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78 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 10 years ago - ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsWork Hard. Get Dirty. Use Good Soap.
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Family Vacation
September 05, 2012 10:00 - 18 minutes - 17.4 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 027. Taking a family vacation with eight children may not be the easiest thing to do, but it is worth every minute of effort and all the expense. We believe getting away from home and your normal routine really strengthens family bonds and gives Mom and Dad a respite […]
Train Your Children Then Trust Them
August 29, 2012 10:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 026. A few weeks ago we drove Brett and Colter to North Carolina so they could go on a two week Outward Bound excursion in the mountains of North Carolina. It was the first time either of them were away from home. While it was not easy to let […]
Be Protective, But Not Over-Protective
August 22, 2012 22:18 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 025. We are protective of our children while they are still young and need us to protect them. As they mature they are given the opportunity to test themselves and their beliefs while still under the protection of our household. We try very hard to be protective, but not […]
No Such Thing As a Typical Day
August 15, 2012 10:00 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 024. Do you finish your “typical” day feeling like you accomplished nothing? Or do you typically go to sleep feeling tired, but believing you had a good day? For me, I enjoy wrapping up the day knowing that I worked hard, taught my children, enjoyed my family, and accomplished […]
How Important Is Privacy
August 08, 2012 10:00 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 023. Several months ago, Brett got her own room. Since then we’ve been talking a lot about the subject of privacy because I don’t want her to over-value privacy at the expense of relationships. After all, if she gets married some day, she’s going to have to give up […]
Learning Leadership
August 01, 2012 10:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 022. Have you ever heard the expression, “He is a born leader?” While I do think there are people who are natural leaders, I also believe that leadership skills can be taught. I focus a lot on teaching my children to be leaders because I want them to have […]
Spending Time
July 25, 2012 10:00 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 021. Our children desperately desire our attention. We can choose to give it to them proactively on our terms. Or we can wait until they misbehave and give them attention then in the form of discipline. Children are smart. They realize that if they can’t get attention from Mom […]
Discipline Yourself and Your Children
July 18, 2012 10:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 020. How peaceful our homes are hinges on how effectively we discipline our children. There are a lot of things you can do as a mom to improve the way you discipline and help your children to respond better. But it starts with you and it takes a lot […]
Restore Margin To Your Life
July 11, 2012 10:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 019. One of my all-time favorite books is Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives* by Richard Swenson. This is a concept that is really important to a well-balanced life and it is a book that I highly recommend. If you have margin in your […]
The Importance of Chores
July 04, 2012 10:00 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 018. I want to raise children that have a strong work ethic. I think laziness is so destructive to our personal success, especially when it comes to our careers and our relationships. It takes hard work to succeed in both those areas. I use chores to build a strong […]
Watch Your Words
June 27, 2012 10:00 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 017. Words are very powerful and yet most of us use them without much thought. I have been the victim of words that were carelessly spoken and have wounded me deeply. I’m sad to say that I’ve been on the other end as well and have uttered words before […]
Build Your Platform with Michael Hyatt
June 20, 2012 10:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 016. According to Michael Hyatt, the best time to build a platform is five years before you need it. And yet, if you had told me in 2003 that in five years I would launch a successful goat milk soap business and that I would be reaching thousands of […]
Never Stop Learning
June 13, 2012 10:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 015. I love and value learning. Not just for the children, but for myself as well. A “rusty” brain would prevent me from conversing intelligently with my husband and others about a variety of topics. So I make sure that I am always learning something about being a […]
When to Visit the Doctor
June 06, 2012 10:00 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 014. Sometimes it can be so difficult to decide whether or not you need to schedule a doctor visit. We don’t want to waste our time or our money, but what if things are serious and a doctor visit is required? There are obvious injuries (like massive splinters stuck […]
Strengthen Your Immune System
May 30, 2012 10:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 013. Nothing ruins my plans and my busy schedule the way a family member getting sick does. Everyone of us has a job and a role and if somebody is sick, we have to scramble and re-prioritize and figure it all out. So I make sure that I do […]
Interview with Karyn Ranzau of Little Pink Ladybug
May 23, 2012 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 012. If you’ve ever had an idea that you think you may be able to turn into a family business, you’ll want to listen to today’s podcast. I discuss the benefits of attending craft fairs or festivals to do market research for your new or potential business. Then I play […]
Starting a Small Business
May 16, 2012 10:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 011. Many families today feel trapped by dead end jobs that barely make ends meet. Even so, there is a perceived safety net in an expected paycheck, and with the struggling economy, any job is better than no job at all. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be that […]
You Can’t Always Be in Control
May 09, 2012 10:44 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 010. I don’t want to be the kind of person who becomes consumed by the struggles in my life. I want to maintain the proper perspective. And I want to teach my children to do the same. Because one thing I know about life is that it’s going to […]
Pay It Off!
May 02, 2012 10:00 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 009. During today’s podcast, I share my journey to living a debt free lifestyle. It was not easy to learn to live below our means, but the benefits to doing so have been truly tremendous. Not only have I been able to stay home and raise my eight children, […]
Getting Rid of Clutter III
April 25, 2012 10:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 008. Today’s podcast is the final episode in my series on clutter. I hope that over the past two episodes you have gotten a sense for how drastic a problem clutter is in America. So much so, that there have been a lot of studies done on the impacts […]
Getting Rid of Clutter II
April 18, 2012 10:00 - 40 minutes - 37 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 007. A couple of years ago, Jim and some of the boys went to a home in Louisville. The family was living amongst garbage and debris that literally was piled everywhere. The mom was single and had been injured and suffered from diabetes. The boys should have been old […]
Getting Rid of Clutter I
April 11, 2012 10:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 006. Clutter is out of control in most American homes, and I believe it is a major factor in why so many women are overwhelmed by their lives. The mountains of clutter residing in your home can weigh you down and cause you stress without you even realizing it. […]
Get Off Your Backside and Move!
April 04, 2012 13:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 005. Most of us hear the term fitness and we immediately think of exercise. But there’s a lot more to fitness than that. Being fit affects our mood, our energy level, our health, and our decision making. It allows us to be the person we want to be and […]
Drink Your Water… or Else!
March 28, 2012 10:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 004. We’re told over and over again to drink enough water. And I admit, that I usually do, but I didn’t really understand why it was so important. But now I do! There is a reason that you can live for several months without food, but only a couple […]
How to Eat Enough Fruits and Veggies
March 21, 2012 10:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 003. In order to be the best wife and mother you can be, you need to take care of yourself. That means getting enough sleep, exercising, maintaining a healthy weight, and eating right. Most of us fall short on most of those things not because we don’t think that […]
The Importance of Sleep
March 14, 2012 10:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 002. This week, I’m addressing the issue of sleep. As moms and homemakers, most of us know what it is like to feel sleep deprived. But do you truly know how that impacts your health? Over the past couple of months I personally discovered that it isn’t always enough […]
The Myth of the Mom Who Can Do Everything
March 07, 2012 11:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 001. I am most often asked, “How do you do it all?” Actually, that’s not the question, I’m most often asked, but you’ll have to listen to find out what that one is. During this episode, I discuss some of the things that I do, and some of the things […]
My Test Podcast episode
February 25, 2012 19:57 - 2 minutes - 2.81 MBBusy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 000. This is just a test podcast recording for me to practice podcasting. It is mostly me babbling and practicing all the knobs on my new podcast equipment. Leave a comment here with something you heard me say on the test podcast and you’ll be entered into a $10 […]