Welcome to the Strong Women podcast, where we explore a deeper understanding of the humanity, value, intellect, and creativity of women.

I'm your host Sarah Stone Street.

And I'm your co-host, Erin Kunkel.

Hi, Strong Women listeners and happy Advent from the Strong Women podcast team.

Please enjoy this special episode taken from a Facebook live broadcast with Sarah, Aaron, and Cindy Rawlins, author of Hallelujah, Cultivating Advent Traditions with Handel's Messiah.

Welcome to the very smooth start of the first Strong Women podcast, live on Facebook,

and we have a treat for you guys tonight, which is probably

why you've tuned in.

We, well, we wanted to do this first because we thought it would be fun to have you guys

listen live to an interview that we do.

It does usually kind of start like this, a crazy. And, but then to listen to the

interview and help us with our questions that we ask our interview guests. And besides being able

ask questions, if you're listening live, we are going to be giving away two free books of

Cindy Rollins, who is our guest today.

So listen all the way through to the end to get a chance to win the books.

We'll announce the winners at the end.

And maybe actually we'll start with in the comment section or make a comment if this is your first time ever listening to a strong

woman podcast so maybe in the comment section say me or first time whatever and um we're going to

choose one of our first time listeners to win one of Cindy's free books so go ahead and do that now

and while you do that,

I'm going to introduce our guest, Cindy Rollins, who is a friend of Sarah and I. And so, and if you've

listened to the podcast before, you know she's already been a guest. So that's a hint that she's

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