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 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. So our guest for today's

episode is Dr. Sasha Shokut. Sasha is a renowned cardiac anesthesiologist. She's a mom to

four. She's a wife, a TEDx speaker and she's the CEO and founder of Brave Enough. Through Brave

Enough she leads more than 10,000 female physicians on how to live confident, courageous

and connected lives. Incredible, right? I am so excited for you to get to meet her. Sasha

actually also just came out with a new book in all of her free time, right? It's called

Between Grit and Grace. In it she talks about what it means to be both feminine and formidable.

Both graceful and strong as a woman and as a believer and I just knew we had to have around

the show to talk to us about this. I think for so many of us we're trying to figure out

what it means to be a strong Christian woman. As a woman, are we supposed to be quiet?

Are we supposed to be submissive? Are we supposed to be feminine? What does any of that

even mean? And can we be those things while also being a strong leader? How do we tap

into the full potential that we have and make the difference in the world that we were

created to make? And can we do that while still being feminine? Again, what does that even

mean? And if we're crushing it at work, what does that mean for our home lives, for our

families? Can we knock it out of the park at work while also being a great mom? How

do we invest in our careers and our personal lives at the same time? Or do we have to choose

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