Hey friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie May Wilson 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, a better 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

together as girlfriends and I cannot wait to get started. So our guest for today's episode is

my friend Mariah Smallbone. Mariah is an artist and the front woman of a band called Trala. She

also created an amazing bi-monthly newspaper called Lead Lady to highlight women's stories of leadership.

And that's exactly what we're talking about in today's episode. We're talking about what it

means to be a strong female leader and how to embrace your strength as a woman. Mariah is going

to share with us a few stories from her life times when she felt discouraged as a leader and

times when she felt empowered as a leader. We're talking about the perceptions that come with being

a strong, opinionated woman. What male-female relationships look like within a marriage especially

when you're a woman with a strong personality and how we can truly embrace the wake I'd made us.

Now friends, if you're sitting here thinking, I'm not a leader or if you've spent seasons of your

life feeling like you're too much and should try to be less or if you're scared what other people

will think if you finally speak up. This episode is here to help you shift that mindset.

Embrace your purpose and step more fully into the woman God created you to be.

But before we dive in with Mariah, friend, if you've been trying to figure out how to follow God's

plans for your life or what those plans even are, I have a resource that can help.

It's my book The Lipstick Gospel Devotional and it's a 90-day step-by-step guide that will

help you consistently connect with God, hearing from Him, trusting His plans and feeling His

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