Surviving and Thriving to Help God’s Children: Victoria Damone & Catherine Wood
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 13 August 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
God puts people in our lives for a reason: to teach us, to inspire us, to allow us to be a blessing to them. There are no accidental encounters, only ones that shape us into who we were created to be. Victoria Damone grew up in a family of entertainment royalty, as the daughter of ‘50s crooner Vic Damone and actress Judy Rawlins. But show business wasn’t always kind to Victoria and her sisters, and they had to learn to survive by relying on each other through their parents’ absence and their mother’s struggle with addiction. As she grew older, Victoria forged her own path by working for a faith-based organization, OneShare Health, as a way to combine her love of people and God. Catherine Wood has always kept faith at the heart of her life, but that faith has been tested through the financial ups and downs she’s faced throughout her investing career. After Cathie tried to navigate the financial peculiarities leading up to the 2008 economic crash, a member of her church introduced her to Jesus Calling, which Cathie’s read every day since. In 2014, Cathie founded her own company called ARK Invest, to find and fund transformative technologies that could change lives and make the world a better place.
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“I know that God was watching over me in my younger years.” - Victoria Damone
“Even though we all fail miserably, we can aspire to do the best we can. But I think that's when God walks in.” - Victoria Damone
“I love what I do, but I also love the thought that we're part of something that can really help people emotionally with their health care needs, but also that we can help other organizations and we can make a difference.” - Victoria Damone, on working at OneShare Health
“When I think of Jesus, I think of Him sitting at the table and ministering and teaching people that were perhaps the unsavory characters, the people that were abandoned. And yet those are the individuals that need the most love and understanding.” - Victoria Damone
“I never felt that God was leaving me or deserting me. I felt like I had to hold on a little tighter.” -Catherine Wood
“I would kneel down and say, ‘Okay, God, You're in control. Even if this company fails, I know I've done the right thing. This is a walk of faith for me. Your will be done.’” - Catherine Wood
“I believe that in starting ARK Invest, I was fulfilling His will for me here on Earth and that if I had not done it, that I would have died an unhappy woman not having not fulfilled my promise here.” - Catherine Wood
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| 0:00.0 | Each of us are children of God, even if they don't know God, they're children of God, and |
| 0:07.2 | we're supposed to do unto others as we would want them to do unto us. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | God has called each of us to love and care for the people in our circles and beyond. |
| 0:18.4 | We may come from a background where that care and love wasn't demonstrated to us as well as it could have been. |
| 0:23.7 | Or we may feel like an outsider and not know where to channel help to others. |
| 0:28.5 | Our guests this week have had different paths to discovering how they can get back to the world, but once they found it, they realize |
| 0:35.0 | the joy in giving of their unique gifts and service to others. |
| 0:38.7 | Victoria de Monne and Catherine Wood. Victoria Damone is the Executive Vice President of Strategic Partnerships for |
| 0:50.6 | OneShare Health, based out of Irving, Texas. |
| 0:53.7 | Victoria came from a background of entertainment royalty as the daughter of legendary |
| 0:57.9 | 50s Kruner, Vic Damone, and her mother, actress Judy Rollins. |
| 1:02.2 | Her childhood was far from glamorous, however, as her |
| 1:04.6 | parents' careers often took them away from Victoria and her three sisters. After |
| 1:09.4 | Daimone and Rollins split, the three girls were primarily under the care of their mother who was struggling with addictions. |
| 1:15.2 | By the time Victoria was eight, her mother's issues took a tragic turn. |
| 1:18.8 | Victoria describes how she and her sisters survived and Victoria herself found a way forward to give back to |
| 1:25.2 | others in ways she never thought possible. My name is Victoria Desmoan. I'm the |
| 1:30.6 | oldest of three girls and we grew up daughters of Victorone the singer and our |
| 1:37.0 | mother was Judy Rollins and she was an actress and a cartoonist and we were all born in Beverly Hills, California. |
| 1:45.0 | My sisters and I are very, very close. |
| 1:50.0 | While we lived with our parents, I think they divorced when I was about five years old and |
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