Alan Graham, visionary behind Community First
The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
Jessica Honegger
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean to be home? Alan Graham has leveraged his life's work to answer that question. Today, Alan and Jessica discuss his revolutionary Community First! Village—a 27-acre master planned development in northeast Austin that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for men and women coming out of chronic homelessness.
And in this discussion about what it means to be chronically homeless, Alan teaches all of us the importance of being in community and loving our neighbor.
Show Notes
- Head here to learn more about Alan, Community First!, and Mobile Loves & Fishes.
- Head to Jessica Honegger's website for info on her book, her Courage Quiz, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone it's Jessica Honegger founder of the socially conscious |
| 0:07.8 | fashion brand New Day Collection and this is the going scared |
| 0:11.0 | podcast where we cover all things, |
| 0:13.0 | social impact, entrepreneurship, and courage. |
| 0:16.7 | Today's guest is an Austin legend. |
| 0:19.7 | His name is Alan Graham. |
| 0:21.4 | And even though you might not be from Austin I know you're going to |
| 0:24.6 | want to give this a listen because he is the lead visionary behind Mobile Loaves and |
| 0:30.3 | Fish's Community First Village. |
| 0:32.9 | Community First Village is a 27-acre master plan development |
| 0:37.0 | in Northeast Austin that provides affordable permanent housing, |
| 0:40.8 | also in addition a supportive community for men and women who are coming out of chronic homelessness. |
| 0:47.0 | And if you follow me on Instagram, you saw that my word for the year, my intention for this year, is home and what is the meaning of home. |
| 0:57.0 | And there's so many different ways that I've explored, what does it mean to be at home in my body, what does it mean to welcome God into my home, what does it mean to be at home in my body what does it mean to welcome God into my home what |
| 1:03.9 | does it mean to linger in my own home you guys he ends up breaking down the |
| 1:09.8 | word home for all of us it is so profound so I know you're going to enjoy this |
| 1:16.7 | conversation. Allen is also the author of Welcome Homeless, One Man's Journey |
| 1:21.5 | of Discovering the meaning of home. |
| 1:24.0 | You know, I went to UT, so I graduated in 1999, but it would during that time I got really involved with the |
| 1:36.3 | homeless population out on the drag so I'm just so thankful for you because you've |
| 1:39.8 | really stayed with it you've taken the long view and you are changing the world right here in |
| 1:44.4 | Austin, Texas, but many of our podcast listeners are not from Austin. So I would just let, I mean |
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