Feb. 11, 2025
Chasing Dreams at Any Age: Bambi's Inspiring Journey from Author to Coach
At the heart of this episode, we highlight the incredible journey of Bambi, an inspiring author who proves that it's never too late to chase your dreams. With a family legacy of six children and 13 grandchildren, Bambi broke new ground by becoming a published author at 52. Her story is a candid reflection on the transformative years in her 40s and 50s, navigating pivotal life choices such as her potential move to Alaska and embracing a new path in public speaking and coaching. Bambi’s experiences offer a poignant reminder of the importance of following one's passion, even amidst the whirlwind of family commitments and personal growth.
As we explore Bambi's transition from books to workshops, we unpack the nuances of today’s literary landscape. Bambi shares the unexpected challenges she faced in expanding her creative offerings beyond traditional publishing, underscoring the need for authors to diversify. From the art of creating downloadable content to tapping into the ever-growing world of audiobooks, we discuss how to stay adaptable in the evolving market. This episode is packed with insights that promise to enlighten aspiring authors and anyone undergoing a life transition, offering practical advice to keep you inspired and motivated.
Brice Harney
Life On Record
Miles of Smiles Entertainment
Richmond Punch
TK Hair Salon
Ogden Ventures LLC
CEO of Ogden Ventures LLC
SnappBandZ
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.
Love & Light - Keep Hope Alive
Chapters
00:03 - Navigating Life Transitions and Career Challenges
07:07 - Book Publishing and Audio Marketing
Transcript
WEBVTT
00:00:03.166 --> 00:00:06.033
Hello and welcome to Keep Hope Alive podcast.
00:00:06.033 --> 00:00:12.964
Today we have another amazing guest with us, miss Bambi I love your name, by the way.
00:00:12.964 --> 00:00:14.108
That is so wonderful.
00:00:14.108 --> 00:00:19.669
I haven't met too many Bambis out there, so I think there was only one other.
00:00:19.669 --> 00:00:21.728
Now you're my second Bambi.
00:00:23.484 --> 00:00:25.050
It is a really cool name.
00:00:25.050 --> 00:00:38.289
There's definitely a story behind it, and I actually joined a Facebook page that said, yes, my real name is Bambi, and there's actually 101 of us that are on that page that they were really named Bambi.
00:00:38.289 --> 00:00:39.091
Isn't that cool?
00:00:39.091 --> 00:00:40.753
That's really cool.
00:00:41.582 --> 00:00:49.409
That is super cool and I've got a couple I've only Charlie Brown is another one.
00:00:49.409 --> 00:01:02.978
I know a travel agent named Charlie Brown and I know who else Charlie Brown and a little kid named Charlie Brown, so that should be another Facebook page and everything Exactly.
00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:04.766
Like, who are the Charlie Browns?
00:01:04.766 --> 00:01:07.045
Wow, that should definitely be one.
00:01:07.045 --> 00:01:09.171
So I'm excited to be on your show today.
00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:13.326
Well, thank you, and I'm so excited to have you.
00:01:13.326 --> 00:01:20.466
So I you're an author, you're a mom and you're a Nona.
00:01:20.466 --> 00:01:21.489
Did I say it right?
00:01:21.771 --> 00:01:22.774
I'm a Nana.
00:01:22.873 --> 00:01:25.707
Yes, I am I said it wrong, but you know what.
00:01:25.707 --> 00:01:27.302
That's what the bloopers are for here.
00:01:28.224 --> 00:01:38.328
Exactly, yes, I'm a mother of six adult children, all married and living their lives, and I have 13 grandchildren and, yes, 13,.
00:01:38.328 --> 00:01:40.993
There's 10 boys and three girls.
00:01:40.993 --> 00:01:49.724
My one of them, um is, did pass away hours after he was born, so his name is Isaac, and so he doesn't.
00:01:49.724 --> 00:01:58.909
He's doesn't live on this earth with us, but he is always checking up on us in heaven, so and then, you're right, I am a two time published author.
00:01:58.968 --> 00:02:03.183
My third book comes out in June, so I will have three.
00:02:03.183 --> 00:02:04.828
So yes, it's kind of exciting.
00:02:04.828 --> 00:02:13.070
My first book will be two years old on June 9th and my second book will be a year old on March 17th.
00:02:13.070 --> 00:02:14.913
So it's kind of cool.
00:02:15.881 --> 00:02:17.144
I think I'm at the point.
00:02:17.144 --> 00:02:22.225
2025 came through and I've always wanted to write a book, but I haven't started.
00:02:22.225 --> 00:02:33.705
And the more times I talk to authors here, you guys all encourage me and I'm like I just needed to get done and then I'll be with my friend, but you're helping the world through your podcast.
00:02:33.705 --> 00:02:35.087
When are you going to have time?
00:02:35.087 --> 00:02:36.953
And I'm like I don't know.
00:02:37.939 --> 00:02:41.806
You know you have to do, you know we can't do everything, and you just do it in order.
00:02:41.806 --> 00:02:43.269
You know I just chose.
00:02:43.269 --> 00:02:45.431
I became an author at 52.
00:02:45.431 --> 00:02:53.752
And you know, so I was lived my life lived being a parent and empty nester and things like that.
00:02:53.752 --> 00:02:58.741
And you know it's something that happens when you become, you know, a woman in your 40s and your 50s.
00:02:58.741 --> 00:03:00.871
You start becoming who you are meant to be.
00:03:00.871 --> 00:03:04.288
Because now you have time for yourself, you have time to to discover who you are.
00:03:04.288 --> 00:03:08.145
For yourself, you have time to discover who you are, and so it was time to write my book.
00:03:08.145 --> 00:03:09.747
So I'm really excited.
00:03:09.747 --> 00:03:14.825
I do a blog too, so every week I got to come up with, you know, something to write.
00:03:14.947 --> 00:03:17.572
So I love that.
00:03:17.572 --> 00:03:19.576
Yeah, the blogs.
00:03:19.576 --> 00:03:22.484
I love doing blogs.
00:03:22.484 --> 00:03:33.052
Well, I have to admit, ai is helping me right there because everything is getting people scheduled in and being a mom and just running around making sure everything is correct.
00:03:33.052 --> 00:03:35.170
But you know, you mentioned something.
00:03:35.170 --> 00:03:36.860
You know I just turned 47.
00:03:36.860 --> 00:03:42.552
But when I hit 40s I was like, man, time goes really fast.
00:03:42.552 --> 00:03:48.741
Time goes really fast.
00:03:48.741 --> 00:03:53.733
And then I went out a couple of weeks ago to more country wise and I was like it felt like it was stopped in the moment because I was enjoying nature.
00:03:53.733 --> 00:03:57.731
So it got me thinking like where do I really want to live?
00:03:57.731 --> 00:03:58.294
Like?
00:03:58.294 --> 00:04:10.048
Do I like the fast paced city where I live and everything's flying by, or do I just want a fresh breath air and be able to look at the sunset, sunrise and beautiful woods?
00:04:10.048 --> 00:04:12.272
So I'm trying to figure that out.
00:04:12.760 --> 00:04:13.122
It's funny.
00:04:13.122 --> 00:04:23.749
I transplanted from Buffalo, new York, to Brunswick, georgia, the golden aisles of Georgia, and they have beautiful water, beautiful driftwood beaches and things like that.
00:04:23.749 --> 00:04:35.541
But now my oldest daughter, that's 37, her and her husband and my two grandchildren are now being shipped, because they're in the military, to Alaska.
00:04:35.541 --> 00:04:45.634
So do I want to go to Alaska to stay with them for the three years that they're there or do I want to stay in Georgia by myself?
00:04:45.634 --> 00:05:14.105
And I decided this year that I took this year, I took some of my 401k this year and decided that I was building a platform, I was building an opportunity for me to be able to speak, you know, at people's summits and retreats and things like that, and to build a one-on-one coaching plan so I could go, you know, I just have to, like, make sure that I can make some money, you know, to be able to stay there and to live there.
00:05:14.105 --> 00:05:14.908
So we'll see.
00:05:14.908 --> 00:05:16.461
We'll see what happens, you know.
00:05:17.283 --> 00:05:23.884
You see and that's the world that we live in right now, because, you know, even with podcasts, it's like how do you make the money?
00:05:23.884 --> 00:05:39.994
There are so many different ways to do that and then it's just you build it, it comes, and you know, people told me to be more of a guest speaker this year alone and then also get gigs to go out and speak at.
00:05:42.223 --> 00:05:47.913
So I wish it was as easy as they say it's going to be, and it's not.
00:05:47.913 --> 00:05:51.165
I never expected this to.
00:05:51.165 --> 00:05:57.886
I just never expected what you're expecting and to be able to public speak and to be on platforms.
00:05:57.886 --> 00:05:58.809
I didn't know.
00:05:58.809 --> 00:06:01.562
Everything is a cost, you know?
00:06:01.562 --> 00:06:02.572
Oh, we're going to coach you.
00:06:02.572 --> 00:06:03.886
Oh, we're going to give you this.
00:06:03.886 --> 00:06:09.223
And you're like, okay, I didn't know, coach you, oh, we're going to give you this, and you're like, okay.
00:06:09.384 --> 00:06:12.798
I didn't know why can't you just invite me to your stage?
00:06:12.798 --> 00:06:18.002
I have to laugh at that.
00:06:18.002 --> 00:06:18.642
That does sound right.
00:06:18.642 --> 00:06:19.024
It really does.
00:06:19.024 --> 00:06:19.745
I can't believe that.
00:06:19.745 --> 00:06:23.189
That puts my head at like okay, what can I do?
00:06:23.189 --> 00:06:27.435
Maybe there's different meetings that you can get into.
00:06:27.435 --> 00:06:38.807
I don't know.
00:06:38.807 --> 00:06:44.497
I'm going to look into all that because you know when you have a big event and you need guest speakers.
00:06:44.517 --> 00:06:44.978
You need guest speakers.
00:06:44.978 --> 00:06:47.439
Why are they charging us speakers?
00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:48.163
Why are they charging us Exactly?
00:06:48.163 --> 00:06:48.624
They're charging you.
00:06:48.624 --> 00:06:51.211
Or you have to go through an organization that they're charging you, you know.
00:06:51.211 --> 00:06:55.605
So you have to go if they say oh, you want to public speak, you want to be on a speaking.
00:06:55.605 --> 00:07:01.423
Well, here, I can give you this, this and this and this, and we'll cost you three grand, but I'll give you a speaking gig.
00:07:01.423 --> 00:07:05.107
Or you have to pay to play, you know.
00:07:05.107 --> 00:07:07.629
So you're like, all of this is so.
00:07:07.790 --> 00:07:09.130
It's just not what I expected.
00:07:09.130 --> 00:07:15.956
And, trying to start everything from ground up, I thought I had, I thought that I had a product.
00:07:15.956 --> 00:07:22.204
I didn't know that books necessarily aren't a product.
00:07:22.204 --> 00:07:30.492
And I'm thinking, oh my goodness, I've spent money publishing them, I've spent money, you know, writing them and things like that, and they're saying that that's not the product.
00:07:30.492 --> 00:07:35.670
The product has to be a workshop, has to be a download, has to, you know, be something.
00:07:35.670 --> 00:07:38.083
You're like oh my goodness, I'm writing.
00:07:38.083 --> 00:07:40.766
Why can't my books be at a table?
00:07:40.766 --> 00:07:42.569
That kind of thing.
00:07:42.569 --> 00:07:45.394
It's not what I expected and it's a learning curve.
00:07:48.721 --> 00:07:50.904
Yeah, definitely, I hear you on that.
00:07:50.904 --> 00:07:56.134
So I know I always ask my authors that I interview.
00:07:56.134 --> 00:07:58.504
Did you put it like on Audible?
00:07:58.504 --> 00:08:22.141
Because I'm the one who is like I want to listen to this book and I put in my AirPods at night and I'm like wow, wow, and then it's like 20 minutes in but I feel like I'm still listening because the whole book and I was like I remember I was asleep at one book and I go yeah, I know that in my sleep, so that was different.
00:08:22.141 --> 00:08:33.985
Well, really quick, before we jump into much more, I need to announce a question to you and talk about one of my sponsors here.
00:08:33.985 --> 00:08:45.269
So let's say, me and you got invited to go to a wedding it was our friend's wedding and we're walking into the church and to the right there is something to sign.
00:08:45.269 --> 00:08:47.070
What is it that we're signing?
00:08:47.730 --> 00:08:49.250
That's called a guest book.
00:08:50.051 --> 00:08:53.251
Yes, correct, correct, correct, correct.
00:08:53.251 --> 00:09:07.537
So Life on Record is one of our sponsors here at Keep Hope Alive podcast, and what they do is they have a rotary vintage phone that they put out for the guests to pick up and leave a message.
00:09:07.537 --> 00:09:11.958
It could be for one minute, five minutes, 30 minutes, but if it's a wedding, don't do 30 minutes.
00:09:11.958 --> 00:09:21.393
They have a little sign right next to it and it's a QR code that you can scan if you didn't want to use the vintage phone.
00:09:21.393 --> 00:09:24.517
But you could do it before or after the event Now I say wedding, it could do it like before or after the event.
00:09:24.517 --> 00:09:30.850
Now I say wedding, it could be an anniversary, a high school reunion, just any kind of event.
00:09:30.850 --> 00:09:40.022
But what it does, it collects all those messages from your friends and family saying congratulations, we're so happy for you.
00:09:40.022 --> 00:09:41.865
And then what they do?
00:09:41.865 --> 00:09:43.008
You have a choice.
00:09:43.008 --> 00:09:49.528
They can burn it on a 12-inch vinyl record for you, and I think the outside kissing is so cute too.
00:09:49.528 --> 00:09:57.673
And then the other thing that they do is they have a boom box that they can put all the messages on.
00:09:57.673 --> 00:10:09.929
So if it was a wedding, just think you're sitting there, it's a year later and you go okay, we're going to get the cake, let's get some of our champagne, let's hit, play and listen to all these messages.
00:10:10.821 --> 00:10:14.613
So, with Life on Record, their plans start at $99.
00:10:14.613 --> 00:10:16.346
You get that phone number for the year.
00:10:16.346 --> 00:10:19.639
Yes, after the event you have to return the phone.
00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:27.681
So phone number for a year, phone number for a year.
00:10:27.681 --> 00:10:35.727
And then you know, even if it was a wedding, I always, I always say, before that one year anniversary, call that number back and leave another message Happy anniversary, so, but you know what?
00:10:35.727 --> 00:10:42.166
To find more information about Life on Record, visit them at wwwlifeonrecordcom.
00:10:42.166 --> 00:10:45.412
All right, so we kind of jumped into it.
00:10:45.412 --> 00:10:49.403
You know we talked about you and who you are.
00:10:49.403 --> 00:10:51.047
What are we missing?
00:10:51.047 --> 00:10:52.690
I mean Alaska.
00:10:52.690 --> 00:10:54.874
I was like the Northern Lights.
00:10:54.874 --> 00:11:03.850
I've always wanted to go in one of those igloos that are heated and just look at the lights, and that would be a good writing spot, you know, to come to think of it.
00:11:04.431 --> 00:11:05.734
But can you deal with the cold?
00:11:05.734 --> 00:11:09.125
I don't know where life is going to.
00:11:09.125 --> 00:11:15.221
You know lead, but I don't have a job per se to keep me where I'm at, you know.
00:11:15.221 --> 00:11:16.306
So we'll see.
00:11:16.306 --> 00:11:17.706
We'll see what's in store.
00:11:17.706 --> 00:11:30.495
I'm game for anything, you know, years ago I read the Mel Robbins book, the Five Second Rule that you just live your life saying yes to whatever is there, you know, and stop saying no.
00:11:30.495 --> 00:11:41.033
Because a lot of times when we say no, we're saying no to adventures, we're saying no to life, and our brain, you know, continues to be afraid every time that we say no.
00:11:41.033 --> 00:11:44.870
So if we say yes, go out there and live your life.
00:11:44.870 --> 00:11:48.885
Go out there and enjoy it.
00:11:48.926 --> 00:11:50.349
We only get one life to live.
00:11:50.509 --> 00:11:51.530
So we'll see what happens.
00:11:51.530 --> 00:11:55.585
We'll see whether Alaska will be something that I go do, and we'll see.
00:11:55.585 --> 00:11:56.687
We'll see what's in store.
00:11:57.950 --> 00:11:59.173
That is really cool.
00:11:59.173 --> 00:12:01.160
Yes, alaska, that would be perfect.
00:12:01.160 --> 00:12:04.864
But yeah, we do get one life to live and live it well.
00:12:04.864 --> 00:12:06.664
That's one thing.
00:12:06.664 --> 00:12:10.888
I have a dream I want to swim with sea turtles.
00:12:10.888 --> 00:12:15.971
So I'm trying there two times, three times, I don't know.
00:12:15.971 --> 00:12:35.884
But somebody said, oh, south Padre does, even though where I live in Dallas, I think it's a nine hour drive, and I was like, oh, I'll get too old for that.
00:12:35.884 --> 00:12:39.972
So those are the fun.
00:12:43.441 --> 00:12:46.248
You know you're living, you're starting to live life again.
00:12:46.248 --> 00:12:49.904
You know, so you're never too old and you know what I've lived.
00:12:49.904 --> 00:12:59.732
The other day, my, my daughter and my grandson and myself we went to go pet and hold Highland little calves little you know, little cows.
00:12:59.732 --> 00:13:02.666
It was such an amazing experience, you know.
00:13:02.666 --> 00:13:05.993
You just look for the experiences in your life and you're never too old.
00:13:05.993 --> 00:13:08.466
Old, you know, an age is just a number.
00:13:08.466 --> 00:13:15.932
I've been told over and over again and I'd rather I'd rather, when I die, rather my children, say mom did this, this, this, this.
00:13:15.932 --> 00:13:20.451
You know, she never denied herself a yes, you know to an adventure.
00:13:20.451 --> 00:13:23.424
I'd rather be that person than have my children go.
00:13:23.424 --> 00:13:25.087
Yeah, my mother was scared to do anything.
00:13:25.087 --> 00:13:26.110
She didn't want to do anything.
00:13:26.110 --> 00:13:27.172
I don't want to be that person.
00:13:27.172 --> 00:13:30.625
I want to be somebody that, you know, continues to journey on.
00:13:30.846 --> 00:13:40.714
There's so much to see in this world there is there, really is, and you got to have that positive vibe initiative to go after it.
00:13:40.714 --> 00:13:50.102
So, looking over your bio and everything I know you've also mentioned you've been through some challenges.
00:13:50.102 --> 00:13:54.913
Did you want to dive into some of those challenges and share your story?
00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:56.822
Sure, I mean, that's.
00:13:56.822 --> 00:13:57.966
That is the book.
00:13:57.966 --> 00:14:00.471
The journey of Josephine is the story of my life.
00:14:00.471 --> 00:14:03.566
It is the raw account of my life.
00:14:03.566 --> 00:14:10.610
I didn't leave too much out because I wanted it to be used for other people to be able to write their story, you know.
00:14:10.610 --> 00:14:14.225
So there was a lot of things that took place on the cover of my book.
00:14:14.605 --> 00:14:29.597
The title of it is the Journey of Josephine and it is my doll, as when I was a little girl that my mother made a doll for us every year and this I was a rag doll and I named her Josephine Priscilla and she was my security blanket, you know.
00:14:29.597 --> 00:14:36.881
She was the one that knew my secrets, she knew my pain, you know, and she carried, she carried everything like a security blanket.
00:14:36.881 --> 00:14:45.427
So it tells the story of you know what I went through, the difference you know sexual abuse, attempted suicides, infidelity.
00:14:45.427 --> 00:14:47.311
You know infidelity.
00:14:47.311 --> 00:14:53.841
Victim of domestic violence I went through being burned, you know, on my chest, you know.
00:14:53.841 --> 00:15:18.083
It tells the story of how I was able to overcome, how I took that trauma in my life and how I was able to lay it all down on the table and pick up the pieces gradually, of the puzzle, pieces of my life and even though the pieces of my life didn't look like the puzzle was supposed to look, on the on the box that I thought it was going to was a new picture, but it was still a masterpiece.
00:15:18.083 --> 00:15:24.907
You know, it was still something that that I have grown into who I am and I wrote my story.
00:15:24.907 --> 00:15:33.306
And when I, when I got it in the mail, it came to my house and you get your books and you open up your books and you're holding your story for the first time.
00:15:33.306 --> 00:15:35.176
You're holding your book for the first time.
00:15:35.176 --> 00:15:36.662
That's such an amazing feeling.
00:15:37.182 --> 00:15:41.777
But I spent the evening reading my book and had to do some more healing.
00:15:41.777 --> 00:15:43.967
You know, cried a lot, you know.
00:15:43.967 --> 00:15:47.023
It was just, it was heart-wrenching to read my story.
00:15:47.023 --> 00:15:49.929
But then, after I read my story, I closed the book and I went.
00:15:49.929 --> 00:15:53.269
You know what, god, I'm not her anymore, but I want to find her.
00:15:53.269 --> 00:15:57.402
I want to find the women that are still hanging on to their trauma.
00:15:57.402 --> 00:16:13.313
I want to find those women that are still hanging on to their pain and give them permission to be able to tell their story, first of all, and then to be able to rewrite their story and find the purpose of why they were created all along.
00:16:13.313 --> 00:16:22.047
So that's why I wrote my book and that's why I'm on all these podcasts to be able to tell my story and to be able to tell other women.
00:16:22.047 --> 00:16:23.311
It's time to tell your story.
00:16:23.311 --> 00:16:33.506
If you need some help, read mine first so you know that, wow, this woman was really raw in her storytelling, so it gives you permission to tell yours.
00:16:36.615 --> 00:16:44.450
And that's usually a hard thing, especially for younger women going through it.
00:16:44.450 --> 00:16:51.307
I hear stories about that all the time and it's super, super sad.
00:16:51.307 --> 00:16:56.345
I've had something a long time ago.
00:16:56.345 --> 00:17:02.506
I haven't even talked about it, but it's like it almost causes like a PTSD.
00:17:02.506 --> 00:17:07.040
It triggers like if I ever move on and want to do this.
00:17:07.040 --> 00:17:17.689
But I learned to talk about it and be like I don't do ABC because it's how it affects me, you know, and it's just one of those things.
00:17:17.689 --> 00:17:24.262
But you know, I will kind of like lay there and look at my life and I'm really evaluating it now.
00:17:24.262 --> 00:17:29.646
Like as far as dating, again it's like what do I want?
00:17:29.646 --> 00:17:35.929
Because, you know, I need to make sure I'm on the same page as somebody.
00:17:35.929 --> 00:17:41.207
So I'm a bit of a little bit more particular on who I date, which is nice.
00:17:41.207 --> 00:17:44.023
I see me maturing and getting older now.
00:17:46.317 --> 00:17:49.445
So, but yeah, to put it in writing it's hard.
00:17:49.445 --> 00:17:57.420
You know, I had another lady and this was a totally different story, but she was the bully and the people that she hurt.
00:17:57.420 --> 00:18:13.680
She realized what she has done and turned over to God and I was like that podcast was just an amazing story to learn that people can go through it and they can carry that thing that happened to them.
00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:22.396
And, you know, not everybody's the same, but they do it to the next person and it's a vicious cycle and we don't want that for anybody.
00:18:22.396 --> 00:18:25.865
So if you're listening to this podcast, there is help.
00:18:25.865 --> 00:18:30.923
You've got to reach it out, even if it's over to Bambi or myself, we're going to help you.
00:18:30.923 --> 00:18:35.356
So, and I do have oh my gosh, I do have a number.
00:18:35.356 --> 00:18:37.840
The best thing is on my website.
00:18:37.840 --> 00:18:38.742
I love this part.
00:18:38.742 --> 00:18:45.161
It has leave a voicemail on it so you can click on the button voicemail and we'll call you right back.
00:18:45.741 --> 00:18:47.885
So, yeah, it's totally different.
00:18:47.885 --> 00:18:56.568
So, um, but yeah, and then to get what you did, to put it in writing and talking about it.
00:18:56.568 --> 00:19:07.986
I know it's reliving the moment each time for you and you have to be a warrior and you have to have that strength, but it's going through your faith and which is amazing.
00:19:07.986 --> 00:19:19.286
So I'm so proud that you have that gift to be able to be strong enough and go through that, because I always say, you know people was like well, what is Keep Hope Alive?
00:19:19.286 --> 00:19:19.767
I go.
00:19:19.767 --> 00:19:30.238
Well, it's for other people to be heard, because everybody has a story, but someone's story is going to help another person in this world.
00:19:30.819 --> 00:19:32.064
You know and I tell people.
00:19:32.625 --> 00:19:35.173
I tell people too, is that our story?
00:19:35.173 --> 00:19:38.618
Our trauma isn't a death sentence, you know.
00:19:38.618 --> 00:19:41.123
It's not something that we have to hang on and we're going to.
00:19:41.123 --> 00:19:43.685
It's something that we have.
00:19:43.685 --> 00:19:45.568
The trauma it's not a death sentence.
00:19:45.568 --> 00:19:59.339
What it is it's a first aid kit for the person behind you, if you can get healed and transformed and if you can lay it all down and realize that your scars only tell a story, but it doesn't keep you into the story.
00:19:59.339 --> 00:20:02.980
You don't have to keep going back, you know, to what you have been through.
00:20:02.980 --> 00:20:09.578
You can leave that behind and march forward and be able to be a vessel for somebody else.
00:20:09.740 --> 00:20:16.659
All of us have trauma, all of us have stories, all of us have scars and it's what we do with those scars.
00:20:16.659 --> 00:20:40.844
You know, I was just on a podcast and I was telling them that you know, years ago I had a pressure canner blow up on me and so I my breast burned and so I had to go into a burn unit for 17 days and they would take me into this room on this metal table and they would handcuff, you know, they would tie my hands and they would scrub me to try to get rid of the residue, you know of that.
00:20:40.844 --> 00:20:48.038
And then you know they did that for five days and then, after they finally said you know what, let's graft her, let's put new skin on her.
00:20:48.038 --> 00:20:50.665
And you know, and that's what happens to our trauma.
00:20:50.665 --> 00:20:59.560
There's a, there's a moment in our lives that you know God wants to scrub that trauma, but then he's going to come along and he's going to put a new skin on you.
00:21:00.121 --> 00:21:04.785
You know, we just have to be willing to go through the process, and some of the process hurts.
00:21:04.785 --> 00:21:14.191
Some of the process is us digging ourselves out of the pit and out of the muck, but it doesn't matter how many times you have to crawl yourself out.
00:00:03.166 --> 00:00:06.033
00:00:06.033 --> 00:00:12.964
00:00:12.964 --> 00:00:14.108
00:00:14.108 --> 00:00:19.669
00:00:19.669 --> 00:00:21.728
00:00:23.484 --> 00:00:25.050
00:00:25.050 --> 00:00:38.289
00:00:38.289 --> 00:00:39.091
00:00:39.091 --> 00:00:40.753
00:00:41.582 --> 00:00:49.409
00:00:49.409 --> 00:01:02.978
00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:04.766
00:01:04.766 --> 00:01:07.045
00:01:07.045 --> 00:01:09.171
00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:13.326
00:01:13.326 --> 00:01:20.466
00:01:20.466 --> 00:01:21.489
00:01:21.771 --> 00:01:22.774
00:01:22.873 --> 00:01:25.707
00:01:25.707 --> 00:01:27.302
00:01:28.224 --> 00:01:38.328
00:01:38.328 --> 00:01:40.993
00:01:40.993 --> 00:01:49.724
00:01:49.724 --> 00:01:58.909
00:01:58.968 --> 00:02:03.183
00:02:03.183 --> 00:02:04.828
00:02:04.828 --> 00:02:13.070
00:02:13.070 --> 00:02:14.913
00:02:15.881 --> 00:02:17.144
00:02:17.144 --> 00:02:22.225
00:02:22.225 --> 00:02:33.705
00:02:33.705 --> 00:02:35.087
00:02:35.087 --> 00:02:36.953
00:02:37.939 --> 00:02:41.806
00:02:41.806 --> 00:02:43.269
00:02:43.269 --> 00:02:45.431
00:02:45.431 --> 00:02:53.752
00:02:53.752 --> 00:02:58.741
00:02:58.741 --> 00:03:00.871
00:03:00.871 --> 00:03:04.288
00:03:04.288 --> 00:03:08.145
00:03:08.145 --> 00:03:09.747
00:03:09.747 --> 00:03:14.825
00:03:14.947 --> 00:03:17.572
00:03:17.572 --> 00:03:19.576
00:03:19.576 --> 00:03:22.484
00:03:22.484 --> 00:03:33.052
00:03:33.052 --> 00:03:35.170
00:03:35.170 --> 00:03:36.860
00:03:36.860 --> 00:03:42.552
00:03:42.552 --> 00:03:48.741
00:03:48.741 --> 00:03:53.733
00:03:53.733 --> 00:03:57.731
00:03:57.731 --> 00:03:58.294
00:03:58.294 --> 00:04:10.048
00:04:10.048 --> 00:04:12.272
00:04:12.760 --> 00:04:13.122
00:04:13.122 --> 00:04:23.749
00:04:23.749 --> 00:04:35.541
00:04:35.541 --> 00:04:45.634
00:04:45.634 --> 00:05:14.105
00:05:14.105 --> 00:05:14.908
00:05:14.908 --> 00:05:16.461
00:05:17.283 --> 00:05:23.884
00:05:23.884 --> 00:05:39.994
00:05:42.223 --> 00:05:47.913
00:05:47.913 --> 00:05:51.165
00:05:51.165 --> 00:05:57.886
00:05:57.886 --> 00:05:58.809
00:05:58.809 --> 00:06:01.562
00:06:01.562 --> 00:06:02.572
00:06:02.572 --> 00:06:03.886
00:06:03.886 --> 00:06:09.223
00:06:09.384 --> 00:06:12.798
00:06:12.798 --> 00:06:18.002
00:06:18.002 --> 00:06:18.642
00:06:18.642 --> 00:06:19.024
00:06:19.024 --> 00:06:19.745
00:06:19.745 --> 00:06:23.189
00:06:23.189 --> 00:06:27.435
00:06:27.435 --> 00:06:38.807
00:06:38.807 --> 00:06:44.497
00:06:44.517 --> 00:06:44.978
00:06:44.978 --> 00:06:47.439
00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:48.163
00:06:48.163 --> 00:06:48.624
00:06:48.624 --> 00:06:51.211
00:06:51.211 --> 00:06:55.605
00:06:55.605 --> 00:07:01.423
00:07:01.423 --> 00:07:05.107
00:07:05.107 --> 00:07:07.629
00:07:07.790 --> 00:07:09.130
00:07:09.130 --> 00:07:15.956
00:07:15.956 --> 00:07:22.204
00:07:22.204 --> 00:07:30.492
00:07:30.492 --> 00:07:35.670
00:07:35.670 --> 00:07:38.083
00:07:38.083 --> 00:07:40.766
00:07:40.766 --> 00:07:42.569
00:07:42.569 --> 00:07:45.394
00:07:48.721 --> 00:07:50.904
00:07:50.904 --> 00:07:56.134
00:07:56.134 --> 00:07:58.504
00:07:58.504 --> 00:08:22.141
00:08:22.141 --> 00:08:33.985
00:08:33.985 --> 00:08:45.269
00:08:45.269 --> 00:08:47.070
00:08:47.730 --> 00:08:49.250
00:08:50.051 --> 00:08:53.251
00:08:53.251 --> 00:09:07.537
00:09:07.537 --> 00:09:11.958
00:09:11.958 --> 00:09:21.393
00:09:21.393 --> 00:09:24.517
00:09:24.517 --> 00:09:30.850
00:09:30.850 --> 00:09:40.022
00:09:40.022 --> 00:09:41.865
00:09:41.865 --> 00:09:43.008
00:09:43.008 --> 00:09:49.528
00:09:49.528 --> 00:09:57.673
00:09:57.673 --> 00:10:09.929
00:10:10.821 --> 00:10:14.613
00:10:14.613 --> 00:10:16.346
00:10:16.346 --> 00:10:19.639
00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:27.681
00:10:27.681 --> 00:10:35.727
00:10:35.727 --> 00:10:42.166
00:10:42.166 --> 00:10:45.412
00:10:45.412 --> 00:10:49.403
00:10:49.403 --> 00:10:51.047
00:10:51.047 --> 00:10:52.690
00:10:52.690 --> 00:10:54.874
00:10:54.874 --> 00:11:03.850
00:11:04.431 --> 00:11:05.734
00:11:05.734 --> 00:11:09.125
00:11:09.125 --> 00:11:15.221
00:11:15.221 --> 00:11:16.306
00:11:16.306 --> 00:11:17.706
00:11:17.706 --> 00:11:30.495
00:11:30.495 --> 00:11:41.033
00:11:41.033 --> 00:11:44.870
00:11:44.870 --> 00:11:48.885
00:11:48.926 --> 00:11:50.349
00:11:50.509 --> 00:11:51.530
00:11:51.530 --> 00:11:55.585
00:11:55.585 --> 00:11:56.687
00:11:57.950 --> 00:11:59.173
00:11:59.173 --> 00:12:01.160
00:12:01.160 --> 00:12:04.864
00:12:04.864 --> 00:12:06.664
00:12:06.664 --> 00:12:10.888
00:12:10.888 --> 00:12:15.971
00:12:15.971 --> 00:12:35.884
00:12:35.884 --> 00:12:39.972
00:12:43.441 --> 00:12:46.248
00:12:46.248 --> 00:12:49.904
00:12:49.904 --> 00:12:59.732
00:12:59.732 --> 00:13:02.666
00:13:02.666 --> 00:13:05.993
00:13:05.993 --> 00:13:08.466
00:13:08.466 --> 00:13:15.932
00:13:15.932 --> 00:13:20.451
00:13:20.451 --> 00:13:23.424
00:13:23.424 --> 00:13:25.087
00:13:25.087 --> 00:13:26.110
00:13:26.110 --> 00:13:27.172
00:13:27.172 --> 00:13:30.625
00:13:30.846 --> 00:13:40.714
00:13:40.714 --> 00:13:50.102
00:13:50.102 --> 00:13:54.913
00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:56.822
00:13:56.822 --> 00:13:57.966
00:13:57.966 --> 00:14:00.471
00:14:00.471 --> 00:14:03.566
00:14:03.566 --> 00:14:10.610
00:14:10.610 --> 00:14:14.225
00:14:14.605 --> 00:14:29.597
00:14:29.597 --> 00:14:36.881
00:14:36.881 --> 00:14:45.427
00:14:45.427 --> 00:14:47.311
00:14:47.311 --> 00:14:53.841
00:14:53.841 --> 00:15:18.083
00:15:18.083 --> 00:15:24.907
00:15:24.907 --> 00:15:33.306
00:15:33.306 --> 00:15:35.176
00:15:35.176 --> 00:15:36.662
00:15:37.182 --> 00:15:41.777
00:15:41.777 --> 00:15:43.967
00:15:43.967 --> 00:15:47.023
00:15:47.023 --> 00:15:49.929
00:15:49.929 --> 00:15:53.269
00:15:53.269 --> 00:15:57.402
00:15:57.402 --> 00:16:13.313
00:16:13.313 --> 00:16:22.047
00:16:22.047 --> 00:16:23.311
00:16:23.311 --> 00:16:33.506
00:16:36.615 --> 00:16:44.450
00:16:44.450 --> 00:16:51.307
00:16:51.307 --> 00:16:56.345
00:16:56.345 --> 00:17:02.506
00:17:02.506 --> 00:17:07.040
00:17:07.040 --> 00:17:17.689
00:17:17.689 --> 00:17:24.262
00:17:24.262 --> 00:17:29.646
00:17:29.646 --> 00:17:35.929
00:17:35.929 --> 00:17:41.207
00:17:41.207 --> 00:17:44.023
00:17:46.317 --> 00:17:49.445
00:17:49.445 --> 00:17:57.420
00:17:57.420 --> 00:18:13.680
00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:22.396
00:18:22.396 --> 00:18:25.865
00:18:25.865 --> 00:18:30.923
00:18:30.923 --> 00:18:35.356
00:18:35.356 --> 00:18:37.840
00:18:37.840 --> 00:18:38.742
00:18:38.742 --> 00:18:45.161
00:18:45.741 --> 00:18:47.885
00:18:47.885 --> 00:18:56.568
00:18:56.568 --> 00:19:07.986
00:19:07.986 --> 00:19:19.286
00:19:19.286 --> 00:19:19.767
00:19:19.767 --> 00:19:30.238
00:19:30.819 --> 00:19:32.064
00:19:32.625 --> 00:19:35.173
00:19:35.173 --> 00:19:38.618
00:19:38.618 --> 00:19:41.123
00:19:41.123 --> 00:19:43.685
00:19:43.685 --> 00:19:45.568
00:19:45.568 --> 00:19:59.339
00:19:59.339 --> 00:20:02.980
00:20:02.980 --> 00:20:09.578
00:20:09.740 --> 00:20:16.659
00:20:16.659 --> 00:20:40.844
00:20:40.844 --> 00:20:48.038
00:20:48.038 --> 00:20:50.665
00:20:50.665 --> 00:20:59.560
00:21:00.121 --> 00:21:04.785
00:21:04.785 --> 00:21:14.191