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This week I'm talking to Ashley Ambercrombie about becoming a truth teller.

What does that mean? It means taking off the mask of perfection that we tend to put on every

day and just getting comfortable of letting others people see who we are. It means not just sharing

the valleys and peaks of our stories, but also sharing the in-between messy times.

And it means not waiting to have it all together before we start letting other people

see what God is doing in our lives.

Ashley is an author, blogger, and fellow podcaster, and we'll link to her resources at

Authenticinimacy.com.

In this conversation, Ashley would encourage you that God can use your story

to bring hope and healing to others. Let's listen into my conversation with Ashley Amber Crombie.

Well, Ashley, you just come out and admit in your most recent book, which is called Rise of

the Truth Teller, that you kind of

grew up being a perpetual hider. Yeah, and you grew up in the South. So is that a southern

thing? That's a wonderful question. Yes, I most definitely had a PhD in pretending. And I grew up in

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