Hey there, welcome to the Sister Circle Podcast where sometimes you hear me solo, but every now and again I bring in a sister or a brother to have a conversation that I think is worth having.

Today you are in for a treat because I'll be joined by my friend

Mrs. Jada Edwards, who is a preacher, a teacher, a pastor's wife, an author, and a mom who's going to be talking about what it looks

like to build an authentic life.

And y'all, if you don't know who Jada is, you're not ready.

And if you do know who Jada is, you're not ready. So I'm not going to hold

the phone much longer without any further ado. Let me jump into sharing with you, my friend, Jada Potata. Jeda potato. potato. What do you think is a good barometer for what to share and not to share?

Like, if I... for what to share and not to share.

Like, if, well, that's a part of the answer, I'm sure.

But I think it's the same thing.

What is TMI and does it matter who you're talking to?

So when it comes to trying to warn other people or just say, hey, like this has been my experience, learn from my experience, how do we adequately communicate about how we've built well or not on the foundation in a way that allows other people to learn and learn from us so that they can build well but also

where it's not TMI. Yeah I think well gosh I think that's hard well for me the the

growth point for me has been starting first with authenticity.

So like, am I even okay with everything that's going on with me, things that I've been through? A lot of times if you're still in the middle of healing or still working out something, that's hard. But my, the first thing that has been something intentional for me in the last few years is being

authentic to myself and I don't mean like in the world like be your true self love

your it's not that kind of thing it's like what's the truth about you because if I'm

okay with that when I meet someone who says I'm going through A, B and C, I'm not detached.

See if you don't, if you're not okay with your own, what's true about you, then when someone says, oh my gosh, I'm going through this season, you

like, ooh, let me pray for you. And God is like, pray for her. Tell her that you have been

through that season or you're still in it. but when we're detached from what's true about us

then that becomes a huge barrier to connecting with people and so when I say authenticity I don't just mean speaking your mind which by the way I'm about that too but I but I

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