Posts Tagged ‘emily ley’
Making Things Happen: Join Me in March 2018!
The Making Things Happen Conference began in 2009 after I posted a blog entry answering a question I’d been emailed. I was running Southern Weddings magazine, doing brand consulting, and producing high-end weddings (wow, how life has changed since then!), and the woman who emailed wanted to know, “How do you make things happen, Lara?” At the…
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Eight years. Eight years! I was thinking to myself that “MTH,” as we call it, is the longest running creative conference, but it isn’t. Because we’re not just for creatives. The Making Things Happen Conference began in 2009, after what seemed like a small leap of faith at the time: I posted a blog entry answering a question I’d…
Read MoreTOP TEN GIFTS FOR MOMS + HUGE GIVEAWAY!
I’ve never done a gift guide before. Why? I’ve struggled with contentment and I didn’t want to add to someone else’s struggle too. So, rather than do just a gift guide and simply tell you about all the things, welcome to my first-ever Mama’s Gift Guide GIVEAWAY! I asked each of these companies if they would donate something for me to…
Read MoreMAKING MARRIAGE HAPPEN + 2013 SPEAKING
I have been having a lot of crazy thoughts lately. Like, “What if I didn’t have Facebook? Or any social media??” And you know what? My husband doesn’t. He never looks at Facebook. Ever. He is perfectly content with just having in-person relationships, and he spends his free time reading the Bible on his phone.…
Read MoreMAKING THINGS HAPPEN 2013 CONFERENCE DETAILS
Y’all. Five years ago, I felt really alone and like no one would ever understand the creative dreams I had. And I had a LOT of dreams. I felt lost and frustrated and totally overwhelmed by thoughts that went something like this:
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