Welcome to season TWO of the With Passion Podcast! My husband, Alexander, joins me to kick off the season. We give you all a rundown of our life lately and chat all about our home, our health, businesses and other pursuits.
Quick update: Season two is being released a little later than expected, but only because we had a slow start to our year. We did a lot of traveling towards the end of 2023, so a slow start just felt right. After traveling, we enjoyed celebrating Christmas at our home with family, it was simple and sweet! We hosted a NYE party with some friends and their kids and entered into 2024 with hearty and humble ambitions.
We talk about our home in the episode, mostly related to homeschool and hosting. I started homeschooling our 4 year old this past fall so I give simple updates and then mainly speak on hosting, which if you have followed our family for any amount of time you’ll know that we host often. Host parties or get togethers, play dates and have people stay with us. So this year I feel like I have a more regular hosting “schedule” (for lack of a better word) than other years, which gives me lots of time to prep and plan and have a vision for what I want to see in our home, which I truly view and treat it as a ministry. So the few things that will be consistent this year, not just a one-time occurrence, are: quarterly gatherings with local oily gals, small group through church, women’s book/bible study.
One thing Alexander and I have chosen to do the past few years, which has benefited our home and marriage and family life is having weekly check-ins with one another. It’s the time after kids go to bed that we hang just the two of us and go through topics like finances, homeschool and business updates, and more. We have a free download for you below and in the show notes of this episode for you and your spouse!
Next we chat through our pursuit of health. We’ve always chosen the holistic, wholesome route when it comes to health, but something we recently started doing with our kids every morning is having a family workout time that is woven into our homeschool mornings. We teach our kids that the best way to begin is day is to eat a healthy breakfast, spend time with God – either in prayer or singing or reading his word – and moving their bodies! So we decided to incorporate a short family workout time where we do a little stretching, basic strength and then usually breakout in a dance party. Alexander and I have also been keeping track of certain daily habits, we created a download for you – you’ll see what we do as an example and then you can print off a blank one for you and your spouse.
I then ask Alexander some questions about business, his in particular, but also what he sees in the future for other businesses because of technology advancements. And he asks me what it’s like being married to an entrepreneur. This is a good part of this episode because we go into behind-the-scenes ideas and share things we haven’t shared publicly before.
Lastly we shared some of our other pursuits for 2024: dating each other, taking our kids on dates, crafting our “family manifesto” and more.
I hope you enjoy listening! To listen in on our full conversation, click the audio link above. This podcast is also available on Apple and Spotify.