Welcome to Women | Faith & Story
We are so glad you found Women | Faith & Story!
This is your welcome but let it also be your invitation! We want to invite you into a community of women seeking to do good in ways big and small, love well for their own families and others, and dream big for what might yet be possible in their lives.
If you have been feeling a restlessness inside yourself that you can’t quite explain, a feeling that maybe there is something more you are meant to do with your life, a feeling that there is something bigger than yourself but you are not sure what to believe in, you belong here.
We have gathered coaches and teachers, leaders, and learners to help you find answers to all your questions--personal, professional, and spiritual.
For the first part of my life, I worked really hard to build a career, build our family of four daughters, and build a life plan I thought would fit with my definition of success. But I always had this little voice inside me saying something was missing or maybe I was missing the point of my life.
I knew it had something to do with finding a different purpose than being a graphic designer which is what I did for over 20 years. It was a good career because I could work for my clients and still be a very present mom available for all the playdates, carpools, soccer games, dances, and adventures that come with raising four girls. That part of my life was great—I just didn’t know what would happen after. What happens after those girls become the women my husband, Charlie, and I always hoped they would become?
My life plan had a huge gap in what I would do after I was no longer vitally needed day to day as a mom or even as the designer that I no longer felt I wanted to be. I had to decide who I wanted to become. While there were a ton of books about changing careers there were very few resources I could find that spoke to me about finding new meaning. It took me years to discover through changing careers and writing my own book, that who we are meant to become, it is already written inside us. That restlessness, that little voice, it is trying to point you in the right direction. It is a little whisper, that when you listen, will be exactly the guide you can always trust.
It will most certainly whisper things that might be unexpected and you will feel unqualified to begin. It will almost always be inconvenient because you will have to stop being who you are to start becoming you were always meant to be.
after fifteen years of listening, and meeting other women who did the same, I can tell you without a doubt: Trust the Whisper.
That whisper is not about life plans it is about your life path. What we design for ourselves is usually not a big enough dream—we are capable of much more than we imagine. Once you start paying attention, you will find there is a current of grace running through this world connecting each of us to a much greater purpose. We just need to listen to and trust those whispers.
That is what Women | Faith & Story is about. A place to help you meet other women trusting their whispers. A place to find books that will speak to you about meaning. A place to take classes and workshops to help you feel more equipped for whatever you are being called to do.
There were pieces of this idea I dreamed up and set aside over a span of 10 years. I wasn’t sure how to put this all together—and I am still figuring it out. But as I was wrestling with the how, I talked about it with another woman I respect, my daughter, Lauren, now thirty-one years old. She has done her own listening to whispers which led her to leave some very safe business jobs to leap towards a more creative life she always felt was calling her. Turns out, because she listened, Lauren has just the skills needed at just the right time to help her mom launch this idea.
So we are doing this together. We both want to talk to women. We both want to help you find what is calling you. We both want to create a community that is inclusive and intentional about finding faith in ourselves and something bigger.
So you will hear from both of us on this site—and eventually from lots of women who are learning and leading. We hope we will hear from you as well. Fill out the Submit your Story and tell us about women who inspire you, books that helped you, or ideas that won’t let you go.
If you like what you find here, invite your daughters and mothers, sisters and friends to be a part of WF&S. We are so glad you found us.