#40: Setting the Tone of Your Home with Christie Elkins
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Christie is a wife to a cop, a mom to three, a newspaper columnist and novice farmer. What I love about her is how honest she is about the difficult moments but that she won't stay there. She actively seeks opportunities to turn bad situations in to good ones and we all could use more of that in our lives, yes? what we chat about: What to do when you're not super thrilled about where you live What she does on Friday night to ensure she gets to sleep in on Saturday morning How she found the perfect mentor for her The importance of our role as moms of setting the tone of our home
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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 |
| 0:20.4 | to keep 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 guys and welcome back to the show. |
| 0:46.0 | You have got episode 40 here and I'm talking to my friend |
| 0:49.0 | Christy Elkins. |
| 0:50.0 | Episode 40, can't believe we're there. |
| 0:52.0 | Wow. So I had an announcement before we get started. |
| 0:56.0 | It's really cool. There is a radio station called Joy 1250 and there's a broadcasting network called Faith Strong Today, and they are out of the Greater |
| 1:05.8 | Toronto Area. |
| 1:07.6 | They heard the show, and they loved my super smart guests that I had and asked if they could syndicate the show and I said yes even though I'm not really sure what syndication means but it sounded like something I'd heard on Frazier. You know that show I used to |
| 1:24.0 | love Frazier. Anyway so starting this week the show was on the radio in Canada. I'm |
| 1:29.4 | super excited and humbled about this opportunity. I'm really excited for more moms to |
| 1:33.4 | get connected to my guests and for the mom struggling wild community to grow |
| 1:39.4 | more in Canada. So fantastic. So my guests this week her name is Christy Elkins like I said |
| 1:45.5 | she is a mom of three she is a wife of a law enforcement officer she is a newspaper |
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