
WHAT YOU WILL HEAR
My guest for The Happy Hour # 238 is Jennifer Welker. Jennifer is a former Neonatal ICU nurse turned founder and designer of the jewelry brand, Golden Thread. Golden Thread is a luxe line of personalized and dainty jewelry that's been featured in magazines like Vogue, In Style, & People Style Watch, and is a celebrity favorite. Jennifer and her husband Ellis reside in Houston with their three children (and one on the way!)
Jennifer and I start off the show talking about how her business Golden Thread started out as an outlet to deal with the grief she encountered while working in the NICU. Jennifer then opens up to share how deep wounds in her childhood led her to live life with a self savior mentality – one where on the outside everything looked “normal”, but on the inside she was empty. She tells us how this spiraled downhill fast as she entered into an affair that would last years. I appreciated so much that Jennifer gives us the raw truth about the darkness, codependency, and toxic addiction that the affair was. I know you will be so moved as you hear Jennifer speak of when she hit her lowest, and the moment she tangibly felt God remove the scales from her eyes. Infidelity is not something that is often openly talked about, but friends, let us not get trapped in the lie that it only happens to “those” people. We are all in this boat together, and Jennifer's story is one we can all relate to, because her story speaks the truth that we are all in need of our savior, Jesus.
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LINKS FROM THE SHOW
- Golden Thread
- What Jennifer is loving: sleep, JOMO (Joy Of Missing Out), sushi (Uptown Sushi in Houston)
- What Jennifer is reading: The Road Back to You by Suzanne Stabile and Ian Cron, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Kingdom Woman by Tony Evans and Chrystal Evans Hurst, New Morning Mercies by Paul David Tripp, One Year Bible, Indescribable by Louie Giglio
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- My guest next week is Audrey Roloff – pre-order her new book!
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- If You Only Knew
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Your soap box at the beginning was so so needed. And right and thank you for that reminder. And I also would add that the Lord does not compare sins. When people say she or they committed that awful gosh I can’t believe it “that” sin … I would never commit “that” sin. Well I don’t believe and I feel like my belief is backed by Gods word but every time I go to step out and say something the enemy put doubt in my brain so whatevs … anyways, I don’t believe he compares sin. “That” sin compared to a white lie sin is still a sin. A sin is a sin is a sin. We can’t compare it. Just like we can’t compare my suffering to your suffering it’s suffering. I’m not sure if I’m making sense … there is the enemy creating doubt again … and also there is a little of my soap
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I just found your podcast a little while ago,and it has already changed my heart immensely. I have shared it with my girlfriends in hopes they can receive as much joy from listening as I have!
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