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07/25/2026

Faith-based Coaching on Relationships

Story By Lisa Lakey (Can a Calendar Cause Divorce? Asking for a Friend.)

Can a calendar cause divorce? Asking for a friend.

Or not.

Recently, I purchased a chalkboard calendar. It was love at first-organizing sight. The moment I got home, I quickly chalk-penciled in all the important dates from the planner I keep in my purse. (Are you noticing a trend?)

Baseball games, parent-teacher conferences, church functions … all there in black and white for the entire family to see—and appreciate.

But one person in particular did not embrace the awesomeness of my new purchase: the husband.

He said nothing as he looked at everything coming up. His eyes widened as he slowly took it in. And then he looked at me like I was crazy.

This wasn’t the first time my husband’s and my personalities clashed. We are night and day. I thrive on structure and organization. I like to know what’s coming.

My husband, not so much. He finds too much structure constricting. He’s the Oscar to my Felix. We’re an odd couple, indeed, but we work.

Until one of us forces our personality on the other.

Then? Unintended stress, sharp words, and feelings of being misunderstood.

I know how that feels. When he changes all of my plans at the last minute, I have a near-panic attack. It’s not pretty.

I want to embrace my husband’s unique self. First Corinthians 12:18 is a good reminder to me when I try to conform him to my own image: “God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.”

God knew what He was doing when He created my husband’s come-what-may preferences (although he’s not irresponsible—that would be different).

Besides, we don’t need another calendar-crazed person in our home. His spontaneity is one of the things I love about him. It balances our family. It balances me.

ACTION POINTS: What was the last (minor) argument you and your spouse had? Is there a possibility that it was less about the issue and more about personal preference? Consider how you can look at the issue from your spouse’s point of view. See anything different?

Sometimes a "No," is really a "Yes" toward the right direction.
07/25/2026

Sometimes a "No," is really a "Yes" toward the right direction.

Alliance Seminars Coaching proudly facilitated an Airbus Employee Resource Group Leadership session which was also open ...
07/25/2026

Alliance Seminars Coaching proudly facilitated an Airbus Employee Resource Group Leadership session which was also open to employees. Participants discovered why certain conversations seem more difficult and gained a communication framework to confidently guide discussions with employees, managers, mentors, and clients toward the best possible outcomes.

These discussions may include performance challenges, career aspirations, coaching employees, or resolving workplace conflict. Managers left with a practical approach to frame conversations, encourage productive dialogue, build stronger relationships, inspire trust, improve collaboration through meaningful communication every day across teams together successfully moving forward consistently.

What is your go to strategy for difficult conversations?

07/12/2026

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07/11/2026

Faith-based Coaching on Relationships

Story By Ed Uszynski (Last Meeting of the Day...But It's Mandatory)

I most need Jesus when I’m standing on the porch at the end of the day.

Walking up the driveway, climbing the steps, about to enter the house.

After a day of giving in various ways, I’m ready to be served. Check out from my life for a while. Have people care about me. Unwind on my terms.

Be old-school, college-dorm-room, living-by-myself selfish for a few hours.

But different agendas reside inside the home attached to these steps.

A wife who’s been running all day herself, managing her own work and a houseful of kids.

Four people are inside who are all in need of more attention. Kids who think almost entirely about themselves, and a spouse who would like to—just like me.

One step in the door, and our lives will jumble together like kindling waiting for the first spark of self-centered, failed expectation to start the blaze.

Unless I make a pre-emptive, supernatural choice for one more meeting.

Unless I stop on the porch and remember Jesus saying that in order to find life I’ve got to lose it. (Luke 9:24).

Or Paul telling me not to merely look out for my own interests, but also the concerns of others (Philippians 2:4)—to be a living sacrifice (Romans 12:1-2).

Peter exhorting me to use my gifts to serve others (I Peter 4:10).

The Holy Spirit waiting to help me live these living words if I’ll let Him.

Maybe you’re a wife standing on the porch with a husband inside or you meet on the porch after a childcare pickup. Different circumstances, same need.

If I’ll take 30 seconds to meet with Jesus before walking inside, and if my wife has recently done the same, beautiful things happen.

But if not? Well, you know what that looks like.

So, I’d better make time for one more meeting on the porch...

ACTION POINTS: What does your default mode look like at the end of the day? What do you usually crave or wish for? Whether you have a porch or even cross a threshold at the end of the day, set a reminder on your phone for this last meeting of the day, and make it mandatory.

Everything you're striving for is on the other side of uncertainty.
07/11/2026

Everything you're striving for is on the other side of uncertainty.

Veronica's book has made its way to Sims Vision Consulting. Sims Vision Consulting exists to help workplace and facilit...
07/11/2026

Veronica's book has made its way to Sims Vision Consulting. Sims Vision Consulting exists to help workplace and facilities professionals grow beyond task management and step into strategic, sustainable, people-centered leadership that supports both organizational performance and employee wellbeing.

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In Unless My Sister is Whole: Lessons from Life’s Lemons, Veronica Williams shares how life’s most difficult seasons can become the very ingredients for healing and transformation. Drawing from her upbringing in Compton, California, and her journey through brokenness to wholeness, she invites women to see their “lemons” not as setbacks, but as preparation for purpose.

This book challenges readers to choose healing, embrace community, and recognize that when one woman becomes whole, she helps create space for others to do the same.

07/04/2026

Faith-based Coaching on Relationships

Story by Bruce Goff (An Elevator Is Not a Car, and Other Life Lessons)

I was tired. The elevator was in front of us. The car keys were in my hand.

And then I did it.

"Did you just try to open the elevator with the car remote?" my confused wife asked.

The doors stayed shut. Because it's a car remote—not a magical elevator opener. Clearly I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing.

But not paying attention in marriage isn't always funny.

The natural trajectory when coasting isn't toward marital bliss, it’s toward subtle destruction. Messing things up comes so naturally to me, I can do it with my eyes closed.

With the wave of a snarky comment about that still full laundry basket, I can make my wife’s happiness vanish and our oneness with it.

You'd think I was some kind of magician.

I’m not though. I'm like everyone else. I've got sin at my core and it brings death to my marriage. That is, if my sin goes unchecked.

It's like what John Owen wrote, "Be killing sin or it will be killing you."

But I’m a fool if I think I can kill it on my own. That's like bringing a car remote to a gun fight … in an elevator.

My only hope is God killing my sin for me. And since my sin is at my core, I need what the Apostle Paul talks about in Galatians 2:20:

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
If God let me coast, I’d coast straight into hell. But the cross is miraculous, and it opened the door to new life.

The last thing my marriage or I need is to only point my own efforts (or a car remote) toward my sin. By God’s grace, I need to point my sin to the cross.

ACTION POINTS: Ask your spouse about any sin of yours that might have missed your attention. Point your sin to the cross, i.e., daily confess it and ask God to help you repent and trust Him. Memorize Romans 6:10-11.

You have the ability to change the scenario and choose independence.
07/04/2026

You have the ability to change the scenario and choose independence.

I am humbled to be a Stayer University Hall of Fame Inductee. As a military veteran, this type of honor is special beca...
07/04/2026

I am humbled to be a Stayer University Hall of Fame Inductee. As a military veteran, this type of honor is special because it revolves around Servant Leadership and Service before Self.

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