We all want to know what looks best on us, especially if it means making our closets (and lives) a little more streamlined. While the idea has been around since the 80s, color analysis is making a major comeback, as can be seen all over TikTok. Over two decades ago, Shari Braendel took her passion for fashion and helping others and turned it into a thriving color analysis organization. With no formal business training, Shari has grown the company from 12 consultants to over 400 since 2010.

As a woman of faith, Shari's business is based on the Biblical perspective of beauty and faith, making it different from other color analysis programs. Shari believes that we're all fearfully and wonderfully made, yet we're all created differently. No woman should ever feel less than beautiful because she doesn't have a particular body type. Shari and her team are dedicated to helping women love the body God gave them without making them feel inadequate.

Shari is a color analysis queen and was one of the first 50 women in the U.S. to be trained in color analysis. But her passion for fashion and helping others goes beyond just color analysis appointments. After seeing the profound impact one of her color workshops had on a Texas nonprofit that served victims of sex trafficking, Shari founded the Women Matter Initiative (WMI), which works in conjunction with nonprofit organizations to serve women healing from crisis or distress. Through these free color analysis workshops, Shari and her WIM ambassadors aim to teach women how to dress with confidence and dignity.

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"When an earthquake occurs, the tectonic plates shift far beneath the surface, and they never go back to where they started."

Kari Baker always loved a good plan. But when her only son Brady was diagnosed with autism in 2014, her plans for a typical parenting experience were shaken to the core. Her journey started with all the pain, uncertainty, and isolation that so many special needs parents encounter, but along the way she found faith, community, and joy in surrendering to God's design.

Finding KIND is an account of Kari's initial awakening to Brady's neurological differences, the early years adapting to life as an autism mom, and later accepting and appreciating Brady for exactly who God made him to be.

Ultimately, Kari's experiences as a KIND Mom offer practical suggestions for thriving when the best laid plans go awry. Anyone who knows and loves a kid with invisible neurological differences or who is exploring faith in the midst of life's challenges will find hope and encouragement in Kari's story.

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More about Kari A. Baker

Kari A. Baker is a Christian author, speaker, and podcaster. She is an avid blogger on the topics of faith, special needs parenting, and finding your purpose.

She is the founder of KIND Families, a community of people who love Kids with Invisible Neurological Differences. The KIND Community is for parents, caregivers, friends and advocates of kids whose brains work differently than their peers, but have no outwardly visible disability. She is also the host of The KIND Families Podcast.

Kari became a KIND mom in 2014 when her son Brady was diagnosed with autism at age three.

She and her husband, John, live in Scottsdale with their son Brady and their hound dog,
Princess Leia.

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Jump joyfully into your daily time with God!

Become more intentional with your time spent in God’s Word and dive deeper into your relationship with Him with overwhelming joy, boldness, and thanksgiving. Through 365 daily devotions that lead you from Genesis to Revelation, well-known author and speaker Janet Holm McHenry shares the truths she’s learned about God, His promises to those who love Him, and the joy you too can find in your salvation.

Having read through the entire Bible each year for more than 20 years, Janet’s wise insights invite you to step confidently in your faith as you dedicate a part of each day to studying the Word. Each devotion includes a focus verse, Scripture-based prayer, and an optional read-through-the-Bible-in-a-year plan to help you jumpstart your time with the Lord.

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More about Janet McHenry

Often described as a life juggler, upon graduation with a degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, Janet McHenry worked as a newspaper reporter and high school English teacher while raising four kids with her high school sweetheart husband Craig (aka The Rancher).

Post-college and post-Army, they settled down in the Sierra Valley in northern California. They raise beef cattle in a county without a single stoplight and love sharing the outdoors with their nine grandchildren.

Janet looks for ways to serve leadership and others when she speaks at retreats and conferences. She also serves as prayer coordinator at The Bridge Church in Reno, on the advisory council of First Place for Health, and on the state leadership team for the National Day of Prayer.

She is a writer, speaker, life and Advanced Writers and Speakers Association Certified Coach as well as the founder of the Sierra Valley Writers Retreat.

She also loves hosting friends new and seasoned at her Sierra Valley Writers Retreats . . . or just for a cup of something yummy. And she looks forward to knowing you better!

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As a mom with five kids ages twelve to twenty-two living at home, Amy Betters-Midtvedt found that parenting teens challenged everything she thought it meant to be a “good” mom. But in the unraveling came the building of something new and more beautiful than she could have imagined: an incredible sense of love, hope, joy, and relationship—even in the mess.
You'll Make It (and They Will Too) is as much about navigating the minefields of anxiety and mental health as it is setting curfews, convincing kids to bring their dishes back to the kitchen, and deciding whose turn it is to have the car keys. It’s about dancing in the kitchen with soon-to-be adult kids who are taller than you. It’s making appointments with a therapist and a college admissions counselor in the same week. It’s helping your kids cling to faith even as they reject the pew on Sunday mornings.
Through stories steeped in hope and prayer of both her professional and personal parenting journey, Amy shares:
• words of comfort for when you feel alone, together with wisdom and strategies that will help you to not just survive the sleepless nights, but also to thrive as a stronger family unit
• prayers to draw on God’s strength when everything feels overwhelming
• a path forward with your teenagers that brings you into a lifelong loving relationship
• ways to celebrate the beauty in your teens in all that they are, just as God made them
Each chapter will leave you equipped, encouraged, and less alone by guiding you through how to listen to your own heart when parenting your precious teen.

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More about Amy Betters-Midtvedt

Amy Betters-Midtvedt, author of You’ll Make It (And They Will Too) is a Today Parenting contributing author with over a million readers and twenty-five years of experience working with adolescents and families. In both her job as a literacy coach and in her personal life—where she and her husband, Todd, wrangle their five children—she has been surrounded by kids and teens and is passionate about serving them. Amy has a master's degree in leadership, curriculum, and instruction.

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For all parents who desire to raise a generation of kids with strong hearts.

Parenting. It’s the most important endeavor of our lives. And there’s no shortage of advice on how to raise kids. But amidst the chatter of competing voices, how do we sort the folly from the wisdom? In StrongHeart, author Jill Garner cuts through modern parenting myths and trends to deliver the bold truth about what it will take to raise the next generation. Jill provides evidence-based solutions for parents seeking to raise children of character who can overcome—rather than succumb to—a culture full of turmoil.

Jill focuses on the education of the heart as she shows parents how to:

• Champion self-respect rather than self-esteem
• Replace happiness with deep, lasting joy
• Instill a heart of gratitude that stifles innate selfishness
• Develop GRIT (Guts, Resilience, Integrity, and Tenacity)
• Engrave other-centeredness on kids’ hearts. . . and more

More than ever parents feel burdened to raise kids who are brave, resilient, and kind. This book enables us to see beneath the surface of our children’s struggles to the heart attitudes that determine kids’ thoughts and actions. This is an essential resource for parents, grandparents, and anyone who has a heart for cultivating in children a StrongHeart.

Purchase a copy of StrongHeart.

More about Jill Garner

Jill Garner is an accomplished speaker, advocate, and founder of Manners of the Heart, a nonprofit reawakening respect in our society for the sake of the next generation. She is the author of the award-winning Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World, Raising Unselfish Children in a Self-Absorbed World, and Manners of the Heart, an elementary school curriculum that helps children see beyond themselves to become all God created them to be. Her work is endorsed by Focus on the Family, FamilyLife Today, Dr. Kevin Leman, and many others.

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Richard Blackaby is the president of Blackaby Ministries International and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Richard travels internationally speaking on spiritual leadership in the home, church, and marketplace as well as on spiritual awakening, experiencing God, and the Christian life. Richard regularly ministers to Christian CEOs, church, and family leaders.

Richard grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. He has been married to Lisa for 40 years and has three kids: Mike married to Sarah. He has a Ph.D. in apologetics, has written two books, and is planting a church in Victoria, Canada; Daniel is married to Sarah. He has written seven books and has a Ph.D. in Christianity and Culture; and Carrie who works at BMI, has written a book, published many articles, and writes a travel blog (Maple and Maps). Richard also has eight amazing grandchildren: Emerson, Logan, Everett, Luca, Finley, Claire, Ellie, and Alice.

Richard earned a B.A. in history from the University of Saskatchewan. He has an M.Div and Ph.D. in church history from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and an honorary doctorate from Dallas Baptist University.

Richard served as a senior pastor at Friendship Baptist Church in Winnipeg, and then as the president of the Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary in Cochrane, Alberta Canada for 13 years. He continues to serve as the seminary’s Chancellor.

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Deborah Raney’s first novel, A Vow to Cherish, inspired the World Wide Pictures film of the same title and launched Deb’s writing career. Thirty years, forty-plus books, and numerous awards later, she’s still creating stories that touch hearts and lives. A RITA® Award winner and three-time Christy Award finalist, Deb is represented by Steve Laube of the Steve Laube Agency. She is a Missouri transplant, having moved with her husband, Ken Raney, from their native Kansas. They love road trips, Friday garage sale dates, time with their family, and breakfast on the screened porch overlooking their wooded backyard.

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David Lee Martin is an ordained pastor, a creative, and passionate follower of Christ. He has dedicated his life to sharing the message of Jesus Christ with others and prays that you will be drawn closer to the Savior through his books and publications.

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