Real-Life ‘Call the Midwife’ in Haiti: Tara Livesay and KJ Johnson

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Our series on Powerhouse Women continues with two strong women who are helping women in Haiti get through the most powerful and vulnerable moments they will ever experience: giving birth. Midwives Tara Livesay and KJ Johnson are best friends who work with Heartline Ministries and, like Melinda Gates, they champion maternal care as a human right. As Enneagram 2s, Tara and KJ became fast friends, and they tell Jen why they decided to become midwives, about the birth story that brought them together (an unexpected twin!), what it’s like to offer maternal care in Haiti (it involves Tara driving a van on the rules-optional streets of Port-au-Prince—not for the faint of heart!). Tara and KJ are facing broken systems that are daunting for people in their line of work, and instead of walking away defeated, they are offering love to one person at a time—the kind of love we’d all like to receive in our own moment of need. And sometimes, that’s all we can do.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, my name is Remy.
0:03.6	Welcome to the For The Love Podcast with your host, Jen Hatmaker, my mom.
0:09.3	She writes books and speaks to crowds, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people
0:14.8	on this podcast every week.
0:17.2	Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed the show.
0:20.3	Hey everybody, it's Jen, your host of The For The Love Podcast.
0:24.8	I'm really glad you're here today, welcome to the show.
0:27.4	A series is sizzling.
0:30.4	It is called For The Love of Powerhouse Women.
0:34.3	So I guess I probably don't need to explain at all why I love it.
0:39.0	Just speaking to women who are powerful in their lives, in their careers, in their heart,
0:44.8	souls and minds, it's so energizing and so inspiring, we are talking to two women that
0:51.7	I don't just deeply admire, but I also love.
0:56.4	And they work in one of the oldest careers for women that has ever existed, which is,
1:02.3	of course, maternal care.
1:05.1	And there's no one I'd rather put in front of you to discuss this work, more than my very
1:12.3	dear friend, Tara Levsay, and her dearest friend, Beth Johnson, who goes by KJ.
1:19.3	Okay, so if you've been around me at all, you know that Tara is one of my closest friends,
1:24.7	we travel together, we make time for each other, we have this group of friends that is
1:28.8	very, very dear and precious to one another.
1:32.7	And we've, we have logged a lot of miles together.
1:36.2	And we have logged a lot of life together.
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