Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we speak with best-selling author and

nationally known speaker Annie F Downs. Annie weaves together personal stories,

humor, and scripture in her books, and her latest project,

100 Days to be Brave, is no exception.

Annie has experienced challenges that left her feeling scared and alone, but through the difficulties she decided to

embrace the path and the plan that God had for her by embarking on a journey that would require

her to do something brave every day for 100 days.

Listen as she describes where she got her start

and what gave her the courage to keep believing.

I am Annie F. Downs.

I'm an author and a speaker based here in Nashville, Tennessee. I've been

writing full-time as my job in traveling full-time for about five and a half years.

I grew up outside of Atlanta, Georgia

and Marietta, Georgia.

It's about 25 minutes northwest of downtown Atlanta.

And I grew up in a house with my parents and my sisters and my grandparents lived across the driveway.

We just kind of had a really special neat experience growing up almost with two sets of parents right there because

our grandparents were so close.

And it was great.

I totally loved it.

I was the kid who loved biking around outside

by myself, pretending to interview myself,

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