Hey friends. You're listening to the Go and Tell Girls podcast, and I'm your host, Jess Conlin.

In most of our episodes, we'll have a guest, a woman who

is running on mission right where she's at. We pray this podcast leaves you encouraged and spurred

on to go and tell the good news. Hey friends, you are going to love today's episode. We are talking to Nona Jones. We're really talking

about our stories and about how our past do not determine our present or the impact of our

future. No matter what your past is like, no matter what your story is like,

I want to just invite you to listen in this episode, hear what truth God has for you in it.

Be blessed, be encouraged, and definitely give Nona a follow on social media.

Friends, I have been looking forward to this interview, this episode for months.

I am so excited.

If you do not already know, Nona Jones, I am so excited to introduce you to her.

Hey, thanks for being here with us today.

Thank you for having me.

I've been super excited myself. So this is so cool. So genuinely, I want to say this. A lot of times, you know, if people ask like, hey, who are you? Who are you following on Instagram right now that you like or that's inspiring you? I have to say, genuinely right now, following you on Instagram is one of the most life-giving things. You are giving it on the gram. Wow. Wow. You are bringing the life and the

wisdom and the truth and I am grateful for it. Oh, that means so much coming from you. Thank you for

saying that. Yeah, absolutely. Now, listen, what I coming from you. Thank you for saying that.

Yeah, absolutely. Now, listen, what I'm not going to do is I'm not going to start with your bio.

I will have already entered you and told people about you, but I'm not going to start with your

bio because I don't want anyone to feel intimidated. It's an incredible bio. It's incredible.

It's incredible. But I do want you to just tell us a little bit about

what mission looks like in your life and i know some of the bio will come out in that wow you

know mission for me because i had such a tumultuous childhood um experienced a lot of abuse of all kinds, just a lot of hopelessness,

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