#76: The Honor of Advocacy with Kayla Craig
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Kayla is a wife and mom to 4 kids through adoption as well as biologically. Before kids she was a journalist and even did some improv acting! You're going to be encouraged by the way she shares about some intense situations in her life with such joy and hope. What we chat about: Managing the craziness during ice/snow days When adoption doesn't go as planned How she learned to advocate for the voiceless What she does to keep her marriage strong in the midst of a very busy schedule Links mentioned: Upside Down Podcast Just Really Joseph The Man in the High Castle Find Kayla: Blog // Instagram 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! Some links above take you to Amazon. When you click through, anything you purchase there will help offset the costs associated with producing the show. It doesn't cost you any extra, and it helps me out. Everybody wins! Thank you for your support!
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| 0:00.0 | This is Emily Thomas and you're listening in and welcome especially if you're new |
| 0:26.8 | so I feel really sick and gross so I'm not going to make this super long. I thought it was really funny though on |
| 0:34.3 | Wednesday when we did our struggle well Wednesday. So many people were sick. I don't know if you |
| 0:39.6 | notice that NyQuil actually commented and said I hope you guys feel better. I mean when NyQuil actually commented and said, I hope you guys feel better. |
| 0:44.0 | When NyQuil gets involved, you know that it's serious. |
| 0:47.3 | I am working on feeling better and I hope you guys who are completely gross and nasty sick, I hope that you're getting better too. This is |
| 0:55.0 | episode 76 and I am sharing my conversation with Kayla Craig. Kayla has |
| 1:00.8 | four kids but before that she was a journalist which sounds super exciting and I also |
| 1:06.0 | just listened to her own podcast and realized that she also has a history as an improv |
| 1:12.0 | actress which is also very interesting. In this conversation |
| 1:16.7 | we talk about self-care finding peace in the midst of kids with a lot going on and how Iowa and Idaho are not the same place. |
| 1:26.0 | And she shares a really encouraging story about how her and her husband were both |
| 1:30.4 | praying about a really big life choice at the same time and they didn't know it |
| 1:34.0 | and they ended up at the very same place and they came back together after a lot of |
| 1:38.5 | processing separately. I love that. She also talks about some practical ways to advocate for her |
| 1:44.2 | children which is something that she learned from her mom. Let's go ahead and get |
| 1:48.4 | started. Okay hold up real quick. I changed my mind. I actually want to go to circle the wagons and have a little |
| 1:54.4 | conversation. You guys are the marketing department of this podcast. You make nothing for it, but I know that it just |
| 2:01.1 | warms your heart so much to do it that you don't mind doing it for free forever. |
| 2:06.8 | Thank you for that. |
| 2:08.7 | It also helps on taxes. |
| 2:09.9 | I don't have to give you a W-2 and you don't have to like file a special sheet or something. |
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