Becca Stevens - Practically Divine
Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends
Bob Goff
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Dream Big Podcast I am joined by my dear friend Becca Stevens. Becca is a speaker, social entrepreneur, author, priest, founder of ten non-profit justice initiatives, and President of Thistle Farms. She has been featured on PBS NewsHour, The Today Show, CNN, ABC World News, named a CNN Hero, and White House Champion of Change. Drawing from 25 years of leadership in mission-driven work, Becca leads important conversations across the country with an inspiring message that love is the strongest force for change in the world. Her newest book is Practically Divine, published by Harper Horizons, and is available to order now.
You can learn more about Becca Stevens by visiting www.beccastevens.org.
-Bob
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Becca, thank you so much for jumping on the podcast. It's so fun to see you in person |
| 0:15.0 | as we're on Zoom here. Thank you so much. It is an honor. I love you. Oh, man, this is |
| 0:20.8 | just like a mutual respect here and the way that you love people and the way that you |
| 0:27.3 | like put wheels on your faith has always been inspiring for the people that haven't had a chance |
| 0:33.4 | to meet you before. Can you give just kind of a little bit of an overview of who you are and the |
| 0:38.8 | beautifully eccentric life you lead? Absolutely. My name is Becca Stevens and the founder |
| 0:45.6 | and president of Thistle Farms, which is a global community for women's freedom. We work with |
| 0:50.2 | women's survivors who have been trafficked, addicted, prostituted. For the last 25 years, |
| 0:56.1 | we started in Nashville and we just grew into that. I'm also a person that thinks, |
| 1:02.4 | if my glass is just half full, probably get a smaller glass for a little bit. You know, |
| 1:07.3 | I mean, I'm pretty optimistic in general. Yeah. And I have three kids and a beautiful husband |
| 1:14.5 | of 34 years who is a singer-songwriter. I love to hike in the woods and I love to take long |
| 1:21.3 | baths. How about that? Oh, that's great. One of the things that people might not know is that your faith |
| 1:29.5 | has expressed itself within the church and then on Main Street and it tells about the faith |
| 1:35.7 | expression and experience you have. A lot of people that listen to the podcast faith is important |
| 1:40.3 | to them. Others that listen to the podcast not so much, but tell us about yours. |
| 1:45.0 | So I've been ordained an episcopal priest for 30 years. So I got ordained a long time ago |
| 1:50.9 | and always knew that really what my heart was at was really to work with women who were coming off |
| 1:55.8 | the streets at a prison living into the violence and vulnerability of poverty. When I was a little, |
| 2:01.6 | my dad was killed. I went through several years of sexual abuse beginning in a church. |
| 2:08.1 | And while those years were super rough and hard, there was also so much good. I learned about |
| 2:14.5 | community, about joy. And I just knew that love healed and I wanted to be a part of a community |
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