1335 My Strength is My Story with Jane Jenkins Herlong, Rhinestones On My Flip-Flops

Are you ready to choose extravagant joy in the midst of everyday mess-ups? It's time for sweet tea wisdom and southern-fried humor with Jane Jenkins Herlong, Rhinestones on My Flip-flops.

Jane Jenkins Herlong: A wife of 38 years to Thomas, and mother to their 2 adult children.

With a sense of humor and hard work, Jane traveled from her family farm to the runway of the Miss America Pageant. She was crowned Miss South Carolina and has also performed at Radio City Music Hall.

Jane is a professional singer, a SiriusXM humorist, and a recent inductee into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame.

You'll find her criss-crossing the country combining humor, truth, and her beautiful voice teaching her audience how to work smart, laugh often, and live their dreams.

Jane is an award-winning author of four books: Bare Feet to High Heels, What Ta-Tas Teach Us, Bury Me with My Pearls, and her newest book, Rhinestones on My Flip-flops.

Enjoy the multitude of topics discussed including tomatoes, bitterness, dark pearls, Miss America, and refinement!

• Family
• The Invisible Crown
• Serenity Prayer
• Imagination
• F in Writing
• Rejection
• Bitter vs. Better
• Stress
• Wisdom
• Crabbing
• Fearless, Fabulous Esther
• Dysfunction
• Whiny Naomi
• Seed Pearls and Dark Pearls
• WOW!
• Wedding of my daughter
• Domestic, Diva Martha
• School Drop-off
• Deceived Eve
• "Salty" Mrs. Lot
• Miss America
• Gretchen Carlson
• #MeToo
• Courage
• Joyce Meyer
• Infertility
• Timing
• Distraction & Deception
• Andy Stanley
• Armor of God
• Humor
• Raising Children
• Refinement
• Sister's death
• Deadly Emotions
• The broken mirror
• Angry heart vs. Sick heart
• The Triple Flip-Flop (MED)

Quotes and statements within the interview:

"I remember being hit with an immature tomato from an immature friend."

"What is it that helps you bounce up in the mornings, and go 'WOW! I can't wait to do this.'"

"I had to plow through that grief."

"You don't let people define you."

"Your rearview mirror is small for a reason."

"Sometimes God allows you to go through things; it's a pruning process."

"God did us a favor. He showed us people's hearts." ~ Thomas (Jane's husband)

"I will be better, not bitter."

"Stress is a killer."

"Don't stay down in that pit. You gotta get out of that pit."

"I'm just looking for the next challenge."

"So symbolically, you're stringing a strand and you get to unhook it and pass it on."

"What is wrong with me. This is what it's all about."

"Because I get so caught up in the details that I was missing the main thing."

"RUN!!!"

"The started chasing something they already had."

"Miss America was everything I could become, but was not."

"I know how to walk a stage. I know how to work a stage."

"I hope I don't hurt her."

"What you don't see is much more powerful than a crown on your head or medal around your neck."

"Do it afraid." ~ Joyce Meyer

"I was pregnant right then."

"Let God come through when you breakthrough so He can help you become a better version of you to handle the stress."

"You find a way to make those issues sparkle and shine, and many women thinks the sparkle and shine comes from helping other people."

"But we've got to craft the next generation. And we can only love them when we love us. And we can only love us when we see that pure love (agape) love of Christ coming through us."

"So I was very passionate about that and still am to this day is how we have to do the right thing regardless how we feel."

Don't Throw Tomatoes at my Field of Dreams

1. People are going to throw tomatoes at your field of dreams regardless of age.
2. The SHINE Principle (Version of my best self)
3. What to get rid of --- the stuff to let go.
4. When to plow up or plow through.

Own Your Runway - Business Secrets from a Recovering Beauty Queen

1. Communication skills
2. Lifestyle & Fitness
3. Talent
4. Branding/Style

What has your story gifted you?

• Have Hokey Pokey moments

"What happens in life, you kind of have to do the Hokey Pokey."

"Put your right foot in (That means you do the right thing.) And then you shake it off. (You have to learn and women have a hard time with this. We like to re-live it on the Wheel of mis-Fortune.) Shake it off. Turn it around. (Look at it from a different perspective.) Learn from it, and move ahead in what you've done --- is you have created another step-up for yourself."

Resources mentioned in the episode:

• BOOK: Rhinestones on My Flip-flops
• Connect with Jane Jenkins Herlong
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Janeherlong
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PearlsofLaughter/

"One step at a time leads to miles of greatness!"

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