015 • Heather Avis
Instrumental with Dave & JJ Heller
JJ Heller
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Heather Avis is an author and an advocate for the Downs Syndrome and adoptive communities. I fell in love with her story when I read her book, "The Lucky Few," a couple years ago. I literally had goosebumps for most of our conversation with her. It's a good one!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody, and welcome to Season 2. |
| 0:04.4 | Is there any kind of Season 2 music? |
| 0:11.6 | It's sort of like Indiana Jones meets Carousel. |
| 0:15.8 | I know. |
| 0:16.2 | It was like I started singing, and I thought, this sounds like Indiana Indiana Jones but I don't want to copy it |
| 0:21.7 | exactly. So I just let my instincts take over. Wow, it's amazing. Can we play that every time? |
| 0:28.8 | Let's not. This season, we're changing things up a little bit. Our first 14 episodes featured |
| 0:36.2 | friends of mine from my experience in the music industry, |
| 0:39.7 | but this season we're expanding beyond music into all walks of life. And while all of the |
| 0:47.5 | episodes in season one had obvious spiritual content, in season two, there will be some episodes where God doesn't |
| 0:56.9 | specifically come up in the conversation, but we believe that everything is sacred when you |
| 1:03.5 | take time to notice. Yeah, you are going to hear the stories of the different guests this season, |
| 1:09.4 | and we know you will recognize the way that God is working in the lives of the different guests this season. And we know you will recognize the way that |
| 1:12.6 | God is working in the lives of our guests, whether they see it or not. Our hope is that these |
| 1:17.8 | episodes will inspire and remind you that there is beauty and meaning to be found in everyone's |
| 1:24.4 | story, including your own. So with that, let's get started with our episode. |
| 1:33.6 | I'm J.J. Heller, and this is Instrumental, a show about the big and small moments that shape our lives. |
| 1:42.6 | In every episode, my guest and I start near the end of their story and work our way back |
| 1:48.4 | to the beginning. |
| 1:49.5 | I hope our conversation reminds you that every second matters, because none of us knows which |
| 1:55.1 | moment will be the one that changes everything. Big love happens in the small moments. |
| 2:05.7 | Hey everybody, it's JJ. |
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