Jeanne Stevens - What's Here Now?

Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends

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Talk Radio, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Jeanne Stevens is the founding and co-lead pastor of Soul City Church in Chicago, one of America's fastest growing urban churches. Prior to starting Soul City Church, Stevens was on the pastoral staff at Willow Creek Community Church and North Point Community Church. A sought-after speaker, leader, and writer, Jeanne's passion is to help people wake up to their purpose as they pursue a life of wholehearted freedom. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Jarrett, and their two children. What’s Here Now? will be available nationwide May 17, 2022 To learn more about Jeanne and puchase her new book, please visit jeannestevens.com

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Dream Big Podcast. It's Bob Gough here. And for those of
0:14.4	you that this is new to what we've been doing for the last couple of years and seven million
0:20.1	downloads. You guys, thanks for listening. We've been talking about his ambitions. What's
0:25.7	your ambition? What do you want? Why do you want it? What are you going to do about it? If
0:30.2	you wrote down three things, and I'm a big note taker, unless you're driving right now in traffic,
0:35.0	to write down, like, what do I want? And you could say, I want a Porsche. And that's fine,
0:40.1	but it's just going to break down. You'll spend a ton in insurance for it. But I think most of us
0:45.3	want like deeper relationships. We want to know like the deeper lasting things in our life. And
0:52.1	so what I do is I bring on friends of mine who are people I respect, voices that have been
0:58.0	important in my life. So you can just hear from my friends. And we've got a friend today,
1:03.8	Jeannie Siemens is got a beautiful set of things going on in the Chicago land area. And just like
1:10.6	you'd be interested to hear from here. So Jeannie, welcome to the podcast. Hey, Bob, it's so good
1:16.1	to see you and to be with all your listeners. Thanks for having me. Yeah, this is so great. So for
1:21.6	people that haven't mentioned you, Shat, give us a thumbnail. What is it like to be you? And who are
1:27.3	you? I love that question because you don't ask, what do I do in the world? You ask, what is it
1:32.9	like to be me? And what it's like to be me to live in this container is I am so deeply passionate
1:41.3	about being fully alive and fully here. You know, when you just ask that question, what do I want?
1:47.8	I want it to be set of me. She was all the way here. She lived her one full life all the way here,
1:56.9	fully alive. So to know me is to know that I love people. I love people experiencing life and life
2:07.0	to the fullest. What I do in the world and some of the roles that I play, I'm married to the love
2:15.0	of my life, Jared, and about 12 years ago, we started a church in our living room that now meets
2:23.9	in downtown Chicago. And it's this beautiful expression of people that are just trying to be
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