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Hi Friend, Can you believe we are halfway done with #calledoutbookclub? I am loving these conversations and hope you are too. Don’t stop sharing your stories, sending me DM’s and engaging on our LIVE book clubs Wednesday nights!

Our conversation last Wednesday with Ruth Chou Simons was 🔥 🔥 🔥. Ruth shared an incredibly personal story about failure on a big public stage when everything went wrong...including this piece of art, below. Talk about living out some FEAR! Our conversation was 30 minutes long and the perfect thing to listen to on the way to work or while cooking dinner. Have a pen handy –– you’ll want to take notes from all the goodness she shares, including how to step into your calling even when it’s scary.

We talked a lot about the “F word” last week: FEAR. And, it’s sticking around for our conversation this week as we read chapters 7 & 8. I wonder, do any of these questions resonate with you?

• Will my boss find out I really don’t know what I’m doing?

• Will my co-workers find out I’m winging it?

• Will everyone in my field find out I’m a fraud?

Listen, I think we ALL have silently asked ourselves one of these questions before and they aren’t necessarily bad questions so don’t bring on the shame game, ok? My friend Jo Saxton is going to join me Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. EST on Instagram LIVE as we wrestle with these questions and talk about...

• WHO we are OUTSIDE of what we do!

• Learning to LOVE what you do, but not be defined by what you do.

• And, she’ll be sharing a story about being called to something that totally flopped.

Last thing –– I really want you to share something this week on your social media. Save this image (or screenshot it Monday when I post it on my stories), fill it in, tag me and post it! This is my favorite shareable we have for book club and I want to re-post to get the conversation going. You in? 

In the meantime, here’s the latest on The Paula Faris ‘Faith and Calling’ Podcast. 

EPISODE 33 –– The Three P's: Prayer, Positive Thinking, & Prozac –– In this episode, you’ll hear how my sweet 81-year-old momma, Carol, is doing just months after her stroke. And, you’ll also get to know my other sister, Mary, who is a middle school teacher, but was suddenly thrust into the role of caretaker after mom’s stroke. Mary is a hero, she has stepped up for our family so many times. Listen Now!