Widen Your Circle (again!) with Shannan Martin
The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
Jessica Honegger
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🗓️ 10 October 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
When we think about the idea of “widening your circle,” what are we really considering? Do we actually want to dive into the stories of people who are unfamiliar to us - even if it’s uncomfortable? This week, Jessica spends time in the home of Shannan Martin. Shannan is popular blogger, speaker and author. Her new book, The Ministry of Ordinary Places, encourages us to uncover the hidden corners of our cities and neighborhoods and invest deeply in the lives of people around us.
Also, this week continues a special series of shows where Jessica takes us through the themes of her brand new book, Imperfect Courage, one chapter at a time!
Show Notes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. This is Jessica Honegger, founder of the socially conscious fashion brand |
| 0:08.9 | Nune Day Collection. And this is the Going Scared Podcast, where we cover all things social impact, |
| 0:16.0 | entrepreneurship, and courage. |
| 0:19.2 | Today's interview is with my really good friend friend Shannon Martin. The interview actually |
| 0:25.0 | takes place in her home sitting on her living room couch in Goshen, Indiana. |
| 0:31.0 | And I wanted to have her on this show in particular because we're continuing our |
| 0:36.6 | conversation of chapter 8 from my book in Perfect Courage on how we can widen our circles of compassion to encompass the |
| 0:46.1 | people around us whose lives may look very different from our own. It's easy for |
| 0:51.4 | our circles to become more like walls keeping people out of our little comfortable |
| 0:55.4 | sphere. But to live a life of impact and meaning, we've got to widen those circles to |
| 1:00.7 | embrace people that are different than us. |
| 1:03.0 | And Shannon has done that in a very real and practical way. |
| 1:07.0 | You'll hear that Shannon says that growing up, |
| 1:10.0 | she always dreamed of living in a beautiful farmhouse with her family in the country. |
| 1:14.4 | She describes it as the American dream with a sight of Jesus. |
| 1:17.9 | And that's what she got until she felt called to leave it all behind, sell the farmhouse, and move into a low-income neighborhood in Goshen to grow roots among a diverse group of neighbors. |
| 1:28.8 | Her husband is now the jail chaplain, her kids go to the local public school, and she's passionate about helping |
| 1:35.6 | all of us widen our circles too, to embrace people who are different from us, who we might |
| 1:41.3 | normally never cross paths with. Her new book, The Ministry of Ordinary Places, is all about how we can live with |
| 1:49.2 | more intention and meaning by widening our circles to embrace the transformative beauty hiding in our |
| 1:56.5 | cities and neighborhoods. Give it a listen. So this is my first live in person. I am actually sitting in Shannon's living room in Goshen, Indiana because my in-laws have |
| 2:16.7 | a lake house about half an hour away and I seriously feel like an NPR journalist. I want to go record the sounds because you even talk about in your book the sounds of your |
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