What Does It Really Mean to Be a Homemaker? - S5, E1
Finding Joy in Your Home
Jami Balmet
4.9 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
We’re back for Season 5 of the Finding Joy in Your Home podcast! 🎉 In this kickoff episode, I’m diving into one of the most-requested and foundational topics: what does it truly mean to be a homemaker?
Whether you’re a stay-at-home mom, a working woman, a student, or somewhere in between, homemaking is something every woman is called to in unique ways. I’ll share my own journey of starting marriage with zero homemaking skills, how God shaped my perspective over the years, and why being a homemaker is less about spotless dishes and more about creating a Christ-centered haven.
We’ll talk about:
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Why homemaking looks different in every season
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How to define your family’s culture and priorities
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The balance between routines and joy
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Building a home that nurtures hearts, not just chores
If you’ve ever wrestled with what biblical homemaking should look like, or if you’re ready for a fresh encouragement in your daily rhythms, this episode is for you.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | I am your host, Jamie Valmay, and this is the podcast where we blend deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey friends, welcome back. I am so excited that you are joining me here. We are kicking off season five of the Finding Joy in Your Home podcast. Super glad and |
| 0:23.8 | excited you're here. Of course, we actually have way more than five seasons. We kind of rebranded |
| 0:28.9 | five seasons ago and launched over and restarted our clock at zero episodes and have been |
| 0:35.0 | counting it back up from there. So you'll go back into our archive and you can |
| 0:39.1 | find hundreds and hundreds of podcast episodes dating all the way back to what? 2015? Is this |
| 0:44.7 | really our 10th year? Doing the podcast? Maybe it's our ninth year. But regardless, I'm really excited |
| 0:49.6 | to be kicking off a brand new season here. I love season resets because it gives me time to really think |
| 0:55.3 | about doing different series as we kick off. And I think last year I was just not able to kind of, |
| 1:01.1 | well, I had just had a baby. So that actually makes sense. I think last year's season kickoff was |
| 1:05.1 | just pre-recorded stuff and it wasn't quite as season kickoff e. So this time, season five, we're kicking off in a fun way. |
| 1:13.6 | Now, of course, I'm very happy to actually just be sitting down here recording with you |
| 1:17.1 | because as we've got the time planned out, Jason's picking up the kids from co-op and we've got |
| 1:23.6 | the time figured out. |
| 1:24.4 | That's the hardest thing about getting the podcast episodes recording. |
| 1:27.1 | It's because the house has to be quiet for me to record. And our tripod broke a couple of days ago and we forgot. So our tripod that actually is supposed to hold our camera. And then I couldn't get the right microphone working. And it was just one of those days where like every single thing is like, is this even going to happen? And Jason's like, nope, record on your phone. |
| 1:44.9 | We'll use this microphone. Like we're just, we're rolling with it. So if you're watching on YouTube, this is definitely not kind of our normal video setup. And oh, well, we're here. We're chatting. And that's just kind of real life, which actually kind of ties in perfectly with what we're talking about today. So season five kickoff, we're getting back to the roots. |
| 2:03.9 | We're getting back to the heart. which actually kind of ties in perfectly with what we're talking about today. So season five kickoff, |
| 2:02.1 | we're getting back to the roots. We're getting back to the heart of what does it mean to be a |
| 2:06.9 | homemaker? What does it mean as a woman? And we're going to talk about our definition, my definition |
| 2:12.7 | of homemaker is probably a lot more broad than most people think of. We're going to be kind of really getting back to the roots of our home. |
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