First Lady of Tennessee Crissy Haslam: Grateful for Second Chances [w/ Brenda Wilson]

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🗓️ 23 November 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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As the First Lady of Tennessee, Crissy Haslam believes in the power of second chances. Her priorities have been focused on working with change making organizations who are empowering families, women, and orphans. Crissy shares why it’s important to her to serve others, and how thankful she for the influence she has to make a difference in many people’s lives. Our second guest is Brenda Wilson from Thistle Farms. Brenda’s was devastated after the death of her grandmother who was her biggest caretaker and advocate. Left alone in an unfamiliar, she lost her way. After 20 years of wandering, she walked through a door that God opened for her at Thistle Farms. Given the chance to begin again, Brenda shares how the love of God and others showed her she could live differently.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we speak with the First Lady of Tennessee,
0:06.4	Governor's wife Chrissy Haslam. Since 2011, First Lady Chrissy Haslam's
0:11.5	priorities have been focused on education and empowering families with resources to help children become more proficient in reading.
0:18.0	She frequently travels the state with the Governor's Books from Birth Foundation in support of Tennessee's
0:23.6	Imagination Library and also supports important work that is being done
0:27.3	through organizations like The Next Door, a faith-based rehabilitation center in
0:31.6	Nashville, Tennessee,
0:33.2	and Thistle Farms, a social justice enterprise
0:36.1	that embraces the survivors of trafficking.
0:38.7	And Tennessee Fosters, a program that paves the way
0:41.8	for children to be adopted into loving families.
0:45.0	Chrissy shares why these causes are so important to her and how thankful she is for the blessing of serving others through her work as governor's wife.
0:58.0	Well, my name is Chrissy Haslam and they call me the First Lady of Tennessee. I'm just married to the governor of Tennessee, my husband Bill.
1:02.0	I'm a mother of three children, a grandmother
1:05.0	of seven children, a wife, a daughter, lots of different roles. I was born in Houston, Texas,
1:11.9	and I lived there until I was 8.
1:14.1	And then we moved to Memphis, Tennessee.
1:16.7	My family went to church.
1:18.6	We went to a Methodist church.
1:20.6	I remember my mom and my grandmother teaching vacation Bible school and Sunday school and
1:26.4	being with them in the classroom which was always very special. Our family was very
1:31.4	focused on education.
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