Jennifer Fulwiler - Your Blue Flame: Drop the Guilt and Do What Makes You Come Alive

In the years I have known Jen Fulwiler, it has been an inspiration to watch her use her blue flame. In this book she shares powerful, practical tips that will allow real people with busy lives to tap into their own passions and experience a new vibrancy in their lives.

KEITH FERRAZZI, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Never Eat Alone and Whos Got Your Back

I learned everything I know about radio from Jen Fulwilers wildly popular radio show. And now, thanks to her new book, Ive learned everything I need to know about life.

LINO RULLI, Emmy winner, SiriusXM radio host, reader of Jens book

All of us seek to discover our reason for beingthe gift given uniquely to us to share with others. In Your Blue Flame Jen Fulwiler chronicles the topsy-turvy path that took her from mom to apologist to standup comedian. The lessons she has learned along the way will warm all those looking to find their true passion and calling.

RAYMOND ARROYO, New York Times bestselling author, Fox News contributor, EWTN host

Jen Fulwiler shows you how to discover your hidden passions and channel them into a source of inspiration that will impact every area of life.

JENNY HUTT, host of Just Jenny on SiriusXM

What brings you to life? This is the question Jen inspires us to answer. Jen shares practical advice to help you discover your passion and gives you permission to go after it. Her voice is needed in this cultural moment for women, and she shares her wisdom with humor and honesty. This is a book youll text your friends about.

ALLI WORTHINGTON, bestselling author of Breaking Busy and Fierce Faith, speaker, coach

Jen challenges the doubters, encourages the visionaries, and ultimately reveals that our dreams arent just crazy ideas but contributions that make the world better when we go after them. Your Blue Flame is the yes you can manifesto you need and deserve.

LEAH DARROW, founder and creator of Lux U

I have eight kids. The juggle of pursuing my blue flame as well as all the responsibilities of being a mom is real. Jennifer Fulwiler reminds me, with vulnerability and humor, that the pursuit of blue-flame activities is essential and necessary, not just for my benefit but for the benefit of my family and the world as well. This is a must-read book for all mothers.

LISA CANNING, author of The Possibility Mom

Whether youre ready to dive in headfirst or need to keep your day job, this book will show you how to discover your creative calling and cultivate it. This book is for everyone. No matter what stage of life youre in, busy mom of six Jennifer Fulwiler leads by example to reveal how to let your blue flame bring light to all of your life. After reading this book, you will want to shout like St. Joan of Arc, I am not afraid! I was born to do this!

HALEY STEWART, author of The Grace of Enough

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Your Blue Flame

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Title: Your blue flame : drop the guilt and do what makes you come alive / Jennifer Fulwiler.

Description: Grand Rapids : Zondervan, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: Each of us has a blue flamea God-given gift to the world. Your Blue Flame is bestselling author and SiriusXM radio host Jennifer Fulwilers power-packed, upbeat invitation to fall in love with your life again, ignite your blue flame, and discover how your unique calling is more fulfilling than you could ever imagineProvided by publisher.

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For Jason DJ Merlin Geraghty, whose

blue flame burned so brightly

CONTENTS

In Steven Spielbergs Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Richard Dreyfusss character, throughout the movie, is searching for something, and he cannot rest until he finds it. He cant put his finger on what it is, but he manically tears up his yard and frantically sculpts the shape of a mysterious mountain out of a pile of mashed potatoes on a plate while his wife (played by the amazing Teri Garr) and children look on in horror and bewilderment. He doesnt know what he is looking for or what he wants, but he is not going to find any peace until he figures it out.

So many times in my life, even from childhood, I feel like Ive been sculpting a honkin pile of mashed potatoes without really knowing why. Yet I have been compelled and driven to make something out of something else. Sometimes the results have been amazing, and sometimes they have looked like, well, a pile of goopy potatoes, but the important thing is that I was happy doing it. This, to me, is what this book is about.

In a book that is part The Artists Way and part Change Your Life, I Changed Mine! manifesto, author, comedian, radio personality, and mother of six Jennifer Fulwiler has a plan to help you find your true passion and not to let anything stand in your way. In