Welcome to the Ransomed Heart Podcast. I'm Alan Arnold and today in the studio we have a really special guest, Stacey Eldridge.

And many of you know Stacey from the book she's written, from captivating,

and then more recently becoming myself.

But I'm so thrilled to talk to you today about a new book,

brand new, that she's just finished and is available now

titled Free to be Me and Free to be Me is about how young women teen girls can

become the woman that God has created them to be. We get asked all

the time how can we minister and convey the Ransomed Heart message to our sons, to

our daughters.

Well, John and Sam have just offered this through Killing Lions,

a book for men in their 20s, and now Stacy's

written a book with a message to teen girls. So a very important message today we're

going to just dive into the conversation of free to be me and Stacy first

welcome. Thanks, Alan.

Good to be here.

So good to have you here.

Tell us, just what was it that stirred within you

to write a book for teen girls?

Oh, because these are such tough years, Alan, as everybody knows.

And these particular years in a young woman's life are so formative.

And they're living in shark infested waters. You think,

gosh, if I had known some things then that I know now, it really would have helped

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