Welcome to Behind the Scenes podcast. The show is full of stories, creative ideas,

questions and challenges with the hope of igniting and equipping you to be more intentional with your life.

On this podcast, we take you behind the scenes of whatever we're learning and loving.

Each episode will get you thinking about things you haven't before, spark meaningful conversations

in your own life and ignite you to love more creatively and intentionally. We hope this podcast

feels like you're joining us for a campfire. Before we jump into our first episode of this season

of the podcast, we are honored to announce that we have partnered with Compassion International

for this entire season of the podcast. As many of you know, Audgen I have supported children

as compassion sponsors for over six years now and we've seen firsthand how important the

relationship and letter writing is, how much of a difference it makes both in the lives of the

children that we sponsor as well as in our life. But obviously it's so much more than just letter

writing. This isn't just a pen pal. The money that we provide allows children to get school supplies

to see doctors when they are sick, have a meal when they are hungry. We actually just purchased a

goat for one of our sponsored children and she sent us a photo and it's hanging up on our fridge

and it's amazing every time we look at it we smile. These are basic things that we take for granted

here in America specifically but are out of reach for a lot of kids around the world. In late 2019,

we decided to do an interview with a woman named Kiwi on the podcast. You can listen to that

interview. It's episode 62 of last season and we were so blown away by her story and so many of

you were blown away also. 225 of you decided to sponsor children because of that episode. Amazing.

So, Audrey and I thought it'd be awesome if we made a goal for this season to sponsor 300 children.

How incredible that would be. So we hope you join us in helping make the world a little brighter

of a place. Either way, we're really grateful that you're here. You're listening. We're really

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