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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Villages of Hope and Help :: DeVon and Paulette Franklin [Ep 371]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Tragedy struck and Paulette Franklin could have given up hope. Instead, she used it as a chance to “bring together the village of hope and help” from her extended family, namely her aunts, who lived both near and far. They rallied around Paulette and her boys through presence and connection. Make no mistake, single parenting was still hard work, but by clinging to her faith in God and the village around her, she and her boys thrived. 

Though this bond with extended family was knitted together well before Paulette’s husband passed away, she had to let them in, she had to let them help. For Paulette’s middle son, DeVon, and his brothers, their aunts’ houses became places of refuge and connection that they still rely on to this day.  DeVon and his aunts tell their compelling and encouraging story in his audiobook, It Takes a Woman, available now on Audible. Through the audiobook all of our villages are enlarged, all of their wisdom can be ours.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey y'all welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

0:10.4

I'm your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you

0:15.1

and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

0:21.0

And on this episode, number 371, I have invited you to the show, the award-winning movie producer

0:26.8

and your Times bestseller, Devon Franklin and his mom, Paulette.

0:32.6

And it really was the catalyst for everything to kind of come together, you know, and for

0:36.8

my mother to bring together the village of hope and help in the form of my great aunts

0:41.3

and you know, it was that tragedy.

0:43.3

I'm losing my father when I was nine years old.

0:46.0

He died of a heart attack at 36.

0:47.9

That really starts the journey that we express in this book.

0:53.2

My path first crossed with Devon Franklin back in 2016 when I attended one of the screenings

0:59.2

for his film Miracles from Heaven, which features my best friend, Jennifer Garner.

1:06.7

And I had the cool experience of getting to sit in on a press junket and I recorded

1:12.9

by asking her questions.

1:14.8

I put the link in the show notes, don't you worry, it's around the 32 minute mark, it's

1:19.0

very raw audio.

1:20.6

Okay, just so you know, it's not like high quality.

1:25.2

But that film and so many other films Devon has made and written books, but this story

1:32.4

is about his own personal journey, the tragic loss of his father and he recorded an audio

1:39.6

book with his mom and his mom's aunts who all stepped in to help raise he and his brothers.

1:47.7

And so if you're looking for a good listen this summer, if you're traveling or you know,

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