Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we speak with Lisa Bavere, who is a New York

Times best-selling author, a teacher, as well as a wife, mother, and grandmother. She and her husband John

co-founded the Ministry Organization Messenger International. She has devoted her

life speaking to women and teaching them how to be empowered in their God-given

femininity, drawing many comparisons to how Lionesses behave in the wild.

She wanted to impart the same boldness to her granddaughters and has now written a book called

Lizzy the Lioness in hopes of teaching young girls and boys too how to be brave.

I'm Lisa Baveer I am a Sicilian mother and grandmother. I have four sons, four

grandchildren. I have the privilege of traveling the earth and speaking to God's women and for really

three decades now I've been traveling and empowering and speaking to women of all ages and I just really have a heart. to

speaking to women of all ages. And I just really have a heart to not just speak to women, but to actually speak to children.

And so this was an incredible opportunity for me just to expand that. I've written 12 books. I have

one New York Times bestseller. I've been married for 35 years. My husband is also an

author and we just love life and we love Jesus.

I was born and raised in West Lafayette, Indiana.

My father was, he was 100 percent Sicilian.

You know, his parents were immigrants.

He worked really hard to work his way up the ladder,

became the president of the Home Builders Association.

My grandparents were involved at Purdue University. My mother was a stay-home mom.

I grew up in the Midwest Normal and just always was a little bit bent towards Wild.

I lost an eye to cancer when I was five years of age. I had

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