#147: Imperfect Courage with Jessica Honegger
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Jessica Honegger is a pioneer. As founder and co-CEO of Noonday Collection, the world’s largest fair-trade jewelry company, she has created a new breed of social entrepreneurship that empowers women, connects cultures, and celebrates handmade beauty. Her path to award-winning business leader was anything but traditional: from serving as a midwife in Bolivia, to earning her Master’s degree in Education, to renovating and selling houses in Austin, Texas, Jessica has followed her heart down several paths, gaining once-in-a-lifetime experiences that all still guide her decisions today. A mom to three, she is also a passionate adoption advocate who initially launched Noonday Collection to help raise the needed funds to bring her and her husband’s third child home. Jessica shares her story, along with heartening encouragement, in her compelling new book, Imperfect Courage: Live a Life of Purpose by Leaving Comfort and Going Scared, available August 14, 2018. What we chat about: Jessica's calling and struggle to adopt her son from Rwanda the beginnings of Noonday how to let your calling spur you to action instead of causing shame shifting your focus from what the world owes you to what you can offer to the world how Jessica has seen lives changed at home and abroad through Noonday tips on organizing jewelry the power of shared experiences with your family Links mentioned: Ep. 117: Unshakeable with Christine Caine Going Scared Podcast The Anatomy of the Soul The Soul of Shame The Giving Keys Hotel Rwanda MyFitnessPal Noonday Imperfect Courage: Live a Life of Purpose by Leaving Comfort and Going Scared Connect with Jessica: website | instagram | facebook | twitter Episode Sponsors: BioClarity: 50% off your first month + free shipping with code MSW Prep Dish: get 2 weeks free by visiting PrepDish.com/msw Brooklinen: $20 + free shipping with code MSW Easy Kicks: join the sneaker club today at easykicks.com/joinnow 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 | But they said something good for sandwiches if you're not going to do it in the |
| 0:02.8 | Panini press is take two slices of bread and shove them in one |
| 0:06.9 | slot of the toaster because then it only toast the outside of the |
| 0:10.4 | bread so the whole bread isn't toasted. The inside of each piece stays soft. |
| 0:14.8 | I thought that was kind of an interesting idea. |
| 0:17.2 | But you're not putting your cheese in there and then putting it in right? |
| 0:20.0 | No, just like when you're going to toast it before you make it. |
| 0:22.8 | But I did do that when I was little. |
| 0:24.8 | Do you remember that? |
| 0:25.8 | Did you? |
| 0:26.8 | No, did our house burn down? |
| 0:27.8 | It almost did. |
| 0:28.8 | I thought whenever mom made me peanut butter, toast. |
| 0:32.6 | It was always so nice and melted that certainly what she did |
| 0:36.4 | was peanut butter it and then put it in the toaster. |
| 0:38.9 | So that is exactly what I did. |
| 0:40.9 | And all of a sudden the toaster was on fire and so mom being Zena the |
| 0:45.4 | Warrior princess that she is open the back door and flung the whole toaster |
| 0:50.4 | into the backyard. That's so funny. This is Emily Thomas and you're listening to |
| 0:58.0 | the Struggle Well Project. Podcast. Do I say podcast after that? This is all so weird. Welcome back friends. You are listening to the Mom Struggling Well |
| 1:22.1 | podcast the show dedicated |
| 1:24.0 | to helping you not run away from home each week I do my best to make sure that you |
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