Girlfriends, episode number 254, using your gifts with Samantha Stevenson.

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 and family living.

This week I have a special guest

Samantha Stevenson joining us to talk about her podcast and how to use your creative gifts.

Looking forward to chatting with you. Let's get going.

Hey, girlfriends. How are you? How is 2021? I pre-recorded last week's show. So this is really my first time connecting with you in the new year. And so far, so good. I actually love after Christmas time. I know. I love Christmas time too,

but I really love the fresh start of a new year. I love going back to ordinary time after Christmas time. Sort of this little gap here of regular routines, getting back to work and school schedules and that kind of thing, new clean

spaces in our homes when we pack away the Christmas decorations for another year.

There's something really nice about it.

And I'm not going to be ashamed of it.

I'm not a grinch.

I love Christmas.

But I also love after Christmas.

So I'm enjoying this time of year and getting back into routines with kids heading back to school, getting back into work routines around here and back to our regular schedules. There's something really comforting, I think, about our everyday routines. And there's a reason toddlers love routines because that need is built in. We all have it. So I hope your

2021 is going well. I usually like to do a podcast where I share about making goals for the new year. But that was like one of the

rerun podcasts that I ran while I was on break over the holidays. So I hope you had a chance to tune into that with regard to

setting goals for the new year. If you are setting some goals, if you're making resolutions

for fitness or for your health or spiritual goals or relationship goals or work goals, I would

love to hear about them. I would love to know what's on your mind, what's on your heart these

days and what your goals are for the coming months. And how you're surviving during this

ongoing saga that is COVID-19. We had some experience with it over the holidays ourselves

and it hit pretty close to home. So I'm right there with you

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