82: Fatima Dedrickson on Friendship: The Power of Just One Friend

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Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Have you ever felt like you’re the only one who struggles with finding good friends? That everyone else around you has built-in best friends and you’re the “odd man out?” Today in my interview with Fatima Dedrickson, also known by all her friends and family as “Fatty,” we talk about her experiences over the years with friendship and making the effort to be a good friend. Her stories start with being an international student at BYU who didn’t speak any English, having to take a dictionary to class and try to understand a brand new culture and language and having literally no family around and no built-in friends either. She shares her inspiring stories of bravery, putting herself out there for others to get to know and love, making the effort to be a friend, and the power ONE person can have to be someone’s ONE friend. www.varsitytutors.com/mintarrow to reserve your FREE class! Show Notes: Instagram @stylefitfatty https://www.instagram.com/stylefitfatty/?hl=en Fatima’s book “Ready, Set, Be Still: How God Used Faith and Personal Revelation to Change My Life” https://amzn.to/31wyLny Produced by Dear Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever felt like you're the only one who struggles with finding good friends?
0:04.3	That everyone else around you has built-in best friends and you're the odd man out?
0:08.7	Today in my interview with Fatim and Dedrixen, also known by her friends and family as Fatty, we talk about her experiences
0:15.5	over the years with friendship and making the effort to be a good friend.
0:19.1	Her stories start with being an international student at BYU who didn't speak any English, having to take a dictionary to class and try to understand a brand new culture and language, and having literally no family around and no built-in friends either.
0:32.0	She shares her inspiring stories of bravery,
0:35.2	putting herself out there for others to get to know and love, making the effort to be
0:39.5	a friend and the power one person can have to be someone's one friend.
0:44.3	All right, today, Friends, I have a new, well, she's really not a new friend of mine, but
0:52.4	someone that I finally met on
0:54.4	Zoom this morning and I feel like is a real friend to me Fatima Dedrickson and
1:00.0	she goes by Fatty yeah and I just can't wait to talk to you today so say hi and tell everybody just a little bit about who you are and what you are all about.
1:11.0	Hi you guys I'm super excited to be here.
1:14.8	Thank you so much for having me.
1:16.2	I feel like I'm honored and yes, I go by Fatty and I was born and raised in Sweden and I came to the states 12 years ago.
1:28.0	Oh my gosh that makes me feel old.
1:31.0	I came here to run track at BYU and then I met my husband and the rest is history.
1:39.4	Love it. Your story is so wonderful and I just have to say that I just told Fatty that I finished reading her book this morning
1:47.2	And I love it so much there's just so much goodness that I hope we can squeeze into 45 minutes but let's just get started.
1:55.0	So you grew up in Sweden and I want to ask you about your story of what took you to America like what and I know the story but let's talk about
2:06.4	what kind of started that in your mind and in your heart so if I remember right
2:11.8	it was it was a goal to meet the profit of our church someday, right?
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