What's God Got To Do With It? Beauty from the Broken: God's Redemption Story Continues
4 Things with Amy Brown
Nashville Podcast Network
4.7 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
What's God Got To Do With It? With Leanne Ellington:
In the second episode titled "God In the Good," we pick up as Mattie Jackson continues sharing her transformative journey after losing her 28-year-old husband to a traumatic brain injury three weeks shy of their first wedding anniversary. She shared an inside peek behind her own healing process, and how God helped her shift her focus from everything she lost to everything she still had. In the midst of unthinkable tragedy, Mattie shares how she faced the challenges of moving beyond survival, facing grief, sorrow, and trauma, and rebuilding life with hope.
But God showed her life beyond this tragedy -- one that she could have never imagined....until she was ready for it.
She eventually found purpose in her grief, and shared the power of turning "your mess into your message" and finding fulfillment in impacting others who are struggling in similar ways. Through her work with Nashville (the non-profit she co-founded to support widows and orphans) and writing a memoir, Mattie found purpose, honoring her late husband's legacy and demonstrating the transformative potential of choosing joy amid pain.
She also shares about her journey to finding love again after the death of her husband. As she delves into her own redemption story, Mattieie shares how God not only redeemed her personal life but also her purpose-filled professional life, and now she truly believes in the coexistence of pain and joy, sharing her belief that when one has the courage to delve into the depths of pain, joy's well gets deeper
GUEST: @mattiejackson
Mattie's Website: https://www.mattiejackson.net/
Mattie's Podcast: In Joy Life Podcast
Mattie's Book: Lemons on Friday
HOST: Leanne Ellington // StresslessEating.com // @leanneellington
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | If you want to go on a journey, if you're skeptical, don't worry, not here to preach, |
| 0:19.0 | gonna keep it clean And talk miracles |
| 0:21.2 | Where faith meets |
| 0:23.4 | All of nature |
| 0:24.4 | Get in touch with your creator |
| 0:26.8 | With a baking love and Jew |
| 0:29.0 | She even speaks Hebrew |
| 0:31.1 | What's that got to do with it |
| 0:34.5 | What's got to do with it. |
| 0:52.2 | We're back with the amazing Maddie Jackson. |
| 0:54.8 | Hello again. |
| 0:56.0 | Good to be back and finish the story. |
| 0:58.4 | Yes. |
| 0:58.6 | A little bit lighter note. |
| 0:59.7 | If you've been on that in your seat. |
| 1:01.3 | If you missed last week. |
| 1:02.2 | Yeah, maybe if you had a box of tissues, exactly. |
| 1:04.8 | This will be hopefully tears of joy. |
| 1:06.3 | Yeah, for sure. |
| 1:06.9 | If you missed the last episode, Maddie shared her. Honestly, it's a one-of-a-kind story transformation |
| 1:13.3 | from the inside out circumstantially and internally and spiritually. Definitely go back and |
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