ATG 101: How to *literally* make the world a brighter place: My conversation with Becca Stevens
All It Takes Is A Goal
Jon Acuff
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ve probably seen that around this time of year, I always talk about an amazing organization called Thistle Farms, a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving women survivors of abuse, trafficking, and addiction.
I’m thrilled to have their founder and President, Becca Stevens, join me for this special episode. Becca is a speaker, justice entrepreneur, author, and priest. She has been named a CNN Hero, a White House Champion of Change, and holds five honorary doctorates. Listen to our conversation to hear stories of healing and redemption and learn about how you can make the world a little brighter this holiday season.
In This Episode:
You can support 500 Lights Home
Buy a copy of Becca’s newest book
Visit Thistle Farms
Follow Becca on Instagram
Becca's Book List:
The Long Lonliness by Dorothy Day
Meditations of the Heart by Howard Thurman
The Understory by Pamela Erens
Frederick Douglass: America’s Prophet by D.H. Dilbeck
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone and welcome to the all it takes to goal podcast the best place in the entire |
| 0:13.4 | world including all of Canon to learn how to build new thoughts, new actions and new |
| 0:18.3 | results. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm your host John Akef and today I'm joined by Becca Stevens whose Becca Stevens |
| 0:24.1 | I'm so glad you asked Becca Stevens is a speaker, a justice entrepreneur and author |
| 0:29.4 | apprised and the founder and president of Thistle Farms. |
| 0:33.1 | She's been featured on PBS NewsHour, the today show CNN, ABC, World News. |
| 0:38.8 | She was named a CNN hero and White House champion of change. |
| 0:43.4 | She holds five honorary doctorates and raised over 65 million dollars in funding. |
| 0:51.2 | Drawing from 25 years of leadership and mission driven work, Becca leads important conversations |
| 0:56.4 | across the country with an inspired message that love is the strongest force for change |
| 1:00.5 | in the world and she's my friend. |
| 1:03.4 | I love Thistle Farms. |
| 1:05.4 | Thistle Farms is based in Nashville. |
| 1:07.1 | We started working with them years and years and years ago. |
| 1:10.1 | She is a baller, amazing, amazing person. |
| 1:14.2 | I can't wait for you to meet her. |
| 1:16.3 | Every year we do this big candle drive at the end of the year called 500 Lights Home.com. |
| 1:20.7 | We're going to talk a little about that but how do you run a nonprofit for 20 years which |
| 1:25.8 | is 5,000 years in nonprofit terms? |
| 1:28.3 | How do you have a product that's so good that it gets picked up by Whole Foods? |
| 1:33.8 | We're going to go all over in this conversation. |
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