Whether you're longing for joy in your life or looking for ways to decrease stress in your holidays and in your life or even new traditions and interesting gift ideas you'll find it here!

Join Sandy Fowler, a mom who has gone from stressed to blessed in her own life, as she shares ideas, thoughts and insights for bringing more joy and meaning into your life. Listen in as she chats with the experts, finding out the tips and tricks you can use in everything you do to plan and enjoy your holidays and every day. 

Your Host - Sandy Fowler

Sandy Fowler is passionate about helping women de-stress their lives. She teaches, blogs, speaks and hosts a radio show all focused on weeding out stress and creating more joy. Using holidays and special celebrations as a springboard Sandy helps women create happiness in their lives every day . She's a wife, mom and business owner whose greatest joy, next to loving her family, is seeing the women she works with find the joy they've been looking for.

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Today's show we'll kick things off with tips for writing thank you notes and observations about screens in our lives. And we'll wrap things up in Christmas Corner with 5 more tips for a Frugal Christmas and a great gift idea.

Sandwiched in between, where all the best stuff is like the middle of an oreo or the center of a pasczki, we have Anne Pillsbury. Anne is a change catalyst for moms, someone who helps you when you're ready for the next chapter in your life, even if you don't know what that looks like. And she's joining us today to talk about why we should give up on the notion of life balance. We hear it everywhere, find balance! But Anne says no and we'll find out why as well as what to do instead.

Anne Pillsbury is the change catalyst moms call when they know they're ready for their next chapter, even if they don't know what that looks like. A mother of four who has learned to navigate overwhelm and find joy and resilience amid the chaos, she helps others do the same through her coaching. Coming as she does from Minneapolis' prominent Pillsbury family, Anne has developed ways of helping women find their power when family money or their husband's success makes their own relationship with work, money, and power complicated or confusing. Get her beautiful and inspiring Authentic Mother's Manifesto and other resources at http://www.annepillsburycoaching.com .

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On today's show we're exploring rest & rejuvenation. Sleep can be elusive to women and yet it's one of the aspects of a woman's life that can have a great impact. Karen Rachel Brody, founder of the BOLD Movement and creator of BoldAction.org, will join us to share her innovative solution to this pervasive problem.

In addition to Karen's insights we will talk about getting organized and bust the myth that can stop you before you even get started. We also have ideas for fun and easy gift wrap and a way you can be financially savvy while having fun and giving great gifts.

Karen Rachel Brody is a visionary, mother, and founder of the BOLD movement including The BOLD Method and BOLDnap, a 40-Day yoga nidra nap program. She is also the playwright of Birth, a critically acclaimed globally produced play on childbirth that has raise over $250,000 to improve maternity care.

Karen has been a women's empowerment coach for decades working globally with women's groups. In addition to being well-known as a leader in the childbirth movement, she is an emerging voice and activist on the importance of deep rest and sleep through BOLD's yoga nidra nap program. She recently hosted the World Sleep Summit for Women's Health and Power in March of this year interviewing sleep experts and supporting participants with free naps. Karen combines both women's intuition and yogic principles, to lead the way in supporting women to mindfully manage their fatigue and burnout with modern-day tools.

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As we kick off the month of May we're sharing all sorts of tips, tricks, and stories for moms. From 3 ways to bring spring into your home to looking at how money CAN buy happiness we're covering it all. Then Leslie Irish Evans will make you gasp and laugh as you discover the madness behind mommy self-care. Leslie is a self-described smart aleck who specializes in helping moms learn how to take care of themselves in the midst of taking care of their families. She'll be joining us for some frank conversation about the reality of self-care as well as a chat about her Touch Manifesto.

And we'll wrap things up in Christmas Corner with ideas you can use all year round.

Leslie Irish Evans is an author, speaker, and self-care genius who encourages stress-bunnies of all shapes and sizes to "secure your own oxygen mask before assisting others". A Huffington Post blogger, she is also the co-author of Mom Entrepreneur Extraordinaire and the author of the upcoming Peeling Mom Off the Ceiling. For a free copy of her gorgeous e-booklet The Touch Manifesto, go to http://www.leslieirishevans.com.

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Mother's Day is a landmine holiday. This is a day set aside to honor and celebrate the person is usually in charge of making these kinds of plans and who wants and needs to honor and celebrate her own mother, grandmother, or mother-in-law. So what's a mom to do? Should she just kick back and enjoy the day? How can she involve the kids without having to plan it? And what if you're single or money is tight? Tough questions and we'll get real answers from Dr. G. Find out how you can celebrate, enjoy yourself, and still honor those you love.

In addition to this terrific interview we'll share some simple strategies and tips for making every day better and more fulfilling. Plus we'll pop in to Christmas Corner to find out how a little trip to WhoVille can change our holiday and other celebrations too.

Doctor G (Deborah Gilboa, MD) - Family Physician, international speaker, author and mom of four - empowers parents to raise respectful, responsible and resilient kids. Doctor G focuses on practical tools and skills, not just dishing out advice. She's the host of a new television show on WQED Pittsburgh  "iQ SmartParent!" From one minute videos on making your life easier while building kids' character to her downloadable guides(chores at every age, boundaries for tech use and more) Doctor G makes parenting more simple and more effective. Her work empowers parents; as a regular contributor to HuffPost and Your Teen magazine, as seen in Parents magazine and MSNBC.com; author of Teach Resilience: Raising Kids Who Can Launch! and Teach Responsibility: Empower Kids with a Great Work Ethic. Find her on Facebook or Twitter!

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This week we're creating a happier, easier life. We're kicking things off with tips for menu planning and a few tips for handling graduation. Then we'll be chatting with Audra Erwin. Audra is the High on Life Coach and the host of The Happy Hour radio show. She'll be sharing secrets for getting more joy out of life with less effort and less stress.

We'll wrap things up with Christmas Corner where we're sharing a really simple idea for giving that you can use all year round, do on your own, with your kids or with a group. Plus I'll tell you how we're going to give you a better Mother's Day.

Audra Erwin, The High on Life Coach, Speaker, Writer, Author and Radio Show Host. A Native of Brevard County, Florida, Audra Erwin is a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) and a Registered Corporate Coach (RCC) through the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches.

She is a graduate of Anthony Robbins Mastery University and is a National Radio Personality on the Rockstar Radio Network with her show, "The Happy Hour"," Fridays at Noon EST. As a result of her witty personality and zest for life, Audra is appropriately known as The High on Life Coach.

She passionately encourages others to embrace their own unique qualities and to live a self-approved life. Audra supports her clients throughout the process of moving beyond the "status quo" toward creating and living the life of their dreams.