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Blending families is HARD. We know how to make it easier. Turn stepfamily chaos into Stepfamily Mission POSSIBLE!™ with Bill & Jen Rogers. Together, we'll obliterate the notion that stepfamilies are destined to fail so you can stop feeling that pit in your stomach on transition day and start celebrating all the reasons why you are in exactly the right family, right now. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to learn how to overcome stepfamily roadblocks and setbacks so you can com ...
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#80 Mission #003 How To Get SMARTER* Together
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Got a game plan for your marriage? In today's mission, we break down how to align your goals, together! Download the Guide here. PREVIOUS MISSIONS Mission #001 Mission #002 Mission #003 is all about getting SMARTER. It involves 3 key things: *SMARTER goals by Michael Hyatt Specific—your goals must identify exactly what you want to accomplish in as …
Control is your ability to change the circumstances of a situation or focus your energy and attention. The more you feel you have some sense of input and choice. Even if it’s only over your own actions and behaviors, the better your choices and decisions will be. Energy and attention are strongly connected because your energy flows where your atten…
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#79 Mission #0002 - How To Prevent Divorce
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Welcome to Season 5 where it's all about doing one mission at a time to create a beautiful legacy for your stepfamily! Mission #002 is all about preventing divorce/re-divorce. It involves 3 key things: AWARENESS - Action is required INTENTION - Daily investments in your marriage FOCUS - Key, small deposits that protect your marriage You can't do ev…
Coping is your ability to deal with and attempt to overcome problems or difficulties Coping strategies are used during stress, adversity, or trauma. They help manage painful or difficult emotions, help you adjust to stressful events, and help you maintain emotional well-being. They can be productive or counterproductive.…
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#78 Mission 001 Your First Mission | Your Stepfamily Heritage
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Welcome to Season 5 where it's all about doing one mission at a time to create a beautiful legacy for your stepfamily! Join us in the Mastermind for Stepfamily Couples community to get answers to your questions, clarity on your mission, and an opportunity to be featured in Season 5! Listen to today's episode to discover your next mission! Bill & Je…
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Contribution is the part played by a person in bringing about a result or helping something to advance. You make your home and community better by contributing your knowledge, skills, and abilities. Giving for the benefit of yourself and others.By Neil Wattier
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#77 Where Is The Fairy Dust For Stepfamilies?
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Unfortunately, there is no fairy dust. However, there are tools you can use to stop the chaos in your blend, one step at a time! Listen in to today's episode to acquire the steps you need to move forward. It all starts with one decision to move forward. Are you ready? Episode #74 here Listen to today's episode to discover your next mission! Bill & …
Character is the collection of traits and qualities which make you distinct from others. It’s mental and moral qualities. As it relates to resilience, character is the proactive vision of yourself which requires predetermined outward behaviors and actions which demonstrate this vision.
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#76 Tired Of Disappointments? Reduce Unmet Needs In Your Marriage
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Now that you've been together for a bit, a sneaky little thing called unmet expectations can begin to sabotage your starry-eyed love affair. That's why it is so important that you START WITH YOU! Because friends, YOU are where it's at in your stepfamily! Oftentimes, we have high expectations and low communications when it comes to what we need in o…
Connection is a sense of belonging within the many communities you interact. The more connection you feel, the more you feel safe and supported. Safety in a relationship encourages you, your spouse, and your children/stepchildren to share thoughts and feelings.By Neil Wattier
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#75 Remarriage Is The Most Difficult Form of Marriage - Here's How To Make It Easier
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Meet Dr. Jeannette Lofas, Founder and President of The Stepfamily Foundation, Inc. Remarriage is the most difficult form of marriage. Dr. Lofas has written five books on the topic. In the foundation, she and her team teach couples how to recognize and deal with the perplexing dynamics of the step relationship. Through their system, couples learn wh…
What if we could get our kids to do anything we wanted them to do? Would you like to know how? SPOILER ALERT! All parents want their kids to do certain things at certain times, and in certain ways. Truthfully, instead of getting our kids to do whatever we want, it's more important to teach our kids how to think. And that's what today's episode is a…
Competence is belief and trust in your knowledge, skills, and abilities. Confidence is belief you achieve a goal or perform at a certain level. However, completion of the goal or performing a certain standard is dependent upon competence. #championstepdadBy Neil Wattier
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#73 Do You Feel Like The Odds Are Stacked Against You In Your Stepfamily?
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What would your life be like if you knew your stepfamily was going to win the race – with the odds stacked against you? 80 to 1 odds in fact? What compels us to root for the underdog? Let’s face it, in families, it can often feel like it is us against the world – Attacks on our belief systems to societal mocking of God’s design for marriage, we as …
Today begins a 14-week dive into Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg's 7 Cs of resilience and the mental performance community's adaptation, the 7 Cs of coaching credibility. These components can help you and your children build resilience to grow and thrive through stress and adversity while enjoying your best life. #championstepdad…
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#72 What To Do When Another Awkward Holiday Rolls Around
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Did you know? More phone calls are made on Mother’s Day than any other day of the year. These holiday chats with Mom often cause phone traffic to spike by as much as 37 percent. Funny thing, I couldn’t find any stats on the spike for stepmomma phone calls… No matter the stats, today’s episode addresses the awkwardness for stepmommas on a day set as…
First day back since deciding to take a Christmas break. A couple weeks turned into a couple months. Welcome Back!By Neil Wattier
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#71 Are You Still Fighting About the Money, Honey? (There's a Better Way!)
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Sometimes, it's really tough to have conversations about the money. That ends today, with this episode! It's time to get unstuck and move forward in your finances, together! How would you rate your financial literacy? How about your blended finances -- what rating would you give to you as a couple? Too often, stepfamily couples fight about the mone…
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#70 For Stepmommas Only - You Are One Of The Cool Girls! Plus 7 Survival Strategies You Need Now
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Have you thought about what you need to be in the cool kids club? Buckle up! We'll experience flashbacks to high school mean girls -- but, we won't stay there long. Jen welcomes Tess Scott, Author, Blogger, and Chief Encourager for Women in a girls-only episode where we talk all things stepfamily and revisit a few of those high-level embarrassing m…
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#69 Can Your Stepfamily Marriage Be Saved?
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How does Holy Week impact our stepfamily relationships? We invite you to sit quietly together as a couple and contemplate the love of Jesus for you and your family through the lens of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ! When we choose to reject God’s best for our marriage and our family, we experience separation from God. The most significant example…
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# 68 How To Elevate The Intimacy In Your Marriage
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If someone asked you to tell them the secrets to great sex and intimacy in your marriage, what would you say? In today's episode, not only do we cause glass to break and cats to screech, but we also propose one thing you can do in just 15 minutes a day to uplevel your intimacy in your stepfamily relationship. Want to go a bit deeper and gain more d…
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#67 Know Thine Enemy: The Wisdom You Need for Stepfamily Success
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Everyone has an idea of what marriage, family life and kids look like. But in a blend, those ideas can quickly become a distant memory or a longing. We get caught up in the hard, instead of enjoying the adventure. We're riddled with confusion and mystified by the chaos we find ourselves in. In today's episode, we're going to upend the chaos as we m…
Is Your Marriage Necessary? What do communication, accountability and unity look like in your blend? We'll talk about that and more in Episode #66! In today's episode, we meet Joe Marshall and learn of his passion for loving people, how he got from the US to Australia, and God's called to the missionary life. Not unlike many of you when Joe receive…
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#65 Where Do You Go To Find Quiet to Discern God's Will?
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Discerning God's will in a noisy world requires intentionality. In today's episode, Bill and Jen share strategies that will work for you and your marriage so you can not only find the quiet, but begin to discern God's call, blessings, and stewardship authority for your family. Here are the 5 simple steps: Aligning your marriage with God's will thro…
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#64 A Crash Course in Apologetics for Christians In Blended Families
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Do you feel like it's too late for you to begin anew with your family? Is legacy building just for traditional families? Not according to our next guest, Joel Settecase. Joel shares, "One of the most important and profound and touching truths of Scripture is the doctrine of adoption. Jesus is called the Son of God, and rightly so! The way that God …
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#63 How To Get Unstuck - Breaking Down Blended Family Barriers
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Is your marriage on the brink of divorce? Are you planning to stay where you are and deal with the dis-comfort, dis-ease and frustration you may be experiencing? Or would you like to take a promotion and move on? In today's episode, Jen shares 4 key strategies that work for your unique blended mission. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, …
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#62 Stepfamily Bootcamp: An NFL Offensive Lineman's Perspective
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You may be asking yourself; how does an NFL football career apply to blended families? Or how can it help me to listen to somebody who's experienced the fame and fortune of a great NFL career and exciting business ventures? Well, it wasn't always this way. Marques struggled too. When he first began blending with his wife, Bonnie, things weren't eas…
The majority of remarriages fail. Don't let yours be one of them. Blending families is HARD. We make it easier. Turn stepfamily chaos into Stepfamily Mission POSSIBLE!™ with Bill & Jen Rogers. Together, we'll obliterate the notion that stepfamilies are destined to fail so you can stop feeling that pit in your stomach on transition day and start cel…
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#61 Feeling Left Behind In 2022? Let's Start Right Where You Are, Together
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Do you really believe all things are possible with God? We do. We believe all things STEPFAMILY are possible with God! It's Not Too Late! If you feel like 2022 has left you behind, no worries, friends! Let's begin again, together. In today's episode, we'll share how to get you back on the same team, and create an amazing future, together. It all st…
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#60 Critical Discernment You Need Before You Create A Stepfamily
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What does becoming one mean to you? How do you discern what is best for you and your family before you blend and create a new stepfamily? In today's episode, we connect with Misty Hughes, who empowers and educates women throughout the world as the CEO of Lead-Her Ministries, LLC. We talk about all things stepfamily, single motherhood, and how we so…
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#59 Five Emotional Needs Necessary To Thrive in Your Stepfamily
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Do you want to raise children who act responsibly even when they don't feel like it? Kids who do the right thing, even when there is no one there to remind them? Children who act respectfully, even when they don't get their way? What about raising children who can solve problems, even if they don't have all the answers? These are great questions. A…
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#58 Three Things You Must Avoid To Get What You Want (And What To Do Instead)
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How do you protect what you cherish? Trust, honesty, and vulnerability are definitely required to get to the real good stuff of intimacy, sex, fun, and some lovely surprises along the way. Sometimes, we have the idea that we've "arrived" in the sense that we know how to respond to our partner's needs. Yet, it is easy to overlook the fact that our s…
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#57 The Pain of Rejection - How to Protect Your Heart When Your Stepkids Trample All Over It
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Blending is hard. Let's make it easier together. It can take a little longer to understand that our kids are struggling in similar ways we struggle; the challenges they face are somewhat similar to our own. Meet Wanda Patrick. Wanda understands the challenges single parents and stepparents face. When her husband died, leaving her with two young chi…
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#56 Communication Miscues Stepfamilies Make and How to Avoid Them
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Listen, if you're on the brink of divorce, this is a story of the power of effective communication, hope and prayer. Bill and I are no strangers to communication miscues. I mean, when you spend more than eight years together with somebody not even factoring in that you have step-kids that you don't know what to do with, you will have some communica…
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#55 | Myggy is a Gift: How Your Amygdala Tells You This Moment Matters
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Ever had one of those "Monster in the Mirror" moments? You know, the ones where after screaming at the top of your lungs because your kid did something that made you livid, you end up in the bathroom, staring at your reflection in the mirror and asking yourself, "Who is THAT person?" That's definitely a Myggy Experience! Becky Dozeman, a Licensed S…
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#54 Are Your Children At Risk of Being Sex Trafficked? How Tik Tok & Other Socials Impact Risk
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How many of you have kids with phones? About how many apps do your kids use? How much time do they spend in these apps with their friends? Whether or not you have teens or tweens, there's a chance you may not have the answers to some of these questions, or you feel confident that your kids would not do inappropriate things online. They know the bou…
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#53 | How Do You Celebrate The Christmas Season in Your Stepfamily?
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Merry Christmas, Family! Today's episode has us praying for you! Our hearts go out to those of you struggling with co-parenting challenges, for those unable to celebrate the birth of Jesus with their children, and for those grieving a loss. We love you, family! Welcome to Stepfamily Mission POSSIBLE! Podcast. The Podcast that helps you create the S…
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#52 | Navigating Traditions, Together In Your Blend
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Jesus is the Reason for the Season! And....a whole lotta new blended traditions, too! How do you celebrate Christmas? Bill and Jen have a little fun in today's episode recalling their first Christmas together when they were dating. (A rather large tree is involved!) Welcome to Stepfamily Mission POSSIBLE! Podcast. The Podcast that helps you create …
Gramps Jeffrey is the author of the children's book “I don’t want to turn 3” Gramps Jeffrey (Marc Joseph) “Baby Boomer Grandfather understands parents and grandchildren in today's ever-changing world and his children's book reflects their angst.” Discover More https://grampsjeffrey.com/ https://idontwanttoturn3.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc…
Chris Kilworth is the host of Between The Mountains, an adventure Travel Podcast. He's also a father who uses adventure to connect with his daughter. https://betweenthemountains.org/By Neil Wattier
Laura, your story moved us to tears. Our heart grieves for your loss. We pray God enriches your ministry, Johnny's Ambassadors, so more youth are saved from the harms of marijuana. Today's episode is dedicated to the memory of Johnny Stack. May his death be a clarion call to parents, pastors, churches, and community leaders about the dangers of mar…
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#50 When Stepkids Resent Your Marriage & What You Can Do About It
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"We're humans. So it's going to be hard. I don't even fault my dad or my stepmom or my stepdad for the way they handled the situation. They handled it the best way they knew how; it just doesn't have a great outcome, but we're humans. So, it's a learning process. I hope by me speaking that it can impart some kind of deep pondering on to the adults …
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#49 Have You Lost Your Identity While Dealing With a Family Member's Addiction?
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Identity Crisis, Imposter Syndrome: they are similar, aren't they? In today's episode, Kim Moore shares a bit about her life while living with her husband and his addiction. "But the truth is I felt like I lost him many, many years before that. And through life with his addiction, very much, you know, so much of your time is, is spent focusing on t…
Jed Shaffer, host of The Gamer Parents Strategy Guide podcast, has been a gamer for 40 years, married for 18 years, and a parent for 15 years. He has three boys -- twin 15-year-olds (one with special needs) and a 9-year-old, and they're all gamers too. https://twitter.com/GPSGPodcast https://www.facebook.com/GamerParentsStrategyGuide…
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#48 Where Have Your Stepkids Gone Looking for Love?
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Have you ever found yourself looking for love in all the wrong places? You're not alone! In today's episode, we explore what looking for love looks life from a stepchild's perspective, with our very special guest, Angela Paganelli. We invite you to learn more about Foster Blessings Ministry. Prayerfully considering donating to a Foster Family In Ne…
Tim McCarthy is the author of Raising 4-Dimensional Children in a 2-Dimensional World, a book about Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual education. He has a Master’s Degree in Education and a Grandmaster rank in the martial arts which he has combined into a simple plan for the developmentally-appropriate education of children. www.4d-2d.com…
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#47 Can "Stand-In" Fathers Really Make a Difference?
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We're back and kicking off things with Pastor Papa Ray Hurst! The most powerful takeaway from this podcast is this: "How are you leaving people after they have an encounter with you?" Hi there, we’re Bill and Jen Rogers and we help Christian stepfamily couples turn what feels impossible into Stepfamily Mission POSSIBLE! You can find Papa Ray and hi…
Dr. Tim Jordan is a Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician focused on helping girls and young women become strong leaders and their best selves. www.drtimjordan.com/ Host of Raising Daughters Podcast Author of She Leads - A Practical Guide for Raising Daughters Who Advocate, Influence, and LeadBy Neil Wattier
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Jen & Cody host the Unqualified Parenting Podcast, a blended family podcast, discussing the ins and outs of parenting, stepparenting, and navigating the tumultuous relationships that come with being blended. https://unqualifiedparenting.com/By Neil Wattier
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Nick Cardarelli is the host of the Raised on DND podcast. He's been a gamer for over 30 years and has used table top and role-playing games to connect and bond with his children. https://raisedondnd.com/ https://lakeland-rpg.com/By Neil Wattier
