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We are here today with author Madison Pruitt Trout

to talk about Dare to be True.

Maddie, can we call you Maddie?

Absolutely.

Do you go by Madison or Maddie now?

Well, you know, like professionally, it's like Madison, you know, the name I was born with.

But then I feel like all my friends and everyone just calls me Maddie.

And because my social media is Maddie, I feel like it's just, it's Maddie now. Okay, we're going to call you Maddie because I feel like Madison just wouldn't come off. I would just call you Maddie. I think that's how I refer to you in my life. Maddie, this is what, is this your third book? Yeah. this is book number three yeah crazy why like when

it can't have been that long ago it feels like you're pumping out a book a year is this the plan

this was not the plan um honestly i have had this message on my heart for a long time and kind of tried to run from it for a while

and woke up in the middle of the night and felt like the Lord was like, you need to write a book on truth.

And I'm like, I don't know how to do that.

And that feels scary and I don't even know where to start.

And it was a really hard out of all three books that I've written, this was by far the hardest.

And I tried to quit multiple times.

But I really do believe that this message can truly change people's lives.

And it's changed my life.

So I'm really excited.

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