Welcome to this special episode of the Joel Osteen podcast. Victoria sat down with some of her friends to talk about her new book, Exceptional You.

We hope you enjoyed this podcast.

I'm so excited about my new book, Exceptional You. And I'm glad that you've joined us today. I'm here with my beautiful friends, my exceptional friends.

And we want to have a conversation about being exceptional. And the fact that we all are special, we all have gifts, we all have talents.

We cannot put these gifts and talents on autopilot. We can't expect to just set our gauges and run with it. We've got to be intentional.

We've got to be purposeful. We've got to walk things out every single day and reset if necessary.

So today I just want to have a conversation with you and all my friends here about stepping into the exceptional.

Hi Sarah. Hi.

My, right.

Joanna.

We got ISIS, Elaine, Vanessa, and Kara. Thank you guys for being here today. I'm excited about just talking about being exceptional.

You know, Exceptional was really something that's not just good, Exceptional stands out. Exceptional is something to be celebrated. Exceptional is unique.

And I believe that God has called each one of us to be exceptional. But too often we walk in the ordinary. We discount our talents.

We don't think we're enough, but we want you to know today that God's made you more than enough.

That He's given you everything you need. You're equipped. You're empowered to become everything that God's called you to be.

So that's what we're going to talk about today. And the first chapter of this book is called Putting on Your Crown.

You know, sometimes we're talked out of wearing our crown. You know, we're talked out of being the person God's called us to be.

Sometimes we shy away from it. We shy away from our gifts and talents.

Yes. Yes. Putting on your crown was actually one of my favorite chapters.

It's like the first step to just knowing who you are. You have to know that you have a crown. So what you were saying in this book about putting it on and embracing who you are, it was very special because I feel like so many girls nowadays don't know that they have a crown.

Yes. That they don't know that they should even put it on. So I love that in the book you remind us and you tell us that through the word of God and through our Father, we have a crown and to put it on.

And you know, we're proudly with confidence. It's really good. That chapter I talked about being chosen. And I talked about my friend, Jim, whose mother was going to have a baby.

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