22: Kristin Brokaw: Theology Teacher & Rapper

Do Something Beautiful

Leah Darrow

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4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Kristen Brokaw teaches Theology and performs Spoken Word Poetry (aka: really cool rap). She shares her conversion to Catholicism, her struggle with anxiety and depression and how faith and poetry have brought joy and peace into her life and others. Blog post on suicide mentioned in podcast can be found here: https://leahdarrow.com/love-relationships-sexuality/learning-to-live-a-story-of-suicide-and-hope/ Also, in the middle of this podcast my husband Ricky sends me an "urgent" text message: t...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Do Something Beautiful podcast. I am your host Leodero and I share with you
0:05.6	inspirational people who are truly doing something beautiful to make our world better.
0:10.3	This podcast is inspired by the words of Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta who said,
0:15.0	do something beautiful for God. Do it with your life. Do it every day. Do it in your own way. but do it.
0:28.0	Welcome back to season three of the Do Something Beautiful Podcast.
0:29.0	We're in episode five now.
0:31.0	And today I am speaking with Kristen Brokaw.
0:34.0	Kristen is a theology teacher at a high school in Indiana in Southern Indiana
0:41.0	and I met her when I went to that city to give a talk at that high school.
0:46.2	She was the first person who said hello to me as I got out of the car and instantly I was like,
0:51.2	oh my gosh, like this woman's on fire with the Lord.
0:54.4	It was very clear, it was very obvious, she seemed to be very humble, but also
0:58.6	extremely determined with her faith and I just was drawn to her.
1:02.3	And come to find out a lot of people are drawn to her she really has an amazing story and I am sharing that with you she also which you will hear at the end she does spoken word poetry some people might call it rap but it's actually
1:15.5	spoken word poetry she's like the Catholic version of Eminem know, like she's, she's, she's really great. She actually gives us a couple of her, she recites some of these, I mean, I don't know what you call them poems or something, I don't know, but she recites a couple of them at the end of the
1:35.7	podcast and I am floored. I wish I would have started with those because they are just so
1:41.9	darn good, but she explains to us her story of
1:45.2	actually converting to Catholicism at the ripe age of 18 years old I mean the Holy
1:51.0	Spirit is really working in her and was working in her at a very young
1:54.4	age she's very self-aware so she talks about that she also talks about a really
1:58.7	difficult topic which is about anxiety and depression and she talks about how that has been across for her and how her faith has helped her
2:06.0	pick up that cross every day and kind of work through it. And I'm really proud
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