Hey everyone this is Jessica Honegger founder of the socially conscious

fashion brand new day collection and this is the going scared

podcast where we cover all things,

social impact, entrepreneurship, and courage.

Today's a very special episode,

because I have my husband here with me.

Hey, Hemi. Hey, Tammy.

Hey Jessica, it's so great to be on the going scare pockets.

So we're actually sitting here in our house,

if you hear a cat meowing in the background that's why that's our cat and I just get so many

questions about my hubby about our marriage about our family life. I often get asked if my husband's my business partner when she's not.

So we're just going to give you, we're going to dish it all today.

We're dishing it honey. We're dishing it honey. Okay. We are dishing it. So,

babe why don't you first of all share the story of how we met.

Okay. So I'm from Indiana. Grew up Hoosier, born and raised, went to

University at Purdue and through that experience took a couple trips

overseas in college on some mission trips, went to Haiti a couple times, got exposed to the third world and poverty for the first time, and so as I was graduating, kind of playing what I was going to do next was researching

different service opportunities, kind of done some education and

construction management and felt like I was supposed to use that to serve the

poor in some fashion.

So through that I found food for the hungry international

and they had a position open and they invited,

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