Working women who love Jesus wrestle with tough questions: How can I be effective in my work and stay committed to the gospel? How can I be dedicated to my family when my job is so demanding? Why am I working so hard and still so unfulfilled? Answering these questions (and more!) in... Sound familiar? Like you, we see a culture that promotes success at all costs, and working women are falling for it. Priorities are shifting. Marriages and homes are unraveling. Things are getting done... but are we doing what matters? And that’s why we (Michelle + Somer) wrote this book. It’s the story of how we traded the lies of the world for the truth of our loving Father: the lessons we learned that challenged culture’s “good things” so that we could find the greatest thing. PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN NOW! If you plan to get this book, will you please go ahead and pre-order it now? Here’s why pre-orders matter: they tell retailers the book is important and that they need to carry stock of it. Otherwise, they won’t. So that’s why we are asking you to pre-order. So much [...]

Social media is not the only place to talk to customers. I repeat: social media is not the only place to talk to customers.  And yet, it's the communication strategy the majority of small business owners rely on, while simultaneously being the component of their work that wastes the most time, frustrates them the most and produces the least amount of return. Here are three quick reasons social media should not be your primary business communication strategy: 1) You do not own social media platforms. It's always risky when you rely on a platform you cannot control. And you and I are not in control of the decisions being made at social media platforms. At any time, a platform could be shut down, sold or changed drastically -- without considering your business once. 2) Social media requires you to fight against an algorithm with a different agenda than yours. Every social media platform is a business with an agenda. And no matter what you do, their agenda is not your agenda. The only thing you can count on from the algorithm is that it will continue to change without giving you [...]