Becca Stevens of Thistle Farms: An Enterprise for Women Built On Love

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Episode 2 in our “For the Love of Women Who Built It” features the fearless and heroic (CNN even awarded her with nomination as a 2017 CNN Hero) Becca Stevens, the president and founder of Thistle Farms. Becca describes her “aha” moment 21 years ago when she no longer could stay quiet about what she was seeing regarding women who were subject to sex trafficking and abuse (before “trafficking” was even a widely-used term). She started the organization with the Magdalene Center which welcomed women who had been subject to sex trafficking or abuse by providing free residences; taking care of their housing, medical care, therapy, and education for two years. From this, she moved into a social enterprise that creates beautiful and healing products for the body and employs these same women in need. The global market of Thistle Farms employs over 1,800 women worldwide, and the national network has over 40 sister communities. Becca’s new book (and mantra for her entire organization) is “Love Heals.”

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, my name is Remy.
0:03.6	Welcome to the For the Love Podcast with your host, Jen Hatmaker, my mom.
0:09.3	She writes books and speaks to crowds, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people
0:14.8	on this podcast every week.
0:17.2	Thanks for listening.
0:18.4	We hope you enjoyed the show.
0:20.0	Hey guys, it's Jen Hatmaker.
0:23.1	Welcome to the show.
0:24.8	This is the For the Love Podcast and we are in the middle of an amazing series called
0:32.9	For the Love of Women Who Built It.
0:35.2	So we are talking to entrepreneurs and builders and creators and business women and they're
0:43.2	just fascinating and smart and courageous and that describes my guest today in spades.
0:52.7	If you already know her, you are going to love this next hour.
0:57.0	So my guest today is Becca Stevens.
0:59.6	Becca is an author, she's a speaker, she's a priest, she's a social entrepreneur and she's
1:04.9	the founder and the president of Thistle Farms, which you may have heard of already.
1:10.0	So she's going to tell the whole story, but essentially Thistle Farms started 21 years
1:16.1	ago with a sanctuary house, offering survivors of sexual exploitation and trafficking a loving
1:26.0	community.
1:27.0	So from there, she built this huge business, at this point spans the globe.
1:34.5	She continues to welcome women in with free residences that provide housing and medical
1:40.0	care, therapy and education for two years.
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