#38: Starting Small and Saying "Hello" with Rebecca Smith
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca is a wife, mom, and (accidentally) a business owner! She started Better Life Bags which is a company that, besides making adorable bags, provides employment for women who could not be successful in traditional employment. You're gonna love this episode! What we chat about: the lovely mission of Better Life Bags putting 'working-mom guilt' to rest prioritizing travel as a family lessons from Jonah
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and |
| 0:05.0 | I am a mom struggling well podcast. My name is Emily Thomas and I am a mom on a mission to get a new perspective. |
| 0:11.0 | Y'all I am not proud of it but I spent far too long waiting for my daily |
| 0:15.0 | irritations to resolve before the good times can begin. And I'm thinking the struggles are just going to keep |
| 0:20.7 | coming so I might as well get a new plan. God promises if we |
| 0:24.5 | persevere through our daily struggles our character will be built and will end up |
| 0:28.5 | with a hope that doesn't disappoint and I don't know about you but my hardest days happen when I've lost sight of that hope. |
| 0:35.0 | So if that's your story too, join me each week as I interview someone who is passed from just struggling |
| 0:40.1 | to struggling well. |
| 0:41.7 | Hey ladies, welcome back and my brother, my brother also listens. |
| 0:48.0 | Hi Robbie, now he won't listen anymore. |
| 0:50.0 | He will stop listening after I said his name. |
| 0:52.2 | Did you know that you can have a bag of poop |
| 0:54.4 | delivered to somebody's doorstep and left on the doorstep? |
| 0:58.6 | It's actually a business that somebody has. |
| 1:00.9 | And I have a feeling I'm going to get a bag of poop from my brother for saying |
| 1:04.8 | that he listens to this show. Anyway if you can't tell from my voice, the plague has come to my house |
| 1:10.9 | this week. It only hit me. So being a mom of two kids on |
| 1:15.5 | summer break who is sick and they're not sick. It's kind of terrible. But I |
| 1:20.5 | have discovered a couple things this week. Day quill makes me feel better, but it also somehow makes me sing Adele songs really loud. |
| 1:29.0 | And it also makes me feel like it sound pretty great. |
| 1:33.7 | So it's kind of good and kind of bad. |
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