Video Blog: Your Courage is Bigger than Your Excuses
Good morning friends!!
Today we are super SUPER lucky to be able to share with you a video interview that I recently got to do with the absolutely world-rockingly incredible Desirea Stott Rodgers, co-founder of Love 146. I first got to hear Desirea's story (and the story of the non-profit that she started, Love 146, and how it all came to be) when we were both speaking at the Pursuit 31 Conference last month in Georgia.
To put it in the most succinct of terms: she completely blew me away.
A few years back, Desirea was just getting her own photography business off the ground when she was invited on a trip to Thailand that would change everything. She was invited by a friend who had asked her what she knew about human trafficking, and if she would be willing to see what was going on first hand. A couple weeks and a plane ride back later, Love 146- a non-profit aimed at nothing short of obliterating child sex trafficking entirely that now has a multi-million dollar budget- was born.
I think what is really so amazing about this story, is that Desirea was just like a lot of you out there might be right now: just trying to figure out how the heck to get her photography business off the ground in the first place. Asking herself how she was going to pay the bills with it, how she was going to get her name out there. But what she couldn't possibly know, was that at that very moment she was being prepared for something so much bigger. She was being prepared to take up her camera as a sword in the fight for hope and justice in this world. Think about that now. in the midst of all that we worry about with Facebook likes and blog comments and rebranding and who's who...
What is it that you might be being prepared for right now as we speak?
**In this video, just some of the things that Desirea & I talk about are:
- The difference between a career and a calling
- How it's ok to have fear, as long as that doesn't turn into your excuse not to do something about it
- Pushing through the moments when you really just want to run away.
- The best way to do what feels like the impossible
- The definition of courage
- And so much more!
I invite you to first watch this video to introduce yourself to Love 146 & their mission (**but be warned, while it is not graphic it is definitely on a subject matter that can be hard to watch):
And then please join me as I have the HUGE honor of interviewing this incredible woman, Ms. Desirea Stott Rodgers, and finding out just how big we can go when we realize our courage is bigger than our excuses.
**Desirea, I can never thank you enough for sitting on my couch with me and sharing your beautiful, beautiful heart. I am honored to call you a friend.
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