@Angela Linville you rock!

@Angela Linville thank you - I grabbed it!

I also work in storytelling space! Not the publishing stories part per se …. But definitely the stories container.

My biggest milestone that has plagued me for years has been having the energy to do all the things … physical, mental & emotional energy …. So reaching the milestone that generates all the energy I need is what I’m celebrating!

@Angela Linville yes my youngest is 17 and it took me 3 years to physically recover from that pregnancy. Totally understand this struggle!

They are both important to me - however I don’t need to charge outrageous prices to make an impact. I think there’s a balance - not an excuse to charge high prices to enjoy an affluent lifestyle. At some point it becomes a turn off for me. However, it’s probably because of the people I’ve been called to serve. And they either can’t afford it or won’t spend that kind of money - something I completely understand. I’ve come from growing up wealthy and I’ve seen some pretty evil things in those circles - but luckily I’ve seen what my dad did with it for good. And he stood out as an outsider in this in his own circle of wealthy people. He grew up very poor with a dad who was very lazy and downright mean. However my brother and I were manipulated with money and material things in order for my parents to get from us what they wanted - and it took me years and trauma therapy and lots of forgiveness to overcome it. When my mom realized the trauma it caused (in the last year or so) she felt so bad - she had no idea. We raised our kids in a single income government stepchild household income (23 years until this last year our income was at the poverty line until we finally got out on the GS pay scale like other government employees enjoy). I can bootstrap a grocery budget like no one you’ve ever seen. But my kids have learned this skill and learned resilience and we got through COVID better than any of our friends did. God has always provided for us even during shutdowns when we had no paycheck and were living paycheck to paycheck. And seeing that built my faith even more in ways that another level of income never could. We are in a new season and I’m slowly getting clients and sales in my health supplement line. My focus, however, is not income up-level but impact up-level…. Some of us are not led to affluence - and God can work with whatever income or talents or energy we show up with and that’s going to be different from one person to another. When I was listening to coaches tell me to charge thousands for coaching packages - God was very loud and clear that my job is not to fill in the income - gaps - that was His joy. He was very clear to me about impact. And we have never felt like we couldn’t give or serve with what little we had to work with. God has served multitudes with our loaves and fishes.

I love my mug with that on it!