Hi, I'm Dona. I’m just an average American Patriot who loves God, her family, her country and tries really hard to listen to God’s voice. Oh, and sometimes I write stuff. Come with me and together let's explore this crazy experience we call life. ======================== ⚡️Get a FREE copy of my book BE THE WARRIOR QUEEN 👉🏻 https://shop.warriorqueenonline.com/be-the-warrior-queen ➡️ Just pay shipping and handling fees to get your free copy today. ➡️ Get Additional FREE downloadable ebook “Boo ...
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Send us a text If you have been in a tough place lately, I want to encourage you today to not give up. ======================== ⚡️Get a FREE copy of my book BE THE WARRIOR QUEEN: Practical Christian Strategies for Women to Achieve Victory in a Chaotic World 👉🏻 https://shop.warriorqueenonline.com/be-the-warrior-queen ➡️ Just pay shipping and handlin…
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Beyond Our Control 071425 The Dungeon of the Dark Pyramid
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1:03:35Hosted by Esteban Anastasio. Ambient music inspired by Dungeons and Dragons and dystopian landscapes is the theme of this number of wonderment. This is Soundscapes and Ambience with The Dungeon of the Dark Pyramid, or this episode's title here. Enjoy.By Radio Boise
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The Poetry Show: July 13, 2025 - Dona Ochoa
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20:36More info here: https://death-rattle.square.site/product/little-wolf-tarot-major-arcana-by-dona-ochoa/23BIO: Dona Ochoa is a poet and creator from Boise, Idaho. To Dona, writing is a space for expression, investigation, and joy. Their work is influenced by Idaho’s landscape and ecosystems, music, the arts, history, natural sciences, and esoteric st…
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Beyond Our Control July 7, 2025 Performance
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1:03:46Hosted by Esteban Anastasio. Pauline Oliveros, the great, makes another appearance here. Off To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe, she plays 1977 Performance. This is followed by Peter Garland, cultural ethnographer, playing minimal pianosims, to frost this beautiful, weird and wonderful, cake.By Radio Boise
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Hosted by Ken Rodgers and Rebecca Evans.Kim Dower is the former City Poet Laureate for West Hollywood, CA. Author of five highly-acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Los Angeles Times bestseller and 2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, I Wore This Dress Today for You Mom--“Fantastic collection” – Washington Post, “Impressively insightful…
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The Poetry Show: June 29, 2025 - Maria Zoccola
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28:236/29/25 broadcast of my interview with Maria Zoccola, author of Helen of Troy, 1993. Intro/outro music by Billy Mohler: "Hawk Wind," from The Eternal. More info at https://mariazoccola.comBy Radio Boise
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Beyond Our Control June 30, 2025 Congress
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1:05:41Hosted by the Esteban Anastasio you've come to know and love. With Cecil Taylor's title cut, Congress, and Intonation King Harry Partch, collaborating with Kronos Quartet and David Barron. That's right -- U.S. Highball. Enjoy.By Radio Boise
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Beyond Our Control June 23, 2025 Old Parrots of Leper Island
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59:44Today's episode of stellarness, hosted by Esteban Anastasio, comes courtesy of Visions Congo, with the title track, and some 8 channel mastery courtesy of Kim Myhr and Lasse Marhaug with On the Silver Globe.By Radio Boise
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Stop Writing the Wrong Story—What Every Struggling Writer Should Know About God's Plot for Your Life
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15:12Send us a text Today I’m going to talk about why you might be writing the wrong story entirely—and how to recognize when God is trying to edit your life. This episode lists three things to consider regarding the stories we are writing with our lives. ======================== ⚡️Get a FREE copy of my book BE THE WARRIOR QUEEN: Practical Christian Str…
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Story Story Night June 22, 2025 Out The Closet Door
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27:57An entire array of coming out-of-the-closet stories to celebrate Pride Month. From telling your family that your ultimate frisbee teammate and roommate is not just a roommate to suitcases with poor latches that come open at the wrong time, to the beautiful shelters within family and relatives when going through a transition, there are many deeply h…
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Elementary Watson June 17, 2025 Finding Time Again featuring Tiffany Williams
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48:46🕰️ Time slipping through your fingers? You’re not alone.This week on Elementary Watson, Dr. JoEllen Watson and Sheepdog explore the hidden challenge of Time Blindness with organizing specialist Tiffany Williams. What is it? How does it show up? And most importantly—what can you do about it? 💡💬We’ll also dig into simple time management strategies to…
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The Poetry Show: June 15, 2025 - Ivy Raff
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29:40This week's edition of The Poetry Show featured current Surel's Place Artist-in-Residence Ivy Raff. More info here https://www.ivyraff.com/ & here: https://surelsplace.org/artist/ivy-raff/By Radio Boise
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Send us a text We all have messy seasons in life. Let's talk about why that matters. ======================== 👉🏻 Get your Warrior Queen Book Bundle here: https://shop.warriorqueenonline.com/wq-bookbundle ======================== 🔥 My mission is to bring God’s light into the world through my books and videos. Follow along for devotionals and new fic…
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Beyond Our Control June 16, 2025 Music For Airports
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1:05:02Hosted by Esteban Anastasio. Ambient I and II, Music for Airports, talks small recordings of music with sustained notes, looped, for stable beauty and an antidote to the chaos. Can we use that now? We think so.By Radio Boise
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Send us a text How do you stand in strength and courage when you don't feel like it? Let's look at some key scriptures and strategies from the Bible that tell us how to be courageous and not get discouraged. 👉🏻 Get your Warrior Queen Book Bundle here: https://shop.warriorqueenonline.com/wq-bookbundle ======================== 🔥 My mission is to brin…
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Elementary Watson - Living Fully with Chronic illness
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49:21🌿 What does it really mean to be healthy?This week on Elementary Watson, we explore how the definition of health evolves when living with chronic conditions—and how resilience, purpose, and joy light the way forward.Special guests Natalie and Heather share powerful stories of navigating Parkinson’s, liver disease, and organ transplant. From emotion…
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Elementary Watson - Foster Care in Idaho: Building futures one life at a time
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29:11🎙️✨ This week on Elementary Watson, we’re wrapping up our May series on foster care with a powerful conversation you won’t want to miss! 💙Special guests Liberty Thompson, Founder & Executive Director of jemsupport, and Alexis Flores, Community Engagement Coordinator, join us to share the inspiring work JEMfriends is doing in the Treasure Valley. 🌄🏡…
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Writer to Writer June 1, 2025 Anne-Marie Oomen
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28:41Hosted by Rebecca Evans and Ken Rodgers. Music is Words by Steve Wilson. (75 words) Anne-Marie Oomen’s memoir As Long As I Know You: The Mom Book won AWP’s Nonfiction Award, Michigan’s Notable Book Award, and a silver IPPY. She co-authored Lake Michigan Mermaid with Linda Nemec Foster (Michigan Notable Book), Love, Sex and 4-H (Next Generation Indi…
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The Poetry Show: March 3, 2023 - Joseph DiPrisco
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28:48Hosted by Daphne Stanford.By Radio Boise
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3 Strategies for Facing Hardship with Hope
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17:57Send us a text Listen to today's episode to gain three strategies I've been using for the past several years to navigate the challenges of life while remaining optimistic and strong in my relationship with God. Warrior Queen Book Bundle Link: https://shop.warriorqueenonline.com/wq-bookbundle Video version of this devotional: https://youtu.be/wsPFLm…
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Stray Theatre June 1, 2025 Anne-Marie Ooman
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28:41Hosted by Rebecca Evans and Ken Rodgers. (75 words) Anne-Marie Oomen’s memoir As Long As I Know You: The Mom Book won AWP’s Nonfiction Award, Michigan’s Notable Book Award, and a silver IPPY. She co-authored Lake Michigan Mermaid with Linda Nemec Foster (Michigan Notable Book), Love, Sex and 4-H (Next Generation Indie Award), and edited ELEMENTAL. …
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Send us a text Even if everything around you looks dark and gloomy, please know that God has a plan for your life. But sometimes, God needs to do a work in us before he can work through us. Joseph knew the truth of that statement! Join me today for an encouraging word to boost your week.By Dona Watson
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Story Story Night May 25, 2025 The Bishop
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27:54Hosted by Jodi Eichelberger. Today's stories cover all things "bishop," including a short ecclesiastical tale by the host, a lady who runs the Bishop's House in Boise, Idaho, a story about a choir kid and a bishop in West Virginia who, before God, there was baseball, and a larger-than-life pastor living life by an amen and a Cadillac.…
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Foster Care in Idaho: Tools of Transformation
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50:35💥 TWO POWERFUL STORIES. ONE LIFE-CHANGING CONVERSATION. 💬✨This week on Elementary Watson, we're diving deep into the foster care system—where resilience meets renewal, and every act of support matters. 💛🛠️First, meet Bruce Wingate, the inspiring founder of Foster Care Furniture. His nonprofit teaches woodworking to youth in foster care, giving them…
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Elementary Watson - Foster Care System Making a Difference
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47:19💛 Make a Difference in the Life of a Child! 🏡This week on Elementary Watson, we're turning the spotlight on Idaho’s foster care system. With special guests Monty Prow, Deputy Director of Idaho Child, Youth and Family Services, and Laura Denner, Administrator for the Division of Family and Community Partnerships, we’re diving deep into how our state…
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📣 It’s here—Radiothon 2025 is in full swing, and we’re turning up the volume on transformation, movement, and community! 🎉📻 This week on Elementary Watson, Simran Crowley from Boise Ecstatic Dance joins us to show how creative movement can help us live our best lives. 🕺💃We’re dancing our way to our fundraising goal and celebrating everything Radio …
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👨👩👧👦 What happens when family steps in? This week on Elementary Watson, we’re talking about Kinship Care in Idaho—where relatives or close friends raise children when parents cannot. 💛May is both Mental Health Awareness Month and Foster Care Awareness Month, so we're diving deep into how kinship care affects kids’ well-being and the families who…
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Writer to Writer May 4, 2025 Juan Morales
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28:58Hosted by Ken Rodgers and Rebecca Evans.Juan J. Morales is the son of an Ecuadorian mother and Puerto Rican father and grew up in Colorado. He is the author of four poetry collections, including The Handyman’s Guide to End Times and Dream of the Bird Tattoo, which is forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press in 2025. Recent poems have appeare…
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The Wood Brothers Radio Boise Treefort 2025
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12:15The Wood Brothers Radio Boise Treefort 2025 by Radio BoiseBy Radio Boise
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Hosted by Jodi Eichelberger. Story Story Night's flagship season based on pieces on the chessboard continues with "Knight." These stories range from the Knights in Shining Armor rescuing husbands onto trains in Berlin to the liberation of ugly sweater contests at climbing gyms to world class tap dancers navigating loss by tapping though "the dark s…
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Sun Atoms Radio Boise March 29 2025 by Radio BoiseBy Radio Boise
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Dave Machine From The Basement January 21 2022
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28:58Dave Machine From The Basement January 21 2022 by Radio BoiseBy Radio Boise
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Elementary Watson - Fueling Boise’s Creative Fire - The Orange Economy
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49:31🎭✨ What makes a city creative? And how do we support the people, places, and projects that fuel that creativity? This week on Elementary Watson, we’re diving into Boise’s creative economy! 🎶🏙️Our guests—Sean from the Office of Economic Development and Tilley, newly-minted PhD and Cultural Planner for the City of Boise—join us to talk about Boise’s …
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Writer to Writer April 7, 2025 Lee Herrick
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30:24Hosted by Ken Rodgers and Rebecca Evans.Lee Herrick is the California Poet Laureate. He is the author of four books of poems: In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems (Gunpowder Press, September 2024); Scar and Flower, finalist for the 2020 Northern California Book Award; Gardening Secrets of the Dead; and This Many Miles from Desire.He is …
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Hosted by Jodi Eichelberger. Today's three storytellers tell their tales of Pawn, being manipulated, learning before it's too late, or relationships through misplaced turtles.By Radio Boise
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🎶 Ready to dive into Boise's vibrant music scene? 🌟This week on Elementary Watson, we're thrilled to welcome the Boise Hive team! 🐝@boisehive 🐝 More than just a music space, Boise Hive provides mental health support, free jam spaces, live shows, workshops, and resources for musicians and creatives of all kinds. From audio production training to GI …
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🎸 Boise Rock School: Turning Passion into Music! 🎶Since 2008, Boise Rock School ( @boiserockschool ) has been igniting a love for music by bringing students together in bands, where they learn, create, and perform. 🥁🎤 Whether it’s Little Rockers, band classes, songwriting, or summer camps, this innovative program builds not just musicians—but confi…
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Elementary Watson - Story Fort special with Sam Berman
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50:40📖✨ Storytelling comes alive at Storyfort! 🎤📚This week on Elementary Watson, we’re diving into the magic of Storyfort—Treefort Music Fest’s ( @treefortfest ) beloved literary and storytelling track. Join us as we chat with Sam Berman ( @sugarcainberman ), the mastermind behind Storyfort 2025! We’ll explore its roots, the power of storytelling, and w…
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elementary watson - masculinity final episode
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49:54🎙️ It’s a Wrap: Exploring Masculinity in Our Current Culture 🌿✨Join us on Elementary Watson as we close out our fascinating series exploring masculinity in today’s culture. We’ll recap the journey so far and explore what non-binary voices contribute to this conversation. 🌈 Together, we'll look at how to transform limiting belief systems and create …
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Elementary Watson - Masculinity and the media
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45:44📢 Masculinity & Media: Who’s Shaping the Conversation? 🎬📱From Hollywood to social media, the way we define masculinity is constantly evolving.Movies, TV, and online influencers play a huge role in shaping expectations—sometimes reinforcing traditional roles, other times pushing for change. But as more men turn to the manosphere, men’s rights moveme…
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SquareDave From The Basement February 14,2025
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31:29SquareDave From The Basement February 14,2025 by Radio BoiseBy Radio Boise
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Writer to Writer March 2, 2025 Rose McLarney
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34:00Hosted by Rebecca Evans and Ken Rodgers. Today, in conversation with Rose McLarney. Rose McLarney’s collections of poems are Colorfast, Forage, and Its Day Being Gone, from Penguin Poets, as well as The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, published by Four Way Books. She is co-editor of A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, from University …
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Hosted by Jodi Eichelberger. Three tales of Rook in this episode, from the terrifying steep staircases in castles, competing on a "hair" reality show, and lookout towers as dating apps.By Radio Boise
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Elementary Watson - Love Shouldn't Hurt ft Womans and Childrens Alliance Youth Reps
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45:58💔 Teen Dating Violence: A Conversation That Matters 💔Today’s episode of Elementary Watson tackles a critical topic: dating violence among teens. If this topic is disturbing to you, or if you are experiencing interpersonal violence, help is available. 💛📞 Call 800-799-7233🩺 Speak to your medical provider, counselor, a trusted adult at school, parent,…
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Elementary Watson - Masculinity Today: Traditions, Change and Challenges
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53:40💪✨ Masculinity is not just about men—it affects everyone! 🌍Masculinity is complex and very personal. Depending on culture, upbringing, and personal experience, it can mean different things. 🤔🎙️ Tune into Elementary Watson to hear more about this discussion from all perspectives—men, women, and non-binary people will have something to offer about wh…
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Elementary Watson - Not Mission Impossible! Final MMV Episode
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46:04🚀 Not Mission Impossible! 📝✨This Tuesday, join JoEllen Watson, Sheepdog, and Manimal on Elementary Watson as they unveil their 2025 Mission Statement—a guiding star for the year ahead. 🌟 Curious about crafting your own? We’re walking you through the final steps to build a powerful Mission, Vision, and Values (MVV) statement. Don’t just tune in; eng…
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Writer to Writer February 2, 2025 Jehanne Dubrow
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31:54Hosted by Rebecca Evans and Ken Rodgers.Jehanne Dubrow is the author of nine poetry collections and three books of nonfiction, including most recently Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity (University of New Mexico Press, 2023). Her next book of poems, Civilians, will be published by Louisiana State University Press in 2025. Her writing has appeare…
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Elementary Watson - Define your 2025 - Mission Vision Values
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48:59✨ What’s your life’s purpose? How do you create balance? 🌟This week on Elementary Watson, we’re diving into the final stage of crafting our Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals for 2025 and beyond. 🚀 Dr. Watson, Sheepdog, and The Manimal will guide you through questions about balancing the four key areas of life: physical, social/emotional, mental, a…
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Elementary Watson - From Goals to Greatness - Mission Vision Values
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49:06🌟 What’s your Mission, Vision, and Values for 2025? 🌟This week on Elementary Watson, Dr. Jo-Ellen Watson and Sheepdog explore how to create a powerful mission statement that inspires and guides your life. 🚀✨We’ll review last week’s insights and take a deep dive into questions about character, contribution, balance, and more. 🌱💡 Plus, we’ll share st…
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