Brave Is Finding Healing, Then Helping Others: Tawni Jacobson
Each of us shows our brave differently, as our previous nine guests have told us. To tie a bow on this series, we decided to take a look at a different kind of bravery: choosing to let God redeem the pain of your past so He can transform it into a springboard for helping others. Mental health therapist Tawni Jacobson shares how she overcome an adolescence filled with physical and mental health challenges, from Tourette’s syndrome to battling with medication side effects to struggling with her weight. But the most biggest boulder Tawni moved from of her path was learning to let go of bitterness toward others who didn’t know how to care for her as she needed. As Tawni reminds us, you don’t have to totally rewrite your story—God can help you learn to look at it through a new lens to find a healing perspective. And one day, you can hand that lens over to someone else.
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Brave Helps Us Do Hard Things: Jenn Whitmer
There’s no doubt about it: brave helps you get through the hard things. It helps you get through judgement, through uncertainty, through fear of the unknown. Speaker, writer, and coach Jenn Whitmer joins Stories from 100 Days to Brave to share the brave step she took to leave her teaching job—a job she loved and thought she would do forever—so she could pursue her true passion, despite the critics who told her she’d never succeed. One she stopped believing the lies that others spoke over her life, Jenn came to find that sometimes you have to jump in with both feet to discover that God will help you fly.
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Brave Is Keeping Your Heart Open, Despite the Scars: Amber Fuentes
You know what takes more brave than we realize? Keeping our hearts open, especially when they’ve been scarred in the past. Amber Fuentes struggled with feeling like God wasn’t taking care of her. After dealing with an abusive situation early in life, Amber wrestled with fear and doubt around her worthiness in relationships. After working hard in therapy, Amber realized she was on the brink of missing out on the great love of her life. Pushing fear aside to pursue what she truly wanted—a loving partner to walk alongside—Amber stepped out in bravery, only to find her person and, after some struggles along the way, also discovered the woman God created her to be.
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Brave Is Trusting God to Show the Way: Sierra Busking
We were not meant to have everything figured out, and there’s a special kind of freedom in that, right? Lucky for us, God has a plan mapped out for each one of us. Even if we’re scared of the unknown, all we have to do is say, “Show me where you want me, God,” and He’ll lead the way. On this episode of the 100 Days to Brave Podcast, Sierra Busking tells us how she took a major leap of faith to travel across the world with YWAM and share the love of Jesus. By giving God her yes, Sierra found the value of trusting Him to reveal His purposes for our lives.
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Bravery is Saying “Yes” Again . . . and Again: Elisa Johnson
There are times when “brave” is spelled with three small letters: Y-E-S. Saying yes to opportunities, yes to change, and yes to chasing your purpose can be one of the bravest things you’ll ever do. And here’s the kicker: in your brave life, you have to keep saying yes over and over and over again to experience what God has for you. Elisa Johnson made the brave choice to pack up her entire life and to move to Germany, where she knew approximately no one, so that she could serve Him. And by releasing control to God and sharing Him with teens at her newfound home at Black Forest Academy, Elisa is hoping to impact her students and leave a lasting legacy of bravery.
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Over the last few years, hundreds of thousands of people have read the book 100 Days To Brave and stories have poured in of how you, while reading the book, have changed your life and how God has changed your life. Hosted by Annie F. Downs, author of 100 Days To Brave, these are real life stories of courage from readers and friends who finished reading 100 Days To Brave and then did the brave thing.
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