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Jesus and words and humans. That’s Jess.

In this episode, you can be a part of what happens when Jess and I get together:  we talk about girls and how we love them and how it’s time for the line of crap this world is feeding girls to go bye bye. We cover a lot during this episode, and I love having Jess share her perspective as someone who is not so many years removed from the experience of a young girl. I’m not old (Well, I am getting there – happily, by the way), but she’s 23 and closer to that time in her life when she felt the same way a lot of girls do.

Jess is an avid reader and she mentioned the book Captivating when we were talking about how fantastic it is that God made a woman, that He wasn’t done creating this world until he had put on the finishing touch. I like the idea of that. God wasn’t done with this world He made until He made us.

During our talk today, Jess also shared how she spends her time when she’s not doing Bible Belles stuff: she works hard as a leader and mentor for Young Life, an organization that works to bring the love of Jesus to young people. It’s beautiful and awesome to hear her talk about it.

In short, I hope you enjoy this episode and hearing from Jess. She rocks, and I love her.

Links For Today’s Show:

Captivating: Unveiling The Mystery Of A Woman’s Soul

Young Life

Download the transcript here

Find out what we’re all about!

In this podcast episode, we are (well, I am) talking about exactly what it is we’re doing here. There have been many interesting challenges along the way (click here to read about how we got started), and this podcast is one more exciting step as we uncover what God is doing.

Show Notes:

This is the beginning, Episode ZERO, the episode where I tell you all about what we’re doing and why we’re doing it and who they heck we even are.

We started a podcast? How come? It really began with a question: Where are all of the positive female role models? We know they exist, but they seem to be buried under the weight of culture, a culture of girls who are obsessed with the way they look and who think very little about the way they treat others.

I used to be this kind of girl, the one who looks in the mirror and then spends a lot of time trying to change what she sees. Trying to look different. Trying to be different. I was the kind of girl that would mask my feelings of insecurity and self-doubt by letting cruel words fly out of my mouth. Being rude was what I felt I needed to be to be attractive and taken seriously.

It took a lot of mistakes and a cancer diagnosis (read more here) for me to figure out that maybe this was not a great way to live. I grew up, got married, and then I found out that I was going to be a mom. A mom to a daughter. Then, it hit me like a brick wall.

How in the world am I going to help my girl deal with what’s ahead of her: a world that will tell her lies about who she really is? As I fumble my way along, searching for a solution to this problem, the answer stares back at me: she needs to know what true beauty is, who defines it, who has it, and who she can look to for inspiration while she’s out there trying to figure it out.

This podcast is for the people out there who care about the next generation of girls. It’s for the people who are tired of what the world tells our girls they need to be in order to be beautiful. It’s for those of you who are sick of watching the girls of this world feel ugly, sad, and worthless and then let those feelings dictate how they treat people.

If you want the narrative to change, if you want the girls of this world to realize they are beautiful, loved, and made for a bigger purpose, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome home.

Thanks for joining me for our “Heroes For Her” podcast series! Don’t just subscribe. Connect with us. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and all the usual places. Join us, and let’s show girls everywhere what real beauty is all about.