
Now That We're A Family
Culture has reduced the modern family to a joke -- informing parents they are only capable of shuttling their children from expert to expert who experiment with untested agendas. Katie and Elisha lean on their experience growing up in large families of 10 and 11 kids, to encourage parents to take back control, stop listening to popular relationship advice, and embrace their God-given role as their children's primary authority.
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Feb 27, 2025 • 53min
370: MLM's, The End of The World, and Dumb Phones
Now That We're A Family Print Magazine: Receive Powerful Biblical Family Encouragement Sign up here for the March print issue: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/offers/WtcxV3CS/checkout-OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. Voetberg Music Academy courses are having a price increase at the end of March! Sign up at the link below and use the coupon code: VMA20. The first 200 people who sign up using this code will receive 20% off each month they're subscribed.https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comUse coupon code: VMA20 for 20% off each month - Send us your questions for future podcasts! You can submit them here:https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcastquestionsubmission

Feb 25, 2025 • 50min
369: Postpartum Depression, Chaotic Children, and Managing Finances
Now That We're A Family Print Magazine: Receive Powerful Biblical Family Encouragement Sign up here for the March print issue: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/offers/WtcxV3CS/checkout-OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. Voetberg Music Academy courses are having a price increase at the end of March! Sign up at the link below and use the coupon code: VMA20. The first 200 people who sign up using this code will receive 20% off each month they're subscribed.https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comUse coupon code: VMA20 for 20% off each month - Send us your questions for future podcasts! You can submit them here:https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcastquestionsubmission- Mentioned during podcast: - “After the Baby For Him” by Elisha Voetberg - https://amzn.to/3EMp3DH- “After the Baby For Her” by Kathryn Voetberg - https://amzn.to/3EQKsvK

Feb 20, 2025 • 52min
368: Unexpected Guests, Picky Eaters, and Getting Your Husband On Board Kyla VanWingerden
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. Voetberg Music Academy courses are having a price increase at the end of March! Sign up at the link below and use the coupon code: VMA20. The first 200 people who sign up using this code will receive 20% off each month they're subscribed.https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comUse coupon code: VMA20 for 20% off each month - Now That We're A Family Print Magazine: Receive Powerful Biblical Family Encouragement Sign up here for the March print issue: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/offers/WtcxV3CS/checkout-Kyla is one of Katie's sisters. She currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky with her husband Adam. Adam owns a tech company. They have been married for six years and have three children. She is a stay at home mom and also manages and runs Now That I’m A Mother Health. They recently bought a house in Bend, Oregon and will be moving there soon to be closer to family. Past interviews with Kyla: - 218: Our Different Experiences Growing Up In A Family Of 11 Kids: Pregnancy, Postpartum, Motherhood - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2148007800- 130: How To Communicate When You Don’t Feel Financial Secure As A Wife - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2147613042- 49: Miscarriage, First year of marriage, and Moving Away From Family – Adam and Kyla VanWingerden - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2147568001 Books mentioned during podcast: - “Glucose Revolution” by Jessie Inchauspe - https://amzn.to/3X7XX0f - “French Kids Eat Everything” by Karen Le Billon - https://amzn.to/4b7fw6o Recipes & Neolife supplements - https://www.nowthatimamotherhealth.com/ If you have any questions about Neolife, you can contact Kyla at - nowthatimamotherhealth@gmail.com or send her a message on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nowthatimamother.health/

Feb 18, 2025 • 46min
367: My Boyfriend Won't Propose and Going Into Debt For Weddings
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. Voetberg Music Academy courses are having a price increase at the end of March! Sign up at the link below and use the coupon code: VMA20. The first 200 people who sign up using this code will receive 20% off each month they're subscribed.https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comUse coupon code: VMA20 for 20% off each month - Now That We're A Family Print Magazine: Receive Powerful Biblical Family Encouragement Sign up here for the March print issue: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/offers/WtcxV3CS/checkout - Send us your questions for future podcasts! You can submit them here:https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcastquestionsubmission

Feb 13, 2025 • 42min
366: Myths About Sex After Kids
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY:Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comUse coupon code: PODCASTVMA for 10% off each month-Marriage Maximizer - Build A Masterpiece MarriageWhether you have been married for 30 years, or are just starting out on the adventure of a lifetime, this course is for you! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/Marriage-MaximizerFree webinar: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/marriage-maximizer-learn-more-1-Top 5 Tuesday Join our weekly email list to keep up to date with the highlights of what is going on in our family life. https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/top-5-tuesday-newletter - Mentioned during podcast: - 267: Not Attracted To My Wife After Weight Gain (What Can I Do?) - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2148560564 - 206: Q&A: Christian Romance Novels, Low Sex Drive, Past Relationships & "It Takes a Village” - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2147921191 - 146: What Nobody Tells you About Sex And Romance After 4 Kids - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2147686721- 013: What No One Tells You About Sex After Kids - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2147568037

Feb 11, 2025 • 43min
365: Spacing Pregnancies To Optimize Health
Mentioned during podcast:- “Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food” by Catherine Shanahan M.D. - https://amzn.to/419tqBH- Episode 106: “Young Christian Couple's Convictions on Family Planning and Birth Control” - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2147567944- Episode 185: “Things We've Changed Our Minds About // Birth-Control, Alcohol, Eschatology . . .” - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2147824607- Episode 293: “Is Family Planning Wrong?” - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2148659968

Feb 6, 2025 • 48min
364: Building Margin Into Your Life
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY:Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comUse coupon code: PODCASTVMA for 10% off each month-Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-clubIs your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Learn how to create a peacefully productive home in one week. Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/peacefully-productive-home-masterclass - Books mentioned during podcast: - “Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives” by Richard Swenson - https://amzn.to/4aJ801v - “The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results” by Gary Keller - https://amzn.to/3COqhh7 - “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)” by Seth Godin - https://amzn.to/3Ez0qKA - “Four Thousand Weeks” by Oliver Burkeman - https://amzn.to/4hsXgXG

Feb 4, 2025 • 53min
363: The Life Giving Home With Sally Clarkson
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY:Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comUse coupon code: PODCASTVMA for 10% off each month-Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-clubIs your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Learn how to create a peacefully productive home in one week. Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/peacefully-productive-home-masterclass-Sally Clarkson is a Discipler. Over the course of her life and marriage, she has continually called women to step into their God-given roles as lifegivers and influencers. She and Clay met through Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru) during college and went on staff together in 1975. Sally ministered to students in Texas, discipled women in Communist Eastern Europe, and returned in 1980 to work with executive women and singles in Denver where Clay was beginning seminary studies at Denver Seminary. They were married a year later, in Dallas where they first met. After graduation, they served in international ministry in Vienna, Austria, served on the staff of two churches, and then started Whole Heart Ministries in 1994. Their four children, now all grown, are serving Christ in different ways around the world and online, through books, music, speaking, and film. Sally and Clay have recently expanded their ministry to mothers and Christian parents in the UK. Sally has currently written 33 books. Podcast - “At Home With Sally” - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/at-home-with-sally/id1041509070Website - https://sallyclarkson.com/Blog - https://sallyclarkson.com/blogBooks - https://sallyclarkson.com/books-1Most recent books:- “Uniquely You” by Sally Clarkson & Nathan Clarkson - https://amzn.to/4aDEHNP- “Well Lived: Shaping a Legacy of Gratitude and Grace”by Sally Clarkson - https://amzn.to/4aM9eZF

Jan 30, 2025 • 54min
362: Identity Crisis In Marriage and Motherhood
OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY:Affordable and effective online weekly music lessons designed for families. https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.comUse coupon code: PODCASTVMA for 10% off each month- Mentioned during podcast: - "Four Thousand Weeks" by Oliver Burkeman - https://amzn.to/4jOTTfh

Jan 28, 2025 • 52min
361: The Truth About Big Families
Get it All Done Club: Stop drowning in motherhood and start thriving! https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/get-it-all-done-clubIs your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Learn how to create a peacefully productive home in one week. Check out Katie's Free Home Management Masterclass: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/peacefully-productive-home-masterclass-Mentioned during podcast: - Biggest Parenting Regrets and Hardest Seasons From Parents Of 11 | Chad & Jenise Johnson | Ep. 344 - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2148911618 - 195: Things Parents Of Multiple Children Overlook - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/podcasts/now-that-we-re-a-family-10/episodes/2147859632 - Marriage After God podcast interview - How to Build an Intentional Family (the why and how) - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mag-marriage-advice-relationship-encouragement-we-discuss/id1349500084?i=1000684230187