Creating Connection in the New Year: Kristin Schell & The Turquoise Table

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It’s Episode #3 of our phenomenal “For the Love of New Beginnings” Series. This week, Jen talks to Kristin Schell, the author of The Turquoise Table and leader of the Front Yard People movement. Kristin shares how she was longing for connection and belonging in her community and was struck by the realization that she didn’t know many of her neighbors, their names or much less their stories. This moved her to take a step toward that connection, and she started with a brightly colored turquoise picnic table that she put smack dab in the middle of her front yard. Kristin’s simple act of inviting connection at a turquoise picnic table has spawned a movement that has spread across the country; from individuals and families putting turquoise tables in their front yards right along with churches, businesses and parks getting involved. We’ll all be inspired and challenged to get to know our neighbors in the new year with the simple ideas and resources Kristin passes on that can bring the joy of community right to our own front yards.

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0:00.0	Welcome to For the Love Podcast with bestselling author, Jen Hatmaker.
0:06.8	Come on in and join us for a chat with Jen and friends about all the things we love.
0:12.0	Now here's Jen.
0:13.6	Hey, hey you guys.
0:20.5	Hey it's Jen Hatmaker.
0:23.4	Welcome to The For the Love Podcast.
0:25.4	I am so glad to be with you today.
0:28.4	We are in a series that is so life giving to me.
0:32.6	We are talking about for the love of new beginnings.
0:36.5	And I'm just, I'm, I'm, I've been so inspired by it.
0:40.1	And this is just that time of year where there's something noble, right?
0:44.4	About turning our eyes to this calendar year.
0:48.0	And where do we want to develop and what do we want to strengthen and which parts of our
0:51.6	lives do we want to enrich and deepen and bring more meaning to?
0:56.3	I think these are good questions to ask.
0:58.0	I think I actually think New Year's resolutions or whatever you want to call them.
1:02.2	Get a back wrap.
1:03.2	I think this is a great time of year to turn our eyes to new beginnings.
1:06.5	And so I asked this guest on because I really love the way she is living.
1:12.8	I like the way she's doing hospitality.
1:14.8	I like the way she's using her home, her energy, her time.
1:18.8	And I sincerely believe that if we will dial in today and really listen to her story
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