LeadHERship Podcast

“My eyes opened up to the fact that this is real, this is relevant, this is happening right in our front yards”

Children are a bundle of joy, innocent God-given gifts to every family, and the hope of our nation’s future. As of the moment, we might be safe at home with our kids, enjoying a lovely day under the sun with precious smiles from ear to ear, but are you aware that 800,000 children go missing every year and that is roughly 2000 children per day. These children are experiencing the opposite of what our children are enjoying right now. They are maltreated, sold, and harvested for organs.

Herewith us today are two good friends of mine, Alex and Jen on this awakening and alarming conversation about child trafficking and putting an end to these immoral and unlawful crimes.

In this time of crisis, we are called to be the soldiers of the weak, the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the innocent. Never be afraid to fight for the helpless, donate and light the torch of hope for millions of missing children that it might enlighten their path to their way home.

Ephesians 5:11- “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.”

Commonly used codewords by predators that you should be aware of:

• #hotdog- young boy
• #pizza- young girl
• #cheesepizza- little girl (infant)
• #pasta- little boy (infant)
• #icecream- male prostitute
• #walnut- a person of color
• #map- semen
• #sauce- orgy

Stop using these hashtags especially when posting photos of your children online:

• #pottytraining #bathtime #nekedkids #kidsbathtime #bikinikids #pottyseat #toddlerbikini #toilettraining #nakedchild #pottypants #kidsshower

8 Ways a predator will approach its prey and how you can protect them (38:03)

1. A predator might pay special attention to a child and make him or her feel special.
2. A predator might isolate your child by involving him or her in a fun activity that requires them to be alone.
3. A predator might touch your child in the presence of you so that he or she thinks that you’re comfortable with her being touched or him being touched.
4. Keep in mind that the first physical contact between a predator in his or her victim is often non-sexual and designed to desensitize the child.
5. A predator might take advantage of your child’s natural curiosity about sex by telling dirty jokes showing him or her pornography by playing sexual games.
6. A predator may offer to play games, buy treats for young children.
7. A predator might present him or herself as a sympathetic listener when parents, friends, and others disappoint a child.
8. A predator might eventually treat the child victim as a co-conspirator in the relationship.

Links:

• The Ted Gunderson Files; Educate Yourself: https://educate-yourself.org/tg/
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: https://www.missingkids.org/
• Operation Underground Railroad: https://ourrescue.org/

Apps Mentioned:

• Insight Timer: https://insighttimer.com/jenbayer/guided-meditations/soaking-in-the-savior
• Bark- Parental Controls: https://www.bark.us/

Books Mentioned:

The Talk: 7 Lessons to Introduce Your Child to Biblical Sexuality

Changes: 7 Biblical Lessons to Make Sense of Puberty

Relationships: 11 Lessons to Give Kids a Greater Understanding of Biblical Sexuality

*All books mentioned are up and available on Amazon

Speak up, tell your story, and enlighten the persons in power by writing to the Senators and Congressmen. Head on to GovTrack.us- Tracking the United States Congress: https://www.govtrack.us/

I am here to serve you, and I can't wait for you to share with me how I can serve you better. Tag me @meredith_franklin in your social media post or tag @leadhershippodcast and share with us what is the greatest thing that holds you back from stepping into your greatness!

We as women, we sometimes feel like we're supposed to do and be everything just because we are capable.

We believe the lie that if we hire out for something, we are not the wife or mother or the best that we could be because we didn't do it ourselves. Just because we're capable doesn't mean we have to do the thing that possibly really drains us or is not income producing.

If you are feeling this way, YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

I felt like this probably for six years, and it took me a long time to grasp the idea that it was more beneficial and more income-producing for me to hire out to spend money for someone else to clean my home, for someone else to do my yard than for me to do it myself. So we're going to get into this. How to manage your time and work SMARTER, not harder, as we dive deep into delegating and saving us more extra time.

Highlights

• Being more productive and healthy by mastering the art of delegating
• Incredible tips on hiring a housekeeper and how you can cut the cost
• How to budget-friendly delegate all your household chores including picking up your dog po*p and do your grocery shopping
• Hiring Virtual Assistants and how it can leverage your cash flow and run your business smoothly

Hey #leadHers, you are not alone in your journey. I want you to know that it's okay to get help. It can help you not only with your stress and your mindset but in everything with your life.

If your an entrepreneur and multi-passionate leadHer, delegating is an important skill to master. Because if you don't know how to delegate, you will be stuck from where you are.

So I hope this episode is helpful for you. I really want to challenge you right now, to ask yourself "How much am I worth an hour?".

Are you having your house cleaned while you are writing your book or your blog? How are you using that time that you are delegating wisely to make you money and investing in that? So please write it down. I would love to hear what you guys have hired out for. Please leave me a message, a DM or review. Tell me. I want to hear that you've hired out for something. Whether it is house cleaning, laundry, gardening, maybe a poop service or perhaps someone from Upwork to help you for branding, social media brand, or whatever it may be. I want to know what you hired out and how it has blessed you and how much time it has freed up for you because I think that you guys are going to find that you have way more time to be creative.

I hope you guys have a great day and that this blesses you. Enjoy!

This episode is EPIC! Natasha Hemmingway joins us on the podcast today, and she filled up the environment with SO much wisdom, enlightenment, and super actionable tips to step up in your business.

Natasha is a Speaker, Sales Coach and she helps female entrepreneurs sell with heart and not hustle to master their authentic sales process.

She shares how she took her hands off the wheel and Surrendered it all to God. Because when you start to let God do all the work and trust in His will, everything will fall into the right place.

Matthew 11:28 says," Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. "

Highlights

• How to develop faith over fear and knowing your worth
• Listening to God's voice and surrendering to His will
• Identifying REAL fear from FALSE fear and making choices out of our TRUTH
• Sharing your gifts to honor and impact other people
• How to be unapologetically confident
• How to sell yourself or your business and hustle the right way to have a thriving business
• Operating in what you do and believing in what you do
• (6)Six reasons why people aren't buying from us
• Don't de-value yourself

When we start to let God step into our life and take the lead, we will begin to understand and identify all these FALSE fear in our head that blocks our way and limits us to understand our worth and our freedom fully. When you start deciding that you'll be going to root yourself in our truth and stop believing your lies, and you understand that it's normal to have fear, but it's more important to move through the fear so you can step into your call. It will change your life and other people's life because your calling is not about you. It's beyond that. It's the people that you impacted when you stepped into that and said 'yes' to it.

So I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. I want to know what you learned and what your biggest takeaways were. Tag me @meredith_franklin on Instagram or @leadhershippodcast. I am so thrilled to hear your thoughts in this episode.

Connect with Natasha

https://natashahemmingway.com/

@natashahemmingwa

Have you ever wanted to peek behind the curtain of a successful blogger and see how they really do it all with raising babies, being a wife and building a business? What does it really take and is it all glamorous as what it seems to be on social media?

In this podcast episode, I interview my beautiful friend and founder of taste lovely blog, Natalie Gruendl. Join us as she shares all her insights and secrets; actionable success tips and how she left the business world and became a super successful blogger. You guys are in for a major treat!

Highlights

• How the love for creativity and cooking lead into a successful career in photography and later turn into a successful influencer
• How to successfully work as a couple
• The fastest way to increase your Instagram followers
• Doing what you love and spending more time with your loved ones at the same time
• Learning and educating yourself online
• Efficiently batch producing contents and behind the reel of working hand in hand with your husband
• Cultivating your Instagram community and building relationship w/ your followers through DM's
• A holistic way to heal your relationship with food
• How to deal with Mom-guilt
• 3 incredible tips when starting a blog

Hey #LeadHERs, I hope you enjoyed this fun and light episode with Natalie. I am excited to hear what you think about this episode and please share with us what your biggest takeaways are.

Tag me --> @meredith_franklin or @leadhershippodcast AND tag Natalie @tastelovely in your Instagram post. Tasteslovely.com

“I want to be heard, I want people to listen and I want you to empathize and I want you to stand with me”

In God’s eyes, we are all his beautiful and amazing children. We are created and born equal, but how could we humans, cannot look at each other as God looks at us?

Coinciding with the recent event that occurred on the 25th of May which has gone viral and gave rise to thousands of individual to stand up and fight for their rights, I am very blessed and honored to have with me a dear friend of mine, a beautiful woman of color, wife and mom of four, Joslynn Flowers on a truthful and open conversation about racism.

Luke 15: Let us all take this time to pause and think, how could we, as part of the 99 sheep save that one missing and endangered sheep?

Highlights:

• The unforgivable inhumane racism experiences that Joslynn had to go through because of her color and how she handled every situation accordingly
• Realizing on how privileged I am with my skin color and how we can be a part of the solution in resolving racism
• Media’s huge contribution on this event and how it misleads the people on thinking about the current situation
• Why rioting, breaking others property and chaotic protest isn’t the solution in seeking justice for the black lives
• Understanding that all lives matter but not all lives are at stake right now
• Why it is very important to have an organic conversation about races with your children early at home and how you shape them so they could bring out the message to everyone that all colors are born equal.
• Opening a simple conversation, lending an ear, uplifting and encouraging persons of color around you, that they are not alone in this battle and you are fighting with them.

Speak up, pray for them, and stand with them, sign the petitions, vote wisely.

Links:

• If you think you have trouble deep within, come and visit Joslynn at https://lifewithflowers.blog/ as she welcomes you to have an open dialogue with her. You can also check Joslynn on her social media account: @joslynns, open your heart and soul, let that desperate yelping voice be free.

IG Handles (Guest and Mentioned):

• @joslynns
• @todrick

Books Mentioned:

• Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation by Latasha Morrison
• The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation by Miles McPherson
• A Kids Book About Racism: by Jelani Memory

Find it at: https://ohjoy.blogs.com/

• Race Cars: A Children's Book About White Privilege by Jenny Devenny

Movies Mentioned:

• 13th: Netflix
• See You Yesterday: Netflix
• When They See Us: Netflix
• The Hate You Give: Hulu
• The Help: Netflix
• Remember The Titans: Netflix
• To Kill A Mockingbird
• The Color of Friendship

Podcasts Mentioned:

• Push Black: https://www.pushblack.us/black-history-year-podcast

IG @wearepushblack

• 1619 Podcast: https://www.nytimes.com/column/1619-project
• Code Switch: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch

IG @nprcodeswitch

• The Diversity Gap: https://www.thediversitygap.com/

IG @thediversitygap

I am here to serve you, and I can't wait for you to share with me how can I serve you better. Tag me @meredith_franklin in your social media post or tag @leadhershippodcast and share with us what is the greatest thing that holds you back from stepping into your greatness!