For more than a decade, author Tricia Goyer has drawn from her experiences as a teen mother and leader of today's generation, to be a voice of hope and possibility for teen girls, pregnant teens, mothers and wives.

Married to John for nineteen years and the mother of three, Tricia believes ordinary women can accomplish extraordinary things with God's help. She shares this message in her 20+ contemporary fiction, historical fiction, and nonfiction books and through speaking engagements across the country. Her invitation to women everywhere is to cast aside discouragement and fear to live real life, inspired! Thursdays at 3pm CST!

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This week on Living Inspired we are talking to Gina Smith, a woman with a real heart for ministry and Cara Putman, author of new book A Wedding Transpires on Mackinac Island.

For your chance to win a copy of Cara Putman's brand new book A Wedding Transpires on Mackinac Island, be sure to leave a comment --with your e-mail address-- below! Winner will be announced on my blog on Sunday! 

More about Gina: Gina Smith has served along side her husband  at a small Christian college, right outside of DC for almost 20 years. She met her husband, Brian, while she was in college and he was in seminary. They married in 1988. After graduating, they served with “Youth for Christ” for  2 years until  Brian was offered a job at the college Gina attended.  Brian is  a faculty member and the dean of students, and Gina is the dean of women. She has a degree in Bible and when she is not spending time with her family or students, she writes for MomLife Today, RooMag.com, and Internet Cafe Devotions. You can visit her at her personal website: www.keepinitreal-gina.com

More about Cara: Cara C. Putman lives in Indiana with her husband and four children. She’s an attorney, teacher at her church, and contract lecturer or adjunct faculty at a local community college and Big Ten University. She has loved reading and writing from a young age and now realizes it was all training for writing books. An honors graduate of the University of Nebraska and George Mason University School of Law, Cara loves bringing history and romance to life.  You can learn more about Cara and her books on her website, Facebook, twitter, and pinterest.

More about A Wedding Transpires on Mackinac Island: When attorney Alanna Stone left Mackinac Island eleven years ago, she determined she’d never return. Now she’s back and in close proximity to Jonathan Covington, her first love. She vows to protect her privacy and her heart from the man who still makes her pulse race. But when her worst fears are realized and history repeats itself—landing her in the midst of a murder investigation—Jonathan may be her only hope. Will they be able to lay aside the past and let God heal their hearts, or will reconciliation come too late?

This week we are going to spend the whole hour chatting with Rachel Hauck, author of new book The Wedding Dress and writing coach for My Book Therapy. 

For your chance to win a copy of Rachel's new novel, The Wedding Dress, leave a comment below with your e-mail address! 

More about Rachel: Rachel Hauck is the bestselling author of Carol Award winner Sweet Caroline, and RITA Finalist Love Starts With Elle, and of the critically acclaimed fiction collaboration with multi-platinum country artist Sara Evans, The Songbird Novels. She lives in sunny, though sometimes hurricane plagued, central Florida with her husband and their ornery pets. Rachel earned a degree in Journalism form Ohio State University and is a huge Buckeyes football fan. She is the past President of American Christian Fiction Writers and now sits on the board as an Advisor. Visit her web site at www.rachelhauck.com to read her blog, and to follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

More about The Wedding Dress: One dress. Four women. An amazing destiny. Charlotte Malone is getting married. Yet all is not settled in the heart of Birmingham's chic bridal boutique owner. Charlotte can dress any bride to perfection-except herself. When she discovers a vintage mint-condition wedding gown in a battered old trunk, Charlotte embarks on a passionate journey to discover the women who wore the gown before her. Emily in 1912. Mary in 1939. And Hillary in 1968. Each woman teaches Charlotte something about love in her own unique way. Woven within the threads of the beautiful hundred-year-old gown is the truth about Charlotte's heritage, the power of faith, and the beauty of finding true love.

This week on Living Inspired we have the privilege of talking to the Money Saving Mom -- Crystal Paine. Crystal's goal is to tell you about legitimate, practical, non-gimmicky ways to help you save money in your everyday life. She is passionate about living simply and frugally and strives to help others do the same.

For your chance to win a copy of Crystal's The Money Saving Mom's Budget Audio Book, be sure to leave a comment with your e-mail address! 

More about Crystal: Crystal Paine is a wife and homeschooling mom to three young children who has been writing on topics related to frugality for the last five years-and living a frugal, simple, and debt-free life since she was born. Her blog MoneySavingMom.com is one of the top personal finance blogs on the web, averaging over four million page views per month. Crystal has contributed to articles in Woman's Day magazine and All You magazine, as well as being mentioned on National Public Radio and CNN.com, in USA Weekend and Real Simple magazine, appeared as a guest on the 700 Club, and featured in numerous other local newspapers and radio and television stations.

More about The Money Saving Mom's Budget: FROM ONE OF NIELSEN’S TOP 50 POWER MOMS COMES ADVICE YOU CAN TAKE TO THE BANK—LITERALLY ! Crystal Paine, who has helped busy women everywhere take control of their finances, presents her most effective strategies designed for families of all sizes and income levels.

With hundreds of inspiring “why didn’t I think of that?” TIPS, plus WORKSHEETS, Paine breaks down your goals into easy, manageable steps so you can:

• Achieve a complete financial makeover

• Set up a realistic budget

• Never pay retail

• Slash your grocery bill

• Organize your time & your home

• Use coupons wisely

• Pay with cash only

• Live simply

• Become debt free

• Choose contentment

• Make every dollar count

This week on Living Inspired we have the honor of talking with two very special ladies. Missy Buchanan, author of My Story, My Song, has such a heart for our older generation. Rita Schulte has a heart for the hurting and we will be talking to her about loss and issues of the heart. 

For your chance to win a copy of Missy's book My Story, My Song leave a comment with your e-mail address below! 

More about Missy: Missy Buchanan, coauthor, became passionate about the needs and feelings of older adults while serving as a daily caregiver for her parents. Since the publication of her first book, Living with Purpose in a Worn-Out Body in 2008, she has become a nationally recognized expert on aging, appearing on Good Morning America as well as numerous Christian television and radio shows. She hosts Aging and Faith with Missy Buchanan on BlogTalk Radio and writes two monthly columns for religious publications.

More about My Story, My Song: My Story, My Song is the heartwarming memoir of 87-year-old Lucimarian Roberts, mother of Good Morning America’s co-anchor Robin Roberts, gives readers a glimpse into pivotal moments in her life, showing how faith in God has strengthened her and how God has guided and encouraged her through people of all ages and races. 

Lucimarian Tolliver Roberts may be best known as the mother of broadcast journalist, Robin Roberts. However, the 87-year-old has achieved success in her own right, serving as the Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and as a board member for numerous organizations. Lucimarian Roberts was born and raised in Akron, Ohio, where she earned a scholarship from the publishers of the Akron Beacon Journal and became the first person in her family to attend college. She graduated in 1946 from Howard University in Washington, DC, and married Lawrence Roberts, a member of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, with whom she raised 4 children. Lucimarian Roberts lived through the Great Depression, segregation, the civil rights movement, and many personal challenges. These experiences helped shape her unique perspective on life.

More about Rita: Rita A. Schulte is a licensed professional counselor in the Northern Virginia/DC area. She is the host of Heartline Podcast and Consider This. Her shows can be heard on 90.9FM in Lynchburg, Va. and 90.5 FM in NC, and BlogTalk Radio. Rita writes for numerous magazines. Her articles have appeared in magazines like Counseling Today and Thriving Family. She also writes columns and guest blogs frequently on many sites. Her book, Sifted As Wheat: Finding Hope and Healing Through the Losses of Life is currently with Hartline Literary Agency. Follow her at www.siftedaswheat.com, on FB at Rita A. Schulte, MA, LPC and twitter at @heartlinepod. Her blog, Life Talk Today is www.siftedaswheat.com/blog. 

This week on Living Inspired we have the honor of talking with Holley Gerth co-founder of (in)courage and author of upcoming book You're Already Amazing: Embracing Who You Are, Becoming All God Created You To Be.

To win a copy of You're Already Amazing: Embracing Who You Are, Becoming All God Created You To Be leave a comment with your e-mail address. Winner will be announced on Tricia's blog on Sunday! 

More About Holley: Holley Gerth is an award-winning blogger & writer and her first book is titled You’re Already Amazing. She is a licensed counselor, certified life coach and speaker. She is cofounder of (in)courage, an online destination for women, which received more than one million page views in its first six months. She also reaches out to readers through her popular blog, Heart to Heart with Holley and through her partnership with DaySpring, a subsidiary of Hallmark. Holley lives in Arkansas with her husband, Mark.

More About You're Already Amazing: Women feel enormous pressure to be perfect. To have the perfect body, to be a perfect woman, to have the perfect career, and to have the perfect attitude. All the time. Under all that pressure and all those expectations are women carrying burdens they were never meant to carry and suppressing the dreams they were always meant to live.

In You're Already Amazing, popular blogger and cofounder of (in)courage helps women understand and embrace the fact that they don't need to do more, be more, and have more--because they're already amazing just the way God created them to be. As a licensed counselor and certified life coach, Holley knows what readers need to hear. Like a heart-to-heart talk over coffee, reading this joy-filled book encourages women to forget the lies and expectations the world feeds them, instead believing that God made them for a purpose and that he loves them right now, at this moment, and always. Holley takes readers on a journey of the heart to discover their strengths and embrace all God created them to be.

Connect with Holley:  http://www.holleygerth.com/ or http://www.incourage.me/