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welcome to the 1000 hours outside podcast my name is jenny yurich i'm the founder of

one thousand hours outside and i am so excited for today's guest recommended by a dear friend named Rebecca.

Kristen Welch is here.

She is the CEO of Mercy House Global, author of many, many books.

But we're going to be talking about raising grateful kids in an entitled world today.

Kristen, welcome.

Thank you.

I'm so happy to be here.

So I was at a friend's house. This is like maybe a year, year and a half ago in Pennsylvania out of the state. We're in Michigan. So I was visiting her. And actually it's an interesting story, Kristen. We were speaking at a conference there. And then we left the conference in Pennsylvania. And I don't know, it was like a Friday night or something. and we were trying to figure out where to take our kids to go to dinner. We've got five kids.

So we're like leaving this conference we're in an area that we don't know very well and I had opened up my social media and someone had sent me a message that was like this is probably really weird but would you want to come over for dinner and we were like trying to figure out where to go to dinner we got these five kids and it's a busy Friday night no places taking reservations so we

were like this is so weird like we don't know who these people are we're just going to go to there

and they and they were so hospitable they've had some hard family times since. But while I was there, Kristen, you know,

I got this podcast and read a lot of these books. This friend Rebecca handed me your book.

It is covered in like food or something, like how a lot of my books are. I don't even know

what's on the front of it. And she said, this is the book that has most changed my parenting. And so I'm so honored that you came to talk to us today. You've written a lot of books. You do the Mercy House Global and you have gotten new books that are coming out next year. Can you give us just a little bit of your story? Sure. Well, thank you. And thank you to Rebecca. I actually know exactly who you were talking about because we were friends. So it is a very small world when you think about it. She's been telling me, you need to go on Jenny's podcast. And then when you reached out, I was like, oh, I wonder if that is connected. So I'm glad that the world feels smaller today. Yeah, so I am a mom of three

young adult kids who are now 18, 23, and 25. Just launched my youngest to college four weeks ago.

So I am sitting fresh and empty nest. About 15 years ago, in the throes of parenting, I was writing a blog called We Are That

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