#82: Saying 'Yes' to Scary Things with Melinda Simmons
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Melinda is a wife, mom to three and a worship leader. She enjoys using humor and the gracious love of God to navigate her crazy, beautiful life. She's learning how to step into scary things she'd rather not do. Like this interview. She didn't want to do this interview. What we chat about: trusting God is at work in you even when you're questioning yourself breath prayers how she's learning to fight her tendency to run when she's scared Links mentioned: After All These Years by Brian and Jenn Johnson The Broken Way by Ann Voskamp Tessemae's Dressing Support the show: Shop Amazon Affiliate Link Share the Struggle! Find me on Instagram or Facebook because I want to hear YOUR thoughts on this episode! If you've been encouraged by the show, please share it with another mom. The struggle is real. We might as well do this together! Some links above take you to Amazon. When you click through, anything you purchase there will help offset the costs associated with producing the show. It doesn't cost you any extra, and it helps me out. Everybody wins! Thank you for your support! Episode sponsor: World Vision Global 6k for Water
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| 0:00.0 | Looking for keys, looking for keys, looking for keys. |
| 0:05.0 | Looking for keys. |
| 0:09.9 | Everyone's tired of looking for keys. |
| 0:14.0 | So the Honda HRV hybrid can be unlocked |
| 0:18.0 | and turned on |
| 0:21.0 | with your phone. While we're listening take us next, |
| 0:27.7 | Honda the power of dreams. |
| 0:30.1 | This is Emily Thomas and you are listening to the Mom Struggling Well Podcast. Ladies I am so glad you're here or I'm glad I'm with you, or whatever, I'm just glad. |
| 0:56.8 | You are currently listening to episode 82 with my friend Melinda Simmons. |
| 1:01.6 | I do not think she is related to Richard Simmons but I did not ask. |
| 1:06.3 | She was not mentioned in the recent missing Richard Simmons podcast so I think she was not related |
| 1:12.1 | to him. |
| 1:13.0 | Did you guys listen to that podcast? |
| 1:15.0 | It was only like six episodes long. |
| 1:17.0 | It was fascinating and I would tell my friends about it |
| 1:20.0 | and they would roll their eyes and then when they started listening to it though they were like oh this is |
| 1:25.7 | surprisingly interesting but it's also sad and it's also over and we still don't |
| 1:31.7 | know what happened so if you are listening to this Richard, which you probably |
| 1:35.3 | are, we just want you to know that we wish you all the best. Okay, now before we talk about |
| 1:41.0 | Melinda, I get to tell you about this week's sponsor, World Vision. |
| 1:44.6 | You've probably heard of them. They're a Christian humanitarian organization that provides long-term solutions |
| 1:50.8 | to poverty in nearly 100 countries. On May 6th, they are doing a global |
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