This is The Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Balmay, episode number 144.

Welcome to the Homemaking Foundation's podcast, where we give you the tools, inspiration, and encouragement you need to craft a gospel-centered home.

And now your host from youngwifesguide.com, Jamie Belmay.

Hey, ladies, guess what? I have kind of an unusual topic today. We're going to be

talking about the basics of starting a blog and finding your inspiration along the way. And I don't

typically talk about starting a blog or writing or things like that because we're talking about homemaking stuff here.

But this is kind of one of my other passions, not kind of, it's definitely one of my other passions.

And it's something that I get asked about a lot. I've been blogging for, I think, 150 years so far.

And I'm one of the dinosaurs when it comes to blogging. Not the total dinosaurs. I'm like a

middle dinosaur. I got started blogging in 2009. And it's definitely a passion of mine. And so I do get

a lot of questions about it. So I thought, I got several questions this month about it. So I thought,

you know what, this would be a good one, a good thing to address. So if you have absolutely no interest in blogging,

please feel free to skip this episode. But if you're just kind of interested in some of the

background information and stuff on blogging and things like that, then I invite you to listen

along. So first thing before we jump into the question we've got today and then a bunch of fun advice for you

I've got starter guides I've got good stuff for you today okay and starting a blog first though

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