I have little voice today except to cough–the whole sinus infection. Jo has kindly said we could reschedule.

Josh has swim lessons today, so I’d planned on not having the program. Then I woke up to it raining so I am barely moving and witha swollen throat too. But now the clouds have cleared so we’re going to head to the pool because I called and lessons are still happening.

I’m sorry, friends. This summer is going to a be a bit crazy. So check here for the schedule. And can you say a little prayer for me? I just want to go back to bed and yet my son is having these “cute moods” I need to appreciate and go with the flow regardless of how I feel.

He just saw a show about a birthday so we wrapped a gift and then preteneded it was his birthday and acted it all out between me grabbing a cu of coffee.

Lisa

She has family that lives with chronic pain (her son and daughter) and we’re so excited to talk with her!

Whether offering creative solutions for busy women or designing crafts for tweens, her books reflect how imagination and writing intersect.

Whiting’s books include the popular tween series God’s Girls (inspirational craft books for tween girls) and Secrets of Success for Women: Time. Her more than 400 articles and devotions have been published in over four-dozen magazines including Brio magazine, Focus on the Family, Today’s Christian Women, Reminisce, and Devo-Zine.

She has been a writer of children’s church programs for Charisma Life, parenting articles for Focus on Your Child, and family activities for Take Out: Family Faith on the Go.

Karen is a speaker for women’s groups, retreats, schools, and mother-daughter events. She has been married over thirty years and grew a functional family of five children and believes others can too! She has a heart for encouraging families to connect, serve, and treasure one another.

Lisa

Diane says, “Each of us has a purpose in this life: My purpose is to encourage all to hold on to hope. Seemingly random acts of kindness can transform lives forever and SCwSG does this daily. My husband, Paul, accepted me when I was broken, that restored my hope.

In turn, I rescued Gracie when she was broken, she rescued me right back by becoming my Service Dog. Together, Paul, Gracie and I have formed a unique bond sharing the second chance we’ve been given to encourage and restore hope to others-Passing it forward.”

Diane Dike, Ph.D., a passionate and popular speaker, author and singer, lives in the Vail Valley of Colorado. Her heartbreaking, heartwarming and courageous story will inspire you to overcome your challenges. “Diane’s mess turned into her message leading everyone who meets her to healing and restoration.”

Diane’s experiences with Gracie led her to write and publish two books: Gracie Comes Home, the first installment of the children’s series, The Adventures of Gracie and Diane, and God Made Only One of Me, an autobiography, foreword by Michael W. Smith. The illustrator of Gracie Comes Home is Craig Grasso who worked on the animation for many hit movies including “Lion King” and “Ice Age II.”

All proceeds from the book sales and merchandise go to support SCwSG outreach work. Diane is constantly writing for magazines, being interviewed on: radio, TV, and in magazines. She appreciates the opportunity to share her story and encourage those she can along her triumphant journey.

We’re going to ask Joanna about all of this and more! Call in with your own questions at 718-506-1604 and win a copy of her cookbook that is out in just a couple of weeks!

Joanna Faillace is joining us, host of Super-Naturally Healthy television show! Joanna is a Certified Biblical Health Coach and she teaches simple and creative ways to cook with organic ingredients and simple steps on how to keep the immune system stable. You can find some recipes on her web site!

She is also the founder Neighbors In Need Ministries, that began in 1998. They have served the needy in the community of Charlottesville, Virginia and the surrounding area by providing food, emergency supplies and a prayer line. She co-hosts the Christ-centered talk show Living in Him! with her husband Jim, which is televised weekly throughout Central Virginia on CPA-TV, Channel 13 on Comcast Cable.

Joanna is the author of Super-Naturally Healthy! Cookbooks, a series in progress that focuses on using Biblical principles combined with unique recipes which inspire a healthy diet consisting of the whole, organic foods God created. This cookbook series also brings a fresh and healthy alternative to the adverse effects of the typical “American diet,” consisting of unhealthy levels of fat, sodium, cholesterol and artificial preservatives, sweeteners, dyes, and dangerous chemicals.

Joanna is anticipating launching a signature line of organic foods, culinary accessories, and apparel, along with the vision to open a nationwide chain of Super-Naturally Healthy! Family Eateries in the future.

Meet Ellie Kay. We are so excited to have her and thank her for taking the time to talk to our audience, because right now she is in high demand as a  “American’s Family Financial Expert.” In fact, you may have seen her being interviewed on programs and for publications such as The New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, CNN, Fox, NPR, Redbook, Women’s Day, Family Circle, Reader’s Digest, and Parenting Magazine.

This Christian woman is an author of a dozen books, a popular speaker, corporate educator and spokesperson, and mother of seven. (Some of us may be most impressed that she is the mother of seven and has time to think straight about anything – especially something financial!)

Within two and a half years, Ellie Kay went from being a new wife and stepmom to two children with $40,000 in consumer debt to being completely debt free-all on one military income! So she knows what she is talking about! Within 15 years and while adding five more children to the family, Ellie and her husband were able to pay cash for their cars, buy and furnish two five-bedroom homes (one after selling the other), take wonderful vacations, dress fashionably, build a nest egg for retirement, send the kids to college loan-free, and give away more than $100,000 to nonprofit organizations around the world.

Ellie teaches people sound money habits that are do-able and will stretch their dollars. Her latest title, Living Rich for Less (Waterbook/Random House, January 2009), sets forth her 10/10/80T Rule–give away 10 percent of your income, save 10 percent, and spend the last 80 percent wisely!

In her free time, this self-professed “crazy woman” likes to have adventures. She says, “I make sure these are safe and supervised by licensed professionals.” Some of her crazyness includes skydiving, mechanical bull riding, bungee jumping, ziplining 150 feet above a jungle, hydrofoil racing, roller-coaster riding and parasailing.

Ellie is part of the Thelma Wells Ready to Win Conference! Read more about this exciting conference in Texas May 22-23rd, free online web casts, and even a cruise (even if just to dream…)

Visit Ellie Kay’s web site for lots of resources and tips!

Lisa

But within minutes she couldn’t breath and 911 was called. They administered ADVANCED life support because what they witnessed was her suffering the onset of a sudden cardiac arrest.

A speaker and author, Pamela began The Bless Your Heart Awareness Campaign. She desires it to be your story as well as hers. Her web site www.blessyourheartcampaign.com

Pam states “Ours in that as you learn the heart facts, you share what you know with others. Together we’re helping women everywhere become aware and very potentially saving lives! Here’s where we can interact, share stories, recipes and more!”

A popular speaker and writer before, she’s gone on to host both radio and television and lives her life with greater intensity than ever (and she was pretty intense before)! In 2003 she hosted The Pamela Christian radio show, a live 2-hour weekly call-in program. In 2005 she was hired by Salem Communications to host Life Line on KFAX in San Francisco, a 2 hour drive-time daily call-in talk show.

Since January of 2006, in addition to traveling for speaking engagements, she’s been published in a variety of venues, has created a television program she is working on and is pursuing various opportunities to host and guest host both radio and television. She was a featured guest on Focus on the Family March 2008. Whether it’s media or personal speaking engagements what Pam wants to do most is make a difference in the lives of others.