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Rebekah Charleston
Rebekah Charleston is passionate about the crime of human trafficking. She is the Executive Director of Valiant Hearts, a ministry dedicated to eradicating sexual exploitation. At the age of 17 Rebekah became a victim of sex trafficking when she ran away from home. She remained a victim for more than 10 years with multiple traffickers. She was able to escape when the federal authorities finally became involved. As a survivor, Rebekah has wisdom to impart and a story that will help give understanding to the crime of human trafficking as well as shed light on what happens here in America. She is an advocate for victims of human trafficking, a consultant with the National…
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Julia Sadler
Julia Sadler, LPC, is the author of Pray Big Things: The Surprisingly Life God Has For You When You’re Bold Enough to Ask! She reality star from TLC's Rattled who has seen God do immeasurably more than anything she could hope or imagine with experiencing three miscarriages in a year and then delivering miracle triplets!
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Sarah Quezada
Sarah Quezada is an author, advocate, and business owner. She has a master's in sociology and nearly two decades of experience working across cultures and leading conversations about justice and faith. Her first book, Love Undocumented: Risking Trust in a Fearful World, chronicled her journey through the immigration system with her husband, Billy, who emigrated from Guatemala City.
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Rebekah Lyons
Rebekah Lyons is a national speaker and bestselling author. An old soul with a contemporary, honest voice, Rebekah reveals her own battles to overcome anxiety and depression—and invites others to discover and boldly pursue their God-given purpose from a place of freedom
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Emmy Kegler Q&A
Pastor Emmy Kegler joins host, Andrea Miller, for this bonus episode. Emmy was a guest on episode 44 of the Her Story Speaks Podcast where she shared her story growing up as a Queer Christian called to ordained ministry. In this episode we dive into the clobber verses and talk about the Christian response to the LGBTQ community. Emmy answers questions and also shares resources and knowledge to help educate those wrestling with this topic.
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Marcie Walker
Marcie Walker is a Christian, African-American blogger. She is the creator of the blog and Instagram feed, Black Coffee with White Friends, a blog that chronicles her experiences as a black woman navigating white-dominant spaces.
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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
Natasha Sistrunk Robinson is an international speaker, leadership consultant, author diversity and mentoring coach with nearly 20 years of leadership experience in the military, federal government, church, seminary, and nonprofit sectors.
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Carolyn Custis James
Carolyn Custis James is an award winning author who thinks deeply about what it means to be a female follower of Jesus in a postmodern world. As a cancer survivor, she is grateful to be alive and determined to address the issues that matter most.
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Emmy Kegler
Emmy Kegler is the pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, a small servant-hearted neighborhood congregation in Northeast Minneapolis focused on feeding the hungry and community outreach. Emmy has a Master’s in Divinity from Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minn., and is an ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. She was raised in the Episcopal Church and spent some time in evangelical and non-denominational traditions before finding her home in the ELCA. Her first book, One Coin Found: How God’s Love Stretches to the Margins, tells her story as a queer Christian called to ordained ministry and how it formed her relationship with Scripture.
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Sarah Bessey
Sarah Bessey is the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed books “Jesus Feminist” and “Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith.” Her latest book “Miracles and Other Reasonable Things” was just released Oct. 2019. Sarah is a sought-after speaker at churches, conferences, and universities around the world. She is the co-curator and co-host of the annul Evolving Faith Conference and she also serves as chair of the board for Heartline Ministries in Haiti. In this episode, Sarah and I talk about evolving faith, leaving the church, finding Jesus, women’s role in ministry/the church and why it matters, and making more room at the table for those on the margins.
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Nichole Nordeman
A self-described "wrestling poet," singer/songwriter Nichole Nordeman doesn't shy away from life’s messier realities when performing and creating her music. Unflinchingly honest, her songs are too numerous to list but include "Slow Down,"Holy," “Legacy” and "What If." During the formation of each song, and played out within the lyrics, Nichole explores the nuances of life, faith and theology.
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Nicole Johnson
As a bestselling author, performer, and motivational speaker, Nicole Johnson is one of the most sought-after creative communicators in America today. Her unique ability to blend humor with compassion as she captures the inner-most feelings of women facing life’s daily struggles, has enabled her to create a unique sense of community for women of all ages. Over three million women across America have seen Nicole’s live portrayals of the challenges facing today’s mega-multi-tasking woman. Her “Fresh Brewed Life” message gives women “Hope for the Daily Grind”.
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Kasey Van Norman
A difficult childhood, public infidelity, and a fight with cancer - Kasey Van Norman has walked a rocky road of regret and loss. Thru sharing the the brokenness in her own life, Kasey reminds us that a holy, sovereign God lovingly works, not in spite of our past, but through it.
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Jada Edwards
Jada Edwards is an experienced speaker, Bible teacher and mentor. She has committed her life to equipping women of all ages, regardless of marital status, with practical, biblical truth to help them live authentic and transparent lives. Jada currently serves as the Creative Services Director and the Women’s Director for One Community Church, in Plano, TX, where her husband Conway serves as the Lead Pastor
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Kat Armstrong
Kat Armstrong is a powerful voice in our generation as an innovative ministry leader and sought-after communicator. She has a passion for emboldening women to be all in for Jesus. She is the co-founder and executive director of Polished Ministries (polishedonline.org), an organization that gathers young professional women to navigate career and explore faith together.
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Lora Jones
In November 2004, Lora Jones was a happy wife and proud mother of two beautiful children. That all changed when Lora and her family left for a family vacation and the sounds of music and laughter in their van were shattered by a head-on collision. Lora watched helplessly as, one-by-one, her beloved family slipped into eternity. Awake in a nightmare, all traces of laughter were replaced by the mournful cries of a wounded heart. How in the world could Lora go on alone? With nothing left of her former life, Lora began the long journey toward finding hope. In her book, Song of a Wounded Heart, Lora tells the true story of her journey from…
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Gena Thomas
Gena Thomas is a writer, a faith wrestler, a wife, and a mom. She has written for several Christian publications, and published her first book, A Smoldering Wick: Igniting Missions Work with Sustainable Practices in 2016. Her second book, Separated by the Border: A birth mother, a foster mother, and a migrant child’s 3,000-mile journey unpacks the story of Gena reuniting her Honduran foster daughter with her family after separation at the US border.
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Karen González
Karen González is seeking to see and love her neighbors as God does. She is a speaker, writer, and immigrant advocate, who herself immigrated from Guatemala as a child.
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COMING SOON: Season Two
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Kate Merrick
In 2013 Kate Merrick said goodbye to her 8 year-old daughter Daisy Love when she left for heaven after suffering through cancer treatments for 3 1/2 years. After Daisy's passing, Kate was silent for three years in grief and contemplation. She now blogs at KMerrick.com with fresh perspective and newfound freedom to be sentimental or silly or anywhere in between.Kate is making her way back toward laughter and finding life to be filled with good things.
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Amy Mutispaugh
When a drowning claimed the life of her four year old son Evan, Amy Mutispaugh turned to God for her own survival. Through prayer, scripture meditation, and a strong pursuit of the will of God, she has found beauty for ashes.
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Mo Isom
Mo Isom is the New York Times Bestselling author of Wreck My Life: Journeying from Broken to Bold and the author of Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot. Having faced great personal tragedy—including battling an eating disorder, overcoming the suicide of her father, and surviving a horrific car accident—Mo is passionate about speaking on a wide variety of topics and is able to connect with men and women of all ages and demographics.
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Katherine McGibbon
Katherine McGibbon is a mother, advocate, author and playwright who is passionate about helping others. She was raised in Canada by her mother, who instilled solid family values and taught Katherine and her siblings the importance of standing up for what is right and speaking out about what is not. Katherine was raised in church and to be strong and independent. And yet, when she was 21 years old, Katherine became a victim of sex trafficking. After nearly a year of being trapped, Katherine successfully escaped and returned to life in Houston, never looking back to a life of hell and trauma. After many years of living in silence, Katherine decided to journal what happened to her as a way…
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Lisa Kratz Thomas
Lisa Kratz Thomas’ life is nothing short of a miracle. She literally went from the crack house to the State House, serving on a Senate Sub-committee that studied prisoner reentry in Virginia.
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Katie Davis Majors
Katie Davis Majors moved to Uganda over a decade ago when she was just 18 yrs old-with no idea that this would be the place that God chose to build her home and her family. Today, she is a wife to Benji and mom to 13 adopted daughters and 2 sons. Katie and her family invest their lives in empowering the people of Uganda with education, medical care, and spiritual discipleship.
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Nicole Bromley
Nicole Braddock Bromley is the founder of OneVOICE (www.iamonevoice.org), a sexual abuse survivor and an international activist on child sexual abuse, sexual assault and sexual exploitation. For 16 years, Nicole has traveled extensively as a voice of awareness, prevention, hope and healing to some of the most at-risk populations around the world as well as to some of the most prestigious colleges and universities.
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Mary DeMuth
Mary DeMuth is an international speaker and podcaster, novelist and nonfiction author. As the survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Mary has done the long, unselfish work of healing wounds. She now loves to help other people re-story their lives and find freedom in Christ
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Amy Ford
Going through an unplanned pregnancy in her teens was one of the hardest times in Amy Ford's life. Looking back on those nine months of brokenness, fueled the passion and desire to change things for young women with unplanned pregnancies.
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Shadia Hrichi
Shadia Hrichi is a passionate Bible teacher who has a heart for seeing lives transformed by the power of God’s Word. In this episode of Her Story Speaks, Shadia shares her amazing true story of her miraculous encounter with the child she lost to abortion that serves as the inspiration behind her Bible study, Worthy of Love.
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Ashley Abercrombie
shley Abercrombie fought to overcome addiction, rape, abortion, perfectionism and dysfunctional relationships to become an honest, whole and free woman (most days). She wore a mask more than half her life, and considers herself too old, and too annoyed to ever put that thing on again. She has been in urban, multicultural, racially diverse ministry for more than 15 years, leading people and teaching and preaching at Bible studies, classes, schools, small groups, and Sunday services.
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Melissa Ohden
Melissa Ohden is the survivor of a failed saline infusion abortion in 1977. Despite the initial concerns regarding Melissa’s future after surviving the attempt to end her life at approximately seven months gestation, she has not only survived but thrived.
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Alex Seeley
Alex Seeley is a passionate communicator and teacher of the Word. Possessing a unique ability to reveal how the Word of God is applicable to our everyday lives, Alex shares openly about how the power of God has proven real in her own life. Known for her boldness and tenacity, you’ll love the way Jesus shines through her.
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Shannan Martin
Shannan Martin, author of The Ministry of Ordinary Places: Waking Up to God’s Goodness Around You and Falling Free: Rescued from the Life I Always Wanted, is a speaker and writer who found her voice in the country and her story in the city. Shannan, her jail-chaplain husband, Cory, and their kids, live as grateful neighbors in Goshen, Indiana.
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LaShell Davis
My name is LaShell Davis. I am 19 years old and I am a Sophomore at Oklahoma Christian University. I grew up battling feelings of inadequacy and shame throughout my many years in the foster care and guardianship placements. I have learned how to be healed and allow myself to be loved unconditionally by the one true king. I'm telling my story to encourage hurting and broken people recognize the healing power that comes through a relationship with Christ.
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Melinda Tabb
In today’s episode Melinda shares her story about her lifelong struggle with depression and how she battles it as a woman of faith. She also opens up about her difficult childhood growing up as a pastors daughter where things were not what they seemed.
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Jon & Andrea Miller
Jon and Andrea Miller are approaching their 20th wedding anniversary and want to share their story, believing their struggles are not unique and perhaps some couples can find hope in this testimony to what God can do in a marriage to help them make it through their own marital journey.
