Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Going Scared Podcast. This is your host, Jessica

Honecker, founder of the Social Impact Fashion Brand Noonday collection. Are you

ready for honest and vulnerable conversations that will inspire you towards

action? Join me here every week for conversations on living lives of

purpose by leaving comfort and going scared. Last week, we kicked off a new

series that we are calling against the grain. So for the next few weeks, we are

chatting with people that are living outside their comfort zones and I'm

thinking most likely your comfort zones too. I wanted to have these

conversations and hopes that we might also be encouraged to live a little bit

more on our edge. I know right now at least my normal motivation and joy to

leave has really been numbed out for the past few months and sometimes hearing

from other people that are choosing to swim upstream encourages me to do the

same. Today's guest, Angela Braniff, she is swimming upstream in so many

areas of her life. She has grown her family non-traditionally so she's done

embryo adoption, which is a term called snowflake adoption. If you have not

heard of that, she's adopted domestically, she's adopted a child with

Down syndrome and in fact, she now has eight children. Okay, so that's

swimming upstream. Let's face it. But not only that during the pandemic, she and

her husband and eight children decided to leave the city and move to a far. So

she's got animals all around her and she's homeschooling but okay, I'll be

honest with you. When I get an image of the person I just described in my

head, it's not it's not how I experience Angela. Angela is so she's super into

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