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Double JeoPARTY | Behind the Mic Part 2 · Neighbourly: Real Stories of Care and Community

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What does loving your neighbor actually look like? This
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is Journey with Care, where curious Canadians get inspired to
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love others well through real life stories and honest
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conversations.
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Alright. Welcome back to JeoPARTY.
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JeoPARTY. Right? That's what we're calling it. This is episode 2.
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If you haven't listened to our first one, again, this is just an opportunity for
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you to get to know us a little bit better as hosts because I'm kinda
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jumping on as a secondary host with more of these episodes
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of Journey with Care, and it's a good opportunity for you to get to know
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us a little bit better. And, again, we want to introduce
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you to our Sojourners discussion group on our website, journey with care
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dotca. There, you can get to know us a little bit better as well or
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other listeners. You can ask questions about CareImpact, about
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us, about the podcast, anything that you your
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heart desires to know, or you can just chat amongst yourselves
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on the Sojourner's group. Alright. We are in part 2, Wendi,
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of Jeopardy. Mhmm. And, last week, we did fun and
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whimsy, faith and purpose, would you rather, and learning
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as our categories. This week, we are doing another
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would you rather, life reflections, character,
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Community, and Connection. Would you say you learned anything about me
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last week? Do you feel like you know me a little bit better? Yeah. See,
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I never knew you were that into Indiana Jones. It it makes me
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interested to when we go on our next, road trip as a team,
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to the conference, if you're gonna have to you're the driver. So
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I'm wondering if you're gonna take us on any adventures if, Indiana Jones has
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taught you a little thing. Are you wanting to live out some of those
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fantasies, Indiana Jones fantasies, on our road trip?
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We'll be playing, the soundtrack for the full 13 hours
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down. Oh, goodness. I'll have my
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fedora on because I do have a fedora. Okay.
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I no longer have a whip. Just don't bring a whip along. Yeah.
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The border crossing, that that could be problematic for sure.
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Yeah. But I do have a bunch of bobbleheads on my shelf. I might put
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one of those on the dashboard for the trip. Well,
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I think that would be fun. Anybody that has, been with
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Johan, we all know this and give a shout out
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if if you know this about Johan. He's a lot more fun
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after 10 PM, when we have meetings and
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planning sessions or when we've done, group,
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retreats and stuff. He gets kinda crazy then. So I really should
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be interviewing you after 10 PM, because we know the 10
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PM Johan comes out. So did you learn anything about me,
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Johan, from our last episode?
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After editing you for so many episodes, I think I I knew
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all that stuff because you don't know listeners don't know the stuff I've
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had to cut out, some of this inside information. I
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I I probably could've I probably could've answered a lot of these for
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you. Didn't even need you Johan. But, yeah, I probably learned a few things about
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that. So true. Yeah. Yeah. I just hope you're not doing AI and just,
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putting my voice into answers that you've created. You'll
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never know. You'll never know. Alright. Let's get on with
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Jeopardy 2. Jeopardy. Alright.
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Alright, Wendi. You're gonna start this one off for us. Pick your category
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and pick your Okay. I'm gonna go light to to get us
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started. I think it's gonna be light. We'll see. I'm gonna do a
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would you rather for 100, please.
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What's one quality you admire most in a friend?
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I have some good Wendi, and if I look at their best
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qualities, maybe it's an overused,
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simplified word, but I would say authenticity. A a good friend will
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actually tell me what they think and not what they think I want to hear,
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And so we can have some good discussions. Always loving, but, they're
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really authentic, and we can go deep and,
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never have to pretend around each other. Your turn.
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Alright. Life reflections for 200.
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What's one thing you wish you had known when you were younger?
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That you get older. You didn't know that? I think
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young people think they know that, but I don't think they really believe
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that. That's true. You're right.
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We're kind of invincible when we're younger. Right? We think we are. Like, have
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you hit midlife crisis yet? Do you feel like you're there? Like, are
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you on top of the hill, creeping close to the top of the hill?
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Where where would you find yourself on the hill in the analogy of life?
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I've been riding that hill for 20 years.
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It's a big plateau on top. Well, you're
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younger than me, but I would say probably I'm not gonna
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measure our maturity levels, but I I'd say we're pretty on
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par. I I probably peaked, so I'm probably on my way down. But
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so my physiotherapist would say My turn? Yep. Okay.
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Alright. I'm gonna go with life reflections for 100. What
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is one thing you're pretty good at that you wish you can teach others?
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Well, not to brag, but I do awkward pretty well.
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It's a redeeming quality since since childhood that I
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could embrace my awkwardness. And I think what I
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it actually in all seriousness, it's allowed me
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to bring diverse people around the table, whether that's
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government leaders from high, high up or or
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frustrated frontline social workers to
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people of different cultures, different denominations, different religions,
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male and female. I love a diverse crowd, and I
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love to bring people together and create some
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commonality, build bridges, amongst
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diversity in ways that is meaningful and authentic, that
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doesn't force people to be different than who they are, that
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they could bring their authentic self. I I love creating that
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space, and I would that's what I wanna teach across Canada. That's
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what I wanna see the church be doing in these, these spaces
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across all the cities across Canada. I wanna see us embracing diversity
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and, being people of peace. Alright.
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We're gonna change it up for the next one. You're gonna pick my category and
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number. Oh, okay. I'm gonna see if you have
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any character. So I'm gonna do character for 400. If you
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had to choose 1 Bible character that most resonates with you,
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who would that be and why? My automatic
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answer for the past 20 years
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actually, for the past 37 years,
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38 years. I'm only 41, almost 42.
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Yeah. So since you were in preschool. Probably would have been
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David. I used to sing songs about David when I was 3 years old recording
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myself on a little tykes recorder. But, I
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mean, in recent years that? Yeah. My parents have it, I
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think, somewhere. But Can you insert it into this podcast?
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Inquiring ears want to hear. That might have to be
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a Sojourner's group thing that we put on there if people
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wanna get that. There's your bonus for you. I do.
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But in recent years, like, even studying the life of David,
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he didn't do so many good things too. Like he, he lived
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a pretty he did a lot of bad things. Like, I
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don't I don't wanna associate with those those types of things, but the
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worship side of things, the songwriting, obviously, not everything
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in David's journey in life is is admirable,
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but that's the same with all of us, I suppose. So, Johan, why don't
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you choose a category for me? We will do would you rather
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for 400, and I'm gonna Alright. What do you
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got for me? Would you rather live in a secluded monastery
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or travel the world learning from different religious communities? I think I
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know the answer to this one, but Oh, I as much as I like being
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by myself, which I've alluded to in the first episode,
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if I wanted to retreat, I would definitely travel the world
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learning for different religious communities because that was my background,
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before settling in here in Winnipeg. But
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even still, I'm very intrigued, and I love traveling and learning from the
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religious communities even here in my own city. So,
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yeah, that's an easy one. Yeah. That's what I figured you'd
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say. Let's do community and
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connection for 300. Okay.
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Can you share a tradition or ritual that's important to you and your
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loved ones? I would say
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eating dinner together as much as possible every
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night at the table. We don't have devices on.
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We don't eat at different places unless one of our kids
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has an event and they need to eat early or something or my son's working,
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but we try as best as we can to eat dinner
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together every evening. So So I'm curious
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to add on to that. What's the vibe around your table? Is it, like,
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laughing and joking around? Is it, like, serious conversations?
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Is it, like, how is your day type of thing? Permanent
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proper or loud and and clowny?
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What is it? It's called forced joy.
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We don't always we don't always come to the table
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with happy vibes.
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Things are going awesome. So actually, when any of us
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are feeling down or just
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not in a great headspace, we will join hands and
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we will all lift up our hands to the sky and
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pray. And that's how we get forced joy. It's like,
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Lord, give us joy today. It's kind of a weird thing that we do,
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but when we're Wendi we're grouchy, we just are like, oh,
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you're you're looking down. Like, let's join hands and lift them up to the sky.
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Because it it causes things to become lighter all of a sudden. So
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not that we don't have deep discussions ever. So anyway
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Alright. I'm gonna choose community and connections for
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400. How do you handle
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conflicts or disagreements within your relationships?
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Oh, that's a doozy. As an Enneagram 8, I I
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do, not back down from a good challenge. I
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choose my battles because some things are just not worth fighting for. They're just petty
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and whatever. You can have it. But if it's something that I'm
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passionate about, I actually like
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having the discussion and
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even being challenged, in my assumptions or my
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thinking. I do like it, but how do I handle it?
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If my family were to answer this question, they would probably
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say, mom leans in or my wife
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leans in, and we would rather lean out,
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because I'm a challenger. Okay. So so let
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me qualify that, though, because for me, in disagreements, if
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we don't see eye to eye and it's not even about who's right, who's wrong,
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there's usually it it's more of a communication issue.
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To me, leaning in isn't about being in a fight
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position. It's actually, I wanna get to know you better. I want to
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work through this. It matters enough to work through it rather than
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retreat and put it under the the carpet. So I'm not one of those people
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that likes to leave things kinda lingering where the air is
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thickened and there's a disagreement. I'd rather have it out there. I'd rather be
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told exactly what people think than to wonder and have
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to, like, tiptoe around somebody. So I'd rather
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have just the open, honest conversation, and I hope that I can
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create that safety for others so that they can have it. One of the
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great qualities in in you as as you lead
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CareImpact for sure. Yeah. Because we have a lot of
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challenging topics that we we navigate in society and in
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our churches, and how do we work together. We need to be able to
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embrace some challenging things. Alright. Wendi, you wanna pick
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my next one? Yeah. Sure. Why not? I'm gonna do a would you
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rather for 300. Okay.
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So this is a good one. Would you rather watch a chick flick with your
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wife or an adventure thriller with your guy friends?
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So that could be Wendi Indiana Jones. Definitely an adventure
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thriller with my guy friends. My wife doesn't even
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like me watching chick flicks with her because she'd rather watch it.
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Oh. The ladies that she knows would enjoy it. And she would tell you the
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same thing. Yeah. So what kind of movie do you like to watch with your
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wife? If you have a date night and you could go to
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any movie, what type of movie would you both enjoy?
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We love movies based on real stories, real
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events. And so that's what we usually opt for. Things like that.
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Nothing nothing usually romantic. It's sometimes we'll
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go to adventure movies as well. Stuff like that. She likes that as well. So
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you have to love an adventure if you've married me. So Yeah. Because you
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are AKA Indiana Jones. Exactly.
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Yep. Okay. So choose one for me now.
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Let's do character for 200.
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Okay. What is one character deficiency
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that most gets under your skin?
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Oh. So I'm gonna go with inauthenticity
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because I really love it when people bring their
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whole self to the table. In the church, at
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staff meetings, at the table around with my family,
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I don't like the drama where people are playing games or pretending.
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What I don't like in in certain dynamics is
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when there's, like, a big elephant in the sanctuary or big elephant in the room
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or in society and nobody's talking about it, and it's the most
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obvious thing. And there's ways to do it so that it's not like
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bull in a China shop that is destructive, but it's just like if
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it's there, can we at least talk about it?
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I think that's one of CareImpact's goals is to expose those elephants
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and talk about them. And to chomp on them lovingly
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and say, here, here, elephant. Let's step out of the sanctuary.
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There's other places you can roam. I've ridden an elephant before.
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Have you? Cool. I want to. Okay.
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You're up. Johan? I will do would would you rather?
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You can pick the number. Okay. Let's go hard. I don't know what's here, but
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okay. So would you rather meet a historical
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religious figure or witness a miraculous event firsthand?
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I would probably rather meet a historical religious figure.
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Oh, really? I think so. Okay.
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But, like, I'd I'd love to meet Paul. I'd love to have a good
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conversation with him. See, I would I would have probably,
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said I wanna continue to see miracles happen because
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I can see Paul in heaven. Like, eventually, we'll we'll meet up.
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Right? But There might be a lineup. Yeah. That's
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true. You might cut to the the chase. Get the VIP
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pass. Yeah. I'll give it to you. Alright. I'm gonna choose
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life reflections for 400, please. Describe
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a life changing moment that shaped who you are
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today. I think
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that the most shaping things have been when I have
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been displaced purposely and selectively,
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and I had the privilege I acknowledge I had the privilege to do so to
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choose. Many people don't when they come here as refugees or
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or under circumstances that they did not choose. But,
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fortunately, I've been able to choose to do education,
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overseas in Costa Rica and Bolivia and Middle East, and
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and those probably have been quite life changing
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for me, actually, in in high school too. I had a bit of a travel
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bug here, and, I was an exchange student in Europe. And
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all of those have been defining moments for me in my
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faith where I just didn't lean on my own church community and
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my friends and my family to support who I was. You bring your
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old baggage with you wherever you go. And so so those those
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suitcases of bad habits or, critical thinking or
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or things that need to be weeded out or gifts and abilities you didn't even
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think you had and you're you're forced to to
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lean heavily on God. And and those are really deep
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moments and spiritual encounters for me that continue
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to resonate and and shape who I am and how I think today.
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Alright. Let's do a would you rather.
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Let's go with the first one then. Okay. So here here's one for you,
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Johan. Would you rather drink church coffee, and
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we know what that's like, or warm flat pop?
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Fortunately, our church coffee isn't terrible. No. But I
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mean, like, the church coffee. Like, our church has good coffee too, but,
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like, the classic watered down Folgers.
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Let's go with that. Yeah. Made in a big percolator
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that at 8 o'clock in the morning, and it's 11.
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Because coffee is my favorite drink, I find it offensive to have
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bad coffee. So I need to go with flat warm pop.
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Mhmm. Preferably Coke 0 type
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nonsugary pop because I don't drink too many sugary pops. So
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Okay. Yeah. I think I'd have to join you for that too.
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Mhmm. Yep. Good answer. Good answer. Okay. I'm gonna go
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with, community and connection for 200.
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Here's a nice light and fluffy one. Describe your ideal way
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to spend time with friends or family. Oh, I
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love this question. I love having people
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around my table. Our 11 foot table gets filled regularly
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and just with good food and company around the
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table and then go back to the patio in the summertime anyway or
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spring and have a a fire pit going and, just
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hanging out together. It doesn't even have to be that,
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entertaining per se. We don't have to have a movie going on anywhere,
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but I think just rich conversations of laughter and and
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depth of conversations where we can all be authentic. If
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Harold would be there, my husband would be part of the this he might bring
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out the karaoke. It's not my jam, but, karaoke does
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bring out the life of a party too. So, we might throw in some
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karaoke as well. And you got a great fire
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pit patio. We should do another podcast meetup, and we can
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join you in your happy place there. Should, and people are welcome to come
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over. We love having people over, and I built that fire pit
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myself with my own bare hands. That was my holiday project last year.
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And, yeah, we'll definitely have to do that again. We did that last year, and
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it was a lot of fun. We talked about the Enneagram around the the fire
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and had some good food and some good laughs. It was Ice cream
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party? Yeah. We had an ice cream party. That's right. You remembered.
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Alright. And what about you? Can I ask you the the last
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one, community in connection for 500? Sure.
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Okay. So this is a a little depth. You created it actually, so I'm
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gonna throw it right back at you. How do you prioritize
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relationships in your life? I think this is a a good question.
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It's hard because you're connected to so many people, and you
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wanna make time for everybody, but it's impossible. Right? Yeah.
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So I probably have to answer that in terms of those
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closest to me, my my close family
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in my under my household, just making sure
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that checking in with them, asking them questions.
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And and some good attachment trivia there is the reality is
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we we need to have quality attachment. A
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fraction, 20, 30 percent of the time with an individual
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is more important than quantity of time where we spend a lot of time and
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aren't intentional with that person. I know I remind myself of that if I
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have mommy guilt, for not being able to be everywhere at the
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same time. I I can't be omnipresent, and and yet if I
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can focus in on having quality time with family and Wendi,
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when I'm there being fully present is is a valuable thing to
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to hold on to. Okay. I'm gonna pick here as Wendi. We
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need more done in life reflections and character. So
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I think you can use some more character.
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Thanks a lot. I I would definitely go
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for more character too. Character for
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500. Alright. Let's have it. Which character trait are you
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most aspiring to develop in your life?
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Well, I think there's many things that I
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wanna continue to grow and nurture. I would say I have a growth mindset where
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I'm always where I'm reading and pursuing
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greater character would be an aspiration for me. But if I had to choose
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one character trait, what you're asking, I would
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say I wanna become more loving and grow
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in love. 1, it's a never ending pursuit, so
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we can always become more loving. In in first
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Corinthians 13, it talks about if I speak in tongues of men and of angels
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and I have not love, I'm only a resounding gong and
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clanging cymbal, and I don't wanna be that. Hopefully, not on the podcast
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either. I wanna be truly loving. And if I have the gift of prophecy and
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can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and I I wanna pursue
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knowledge and and the mysteries of God, and if I have
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faith that can move mountains, faith that can build
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CareImpact, to impact our our nation, but I do not have love,
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I am nothing, and I want my life to count. So I would have to
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say my answer is love. I want to do all things
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with greater and greater love that comes from the father's heart.
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Good answer. You think we got time for a few more?
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Yeah. I I definitely wanna grill you a little bit more.
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I I'm thinking, I wanna finish off the the would you
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rather. There's a question here that I I'm interested because it actually
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has real life implications, and I wanna see your answer on this. Are you
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ready for it? I made this one just for you, Johan. Would
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you rather for 200? Alright. Would you rather sit in a
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long meeting with your CareImpact colleagues
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or a long car ride with them? You know we do
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both. Yeah. I would rather do the car ride, to be honest.
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Would you? Okay. It's It's good you're not dreading it. I would.
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Because our meetings are generally online, right, over
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Zoom, and I just don't enjoy Zoom very much. I'd
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rather have a good conversation with someone sitting beside me. So
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definitely take the long car ride in. I love long car rides. So That's good
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because you're gonna be doing a lot of the driving. A whole bunch of us
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from our CareImpact team are driving down to, Kansas
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City for a conference that we're a part of,
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and, it's gonna be fun. Maybe we'll record an
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episode on the road. That That could be interesting. That is on our schedule, so
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they don't know it yet. So we're gonna put the mic onto them, and we're
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gonna get some good conversations on the the car ride, hopefully.
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Surprise. Let's go with life reflections for 300,
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please. What will you have written on your epitaph
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after you've passed away that you want people to remember?
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Oh, yeah. And that had like, like,
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you know, you go to funerals sometimes, and it's like, are we talking with the
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same person and and everybody's a saint? And I'm I wouldn't want people to think
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I'm a saint because I as you know, I'm not. But what would
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ring true? I'm gonna try a little bit of a rhyme here because it's gonna
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be corny. So please don't relisten to this after I'm
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dead and put this onto my stone because this is not thinking
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it through. How about this? Here lies Wendi
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Park. She had the spark and left
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her mark. Does that work? Would it fit?
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Sounds a little rehearsed to me. Think about it. Did you just come up with
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that on the spot, Wendi? I did. I did. I I could put
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it into a wrap, but I'm white, so that wouldn't come up very well. We
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can run with that. Indeed. That's fine. The girl who loved Shmonfat.
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But she also killed her. That's probably
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true. We need to know the cause of death to give me a theme here.
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So in all seriousness, I don't know how I would word this, so I'm gonna
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stay away from poetry. That's not my lane. I I I get it. I hear
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you. I wanna be known for that person
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who was the one
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who wasn't afraid to try, the one who had vision and
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faith to move forward and try new things and to challenge us
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to be better as a church. And, I hope
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I've done a good job of disrupting in a healthy way, and
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I'd love that on my epitaph. Alright. Sounds
25:39
good. That's a very serious ending, though. Am I supposed to take the
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last question? We can do one more question. I also have rapid fire for
25:46
you, so I'm gonna put you on the hot seat. But before we get into
25:49
that, do you need more character, Johan? That's all we have left
25:53
is character. Okay. We're lacking character. Okay. Here, Johan.
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Character for 300. What life experiences impacted you
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and developed character within you? I would
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say marriage. Marriage is Yes. Hard
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work, but Amen. It's it's so good. I think
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it's such a gift from the Lord to develop character within
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you. It will pinpoint all the weaknesses and the
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strengths, and you're exposed all the time.
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So thank God for marriage, but, yeah, that's
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it's definitely developed character. 21 years for you this
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year? It'll be 22 in May. So
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Oh my goodness. Yep. You guys got married when you were, like, 15 then or
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something. Something like that. Yeah. Me and Harold are
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old compared to you, and we're going on 19 this
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year. So yeah. How old were you when you got
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married? I was a week 20. Oh. Yeah.
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Little babies. That's so cute. But my wife is older than me,
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so a year and a half. Okay. See, I married up.
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Harold is 10 years older than me. Okay. Enough about
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me. I wanna do rapid fire with you, Johan. Are you ready?
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Are you is your seat hot enough, or do we need to crank up the
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heat in there? My head's in a fog, which could make this interesting. Oh, yes.
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But it's not 10 o'clock. It's not 10 PM, so this might not be
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as interesting as then. Okay. So I've got a few questions here, and
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just give me the first thing that pops in your brain. Okay. What's
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your favorite book of all time other than the Bible? Bible is a
27:31
good answer. Treasury of Prayer by
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E. M. Bounds. It's a book my grandfather always
27:38
had on hand, and I inherited that. So
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it's precious. I'll have to look it up. I haven't heard of that one.
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If you could have dinner with any historical figure, who would it be?
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Well, I talked about this before. I'd say Paul. Oh, lots of
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questions for Paul. Yeah. Okay. That sounds good. Yeah. He would
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I would like to sit down with Paul too. Would have a good debate, I'm
28:02
sure. Okay. What's your go to karaoke
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song? We're out in our backyard having campfire,
28:09
and Harold brings out the karaoke machine. What song would you go to?
28:14
Haven't done much karaoke other than at your place that
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one time. And that was Christmas songs, which I don't really like. So you
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could do like, what's your favorite song that you could sing along to?
28:26
I don't have a favorite song. Oh, come on. Do you have, like, an
28:30
8 are you an eighties, nineties? I'll just I would pull
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out some old YouTube. It would be like with or without you YouTube sort of
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thing. Okay. YouTube? Yep. Yeah. I'll take that.
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Dogs or cats? Dogs. Good answer.
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Do you have a dog? We did have, but we don't like dogs.
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So you really hate cats is what you're saying? We don't like pets.
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I like other people's cats. They're God's creation. Okay. So you like
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my cats? Yep. Okay. If you could
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travel anywhere in the world right now, where would you go?
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I would love to see Greece. We got a good friend that has a
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place there. So Wendi of a CareImpact, I mean. So Yes.
29:13
Yeah. He always goes there every summer. I know. That's that's why I wanna go
29:17
too because he sells it. So I know you love coffee, so I'm not gonna
29:20
ask you the coffee or tea question. But what's your favorite coffee bean to
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date that you enjoy? K. This is interesting.
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I've tried I've tried the most expensive coffee bean in the
29:31
world at the time. It's it isn't anymore. I don't know if
29:35
you've heard of cat poo coffee. Oh, I've heard of elephant poo coffee.
29:38
No. This one was in cat poop. Yeah. Elephant poo is actually a
29:42
lot. That's more expensive now. That one's more
29:46
expensive. But at the time, it was cat poop coffee. It actually
29:49
wasn't my favorite, though. It was okay. Okay. So what is your favorite coffee
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bean? I've I've roasted my own beans, so I really enjoy that. But
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I would say, definitely, Kona Hawaiian coffee
30:00
beans are delicious. They're amazing. Okay. Kona coffee.
30:04
Sounds good. Okay. So what's the last movie that
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made you cry? I'm not really a crier.
30:12
Me neither. This would be a hard one. I don't think I've cried at
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a movie. Ever? So I can't really answer that. I'm
30:20
gonna get Corey to your wife to cut onions while you're
30:23
watching a movie then next time. You know what? Here's my answer.
30:27
It's probably Lord of the Rings because it's it was so
30:31
long that I've had to pee and that
30:35
feeling of having to pee made me cry. It's like, oh, I don't
30:39
wanna leave because this is a great movie. But What about
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have you watched the chosen? The the have you been following along in the chosen
30:46
series? Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. And none
30:50
of that brought kind of an emotion to your tear
30:53
ducts, like, a little mist? Oh, I would say probably for
30:57
sure because, like, you just Wendi you learn
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aspects of Jesus' character, like, even though it's you know a lot of
31:05
it's fictional, but the heart behind it, like, you see it in a
31:08
different light kinda makes Jesus a real person and Yeah. I don't know.
31:12
There's definitely some good feelings there. Yeah. Okay. Well,
31:16
that'll do. What about are you an early bird or night
31:20
owl? I am an early bird, I would
31:23
say. Okay. Yep. I was never able to stay up
31:26
late. Except for 10 PM, Johan. 10 o'clock, Yohan.
31:30
Yeah. What's the most adventurous thing you've ever done?
31:34
Join CareImpact. Ah, good answer.
31:39
Why is that adventurous? Little bit of an unknown. Just
31:42
jumping right in. I don't know if it's the most adventurous. It's the first thing
31:45
that popped into my head, which was what I'm supposed to do. Right? So What
31:48
is the last song that you've listened to? Check my
31:52
phone. The Prodigal Song by Corey Asbury.
31:56
Okay. What's your favorite childhood memory?
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Probably when my dad was a paramedic, he brought an ambulance
32:03
for show and tell for me. That was a great memory.
32:07
Yeah. Yeah. That is a great memory. Up to this side of the school with
32:10
the sirens blazing and bringing in able to bring my
32:14
friends in inside the ambulance and, yeah, it was a good dad
32:18
moment. Oh, yeah. Good break breaking rights. Having a
32:21
dad with a as a paramedic. Yeah. If you could have a
32:25
superpower, what would it be? Fundraising?
32:30
I Wendi in on that too. Yeah. And what is your favorite
32:34
season? Summer. What's your biggest pet
32:37
peeve? Lack of communication,
32:41
Poor communication skills and being late.
32:44
Oh, yeah. What's the best piece of advice that you can think
32:48
of that you've ever received? I can't think of the
32:52
best, but the first thing that comes to mind, which we kinda live
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by in marriage and family, is don't go to bed angry.
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Mhmm. Good. If you could have any talent
33:03
in the world, what would it be? Besides fundraising?
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I would like to learn the banjo, actually. Okay.
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Yeah. You can have a banjo. Johan is a banjo. Okay.
33:16
You are from Saskatchewan? How did that not come up in our
33:20
question and answers? Well, there you go. Yeah. We threw in a bonus there,
33:24
guys. Okay. Last question. What's the first thing you
33:27
do in the morning? Wake up. Go
33:31
on. Shower and coffee. That's it. Okay.
33:35
Alright. That was the last of our rapid fire. So we got
33:39
one more episode coming up. One more where you can get to know us, us,
33:42
ask us anything about CareImpact, us as individuals,
33:46
journey with care podcast, whatever whatever you wanna
33:50
know, we'll try to get it on the podcast depending on how many questions we
33:54
get. So alright. We are just so grateful for our listeners and those
33:57
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34:01
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34:05
And we got some really good, maybe some
34:08
controversial or intense series coming up after this. So
34:12
tune in next week for the 3rd in this 3rd and final in this series,
34:15
and we look forward to what's coming next. We're
34:19
gonna have that one on the road on our road trips, so that'll be interesting
34:22
as well. So Yes. Anything to add, Wendi? Well, this has
34:26
been a lot of fun, getting to know you a little bit better, Johan, and
34:29
hopefully people have been able to get to know me a little bit more, and
34:33
I am looking forward I'm curious to see what kind of questions you
34:36
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34:40
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34:44
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34:47
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