On this week’s episode of Cultivating the Lovely, host MacKenzie Koppa Talks with Beth McCord of YourEnneagramCoach.com. Beth and her husband Jeff live outside of Nashville, Tennessee and have two grown children. She has been teaching people about the enneagram personality type tool for 17 years. You can now pre-order Beth and Jeff’s book Becoming Us: Using the Enneagram to Create a Thriving, Gospel-Centered Marriage. Beth and MacKenzie are taking a deep dive into all things enneagram today, including:

• Beth's journey toward learning about the enneagram and eventually teaching others
• Patterns in certain types gravitating to each other
• Alignment and misalignment with the Gospel
  

   

• Understanding your true identity in Christ and finding our security in that truth
• Using the Enneagram as a tool to identify when you go off course and realign with the truth

• The differences in types preferred in various environments and cultures
• Letting God in to work on us as we find out about our weaknesses
• Embracing who we are and finding our value and purpose in Christ, not comparisons
• Using the enneagram to develop compassion for others and live in the Gospel’s grace
• How knowing others’ types can help us communicate better
• A little about the 9 types, wings and tritypes and how they interact with each other
• MacKenzie and Beth’s reactions to the Sleeping At Last podcast enneagram songs
• Trusting the work of Christ as our foundation, no matter where we are on our journey
• Sneak peak into upcoming books and courses from Your Enneagram Coach
• A typical day in Beth’s life

Current Lovelies-

Beth: being intentional about creating margin, enjoying sitting by the fire outside in the evenings

MacKenzie: reading a fun novel just for fun and finding that really refreshing

Resources Mentioned-

Michael Hyatt

Your Enneagram Coach free type test

Katherine Fauvre on Tritypes

Kyra Hinton Type 4 Art Music Video

Books:

The Road Back to You

Becoming Us

The Sacred Enneagram

The Enneagram Collection

Podcasts:

Sleeping At Last

Movies:

Shawshank Redemption

Find Beth-

You can find Beth McCord on her website, yourenneagramcoach.com. You can also follow Beth across social media on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Find MacKenzie-

You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! You can also listen to her family podcast The Same Page!

Thanks to our Sponsors-

Welcome to Season 5 of Cultivating the Lovely the Podcast! Today on the show, MacKenzie Koppa is joined by her friend Chelle Bruzas to bring you all up to speed on what is coming up this season around the CTL community! Also, stick around to the end of show to hear Chelle ask MacKenzie her own “stock questions” and get to know your lovely host a little bit better.

• MacKenzie explains some of the changes happening with the Cultivating the Lovely platform
• How the CTL Patreon group is making a difference in community and keeping MacKenzie motivated and inspired
• Exciting new coaching opportunity for upper level members in the Patreon community
• The Morning Show is staying on Facebook for Patreon members and coming to Instagram 2 days a week in September
• Some of the upcoming topics for the fall:
  • Fending off stress
  • Information on our cycles
  • Checking in on routines
  • Fall style and skincare
• Sign ups are open for new Cultivating Groups for September for Lovely Tribe and Loveliest Level members!
• What is happening with The Same Page podcast in the future
• Looking forward to the Cultivating the Lovely podcast in Season 5
  • Gary Thomas, author of When to Walk Away
  • Beth McCord from Your Enneagram Coach

• The renewed joy and excitement MacKenzie has about going forward after having some rough spots in the past year
• MacKenzie answers her own stock questions and explains how some things have changed over the last couple of years

Current Lovelies:

Chelle: taking daily walks even when it isn’t the most convenient time

MacKenzie: trying to end her shower with a short burst of cold water

Resources Mentioned:

Books:

My Father’s Dragon

When to Walk Away

Podcasts:

The Wally Show

The Popcast

What Should I Read Next?

Movies:

You’ve Got Mail

Find Chelle-

You can find Chelle Bruzas on Instagram.

Find MacKenzie-

You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! You can also listen to her family podcast The Same Page!

Thanks to our Sponsors- 

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This week wraps up Season 4 of the Cultivating the Lovely podcast! And today MacKenzie has a fun conversation with her dear friend Chelle Bruzas about some of the things they’ve been loving this summer and how they are squeezing every last drop of goodness out of summer before it’s over. This episode is full of memories, book and show recommendations and simple things that are making Chelle and MacKenzie’s live a little better. So get yourself a glass of something cold, sit back and enjoy the chit-chat!

• Making summer memories together with their families at the lake and each other’s homes
• Keeping each other accountable to rest and recharge amidst a busy season
• Chelle’s favorite summer reads:
  • The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
  • Belgravia by Julian Fellows
  • Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan
  • Suffering is Never for Nothing by Elisabeth Elliot
  • The Good and Beautiful God by James Bryan Smith
• MacKenzie’s favorite summer reads:
  • Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey
  • The Gown by Jennifer Robson
  • Do Less by Kate Northrup
  • Start with Your People by Brian Dixson
  • Rhythms of Renewal by Rebekah Lyons
  • When to Walk Away by Gary Thomas
• Chelle and MacKenzie’s summer watchlist:
  • Victoria
  • The Beautiful Fantastic
  • The Durrells in Corfu
  • Poldark
  • Handmaid’s Tale
• Chelle and MacKenzie’s simple summer meal solutions
• Favorite summer finds and hacks
  • Australian Gold tinted SPF50 sunscreen
  • MacKenzie’s upside down hair drying technique
  • The CTL Morning Show is back in the Patreon community!
• Favorite summer listening:
  • Extraordinary Magic by Ben Rector
  • When the Battle Chooses You by Pastor Steven Furtick
  • The Wally Show
  • The Popcast
  • The Big Boo Cast
  • Fat Mascara podcast
  • Hamilton soundtrack
  • The Greatest Showman soundtrack
  • A Star is Born soundtrack

Find Chelle-

You can find Chelle Bruzas on Instagram.

Find MacKenzie-

You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! You can also listen to her family podcast The Same Page!

Thanks to our sponsors-

Today on the Cultivating the Lovely podcast, host MacKenzie Koppa has a chat with Jen Traynor, a Noonday Collection Ambassador. Jen is a wife and homeschooling mom to two boys, and she was also taught MacKenzie’s daughter in preschool last year. Together Jen and MacKenzie talk about building a business that blesses others. This is not your typical multi-level marketing story, so stick around to hear this encouraging chat!

• Jen's story of how she got started as a Noonday ambassador
• The difference of the mission of Noonday as opposed to a typical MLM business
• How Noonday helps local artisans in countries around the world
• Wearing bold accessories you love with confidence
• How Jen started learning how to style her jewelry
• Follow @NoondayCollection or #noondaycollection on Instagram 
• The amazing benefits Jen has enjoyed as a Noonday ambassador
• Jen shares how a trunk show with Noonday works and what her typical workday looks like
• Jen's experience traveling to visit artisans with Noonday
• Why Jen feels that she was so successful and tips for new ambassadors
• Having a tribe, a cause and a community as women
• Jen's decision to dial back her outside commitments to focus on her family more
• A typical day in Jen's life

This Friday, August 9, 2019, at 6:30 pm PST Jen will be hosting an online Noonday Collection trunk show for CTL followers on both Instagram and Facebook! Make sure you follow MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram and Cultivating the Lovely on Facebook so you don’t miss out.

Current Lovelies-

Jen: getting outside and working in her garden to enjoy the simple pleasures of growing things

MacKenzie: intentionally making plans to do fun things to keep herself from wallowing in sadness about challenging circumstances

Resources Mentioned-

Podcasts:

Episode 100: Living into Our Strengths with Jessica Honegger

Movies:

Two Weeks Notice

Find Jen-

You can find Jen Traynor on her Noonday Collection webpage or contact her at jennifertraynor@noondayambassador.com to order. You can also follow Jen on Instagram.

Find MacKenzie-

You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! You can also listen to her family podcast The Same Page!

Back to School is rolling in fast and hard! If you’re anything like me then you like to make sure to have some things in place before day 1 hits so that you don’t get mowed down by the proverbial school bus as the year gets rolling.

If you want guidance for getting all the back to school things done, like-

• establishing routines,
• getting your calendar ready,
• planning your meals,
• creating functioning workspaces,
• and making sure that your own needs don’t fall by the wayside in the midst of the craziness,

Then I would love for you to join me in Patreon this month where we are walking through all these steps together! We have revived the morning show for the month and are meeting each weekday at 6:30am PST for guidance, encouragement, and motivation to head into this year feeling calm and confident.

In order to participate in our Daily Live Show goodness you only have to be at the $3 level! The rest of the benefits of being a Patron just climb from there, and out Loveliest Level Members even get to schedule one-on-one sessions with me via Zoom this month! They can ask me whatever questions strike their fancy and I will help them find the answers. It’s going to be a good time!

Just follow this link to see all our Patreon has to offer and join me today!!