I am beyond excited to share with you a conversation Matt and I recently had with

Laura and Emily from Risen Motherhood. Laura and Emily founded Risen Motherhood to

encourage, equip, and challenge moms to apply the gospel to their everyday lives.

Every week they have a podcast looking at a fresh way to apply the gospel in places of real need in the lives of moms everywhere.

You can find out more about them at risenmotherhood.com. Welcome to this special

bonus episode of the first of team podcast. Lord Emily, thank you so much for being a part of this conversation today on the First of Team

Podcast. We love the work that you guys do with Risen Motherhood. Love your hearts, love who you are,

and what you're able to accomplish for the kingdom and we're so grateful for you

being a part of this conversation today.

Oh, thank you so much that's super kind of you and it's an honor to be here on

first 15.

Yeah, thanks for having us. Yeah, so glad to have you all. Well, maybe just let's begin by just tell me the story of Rism Motherhood. How did you guys get started? What was kind of that initial seed of vision for the ministry and just kind of tell me the history of how you got to where you are today.

Yeah, we always joke that Risen Motherhood started with potty training.

It goes back to Laura and I's relationship.

We're actually sister-in-law, so I'm married to one of Laura's brothers.

So we knew each other and we're talking over an app called Foxer for anybody who's heard of

that and we would just have conversations with one another about life you know the

things we were encountering as moms of young kids, things like potty

training.

And we found ourselves regularly just asking the question, like, what does our faith have to do with this really tangible, ongoing,

mundane frustration that I'm experiencing in my everyday life.

And Laura and I were both kind of parallel blogging

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