Yay, you're here. I'm Lisa Whittle, and welcome to the Jesus Over Everything interview show, affectionately known as Joe's Friday friend, or everyone I sit down and talk with, is either an old or a new friend of mine.

If anyone loves words, I'd say it's my guest today, Hannah Brencher,

someone who's been encouraging with her words for years. She started out by writing letters

on the four train and leaving them around New York City for others to find, bookstores,

coffee shops, libraries everywhere, as a way to cope with her sadness when a job she moved

to New York City for didn't work out. Today she runs a global organization called More Love Letters,

inspired by those first letters to strangers in that lonely city.

I loved my conversation with this writer, Ted Speaker, and online educator.

Her new book, Fighting Forward, is here to help us all to beat the lies that hold us back.

Perfect way to take on 2021, I'd say.

Here now from Hannah on Jen.

So I don't know if you know that Allie Worthington and I run a community for writers and speakers together.

Did you know that?

Yes. I did know that.

Oh, you did know that.

Okay.

Well, I asked her about you before we were going to come on here because, you know, we're friends.

So I'm like, hey, do you know Hannah?

And she said, of course I do.

She is a brilliant writer.

She is a writer's writer. So you had a really good

reputation that preceded you. Just wanted you to know that. Oh, Alice's the best. Yeah, she is.

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