331: Hold On to Hope
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🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Corrine and Neil dive into a topic that we might all need right now: HOPE. They share a powerful story from a Holocaust survivor who said that while love sustained him, it was hope that ultimately kept him alive. That perspective sets the stage for a heartfelt conversation about why hope matters most when life feels impossible.
Corrine reflects on her own experience with postpartum depression and how the words “you will get better, this won’t last forever” became her lifeline. Neil opens up about losing his brothers and how small moments of joy helped him believe life could feel good again. Together, they explore the difference between hope and faith—how hope says maybe I can, while faith is the choice to take the first step forward.
They also share simple but powerful ways to bring more hope into everyday life: serving others, stepping into nature, and leaning on something greater than yourself when the weight feels heavy. This episode is a reminder that even in dark seasons, there is still so much good AND so much hope.
Resources:
- Faith, Hope, and You by Richard C. Edgley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s85_k6_7gwI
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | That's audible.co.uk slash wondery. |
| 0:11.5 | All right. I was listening to a speech this week on a drive. And it was by Richard C. Edgeley, |
| 0:25.9 | who passed away recently. But it was about, it's entitled Faith, Hope, and You. And I just turned it on and didn't think much of it and a story that he started off with really |
| 0:38.9 | caught my attention and I thought this was super interesting I haven't told this to you Neil yet |
| 0:45.1 | so we're going to get your live reaction to it but he tells this story about how he was working |
| 0:51.1 | for corporate America and they had like an international business. |
| 0:56.2 | So they hired this European man to run their European branch of their business. |
| 1:01.5 | And it was well known within the company that this man was a Holocaust survivor. |
| 1:05.8 | So he started doing business with this man. |
| 1:07.7 | They became friends and they went on some international trips together. |
| 1:15.8 | And he kind of explains that after he got to know him well enough, he felt like it was appropriate that he could ask him about his experience in concentration camps |
| 1:22.5 | and what that was like, you know, losing family members and being taken by the Gestapo. |
| 1:30.5 | And as he was talking to this man, he asked, the man asked him this question, Richard. |
| 1:38.4 | He said, do you know what the most powerful force in the world is? |
| 1:43.3 | And Richard actually said, without hesitation, I answered love. |
| 1:45.9 | Love conquers all. If only your persecutors had love for you and for their fellow man, |
| 1:50.7 | you would not have suffered as you did. And he responded, no, it is not love. All those years I was |
| 1:58.0 | in the concentration camp, I had love. I had love for my mother, father, and sister. I had love for I had love I had love for my mother father and sister |
| 2:02.7 | I had love for my grandmother but that love did not sustain me it did not keep me alive and then he said |
| 2:10.5 | hope hope is the most powerful force it was hope that kept me alive it was hope that I would survive |
| 2:17.0 | it was hope for freedom it was hope that kept me alive. It was hope that I would survive. It was hope for freedom. |
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