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Mere Christians

Dr. Monique Perry-Graves (Executive Director of Teach for America North Carolina)

Mere Christians

Jordan Raynor

Entrepreneurship, Christianity, Business, Careers, Master Of One, The Call To Mastery, Entrepreneur, The Creator In You, Calling, Called To Create, Vocation, Christian Entrepreneur, Call To Mastery, Christian Business, Faith And Work, Mere Christians, Author, Raynor, Tim Keller, Jordan Raynor, Christian Professional, Creator In You, Redeeming Your Time, Redeem The Day, Religion & Spirituality, Theology Of Work, Professional Growth

51K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

How to deliver radical candor in a distinctly Christ-like way

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0:00.0

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

0:09.2

How does the gospel influence the work of mere Christians?

0:13.8

Those of us who aren't pastors or religious professionals, but who work as audiologists,

0:19.2

restaurant hosts, and interior designers? That's the question we explore every week and today I'm

0:26.0

posing it to my new friend Dr Monique Perry Graves. She's the executive director of

0:32.3

Teach for America, North Carolina.

0:35.0

Pretty big job.

0:36.2

She had a lot of big jobs prior to that.

0:38.2

Monique and I recently sat down to talk about how to deliver radical candor at work, but in a distinctly Christ-like way,

0:46.8

we talked about the power of pursuing vocational visions that will never be achieved, and how to lean into the hard parts of your story.

0:56.8

For God's greater glory, trust me, you're going to thoroughly enjoy this conversation with Dr Monique Perry Graves.

1:05.4

Dr Perry Graves,

1:10.9

Dr Perry Graves, welcome to the Muir Christians podcast.

1:14.0

Thank you for having me, Jordan.

1:16.0

It's an honor and pleasure.

1:17.0

Oh, man, the honor is all mine.

1:19.0

So, hey, you're at Teach for America, you're running Teach for America in the state of North Carolina. I'm curious what sparked

1:25.4

this love of education for you. I know you had a teacher in the 12th grade who was really

1:30.2

influential for you. Is that in? Like what was the spark of a love of education?

1:35.2

Yeah I think it's in my DNA it really goes back a couple of generations to my grandparents who during their time did not have a chance to kind of have the full

1:47.7

formal education particularly my paternal grandfather who had an eighth grade education but he actually worked at a school

1:56.7

alongside my maternal grandmother and also was an entrepreneur and had his own business.

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