Hey everybody welcome to the mere Christians podcast. I'm Jordan Rayner.

How does the Gospel influence the work of mere Christians?

Those of us who aren't pastors or religious professionals,

but who work as product managers, occupational therapists,

and pest control workers.

That's the question we explore every week,

and today I'm posing it to Deb Lou,

the incredible CEO of ancestry.com.

Before that, Deb was a senior executive at Facebook

where she created Facebook Marketplace.

And before that, she spent several years

in product roles at PayPal and eBay where she led the integration between those two products. No big deal, right?

Deb and I recently sat down and had a terrific conversation about how we need to rethink evangelism as something we do every single minute of every single day.

We talked about the wild story of Deb pitching Facebook Marketplace in her very first

interview with Cheryl Sandberg back in 2009-ish and we talked about the super practical thing Deb does and that you can do today to show

your coworkers that you love and value them beyond their productivity. I think you guys are going to love this conversation with my new

friend Deb Lou. Deb Lou, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for inviting me. So in the

introduction I just rattled off some of your incredible titles but I may have left

out maybe the most fun title, you're the creator of the Mommy School comics, are you not?

I am, I am.

So this website's hilarious, Mommy School dot net. Tell our listeners what this is real quickly.

You know when my kids were young they used to just say the silliest things and I used to post them on

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