Hi friends, welcome to a special bonus episode of That Sounds Fun. I'm your host, Annie F. Downs. I'm so happy to be here with you today. Today on the show, we actually wanted to bring you into a conversation we are having with Single Purpose League about loneliness, but specifically the level of loneliness for women in leadership. Whether you're single or married, I bet you can relate to this conversation.

What we've noticed is that single purpose league consists of a lot of leaders,

and many of whom are leading in ministry spaces.

It's why we recently started SPL Leadership Masterminds,

so our single female friends in ministry have a place to be encouraged and talk about the

complexities of it all.

Me and Ashley and Katie from our team sat down last week and recorded a conversation about

the loneliness of leadership specifically for Single Purpose League.

But as we do from time to time, we felt like this one needed to be shared with everyone.

This is one of those episodes. I think you're going to want to text to a single friend or text

to someone on your church staff or someone you know who is on the mission field. We cannot

wait to hear what you think. Here's our single purpose league conversation about loneliness

and leadership with my teammates, Ashley Warren and Katie Bowman.

Hi friends, welcome to an episode of Single Purpose League.

I am one of your host, the lesser of the two.

I'm Annie F Downs.

I don't like it when you say that.

It's just true, Katie.

You do so much work.

And you and Ashley are both here today, so my bosses.

That's right. It's a party. I'm your other host, Katie Boatman. And number one, how in the world are we like coming up on the end of the year? I don't understand. I think it's wild. But number two, I feel like this time of year is when, because the days get a little darker, things start getting a little bit more lonely,

at least for me, they totally can. And so that's what we're going to talk about today.

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