Overcoming… Against All Odds | Dr Ann-Marie Wilson MBE

Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud

Great Lakes Outreach

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This is quite simply one of the most remarkable conversations and women I’ve ever come across. Her story involves early-childhood molestation, leaving school at 16, converting to Judaism, violent marriage, divorce, rape, suicide attempts, breakdown, 10 years as a successful businesswoman, gaining a doctorate, hearing the audible voice of God, near-death experiences, starting a charity that has impacted millions of lives by getting Female Genital Mutilation outlawed in various countries, and living actively and still chipper with a terminal illness. It’s the longest podcast we’ve ever done because I couldn’t bring myself to shorten it, and it’s a fitting one for our 100th episode. Get ready to be blown away. I was still shaking my head in awe/disbelief/admiration long after we’d drawn it to a close. I suspect you will too! Content warning: Contains discussion of abuse and suicide attempts. Check out www.28toomany.org if you want to get involved. ‘Overcoming – My fight against FGM’ can be ordered from https://standrewsbookshop.co.uk or any book retailer. Twitter: @AM28toomany for tweeters To follow Ann-Marie’s journey: www.churchmissionsociety.org/people-in-mission/ann-marie-wilson-britain/ Help us build a retirement home for Pastors in Burundi: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/righting-a-wrong-for-pastors-on-the-scrap-heap/?utm_source=inspired_description&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=inspired (greatlakesoutreach.org/pastors) --- Choose Life in 2023: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/people/simon-guillebaud/choose-life-2023/?utm_source=inspired_description&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=inspired&utm_id=inspired (greatlakesoutreach.org/chooselife) If you'd like to receive a weekly podcast episode link that you can share with your friends on WhatsApp, click this link to join the group with ease: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/inspired-podcast/#whatsapp (simonguillebaud.com/inspired-podcast/#whatsapp) For more from Simon visit: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/ (simonguillebaud.com) --- Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi and Beyond: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/?utm_source=inspired_description&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=inspired&utm_id=inspired (greatlakesoutreach.org)

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0:00.0	I met this little girl, she'd been cut at five, she'd been raped at 10, she was carrying a child,
0:08.3	we found her at seven months pregnant, gave her a safe delivery, called out to God and said,
0:12.1	what are you going to do, God, with other girls like this? Who else is going to do this, God?
0:15.6	Because I'm on my way home, and he said, you are, you are.
0:19.2	The audible voice of God said, you are in a very deep voice.
0:22.4	Genuinely, genuinely audible voice.
0:28.9	Welcome everybody, this is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. I'm really excited this week. I mean,
0:33.7	every week I'm excited, but some guests, I don't know, I think we've got a lot in
0:38.1	common. We've got a shared association with CMS as a sending organization, church, mission
0:44.0	society, our nation of origin, as Brits, our motivation for getting stuck in where not many people
0:50.0	would choose to go. I love Africa working in dangerous countries. I know our guests had a lots of those sort of dangerous experiences. Setting up a charity, seeing beautiful works of God in very
0:58.7	grim circumstances. We've had the privilege of working with amazing people from different
1:04.1	cultures across multiple nations. And then recently, you've awarded an MBE by the Queen,
1:10.1	which is a fantastic recognition of wonderful work,
1:12.7	having to be resilient through all sorts of sucker punches. The list goes on. So welcome everybody
1:16.8	to Dr. Anne-Marie Wilson MBA. Oh, thank you, Sam. You're the first person to say that.
1:23.3	Do you use that in my title? Is that right? Well, listen, just in terms of letting people know,
1:29.2	if you're new to inspire, basically, we are bombarded by relentless, depressing, bad news.
1:34.1	So the purpose of this week by week is to bring inmates from different walks of life
1:38.1	who've just got their own journeys and being real and sharing stories, you know,
1:42.4	succor ponsors of life, overcoming faith through difficulties,
1:46.1	whatever comes our way. And so I just hope in 45 minutes to now, whatever, you will leave
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