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🗓️ 13 July 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Leah was invited as a 2-part guest on the Transforming Discipleship podcast, which released April 27th through Christianity Today's smallgroups.com.
In this episode, Oliver Hersey is joined by Leah Darrow, author of “The Other Side of Beauty” and Kelsey Collister, who produces his podcast. Leah walks through her conversion story which includes three key moments: moving to St. Louis as a fifteen year old, encountering Jesus during a fashion modeling photoshoot, and asking her family for help, when she was at a low point. All of these events lead her to a life of discipling women, so they can know who they really are, in light of God's mercy.
She bought into the world’s definition of success, and self-fulfillment. Because of this, she put all of her stock into her outward appearance. Eventually, she was a contestant on America’s Next Top Model. Soon after, she found herself in state of spiritual despair. Listen to this podcast to find out how she left the modeling industry, to start her own women’s ministry.
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Transform and Discipleship Podcast brought to you by |
0:07.2 | Small Groups.com a podcast designed for church leaders |
0:10.0 | desiring to make disciples for Jesus Christ in the world. |
0:12.6 | I'm your host, Oliver Hersey, and today we are joined again by a very special guest, |
0:17.3 | Lea Darrow, the speaker and author of the Other Side of Beauty, and also, again, Kelseysey Collister the producer of this |
0:24.2 | podcast Kelsey we loved having you on as well my friends how are you both doing |
0:28.8 | today Kelsey tell us how is marriage going now doing great Oliver and Oliver, and, uh, Leah, I can't wait for you |
0:34.9 | to share more of your story with us. |
0:37.2 | I loved your book, The Other Side of Beauty. |
0:40.8 | Listen to the podcast regularly, big fan. |
0:44.4 | It's been very helpful as I led women's Bible studies. |
0:47.9 | And so thanks for speaking to women so honestly. |
0:51.6 | And yes, Oliver, marriage is going going well well well good good just |
0:57.4 | 30 years to find the right person now you moved your marriage up I I mean COVID-19 was happening and now it's dicey times and now we're good |
1:07.4 | things |
1:09.8 | expedite things rightly so rightly so When you know you know. Yeah and |
1:14.7 | Leia it's so good to have you back on. We loved our conversation last time with |
1:18.0 | you and so how is life for you in this season? It's great. I don't know if I |
1:22.4 | would say I'm living my best life but I'm living |
1:25.2 | whatever God's given me right now and we're doing okay I've got five very small kids so I just |
1:30.4 | stay busy like I was before. Yeah, I like the vulnerability there. |
1:34.0 | That's what we talked about in the last episode. |
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