The Girlfriend’s Guide to Hospitality

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Let’s talk about having people over! Why does hospitality feel so hard sometimes? The idea of having people over is so nice. Chatting in my clean living room, having beautifully prepared hors d’ourves, not running ahead of someone to make sure the bathroom is presentable ... But that’s not reality. We don’t need to have perfect homes and lives to invite someone in. So just do it! Here are some tips I want to share with regard to hospitality: 1. Stop putting it off. Be honest about the kinds of excuses you might be making and just invite someone over already! I have a challenge for you: invite someone over before the end of Lent this year. 2. It’s not about your house. Reflect on the differences between the idea of “entertaining” versus “hospitality.” If you are worried about your house instead of about welcoming people, you might be focused on the wrong things. 3. Keep it simple. No one says you have to throw a fancy dinner party. Just invite friends over for dessert, or another mom over for coffee. Make sure it’s not overwhelming and you will more likely to do it again. 4. Do not make your family insane. Hospitality is more likely to be a pleasant experience for all of you if you calm yourself down beforehand. You are not allowed to make your family insane while preparing for company. Again, if you do this, maybe you aren’t focused on the right things? (Here is the funny video I mentioned) 5. Prepare for conversations. Spend a little time before your guests arrive thinking about who will be there and what kinds of things you can ask them about. What is going on in their lives? What might you ask them about? A little thought goes a long way toward making people feel comfortable and creating meaningful connections with others. Have feedback or an idea to share? I would love to hear from you!

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0:00.0	Girlfriends episode number 164, the Girlfriend's Guide to Hospitality.
0:09.0	Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy in family living. This week, we're talking
0:22.5	about how to have people over, how to get over ourselves and just do that. I can't wait to start
0:27.0	this conversation with you. Let's get started.
0:41.6	Hey, girlfriends, how are you? Thanks for being here. Thanks for showing up for another episode of the Girlfriends podcast. I'm always glad to meet you here. I hope that your Lent is going well.
0:48.6	One thing I wanted to share with you that is really working well for Dan and me this Lent is we signed
0:53.4	up together for a class,
0:55.5	a Lenton study that's taking place on Tuesday evenings at a local parish. And it's actually been
1:01.8	a lot of fun for me to have this thing, this little side project that we're doing together.
1:07.8	I told you last year that I signed up for a different class and I did that one with
1:11.3	my daughter Juliet at the time. And as much as I maybe didn't love the content of that class,
1:18.7	I loved the opportunity to commit to something together with my daughter and be able to have
1:24.8	things that we could discuss together, especially related to the faith.
1:28.5	And this year has been even better.
1:30.4	No different in that I like that we have that regular commitment, and it makes us do that.
1:35.0	Because my experience with LET is you can make all these commitments yourself personally and say,
1:39.3	I'm going to read the Bible every morning and I'm going to do these you know, these novenas and as a family,
1:45.6	you know, whatever it is that your goals are. But sometimes we fall short of what our goals are
1:50.7	because we lack that accountability. So what are your goals this line? And how are you doing
1:55.9	with them? I recently recorded a podcast for my other podcast, which I do for my day job, my work with
2:03.1	Catholic mom.com together with Lisa Hendy.
2:07.1	I record the Catholic mom cast over there.
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