Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.

I'm Dr. Dan Allender.

And I'm Rachel Clinton-Cenn.

We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.

And restoration for the heart.

Thank you for joining us.

Let's get this conversation started.

Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. We are in the middle of a series on what it means to live a well-lived life and story.

And we thought, Rachel and I just thought, we could talk, talk, talk.

You know, we've never had a whole lot of difficulty just talking. But nonetheless, we thought

maybe it's just smarter to bring people in who we look to as reflections of what it means to live a well-lived

story. And our guest today is a woman whom I have immense respect, honor for, delight in. She is a recent graduate of our program. But as we step in,

the reason we're inviting you to this is we want you to grow in courage and in kindness and

curiosity and commitment. Those are the things that we think are most central to what it means to live a well-lived

story.

And this woman, I'm telling you, she bears a life of great courage.

Rachel, introduce our guest.

What a privilege to introduce the fiercely beautiful Danielle Castillo.

She is a mother, a writer, a speaker, as Dan mentioned, a recent counseling graduate of the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology.

And we've also been privileged to have Danielle as a part of our Allender Center training certificates for multiple years.

And she has informed even for us some of the work we're doing.

And I would say just someone I experience as a fierce advocate and an artist.

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