teenage daughters

In this episode, Karol discusses the lack of basic life skills in younger generations and the need for practical education. She then interviews Mark Hemingway, senior writer at Real Clear Investigations, about his views on education, family values, and maintaining a successful marriage. They also discuss their love for humor, their favorite comedians, and the impact of technology on culture. Hemingway expresses concern about the fragmentation of culture and the spiritual crisis among young men. The Karol Markowicz Show is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday & Thursday.

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Are you frustrated with your husband's lack of Parenting Boundaries & Even More Anxious When Your Bio Kids Go to Him Before You, Stepmom?

In today's laser coaching episode, Kim explores the WHY behind the WHAT of her expectations for raising teens.🙏

Before we dive into Kim’s Laser coaching session, are you ready for rapid fire questions?  Remember – judgment out, curiosity in.

❓First Question: One of your kids just broke curfew.  Quick:  How do you respond? How does your husband respond? 

❓Second Question: Your child simply refuses to clean up his room.  Quick: How are you describing this to your best friend?

Want to save families and prevent divorce & re-divorce? Will you partner with me on my mission to mentor and coach 12,000 women in 2023?  Many are struggling as they blend new families, and the odds are not stacked in their favor.  However, GOD IS FOR STEPMOMS & STEPFAMILIES!  Let's save families and prevent re-divorce, together!

How you can be part of the movement to save families:
1. Share the podcast!
2. Leave a 5-star review!
3. Join the FB group & get connected!

Here are the best ways for you and me to connect and grow together!

Take Your Power Back & Reclaim Your Joy, FAST! www.stepfamilypodcast.com/WorkWithJen
📞Get Featured on the show! Ask Jen Anything
Next steps:
Step 1: Join the Empowered Community bit.ly/joyfulwithjen
Step 2: BUILD BETTER BOUNDARIES! Powerful Free Handbook + Bonuses!
Step 3: De-Stress Planning - Celebrations Guide! bit.ly/CelebrateWithJen
Step 4: Top 10 tips to Regain Your Power & Prevent Burnout Free Download!
Step 5: Peaceful Co-Parenting Strategies that Work-Mini Workshop $97

Be strong, and let your heart be courageous, all you who put your hope in the Lord.
Psalm 31:24

Have you ever lost your kid in a store? That is a frightening experience. I'm confident Mary, the mother of Jesus can relate to the fear, hurry and worry of frantically searching for your child.

In today's Shortie, it's time to think about how hurry and worry may be stealing our joy, robbing us of connections with our stepkids, and creating needless anxiety in our stepmom role.

⚔ It's time to ARMOR UP! ⚔
Luke 2:41-52

✅Beverage☕️🍵🥤
✅Bibles📒
✅Journals 📓
✅Hide in the closet if necessary to focus on what God has for you 😶
✅Podcast turned up!🎙🎧

Journal prompts for SMART Stepmoms:

  ⚔ 📒📓Journal about how you would feel if you experienced significantly less stress in periods that challenge you in stepfamily life.  If it makes sense for you, use transition day as a prompt. Imagine how you will feel knowing that stress on transition day has been diffused, expectations on this day are clear for each family member, and you have confidence in knowing it is going to be a low stress transition day.

  ⚔ 📒📓 Identify one (just one!) obstacle that is preventing you from experience what you journaled on in #1.

  ⚔ 📒📓 Action step:  What one thing could you do within the next 24 hours to reduce stress in this situation.

Want to save families and prevent divorce & re-divorce? Will you partner with me on my mission to mentor, train and coach 12,000 women in 2023?  Many are struggling as they blend new families, and the odds are not stacked in their favor.  However, GOD IS FOR STEPMOMS & STEPFAMILIES!  Let's save families and prevent re-divorce, together!

How you can be part of the movement to save families:
1. Share the podcast!
2. Leave a 5-star review!
3. Join the FB group & get connected!

Here are the best ways for you and me to connect and grow together!

Take Your Power Back & Reclaim Your Joy, FAST! www.stepfamilypodcast.com/WorkWithJen
📞Get Featured on the show! Ask Jen Anything
Next steps:
Step 1: Join the Empowered Community bit.ly/joyfulwithjen
Step 2: BUILD BETTER BOUNDARIES! Powerful Free Handbook + Bonuses!
Step 3: De-Stress Planning - Celebrations Guide! bit.ly/CelebrateWithJen
Step 4: Top 10 tips to Regain Your Power & Prevent Burnout Free Download!
Step 5: Peaceful Co-Parenting Strategies that Work-Mini Workshop $97

Be strong, and let your heart be courageous, all you who put your hope in the Lord.
Psalm 31:24

Then, shush it, and wait for him to answer. That's it.

When you meet with him later that day or the next day, because you're honoring each other by coming together in this way, when you meet together, here's an example of what you could ask for.

"When you pray for me, I feel ___________. Will you please pray for me today?"
That's it!
Your turn, Stepmama! What will you ask for? Email me & the team at friends@stepfamilypodcast.com
💫💫💫💫💫

Find Michelle in all these spaces
PODCAST: https://bit.ly/gatgpodcast
INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/itsmemichellecastro/
FACEBOOK GROUP: https://bit.ly/christianmindsetsupport
Referenced by Michelle in this episode: Jodie Berndt

Want to save families and prevent divorce & re-divorce? Will you partner with me on my mission to mentor and coach 12,000 women in 2023?  Many are struggling as they blend new families, and the odds are not stacked in their favor.  However, GOD IS FOR STEPMOMS & STEPFAMILIES!  Let's save families and prevent re-divorce, together!

How you can be part of the movement to save families:
1. Share the podcast!
2. Leave a 5-star review!
3. Join the FB group & get connected!

Here are the best ways for you and me to connect and grow together!

Take Your Power Back & Reclaim Your Joy, FAST! www.stepfamilypodcast.com/WorkWithJen
📞Get Featured on the show! Ask Jen Anything
Next steps:
Step 1: Join the Empowered Community bit.ly/joyfulwithjen
Step 2: BUILD BETTER BOUNDARIES! Powerful Free Handbook + Bonuses!
Step 3: De-Stress Planning - Celebrations Guide! bit.ly/CelebrateWithJen
Step 4: Top 10 tips to Regain Your Power & Prevent Burnout Free Download!
Step 5: Peaceful Co-Parenting Strategies that Work-Mini Workshop $97

Be strong, and let your heart be courageous, all you who put your hope in the Lord.
Psalm 31:24

So, you know, when you hit the ground running? The day takes off.  And your plans, if you're a planner like me, the planner, it is not directing your attention to where you need to go, and all of a sudden, later on you realize you're blowing up, you're losing your cool there's no fruit of the Spirit.

The self-control has gone south! 😦😡😧

⚔ It's time to ARMOR UP! ⚔
Exodus 14, 16 | Psalm 34:10

✅Beverage☕️🍵🥤
✅Bibles📒
✅Journals 📓
✅Hide in the closet if necessary to focus on what God has for you 😶
✅Podcast turned up!🎙🎧

Journal prompts:
  ⚔ 📒📓What has God given to you this past week?
  ⚔ 📒📓What are you looking forward to this coming week?
  ⚔ 📒📓 How can you honor the Lord as a woman of influence in your stepfamily?

Want to save families and prevent divorce & re-divorce? Will you partner with me on my mission to mentor, train and coach 12,000 women in 2023?  Many are struggling as they blend new families, and the odds are not stacked in their favor.  However, GOD IS FOR STEPMOMS & STEPFAMILIES!  Let's save families and prevent re-divorce, together!

How you can be part of the movement to save families:
1. Share the podcast!
2. Leave a 5-star review!
3. Join the FB group & get connected!

Here are the best ways for you and me to connect and grow together!

Take Your Power Back & Reclaim Your Joy, FAST! www.stepfamilypodcast.com/WorkWithJen
📞Get Featured on the show! Ask Jen Anything
Next steps:
Step 1: Join the Empowered Community bit.ly/joyfulwithjen
Step 2: BUILD BETTER BOUNDARIES! Powerful Free Handbook + Bonuses!
Step 3: De-Stress Planning - Celebrations Guide! bit.ly/CelebrateWithJen
Step 4: Top 10 tips to Regain Your Power & Prevent Burnout Free Download!
Step 5: Peaceful Co-Parenting Strategies that Work-Mini Workshop $97

Be strong, and let your heart be courageous, all you who put your hope in the Lord.
Psalm 31:24

Are You Having a Stepmom Identity Crisis? 3 Tips on How to Survive Second Wife Syndrome for Good.  

Shortly after a difficult resign-firing in 2014, my hunka-hunka and I, then dating, were sharing a glass of pinot on a teeny tiny balcony overlooking a busy part of a Houston downtown neighborhood.  Sidebar story - After being wined and dined for almost two years, I said yes to a job 900 miles south because I sensed God’s leading me there. 

The timing was off...but I figured I was right to go.  Bill and I had gotten serious quickly, but deep down, even though I knew he was the man I was to marry, I was afraid.  Let me articulate that differently.  I remember specifically saying to Bill quite confidently, "I don’t want to hurt you, but I want to push you away kind of thing" and “I don’t want to need you,” (or anybody else for that matter). 

Long after the fact I realized the leading was a teaching time lean into God instead of lean into the power of Jen. 

Can you relate?  Is there a time when you’ve declared your need for NOT needing someone? 

Listen in for 3 tips on Surviving and what to do to keep the momentum going as you implement these strategies for Smart Stepmoms.

Catch the Sacred Shortie, #129, here.

Want to save families and prevent divorce & re-divorce? Will you partner with me on my mission to mentor and coach 12,000 women in 2023?  Many are struggling as they blend new families, and the odds are not stacked in their favor.  However, GOD IS FOR STEPMOMS & STEPFAMILIES!  Let's save families and prevent re-divorce, together!

How you can be part of the movement to save families:
1. Share the podcast!
2. Leave a 5-star review!
3. Join the FB group & get connected!

Here are the best ways for you and me to connect and grow together!

Take Your Power Back & Reclaim Your Joy, FAST! www.stepfamilypodcast.com/WorkWithJen
📞Get Featured on the show! Ask Jen Anything
Next steps:
Step 1: Join the Empowered Community bit.ly/joyfulwithjen
Step 2: BUILD BETTER BOUNDARIES! Powerful Free Handbook + Bonuses!
Step 3: De-Stress Planning - Celebrations Guide! bit.ly/CelebrateWithJen
Step 4: Top 10 tips to Regain Your Power & Prevent Burnout Free Download!
Step 5: Peaceful Co-Parenting Strategies that Work-Mini Workshop $97

Be strong, and let your heart be courageous, all you who put your hope in the Lord.
Psalm 31:24

My expert guest, Cheyanne Cleyman, spills all when she answers these questions:
😭 How do Stepmoms communicate with their teen daughters?
😭 Are you caught up in competing with the bonus ex-wife, or are you building relationship with your stepdaughter?
😭 What are you trying to prove? To yourself and to others?

Roses, sunshine, & unicorns in stepfamily life? Ehhh....no.  That is not how we would describe stepfamily life. But...there are elements of those, even if you married a man with a teenage daughter. Yep, it's true. I promise!

After a brief, "Hi, I'm Cheyanne", Cheyanne rips off the bandaid of real life! 🩹
Listen in to find out more, Stepmom! 🎤

Want to save families and prevent divorce & re-divorce? Will you partner with me on my mission to mentor and coach 12,000 women in 2023?  Many are struggling as they blend new families, and the odds are not stacked in their favor.  However, GOD IS FOR STEPMOMS & STEPFAMILIES!  Let's save families and prevent re-divorce, together!

How you can be part of the movement to save families:
1. Share the podcast!
2. Leave a 5-star review!
3. Join the FB group & get connected!

Listen in to figure out how to do a "Check before you wreck" as Chey describes it.  Which has me thinking of a new tagline: Stop, Drop, & Love!

🔵 FB Groups are where it is at to create new connections and grow in your calling. Join Chey's Mom Nation Group here.
🔵 Follow Cheyanne on insta.
🔵 Get more of Cheyanne's genius in your earbuds by tuning into 🎤The Energized Mama!

Here are the best ways for you and me to connect and grow together!

Take Your Power Back & Reclaim Your Joy, FAST! www.stepfamilypodcast.com/WorkWithJen
📞Get Featured on the show! Ask Jen Anything
Next steps:
Step 1: Join the Empowered Community bit.ly/joyfulwithjen
Step 2: BUILD BETTER BOUNDARIES! Powerful Free Handbook + Bonuses!
Step 3: De-Stress Planning - Celebrations Guide! bit.ly/CelebrateWithJen
Step 4: Top 10 tips to Regain Your Power & Prevent Burnout Free Download!
Step 5: Peaceful Co-Parenting Strategies that Work-Mini Workshop $97

Be strong, and let your heart be courageous, all you who put your hope in the Lord.
Psalm 31:24