196 – The Blessing [Book] with Kari Trent Stageberg
Work and Play with Nancy Ray
Nancy Ray
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🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Today is the last episode of May is for Mamas this year, and I hope you have loved it as much as I have. Today, I get to have a conversation with Kari Trent Stageberg, the author of The Blessing. Her story is unbelievable, as you'll hear in today's episode, and her simple encouragement to speak life and be a blessing to not only your children, but to everyone you encounter, was just the reminder I needed.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is the last episode of May is for Mamas this year, and I hope you have loved everyone. |
| 0:05.8 | Today I get to have a conversation with Carrie Trent Stageberg, the author of The Blessing. |
| 0:10.9 | Her story is unbelievable, as you'll hear in today's episode, and her simple encouragement |
| 0:15.6 | to speak life and be a blessing to not only your children but to everyone you encounter was just the |
| 0:22.3 | reminder I needed. |
| 0:28.6 | You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 196. |
| 0:33.2 | Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play. |
| 0:38.3 | Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place. |
| 0:42.0 | This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well, which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life. |
| 0:49.0 | Listen in. |
| 1:12.9 | Well, Carrie, I am so grateful that you are joining me on the Work and Play podcast. Welcome. And I would love to start with you just sharing a little bit about yourself and your family and your story and your ministry and yeah, just a little bit about you. |
| 1:18.8 | Well, thank you so much for having me. I'm super excited to get to be here. And just a little bit about me. I'm a wife, an author, a speaker. I've been married to my husband for almost seven |
| 1:24.2 | years. And we've got a little one who's about 20 months old. He's our IVF |
| 1:28.7 | Miracle Baby. And we've got another one that's due anytime. So we're about to have two under two. |
| 1:34.0 | So pray for us because we're going to need it. So exciting. I run a small nonprofit with my dad |
| 1:41.5 | called Strong Families. And really the heart and soul of that nonprofit |
| 1:44.5 | is to help people understand and live out the blessing, which is what we're going to be talking |
| 1:48.8 | about today. So, yeah, it's just a really sweet season of getting to do life with my family and |
| 1:54.1 | with my dad. I love that. Yeah, and the blessing book is beautifully written. I love the message behind it. |
| 2:00.8 | I feel like in summary, it's just all about using your words to speak life and to speak blessings and to be a blessing throughout your life. It's like living it out as a lifestyle. And we'll get to that. But it's a beautiful message. So if you are listening and you haven't read it and you want to just be encouraged |
| 2:17.6 | with how to live your life and your family and throughout your relationships as a blessing to |
| 2:21.3 | others, definitely recommend it. But I'd love for you to just explain a little bit about the book |
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