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Today we’re talking with our friend and yours, Jennifer Fulwiler. She’s a mother of 6, author of bestsellers, daily radio show host on Sirius XM, and in her plentiful free time she tours nationally doing stand up comedy. Jen lives in Austin, TX and has a new book available for pre-order titled Your Blue Flame: Drop the Guilt and Do What Makes You Come Alive.  

In this episode we talk about how we’re dealing with coronavirus quarantine (not great!), how to discover the reason God put you on this planet, and how to live out your gifts right now–even when we’re all stuck at home with a pandemic. Jen encourages us to dream small and just get started instead of staying paralyzed because circumstances aren’t perfect. We chat about how a true blue flame makes you come alive, but it also blesses other people. Now more than ever we need to be sharing our gifts with each other.

Jen is, as ever, funny, clever, and inspiring. This is the pep talk we all need right now. So grab a cup of coffee (or, let’s get real, something stronger) and enjoy the episode!

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Jen’s new book:

Your Blue Flame

Jen’s free ebook about finding your blue flame during coronavirus

How to connect with Jen:

• Instagram
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Radio Show

Sponsor

This episode is sponsored by Catholic Extension which recently launched “31 Days of the Feminine Genius,” a free daily email series that celebrates the tremendous faith and contributions of Catholic women throughout time. You can sign up to receive a month of daily emails, each featuring a quote from women who have played a unique role in sharing the light of Christ. 

Never heard of Catholic Extension before? It is a national nonprofit that works in solidarity with America’s poorest regions to build vibrant and transformative Catholic faith communities. They support many resilient and faithful women themselves—including hundreds of religious sisters and lay leaders on the peripheries.

Sign up at  catholicextension.org/femgen to get “31 Days of Feminine Genius” quotes sent straight to your inbox!

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We’ve never done a bonus episode. But we couldn’t imagine just moving forward with our regular programming before connecting with you over the pandemic we’re facing.

This episode is basically a brain dump of what we’re thinking and feeling, what’s working for us, and perspectives we think will be helpful. We’re scared and anxious like you. We’re having good days and bad days. We’re grieving life as we knew it. But…here we are. So let’s lean in and reach for things that will inspire us and keep us sane in the coming weeks like rituals and routines, streaming Mass, and more life lines. And let’s give ourselves the grace to have a good cry or too much screentime because there are no rules for getting through a pandemic! (Except social distancing, washing hands, and all that good stuff.)

We’re praying for all of you. Please keep us in your prayers.

Things we mentioned in this episode:

–Daily Mass streaming from Bishop Barron’s chapel

-Haley’s books The Literary Medicine Cabinet (use code COMFORT2020) and The Grace of Enough (discount already set up on Amazon) are on super sale for your quarantine reading pleasure

Looking for some more ways to connect during this time of isolation?

Talks from Raspberry Cordial Catholic Literary Gathering Now Available!

Couldn’t come to our Anne of Green Gables retreat last November? Don’t worry! We now have the audio of all three conference talks available for purchase. You can download all three talks for $15 right here.

OR you can become a patron of the podcast for $5/month and get access as one of your many patron perks.

Patreon!

Do you love FoC and want to help us keep doing what we’re doing (and more!)? Well, we have just the thing for you! Our Patreon is finally up and running so listeners can support the work we do.

Head on over to support the podcast as a patron and get access to special episodes available exclusively to patrons as well as to the FoC Slack community!

Lent Book Club

And another great reason to become a patron of the podcast is access to our Lent book club. We’re reading Holy Women.

In this beautiful book Pope Benedict explores the lives and importance of 17 women saints of the Church, in short, readable, and compelling essays. We’ll read and discuss two to three women each week and learn more about saints we love, and come to know incredible women we’ve never heard of before. Patrons also get a 25% discount on the book.

As patrons of the podcast you’ll receive weekly reflections and thoughtful study questions and we’ll discuss them together in the Slack! (About 150 patrons participated in our Advent book club so we’re excited to coordinate another one for Lent.) Become a patron today!

Come hang out with us!

Haven’t joined in on the fun with 4,600+ other FoC listeners in our facebook group? It’s your direct line to some fantastic folks who also care about faith, culture, books, and whatever our current masterpiece theatre craze might be! Join in with the link below.

• The Fountains of Carrots Raspberry Cordial Social Club on Facebook (our Facebook group)
• Connect with Haley on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and her blog
• Connect with Christy on Facebook, Instagram, and her blog

You can listen to us on iTunes, and we’d love a quick rating or review. If you have an android device we’re also on Stitcher. And as always, you can find all links, show notes, upcoming guests, and listen to all episodes at Fountains of Carrots.com.

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Since recording this episode, a lot has happened. But we think this will be a good listen if you want to get your mind off of the pandemic and talk books, rituals, and how to not overthink, well, everything. In fact, some good rituals may be exactly what we all need to help get us through the next few weeks!

Today we’re talking with the brilliant Anne Bogel, the voice behind the popular blog Modern Mrs Darcy and author of three books including her latest: Don’t Overthink It. Anne lives in Louisville, KY with her husband and four kids and creates the What Should I Read Next? podcast. She’s like the Kathleen Kelly of the internet.

In this episode we talk about what it means to be an overthinker (and how many of us are overthinkers without realizing it!). We chat ways to break out of our overthinking cycles, why adulting really does help, and the need for rituals. Rituals make us feel like human beings and there is no time like the present to start creating some rituals in our days–especially when life doesn’t look like it usually does. We also touch on reading rituals which is just perfect because it seems we all just got a little extra reading time handed to us (wish it was under different circumstances).

So enjoy a cozy chat that isn’t about washing your hands, statistics, or quarantines to enjoy during your social distancing!

(links to Amazon are affiliate links)

Anne’s new book:

Don’t Overthink It

How to connect with Anne:

• Blog
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Podcast

Talks from Raspberry Cordial Catholic Literary Gathering Now Available!

Couldn’t come to our Anne of Green Gables retreat last November? Don’t worry! We now have the audio of all three conference talks available for purchase. You can download all three talks for $15 right here.

OR you can become a patron of the podcast for $5/month and get access as one of your many patron perks.

Patreon!

Do you love FoC and want to help us keep doing what we’re doing (and more!)? Well, we have just the thing for you! Our Patreon is finally up and running so listeners can support the work we do.

Head on over to support the podcast as a patron and get access to special episodes available exclusively to patrons as well as to the FoC Slack community!

Lent Book Club

And another great reason to become a patron of the podcast is access to our Lent book club. We’re reading Holy Women.

In this beautiful book Pope Benedict explores the lives and importance of 17 women saints of the Church, in short, readable, and compelling essays. We’ll read and discuss two to three women each week and learn more about saints we love, and come to know incredible women we’ve never heard of before. Patrons also get a 25% discount on the book.

As patrons of the podcast you’ll receive weekly reflections and thoughtful study questions and we’ll discuss them together in the Slack! (About 150 patrons participated in our Advent book club so we’re excited to coordinate another one for Lent.) Become a patron today!

Come hang out with us!

Haven’t joined in on the fun with 4,500+ other FoC listeners in our facebook group? It’s your direct line to some fantastic folks who also care about faith, culture, books, and whatever our current masterpiece theatre craze might be! Join in with the link below.

• The Fountains of Carrots Raspberry Cordial Social Club on Facebook (our Facebook group)
• Connect with Haley on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and her blog
• Connect with Christy on Facebook, Instagram, and her blog

You can listen to us on iTunes, and we’d love a quick rating or review. If you have an android device we’re also on Stitcher. And as always, you can find all links, show notes, upcoming guests, and listen to all episodes at Fountains of Carrots.com.

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It’s Lent! And it looks like there’s a global pandemic coming our way! So we are getting very memento mori in today’s episode. We’re talking with Fr. Harrison Ayre, our very first Canadian guest, about (dun dun dun) death. We know Fr. Harrison from his great presence on Twitter, but he has more important things going on than crafting excellent tweets. Fr. Harrison is Pastor of Holy Family / Notre Dame Parish in Port Alberni, BC is currently pursuing his Doctorate in Theological Anthropology from the Maryvale Institute. He also co-hosts a great podcast called Clerically Speaking.

Yes this is an episode about death, but it’s not morbid or depressing, I promise! We dive into what it’s like for a priest to administer the sacraments in the most pivotal moments of our lives (baptisms, weddings, anointing of the sick) and to be on call 24/7 as a spiritual father. We talk about the practical side of supporting a dying loved one like when to call to ask a priest to visit the hospital. And we also talk about how to prepare for our own deaths. Fr. Harrison shares about the graces that God desires to pour into our hearts, especially as we face death, and how the sacraments are a beautiful opportunity to receive that grace. We finished this conversation more motivated to live holy lives and filled with hope! Fr. Harrison does a great job of acknowledging the gravity of death while reminding us that because Christ is victorious over death, we don’t have to be terrified. Christ is with us, even in death!

This is a timely and inspiring conversation. So get cozy for a good chat about death!

Things we talked about:

Pope Benedict XVI’s book on prayer

How to connect with Fr. Harrison:

• Twitter
• Podcast

Talks from Raspberry Cordial Catholic Literary Gathering Now Available!

Couldn’t come to our Anne of Green Gables retreat last November? Don’t worry! We now have the audio of all three conference talks available for purchase. You can download all three talks for $15 right here.

OR you can become a patron of the podcast for $5/month and get access as one of your many patron perks.

Patreon!

Do you love FoC and want to help us keep doing what we’re doing (and more!)? Well, we have just the thing for you! Our Patreon is finally up and running so listeners can support the work we do.

Head on over to support the podcast as a patron and get access to special episodes available exclusively to patrons as well as to the FoC Slack community!

Lent Book Club

And another great reason to become a patron of the podcast is access to our Lent book club. We’re reading Holy Women.

In this beautiful book Pope Benedict explores the lives and importance of 17 women saints of the Church, in short, readable, and compelling essays. We’ll read and discuss two to three women each week and learn more about saints we love, and come to know incredible women we’ve never heard of before. Patrons also get a 25% discount on the book.

As patrons of the podcast you’ll receive weekly reflections and thoughtful study questions and we’ll discuss them together in the Slack! (About 150 patrons participated in our Advent book club so we’re excited to coordinate another one for Lent.) Become a patron today!

Come hang out with us!

Haven’t joined in on the fun with 4,500+ other FoC listeners in our facebook group? It’s your direct line to some fantastic folks who also care about faith, culture, books, and whatever our current masterpiece theatre craze might be! Join in with the link below.

• The Fountains of Carrots Raspberry Cordial Social Club on Facebook (our Facebook group)
• Connect with Haley on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and her blog
• Connect with Christy on Facebook, Instagram, and her blog

You can listen to us on iTunes, and we’d love a quick rating or review. If you have an android device we’re also on Stitcher. And as always, you can find all links, show notes, upcoming guests, and listen to all episodes at Fountains of Carrots.com.