Have you ever had a conversation with someone that you didn't know but within

the first five minutes of the conversation you felt like you'd known them

forever? Well this is what my conversation with Naomi Reign was like. She came in,

we met each other in person. If you're listening to this you could watch this

episode because it's also on YouTube but we weren't virtual. We met each

other in the flesh. She walked in the door and it felt within the first five

minutes that I had known her for a long time. Not only do we share a mutual

desire to be comfortable in our own skin and to be comfortable in our clothes

and to be comfortable with our hair and ponytail and no makeup. We also share a

desire to be comfortable in community, to be comfortable with friends, to show

up in our own skin and to be who we authentically are all the time. My

conversation with Naomi was amazing because it was natural and it was

connective. But I think what you will find from listening to my conversation with

Naomi is that the lessons that she has learned and is learning are going to be

connective for you. What does it mean to unapologetically walk in the calling

that God has given you? What does it mean to show up and be yourself even when

there is no one else like you in the room? What does it mean to not apologize

for the gifts that God has given you to walk boldly into the spaces and the

doors that he has opened for you? What does it look like to have uncomfortable

conversations? Simply because the conversations need to be had. If there was a

place for us to go on our first connection connection together, oh we went

there and I really believe you're going to enjoy it. More than anything else, I

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