Welcome back to the NEGRAEM Journey. My guest today is Stephanie Burke. She's a one

on the NEGRAEM. She's a mother and a wife and a daughter and a grandmother. And she speaks

eloquently about keeping the world level and about keeping the big picture in mind.

I think you'll really enjoy our conversation.

Hey Stephanie, I'm so glad you're here to visit with me about being in NEGRAEM 1 and relationships.

I'm glad to be here.

And you have so many relationships. From my perspective, you're in a space where you have

aging parents who rely on you for a lot. And you're in those relationships. You have

adult children and you have all those relationships to manage. You have two fairly new grand babies

and those relationships to manage with their mom and dad and getting to be with them.

And I am aware that you have lots of relationships in relation to your church community. That's

a lot of people to be loyal to and to be responsible to and in some instances for how you manage

and all of that as a one while critiquing yourself as you go along about how you could

do it better or different.

Well, when I start my day, I usually start my day terrified of what's going to happen during

the day or concerned about how I'm going to meet everybody's needs. And then I take a breath

and kind of start my day. And if I have my day fairly structured, then when the other

stuff starts to happen, I can deflect or deal with it and it works okay if I'm calm

myself. And most importantly, I've taken care of what I perceived to the needs that need

to be met around my household. If everything's clean and neat and put up and in order and

I'm doing okay and then the relationships needs come along. I can meet those great.

Days when things are topsy-turzy, it's a little bit harder. But I also am pretty good

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