Hey y'all welcome back to the God Center Mom Podcast. With me, Heather McFadden, this

is episode 187 and I'm chatting with my friends Stephanie Giddens. She's the

president and founder of Vickery Trading Company and in this episode she's

going to share her story. A story that includes a desire of her husband and

family to move to Africa and then God showing them that wasn't the plan. A

season of waiting, being a stayed-home mom, not knowing what God had next for her

and being a little bit discontent with where she was. Until God opened her eyes

to some women who needed her help right around the corner. Here's a little clip of

that story. You know I think as our church was starting to get involved with

refugees I realized there's just as much pain five minutes from my house and

there's still women who are marginalized incredibly so. They need a helping hand.

They need someone to reach out and help them along. So I realized okay well this

looks really different from what I thought but it's also really the same in

a lot of ways. I just had to change my attitude about it. I don't look at

something usually and say oh I can't do that. I'm like oh well this is another

challenge let's figure it out. People are like you can't do that and I'm like oh

yeah I'll watch for you. Did you hear that? That's Stephanie showing you that

she's not afraid of a challenge. In fact it's a little hope for you moms of

strong-willed little girls. Stephanie mentions that she may have been

difficult to raise but that strength is helping her out because not only did

she give us a glimpse into the life of a refugee she reminds us that these

women came from very different backgrounds and she uses the strength to help

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