Hey y'all, welcome back to the Confessions of a Crappy Christian Podcast.

A place where you and all of your crap are not just welcome, you're wanted.

I'm your host, Blake Giche, and every week I'm showing up with a new friend to talk about

the things we're really great at, the ways Christ fills in the gaps on the things that

we're not, and how he has been faithful to make his power perfect in our weaknesses.

My hope is that you walk away feeling empowered and not alone in your struggles, and that

people sharing their stories pushes you to share yours.

Alright, let's do this.

Alright y'all, so for today's first ever bonus episode, it's just me.

Which I'm going to tell you up front is daunting.

I'm sitting in my closet talking to myself.

This episode will definitely be shorter than the rest, but I thought I would take this

first solo experience as an opportunity to tell you more about myself.

When I opened up my DMs a couple of weeks ago for suggestions on solo episodes, a surprising

number of you wanted to hear my story.

Which at first I was like, yeah, no, I'm not going to do that.

But the more I thought about it and the more I prayed about it, I mean, it kind of makes

sense.

It makes sense for you to better know the person behind this podcast that you're letting

into your life every week, right?

So let's do this.

If we go back to the beginning, I am one of the lucky ones who grew up in an incredibly

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