Raising World Changers, with Kristen Welch

The Heidi St. John Podcast

Heidi St. John

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

At 45 years old, my friend Kristen Welch talks about failing most of her parenting tests. But the Lord stirred the hearts of Kristen and her husband, and they started changing the way they handled “blessings” in their lives. Don’t miss the way Kristen describes the changes they’ve made in their family as they make a great effort to Raise World Changers by being World Changers themselves.
A Bit About my Guest
Kristen Welch is a native Texan, a wife and mom. She began blogging about her life on wearethatfamily.com nearly a decade ago. Over the years, Kristen has grown a vast following of moms who identify with her real, often funny, and always inspiring writing.

In 2010, she traveled with Compassion International to Kenya on a blogging trip to write about poverty in a huge slum. That experience turned her world upside down, and as a result, she and her family founded a non-profit called Mercy House. The organization funds maternity centers for pregnant teens living in extreme poverty and manages Fair Trade Friday, a monthly subscription club that allows thousands of women in America to support impoverished women around the globe by purchasing the fairly traded product they create.

Kristen is the author of multiple books, including Rhinestone Jesus: Saying Yes to God when Sparkly Safe Faith is No Longer Enough and Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World: How One Family Learned That Saying No Can Lead to Life’s Biggest Yes. Kristen’s new book, Raising World Changers, has just released!

Kristen’s blog following continues to grow, and many of the readers financially support the work of Mercy House. When she and her family aren’t traveling to Kenya, Kristen and her husband and their three children live in Magnolia, Texas, where they enjoy going to football games, flea markets, trying new restaurants and working with displaced refugees in Houston.

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0:00.0	Did you know choosing the train over your car can cut your carbon footprint by up to two thirds?
0:06.0	So, one family outing at a time, one little adventurer at a time, one trip to the museum, one dinner in the city, one nap on the way home at a time.
0:18.0	One train journey at a time can help create a greener future.
0:23.0	So when will you take your next trip? Find out more at nationalrail.co.uk slash greener.
0:30.0	Hey everybody, this is Heidi St. John. Welcome to my little corner of the internet. You found me at the Busy Mom podcast.
0:37.0	Today is Meet My Friend Friday and I have an old friend actually on the podcast with me.
0:42.0	My friend Kristen Welch is back on the show with me today and we're going to talk about her new book, but also Kristen has a heart for an incredible group of artists.
0:52.0	She's got an incredible group of women that she's going to tell you all about. It's a great way for you guys to get off the bench and onto the battlefield.
0:59.0	So stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.
1:02.0	Alright, so today is Monday. It just feels like Monday because it's Friday and it always feels like Monday unless I think about it because I am in Arkansas this weekend for the Teach them Dilgently Conference.
1:21.0	If you guys are around anywhere in East Oklahoma, if you're in Little Rock, you could drive a little bit west. Rogers not that far from you.
1:29.0	I will be there all weekend. I'd love to hug your neck. I will be key noting this event later on today and also be there all day Saturday.
1:38.0	As my husband likes to refer to it today is day two of the vendor hostage crisis. So I'm out and say hello.
1:45.0	I've got a great incredible inspirational friend on the podcast with me today. Kristen Welch was on here before talking about her first book raising raising grateful kids in an entitled world and hello.
1:58.0	Who doesn't need more of that? She has just written a brand new book called raising world changers in a changing world.
2:06.0	Kristen is a blogger, obviously, and a speaker. And she's also the founder of Mercy House Global. So we're going to talk a little bit about a mercy house. That is her nonprofit ministry and that ministry focuses on young and struggling mothers in Kenya.
2:21.0	And so she's going to tell you how pre-ordering her book is going to provide a job for a woman in poverty. This woman is truly a world changer. She inspires me.
2:30.0	She's got three kids that she's homeschooling. They range in age from 11 to 18. So Kristen, I'm so excited that you're back on the podcast. Welcome.
2:39.0	Thank you. Heidi, I'm so happy to be here. So you have a brand new book coming out when and that releases on May 1st, correct? Yes, that's right. And so tell our list because I know some of them are going to be familiar with you, but we've got a lot since you've been on the podcast.
2:54.0	We have gained about 20,000 new listeners. So if you can give everybody kind of a little bit of a window into your heart, start maybe with the first book because I think it's such a great segue into this one.
3:07.0	What motivated you to get off the bench and onto the battlefield?
3:13.0	Well, my first parenting book, raising grateful kids in the entitled world, really just came from not a place of perfection or from an office as a professional parenting expert.
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