The doctor could tell that I wasn't getting the severity of this and she had that piece of paper discussing the different types.

I didn't know.

After caring for Sean and Chennaya for almost nine years, I didn't know after caring for Sean and Chenaya for almost nine years. I didn't know the severity and the different types. It just didn't, I don't know, call me naive blonde, whatever it is. And she goes, just like this is spinal muscular atrophy.

We're waiting for the confirmation from the blood test,

but we don't think that Lewiston will make his first birthday.

And we don't have treatment. There's nothing we can do a rule here will just be to make

him comfortable and those words when someone says you know there's nothing you can do like that for me. There's always

something you can do. So that that hit me really hard.

Hello friends and welcome back to the Light Watkins show with yours

truly Light Watkins. So if this is your first time here I interview ordinary

people just like you and me who've taken extraordinary leaps of faith

often in the direction of their path, their purpose, or their mission.

And in doing so, they've been able to positively impact the lives of many others who've heard about their story or who've witnessed him in action or who have directly benefited from their work.

So I met today's guest a few months ago at a

conference that I attended in Detroit. Her name is Jessica Janssen and

when I first heard Jessica's story I knew deep down that I had to have her on the podcast.

And by the way, that's how I choose like 95% of my guests.

It's not from how many followers they have or how many books they've written or who else's podcast they've been on or anything like that.

It's all about the feeling that I get when I come across their work.

And sure enough, this one was a conversation for the books. So long story short, Jessica grew up on a farm in Canada, and then after school she hopped around and she was trying to find her way but she didn't really feel like anything particular was calling her.

And then one day a friend asked her, Jessica, what do you want to do and what don't you want to do with your life and her first response was that she did not want to work with handicapped kids.

And then a week later, Jessica met a family

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