Just Open the Door, with Jen Schmidt

The Heidi St. John Podcast

Heidi St. John

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Do you enjoy being hospitable or is it more effort than it’s worth? Do you struggle with insecurity over an undecorated house or lack of confidence in your cooking skills? You are not alone, sister! But it’s important to move past those roadblocks #sothat you can experience and share the blessing of being hospitable. Let’s Just Open the Door together, women!

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For the last decade, Jen Schmidt has been encouraging, challenging, and cheering on women to embrace both the beauty and bedlam of their everyday lives on her popular lifestyle blog, Balancing Beauty and Bedlam. With a variety of topics—from easy dinner ideas and personal finance to leaving a legacy—Jen equips others to live life to its fullest, reminding them it’s the little things that really are the big things in life. A popular speaker, worship leader and founder/host of the annual Becoming Conference, Jen shares with humor and authenticity as she invites others to join her on this bumpy, beautiful life journey. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, five children, a few too many animals, and an available sofa for anyone who needs it.
Just Open the Door , by Jen Schmidt
For many of us, inviting people into our lives and homes feels more like inviting judgment on our entertaining skills and stress on our already maxed-out schedules. But what if you knew that opening your front door had the power to radically change the world? To make an impact and leave a legacy with everyday invitations?
Jen Schmidt has set out to reframe how we think about hospitality and to equip us to walk a road of welcome in our daily lives. Jen knows that every time we choose open-door living—whether in our homes or by taking hospitality on the road just like Jesus—those we invite in get to experience the lived-out Gospel, our kids grow up in a life-lab of generosity, and we trade insecurity for connection.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Heidi St. John. Welcome to the busy mom podcast. Today is Meet My Friend
0:06.3	Friday. You guys know how passionate I am about encouraging you off of the bench and onto the
0:11.7	battlefield. And every Friday here, I like to introduce you to a friend of mine who is doing
0:16.6	just that in the hopes that the Lord will speak to you about ways that you can be engaged
0:22.8	in the world around you to advance the cause of the gospel. So if that's you today,
0:27.6	I'm excited because you're going to get to meet my friend Jen Smith. Stick around. I think you're
0:31.9	going to be encouraged. All right, so I am I'm just going to jump right into it today. I am thrilled
0:45.4	because I've got my friend Jen on the podcast with me and I've been trying to do this for a while,
0:49.5	but we're like two ships in the night. Jen has a brand new book out called Just Open the Door,
0:54.8	How One Invitational Can Change A Generation. And she joins me at the podcast to talk about it today.
1:00.2	Hey Jen, welcome to the show. Hey Heidi, thank you so much for having me. I wish we were at my
1:05.8	kitchen table sipping coffee, but this has got to be the next best thing. I know I, you know what,
1:10.9	we're going to figure it out sometime. We keep trying to figure it out and between your schedule
1:14.6	of mine just seems like it's kind of hard to do, but you've got you've kind of got a lot going on.
1:20.0	You've got a lifestyle blog bouncing beauty and bedlam, which I've been following for many years.
1:25.6	And you've done all kinds of things from easy dinner ideas to personal finance. You're really about
1:31.0	leaving a legacy. And I love that about you. But before we dig into all things Jen Schmidt,
1:38.4	I want to ask you about your family. You are a homeschool mom, right? You have five children.
1:43.3	I have five children. I have been a homeschool mom for about 20 years. We just kind of entered
1:50.0	the new stage of life that you're in as our eldest just got married December 30th.
1:56.7	But I still have a, are my babies 14? So she's a freshman in high school. So I'm still homeschooling
2:03.5	two. We did have two that went for one or two years to public school because he was trying to get
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