#152: Holding Space for Others with Chantel Runnels
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Chantel Runnels is a wife to one and a mom to three. Her leadership path runs from the halls of hospitals, through offices of higher education and to the arenas of television networks and studios. She is currently a home educator, a consultant, and a doula. What we chat about: how and why Chantel lived on the road with her family of 5 challenging social and religious constructs what keeps her grounded in her faith how she responds to criticism of her out-of-the-box thinking the value in listening to our elders grieving the loss of your life before motherhood letting go of perfection and letting God change us Connect with Chantel: instagram | twitter Connect with Emily: website I instagram I facebook I patreon Episode Sponsors: Zip Recruiter: try it for free at ZipRecruiter.com/SWP Hello Fresh: get $20 off your first 3 boxes using the link and promo code SWP60 Handy: get your first 3 hour cleaning for $39 by visiting the link and using promo code SWP support the show: Patreon | Amazon Share the Struggle! If you've been encouraged, share this episode with a friend. The struggle is real. We might as well do this together! Do you love the Struggle Well Project? Please leave a review here!
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| 0:00.0 | If you were going to make a hometown terrarium of Mesa, Arizona, our hometown. |
| 0:05.0 | Mesa. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay, here's what it would be. |
| 0:08.0 | It would be like an intersection and so there's Abco which is the grocery store and it would have |
| 0:17.4 | This is something I've never seen anywhere else big |
| 0:21.5 | Those things that like a barrel that you would age, you know, something in. |
| 0:26.0 | It's just like a huge barrel and then they would have beans and stuff in it. |
| 0:30.0 | And you could stick your arm all the way down in there like Pinto beads in a big huge barrel. |
| 0:35.0 | In the grocery store. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.0 | That's my own own just a barrel of beans. |
| 0:42.0 | I think I got screamed at by somebody but worked at the |
| 0:47.3 | grocery store for sticking my arms in the beans. But I was like, but you don't |
| 0:50.8 | understand how cool this is. I can do like snow angels and these beans. |
| 0:55.6 | My question is why you're not doing that supermarket man. Get over here. |
| 1:01.1 | I think. Don't knock it before you try it. |
| 1:05.0 | This is Emily Thomas and you're listening to the Struggle Well Project Podcast. |
| 1:10.0 | Still working on whether or not I think I need to say a podcast after that. Hey ladies you are listening to the Struggle Well Project, |
| 1:29.2 | the show dedicated to helping you not run away from home. |
| 1:31.8 | Each week I do my very best to make sure |
| 1:33.6 | that you learn something new, laugh a whole lot, and remember that you're already enough. |
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