The Gift of Personal Connection (with Ashley Slavik)
Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)
Danielle Bean
4.9 • 810 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Girlfriends, episode number 330, the gift of personal connection with Ashley Slavik. |
| 0:09.4 | Hello, and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to |
| 0:14.9 | help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy and family living. |
| 0:19.8 | This week, I've got a special guest, |
| 0:21.2 | Ashley Slavic, with a very unique ministry. You're going to want to hear more about this. Let's get |
| 0:26.1 | going. |
| 0:56.7 | Hey, girlfriend. How are you? Thanks for being here. Always glad to be able to connect with you on the podcast. If you're a first time listener, welcome, special welcome for you. So glad you're here and checking us out. Happy to connect here this week. And, you know, speaking of connections, before I dive into my interview with Ashley Slavic, who you're going to want to get to know, she's a young mom, |
| 1:00.1 | she's on fire, she is doing really just beautiful and original things in the ministry that |
| 1:06.7 | she is working in. But I wanted to talk a little bit about the idea of community, because community |
| 1:12.4 | is part of why I began this podcast in the first place. I wanted to connect with other Catholic |
| 1:19.5 | women. And at the time that I began girlfriends, I was working full time in magazine publishing, |
| 1:26.3 | and I felt kind of removed from my original reason |
| 1:31.2 | why I ever started to work in the first place. When I started to work, I was writing, I was |
| 1:34.3 | sharing things online and it was a very personal connection and I kind of missed that personal |
| 1:39.3 | connection that I had with other people. And so I looked into podcasting as a way to do that. |
| 1:43.5 | And it's been a beautiful way to do that. But I've been feeling recently a little bit frustrated in our ability |
| 1:50.7 | to really grow our community here at Girlfriends because a podcast out of necessity, you know, |
| 1:58.1 | it's pretty much one way. It's like me talking to you. And yes, we do things like |
| 2:02.3 | we have our Facebook group for the Girlfriend's Podcast. You email me. We have these conversations |
| 2:07.1 | going on social media. And I'm so grateful for all of that. But I've been feeling motivated to do |
| 2:13.5 | something more, to create something more intentional as a means of connecting all of us as a |
| 2:20.8 | real community. So I just, I wanted to mention that right now because I'm just beginning to |
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