Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we visit with two women with two very

different stories to share about how God transformed their lives. Our first

guest is Emily Lay, who is a mom, a business owner, and author.

Emily found the demands of her job and her own tendency to seek perfection in all that she did

was taking away time from what was really important, time with God and with her family.

Emily shares how she pared back and started simplifying in order to enjoy what really

mattered in her life.

My name is Emily Lay and I'm to enjoy what really mattered in her life.

My name is Emily Lay, and I'm mom to three kids.

Brady is six, and I have toddler twins, Caroline and Tyler.

I'm the creator of The Simplified Planner

and also an author of Grace Not Perfection and a

not perfection into Simplified Life.

My mom was a teacher and she was flexible and had the availability to do and be involved and was just very present with me and I

wanted that as well in a different way. She made it look easy when I was a kid. It was

just my brother and I and my mom and dad have been married now for 40 years and I remember

there was so much routine and structure flexible not over the top but routine and

structure that made us feel safe like we were part of something

special made home feel like a place of rest something that was really welcoming

and when I became a mom and was a working mom

and you know had all these things going on,

I remember thinking, my mom made it look so easy

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