Episode 29: Simply Pray, an interview with Deb Hopper
The Jess Connolly Podcast
Jess Connolly
4.8 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Jess interviews Deb Hopper, author of, ‘Simply Pray,’ and Jess' mom. You’ll hear them discuss how Deb went through asking, seeking, and knocking in her own life as a single mom and how every concern, big and small, is worth bringing to God. Join Jess’ Leaders are Learners book club and dive into this book with us; join and share your thoughts through email or voice message!
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Leaders are Learners! Join Jess’s book club here, where you’ll read transformative books together. We are currently reading ‘Simply Pray’ by Deb Hopper. You’ll get an additional Q&A from the author and a space to call in and share your thoughts on the podcast!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, I'm Jess Connolly. I'm an author, a coach, a Bible teacher, and a local church leader, |
| 0:07.0 | and I love talking to real people who know what it means to have full lives, but also want to walk in abundance. |
| 0:14.5 | This podcast is for you. It's not my podcast. It's ours. It's for people who crave lighthearted conversations and deeply |
| 0:23.4 | spiritual truth. It's for people who are busy, tired, waiting, growing, dreaming, working, |
| 0:30.4 | or praying about what's next. Wherever you're listening from, if it's quiet, mundane, or busy, |
| 0:38.8 | I am praying for you and I'm so glad you're here from, if it's quiet, mundane, or busy, I am praying for you, |
| 0:49.5 | and I'm so glad you're here. Let's go. So here's what I'm wondering, do you guys have an author or somebody that you follow online that you just absolutely love, that you love learning from them, |
| 0:56.0 | that you wish they could mentor you, that you feel like, man, this person just gives me so much |
| 1:01.7 | insight and so much wisdom, and I am so grateful that God made them. That's how I feel about |
| 1:07.8 | Deb Hopper. But the beautiful thing is she's also my mom. |
| 1:11.4 | And I love her more because I know that what she shares online is genuine. |
| 1:17.1 | And I believe her words with so much more, I don't know, like heart because I see her live |
| 1:24.2 | them out. |
| 1:25.8 | And today it's my honor to share her and her book, |
| 1:30.0 | Simply Pray, with you guys as we read it together for our leaders, our learners book club. |
| 1:37.4 | Deb Hopper, welcome to the podcast. Thank you. Thank you for being here. So fun to be here with you. |
| 1:46.2 | Okay, it is a labor of love. You don't love doing podcast interviews. No, I don't. So let's just pretend the mic's not here. Okay. |
| 1:52.8 | Okay, here's actually the first thing I want to talk about. I would like to talk about this reel that |
| 1:58.1 | you posted the other day, which I haven't even talked to you |
| 2:01.2 | about the rejections, the book rejections. So obviously, Simply Pray comes out, as of the airing of |
| 2:07.9 | this podcast, it comes out tomorrow. But this is not only a much longer story about you in prayer, |
| 2:13.9 | it's also a much longer story about you in writing. Yeah. And we're living in this weird, |
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