Amy J. Bennett

In this episode, I interview Jen Bricker.

Jen Bricker is an author, aerialist, and motivational speaker. Her new book, Everything is Possible, released nationwide September 6. A state champion in power tumbling, she has traveled internationally with Britney Spears’s Circus Tour and appeared as a headliner at the prestigious Palazzo Hotel in Las Vegas, New York’s Lincoln Center, the Shangri-La Hotel in Dubai, and the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. She has been featured on numerous news shows, including HBO’s Real Sports, ABC’s 20/20, Good Morning America, and ESPN’s Versus. She is currently living in Los Angeles and has added a successful international speaking career to her list of accomplishments, including a TEDx talk and speeches in Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and elsewhere.

 

Jen shares her story that begins with her adoption at birth and reunion with her birth family. She shares her can-do outlook on life and encourages listeners to go for the things that scare them, knowing that everything is possible for those who believe.

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• Everything is Possible
• Dominique Moceanu

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In this episode, I interview Vanessa Clark.

Vanessa Clark is the wife of a busy entrepreneur and the mother of five. Vanessa shares her message of Hope with as many people as she can through her book, Now I See, speaking and her website which is now using a new webhosting, NowISeeHope.com and getting help from a professional website development company. Vanessa wants you to know that the same God who helped her is there for you as well.

 

Vanessa shares the story of finding out her new baby boy is blind and how God moved her to pray and eventually healed him of his blindness, bringing is father to faith overnight.

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• Now I See by Vanessa Clark

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In this episode, I interview Tahni Cullen.

Tahni Cullen is the co-author with Cheryl Ricker of the new book, Josiah’s Fire: Autism Stole His Words, God Gave Him a Voice. Tahni is a people-lover, blogger, and conference speaker who brings a powerful message of hope and restoration. She worked thirteen years at a multi-campus church in the Twin Cities of Minnesota where she served in communication arts and as a ministry director. Tahni and her producer husband, Joe, created an award-winning documentary called Surprised By Autism. They live with their 10 year old son, Josiah, in St, Paul, where they enjoy exploring Minnesota’s museums and destinations.

 

When Tahni Cullen’s two-year old son, Josiah, is diagnosed with severe autism, she feels like they have been handed a prison sentence. How could a good God have allowed this to happen, and how can Tahni find hope for their future?

Five years later, Josiah, who is non-verbal and has not been formally taught to read or write, suddenly types on his iPad profound sentences about the Trinity, heaven, and strangers whose lives he understood. Josiah’s ongoing encounters launch his parents and the rest of us into a whole new world.

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• A Mother’s Courage
• Rapid Prompting Method
• Josiah’s Fire book
• Josiah’s Fire Facebook page

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In this episode, I interview Susie Larson.

Susie Larson is a radio host, author and national speaker. She hosts her own daily live talk show, Live the Promise with Susie Larson, which airs across the Upper Midwest and in several other locations around the country. Active in local ministry, she is the author of Your Beautiful Purpose, Blessings for the Morning, and eight other books. Susie and her husband, Kevin, have three adult sons and live near Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Susie shares from her latest book Your Powerful Prayers.

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• Your Powerful Prayers by Susie Larson
• Susie’s radio show Live the Promise
• Susie’s Facebook where she posts blessings
• Moving Mountains by John Eldredge
• Blessings for Morning by Susie Larson
• Blessings for Evening by Susie Larson

Quotes

Prayer starts and ends with our status as heirs.

When you remember who are, remember whose you are, to me it changes everything.

One of the things he’s given us is secure identity. Another thing he’s given us is access to his presence. He’s also given us the faithfulness of his promises. He’s put a call on our lives. He’s put his spirit in us.

Everywhere we put our feet, God’s kingdom comes to earth.

I can’t be at the mercy of other people’s opinions because it will compel me to misuse the opportunities and the gifts that God has given me.

There will be a day of reckoning and there will be a day of reward on that judgement day when we each face God and give an account for our lives and what moves him his faith, hope, and love. That’s what matters.

Satan is a legalist and he’ll take any ground you give him. Sometimes we get out of rank and we wonder why we feel out of joint. When we’re out of alignment, we can’t carry the call of God that we normally could. We have to recapture the fear of the Lord and say I need to get back in rank.

To the extent that you honor him rightly will be the extent you’ll have power in your prayers.

You can’t sustain a fellowship with God without time and presence.

The difference was I decided to trust God’s promises were true even though they didn’t feel true.

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In this episode, I interview Becky McCoy.

Becky McCoy is a writer and podcaster. She writes at BeckyLMcCoy.com and hosts Stories of Unfolding Grace. Becky and her two children live in Connecticut

Becky McCoy share the story of experiencing deep grief in her life, including the death of her husband when she was 8 months pregnant with their second child.

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Links from the Episode

• Heart Made Whole by Christa Black Gifford
• StrengthsFinder

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In this episode, I interview Anne Marie Emswiler.

Anne Marie shares the story of how she began loving on small Bibles and sharing them with the homeless in Pittsburgh and how it has begun a movement called The Loved Bible Project.

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• The Loved Bible Project Facebook
• The Loved Bible Project
• Intentional Living by John Maxwell

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In this episode, I share all the fun and lovely from the Looking for Lovely Weekend, hosted by author and speaker Annie F. Downs. Annie was on the podcast in April sharing about her book Looking for Lovely. She hosted a weekend in Nashville to share all the lovely things she wrote about and to celebrate all God has done. It was a blast and I share all the lovely things we got to experience and all it taught me.

 

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• Annie’s Feathers episode
• Looking for Lovely Weekend

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In this episode, I interview Kelly McCorkle Parkison.

Kelly McCorkle Parkison is a native of South Carolina and currently resides in Tennessee.  A Mass Communications cum laude graduate from North Greenville University, she held the title of Miss South Carolina 2002, earned Top 15 at Miss America, and placed third on the CBS Reality Show, Amazing Race Season 7.  She is now a pastor’s wife and mom to five kids as well as the founder of the LOFT 218 Organization, a ministry to orphans, widows, and sex trafficking victims in India.

Kelly story begins at her visit to India during the Amazing Race and her declaratio to never return. A year later , she visits for a missions trip. She eventually adopts and then starts a foundation to orphans, widows, and sex trafficking victims in India.

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• Kelly Parkison
• LOFT 218

Scripture

In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps. Proverbs 16:9

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. James 1:22

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ Matthew 25:40

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