The Flourishing Life Podcast

24/09/2020

🎉🎁Friends!! We can’t even believe this, but next week is our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! We are all so very grateful for you, our listeners and supporters! To celebrate our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY, we want to give a gift to YOU!! 🎉🎁

We will be doing an Instagram Giveaway!

How it will work- every day for next week one of us will be sharing something that we have mentioned in the “what are you in to” portion of our episodes. Those items will go into our giveaway box, and one lucky winner will receive ALL of the items!

It is very simple to enter:
-Share AND tag us in the Instagram story or post we do about the giveaway every day!
-You must tag us so we see that you have shared it.
-You can enter once every day
-The more days you share and tag us, the more times you are entered! So if you tag share and tag us every day, you will be entered 7 times!
-The contest closes at midnight, October 1st, and the winner will be announced Friday, October 2nd!
-We will either deliver (if you are local) or mail the package to you
-Mailing in the US only (sorry friends that live overseas!)

We are so excited about this, and hope that you are too!

27/08/2020

Planning planning planning!! New and exciting things are on their way!

23/04/2020

NEW EPISODE
In this episode we decided to make lemons into lemonade and are talking all about the things we have been enjoying during our time at home.

16/04/2020

NEW EPISODE
We are so excited to finally all be back recording “together” after so long. We do a check in to see how we are all doing, what we find challenging and what’s going well during this crazy time. We hope you can relate and are encouraged. All our lives look different but we can get through this together.

09/04/2020

NEW EPISODE with a Special Guest Interview
We are so excited to have our first guest on the podcast. Brandy invited her husband Bret to join her this week. They talk about life together while social distancing. Bret shares what it’s like from a male perspective and ways he has been evolving with family time. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

02/04/2020

NEW EPISODE
Brittany and Brandy talk about all the exciting things Brittany did on her big 3 week adventure to Costa Rica and Panama. How her trip was affected by the global pandemic and some ways she has been coping since being home.

26/03/2020

Brandy and Shellee discuss an article they found on Forbes about social distancing and isolation. In the article two former astronauts give some incite on 7 ways that you can cope with these issues. They discuss how they have been doing over the past week at home then dive into the 7 points discussed in the article. They have some great tips on things that they have been doing to cope from walks to helping friends to communicating better with their husbands. We hope you are encouraged and find some new ways that you can cope. Stay healthy and safe friends!

19/03/2020

We hope you are all doing well in the midst of this pandemic. Brandy and Shellee talk about how they are doing during this time and share some ways you can connect with friends while social distancing.

12/03/2020

Listen in as Brandy, Brittany and Shellee talk about the ways they help their own kids foster those important friendships with each other and their friends. They might realize they are sounding more and more like their own mothers…

We hope you enjoy! Don’t forget to check out our website at theflourishinglife.co for show notes and links!

06/03/2020

Brandy and Brittany discuss all things birthday related! Brittany shares of her true love of birthdays and Brandy admits she is not the biggest fan. They each share about their most memorable birthdays, and how they currently celebrate their special day, and how they love on their friends and family on their birthdays. We hope this encourages you to treat yourself on your birthday and love on your friends and family on their special day! .

27/02/2020

New Episode...Brandy and Shellee share some tips and tricks they use to host play dates. Enjoying your friends is always worth the trouble!

20/02/2020

Girls trip! Malta here we come!

11/02/2020

Who else is getting ready for Valentine’s Day? I love having an extra excuse to tell those around me I love them 😍

07/02/2020

New Episode!!!! Brandy and Shellee talk about Valentine’s Day. They share ideas on how they love on their friends and families. Brandy even finds a way to make Valentine’s Day intense. 🤣😉

04/02/2020

Elbows in my back. That’s what’s on my mind right now.

I got a massage this morning. Every once in a while I get a debilitating kink in my neck, and it makes it hard to live a normal life. I can hardly turn my head, I can’t look down, it’s hard to drive, I can’t sleep, I’m cranky from lack of sleep and from being in pain... so I scheduled a massage. Not the relaxing kind where you can drift off to sleep. The painful, hard kind where they dig their elbows into your back to relieve the tension. Sometimes in life, when there is a pain point, you have to do the hard work and go through the painful stuff in order to get to a better place. Sometimes not. Sometimes things blow over or just kind of fix themselves.

I am going through a hard time with one of my children right now. I feel like I’m grasping at straws. Talking to teachers, talking with principal, consulting with friends, seeking advice from people I love, respect and trust, reading articles, buying bookings, being firm, being patient, being loving, being strict, trying to put in the hard work. I feel like we are going through an “elbows in the back” time. Putting in the really hard work, so hopefully we will come out of this on the other side, healed, productive, connected and happy.

Does that mean we are never going to have to wade through the hard time again? No. Does that mean it will be fixed forever? No. But hopefully the effort we are putting in now, the elbows in back, will get things back in order, muscle tension relieved, hearts mended, and children knowing they are loved no matter what.

-Brittany

04/02/2020

31/01/2020

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31/01/2020

Don’t forget to listen to our new episode. We are discussing all the things that we were into in 2019. Brittany shares some insights into camping and how she really feels about camping alone. Find out what scares Brandy the most about camping...lions, tigers and 🐿?!

23/01/2020

💕🥙The thing that has always held me back from bringing friends food is never knowing what to bring. This was the first meal I made for a friend in 2020! 💕🥙

Make it easy for yourself and copy what I made! It was pretty good!

I brought her:
🍗Chicken gyro meat
🥙Pitas
🥄Taziki
🥬Chopped romaine, tomatoes, red onions and cucumber for toppings
🥒Pita chips, carrot and cucumber sticks and hummus
🍫A specialty chocolate bar for something sweet
🍾A bottle of Pinot Gris

Here is link for the recipe from Six Sisters!
https://www.sixsistersstuff.com/recipe/slow-cooker-chicken-gyros/

Hope this gives some inspiration! I’m sure your friend will love you for it!

ps- I made it in my and shredded the chicken with my standing mixer. Couldn’t have been easier!

16/01/2020

Join us today as we talk about our goals and intentions for 2020!! Find out how intense brandy really is about goal setting. And how Brittany and Shellee take a different approach. Happy listening!

09/01/2020

Listen in as Brandy and Brittany tackle the topic of making mom friends and keeping them. I mean who wouldn’t want to be friends with the fun gal in this picture! 😊 It can awkward at times but as Brittany says sometimes friendship isn’t always about you. They even give some fun cleaning tips! 🤣

26/12/2019

New Episode! We hope you all had a great Christmas! I know we sure did. Listen in as we discuss how 2019 went for each of us and how much we enjoy podcasting. This is pretty much how Brittany looks most of the time when brandy is coming up with crazy ideas. ☺️

26/12/2019

Hoping you all had a joyous season!! We are looking forward to bringing in the new year with you! Don’t forget to listen tomorrow as we talk about our thoughts on 2019.

19/12/2019

Listen in as Brandy and Brittany give some ideas to help you plan a fun girls trip!

19/12/2019

Counting down the minutes until bedtime so I can cozy up with this book! 📚

04/12/2019

Christmas came early this year...new episode out today!! Listen in as we talk about all things Christmas! What we love, our traditions, and how we love our friends during the holidays! We hope you love Christmas as much as we all do!!

28/11/2019

Happy Thanksgiving, friends! New episode out today!!

21/11/2019

New Episode!!! Listen in as we discuss what thanksgiving looks like for each of us. Thanksgiving has looked so different for us all over the years. We take a walk down memory lane… from pancakes in Mexico to having a baby. (A couple of us may have enjoyed that thanksgiving more than others…😜🥧)

15/11/2019

Happy thirsty Thursday, friends! We hope you are enjoying your evening as much as Brittany enjoys her whiskey sours. We wanted to share her recipe with you so you can enjoy a cocktail while you listen to our new episode which is now available!

WHISKEY SOUR RECIPE
INGREDIENTS
* 2 ounces bourbon
* Juice of one fresh lemon
* ¾ ounce simple syrup
* Maraschino cherry (for serving)

INSTRUCTIONS
Combine bourbon, lemon juice, and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Fill shaker with ice, cover, and shake vigorously. Strain into rocks glass with ice. Garnish with a cherry. Enjoy!

14/11/2019

New episode is available now. Brandy and Brittany discuss how to have community and not feel guilty about taking time for yourself. They also tackle the question you’ve all been wondering about… organic or non-organic bananas, which should we be buying?! Listen now to find out!

11/11/2019

Honoring those who served today and everyday!! Thank you for your service.

08/11/2019

If you haven’t had a chance to listen yet! These are the 5 habits we tackle in our latest episode. Article linked below.

https://www.good.is/Health/how-to-not-be-lonely-study

07/11/2019

New episode is available now! Come listen as we discuss the article, The 5 habits of people who don't feel lonely. We go over each habit and how each one applies to us, which habits we are good at, and how we would like to improve on others.

31/10/2019

New episode out today! Brandy and Shellee share some ways they love their friends, how their friends love them and some things they would like to do better. Happy listening, friends!