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Two moms working through values, time, risk and faith.
Sarah Dykema, a full-time real estate agent and entrepreneur, and Irma Blanco, a veteran radio host, build episodes around themes like focus, taking risks and core values. The talk moves between work, motherhood and faith, and the core-values run hands the listener a worksheet that narrows a long list of values to two.
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Purpose Life Podcast with Irma & Sarah puts two moms at the microphone, Sarah Dykema and Irma Blanco, and lets business thinking, family life and faith share one conversation. Sarah introduces herself as a full-time real estate agent and entrepreneur, married to Jeff and raising two boys, Ari and Alan. Irma calls herself a veteran radio host, volleyball mom, bargain shopper and short order cook, and owns up to being a little too crazy about social media and coffee. Those introductions set the register. The talk is warm and personal, and a point about time management can break off for a quick catch-up about boats in Michigan and a clunker getting taken away. Then it finds its way back. Recent titles sort the show into themed runs, numbered like chapters: Focus, Taking Risks and Establishing Core Values. The core-values run is openly practical. Two of its titles name a guest, Chaili Trentham, and one installment works through a worksheet that trims a long list of values to two, few enough that one can sit in each hand. People doing the exercise at home are spoken to directly, and told that even identical words carry different meanings for different people, because their skills and experiences differ. Another installment arranges values under the letters of HALT, with honesty, authenticity and loyalty among them, as a way to stop and check a decision that feels off. The goal, as one speaker frames it, is to be the same leader in front of clients and a team as at home in the living room. A fourth core-values conversation, with a guest named Randy, touches on PE teaching and health and wellness in schools. The Focus episodes point the same discipline at the calendar. They cover scheduling with intention, planning how money, days and months get spent when a big goal is on the line, and the time study, a tool one speaker admits to geeking out on. They are honest about distraction, too: stopping to photograph a spider building its web for a social media story is named as the kind of impulse that pulls a person out of a moment with family. Faith is spoken about openly. The episode titled '047 Taking Risks Episode 1 Sarah opens up about motherhood and adoption' includes a frank account of months of tracking, temperature checks and disappointment, when time moved slowly and even excitement felt hard to trust, and it closes by asking listeners to go to God first and take a risk on him. The show's own introduction promises laughter, learning and the occasional tear. What a listener takes away is a small kit of usable tools, a two-value worksheet, a HALT-style check and a time study, set inside plain talk about family and faith.
Made for: Suits a listener who is juggling a career and a household and wants practical tools for values and time, delivered through warm, personal conversation. Also suits someone comfortable with faith being an open part of the discussion.
What sets it apart: It builds numbered runs around one theme at a time and puts concrete tools on the table, such as a worksheet for narrowing values to two and the idea of a time study. The hosts' own family stories and faith stay in the frame the whole time.
Rooted in faith, these moms will bring you laughter, knowledge, and insight on business leadership and family life, through their own experiences and with inspirational guests and experts. Tune-in for weekly podcasts hosted by full-time Real Estate Agent/Entrepreneur Sarah Dykema, and Veteran Radio Host Irma Blanco.
That vacation photo can wait; Sarah and Irma make a case for being there before posting it.
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A real family challenge gives this conversation about intentional time its practical center.
Time becomes a family decision as Sarah and Irma turn a break from social media on Sarah's phone into a wider conversation about choosing schedules with intention.
A grounded conversation about keeping family moments from turning into content before they have been fully lived.
Sarah Dykema's reflection on sharing family moments gives the episode a clear, relatable center. In conversation with Irma Blanco, she weighs the difference between taking a photo to hold onto a memory and reaching for a phone in a way that shifts attention toward likes,…
A candid account of how the hope of motherhood can reshape time, attention, identity, and faith.
Sarah Dykema's journey toward motherhood gives this risk-themed conversation its emotional center. She speaks plainly about the monthly rhythm of hope, tracking, scheduling, temperature checks, disappointment, and the fear that motherhood might never happen.
A practical look at using core values to spot unease before a leadership decision.
Shaylee Trentum turns core values into a practical pause button for moments when a choice or situation feels uneasy. Her HALT framework brings her back to honesty, authenticity, loyalty, and transparency, not as abstract ideals but as a way to notice what may be out of alignment…
Parenthood and bodies, told one honest story at a time.
Lisa Turkhurst says, "the decisions we make dictate the schedules we keep."
Sarah Dykema says her “recent conviction” is social media, and she connects it to Marco Polo, Instagram stories, and the loss of “intentional friendships.” Irma Blanco pushes the discussion toward likes, followers, and the psychology of getting “a little pat on the shoulder.” Sarah says she has taken social media off her phone and moved it to her laptop so she can “schedule my time with intention.” The episode keeps the focus on faith, boundaries, and practical changes for Christian women balancing business and family.
"Behold, I am doing a new thing" becomes Sarah Dykema's turning point in Isaiah 43:19.
Sarah Dykema and Shaylee Trentham use Purpose Life Podcast to revisit the core-values exercise from the prior week, with Sarah saying it changed how she handled "business and mommyhood and wifehood." Shaylee explains her own leadership framework, "HALT," and ties honesty, authenticity, loyalty, and transparency to decisions made with teams, clients, husband, and kids.
Purpose Life Podcast episode 044 uses Chaili Trentham's core-values worksheet to move from eight selected words to two guiding values.
Sarah Dykema and Irma Blanco return to Purpose Life Podcast after a break that included Irma’s husband’s stage four kidney cancer diagnosis and treatment at City of Hope.
Brittany McCarthy of But First Sleep tells hosts Irma Blanco and Sarah Dykoma that a 10-15 minute nursing session is not a full feeding for a newborn.
Angela Chee, a former anchor at KNBC, KCBS and Fox 6 San Diego, explains how she moved from TV news to coaching women through her "You Amplified" program.
Maricela Morales, who has the rare metabolic disorder LCHAD, spent 89 days at UCLA in 2016 with myocarditis and pericarditis, including a 35-minute cardiac arrest.
Lindsay Mann King tells Sarah Dykoma that her first six months as a mother were harder than expected, with the first two months the most difficult and symptoms easing once Ada turned six months.
Sarah Terwey describes how a Google search for "Africa kids horses" led her to Pfunanani Academy in South Africa, where she has served for almost twelve years.
Hosts Sarah and Irma interview Natalia Bergman from Boo Boo Busters about holiday home safety and childproofing tips.
The hosts introduce themselves and discuss story branding as a marketing strategy with guest Rob Wilson.
Hosts Sarah and Irma interview web design strategist Hunter Rohr about effective marketing and branding for new businesses.