Christian Parenting.

Welcome to Pardon the Miss.

I'm your host, Courtney DeFaio, and on this podcast, we talk about raising kids as Christian parents.

It's so very important for me to honor God with my family and the two kids that he's given me.

But honestly, it's not always neat or easy or tidy,

but it's always worth it. So join us every week to laugh and learn together on this beautiful

and messy journey of parenting.

Hello, we're back for Empty Nestor Wisdom on week three.

I hope you've enjoyed these as much as I have.

I have loved the conversations as they've happened as I've recorded them.

And then I get to go back in the editing process and listen again.

So I'm pumped up.

I'm going to listen to this one like a third time and take notes. And speaking of that, Sharon Mankin is on today, dear friend,

coach, mentor, also here in Texas. But she is going to mention a lot of resources and great questions today. So I actually encourage you to either go find the show notes on wherever you listen to

podcasts or bring a journal

along to this one because I promise you there will be several times in this conversation

where you'll want to jot down some of the questions that she asked, some of the resources

that she mentioned. And speaking of resources, here's the little fun fact. So many of you know,

I have a mother-daughter study called Treasured, but many of you don't know that the basis of this and the inspiration goes way back to

Sharon when she did a thing called Circle of Friends with her daughters and brought in

mentors and teachers to grow them up and shore them up in their faith. And so years later,

I, through another friend,

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