Off the Bench with a Mom of 5 Running for State Rep in Missouri
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
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🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Today I’m joined by Jessica Levsen, candidate for Missouri State House Representative District 62. Listen as Jessica talks about why she decided to get “off the bench” and engage for the sake of her community and the state of Missouri. SHOW NOTES
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. This is Heidi St. John. Thanks for tuning in today. You guys have found me at my little corner of the internet today |
| 0:06.4 | I am pleased to have an off the bencher on the show with me today |
| 0:10.8 | Jessica Levison is here and she is running for the for the state house in Missouri in district 62 |
| 0:18.2 | You guys we got to get involved if we want to see change in our country stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged |
| 0:31.8 | All right, you guys so I'm glad that you're here today |
| 0:33.9 | We are slowly moving our way through the month of June and I am so excited to see many of you reaching out to me to kind of tell me |
| 0:41.6 | What you're doing and and how you're getting off the bench and on to the battlefield is just exciting and encouraging today |
| 0:48.6 | I'm going to have a guest on the show who's doing exactly that Jessica Levison is here. She's a mom of five and |
| 0:55.5 | She is also a candidate for Missouri State Representative in district 62 you guys |
| 1:00.3 | This is a major deal one does not simply just run for office there's so many reasons why I think this is exciting |
| 1:07.1 | Just to have somebody here who is willing to lay it all in the line. It takes a lot of Hutzpah and a lot of conviction to run for any |
| 1:15.3 | Elected office in the United States right now, but you guys have heard me say this many times and I'm going to keep doing it |
| 1:20.2 | This is our country and if you don't like what's happening in the country the only way to change it is to actually get involved and the |
| 1:27.6 | Founding father said that it would require great sacrifice in order to do so your time your treasure and your sacred honor |
| 1:33.4 | You guys have heard me say this many times find good candidates and get behind them get behind them with your money |
| 1:39.3 | Get behind them with your with your voice right use your voice and let's start to put good people in positions of leadership |
| 1:46.4 | So I'm very honored and excited to have Jessica Levison on the show with me today. Welcome. Thank you. Thanks for having me |
| 1:53.2 | You're very welcome. So you know one does not simply just run for office. So I'd really like to know |
| 1:58.8 | What what motivated you have you run for office before? So I was actually appointed to a city position |
| 2:06.8 | We call them alderman some people called them city council in the city of Harrison the lawyer I live and that was kind of |
| 2:13.4 | Orchestrated in a really strange way, but I just happened to be at a church. I was church shopping for a little while back in |
| 2:20.7 | 2017 and |
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