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Mere Christians

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

Mere Christians

Jordan Raynor

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🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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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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