kind of obvious you've probably already |
| 1:28.4 | thought of it but so many of us have shrubbery in our front yard and so many of us have |
| 1:35.0 | been shrubbery in our front yard. The movie from like the 90s. |
| 1:37.0 | But I do not think many of us have in fact |
| 1:40.0 | Edward scissor handed our shrubbery into the shape of an M and S. to tell all of our |
| 1:45.0 | our shrubbery into the shape of an M and S and a W |
| 1:45.9 | to tell all of our neighbors about our favorite podcast, |
| 1:49.0 | but I think many of us should. |
| 1:50.5 | So this week as your strategy to struggle well, I think that you should turn your |
| 1:55.1 | front yard bushes into your three favorite letters and when people ask you |
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