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Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends

Kirsten Powers - Saved by Grace

Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends

Bob Goff

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Over the past couple of years, most of us are feeling the negative effects of a world in turmoil. It’s hard to escape, even if you do your best to avoid the news or social media. There’s almost a palpable negative energy in our world these days. 

The question is, how do we learn how to be engaged in the world and yet not overwhelmed by toxicity or conflict? How can we find a way to turn to faith, hope, and love rather than critique or contempt? 

Kirsten Powers is a New York Times bestselling author, USA Today columnist, and senior political analyst for CNN, where she appears regularly on Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, and The Lead with Jake Tapper. Her writing has been published in The Washington Post, Elle, The Daily Beast, The Wall Street Journal, The Dallas Morning News, The New York Observer, Salon, the New York Post, and The American Prospect online. Raised in Fairbanks, Alaska, Powers lives in Washington, D.C, with her fiancé, Robert Draper, and their two fur children, Lucy and Bill.

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Also on the episode:

Producer & Co-host : Scott Schimmel

The Dream Big Academy

Living a focused, engaged life of love, adventure, and impact shouldn't be a mystery.

It's what we're all wired for, it's what we all long for. But, it's not the norm. From all the places I've traveled to and the people I've met, I know that most people don't experience that kind of life. They feel...

Like they're missing out on a different life, a life that others seem to experience.

That it should've all just worked out by now, but it hasn't.

Frankly, like they're languishing- and this must be as good as it gets. 

But, there's so much more...

That's why we started putting these digital courses together. I can't travel everywhere, and not everyone can travel to me. But, what if there was a way to share life together and walk through these simple ideas I've been learning?

Before, we've released these courses one at a time. Then we'd close the registration. But through the pandemic, we learned that a LOT of people want to keep growing, and they're looking for a framework they can trust. 

So, we put them all together- 6 interactive digital courses. Two specifically designed to help you identify and unleash your big ambitions. One for budding authors. Another for speakers. A course for your family. A course for your career. With more coming in the future.

And, since we already have Bob Weekly as a monthly subscription for exclusive content, we threw that in there, too. 

The Dream Big Academy is the place to go for people wanting to get serious about the shape of their lives. 

I'd love for you to learn more- maybe even watch a short webinar we put together that goes into more detail. 

Sign up for the Dream Big Academy

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome back to another episode of the Dream Big Podcast with Bob Gaffin-Friends.

0:12.8

I'm your host, Scott Shema.

0:14.9

And I'm sure you can feel it these days.

0:18.0

There's almost a palpable sense of negative energy going on in our world.

0:25.4

Even if you do a really good job at avoiding the news or Twitter or social media or your

0:31.2

neighborhood Facebook page, there's just a sense in the atmosphere that things are not

0:38.2

going well, negative, critique, contempt, vitriol.

0:42.6

I mean, this is not unprecedented because we've been here before, but it feels that way in

0:48.2

so many ways.

0:49.7

And the question that we're going to wrestle with today is how do you respond?

0:53.8

How can we learn to respond to the conflict, the disagreements, the high stakes through

0:59.9

the lens of grace, through the lens of faith, hope, and love?

1:03.7

And today we have a returning guest.

1:06.2

She was on an episode in season two, Kirsten Powers.

1:09.4

She's a political analyst.

1:11.2

You've probably seen her or heard of her voice on TV.

1:14.0

She's also an author.

1:16.0

She's also somebody who has been learning how to do the deeper inner work to see and confront

1:23.2

today's issues with integrity, with courage, but also to do the inner work to respond to

1:29.2

people and circumstances and issues with grace.

1:34.0

So I'm excited about this episode.

1:35.8

I think it's timely.

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