After I started getting comfortable with being vulnerable with other people peering in and giving

perspective advice, helping me shape it and inform it in a way that it can be received to help

somebody.

I just started praying and I was like, Lord, like this is your story.

This is not mine to manufacture.

Like, you know my story better than I know my story.

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Welcome to God Hears Her. I'm Elisa Morgan.

And I'm Aaron Eddy. And we all have a story to share, whether you're writing a book or just sharing with a friend,

bonding with a coworker, or being vulnerable in front of a large group of people.

So let's spend some time talking about our stories and why it's important to share them with others.

And since you just finished writing a book, Aaron, you should have plenty to talk about, right? I would love to hear more

about your own journey of learning to share your story. So let's get to it. This is God hears her.

Erin, so worth loving is a bit like a memoir, you know, so it's your story. Now, it's your

story on a specific topic, but you're very vulnerable. You're very honest. You share your not so

great choices as well as your better choices. You show the process, not just the product of your learning.

And, you know, so it's not like it was a novel and it's not like it's a, oh, I don't know,

a book about mathematics or something like that, a teaching book. So I think when you're talking

about this, and this is where I want to invite everybody else in,

when have you been in a place in your life where God has nudged you forward and then maybe off the cliff

to share something in your story, perhaps with people you know, but even more with people you don't know,

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