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This week we’re discussing How to Define and Move Towards Your PurposePAIN POINT
Trying to determine your purpose or navigating career growth might be the last thing on your mind as a single parent. But, having purpose and moving toward something is important. Being a single parent can feel limiting in many areas, whether it’s a logistical difficulty like restricted time and energy or something more personal like self-doubt after our world has been irrevocably changed. How can we define and move toward our purpose while battling the unique obstacles we face as single parents?3 MAIN POINTS
Today, we cover three main points:
1) What do we mean by “purpose”?
2) What are some things that get in the way of moving to the next level?
3) Recognizing your value as a single parentLINK TO SHOW NOTES
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This week we’re discussing Financial Growth with Steve Coughran.PAIN POINT
Have you ever thought “I wish I knew how to grow my finances in a way that doesn’t require me to take on another job”? As a single parent, you likely don’t have a lot of extra time to pour into a lucrative side hustle and you don’t have the energy a pay raise or promotion requires. Is it possible that, as a working single parent, you can proactively grow your finances?GUEST BIO
CFO of an international billion-dollar company and management consultant Steve Coughran has over two decades of experience driving business excellence. Known for his extensive research and writing on strategic growth and corporate financial management, Steve challenges conventional wisdom, earning the reputation of an “energetic trailblazer.” He is an expert on strategy and an acclaimed keynote speaker with over twenty years of experience driving corporate excellence. He is the author of numerous books including Reframing Rich: Creating a Better Relationship With Your Money, Yourself, and Others, and the podcast host of Boosting Your Financial IQ (and several more).LINK TO SHOW NOTES
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This week we’re discussing How to Help Our Kids Grow SpirituallyPAIN POINT
In America today, most parents don’t feel like spiritual experts so they outsource it or hope their children will pick it up through exposure. But a child’s spiritual formation is one that a parent needs to prioritize and be involved with. How do parents actively and effectively participate in their children’s spiritual formation and growth?3 MAIN POINTS
Today, we cover three main points:
1) Why parents are so important in their children’s spiritual formation
2) Who are our partners in our children’s spiritual growth
3) A spiritually vibrant homeLINK TO SHOW NOTES
For all the detailed show notes, tips and links click - https://soloparent.org/show-notes-blogASK US ANYTHING! We want to answer any Solo Parent questions you may have. Go to SoloParent.org/TalkToUs and ask us anything…it can be related to a topic we cover on the podcast, something you are facing or just something you are curious about. We want you to be part of our podcast!
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This week we’re discussing Getting Out of Our Comfort ZonePAIN POINT
We all like being in our comfort zone because it feels … comfortable. It’s easy. When so much of our lives as single parents is challenging, it can feel good to simply hang out there. And after being through so much that has beaten us down, we don’t have a clear grasp on our potential. But, to grow, stepping out of our comfort zone and into unfamiliar territory is important. How do we know when it’s time to step out of our comfort zone and into growth?3 MAIN POINTS
Today, we cover three main points:
1) Defining the Comfort Zone
2) Growth Zone and Panic Zone
3) Moving into the Growth ZoneLINK TO SHOW NOTES
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We’ve all experienced a time when emotions got the best of us and completely lost our cool. As single parents, we don’t have a partner to co-regulate with or to cover for us as we fight to stabilize our emotions. Sometimes it feels nearly impossible to manage our responses well when we’re already trying to manage everything else. How can we regulate big emotions on our own so that we can model healthy emotional regulation for our children?Today, we cover three main points:
1) The basics of emotional regulation
2) The importance of emotional regulation as a parent
3) Tools for stabilizing in unstable moments
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Today we will be talking about the upcoming movie release Unsung Hero with David & Helen Smallbone.“Unsung Hero” follows Helen and David Smallbone after having lost everything when David’s successful music company collapses. In 1991, with nothing more than their seven children, suitcases, and a love of music, the family left everything they knew in Australia and moved to the United States, hoping to rebuild their life into a bigger, brighter future. Based on an incredible true story, Helen’s faith inspires her husband and children to hold onto theirs as they band together as a family in a brand-new country. With their own dreams on hold, David and Helen begin to realize the musical giftedness in their children, who would become two of the most successful acts in Inspirational Music history: five-time Grammy Award-winning artists for KING + COUNTRY and Rebecca St. James. “Unsung Hero” releases in movie theaters everywhere on April 26, 2024.
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There is so much uncertainty in our world today: our nation, the presidential election, wars, the stock market and economy, our health, the well-being of our children…the list goes on. When we find ourselves standing in the face of uncertainty, how can we deal with it in a healthy and sustainable way?
Today, we cover three main points:
1) The desire for certainty
2) The benefits of uncertainty
3) The antidotes to uncertainty
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Our kids encounter so many cultural influences and outside voices every day. Everything and everyone is vying for their attention, and information about literally anything is at their fingertips. How can we teach our children to stay true to themselves without micromanaging or sheltering them too much?
Today, we cover three main points:
1).Identifying outside sources and influences
2).Establishing a safe home base
3).Helping our kids establish their personal values/identity
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We know our kids have gone through much-unwanted instability already, and we will do anything in our power to instill more stability in their lives. But sometimes, this requires us to make really hard decisions. How can we make good decisions for our family, even if it comes at a cost? Is stability even possible?
Today, we cover three main points:
1) Making hard decisions.
2) The costs of stability
3) Stability hacks one bite at time.For all the detailed show notes, tips and links click - https://soloparent.org/show-notes-blog
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Parenting is probably the biggest responsibility we’ll ever have, and solo parenting may be one of the biggest challenges we’ll ever face. Having a village of people supporting us on our best days and loving us on our worst days is paramount and the concept sounds great, but how do we go about building a village?
Today, we cover three main points:
1) The meaning and purpose of a village
2) How to build a village
3) Roadblocks to villages
For all the detailed show notes, tips and links visit soloparent.org/show-notes-blog
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Every girl deserves a faith-filled adventure click here for the NIV Kingdom Girls Bible
Single Parent Day is in just a few days, on March 21st. For this episode, we wanted to do something special for our solos—and it just so happens that a lot of listeners have been asking us to tell the origin story of Solo Parent.
This week we talked to Robert, Amber, and Elizabeth about how Solo Parent came into being. For this conversation, we also welcome back Kimberly Mitchell. Kim is a familiar voice from our podcast and played an instrumental part in the Solo Parent Story.
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Every morning, we wake up and we have to decide: Are we going to get out of bed…or not? There are days when it all feels like too much; the trials and tribulations of this world seem insurmountable and the lure of staying in bed and hiding from everything and everyone looks like the only solution. Every solo parent has experienced this feeling of overwhelm and knows… we still have to do it. Our kids are depending on us. Their world can’t run without us. So, how do we get out of bed when we feel like we don’t have what it takes?
Our guest today is Dr. Alan Noble, an associate professor at Oklahoma Baptist University, and co-founder and editor-in-chief at Christ and Pop Culture. He has written for the Atlantic, Vox, The Gospel Coalition, Christianity Today, and First Things. He is the author of multiple books including the one we’re discussing today—” On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living.”
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One of the most heart-wrenching parts of parenting is seeing our kids struggle. When our child is dealing with physical pain, we rush to their aid and see what we can do to help. Even if they insist they’re fine, you know a broken bone when you see it. But, mental health is altogether different. While mental illness can and does present itself physically, so much anxiety and depression happens inside the mind. Mental health is a serious topic, that thankfully has become more widely talked about and acknowledged in recent years. We often feel helpless or unsure of what to do when our child is mentally struggling—especially as solo parents. How do we effectively help our kids deal with anxiety or depression in a healthy way? How can we tell if our kids are okay?
Our guest today is Kyle Cruze. Kyle is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of Tennessee. His passion and expertise are with adolescent/teenage boys and their families who are struggling to navigate through the difficult and confusing aspects of this culture and life. Additionally, Kyle works closely with those recovering from alcohol/drug addiction. Kyle practices out of The Counseling Center at Christ Community Church in Franklin, TN.
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Falling in love after loss or a failed relationship is not for the faint of heart. Any solo parent knows life is already overwhelming—and to add a romantic element into the mix can feel risky. Love the first time around is often when you’re young, inexperienced with the world, and marked with abandon, and recklessness. Does love feel the same the second time around?
Today, we cover three main points:
1. The experience: How love feels and is experienced post-loss or post-growth.
2. The person: You’re in a relationship with a completely different person, and you’ve also changed as a person.
3. Your former spouse: The coexistence of your love for your former spouse and your love for the next person.
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If we’re honest, we need to admit we often don’t know what healthy love looks like. Codependency can often feel like love. So, how can we tell the difference between love and codependency?
Today, we cover three main points:
1) What is codependency?
2) What is a healthy connection?
3) How to set healthy limits
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Loving as a single parent requires us to sacrifice in ways we didn’t expect. But sometimes, we get caught up in the pain and it becomes tit for tat—it turns into a burdensome type of love. We know we have to step outside of ourselves and elevate what is best for our kids but how do we sacrificially love in a healthy way?
Today, we cover three main points:
1) The meaning of sacrificial love
2) What sacrificial love is NOT
3) When you feel like you’ve given all you have
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Solo parents have experienced an enormous amount of hurt and loss. Some of it is extremely painful—and understandably so. But in order to love our children well, we need to love our story and all the parts of ourselves that participated in it. How can we love ourselves and embrace our inherent value after so much pain?
Today, we cover three main points:
1) Losing our value and why it’s so important to have
2) Loving your whole story and letting it all be true
3) Steps to loving yourself
For all the detailed show notes, tips and links visit soloparent.org/show-notes-blog
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All single parents are grieving at some level. We know we need to step into the grief and not bypass it, but we aren’t always equipped for the process, and we end up coping with grief in an unhelpful manner. How do we practice grief healthily and intentionally?
Today, we cover three main points:
1) Defining grief and our understanding of it
2) Personal stories of grief
3) Four tasks of mourning
For all the detailed show notes, tips and links visit soloparent.org/show-notes-blog
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We’re in a brand new year, but for single parents, it might feel like Groundhog Day, where daily life continually feels crazy and out of control. Are there daily intentions we can implement so that we—along with our kids—find a new and better daily rhythm?
Today, we cover three main points:
1) When you’re a busy single parent, daily life can feel like Groundhog Day—with no end in sight.
2) A daily schedule/routine, structure, and order can provide a place for your values and intentions to be fully realized.
3) There are practical steps to bring daily intention into your life.
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We get so caught up in the everyday tasks of day-to-day living that we don’t feel like we have the bandwidth to live intentionally into a future we want.
Today, we cover three main points:
1) Starting with the end in mind—what to begin, what to end
2) The importance of making mistakes in front of our children
3) Keeping our eyes on the end goal
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