My guest for Happy Hour #83 is the lovely Jo Saxton. Jo is on the leadership team of Mission Point Church, and chairs the board of 3DMovements, an organization that equips churches in discipleship and mission. She's a speaker, author and co-host of the podcast Lead Stories, Tales of Leadership and Life. Jo, her husband, two daughters and dog live in Minneapolis. I met Jo through IF Gathering and have loved how she makes me feel like a friend. She is a true people person and makes the women around her feel important and heard.
In today's conversation, we talk about what discipleship means to her and how we disciple our children. We somehow transitioned from there to a conversation about bikinis and body image and loving our bodies today, since they won't always be this way.
She shares her experience with postpartum depression and how she was able to cope through a dreary season. I think you'll feel super encouraged to hear Jo talk about embracing who you are and what you do, killing comparison, and giving up feeling like we have to feel excited about all the things our friends feel excited about.
A conversation with Jo feels so natural and like a real happy hour should – jumping from the shallow to the deep and back up. You'll love her so much.
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Links from the Show
Jo's Podcast: Lead Stories
When Silence Falls by Tim Hughes
The Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes + Mentor for Life by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
What Jo is loving: Silver Boyfriend Jeans, conversations with inspiring, creative and dreaming women, and watching her kids and their friends grow up
Connect with Jo
Facebook // Twitter // Instagram
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I love your podcast. I just discovered it a couple weeks ago and have been listening so much that my 4 year old asked if we were listening to the Happy Hour in the car.
I love the encouraging stories and all the book recommendations.
I LOVE listening to this podcast!! I laugh so hard… And sometimes I just start crying. I feel like I have these wise and experienced women cheering me on even though they don’t know me. I’m a young wife fully involved in community in all of its messy beauty. Somehow God placed me in so many roles including my work in nonprofit that I just feel so not equipped to do. There’s just something comforting and encouraging about listening to women who have followed their dreams and the whispers in their heart. THANK YOU.
I just started listening to your podcasts last week and have become slightly addicted (my poor husband has graciously endured the phrase “on the podcast I was listening to today…” about 72 times already and has only rolled his eyes once. But seriously, it has blessed my soul in so. many. ways. What hit my like a freight train and I backed up and listened to multiple times was when Jo says she learned that “my mothering could be a journey of discovering rather then things that I would achieve. I can discover things about my children and don’t have to know them all right away.” This was super impactful as my husband and I are waiting to bring home our first child, a 14 yr old from Africa. I hadn’t realized until then that I had this assumption that I would just “know him”. My husband and I are both adoption counselors and so there is this lingering thought in my head that I should know it all because it’s my job. And yet when she said that I immediately felt the freedom well up from within me that there will be a long journey of discovering my kiddo, who he is, what he loves, hates, fears, etc. I was a profound moment for me and I am so thankful I started listening! I really appreciate you and your podcasts!