22. Why Curse the Darkness? with Patti Garibay
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Patti Garibay shares her experience as a former troop leader for Girl Scouts who brought to light several controversial changes to the Girl Scouts organization. Patti Garibayis founder and Executive Director of the national character development organization, the American Heritage Girls. Patti's story is one of obedience: Instead of settling into outrage at the immovable state of an organization she once loved, she chose to start one of her own.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Strong Women Podcast, where we explore a deeper understanding of the humanity, value, intellect, and creativity of women. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Erin Kunkel. |
| 0:13.0 | And I'm your co-host, Sarah Stone Street. |
| 0:38.3 | Our guest today is Patty Garibay, who is the founder and executive director of American Heritage Girls, which is a organization dedicated, this is their mission statement here, an organization dedicated to the mission of building women of integrity through service to God, family, community, and country. |
| 0:46.0 | Patty tells her story in a book called Why Curse the Darkness when you can light a candle. |
| 0:53.0 | It's her story of being a Girl Scout leader and noticing |
| 0:58.3 | things that were happening in the Girl Scouts organization that were really disconcerting. |
| 1:05.0 | So she, instead of just pulling her girls out, she actually ended up starting an organization, |
| 1:10.7 | which we'll talk a lot about |
| 1:12.2 | in this conversation called the American Heritage Girls. I think you all will really enjoy this |
| 1:19.0 | conversation with Patty. Patty is one of those people where I left the conversation and I thought, |
| 1:24.4 | man, I wish we lived closer because I would just love to have coffee with her. |
| 1:29.0 | She has a mentoring heart. And I just would love to get to know her better. And I'm thankful for |
| 1:34.7 | this conversation that we had. So I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:48.4 | Patty, we're so thankful to have you on today. And Sarah and I were both fortunate to get to read your book that you recently wrote. |
| 1:54.7 | And so we're going to talk a lot about your book today because in it is really you |
| 1:59.2 | just laying out your life story and all that God is done |
| 2:03.2 | in your life. But we always love to start at the beginning of your life, how you were formed, |
| 2:09.2 | because we know this plays such a big role in the women that we end up becoming. And it's so |
| 2:16.1 | foundational. And so we know your growing up time wasn't as |
| 2:20.3 | picturesque as maybe a Disney movie or a fairy tale but you had some unique challenges as a little girl |
| 2:29.1 | and and I'd love if you just share about your growing up and how that formed you. Absolutely. I am the third |
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