14: Love What Makes You Special with Lori Jones
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Several years ago Lori Jones was devastated to learn her soon-to-be born baby had a severe heart defect. Lori relied on her faith and looking inward and allowed this struggled to become a time of growth. Now, 12 years later, Riley is doing fine and Lori has chosen to "give back" by sharing her book Riley's Heart Machine and spreading a message of loving what makes each of us special. Lori's optimistic outlook on life will leave you feeling uplifted and thinking of ways you, too, can serve, laugh, and love yourself just as you are.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, episode number 14. |
| 0:05.7 | I just heard a thing on the radio yesterday. |
| 0:07.2 | They said a woman looks in the mirror and looks at her least favorite feature and focuses |
| 0:11.9 | on that. |
| 0:12.5 | A man looks in the mirror and focuses on his most favorite feature and compliments himself. |
| 0:17.9 | Now, if only we women could do that, you know, just look at what's special |
| 0:21.6 | about us and not the negative. |
| 0:24.5 | Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women podcast, stories of vibrant women living happy lives. |
| 0:30.8 | And now your host, Jen Ryday. |
| 0:44.3 | Hey, Vail. Hey there, I'm Jen Ready and this is Vibrant Happy Women. |
| 0:50.7 | On our last episode, I had the pleasure to chat with Chris Vaughn, and she shared her story of learning to slow down and live a more authentic life. |
| 0:56.8 | She inspired me to want to go sit on the front porch and have uncoctail hour with my husband. And if you don't know what that is, |
| 1:01.7 | be sure to go back and listen to that episode at genriding.com forward slash 13. Today I'll be chatting |
| 1:08.0 | with Lori Jones. Several years ago, Lori was devastated to learn that her |
| 1:12.7 | soon-to-be-born baby, Riley, had a severe heart defect. Lori shares her story of coping with |
| 1:18.4 | that struggle and allowing her problem to become a time of growth. Now, 12 years later, Riley is |
| 1:25.2 | doing fine and Lori chooses to give back by sharing a book she wrote called Riley's Heart Machine and spreading a message of loving what makes each of us special. |
| 1:37.0 | Lori also gives back by volunteering on the National Board of Directors for the Children's Heart Foundation. |
| 1:43.0 | Lori also loves all Pittsburgh sports teams |
| 1:45.2 | and enjoys running 5Ks. We'll go ahead and get started with that interview. Welcome to Vibrate |
| 1:51.9 | happy women, Lori. How are you doing? I'm great. Thank you for having me, Jen. Yeah. So we'd like to start |
| 1:58.5 | at our show with our guest's favorite quote or a personal motto. |
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