Hey everyone, welcome back to the Going Scared Podcast. This is your host, Jessica Honeker,

founder of the Social Impact Fashion Brand Noonday Collection. Are you

for honest and vulnerable conversations that will inspire you towards action?

Join me here every week for conversations on living lives of purpose

by leaving comfort and going scared.

Well, we took a few weeks off this summer in order to bring you a new season of conversations and we've

been learning more about what you want to hear for this podcast through our listener survey.

Thank you so much for those of you guys who hopped on over and took that survey.

One of the things we learned is that you love the diversity of our guests and the topics we cover.

Like me, you may have a lot of interests that don't fit easily into a box and going scared is creating a space just for that. It creates a space

for us to embrace our multifaceted passions and hold the space to embrace

paradox and all kinds of conversations from funny, vulnerable, inspiring, impactful, and today's

guess is all of those things. Lauren Scrags Kennedy is going to kick us off today and she has

inspired me for quite some time. I've always been encouraged deeply by people

who overcome physical limitations and hardships.

One of my best friends, Megan, adopted a little girl from Ethiopia several years ago

and her name is Tessa and Tessa was born with no legs and only one arm.

And when Megan first told me about Tessa, I'll be honest.

I gulped and I wondered how Megan and her family were going to be able to do it.

They lived in a two-story house at the time, they had no special van or extra money for any of those things.

But Tessa changed all of our lives and she has taught me that people

with limb differences are not defined by what they cannot do. And so it's because of Tessa

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