Episode 5: Joanna Ivey
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2015
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Please allow me to introduce you to my friend Joanna. There are SO many reasons I needed you to meet this girl. First, her "little skill of sewing" as she calls it, is not little. It is actually making a huge impact in her town and around the world. Second, she has overcome some poor choices in her own life (we all make them!) and has witnessed first hand God's amazing promise to work all things out for good. You wouldn't believe the story if I told you so you might as well hear it from her.
In our chat we cover how single parenting is hard and how waiting for your adoptive child is hard too! We talk about her new job with Project Free 2 Fly and her work with No. 41.
Find me on your favorite social media channel so we can chat about YOUR thoughts on this episode! If you have a second, it would really help other struggling moms find us if you review the podcast on iTunes. The struggle is real. We might as well do it together!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and |
| 0:05.0 | I am a mom struggling well podcast. My name is Emily Thomas and I am a mom on a mission to get a new perspective. |
| 0:11.0 | Y'all I am not proud of it but I spent far too long waiting for my daily |
| 0:15.0 | irritations to resolve before the good times can begin. And I'm thinking the struggles are just |
| 0:20.3 | going to keep coming so I might as well get a new plan. God promises if we |
| 0:24.5 | persevere through our daily struggles our character will be built and will end up |
| 0:28.5 | with a hope that doesn't disappoint. And I don't know about you but my hardest |
| 0:32.4 | days happen when I've lost sight of that hope. |
| 0:35.0 | So if that's your story too, join me each week as I interview someone who is passed from just struggling |
| 0:40.1 | to struggling well. Hey guys, you have episode 5 here and I just want to tell you before we start anything |
| 0:48.0 | that I am so impressed and excited by y'all's engagement with this podcast. |
| 0:54.4 | You're leaving reviews, you're tagging me on Instagram and Facebook. |
| 0:58.4 | I mean, just like an ass, it's crazy. |
| 1:00.4 | I wish my kids listen to me this well. |
| 1:02.0 | But I am so encouraged that you are |
| 1:04.1 | practically loving your people well and I had no idea this would be so fun or |
| 1:08.7 | would have started at ages ago. This podcast is already being rated really well on |
| 1:12.4 | iTunes and it's it's not me y'all it's you I'm a girl in a closet with a microphone |
| 1:17.2 | You were the ones telling your friends and doing something about it. So keep it up. This is gonna to get really fun. I got a review from Curious Cheese I wanted to read. |
| 1:25.8 | Emily is hysterical down to earth transparent and real. I'm not sure it gets better than that. |
| 1:30.5 | That's what I've been telling my husband, curious cheese. |
| 1:33.0 | This is what I need as a woman, as a mom, to remember |
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