Hey, everybody. This is Heidi St. John. Thanks for tuning in today. You guys have found me at my little corner of the internet today is Friday. The fourth of March. It's meet my friend Friday. And today I have an amazing woman on the show with me today. Dr. Angela Plowhead is here.

She's running right now for the sixth congressional district for Congress in the great state of Oregon. And she's author of a brand new book called Empower to lead a message of hope and healing.

We're going to talk about women in leadership today. Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

All right, you guys. So you know that I love to get you going on all things related to mom, starring international.

So before I get going with my friend Angela today, I want to remind you we have a brand new study that is just now beginning. And in fact that will launch this coming Monday.

So in just a couple of days, we're going to be studying the book of acts. And this is an amazing time to study the book of acts because the church was really given a blueprint by the apostles to see exactly how they're supposed to behave in the culture.

Exactly how to be the handsome feat of Jesus. And if ever if ever there was a time for us to know how to do that. That time is right now. And it's one of the reasons why I'm so excited to have my guest on the show with me today.

I met Dr. Angela at an event that I was speaking at. Not that long ago. It's been well, I guess in light years now in Roni years has been 10 years, but it really wasn't that long ago.

She has a passion to encourage women, particularly in leadership. And she really is setting that example in her own life. It takes Hutzpah to run for Congress absolutely, but Angela has done more than that.

She has her she has her degree. She's obviously very, very well versed in the field of psychology. And I've been privileged to read through her new book, empowered to lead a message of hope and healing. I asked to come on the show and talk about it. We're going to dive into so many things related to women and leadership. Angela, my friend, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me Heidi.

So give us a little bit of your history, because it might not be as, you know, I think people look and they say, oh, here's a woman with it with a doctor, you know, behind her name, but the fact of the matter is, you know, you didn't come, you know, nobody put a silver spoon in your mouth. And so you have a really interesting story and an interesting perspective.

Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Yeah, you know, I grew up extremely poor. I did not have, you know, the advantage of going to private schools or anything like that. My parents were working class people.

My parents had a very troubled relationship and divorced when I was very young. And so I witnessed a lot of really tough things very early in life.

And then out of that, or as the underpinning of that really was this support that I had from my grandmother, who was just a very strong influence in my life.

And even though I had no one in my family or in my sphere of influence, who was really educated or grew up in that world, I did have a doctor.

And that doctor inspired me from the time I was three years old to want to be a physician.

And so, you know, that had been my driving force and what really saw me through my educational experience.

And then you were in the Air Force, too, weren't you? I mean, you, the first woman in your family to enlist in the Air Force, which that is impressive all by itself.

And then you went on to earn your doctorate in clinical psychology. So, so one could say, you're not letting a grass ground your feet.

That's true. Drifted is definitely a word that that describes me.

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