EP98: Dawn and Casey's Battle with Themselves and Jimmy John's founder Jimmy Liautaud
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Dawn and Casey share how they connected through similar childhood traumas and how they learned to improve their own marriage to break the cycle; and Jimmy Liautaud tells the story of how he created the well-known Jimmy Johns sandwich restaurant.
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00:00 - Dawn and Casey's Battle with Themselves
35:00 - Jimmy John's founder Jimmy Liautaud
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| 0:00.0 | This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show, from the arts to sports and from business to history and everything in between, including your |
| 0:20.8 | stories, send them to our American Stories.com. They're some of our favorites. One of the most |
| 0:26.4 | important subjects we talk about is marriage. And that brings us to our relationship story hour |
| 0:31.9 | with our friend J.P. DeGance, who runs a group called Communio. Communio is committed to healing marriages, and they do |
| 0:39.1 | phenomenal work across the country, and you're about to hear from two people and about the |
| 0:44.1 | trials they've faced, both to be together and to stay together. Here's JP with their story. |
| 0:53.5 | Dawn and Casey Cochran have been building a life together in Jacksonville, Florida, |
| 0:58.0 | a good life, raising kids together from different relationships, finding fulfilling work, and navigating |
| 1:04.6 | issues of intimacy and trust. |
| 1:08.8 | But to really appreciate their strength and growth, we have to go way back to their childhoods. |
| 1:13.6 | Young Casey was dealt a hand with some very tough cards. |
| 1:21.6 | If I was in a broken home, my parents divorced when I was very young. My dad remarried. |
| 1:30.3 | He committed suicide in 1975. He was what we now call manic depression. But two days before my 11th birthday, he shot himself in the head. |
| 1:46.0 | And, um, I'm the one who found him. I'm the one to open the door and saw, you know. |
| 1:51.0 | It changed how people perceived my brothers and myself. I mean, we were picked on. |
| 1:57.0 | My mom was, uh, scared and alone with three boys who were 11, 11, and 8. She didn't |
| 2:09.1 | know what to do and she remarried within a year and a half, two years, and the totally |
| 2:13.7 | wrong guy. He was an abusive alcoholic. I was the biggest, so I got the beatings. |
| 2:20.3 | So they divorced. My mom met this guy, Bob, and they ended up getting married. He was a great guy. |
| 2:32.3 | We were in and out of church. Like we would go to church after my dad died, we were in church a lot, and the youth group |
| 2:38.0 | and the church poured into us. |
| 2:40.0 | And that was a major part of my life was being in the youth group and being around |
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