#122: Finding Hope & Reason with Elise Hurd
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Elise Hurd is a faith coach, wife to her best friend, Jason, and mom of 5 wildly exuberant kids. Her passion is to help believers remember, record, and relay their personal experiences of Jesus. Her goal is to equip Jesus-followers to "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have." (1 Peter 3:15). Elise and Jason are completing their RV renovation and plan to hit the road full time in their tiny home by the summer of 2018. What we chat about: Elise's story of modeling, abortion, attempted suicide and the hope she found in Christ A creative way she's using her limitations to teach her children to rely on Christ How parents can love/help their prodigal kids What is a Jesus Story Box? The remarkable connection remembering and our spiritual lives Isaiah 40:6 and dialogue with God Links mentioned: Jesus, the One and Only Schmidt's Natural Deodorant Where to find Elise: website // instagram // facebook Episode Sponsors: Zip Recruiter - Start posting jobs for free Butcher Box - Place your first order at ButcherBox.com/MSW with the promo code MSW and get $20 off and free bacon Fabletics - Go to Fabletics.com/MSW today and get TWO pairs of their amazing leggings for just $24 when you become a VIP member Support the show: Shop Amazon Affiliate Link Share the Struggle! Find me on Instagram or Facebook because I want to hear YOUR thoughts on this episode!  If you've been encouraged by the show, please share it with another mom.  The struggle is real.  We might as well do this together!
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| 0:30.1 | This is Emily Thomas and you are listening |
| 0:32.0 | to the Mom Struggling While Podcast. Hey ladies you made it. I'm so glad you're here this is episode 122 and I am excited to share with you a really quality girl who I met from the internet |
| 0:59.7 | named Elise I actually had no idea the twists and turns of her story until we were |
| 1:04.9 | recording. There's a lot going on. I love podcasting for loads of reasons but |
| 1:09.3 | this chat was a great example of one of the things I like the best. We cover a remarkable |
| 1:13.7 | amount of ground in a very short time. There's a modeling career, some really hard |
| 1:18.9 | choices, addiction, attempted suicide, then God steps in and everything changes. |
| 1:26.1 | She talks about a way that she's helping her kids to learn how to talk to God directly |
| 1:31.0 | and the creative way that she answers their tough questions about |
| 1:34.2 | spiritual things. She also draws a remarkable connection between the |
| 1:38.0 | importance of remembering in our own spiritual life. She uses a real life |
| 1:42.0 | example that she was currently having from |
| 1:44.1 | being a caregiver to her aging family member. Elise has gained a remarkable |
| 1:48.1 | amount of wisdom from the trenches and we get to benefit from it today. I'm going |
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