Hey.

Hey, friends.

Merry Christmas Eve.

I have a guest interview for you today.

I am talking to the founder and CEO of her campaign.

They help where they provide victims of human trafficking with emergency shelter and long term care.

But they do it holistically through mind, body and spirit resources.

And it's just, it's amazing the messages of hope that you're going to hear in the story.

And really she just talks about how hope always reveals, reveals itself no matter what we've walked through and how many times she's been able to see the miracle of God working in people's lives.

So no matter what you've walked through, no matter if you're excited for Christmas or if it's just been a hard year, I think you're going to hear messages of, of hope and healing and just how God wants to partner with us and how he will move in our lives and move in the world when we allow him and invite him in.

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Hi.

Today on the podcast, I can't wait to welcome our guest.

She started a nonprofit that helps victims of human trafficking to have emergency shelter and long term care.

They're actually women who are either pregnant or already have children under three.

And my guest is Brittany Higgs.

She's the founder and CEO of her campaign.

And they now have two homes, one in Montana and one in Denver, to help these women.

And I literally just got goosebumps.

Like, I'm so excited to have this conversation because she's doing such wonderful work in the world and everyone else that's helping her in donating.

But also she's going to just shine a light on the hope that the Lord gives us.

She's going to, she's going shine a light on what are the things that we can do in our everyday lives, whether it's through donating or helping out ministries or Non profits.

And so I think it's a perfect time of year, as we wrap up the year, to have this conversation.

So thank you so much, Brittany, for joining us today.

It's an honor to be here.

Kristen, thanks so much.

Yeah.

So tell us, Brittany.

So I know you started her campaign, I believe, in 2016, but tell us about what was life like before that, and how did you decide to take on this, you know, this new ministry or this nonprofit?

And what did that look like?

Was it like a tiny thing or did it kind of happen like an explosion?

It's a great question.

My.

My husband and I, we are actually more entrepreneurial in nature.

That is what we are passionate about.

We love to build good business.

We love to build team.

And we were doing that.

We had built multiple businesses.

We were very comfortable in our life.

We.

We owned our house, we had two small children.

We were doing a film company, and we just were really content with where we were at.

We weren't looking for anything different.

Around that same time, though, in the film company, we got in touch with a friend of ours who was going to India, Nepal, and working in the red light district.

So going over there to do mission trips and helping safe houses over there, getting these women and these kids out of these brothels and trying to get them to safety.

When she came back from one of those trips, I said, can we get coffee?

I need to know what's happening over there.

And she began to explain to me what human trafficking was and that some of these children don't even see the light of day for years, that they are locked up and enforced into this exploitation.

And my heart broke in a way that only God can do.

Right?

There's just moments that we all have where it.

It just breaks differently.

And it's hitting you and you don't even know why.

Why at the time of the breaking, he's doing that.

But my heart was completely broken for this issue.

And for about a year, we just prayed and asked the Lord, okay, what could we do?

And it really was, use what you have and that will be enough.

And that was our film company.

So we just started bringing more awareness to the issue of trafficking, partnering with nonprofits, specifically those that were going overseas.

And one of those particular NGOs, we.

I went on a couple trips with, and it was over to northern Iraq.

And it was right after ISIS had hit Sinjar or Mosul, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced, and they were kidnapping women and girls and sex trafficking through ISIS ranks and then across the surrounding areas.

And this particular NGO was going over there to help rescue these women and then reintegrate them back into their families that were in these IDPs camps.

And so we went over to bring more awareness, to bring back to the churches here in America saying, this is what's happening over here and nobody is doing anything right now.

Like, how can we come alongside of these, these women and these girls?

As I sat down with them, I was the only woman on the trip.

And so I was the one who actually got to sit down and have conversation with them, to hug them.

And when I was doing that, I just heard this narrative over and over again.

And each of these women and girls said, I wish I would have just died.

I have nothing left.

So even though they were physically safe with their families, back with the safety of their families, what had happened internally ravished them so much that they didn't think they had any life left to live.

My heart cry after that, after coming back from that first trip, was, God, there has to be more for these women.

That can't be the end of their story.

There has to be restoration.

We know that God's heart is always for restoration.

But at that point, I had no idea what that looked like.

I didn't even know what that looked like in my own life.

And that springboarded a two year period of actually just deep inner healing with me.

I was ready to do high risk missions and do video documentary work across the nation.

We had, or across the world.

We, and we had some opportunities to do that.

But when, when I asked the Lord, okay, you know, is this what I'm supposed to do?

It was a very clear no.

And that was hard.

That was hard.

I was angry.

Yeah.

And you already had two kids by then, or this is before kids.

I had two kids.

I had two little boys and my youngest, I think, was 18 months old that first time I went over to Iraq.

And so, yeah, and we had an opportunity to, to go as a family overseas and do documentary work.

And that was where that clear no was.

And what, what we didn't know then was that God was actually leading us into a healing journey and he was wooing us to himself.

And, and I think that's such a pivotal moment for each of us of, yes, we want to be the hands and feet of Christ, we want to help people.

And, and that's good.

And that's right.

And we should do that.

But it's out of the overflow of knowing our identity in Christ and that we are a son and a daughter first and he cares about our restoration and our redemption.

And through, through that two year period, he started to reveal to me trauma I had endured in my childhood.

Just different abuse that set me up on a path of self destruction really in my teen years and until I met my husband and it was the first time that he was shining a light in the darkness in my soul and saying, we have to first we.

I care about you first and foremost and you need to know who I am to you.

And so after all of that, that two year, really beauty and brokenness and gosh, yeah.

I mean, healing is painful, right?

It's very painful.

After that process, Sammy and I were not looking for anything.

But we were walking in the hills in eastern Montana and God just started to reveal himself more to us in that breaking.

He was just showing up in ways that we didn't know he did.

And that was so beautiful.

But we're walking out in the hills in eastern Montana, running our boys, doing nothing in particular and, and out of nowhere it feels like lightning hits my chest and I get this vision and that's very much how God speaks to me, is pictures.

I just know it's from him and, and I got this vision of a safe house in the US we had never seen that.

We didn't know anybody that did that.

And I just stopped and I said, holy crap, Sammy, God's talking.

And he's like, what's he saying?

And I'm.

And I just told him we need to start a safe house.

And, and he just knew that.

Yes, there's something on that, so let's do it.

And so that's how we got started.

That's amazing.

Thank you for sharing that.

And obviously we're going to dig in a little bit more about what that looked like, especially before you actually, you know, started.

But you know, two of the things that were coming to me is you're.

Well, first of all, all of that, right?

Like, I definitely obviously had like tears in my eyes, but.

And I think who can't when you're talking about anyone that's been through so much, right.

It's just.

It should pull on our hearts, right?

It should be.

It should hurt or hurts.

But I think two of the things that were coming up to me was that you're so right when we, we have to be healed to be our best, to be able to heal or help others and that God wants us completely healed.

I don't mean that, that means that we're not going to keep growing in our faith and whatnot.

But I think he's going to use us more completely or for bigger things when we've allowed our heart and our soul to be healed with whatever has gone through us, whether it's thoughts that are stuck in our head, whether it's disbelief, whether it's traumas, whatever it is.

And so I think you're right is he can still use us through those, but he's going to use us in a bigger way when we allow the time and the healing to happen for us.

So I think that that was really important message to get out there for sure.

So I love that.

So you had this vision of this safe house and like you said, you understood how to start businesses, so that was obviously great experience or to start another business.

So just tell us what it looked like from, like you had that vision to how did you get the funding and actually get women that, you know, connect with a.

The people that were saving these women.

Like, how did that happen and what, how much time did that take?

Yeah, it's a great question.

So after that vision, like God does, he just started to put people into our path.

Miraculously, we weren't even looking for it.

I mean, there were instances where we'd be standing on the street about to meet somebody and at a stoplight and somebody is standing right next to us saying, hey, what are you guys up to?

And we're like, well, actually we're meeting with so and so about possibly starting a safe house.

And they're like, I'm on the human trafficking task force.

You need to talk to so and so.

Like, stuff like that happens all the time in this season and after, after that word that comes in, right?

That seed that comes in to.

From the Lord, like it just starts to breathe.

And, and, and I think then everybody, like, he just orchestrates it, right?

We really don't have to do anything except for stand in obedience to what he's asking us to do.

And he just brings all the pieces.

So, so in that time though, we got connected with a, A couple.

Their names are Rick and Pat Freeland.

And they did a safe house out of their home before trafficking was even a term that we knew.

So we're bringing in women and girls and just integrating them into their family system system, providing those wraparound resources, showing them love of Jesus and then helping them re.

Reintegrate back into society.

And people who.

Law enforcement that had worked with these women for years were watching this journey and watching these girls go from, you know, complete trauma brain, which, there's a lot there, you know, and not being able to function to being healthy and reintegrating into society.

And they would go to the freelance and say, what are you guys doing?

And Rick would be the first one to say, he's this big bouncer looking dude.

He and his wife, they're amazing.

But he would just tell them, we just love them like Jesus does.

We give them family and, and we help them with what they need to get back into society.

And there's something beautiful about that.

So somebody gave, gave Rick's number to us within days of us having this vision.

I call Rick up and he lived five hours away from us at the time.

And I'm like, hey, Rick, we have this idea, what do you think?

And he just said, I actually feel Jesus on this.

You need to come up and see me and my wife.

So on the drive up there, Sammy and I are thinking also, we'll build this thing because we're good at building business.

We'll build it, but we're going to find people with social work backgrounds and things to do the home.

We're not going to actually be a part of that.

And we go.

And Rick is a tough sell too.

Like he's not somebody that just automatically loves everybody.

He's a little intimidating.

But as we're sitting down with Rick and we're talking to him about our vision, he keeps saying, when you guys are living in the house, this is what you're going to do.

And my husband kept correcting him and saying, no, no, no, Rick, we're starting this.

But we're a young millennial couple with two small children.

We're not doing this out of our house.

And he would just ignore Sammy.

And five times Rick just said, when you live in the house, and was unswayed by.

And finally Sammy just stopped correcting him.

So on the drive home after this incredible holy experience with the Freelands, and we just felt even more that seed grow.

We're driving home and Sammy looks at me and he's like, britt, are we the couple?

And I'm.

And I told him, I'm like, oh my gosh, I think we're the couple.

And so after that, we really wanted to be trauma informed and make sure we do this well.

We loved the family environment that the freelance offer, but we also had a vision for expansion and just knew that we needed to do this well and right.

And so we mentored underneath an organization in Atlanta called Wellspring Living.

They're phenomenal.

They are really a pioneer in the anti human trafficking space.

They've been doing incredible work over the last 20, 30 years.

And so mentoring underneath them, we built our program, you know, all the infrastructure pieces that you need.

And then we started in 2016, we opened the doors of our first safe house, which was out of our personal home.

It was a home that had a mother in law suite attached to it, and that's where the survivors would stay.

And then during the day, we would just do community living.

But we, we did what the Freelands did.

We integrated these women into our family.

And, and I'm for, for our, for our family, it was difficult for them to be like, okay, you're doing what with your kids?

Like, what are you, what are you doing?

But I think this is what Jesus modeled.

This is the model of discipleship, right?

It's, it's come follow me as I follow Christ.

And that is just what we got to do with these women.

And we honestly got a front row seat to watch how God intimately speaks to each one of them, regardless if they believe in him or not.

That's what was so beautiful, is he is holding them close.

And when you, when you are inviting them into your space where it is covered by the Holy Spirit, he gets to operate.

He has permission to come in.

And then we got a front row seat to watch our kids minister.

And they have such a direct line to the Lord that it, it was, we were blown away.

We, we just felt like we were growing and learning by watching what the Lord was doing in this space.

And it was not easy.

Of course, course it's hard when we're dealing with all this stuff.

But I would take those, we did that for three and a half years out of our house.

And I would take that again and again and again with every trial because we got to see God work as the miracle working God.

And it blew our minds.

One quick little story with that, just because it's so good, is we had another baby while we were doing that.

And so our little girl, when she was around one and a half, we had three ladies staying with us.

And there was one survivor who she just one of the worst case of complex PTSD that we had seen.

Just panic attacks all the time.

And the only person in the home that could calm her down was my one and a half year old.

And what she would do is even when she was having a panic attack in another room, my daughter would know and she'd be like, oh.

And run to her room, sit on her lap, hold her face and look into her eyes until she calmed down.

We watched this happen 20, 30 plus times.

And nobody taught her that there's no.

That she could understand trauma, informed care and de escalation.

Right.

She inherently was being used by the Holy Spirit and to this day she, she, you know, will FaceTime the Survivor and they've got a connection.

But it, we, that is the beauty that we got to watch when we did it in our home.

Oh my gosh, that's amazing.

Thank you for sharing that about your daughter.

Yeah, I mean, so I guess one of the things that I would ask you is.

Well, I guess first of all it's back up, but then I do want to get to sort of, we want to talk a little bit more about what you, what you said, which is how God can still work in these women, right.

When they're in a safe, spirit filled place with people that are there to, you know, to serve them and to help, you know, guide them, you know, back.

But so I guess first is why don't you share with us a little bit about human trafficking.

If some people, right, are just not familiar because as we know, not everyone is familiar or don't.

Doesn't know a lot about it.

So maybe just give us a little ground on human trafficking.

Trafficking, because I know the numbers are actually astronomically scary, but huge.

And then also just what, you know, what else do we need to know about human trafficking?

You know what I mean?

So I think let's just go back up a little bit and tell people that and then we're going to dig back into where you are just at.

Yes, human trafficking is, I think it's the second largest industry in the world.

It's like numbers change here and there, but it's $150 billion industry.

And we know this has been happening since the beginning of time.

You can look back in the Old Testament and slavery has always been existed and exploitation of people has always existed.

Human trafficking, it's a complex industry.

What I think the general term of it is when someone is being exploited or sold for a sexual act in return for something, right?

So if someone is being sold and a person is receiving from that, that is human trafficking.

It looks different, it's like I said, very complex.

What we see is a lot of familial trafficking.

So this is actually parents or loved ones, husband, boyfriend that will traffic a, you know, a family member, their wife, their child in exchange for drugs or, or for other gain.

So that's a lot of what we see.

There's also commercial sex trafficking, which we have terms in the past prostitution and a Lot of times in commercial sex, there.

There could be a choice of stepping into that.

But what you will hear from survivors is that even with a choice, there is always abuse and exploitation.

You think you're choosing it, but really when you're.

When you're having to perform sex acts and then turn in money and not being able to keep what you're doing, that is trafficking.

And so.

But it.

It is very complex.

I think an interesting statistic is 85% of the women we serve have been in the foster care system at one point, point in time in their life.

So broken families, childhood sexual abuse, and other forms of abuse create vulnerabilities that set these women up to be targets for traffickers.

I think that's important because, yes, there's this notion about trafficking that somebody is kidnapped and then thrown into trafficking, and that does happen, but that's a very low percentage.

Usually these.

These victims are.

Have vulnerabilities that set them up, and that's what traffickers are looking for.

Traffickers are looking for those that are seeking out love that desperately are wanting something, and they.

They provide that for them.

And that's what makes this very difficult for survivors to step out of trafficking, is a lot of times their trafficker, like, they love their trafficker and their trafficker may love them.

And it's very complex because that is their family system.

And so, yeah, it's a very complex problem.

Yeah.

I mean, and I think, you know, then you also.

There's so many layers, like you said, of trauma.

I mean, the number of things they have to get through.

Right.

In ptsd, but even betrayal.

Right.

Like, in other words, it starts with one thing, and then, of course, it turns into so many other things and, you know, terrible things they have to go through.

So thank you for sharing that.

But, you know, with you having worked with these women, you've been overseas and you've seen some of it as well.

What can you just share with us about God bringing us back, even if we haven't walked through sex trafficking, human trafficking, or maybe even our own abuse to that kind?

All of us have been through something, right?

We've all been through some trauma or some upset or something that's.

We're.

We may be still holding on to even.

But what would you just say with us about God can heal us.

He can bring us back from anything, and then also about the evil that's in the world and.

But what.

What have you seen?

Like, what's the flip side of that?

You know, so I'd love for you to talk to us about that a little bit?

Absolutely.

I know.

I think there's a question that we all ask ourselves of Lord, why do you allow evil to occur and why does this happen to people?

Why are children being abused?

Why are build women being abused?

And.

And really in the early days too that was a heart cross cry that I had of Lord, I th.

This is beyond what I could have dreamed and imagined when it comes to abuse.

And how is it that this is allowed to go on?

And what do you say about this?

What is the hope?

And I just think it all comes back to that.

Romans 8 that says I am convinced that any suffering we endure is less than nothing compared to the magnitude of glory that is about to be unveiled within us.

The entire universe, right, is waiting on tiptoe for the sons and daughters to be revealed and for God to redeem every single thing that we've been through.

We live in a broken world.

There is evil that exists here, but even, but greater is he that lives in us than he that is in the world.

Right?

And so what we've seen over and over again as yes, like there, there's healing modalities and we, we take excellent therapeutic care very, very seriously.

At the her campaign we have rhythms that are evidence based and very therapeutic to make sure that these women are receiving everything they need practically on this journey.

But where we see the breakthrough is when they hear God's voice for themselves.

They understand who he is.

And when he meets them in those spaces, when they start to hear from God himself, He meets them in those areas of brokenness and only he knows what they need to hear.

So we have something called spiritual exchange.

And that is where you just are facilitating a conversation between you and the Lord.

And he always shows up.

And what he speaks to each of the survivors IND individually is exactly what they need in that moment and it changes everything.

So even in their worst of worst trauma that we disassociate because our trauma just.

We think it's going to kill us when we go there.

When they step into that place with the Lord and he reveals a truth that speaks to their heart, we see things break, we thing see things change.

And so yes, there's evil, yes, there's horrible things.

And sometimes when we sit with these survivors and we hear these stories, it seems hopeless.

But then God truly, he comes in, he shows them and he really is a good father that redeems every broken piece of us.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Wow.

I love it.

Like you said then God, right?

And I think really you know, the point is, is once these women are able to get to a safe environment and they're surrounded, right, with, with the love and the therapies that will help them, then God is able to move within them.

Right?

Because when they're in an unsafe space, right, they're still having abuse, they're still being enslaved.

Even if God's trying to break through, they, they just can't hear it.

Right.

Because they're just trying to survive, you know, and so, but once they're in this, the safer environment, right, he can start to break through, you know, and, and, and he does, which is so powerful.

I love that.

Yeah, he, he brings an upside down kingdom, right.

So everything the enemy does is a counterfeit.

It's taking what God has created and counterfeiting it.

And, and so even when like these women are trafficked, and that's their definition of family, what, what we know is what Psalm 68 says.

God, God is a father to the fatherless.

He places the lonely in families and he sets the captives free.

So we get to turn the kingdom upside down and show them a different way that is actually fruits of the spirit.

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness.

And there's nothing expected of them in return except for them to step into the fullness of who God has made them to be.

So good.

Love it.

Oh my gosh, that's amazing.

So being that we.

This, I'm going to release this right before the new year.

And so just message of hope and encouragement through everything you've observed, both, you know, the hard things, but also just the glory of God that you keep getting to see.

Right.

And just how your kids are showing up, you know, with the Holy Spirit, just for everybody listening, like what, what message of hope or encouragement would you want to share?

And then just what do you just say to everybody about how we can show up in the world, you know, doing some good, whatever amount of good that is for, for ourselves.

Yeah.

I think we are radically out of control.

And what I mean by that is I have seen over and over and over again that it is only Christ in me, the hope of glory.

And there is nothing that we do outside of Him.

We can strive and strive and strive, but that is death.

And yet there is this place of resting in the Lord and watching him move.

And just like it, everything he's doing is unto Himself.

So everything he calls us to is unto himself.

I, I just want to encourage everybody that that is the goal.

He is the goal.

He is the prize.

And in that journey of, of just Intimacy with the Lord.

We get to.

To realize who we are.

And once you understand the fullness of what the gospel means and what it means to actually be in Christ and Christ in me, we get to sit in this place of rest and we get to watch the greatest adventure unfold around us.

That is what this last eight years has been like for my family is we have gotten to be on the crazy roller coaster of faith and hardship, but Jesus showing us glory after glory after glory of who he is and who we are, and it's worth all of it.

And so I think when it comes to who should I help or how do I help or, you know, what can I do?

Practically start by going and sitting in your prayer closet and just learn to hear the voice of God for yourself.

Open up the, like, really deep, deep dive into Lord, what are you saying in this moment?

And he is going to direct your steps each, each and every step of the way.

He really is so faithful to show you where you're going to go next.

Oh, my gosh, I love that.

It's.

Yeah, you know, just what a good reminder, right, that it's really about us continuing to deepen our relationship, to have an intimate relationship.

Right.

And then it will be known to us, right.

Like, we will know how we're supposed to move in partnership with him, you know, and so I love that.

That's amazing.

So just last, any last things you want to share with us before we wrap up, and then you can share with people how they can find out more about her campaign.

Yeah, absolutely.

I think, you know, one thing I do want to address is at the her campaign, we see that each person that comes to us is a is.

Is a whole person.

And that means body, soul, and spirit.

Right?

So our program is very comprehensive of we're first addressing, okay, the body is important.

God gave us these bodies for a reason, and we are supposed to take care of them.

Right.

These women are coming in with so many deficiencies.

So we provide integrative and functional medicine into our programs as well.

So we do neurofeedback, IV nutrition, and all of these modalities to just come alongside of the body while it starts to heal.

Then we look at, okay, what is, what's happened to the brain?

Like, what is the trauma that's happened and what are the therapeutic interventions that we need to do to really help that?

And then the spiritual component of, like, okay, Lord, come and show up in crazy radical ways for these women while they're going through this process.

Process.

And I just Think it's important even just in, in the body of Christ that we remember to look at ourselves as holistic beings.

Like he wants us to be at home in our body because this is where he is.

And so helping us like heal mind, body and soul completely and holistically is so crucial for this work.

But I think for each of us too.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, I think, you know, much like, yeah, I was saying earlier, you know, you have to be, you have to be healed, you know, or the more healed we are right through, through the work that Christ is trying to do in us, the more we can show up and serve and we can, you know, do the work that he's calling us to.

But that includes, to your point, right, Mind, body and spirit.

And so it's, it's so for some of us.

And I'm not saying every single thing, like I have two siblings with diabetes, type 1 diabetes.

Right.

Like, I'm not saying that in.

Right.

That that's going to get healed.

You know, it's not something that they can currently, you know, fix.

But what I'm saying is if we have things that are, are able to be addressed, like vitamin deficiencies, malnutrition, you know, never getting outside, you know, so I'm just saying doing all the things we can do, right.

To have a healthy mind, body and soul.

So I absolutely agree with you.

That's so good.

I love that.

All right.

So Britney, thank you so much for joining us today.

Sharing your heart, sharing so much wisdom, biblical wisdom, and then just shar amazing work that you and so many other people are doing to make her campaign and of course God moving through it.

But such a movement and, you know, just helping so many people.

So how can people learn more about her campaign and connect and learn about your programs and then how they can donate or, you know, participate if they're interested.

Absolutely.

Visit us on our website.

It's her campaign dot org.

Please sign up for our newsletter on there and you you'll get updates weekly, monthly about what we're doing and what God's doing through these women at the her campaign.

And you can also see us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, all of the things.

Awesome.

I love it.

Well, Merry Christmas.

Thank you so much for joining us and I can't wait to share this episode.

Thanks so much, Kristen.

As we wrap up today's episode, I just wanted to share an excerpt from the book how's your soul?

By Judah Smith.

Here's what he says.

In the previous chapter, we looked at God's original design for our souls and concluded that our souls can be healthy only when they are at home in God.

That is, when they return to God, when they find their purpose in God, and when they return to relationship with God.

We used the word worship to refer to that place of intimacy and closeness with our creator.

He later says, remember, God is the designer, the architect, and the originator of this complicated entity we call the human soul.

When he created the soul, he placed in it in an optimal environment, in a place where it could thrive.

Why?

Because God wants us to thrive in life.

He didn't create us to barely make it or to merely survive.

He wants to help us have healthy souls and full lives.

If we can implement these elements into our everyday lives, I believe we will be healthy to our cores.

Even when our outside environments aren't particularly healthy or stable.

If we are healthy on the inside, we will conquer adversity.

Oh, friends, that's what this whole episode was talking about.

It's letting God grow in us, do good works in us, letting us understand that we want to keep growing and to have an intimate relationship with God.

Because when he we do that and he speaks to us, we will know we are loved.

We will know our purpose.

We will know that no matter what we've walked through, no matter what trauma, no matter what unsafe space or unsafe person or adversity we've walked through, that it will be okay when we have the gift that God has given us.

And so that's it, friends.

I just hope that this episode both gave you some food for thought, but also encouraged you in your own life.

Whether you're walking through big and hard things you've overcome a lot, or whether things seem, you know, pretty good right now.

So until next time, I hope you have a wonderful end of this year as we step into the next year.

And if you haven't already, head over to KristinFitch.com and grab my Reignite your passion workbook.

It's perfect to kick off your new year, to really reconnect with yourself, reconnect with what God is planning, calling you into in this next season, in this new year.

And it really just allows you to pause and take time to take inventory of where you've been and where you're headed.

And so I would love it if you went and grabbed that.

And I will be offering two workshops in January, and I can't wait for some of you to join me in those because it's really going to help each of us step into everything that we're being called into.

And so make sure you're on my email so that you can hear more about that.

And I hope you have a wonderful New Year's, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve.

Be safe, And I hope 2025 brings blessings, health, and prosperity to you.

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