#135: Truth and Grace with Amber Runyon
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Amber Runyon is hospice nurse who became a social entrepreneur. She founded Legacy and Eleventh Candle Co. out of the desire to bring hope to women both in the United States and in Ethiopia who’ve been vulnerable to human trafficking, abuse, exploitation, and addiction, focusing on providing a therapeutic work setting that allows all women a fair chance and opportunity to grow. The bottom line: Amber believes that if we teach little girls to dream, they will the force that changes this world. But more than that, if we can teach broken women to dream like little girls again, it will be a force that the world has yet to see. Get 25% off your order from Eleventh Candle Co. using the coupon code strugglingwell! What we chat about: what lead Amber to start a candle company how Eleventh Candle Co. is helping women who have been exploited, part of sex trafficking, or have struggled with addiction identifying women who genuinely want help EMDR therapy how Amber has seen God change the lives of the women she employs extending grace without enabling why Amber celebrates failures encouragement for women who feel overwhelmed by their calling Links mentioned: Ep. 32: You Are Loved and Worth Loving with Brandi Lea Ep. 58: Journey Toward Healing with Brandi Lea The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of TraumaStop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie & Video Game Violence Connect with Amber: website // instagram // facebook // twitter Episode Sponsors: Pursuit Community: get $325 off registration for the Mastermind Retreat in Nashville, TN using promo code MSW Daily Harvest: 3 free cups using promo code MSW Tommy John: use the link and get 20% off your first order Ways to support the show: Patreon Amazon Share the Struggle! Find me on Instagram because I want to hear YOUR thoughts! If you've been encouraged, share the episode with another mom. The struggle is real. We might as well do this together!
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| 0:00.0 | At G.S.K, we believe that prevention is the best medicine. Prevention is pioneering new medicines to reduce HIV transmission, applying decades of experience and asthma control to limit long-term lung damage or stopping chronic conditions from progressing to most serious complications |
| 0:16.7 | because preventing disease is the best possible outcome for all of us and is why GSK |
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| 0:25.6 | disease together. Visit gsk.com to learn more. |
| 0:30.2 | This is Emily Thomas and you are listening to the Mom Stru well podcast where I hope each week to encourage you to not run away from home. |
| 0:56.7 | Let's go ahead and stay home. Okay? This is episode 135 and I am talking to my new friend Amber Runyon. |
| 1:03.0 | We totally hit it off. |
| 1:05.0 | Didn't really know much of anything about her |
| 1:07.0 | before we got on the phone, |
| 1:08.0 | but you'll see that we find that we have a lot in common. |
| 1:10.0 | It's really neat when that happens. |
| 1:12.0 | Amber tells her story, so I'm not going to go too much into it, but she basically was just doing her regular job and along the way God completely shifted her direction, gave her a different passion, and now she's on a wildly |
| 1:26.7 | different path than she originally thought and it's been super hard but really |
| 1:31.7 | really good. This is a story about hope. This is a story about grief and |
| 1:36.7 | some of the hardest part about this story is that it's still unfolding. It's not |
| 1:41.0 | finished, it's not tidy, but we're all in the middle of unfinished, untidy stories. |
| 1:46.0 | Additionally, I know y'all have candles and she makes candles and they smell so good. |
| 1:51.0 | So you need to know about Amber for a variety of reasons. |
| 1:54.8 | I also wanted you to know that in about two weeks |
| 1:57.1 | in the 1st of May, I'm going to open up my next round |
| 1:59.7 | of the Wellness Revelation study. |
| 2:02.3 | This will be my third time through it. I get something |
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