Hey friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie Mayweson and I am so happy that you're here.

Each week, I have a girlfriend over and we talk through one of the biggest questions

we have about our lives as women. We're talking about friendships and faith and relationships

and self-confidence, about our calling in life and how to live every bit of our lives

to the absolute full. Life is so much better and easier and absolutely more fun when we

navigate it together as girlfriends and I cannot wait to get started.

In today's episode, we're talking to my sweet friend, Mariko Clark, or Mari, as I call

her. Mari is an amazing writer who writes about hard questions and hope in the Holy Spirit

over on her blog, it's mariko-clark.com. Her writing is deep and real and always makes

me cry in the very best way, but she tells the truth about life with pinches of humor

and wit and sarcasm that leaves you laughing while you're crying. It's just the best.

Mari is also the newest member of my team here in our little corner of the internet. She's

such a gift to me and the space is so much better because of her and I just know you're

gonna love her. So we have something special and a bit different for you in today's episode

and I am so excited about it. In this episode, Mari kicks me out of the host's chair so

she can interview me about a topic we're asked about constantly. Blogging. I've been blogging

and writing for more than 60 years now. I cannot believe it's been that long and so I'm

so excited to share with you what I've learned along the way. Side note, I think I tell you

in this episode that I've been blogging for five years, but it's definitely been more than

six. Crazy. In today's episode, we're gonna be talking about how to start a blog and how

to grow a blog. We're talking about the logistics, answering questions like, how do I build a

website and how do I get more followers and how do I make money from a blog. And we're

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