Welcome to the Storytellers Live podcast where everyday people share real and personal stories. Some are profound and challenging, while others are more common and relatable shared with honesty and

humor. But all of these stories reveal what God can do in our lives when we trust him with the

details. Thanks for joining us.

Hi, everyone. This is your host, Kelly, from the Storytellers Live team.

On each episode, you'll hear a different woman share her story of God's transforming love.

These stories are recorded in a live setting at weekly local gatherings, where we're aiming

to build community through sharing, connecting, and encouraging one another.

Most importantly, these stories reveal the faithfulness of God and how he can take what's ordinary and broken

and exchange it for extraordinary and redeemed.

The storytellers live team is continually praying and brainstorming about how we can best serve and encourage

our communities and also our podcast listeners. So we have put together a very brief survey

and posted it on our website, which is storytellerslive.org. And we would be so grateful

if you would take a moment to fill it out. It will probably take you less

than two minutes, but the information that we can gather through the survey will just be really

helpful to us as we plan for the future. Today you'll hear from Katie Vogel on her journey

with mental illness, which started at the age of 18. And since then, Katie has struggled with doubts that God could use her

to make a difference unless she was perfectly healthy. But she never gave up. And in the last year,

Katie has launched her own podcast. It's called The Untethered Podcast, and you can find it on iTunes.

And it encourages women to move forward in their God-given purpose no matter what their

circumstances look like. We do not have to have it all together for God to use us. We've just

got to keep showing up. And that's a truth that every single one of us needs to hear. Here's Katie.

Well, hi, everyone. I'm so, so honored to be here today and to get to share a little bit or

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