When I wrote the title of the episode, I couldn't help but think about several comments I've received on posts I've written on Instagram that usually read something along the lines of, "you will really blame everything on white supremacy, won't you?" The answer? Yes, yes I will. At least, almost everything. Everything that has to do with society and culture and in our modern, western world. Because it's true. It is factual and provable. Our modern society was built on the premise of white, Christian dominion over all things "good" and everyone else being exploited in order to ensure the "goodness" remained in the "right" hands. As a result, we are left here: dealing with the tragic consequences of white supremacy culture that are practically killing us.  In this episode, we're talking about the pressure to do it all, how "doing it all" is a symptom of white supremacy culture and a brief history of how it all started. Tune in to find out that it's really not you, it's society.    Support my work:  Patreon  Instagram Website  Newsletter

In this episode, you will learn the truth about how White Supremacy is at the core of western Christianity. I won't give too much away in the show notes. Just tune in!      --- Support my work on Patreon Follow my work on Instagram Visit my website  Subscribe to my newsletter

On this much-anticipated episode of the Meant For This Podcast, Caroline J. Sumlin gets vulnerable as she shares what led to her begin deconstructing her faith after nearly 15 years of devotion to Christianity. Caroline still identifies as a follower of Jesus, as that will never change, but is committed to the practices of unlearning toxic and harmful theology that Western/American Christianity has taught her.   --- Support my work: Patreon Instagram Website  Newsletter 

White Supremacy Culture is ingrained into every fiber of our society, so much so that its normalization makes it almost invisible. However, once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you can't unsee it, you'll do anything to divest from it.    In this episode, we will be discussing how white supremacy culture is the reason we struggle so much with our self-worth, as its harmful standards and lies of perfection have infiltrated our neuropathways from every corner of our culture.    Support my work: Patreon  Instagram Website Newsletter

If you've ever wondered why we often capitalize the B in Black when referring to Black people but do not capitalize the W in white when referring to white people, then this minisode is for you. Take a quick listen to not only learn the importance of culture and heritage to the Black community but to be challenged to reconnect with whatever your cultural heritage is and put your heritage above our society's constant pursuit of whiteness. In this episode, the fearmongering myth about being ashamed of being white will be busted and replaced with the truth about what whiteness means and why it is harming us all.    -- Support my work: Patreon Instagram Website  Newsletter 

Welcome to Season 3 of the Meant For This podcast! If you are new here, welcome! If you're an OG listener, welcome back to a brand new, fully re-branded show! In the season opener, I am spilling all the tea about where I disappeared for the past several months, why and how my content changed, and what you can expect from me moving forward. While I have chosen to keep the name, 'Meant For This,' for my show, you will no longer find this show categorized under motherhood or faith. Meant For This is now self-help meets society and culture meets social justice with the goal of helping you declare your liberation from the toxic systems in our society while fighting for the liberation of the most marginalized among you. As I mention in the intro, the goal is the change the world one act of resistance at a time.    Today also marks the official launch of my new Patreon community. If you'd like to support my work, you can do so for as little as $3/month. Click here for more info and to get all the perks that come with being a member of the Patreon community.    Links: Patreon  Instagram  My Website  The Meant For This Newsletter

In this episode of the Meant For This Podcast, you will be empowered and equipped to boldly go after what God is stirring in your heart and use the voice He has given you to live loudly and unashamed for His glory. You have a calling and you were given a voice for a reason. It's time to stop hiding behind it.   Join The Called Mama: wwwcarolinejsumlin.com/join-called-mama

On this episode of the Meant For This podcast, we are welcoming Toni-Ann Mayembe from Real Happy Mom podcast to the show to talk about this concept of being a "good mom" and how we need to stop being so hard on ourselves and calling ourselves bad moms every time we make a mistake or have a not-so-good parenting day.  This episode is the perfect refresher for every mama who's in the thick of it right now and needs a reminder that she is doing a good job.

In this episode of the Meant For Motherhood podcast, we are diving into the Kingdom work God has for you and how to begin stepping into it fully and boldly in every area you called. That's both in and out of the home, mama.  --- Featured in today's episode: My new course, The Called Mama, is opening up for pre-sale today! The course will start in May, but you can snag your spot TODAY! Click here for more details and to grab your seat now! (Pssst... there are a few bonuses for grabbing an early seat!)

In this episode of Meant For This, we are diving into understanding the complexities around our calling as women, mothers, creatives, workers, and more. I share with you about the journey God has taken me on with discovering a bit of my own calling and how I can help you do the same. We also discuss the importance of breaking free from a false narrative of mothers just being mothers and uncover why we are hanging on to this belief in the first place.    ---    Join us for our next monthly Mamahood Coffee Chat!  Take my FREE 5-day Manage All The Things Challenge  Connect with me on Instagram  Join us inside the Meant For Motherhood Academy 

In this episode of Meant For This, we're diving into fear. If you have ever dealt with fear (which is all of us) then it's time to tune into this episode and learn how to kick fear to the curb for good.  I'll give you a hint: the trick has nothing to do with not feeling fear. You're still allowed to feel it. You can breathe a sigh of relief now.  This episode is for you if you have felt fear toward pursuing those big dreams that are on your heart and that fear is holding you back. There's too much Kingdom work to do to let that fear paralyze you.    For full show notes on the blog, click here  Click here to join our Monthly Mamahood Coffee Chats! Take my FREE Manage All The Things 5-Day Challenge  Connect with me on Instagram  Join us inside the Meant For Motherhood Academy 

In this episode of the Meant For This podcast, you will learn exactly how to find the time you don't believe you have to do the things that you've been wanting to do. I know, it sounds impossible, but I promise it's not. Just tune in. You'll see (hear).    ---   Take my FREE Manage All The Things 5-Day Challenge  Click here to join our Monthly Mamahood Coffee Chats! Connect with me on Instagram  Join us inside the Meant For Motherhood Academy 

With Caroline J Sumlin and Chelsi Jo Moore    This is a very special collaborative episode of Meant For This with my friend, Chelsi Jo, from the Systemize Your Life podcast. This episode is airing on both of our podcasts because we firmly believe that this mission that God has given us to redefine the narrative of motherhood for modern women.  In this episode, Chelsi Jo and I are talking about why it is so important to live out our motherhood calling well, why it is so important to break generational trauma in your life as a part of living out your motherhood mission, and why women believe the lie that you can either be a career woman or a mother, but not both, and how to stand up boldly to this false belief.    More than that, this conversation is deep, heartfelt, and will resonate with every mother listening as we share our stories, why we are passionate about what we do, what motherhood means to us and what we've struggled with, and so much more.   Click here to join the Meant For Motherhood Academy!  --- You can connect with Chelsi Jo here: PODCAST |  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/systemize-your-life-with-chelsi-jo/id1488424047​ WEBSITE | https://www.chelsijo.co​IG | @chelsij.co​ COMMUNITY | https://www.facebook.com/groups/systemizeyourlife/​ EMAIL | info@ChelsiJo.Co​

With Caroline J. Sumlin      Click here to join our Monthly Mamahood Coffee Chats! Join The Meant For Motherhood Academy!    

In this episode, we will talk about how and why so many mothers are struggling to feel whole and how we can choose to re-write this narrative for ourselves.    ---  Mentioned in this episode:  NEW, FREE Monthly Mamahood Coffee Chats! Click here to sign up! 

I'm so excited to welcome Kaylan Thompson from Joy To Lead to Meant For This. Kaylan is a Leadership and Team Building Coach for Entrepreneurs and she is a wiz at equipping and empowering everyone to step into the leadership calling that is over their life. Her mission is to help everyone not only discover their calling to lead, but to do so by leaning into what brings you joy, walking in your strengths, supporting your weaknesses, and becoming the leader that your team needs you to be.    What does this have to do with motherhood? Well, everything. Mothers are leaders in their home. And, as Kaylan says, "leaders are the bridge builders to a brighter tomorrow." We are called to be those bridge builders for our family in our homes, so it is a must that we discover what our strengths really are and lean into them so that we can joyfully lead our families the way that God has called us to.    This episode is jam-packed with laughter, honesty, vulnerability, and so much wisdom. You're going to want to listen more than once.    In this episode you will learn: What your strengths actually are and what they are not (hint: it's not what you think) How to walk in your joy and how your joy is the secret to discovering what your strengths are The eye-opening truth about your weaknesses and how to support them   ---  Connect with Kaylan:  www.joytolead.com www.instagram.com/joytolead  Podcast: The Joy To Lead Podcast 

We've all hit the pandemic wall. We've been in a global pandemic for about a year now, and while there is a very small glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel, we still have a long way to go.  If you've been feeling pandemic burnout, you may be feeling:  trapped  like you want to scream lower energy/exhausted  irritable or angry  brain fog zero motivation  lost sad/depressed  and many more emotions  This is a tough time for everyone. We have all been impacted in one way or another by this year of isolation, and it's especially tough with your kids right there with you. This time has revealed so much to me about our needs as mothers and as humans, and just how much this pandemic has made it nearly impossible to meet those needs. While it feels nearly impossible, it's not completely impossible to meet your deepest needs, take care of yourself, make space for yourself, and make the most out of the situation.  In this episode, I am walking you through some ways you can navigate the burnout, care for yourself, give yourself some grace, and do more than just survive during this time.    ---  Featured in this episode:  Grab my Ultimate Thrive at Home Guide for Quarantine and Beyond! This guide has everything you need to plan every moment of your family’s day so that you can take back control of the chaos, reclaim your peace, and come out stronger during this time.   Planning pages included: Kids Activity Brainstorm Weekly Meal Planning Weekly Chore Chart Weekly Work Planning Daily Work Planning Morning + Evening Routine Planning Daily + Weekly Self-Care Planning Overall Weekly Flow Overall Daily Flow Additional Daily Planning Page Daily Kid’s Routine Page (for kids to refer to) PLUS: a tutorial video from me that will teach you how to use this guide effectively so you will be successful

I'm so excited for this episode of the Meant For This Podcast! Today, I am welcoming my husband, Dennis, to the show to share with you all from a male perspective about collaborating on household management tasks, routines, and systems. This episode will be eye-opening and super helpful as well as receive a first-hand look as to how our husbands approach things in their mind and why it can often feel difficult to get on the same page. Dennis offers a wonderful perspective and advice for us wives on how to have conversations with our spouses that are fruitful.    In this episode we share... a bit of our love story and how God brought us together  how we are total opposites and how that has impacted our marriage in both good and challenging ways  how we struggled with shared responsibilities in the beginning of our marriage and how we got to where we are today with seamless routines and systems  how wives and husbands can have fruitful, understanding conversations about household and life management and work with each other instead of against each other    Want more marriage episodes? Come say hi over on IG and send us some marriage topic requests or questions for a Q+A sesh and I'll be sure to have my husband back on soon for another episode!

In this episode or the Meant For This Podcast, I’m talking with Jessie Ereddia of Mom Empowered about how she was able to completely transform her relationship with her husband by changing her thoughts about herself, working on herself and her own fulfillment in motherhood, and changing her thoughts about her husband so she could work with him instead of against him.   This episode is packed with gems, transformational info, and so much laughter. Buckle up, mama. You're in for a treat.    ---  Connect with Jessie:  www.jessieereddia.com www.instagram.com/jessieereddia  Podcast: Mom Empowered 

In this episode of the Meant For This Podcast, you will learn how to take a different approach to your priorities so that you can stop trying to do everything at once. You will take a look at what priorities you have decided are essential based on empty reasons (such as perfectionism or people-pleasing) and what priorities line up with what God has told you to do in this season.  You will also take a look at how to categorize your weekly routine so that you know exactly when various tasks are getting taken care of. Instead of scrambling to figure out when you will get things done, you will know exactly where to place things in your routine as they come up.    In this episode you will learn:  How to make sure your priorities align with where God has you in this season How to break up with the "I need to do everything at once to get anything done" mindset  How to categorize your time blocks throughout the week so you know exactly when to take care of certain tasks   Here's what else you need to know:  Come join us inside the Meant For Motherhood Academy! The Meant for Motherhood Academy, MMA for short, is a monthly online academy that was created to equip you to manage motherhood with efficiency and intention so you can make room for what matters most to you. In the academy, you will have a portal full of mini-courses to teach you how to simplify your life, create routines that work for you, create systems for household management and other tasks, prioritize self-care and keeping your cup full, and mother with intention by honoring the mission of motherhood that God has called you to. Plans start at just $39/month! Click here to learn more and enroll today!   A membership program not your jam but want to attend one of my workshops? Good news! You can grab a singular ticket to my monthly live workshops! This month's workshop is about eliminating distractions and it's going to be so good. You will learn how to finally stay focused on your tasks at hand even though you have a mile-long to-do list and laundry staring you in the face. Grab your seat here and I'll see you at the workshop!    New here and want to know where to start? Enroll in my FREE Manage All The Things Challenge today! In this challenge, you will learn how to get crystal clear on your priorities, create a simple routine to get you started and write mission statements for your individual callings to help you live boldly where God has called you. Click here to get started for FREE!