1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:21,240 Well, welcome everybody to the Dry Bones Army podcast. 2 00:00:21,240 --> 00:00:28,400 We are super blessed today to have a dear, sweet friend and just a woman that everyone 3 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:30,200 needs to get to know. 4 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,360 It's Brandy both and she is both smart and funny. 5 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:40,000 She absolutely has blessed my life really in a lot of ways and just our friendship has 6 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,440 been a treasure over the years. 7 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:46,800 And I invited her on today to share a little bit about the work that she's had her hands 8 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:52,480 in for years and she's going to share some of her stories with us, some insights on how 9 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:56,640 you can be more effective in praying to end human trafficking. 10 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:01,320 And if you're not yet a part of the Dry Bones Army, go to the DryBonesArmy.com and get signed 11 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:02,320 up. 12 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:03,320 It's absolutely free. 13 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:07,480 We send you an invitation to join us in praying for an end to human trafficking and we get 14 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:12,560 to introduce you to incredible people like Brandy both. 15 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:18,120 So with no further ado, Brandy, welcome to the podcast. 16 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,640 There is no other army that I would rather be a part of. 17 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:26,400 I'm so excited to be part of the Dry Bones Army, but I need to talk about one really 18 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,560 important thing before we get into anything else. 19 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:32,680 It's your eyeshadow game, man. 20 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,640 Like you are so good at eye makeup. 21 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:41,360 Like every time I see you, I'm mesmerized because you have beautiful eyes, but then your eyeshadow 22 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:44,040 game, man, is like on point. 23 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:50,440 So if you ever launch an eyeshadow army, I would like to join that one as well. 24 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:55,080 Well, gosh, Brandy, I'm, thanks for the compliment. 25 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,800 Now I'm going to be batting my eyes through the hole. 26 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:03,040 This is good for people who are listening to the audio who have never seen Sandy Storm 27 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:04,560 like on video. 28 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:09,200 These are always posted on YouTube so you can check out the eyeshadow. 29 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:10,200 Yeah. 30 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:13,600 Like go jump over to YouTube just to see Sandy's eyeshadow. 31 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,320 Like I highly recommend it. 32 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,440 I have a heart for elevating women. 33 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:23,320 Like you said, it's, it's one of my favorite things and not just women, but people in general. 34 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:30,080 I love helping people see themselves through the eyes of Christ, who they were created 35 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:36,040 to be, where their identity lies, where their strengths and gifts lie, because so many people 36 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:41,720 have so many incredible gifts that they don't even recognize as gifts and strengths. 37 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,000 And so I love calling that out of people. 38 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:49,400 I love pulling people into, into a greater calling. 39 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:51,640 I like convincing people to get other comfort zones. 40 00:02:51,640 --> 00:02:55,320 Like it's one of my, kind of one of my favorite things to do. 41 00:02:55,320 --> 00:03:02,000 And so I think that my, I mean, I could go back to like, I was an international studies 42 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:08,040 major in college before I burned out and blew up, blew off a really huge scholarship. 43 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:09,560 That was fun, but whatever. 44 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:16,760 But I, but I had this heart for, for elevating others and creating change and my focus at 45 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:22,400 the time, it was women and children in developing countries and socioeconomic issues. 46 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:28,280 And it really was, was like eradicating poverty and vulnerabilities. 47 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:30,000 And it's so beautiful. 48 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:36,480 Like I think the gift, what I found the gift of the forties is to be able to look back 49 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:42,280 and see God's hand at work and see him just like weaving threads together into this beautiful 50 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:44,400 tapestry. 51 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:50,040 And so I, I can go back and I can say like, none of that was wasted and none of that was 52 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:54,440 lost regardless of whether I finished with a degree or not. 53 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,680 That foundation really catapulted me to where I am today. 54 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,040 I couldn't see it then at the time. 55 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:04,080 Like I just knew that I felt like a loser and a failure who quit college and walked away 56 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,480 from a bunch of money. 57 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:17,200 But fast forward to 2017, 16 to 17, I was leading a sales team of about 400 women across 58 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,360 the U S and Australia and Canada. 59 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,800 And I had, I had really had a fire reignited. 60 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,720 I had just come off of being a stay at home mom for about 10 years. 61 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:34,080 And I was in a place of remembering what really sets me on fire and what my passion is in 62 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:35,080 life. 63 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,800 And I was doing leadership training with these women and sales training with these women 64 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:43,240 and mindset training and just really helping develop leaders, right? 65 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,200 Like helping elevate women. 66 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,200 And I loved it. 67 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:47,880 It set me on fire. 68 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:54,280 And then God started tapping and nudging and saying, Hey, I have more for you. 69 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:55,720 And you know, you've, you've done well. 70 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,880 Like at the time I was successful in business. 71 00:04:57,880 --> 00:04:59,320 I had a great family. 72 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,720 I had beautiful children, a good marriage, but God was like, Hey, there's something else 73 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:04,560 out there for you. 74 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:09,600 And it was one of those times where like, he was not going to leave me alone about whatever 75 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,760 it was he wanted me to do. 76 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:18,800 And so I just started leaning in and, and said, Okay, like open hands, open heart, you're 77 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:20,760 waking me up at three o'clock in the morning every night. 78 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,640 I don't know what you want me to do, but here I am. 79 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:28,400 I went to a conference in April of 2017. 80 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,680 The speaker at the end of the conference said, it, you know, it was one of those like, you're 81 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:37,520 in a room full of like-minded people and we're talking about purpose and, oh, everyone's like 82 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:39,880 so ready to change the whole world. 83 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:40,880 Right. 84 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:45,920 And so at the end of the conference, he said, I want you to write down this year, which was 85 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:52,520 2017, this is the year that I blank and you fill in that blank. 86 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:59,120 And so I literally, when I wrote down was go to Africa. 87 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:05,920 And I just like as an international studies major as a evangelical Christian woman, like, 88 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:06,920 I don't know. 89 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,560 I don't know if I just felt like Africa was the way that you serve others. 90 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:14,240 I don't know if it was because I, I had friends with orphanages in Africa. 91 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,120 That was what I wrote down. 92 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:20,440 It was not the year spoiler alert that I went to Africa, but I went to Australia the next 93 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:22,600 month for a business trip. 94 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:27,760 And while there, I saw a billboard that said something about immigrants being targeted 95 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,800 for human trafficking. 96 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:36,120 I probably had heard this phrase or this term in the past, but it was the first time it 97 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:37,120 resonated with me. 98 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,440 Like it was the first time like it just grabbed hold to my heart and I needed to know more 99 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:41,600 about what it was. 100 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:42,600 Right. 101 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,360 So then I saw a poster in a casino when we were going to dinner there that said missing 102 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,120 children are targeted for trafficking. 103 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:54,920 And my lens of American privilege said, oh, Australia's shady. 104 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:56,480 They got a problem over here. 105 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:57,480 Right. 106 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:01,360 And so went ahead, went through my trip. 107 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:02,640 You know, it was a business trip. 108 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:04,000 We did all of the things. 109 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:10,040 And then when I came home, this, this term, this phrase just would not let go of my heart. 110 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,040 I had no idea like what it meant. 111 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:15,280 I didn't know the inner workings. 112 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:19,120 I just knew that it was, it was just not letting go. 113 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:20,280 And it started showing up. 114 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:21,280 Right. 115 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:26,600 Like this was before it was like a trending topic started showing up on social media. 116 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:28,600 I started hearing about it on news channels. 117 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:31,120 It was like everywhere I looked, it was boom, boom, boom. 118 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,960 We were talking about trafficking. 119 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:40,400 So I just started reading and watching documentaries and Google searching and just trying to find 120 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:47,520 as much knowledge as I could soak up and still sat sitting back saying like, I have no idea 121 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:49,160 what God wants me to do with this. 122 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:51,160 Like I don't want to be involved with it. 123 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:52,160 I'm just learning. 124 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,480 Like this doesn't sound like anything I want to do. 125 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,920 And then it was every night. 126 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,680 Like literally I look back and I really think it was three 20 in the morning every night, 127 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,880 but I know it was three o'clock in the morning every night. 128 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:10,600 And I would, I would just wake up and I would just like heart racing, like breath catching 129 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:11,600 in your throat. 130 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,480 Like, okay, like what, what do you want me to do? 131 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:16,360 God, like what are you trying to tell me? 132 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:18,880 I would like to go back to sleep. 133 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:23,920 And I just started praying like, yes, I would wake up literally and I would say, okay, yeah, 134 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:25,160 yeah, whatever you want me to do. 135 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,280 So let me go back to sleep. 136 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:32,200 And I just started hearing like move your feet and serve where you are. 137 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:38,000 And I heard this repeatedly every night around the three o'clock mark. 138 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,760 And so one night I laid there for two hours and literally saying, I don't, I don't know 139 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,720 what you mean by move your feet and serve where you are. 140 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:52,840 And so I got up and I got on my computer and I found the Walk for Freedom a 21. 141 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:58,120 And I thought, well, this seems like a literal way to move my feet and serve where I am. 142 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:00,880 It's a local walk done at a global level. 143 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,760 So all right, moving my feet, serving where I am. 144 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:05,760 Cool. 145 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:06,760 I am not a marathon runner. 146 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:08,680 I am not a person who signs up for walks. 147 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:12,360 I like, I'm a speaker, I'm author, I'm a podcast host. 148 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:13,360 I use words. 149 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:14,360 That's what we do. 150 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:18,080 So I literally think I had a conversation with God that night where I was like, you're 151 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:24,000 wasting my talents, but whatever, you know, because that's just how I work. 152 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,000 And God knows it. 153 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,760 And so I'm real honest with him. 154 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:36,200 So from there, this chain, chain reaction began and I got plugged in with a local coalition 155 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,360 where I learned about other organizations. 156 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:44,000 And then I started teaching a vocational planning course at an aftercare home because 157 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,200 I do business coaching. 158 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:50,320 So it was a great marriage of my gifts and my strengths there. 159 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:56,560 And then we needed some, we needed jobs for the people that I had was mentoring. 160 00:09:56,560 --> 00:10:01,760 So over the course of a few years of creating vocational plans and then seeing people face 161 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:08,240 obstacles due to criminal backgrounds, gaps and resumes, lacking marketable business skills, 162 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:13,920 I just thought, man, we really have to create some type of a solution for this. 163 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:19,640 And so yeah, like you were one of the first people that I talked to about the idea of 164 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:24,600 creating a hat company and creating transitional employment and gap income for individuals 165 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:28,120 who have experienced trafficking and exploitation. 166 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:35,480 And I just knew that we needed a way, my thought process was we needed some way to attach these 167 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:42,000 individuals to a life of purpose where we could use our work to still glorify God and 168 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:47,520 use our work to really utilize and leverage our gifts and strengths and not look at it 169 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:51,600 as just like punching the clock or trying to make money to pay the bills, but really 170 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:57,960 do something that is God honoring and that we love and gain skills and references and 171 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,640 experience along the way. 172 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:02,480 So we've been doing that. 173 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,640 We launched in October 2020, the power hat company. 174 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:07,280 And that was fun. 175 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:09,440 We launched in October 2020. 176 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:13,720 There's a little blip on the radar that has affected the last four years of my life because 177 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:20,000 we just have challenges in business that we never had before that year. 178 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,280 And so it was a cool time to launch a new endeavor. 179 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,880 And yeah, it's been sanctifying. 180 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,280 It's been an incredibly sanctifying experience. 181 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:37,120 I've prayed from day one that whatever happens with this company, it needs to be like such 182 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:40,280 a testimony that there's no way anyone sees me in it. 183 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:42,480 They only see God in it, right? 184 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:43,480 Only God can do that. 185 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:47,960 And every time I get to a place that feels like an impasse, I sit back and I'm like, 186 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:49,560 well, guess what? 187 00:11:49,560 --> 00:11:52,480 They don't know this is all you because I got nothing. 188 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:56,880 I'm tapped out, maxed out, and he keeps providing. 189 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:04,600 And I did a call earlier with the team where a young man in Uganda shared that, thankfully, 190 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:10,240 we serve a God that knows our tomorrow so we don't have to. 191 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:16,800 And I thought, man, that is just one of the best ways to sum up my entire life. 192 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:22,600 And that brings us to 2024. 193 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:29,440 I went into 2024 feeling very unlike myself. 194 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:37,920 And like I said, October 2020 or March of 2020 today has been an incredible challenge 195 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:38,920 for me. 196 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:42,000 Personally, I'm a very positive person. 197 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:43,440 I stay very encouraged. 198 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:45,880 I'm like, you tell me I can't. 199 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,960 I'm like, hold my beer and watch this girl. 200 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:50,400 Let me run through brick walls. 201 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:52,160 Let me kick down doors. 202 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:56,280 And I've wanted to quit and give up more times in the last four years than I ever have my 203 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:58,280 whole life. 204 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,160 Discouragement has been a thing. 205 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:02,640 Defeat has been a thing. 206 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:08,360 And so I, being a person who usually has a word for the year and a scripture for the 207 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:14,560 year and goals for the year, I went into this year feeling like I didn't know. 208 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:16,160 I didn't know what it held. 209 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:20,440 I just knew that I had faced a lot of obstacles in the past few years and it felt like doors 210 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,800 kept getting slam shut in my face. 211 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:27,240 And my sweet friend Sandy Storm messaged me, I believe January 2nd. 212 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:30,200 I think it was January 2nd. 213 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,080 And you said, hey, hi friend, check it in. 214 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:34,080 What's your word for the year? 215 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:40,400 And I was like, she's really positive right now. 216 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,320 And I said, can I just be honest with you? 217 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:47,280 Because that's the type of friendship that we have that I know that I can lay out all 218 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:50,080 my ugly and you're going to be like, okay, cool. 219 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:51,800 And I said, I feel very uninspired. 220 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:53,640 I feel very defeated. 221 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:57,120 I don't know what God's plan is for this year. 222 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:58,560 I don't know what my word is for this year. 223 00:13:58,560 --> 00:13:59,880 Like I don't know. 224 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:04,760 I can't even tell you what I think I want to, you know, God's calling me to this year. 225 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:09,080 And you said, well, that sounds very unlike you. 226 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:12,160 And you said, so we're just going to start praying that God reveals your word. 227 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:17,360 And our good friend Tommy messaged me like the same day wanting to know what God was 228 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:18,840 calling me to this year. 229 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,480 And I gave her the same answer. 230 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:24,640 And she said, well, girl, I'm going to need you to put some worship music on and blast 231 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:28,280 it and just give it to God. 232 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:29,520 So I did. 233 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:37,880 And that same week, God revealed Deuteronomy one, six through eight and gave me the word 234 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:38,880 move. 235 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:39,880 Yeah. 236 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:42,640 And I'm like, I like, I don't hang out in Deuteronomy like ever. 237 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:45,480 Like I'm never like, ooh, I need inspiration. 238 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:47,160 Let me jump over to Deuteronomy. 239 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,680 No, that is not where I gain my strength from. 240 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:51,800 Yeah. 241 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,120 And so I just thought, okay, well, he wants me to move. 242 00:14:55,120 --> 00:15:00,520 And last year, the words that were really spoken over me and the scriptures given to 243 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:04,880 me were expanded territories, right? 244 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:12,360 And so I ended the year being like, well, I didn't get expanded territories and I didn't 245 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:14,320 get expanded blessing. 246 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:16,560 And so I don't know what this means. 247 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,120 So this year, he gave me that, you know, you've been on this mountain long enough and it's 248 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,640 time to move and take the lands that I've promised to you. 249 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:30,080 And so I shared this with you and you're like, oh, look at all the territories that he laid 250 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:31,080 out for you. 251 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:34,320 Look at what a huge area this is that he's talking about. 252 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:43,360 And I just began praying like, God, allow me to move in you as you move through me. 253 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:47,560 And that just became my prayer because I didn't know what the heck he meant by move. 254 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:52,120 He likes to give me all these cryptic, you know, things. 255 00:15:52,120 --> 00:16:01,360 So yeah, so since then, we did a freedom business forum in Thailand where the whole entire focus 256 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:06,440 was economic empowerment for individuals that have experienced trafficking. 257 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:11,840 And this was a global meeting with 150 different members from all across the world that this 258 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:19,320 is their primary focus is ending trafficking by eliminating vulnerabilities by breaking 259 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:23,000 cycles of poverty by empowering individuals. 260 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:31,720 So through that, we made some incredible connections with incredible organizations and we're doing 261 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:34,600 some, we have some partnerships going on in Nepal right now. 262 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:40,600 We're working with an organization that employs survivors of trafficking and exploitation and 263 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:43,920 they're working on snapback hats and trucker hats for us. 264 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:51,920 And we're really excited about that because they're just are not ethically sourced hats 265 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:55,960 like that with transparent supply chains where we know people are getting paid fair living 266 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:57,160 wages to make them. 267 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:02,360 So it's been one of the reasons I haven't really carried, you know, I have the one hat 268 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,720 with my label on it and that's it. 269 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:05,720 So we're excited. 270 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:06,720 They're working on new designs. 271 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:07,880 They're working on prototypes. 272 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:13,800 So I love the connections that came from that. 273 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:20,720 And that was definitely like there was a nudge and an urge to go and at the time I kept thinking 274 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:25,560 I'm not even really sure why I'm going because I don't really know what God's even doing 275 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:26,560 with my business. 276 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:30,200 And when I went to Thailand, I was at a make or break. 277 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,880 I could easily close the doors and walk away. 278 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:36,880 And I knew what we needed to do at the next level. 279 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,320 I didn't know how to get to it. 280 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:40,920 And I was out of money. 281 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:41,920 I was tired. 282 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:43,560 I was burnout. 283 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:49,440 And so I kind of went into it and literally thought, I don't even know why I'm here. 284 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:51,200 Like I don't know why I came. 285 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,320 There's people here with established social enterprises that are doing well. 286 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:58,800 And I'm like, it felt all very conceptual for me at the time. 287 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:04,680 It felt like really good idea, but nothing has has been successful in the in the terms 288 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:09,240 of the amount of people that I want to create opportunities for, right? 289 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,120 So yeah, so God's done beautiful things with that. 290 00:18:12,120 --> 00:18:15,960 He's brought some amazing connections out of that. 291 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:22,280 And within a couple of weeks of being home from that trip, my friend Tasha message who 292 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:28,300 has she's been doing work on the ground in Uganda for the past seven years. 293 00:18:28,300 --> 00:18:33,280 She has been begging me to come to Uganda for the last four years. 294 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:39,920 And I, I kept saying, look, I'm a person that will easily say yes to way too many things. 295 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:41,880 And I have to stay in my lane. 296 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:46,320 And I was like, your deal is sustainable agriculture in Uganda. 297 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:47,320 Cool. 298 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:48,840 But that's not my deal. 299 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:53,600 And I need to stay in the anti trafficking economic empowerment space. 300 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:58,360 So when she, when she called me up this year, she was like, I need to talk with you. 301 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:03,000 And look, she said, I have some women's empowerment programs that we're doing in Uganda. 302 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:08,160 And we're creating micro enterprise and we're creating savings programs. 303 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:13,160 She said, but I really just need you to bring the power project here, do some business coaching 304 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:16,520 with them, some entrepreneurial coaching. 305 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:22,520 And she said, also, I'm working with some organizations that are, that are serving children 306 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,920 that have been trafficked, children that have been child brides, children that have been 307 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:26,920 exploited. 308 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:31,800 And she said, I just think we need to see if we can connect the dots. 309 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:37,000 And then she said, this is a time, you know, pray about it. 310 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,680 Let's look at like September or October as a possibility. 311 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,480 And so that's what I did for the summer. 312 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:47,200 I just kind of tabled it as like, I might go to Uganda in the fall. 313 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:48,200 I don't know. 314 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,280 I'm just going to pray about this. 315 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:57,840 And yeah, so I went to market at the beginning of August, mid August for our first wholesale 316 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:03,560 market because the hat company is expanding and the goal is to be in real retailers nationwide 317 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:05,000 by the end of 2025. 318 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,920 So that's super exciting. 319 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:12,560 Going to market like the day before I left, I was going to be gone for a week for at the 320 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:13,840 market. 321 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:20,680 And Tasha called, she's like, Hey, can you leave on the like August 26th? 322 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:27,120 I'm like, Oh, like 10 days when I get back from market after I've been gone a week and 323 00:20:27,120 --> 00:20:29,720 I've been prepping for market all before that. 324 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:33,400 I'm like, well, I don't really see any reason I can't. 325 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,920 Let me just run it by my husband's. 326 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:41,440 So we went to, we went to Uganda and I met the team of native Ugandans that she's working 327 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:46,920 with their, the leadership team that are standing up a village and church planting in this area 328 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:52,640 that she's launching some sustainable agriculture initiatives and women's empowerment programs. 329 00:20:52,640 --> 00:21:00,040 And we met with a gal that's on that leadership team that lives in the slum that has an initiative 330 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:06,280 to provide sanitary products to girls that are going to school that don't have products 331 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,000 for their menstrual cycles. 332 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:15,120 And then we met an aftercare home, the love does home aftercare for the girls who've been 333 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:17,080 exploited in traffic. 334 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:23,880 We met with a children's home and orphanage that is taking in kids with all sorts of trauma 335 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:29,320 that have been given up by mothers with all sorts of trauma that started out as children 336 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:30,440 with all sorts of trauma. 337 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:34,760 So all of these cycles, we met with a team that has planted a hospital in the village 338 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:42,920 there and very similar to Thailand, I spent the first two days going, I have no idea why 339 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:43,920 I'm here. 340 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,280 I admit that I have nothing to offer. 341 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:48,440 I'm a vessel lord. 342 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:49,440 You use me. 343 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:53,840 I'm not here to fix anybody's problem, but just show me what you would like me to do. 344 00:21:53,840 --> 00:22:02,080 And we have had beautiful, beautiful fruit grow from those seeds that were planted within 345 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:03,680 the first month that we've been home. 346 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:08,840 We launched an initiative to provide products to these girls in the slums because what happens 347 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:13,960 is they don't have products and there's a stigma surrounding your menstrual cycle. 348 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:19,080 So these girls that are in school, they get their periods, they won't go to school for 349 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:23,480 the week that they have school because they have their period and they have no products. 350 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:28,120 They will end up falling behind, they drop out of school, and then they have no education, 351 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:29,120 they have no income. 352 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:35,760 Well, then there are men that will provide them products in exchange for them sleeping 353 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:36,760 with them. 354 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:42,840 So this starts the cycle of exploitation, which leads to a cycle of prostitution or a 355 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,040 life of sex work, right? 356 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:50,560 And it unwanted teenage pregnancy, early motherhood. 357 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:57,880 It just creates this entire convoluted cycle of exploitation, vulnerability, stemming from 358 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,320 poverty and period insecurity. 359 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:05,800 So we were able to tag on to the initiative that the young lady had started there and 360 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:12,800 raise, her goal was $200 US dollars, we raised $1200 US dollars and $3800. 361 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:21,160 And last Saturday, they launched a power project period pad initiative in the slum that, because 362 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:26,240 the leadership team has decided they are the power project Uganda and that is all God, 363 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:30,600 that is not me, that that brand has been carried into Uganda. 364 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,680 And they not only did they pass out pads, but they did round table sessions with the 365 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,120 girls and they shared testimonies and they shared challenges. 366 00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:44,920 They raised awareness about exploitation and not not entering into this life to solve these 367 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:50,760 these problems of vulnerability and poverty and they worshiped and they praised God and 368 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:51,880 they prayed with them. 369 00:23:51,880 --> 00:24:01,800 And I have chills, chills talking about this because the very root back in like 2017 when 370 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:07,160 I thought maybe I'll go to Africa and maybe I'll write a book and maybe I'll start a podcast 371 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:13,280 and power was the the main underlying through line of everything right. 372 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:18,080 And it was all based off of Ephesians 320 that according to the power that's at work 373 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:23,800 within us right like his power at work in us. 374 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:30,800 And when I looked up and this team of Ugandans have printed up t shirts that say the power 375 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:38,080 project and the back of it says Ephesians 320 his power at work in us like I could cry 376 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:47,160 because it's it's all God and it's seven years of like me not knowing what the heck God is 377 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:53,200 doing why he's calling me to what he's calling me to and and just the I don't know ignorance 378 00:24:53,200 --> 00:25:00,040 on fire to say like okay all right like every time every time I step out of my comfort zone 379 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:05,960 every time I answer him and say yes I'm like I don't know why I'm here I feel unqualified 380 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,120 unprepared and I don't know what that you're doing. 381 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:13,520 So let's talk a little bit about what you saw because what the dry bones army really 382 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:21,000 wants some guidance on what what we come together once a month and listen to these stories of 383 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:27,960 leaders like yourself other survivors of trafficking or people like yourself or Dr. Grover was 384 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:34,040 one of our guests or some others who have shared insights about strategies for prayer. 385 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:40,000 I don't think that our team would have been aware that praying for a simple need like 386 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:48,480 sanitary pads for young girls in school in Africa and partnering with an organization 387 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:55,960 who's going to solve that that need how that could be a strategy to ending human trafficking. 388 00:25:55,960 --> 00:26:00,360 So share let's dig into some of your your personal insights and your personal revelation 389 00:26:00,360 --> 00:26:05,400 that the Holy Spirit has allowed you to receive during your travels this year. 390 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:09,640 Do you do you feel comfortable talking about some of the things outside of the conference 391 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:15,680 in Thailand or some of the experiences that you had when you're I saw you running around 392 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:21,440 Africa all over your Instagram so living vicariously through you I think we were on like a 12 hour 393 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:22,440 difference. 394 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,960 So yeah it's up the next day but yes. 395 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:35,160 Yeah and I and I think I'm very intentional about documenting the work because I think 396 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:41,320 that there's so much to be gained from sharing it literally sharing the lived experience right 397 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:47,080 because things can feel like they're so far away and they're over there and so I'm not 398 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:51,240 trying to be a travel influencer and this is my best friends like so what are you like 399 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:56,040 a travel influencer now and I'm like no I while I'm doing this and while I just have 400 00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:02,200 found that the most engaged content that I create is when I share the lived experience 401 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:09,800 bad and good when I shine a light in the darkness but I also bring darkness to the surface. 402 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,800 People really respond really well to that and I I want them to see the humanity of it 403 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:18,520 I want them to see the faces I want them not to think about this being an issue that's 404 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:23,480 tucked away far enough way that we don't need to worry about it right because you and I 405 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:28,080 both know this is all in our backyard right here in the US right like that's one of the 406 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:36,800 most common misconceptions that that people have but in Thailand I knew I okay our conference 407 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:41,760 was in Pattaya Thailand and for those of you who don't know there is one thing that Pattaya 408 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:49,800 is known for and it is sex tourism right so Westerners primarily Westerners travel to 409 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:58,480 Pattaya to live out their fantasies with sex workers there and people like there are people 410 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:06,200 that save up for a lifetime to go have a week of debauchery in in Thailand and so I knew 411 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:11,080 I knew where I was going I knew that Thailand as a country is beautiful and the people are 412 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:18,440 lovely and they're the most they're so hospitable they're so kind they're wonderful human beings 413 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,360 and I knew that I was going to experience that culture but that I was also going to 414 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:28,440 see like the darkness of humanity right so we had an organization that is planted there 415 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:34,600 doing outreach work every single day in in one of the red light districts so there are 416 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:40,440 I can't remember exactly but there are red light districts all across Pattaya and so 417 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:45,080 we were at the conference center that we were at the hotel we were at I believe we were 418 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:54,080 like two streets over from from the street and we had gone to I'm not certain if we had 419 00:28:54,080 --> 00:29:00,200 gone to dinner one day or we were going to an outreach center across town and it was 420 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:05,840 daylight and and you know we're weaving in and out of the streets in Thailand and the 421 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:13,280 the took tooks were in a Uber car or not Uber but they're equivalent to Uber and as I'm 422 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:18,880 like I'm like uploading to my story right I'm talking about Thailand and I look up and 423 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:25,480 I'm like oh well the signs above the businesses have changed they are no longer written in 424 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:31,560 Thai they're written in English and they are incredibly vulgar and obscene like more than 425 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:39,920 any smutty club you see in the US it was like oh oh well that says exactly what we're doing 426 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:45,280 in in this place and so I started looking around the street and I'm like excuse me what 427 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:50,600 street are we on and one of the girls who was at the conference with me actually Tiffany 428 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:56,960 who has the organization in Nepal she said the fun one I think I think we're on the fun 429 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:02,920 street and I was like yeah looks like it because it's daylight and I can't believe what these 430 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:10,520 signs say so the organization Tamar Center that does the outreach there they said that 431 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:17,560 the director said hey we have an outreach center in the smack dab middle of that street 432 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:22,600 and we go out and I would love to take you like I take groups down there if you want 433 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:27,760 to go at night and and see what goes on and I was really clear about making sure that 434 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:33,640 this was not a voyeuristic trip because we can tend to fall into like ooh let me see 435 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,760 you know and are we there for a reason are we bringing Jesus to the area or are we just 436 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:42,320 trying to like see something and he said no no no he said look we're gonna take you and 437 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,760 we're gonna show you the center I'm gonna show you the different layers of the center 438 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:49,600 and what we do there for outreach I'm gonna take you to the rooftop and we're gonna pray 439 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:57,160 over this district so we set out he's like you know be ready I believe like 10pm is what 440 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:02,960 time we set out and we walked the you know the two blocks or what it was over to the 441 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:09,480 street and we went through and it was a group of four of us girls I believe and then the 442 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:15,600 leader of the center who's a man that's planted there and he said listen as we walk down the 443 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:19,240 street like there's gonna be girls they're hanging out at the bars they're gonna be trying 444 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:23,760 to grab me into a bar they're gonna they're probably gonna touch you because like women 445 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,720 are not a threat to them like they would rather you be their customers so they're probably 446 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:36,120 gonna love on you as you walk through the street and the only the only term that I can 447 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:43,560 come up with that like most accurately explains my feelings and when I experienced emotionally 448 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:55,600 walking through that street is righteous indignation like I was like I was pissed like in the holiest 449 00:31:55,600 --> 00:32:02,080 of ways as we walk down the street because you're just looking at there's 900 women 450 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:08,120 in this street in a street that I don't even know if it's a half mile long I mean it is 451 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:15,160 a it's an alley basically and it's just bars lined on both sides of the street and the 452 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:21,400 girls work in the bars they live above the bars that's where their apartments are and 453 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:26,760 the bar owner is not their trafficker but they have to pay rent to the bar owner and 454 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:31,760 they have to see so many customers to pay the rent and their goal is to bring customers 455 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:39,240 into the into the bar and so they're technically free to go not held against their will but 456 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:46,200 they're also trapped in a life of a cycle right that they've come to try because they've 457 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:50,600 come from villages and they've they've come from abject poverty and they're looking for 458 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:57,240 work and this is the work that they the line of work that they end up in so girls are 459 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:02,960 scantily clad they're walking around you know in their in their G strings and and topless 460 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:09,040 and and they're just trying like it's all like one big bachelor party it's like the 461 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:13,640 biggest crazy as wild as bachelor party you can think on like steroids and they're they're 462 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:19,360 pulling they're trying to pull guys into bars there are like groups of people who who literally 463 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:23,080 are just walking through the street and ended up on the wrong street right and then there's 464 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:27,160 others that they've come here for one thing and you can see it and you can see it in their 465 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:33,680 eyes and you fill the wickedness that is at work and the the spiritual bondage that is 466 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:41,720 at work in this space and I like I wanted to I wanted to physically harm these buyers 467 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:46,320 and the girl walking alongside me I said what are you what are you experiencing right now 468 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:51,520 because it's just there's noise the the the bars have their music so loud you just feel 469 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:56,920 it pumping inside your chest there's people like passing you left and right there's mopeds 470 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:00,280 scooting around you almost running over you because they're looking at the women in the 471 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:05,360 bars there's women coming out hanging on people it's it's like drug fueled alcohol fueled 472 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:12,760 debauchery I said and and like I'm a person that you know I'm I'm in Vegas a lot and 473 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:19,080 so when I say it's like a lot it's a lot and I said what are you what are you experiencing 474 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:27,720 right now and she said I like I just I think so much sadness and she said you and I was 475 00:34:27,720 --> 00:34:34,000 like I want it like I want to murder people like I like I I want to throw punch that guy 476 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,960 on that moped that is like looking at this woman with the most nasty look on his face 477 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:43,880 I've ever seen in my life like like I physically almost like threw a handout and knocked him 478 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:49,040 off the moped as he came by me like that was my guttural reaction to what I felt there 479 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:54,960 and she was like oh it's a little harsh like I don't know I just like I'm so angry like 480 00:34:54,960 --> 00:35:01,840 I'm so angry at this and the fact that humans are exploiting other human beings like this 481 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:07,040 so we halfway in the middle of the street we stop they roll up a garage door and here's 482 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:11,880 the center and it's there's a bar next to it a bar on each side of it a bar across from 483 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:16,720 it there's people in and out and we went in and they showed us the ground floor level 484 00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:23,480 is a hair salon and they do hair for the the girls that are in that district and they build 485 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:28,520 relationships with them and if and when the girls choose to leave the lifestyle they do 486 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:35,640 training vocational training on site to teach them cosmetology and how to do hair and then 487 00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:40,680 and it's it's disguised as a hair salon right and then the middle center is there their 488 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:45,560 training center where they teach English where they do prayer meetings where they have church 489 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:52,800 where they do vocational training and educational training and then and then the third floor 490 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:59,040 is like they have a place oh they have a place for the girls to sleep because when they go 491 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:03,400 with a client if they go to the hotel with the client oftentimes they come back in the 492 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:07,920 morning hours before the bars open and so they live above the bar and the bar owner 493 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:12,040 doesn't give them a key to his bar because he doesn't want them stealing his liquor you 494 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:17,320 know what have you so they have no place to sleep after a night out of work and there's 495 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:21,360 typically like a they said anywhere from a about a like a four hour window where they 496 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:27,080 don't have anywhere to go so there's mats on the floor in this room and it's just a safe 497 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:32,320 place that they can come and they can sleep and no one's going to hurt them and then we 498 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:39,120 went up onto the rooftop and we look down over this red light district of all of the absolute 499 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:44,760 worst of humanity laid out below us and you can just see the scene and you can watch the 500 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,640 scene and you hear the laughing and the shouting and and then you can look up and your eye 501 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:54,960 level with with the apartments and the laundry hanging out drying and and the life that these 502 00:36:54,960 --> 00:37:05,040 women are in and so we prayed over this district we all joined a circle and we hands out stretched 503 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:12,640 prayed over that space are you familiar with this song is it Chris Tomlin God of the city 504 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:20,520 that song was written on this rooftop overlooking this red light district yes and literally when 505 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:28,200 you're like all I could think was like man like he's still the God of this city like 506 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:32,800 he's he's the God of these people like all of these people down here who are choosing 507 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:38,880 not to worship him and and I just started praying like God like let these women know 508 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:43,360 their identity in you let them know you as their God let them know their worth let them 509 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:47,960 know their value and I need these men and these these people that are purchasing these 510 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:53,240 individuals and these women I need them to know this God I need them to know their God 511 00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:57,760 and I just started praying like God let these men know your know your value and worth and 512 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:02,640 like let something supernatural happen tonight where they are so overwhelmed with your power 513 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:08,480 that they can't do what they came here to do you know like let things not work tonight 514 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:12,920 that would be awesome for me okay so let's talk about some prayer strategy I'm glad that 515 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,920 you're bringing this up because I've been in red light districts like this I haven't 516 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:25,280 been on that rooftop yet now you will on my list of places to go but I think that the most 517 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:32,520 strategic way to pray in a place like that is for impotence for there to be no strength, 518 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:40,360 no power to complete the task that they set out to do and a holy conviction the fire of 519 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:47,440 God to fall upon these men who came with a burning desire in their hearts a burning 520 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:55,260 something burned into their mind that they saw in probably pornography and now they're 521 00:38:55,260 --> 00:39:01,840 going putting feet to their flame just like you were just like you were you had the whispers 522 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:07,200 in the night you had the stirring you had the pounding of your heart and you're like connected 523 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:13,920 to Jesus you said oh how do I get how do I solve this urge that you put inside of me 524 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:19,000 it drew you there they were drawn there as well they have that a lot of the same physical 525 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:24,660 manifestations of that desire being birthed in them and being kindled in them and growing 526 00:39:24,660 --> 00:39:30,680 into a raging fire until they they took as much of a chance as you did when you got on 527 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:36,360 the plane and went to Thailand they got they got out with the evil intention so because 528 00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:42,760 they are clearly serving another a completely different God the God that they're serving 529 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:47,120 brings them into places of destruction the God that they're this is not God's plan for 530 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:52,440 their life and I'm not sympathetic to people who participate in sex trafficking whether 531 00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:57,160 they're buying or selling I'm not sympathetic at all but I do understand and it can help 532 00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:04,680 us to shape strategic prayers so in Uganda the first day literally I got off the plane 533 00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:12,160 and the team took me to a lovely meal by on the on the banks of Lake Victoria which was 534 00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:16,600 I was like oh this is amazing and and I was told like hey this is probably gonna be the 535 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:21,120 best meal you have all week long we're you know so we're taking you here first and the 536 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:26,960 rest of the week it may be questionable so it was beautiful we had a great a great lunch 537 00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:33,240 and then from there they took me straight to the slum of Kampala and there are I believe 538 00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:39,400 seven slums around Kampala and this one Nemo Wango is the one that that we that we plugged 539 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:49,000 into the one that we did the period had outreach and I I'm pretty comfortable out of my comfort 540 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:55,000 zone and I'm pretty comfortable in in places where people are very vulnerable and very 541 00:40:55,000 --> 00:41:01,240 exploited I would not recommend anyone who doesn't have experience in a developing country 542 00:41:01,240 --> 00:41:07,600 or or in a situation that's not comfortable to you to just go straight to the slum you 543 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:12,480 probably need a couple of days to acclimate before you go there and so I I didn't know 544 00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:18,120 what to expect I knew that they told me this is the the poorest of the poor these are the 545 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:24,240 most dire living circumstances because even the people in the village who lack resources 546 00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:31,160 have a better quality of life than than the people who have come to the city looking for 547 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:39,680 work and there are all of these stereotypes and stigmas with what region what area you 548 00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:46,200 come from and your education and even amongst the community so these people end up very 549 00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:53,280 like ostracized living in the slum incredibly impoverished and it is not a place that is 550 00:41:53,280 --> 00:42:02,600 faint of heart it fills you it fills full of despair and it fills full of wicked at play 551 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:09,280 but it feels even more hopeless than the red light district in Thailand dead and you know 552 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:14,760 I went there were there were two of us and two of us that were white or mizongos as as 553 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:20,840 the Ugandans call us and and then we were with the team the leadership team there who are 554 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:25,960 native Ugandans that the majority of them grew up in a slum or a slum like the one that 555 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:32,560 we were visiting and we met with Vivian the young lady that is just really leading I mean 556 00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:38,560 she want to talk about like this 24 year old girl is just the Jesus that people are seeing 557 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:43,520 in the slum and she has such a heart for empowering them and so she said we're going to take you 558 00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:48,040 to some houses we're going to do some home visits and we're going to go meet some people 559 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:52,440 and hear some stories and this is a place that you just constantly feel like you need 560 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:57,120 to watch your back you constantly feel like I mean you feel like you don't want to stand 561 00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:01,600 out you don't want to draw attention to yourself they said don't don't don't bring any valuables 562 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:05,000 leave your phones in the van don't you know don't take anything that can be snatched from 563 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:12,360 you and stay close in this pack and thankfully we had four big strong Ugandan men with us 564 00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:17,160 that had connections with some people in the community so they had already told them like 565 00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:22,120 hey keep an eye out for us and make sure that our backs are taken care of while we're in 566 00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:29,080 the slum right so we wove in and out of tight little alleyways that wouldn't even be considered 567 00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:34,640 alleyways but walkways pathways there's raw sewage draining down the ground that we're 568 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:41,680 walking over it's it's vile like it's a vile place and a lot of people without hope and 569 00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:46,360 a lot of people who don't know their identity is so the first home that we went to once 570 00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:52,200 again I was in a place of like okay God why am I here what why did you call me here what 571 00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:57,560 am I supposed to do like you know just having some intent conversations with God as you're 572 00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:05,600 walking through a very uncomfortable scary place right and as we made our way through 573 00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:13,880 the the homes which are like six by eight mud huts in the form of like a little concrete 574 00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:19,400 square as we made our way through that and the filth and the trash and babies running 575 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:24,120 everywhere half dressed and kids coming and flocking to us because there were mozongos 576 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:28,160 and some of them have never seen a white person and they want to check you out and see what's 577 00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:35,480 going on with you they led us to this house and it was a house where our leader you know 578 00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:40,640 asked in native language said is your is your mom home kids greeted the door is your mom 579 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:46,320 home will you go get your mom and two girls came to the door this is the first house that 580 00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:51,400 we went to two young girls came to the door both with babies on hips and lots of babies 581 00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:57,640 around them and our leader introduced himself and he said this is our these are our friends 582 00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:02,400 and they're here visiting and how can we pray for you tonight like what can we pray for 583 00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:10,280 and so the girl said something to to the leader and he he choked up you know and I it wasn't 584 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:14,160 in English I wasn't sure what was being said or communicated and it's dark at this point 585 00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:20,680 like darkness has fallen I'm there's people all around me and I'm in a like this kind 586 00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:25,440 of situation right I'm like looking over my shoulders like okay what are we doing and 587 00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:30,280 so he got choked up when she responded and and he covered his mouth for a bit and he 588 00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:34,800 looked down and he he fought back some tears and he looked up and he said they want you 589 00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:43,560 to pray for the women in in this community because their only option in life is prostitution 590 00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:50,360 and it hit me so hard like just the Holy Spirit like I had I just was overwhelmed with so 591 00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:57,080 much empathy and wow this is the very first thing we're doing when we get off the plane 592 00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:03,680 huh like I've been questioning why I'm here and so okay and he said mama Texas which is 593 00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:07,920 what they call me he says would you would you pray would you pray for the women in 594 00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:16,480 this slum and I'm not short for words ever in case you can't tell and I just like everything 595 00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:23,280 caught in my throat and I did not think I could form the words to pray over this hopeless 596 00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:29,920 place I didn't know that I could speak identity to these women when everything looks so hopeless 597 00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:35,400 and desperate and I mean I even like I fought back tears I stood with the lump in my throat 598 00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:42,280 and I shook my head and I looked at him and I said I don't think I can and he said you 599 00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:48,000 can that's why you're here and I was like okay God that's why I'm here and it's your 600 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:52,400 power at work within me right and so I just began praying over the women there that they 601 00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:56,160 would know their identity they would know their worth they would know their value that what 602 00:46:56,160 --> 00:47:01,280 we see with our physical eyes is not what's happening spiritually and he's a God of breakthroughs 603 00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:06,000 and he's a God of restoration and he's a God of redemption and I just started praying 604 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:14,240 like truth over these women in this space and and so we we said our goodbyes as we as 605 00:47:14,240 --> 00:47:19,400 we walked our way down the walkway path the house past the house and down some steps because 606 00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:26,840 theirs was like elevated up and as we walked off I look back and I realized like oh well 607 00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:33,280 directly next door there's a bar with these men sitting on stools and drinking and some 608 00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:37,400 lights like it's obvious that it's a bar not like anything we would envision but it's a 609 00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:44,960 bar and I thought huh well you know their house was right next to the bar and then as 610 00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:49,440 we continued walking I look back again and I thought well it kind of looks connected to 611 00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:57,400 the bar and so I'm processing real time all night long and at the end of the night my 612 00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:01,120 friend that I was with she said yeah did you notice the guys that were in the bar next 613 00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:06,040 door like drinking while we were like standing on the porch of the house next to that like 614 00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:13,360 praying and I said yeah actually did we just like did we just pray on the steps of a brothel 615 00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:19,320 is that what just happened and and my friend said yeah yeah that's what just happened and 616 00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:25,320 I thought okay God like this is why I'm here I'm here to just pray just to pray your truth 617 00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:30,760 and your identity over these people and from there the next prayer request that was issued 618 00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:36,600 throughout the night that stuck home was that the girls there needed sanitary products because 619 00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:41,000 they they couldn't go to school when they didn't have pads and I thought at the time 620 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:46,040 like oh well that's something I never thought of as a need and that's interesting and then 621 00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:53,160 as the week developed we realized this this just crazy cycle like you said like they're 622 00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:57,160 ending up in a life of exploitation and sex work because they didn't have pads to go to 623 00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:04,640 school like this is like this is mind-blowing to me that it's 2024 and we have people living 624 00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:09,680 in a space where they don't see any other choice in their life but to be in this cycle 625 00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:17,080 of exploitation because of poverty abject poverty and period insecurity and so yeah when I came 626 00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:22,240 home and and Vivian shared with me like this campaign that she was doing she wasn't asking 627 00:49:22,240 --> 00:49:27,800 for anything she just said hey this is a campaign that that my friend Jovan and I were hosting 628 00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:32,800 and we want to provide pads to 40 girls that are going back to school next week so that 629 00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:38,920 they can stay in school this semester and not have to miss school because of their periods 630 00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:45,200 and I thought well I said what's your goal and she said you know to provide pads to girls 631 00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,760 that so they can go back to school I said no no no financially what's your financial 632 00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:53,640 goal and she said well 200 US dollars which is a lot like that's a very large amount because 633 00:49:53,640 --> 00:50:00,960 the average you gondon lives on less than a dollar a day and so 200 US dollars is huge 634 00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:05,400 and I said well let me see what I can do so I wrote up a blog post and I shared it on 635 00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:10,520 Instagram and Facebook because I can't fix anyone's problems right but I can sure as heck 636 00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:17,640 like spread the word so we raised $1,200 and 48 hours and they were able to go and and 637 00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:25,040 the thanks and the gratitude that has been shared like I handed out so our hat bands 638 00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:29,480 have stamped leather bands on them that that survivors of exploitation and trafficking 639 00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:34,360 in the United States make our hat bands for us right so I took bracelets which are made 640 00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:39,200 from the scraps to our hat bands that have an X just a simple X in the center of them 641 00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:43,680 and we hand them out at markets and events to share our mission that says like this is 642 00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:47,920 to end human trafficking this was stamped by a survivor this is why we do what we do so 643 00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:54,000 I took a bundle of them with me to Uganda and as I was leaving I handed the leader Vivian 644 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:59,400 I said I'm going to leave these bracelets with you would you just hand them out to some 645 00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:03,200 of the girls in the slum and just tell them like I'm praying for them and we are looking 646 00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:08,920 for ways to give them other opportunities in life like use this to spread awareness so 647 00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:12,360 the videos and the pictures I have from the girls that are wearing these X bracelets in 648 00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:17,840 Uganda that are like thrilled and so excited to be a part of this initiative and to know 649 00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:21,920 that people see them and to know that people see to know that people care that they're 650 00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:28,000 on their period like is huge and to see like God's work there and to see like these girls 651 00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,680 are going to stay in school these girls might graduate these girls might be educated these 652 00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:36,640 girls might get a job like we're going to teach them I had a call right before this 653 00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:43,840 with four different organizations that are on the ground and in the US creating opportunities 654 00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:48,280 to teach vocational training and teach these women how to make these pads and teach these 655 00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:52,600 women how to start a business selling these pads creating an economic empowerment piece 656 00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:59,360 around their greatest struggle in life right and to keep them from being exploited and 657 00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:04,960 vulnerable so if you want to think about like how to pray and when people say like all we 658 00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:11,240 can do is pray like girls stop what you can do is pray like that's it like that's when 659 00:52:11,240 --> 00:52:17,240 I I was in Uganda to pray right and I've come back from Uganda praying and I have a prayer 660 00:52:17,240 --> 00:52:23,160 team collective that our friend leads once a month with all of these people with vested 661 00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:28,920 interest in Uganda that are just praying over Uganda right now and we're seeing like so much 662 00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:35,000 freedom be birthed out of the last month and we're seeing so many testimonies of people 663 00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:39,560 experiencing God's love for the first time and are they still living in poverty right 664 00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:44,560 now yes are they still facing insurmountable challenges that I know nothing about and a 665 00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:50,560 lived experience that I've never had to walk through yes but have they found joy in Christ 666 00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:55,800 in the midst of that hope and despair yes and that's what it's about right like it's 667 00:52:55,800 --> 00:53:00,040 about that experience and that transformational life change that lets us view our circumstances 668 00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:07,640 differently and find joy and find hope so if you can pray like pray for hope to be found 669 00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:13,120 in the space in that place of despair right because you can't fix the problems of the 670 00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:18,120 world and you can become super overwhelmed and in all the places I've been since I was 671 00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:23,600 18 years old doing mission work in developing countries this is the most need I've ever 672 00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:30,440 seen and I could very easily say like this is too big and it's too much God but I'm just 673 00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:35,560 going to pray that the God of the city is in control and he's the God of hope and he's 674 00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:40,720 the God of joy and I'm going to tell every single person I can find about him so that 675 00:53:40,720 --> 00:53:46,320 they can find joy in that God forsaken place that they find themselves in so how can people 676 00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:51,720 find you where are you on social media your website talk about your book how they can 677 00:53:51,720 --> 00:54:01,920 get your book and maybe what's next well thank you so the dash like the little hyphen the 678 00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:10,480 power project.com so the dash power project.com that is our umbrella website and you can find 679 00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:15,600 most things there it probably needs a little updating but you can get to all of the right 680 00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:21,240 places from there right and then that's going to link to the power hat Co there's a link 681 00:54:21,240 --> 00:54:26,760 on there you can go straight to the power hat Co.com the power project site the dash 682 00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:33,360 power project.com just has our whole overarching umbrella which is like you said empowering 683 00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:39,640 individuals right like that's that's what it's all about and on Instagram I'm brandy 684 00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:47,760 both B R E N D I V O T H and I answer all my own DMs and the power hat Co is on Instagram 685 00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:51,720 if you want to follow us we would love that it really does help as we move into the whole 686 00:54:51,720 --> 00:54:59,240 cell channels having that engaged following and then the power the dash the underscore 687 00:54:59,240 --> 00:55:06,440 power project on Instagram is the platform where I share podcast information event information 688 00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:12,960 and just uplifting saveable graphics that you can share that just point towards growth 689 00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:20,680 mindset in Christ and developing those skills so those are the ways to find me like honestly 690 00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:26,800 like Instagram is the easiest way to get in touch with me because I have maybe 10,000 691 00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:32,400 unread emails all together because there are six different email accounts on my phone and 692 00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:39,120 what's next is I'm speaking at the boldly conference on October 18th in Dallas and we 693 00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:46,240 are talk talking about the body of Christ collaborations working with others to accomplish 694 00:55:46,240 --> 00:55:52,320 his purpose so if you haven't picked up tickets for that you can go online to the like Google 695 00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:58,360 the Boldly conference and then you can use code brandy both for a discount on that. 696 00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:04,640 I will link all of this in the description and I'll add that code if people want to get 697 00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:09,640 that ticket and they can meet you in person and check out watch you can watch virtually 698 00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:16,160 also so you can you can get a virtual ticket and tune in and the boldly conference through 699 00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:20,520 the Polish network and the whole focus is intersection of business and faith so it's 700 00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:26,520 a lot of people that speak my language because I love bringing business and faith and women 701 00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:30,640 into a room together and finding out ways that we can lift each other up we just launched 702 00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:37,200 the season new styles so this is our rolled brim with our cattleman's crown and then we 703 00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:43,520 have cowboy hats which my husband and boys are so excited about we have both wool felt 704 00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:48,760 like Western felt cowboy hats and we have beaver felt cowboy hats which are going to be like 705 00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:54,080 a much higher end hat people in the Western industry it's a lifetime hat right it's not 706 00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:59,440 just a seasonal hat so we're crossing into that market we don't want to ever sit in 707 00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:05,360 one box because we're a brand that we feel like really we want to reach everyone and 708 00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:10,120 so we don't want people to feel like we're not just a Western brand but we're also not 709 00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:14,720 an urban brand we're a lifestyle brand and we believe that there's a hat for everybody 710 00:57:14,720 --> 00:57:19,680 and it's a purpose it's a purpose driven brand and so if you're into hats you got to 711 00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:25,240 watch YouTube so you can check out Brandy's cool hat but go to the power the hyphen power 712 00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:30,680 project dot com I'm going to link it all in the description below connect on Instagram 713 00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:35,080 Brandy's really active on Instagram and I'll make sure that you have the links for the 714 00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:40,040 boldly conference with the special discount code as well if you want to do in person 715 00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:47,400 or virtual and it's been a delight absolutely having you as a guest today Brandy I love 716 00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:55,200 you we're sisters last question is there anything specifically we can pray for you about I 717 00:57:55,200 --> 00:58:02,480 'm pulled in a lot of different directions as you can tell and there we are on the verge 718 00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:10,800 of of God doing a major breakthrough right now and I know that and I get very weary when 719 00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:15,560 I'm when God's on the verge of a breakthrough and I tend to find a place that would be easy 720 00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:21,080 to give up and quit and sit at home and eat bonbons so I'm not experiencing that but I 721 00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:27,120 anticipate it so I just would like you to pray that I stay strengthened and encouraged 722 00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:31,720 I love being plugged into this army and I love adding prayer warriors to the team so 723 00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:37,240 thank you for inviting me here absolutely well you heard it you're going to want to 724 00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:41,840 check in the description down below to see some of those scriptures that Brandy shared 725 00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:47,160 and some of the links so you can continue to connect with her and learn more about the 726 00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:53,800 incredible work that she's doing the power hot company is changing the world and it's 727 00:58:53,800 --> 00:59:00,560 because it's being led by a humble leader who is listening very carefully to how God 728 00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:06,080 is directing her steps so be praying for Brandy be praying for her work to be effective be 729 00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:12,280 praying for those individuals and Thailand individuals in Uganda and all over the world 730 00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:18,400 that that she's networking together with to release the hope that comes with Jesus and 731 00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:23,040 the power that comes with him working inside of us so thank you for being a part of the 732 00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:30,360 Dry Bones Army podcast this month and remember to go to the drybonesarmy.com to sign up for 733 00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:36,400 our newsletters and so you can be reminded when new shows come out and you're going to 734 00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:41,720 get some tools you're going to get some bullets to add to your prophetic weapons pile your 735 00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:46,560 armory so you can be praying for an end to human trafficking and it's absolutely free 736 00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:53,000 to sign up find us all over social media at author sandy storm.com you can find all the 737 00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:57,760 links and thanks again to our guests Brandy both I'll see you next month the second Tuesday 738 00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:03,240 of the month for our next episode of the Dry Bones Army podcast and until then God bless 739 01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:13,760 you and have an amazing day.