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Sponsor: Timothy Plan aligns your biblical values with your financial stewardship in a way that honors God. Click here to learn more!Abby is joined by Jennifer Strickland, former model, speaker, and author of I Am a Woman: Taking Back Our Name. In this episode, they explore the role of women in today's society, the impact of gender identity confusion, and the urgent need to reclaim the God-given value of womanhood. Together, they discuss how women can rise above society's distorted expectations and embrace their true identity as ordained by God.FOLLOW ABBY ON SOCIAL MEDIA- Instagram- Facebook- Twitter

Gary Jeff talks about men and masculinity with Lawrence Demarco, women with Jennifer Strickland, the Isreal/Hezbollah war with Dean Golemis, tech with Dave Hatter, World Series stories with Jeff Rodimer, sports with Wildman Walker, updates on the destruction of Hurricane Milton with Gary Jeff's brother, Chuck and more.

Gary Jeff talks about men and masculinity with Lawrence Demarco, women with Jennifer Strickland, the Isreal/Hezbollah war with Dean Golemis, tech with Dave Hatter, World Series stories with Jeff Rodimer, sports with Wildman Walker, updates on the destruction of Hurricane Milton with Gary Jeff's brother, Chuck and more.

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Join us for an enlightening episode where we delve into the heart of contemporary womanhood with our special guest, Jennifer Strickland, the author of the thought-provoking book "I Am a Woman" and the founder of U R More. Jennifer, a former model turned advocate for women's dignity, brings a unique perspective shaped by her journey from the superficial glitz of the fashion industry to the profound depths of spiritual and personal empowerment. Mark Savoia joins us in the second half of the show to talk about real estate in Costa Rica I Am A Woman: iamawoman.us Jennifer Strickland on Instagram: @jenniferstrickland_author Costa Rica Playbook: https://www.costaricaplaybook.com/ Event Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/era-of-champions-prepare-to-stand-four-cities-across-canada-tickets-1003587175257?aff=oddtdtcreator Sun City Silver & Gold: sovereignize@protonmail.com Richardson Nutritional Center: https://tinyurl.com/mudzzy3n Zstack Protocol: https://zstacklife.com/?ref=LAURALYNN Antibiotics at: Sales@larxmedical.com Promo code: LLTT   Need some Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine? Fast shipping with guaranteed delivery in Canada and the US. Contact Mia for more information.  SozoHealth@proton.me ☆ We no longer can trust our mainstream media, which is why independent journalists such as myself are the new way to receive accurate information about our world. Thank you for supporting us – your generosity and kindness to help us keep information like this coming! ☆ ~ L I N K S ~  ➞ DONATE AT: https://www.lauralynn.tv/ or lauralynnlive@protonmail.com ➞ PODCAST: https://lauralynnandfriends.podbean.com ➞ TWITTER: @LauraLynnTT ➞ FACEBOOK: Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson ➞ RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/LauraLynnTylerThompson ➞ BITCHUTE: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/BodlXs2IF22h/ ➞ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/LauraLynnTyler ➞ BRIGHTEON: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/lauralynntv ➞ DLIVE: https://dlive.tv/Laura-Lynn ➞ ODYSEE: https://odysee.com/@LauraLynnTT:9 ➞ GETTR: https://www.gettr.com/user/lauralynn ➞ LIBRTI: https://librti.com/laura-lynn-tyler-thompson

Episode Summary:  In this episode, I talked with former runway model, Jennifer Strickland. Jennifer shared how she suffered emotional and spiritual wounds when she allowed others' opinions of her to determine her worth and value. Through her journey, she discovered the importance of finding the true source of her worth -- in Christ. Now, she ministers to other women who need to know this life-changing truth as well. Quotables from the episode: We all have pain and hurt, and if we aren't careful and don't get healing, that is what the enemy uses to hold us back, to think that we are not worthy to be used by God, that we are not worthy of love and acceptance. Sometimes, those things are things that have happened to us. Other times, they are things that we have made a conscious decision to participate in. But I'm here to tell you that your past is not wasted. And that thing that you think is so shameful, embarrassing, or disgraceful is often exactly what God wants to use to encourage others and to help you grow. I was 22 years old when I lived in Milan and was modeling on the runway. A particular man came into my life as a father figure and he saw that I could be a top model. That began a long journey in my life of believing that I was what man said about me. The lens that agents and photographers saw me became the lens through which I saw myself. If they said I was beautiful, I believed it, but if they said that I was ugly or anorexic then I believed that. This particular relationship became toxic for me spiritually. I really believe that the enemy worked through this man to plant some really poisonous lies in my heart. When I didn't make the choices that he wanted me to make, he told me I was disposable, so I allowed man to determine my value. On the spiritual side of things, when I discovered Jesus, it drove me into a deep study of who was man? The word of God says, “do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save…but if you put your trust in God it will be like a well-watered garden.” It was the destructive lies that I heard from my interaction with this man that led me to write many of the messages I write now which helps women understand what's going on with them when they allow a good man or a bad man to give them their identity, value, or worth. I carried the lies I believed about man determining my identity even into my marriage even after I became a Christian. So, if my husband said anything, even if he was trying to help me, I became very defensive and fearful based on what he said. I had to heal from those lies. I had to wallpaper my mind with truth. I had to forgive. It was very difficult for me to forgive a couple of particular people in the modeling industry for how they impacted my life, but when I did, I could then filter what other people were saying to me through a lens of wholeness. I had to do that healing work first before I could receive from Godly men, like my husband or father figures in a healthy way. I could receive constructive criticism or correction without believing it had anything to do with my identity. The enemy often plants lies in our childhood before we are mature enough to identify them as lies. The longer and more frequently we hear them, the more they become imbedded. It takes a lot of time and willingness to go deep and ask, “what lies have I believed?” Healing is a process and if we will take those wounds to God, he can take them, heal them, and turn them into beautiful sacred scars. The key to healing is always honesty. For me, healing began with writing my story, speaking my story, and identifying the patterns that were going on. I also believed that I was only as valuable as what I saw in the mirror or what I saw in other girls. That continued into my ministry as social media was throwing other people in my face, whereas when ministry was one on one with me and another girl, I never thought about that or played the comparison game. I had to learn to celebrate other women and continue running in my own lane and do it well. It's a matter of dealing with the memories, assessing the lies and replacing them with the truth of what God says about us. I am his ambassador, I am his daughter, I am the apple of his eye. He never takes his eye off of me. I am loved by him every single day. His grace is sufficient for me. We have to stand on his truth and then walk in it. Confession and repentance is so important. The power of being honest about our sin is unmatched. Once we get honest about our struggle, is the first step, and then replacing it with truth of who we are. Culture today talks about “my truth” but that is just more deception from the enemy because there is only one truth and it is God's truth based on what he has already spelled out and told us in his Word. You are already loved, accepted, and adored by the God of the universe! Scripture says that the heart is deceitful above all else, and we rely on “our truth” that is deception. What I admire about your ministry is that you are taking a very painful wound from your teen and young adult years, and using it to minister to other women, as a beautiful sacred scar because you can say, “I've been through this. I know the lies you're believing. But let me share with you what I've learned on my journey.” God showed me my scars served a redemptive purpose by allowing me to get to the bottom of the well where things were so dark and so destructive for me. I was suicidal, I was using drugs and alcohol. I was starving myself. I hated myself. God allowed me to get to a place of total darkness. At that point, when I began reading God's Word for the first time, and Christians invited me to church, I began to see that the lies the world tells us about beauty, worth, purpose, “my truth” means nothing. It's such a shallow wide ocean that you drown in real quick. But his love is endlessly deep. You can dip your toe into the word of God the rest of your life and stay endlessly refreshed. It's a lifelong walk of saying society is not going to define me, media is not going to define me, but God is going to be the one to define me and fill me up. We need to turn every day to the Lord and say, “I need you to fill me up. I need your wisdom today. I'm not going to find it in me. If something devastating has happened to you, or if you've made poor choices, you are not too far gone for the God of the universe to reach down into that pit and say, “Let me show you a different way and let me not only bring you out of it but redeem it for good and for my glory.” When it seems impossible, remember God is the God of the impossible so let him do the seemingly impossible in your life. The hope filled perspective is that God will shine his light into the depths of your dark sea, but you have to choose to swim after it. God sold everything he had for you, and that was his son, Jesus. Jesus is the light of the world. So, when he wants to shine that light on the beautiful person you are, but you have to be honest and let him wash you with his spirit to be able to reveal who you are really intended to be. When you're in that very painful place, that sand of adversity, let it shape you more into his likeness. Scripture References: Psalms 25:20 NIV “Guard my life and rescue me; do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.” Psalms 146:3 NIV “Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save.” Jeremiah 17:9 NIV “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.”   Recommended Resources:  I Am a Woman: Taking Back Our Name by Jennifer Strickland Girl Perfect by Jennifer Strickland More Beautiful Than You Know by Jennifer Strickland Beautiful Lies by Jennifer Strickland 21 Myths (Even Good) Girls Believe About Sex by Jennifer Strickland Sacred Scars: Resting in God's Promise That Your Past Is Not Wasted by Dr. Michelle Bengtson  The Hem of His Garment: Reaching Out to God When Pain Overwhelms by Dr. Michelle Bengtson YouVersion 5-Day Devotional Reaching Out To God When Pain Overwhelms   Today is Going to be a Good Day: 90 Promises to Start Your Day Off Right by Dr. Michelle Bengtson, winner of the AWSA 2023 Inspirational Gift Book of the Year Award, the Christian Literary Awards Reader's Choice Award in four categories, and the Christian Literary Awards Henri Award for Devotionals YouVersion 7-Day Devotional, Today is Going to be a Good Day YouVersion 7-Day Devotional, Today is Going to be Another Good Day Breaking Anxiety's Grip: How to Reclaim the Peace God Promises by Dr. Michelle Bengtson Breaking Anxiety's Grip Free Study Guide Free 7-Day YouVersion Bible Reading Plan for Breaking Anxiety's Grip Hope Prevails: Insights from a Doctor's Personal Journey Through Depression by Dr. Michelle Bengtson, winner of the Christian Literary Award Reader's Choice Award Hope Prevails Bible Study by Dr. Michelle Bengtson, winner of the Christian Literary Award Reader's Choice Award Trusting God Through Cancer 1 Trusting God Through Cancer 2 Revive & Thrive Women's Conference Subdue Stress and Anxiety: Fifteen Experts Offer Comprehensive Tools in Ten Minutes a Day. Use my link plus discount code BENG99 to save $90 on course (course will be $99.) Free Download: How To Fight Fearful/Anxious Thoughts and Win   Social Media Links for Guest and Host: Connect with Jennifer Strickland:  Website URMore / Facebook / Instagram / YouTube / X For more hope, stay connected with Dr. Bengtson at: Order Book Breaking Anxiety's Grip / Order Book Hope Prevails  /  Website  /  Blog  /  Facebook / Twitter (@DrMBengtson)  /  LinkedIn  /  Instagram / Pinterest / YouTube Guest: Jennifer Strickland is a former international model, TEDx speaker, author, wife, mother of three, and the founder of a non-profit called U R More, that helps women and girls discover their value, identity, and purpose.  Jen has written several books and studies teaching women and girls their true worth, including Girl Perfect, More Beautiful Than You Know, Beautiful Lies, and 21 Myths (Even Good) Girls Believe About Sex. She holds a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism and a master's degree in writing with an emphasis in biblical studies. In her earlier days, Jen worked for 15 years as a professional model, appearing in Vogue, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan. She was featured in ads for Converse Tennis Shoes, Oil of O'lay, Mercedes Benz, Eddie Bauer, and Jordache; and at the height of her career, she walked the runways of Europe for Giorgio Armani and represented Barbie for the 35th anniversary of the doll. But Jen learned beauty is more than what meets the eye when she discovered what she looked like in God's eyes.   Hosted By: Dr. Michelle Bengtson Audio Technical Support: Bryce Bengtson

In 'I Am a Woman,' former Armani model and author Jennifer Strickland urges Christian women to rise up against the cultural forces eroding womanhood.

In 'I Am a Woman,' former Armani model and author Jennifer Strickland urges Christian women to rise up against the cultural forces eroding womanhood.

In 'I Am a Woman,' former Armani model and author Jennifer Strickland urges Christian women to rise up against the cultural forces eroding womanhood.

It's not hard to see that the feminist movement is taking over this nation with heartbreaking agendas and repercussions. Today I have the honor of having Jennifer Strickland on to talk about gender dysphoria, how it is the hour to speak up and protect our children, and how the gospel has the power to transform lives and bring freedom from sin and false identities. Jennifer emphasizes the need to implement and guard boundaries, protect children from harmful influences, and speak out against the lies of culture. I have no doubt that this episode will leave you passionately fired up with a hunger for Heavenly justice for the sake of our future, our children, and this nation. Connect with Jennifer: https://www.instagram.com/jenniferstrickland_author/ Get Your Copy of “I am A Woman”: https://urmore.org/iamawoman/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No one has answered the two-year-old lingering question “what is a woman” quite like Jennifer Strickland has. Let me tell you why: Jennifer is not afraid to address how this question is so deeply answered in the Bible. And the Strong By Design team couldn't agree more with her platform and voice in such a troubling era of gender misinformation.After two years of research and Jennifer's previous experience as a former model and established speaker for a variety of topics, her knowledge and passion for explaining what a woman is reaches beyond the surface. It moves well past Genesis and into the depths of the Hebrew language. In this special episode on SBD, Jennifer shares the deep wisdom she gained while writing her newest book, I Am a Woman. In her book Jennifer expands on the deep, biblical, Hebrew meanings of man and woman, where it comes from, and how this information can be used to free men and women across the world who are struggling to grasp ‘Truth' since the feminist movement that bred our culture's gender identity crisis. The same movement that emasculated and demoralized men. Jennifer will not only inspire you to use your Godly role and voices to lead more people to Christ, but teach to be a voice for others in these times of trials (1 Peter 1:7).   "The truth is we're created male and female with purpose and intention." — Jennifer Strickland   Time Stamps01:08 - Welcome to the Strong by Design Podcast!01:33 - Meet today's special guest: Jennifer Strickland—author, speaker, former model, and founder of Let's Write and U R More Ministries06:20 - Jennifer discusses healthy body image, identity, and sexuality12:00 - Exploring our purpose and roles as male and female20:39 - Rebuilding our nation with the foundation of truth23:30 - Defining womanhood: What is a woman?28:00 - Jennifer introduces her latest book, I Am a Woman30:10 - Loaded language: How it bypasses logical reasoning35:50 - Why we, as Christians, approach sexual identity from a specific perspective42:53 - Establishing healthy boundaries in life44:38 - Chris discusses the debate over restroom access and gender inclusion47:50 - How to start, seek guidance, take action, and find the truth49:19 - Connect with Jennifer, get her book 'I Am a Woman' and join her group53:20 - Please share, and leave ratings & reviews for the SBD podcast  Resources: ·           URMore.org·           I Am a Woman Connect with Jennifer:·         Instagram·         FacebookSupport the Show.Connect w/ CriticalBench: Youtube Facebook Instagram CriticalBench.com StrongByDesignPodcast.com

Wake up, ladies! Men are invading women's sports and bathrooms, while schools indoctrinate children in gender lies. Womanhood itself is under assault: we can't waste another minute in fighting back.Women have had enough. And now it's time to rise up as emboldened warriors to declare the truth against the gender-bending culture's lies.Jennifer Strickland, a podcaster, author, and former model, is calling women to use their influence to expose the lies of gender ideology and point children and teens back to God's beautiful design for male and female. Jennifer's Book: https://urmore.org/iamawoman/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/faith-works-live-with-rebekah-haynie--5411714/support.

Happy Monday!!!  Bob kicks off the show with the Top 9 at 9 all the happy news of the day.  Then Bob welcomes founder and editor-in-chief of The Ohio Press Network Jack Windsor and Marcell Strbich to the show to talk voter rolls in Ohio ahead of the November elections.  Jack Windsor then stays on to talk about the importance of Issue 1.  Bob then welcomes Jennifer Strickland to the show to talk about women and the need to separate men from women's sports and more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Jake Novak is a Political analyst, editorial columnist, and author of ‘Jake's Takes' on Substack, who has run national shows for 30 years and former staffer for the Israeli Consulate.    GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Jennifer Strickland, author of I Am a Woman: Taking Back Our Name, is the founder of U R More and the host of the I Am a Woman podcast. She is a sought-after speaker, a former model, and the author of several books, including Girl Perfect, More Beautiful Than You Know, Beautiful Lies, and 21 Myths (Even Good) Girls Believe about Sex. Strickland holds a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism and a master's degree in writing and literature. She lives with her husband and three children in Texas. GUEST 3 OVERVIEW: Charles Alder from Queensland Australia is CEO/ Chief Vision Officer at EcoForce Global and co founder of Rural Aid. He is also a Consultant to Rebuilding Australia.  

"My identity being based on my outward appearance was damaging to my self-esteem. I knew I had gifts and talents, but I didn't have a relationship with God." This week on Better for America, Jennifer Strickland, an advocate for girls, joins Rebecca to share her journey from high fashion modeling and struggling with eating disorders to an identity crisis in a superficial industry and, ultimately, to finding faith. Strickland has dedicated her career to combating the culture of body dysmorphia and protecting the most innocent and vulnerable. Rebecca connects her story to current issues in academia, including Title IX and gender dysphoria. The two dive deep into truths and the influence strong women have on young girls' lives, empowering them to go out into the world and make a difference. Strickland leaves listeners with a powerful question: How do you want to be remembered at your funeral? Check out some of the resources Jennifer has created to teach women and girls their value, identity, and purpose in Christ: youaremore.org

Guests: Jonathan Gregg, Jennifer Strickland, & Jason Peters Host Scot Bertram talks with Jonathan Gregg, assistant professor of education at Hillsdale College, about the outdated nature of the teacher certification process. Jennifer Strickland, founder of U R More and host of the I AM A WOMAN Podcast, discusses the gender confusion in our world today and her new book I […]

Guests: Jonathan Gregg, Jennifer Strickland, & Jason Peters Host Scot Bertram talks with Jonathan Gregg, assistant professor of education at Hillsdale College, about the outdated nature of the teacher certification process. Jennifer Strickland, founder of U R More and host of the I AM A WOMAN Podcast, discusses the gender confusion in our world today and her new book I Am a Woman: Taking Back Our Name. And Jason Peters, associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, continues a series on novelist, poet, and cultural critic Wendell Berry, this time diving into his fiction and poetry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I Am Woman - We interview former runway model, podcaster, and prolific author Jennifer Strickland about her new book I Am a Woman: Taking Back Our Name. (https://urmore.org/).  With womanhood itself under a withering cultural attack, this is no time for Christians and conservatives to stand teary-eyed on the sidelines.  Find out what you can do right now to engage and win this battle against women and girls, and restore our understanding of God's true design for male and female.  Also, ... 'Rust' or Bust - Dr. Wendy Patrick and co-host attorney Larry Dershem discuss the "long and winding road" legal battles that began way back in 2021 when Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun that killed his cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the movie set of 'Rust.'  Was justice served when the judge in Baldwin's July 2024 trial dismissed all charges against him "with prejudice," meaning they cannot be brought again?  We discuss, you decide.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Author and former international model, Jennifer Strickland tells her 'runway' story, how her career skyrocketed, and then, how her life plummeted. Jennifer shares with Carole her difficult experiences as a high fashion model in Europe, how she came to the Lord, and what she has learned about true beauty. Carole sings two songs; her scripture song, 'I Delight Greatly in the Lord' from Isaiah 61:10 and her beautiful ballad, Morning Star. Both Carole & Jennifer are here to bless and encourage your day!

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown – Thursday, July 11, 20244:20 pm: Jennifer Strickland, author and host of the “I Am a Woman” podcast joins Rod to discuss her piece for the Daily Wire in which she says requiring women to register for the military will destroy American families.4:38 pm: Brian Steed, Great Salt Lake Commissioner, joins the program to discuss the progress made on the strategic plan to save the lake once years since its implementation.5:05 pm: Utah Senate President Stuart Adams joins Rod to discuss the Utah Supreme Court ruling today that the legislature overstepped its bounds when it rewrote a 2018 voter-approved ballot initiative establishing an independent redistricting process.6:05 pm: Steve Moore, an economist with FreedomWorks, joins the program for his weekly conversation with Rod about politics and the nation's economy.6:20 pm: Brianna Lyman, Elections Correspondent for The Federalist, joins Rod to discuss the mass amounts of Democrats in Congress that voted against a bill to keep foreign nationals from voting in elections in the U.S.6:38 pm: Steve Malanga, Senior Editor for the City Journal, joins the show for a conversation about how the Biden campaign's use of Donald Trump's pandemic failures could backfire.6:50 pm: Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and Founder of OpenTheBooks.com joins Rod to discuss the group's recent report on how Pentagon schools used a curriculum that pushed students to become social justice activists.

Author of “I Am a Woman”, Jennifer Strickland joins Blake to discuss the complex and often controversial topic of what it means to be a woman. They delve into how this seemingly straightforward question has become contentious in modern society, particularly among Christians who believe the answer is clear. Jennifer shares her motivation for writing her book, which stemmed from observing the women's marches and the conflicting messages about womanhood. She emphasizes the importance of reclaiming and defining womanhood based on biblical principles, highlighting how women have historically been life-givers and stabilizers in society. The conversation also touches on the damaging effects of the feminist movement and the need for women of faith to speak out and lead with clarity and dignity. In this episode, you'll be able to… Explore the biblical and Hebrew definitions of womanhood and their significance. Hear about the importance of women speaking up in today's societal and cultural debates. Reflect on the personal and societal consequences of the pro-choice movement and how it has affected men and women. Jennifer is the author of I Am a Woman – available everywhere now! To connect with Jennifer: Website: urmore.com Instagram: @jenniferstrickland_author Podcast: The I Am a Woman Podcast

Today's episode with Jennifer Strickland is one of the most important conversations of this generation. She is the author of the new book, "I Am a Woman." She discusses her journey from the modeling industry to her ministry work highlight the importance of understanding and embracing our true identity as women created in the image of God. We talk about how women need to stand up for their boundaries and not be intimidated by cultural pressures. She also emphasizes the importance of strong masculinity alongside healthy femininity. Tune in to this episode as we encourage women to use their voice and influence to promote truth and protect future generations. Bio: Jennifer Strickland is a wife, mom, TEDx speaker, and former professional model. She is the author of Girl Perfect, More Beautiful Than You Know, and Beautiful Lies, among other books and Bible studies that teach women their worth in God's eyes. Since leaving the modeling industry, she founded URMore.org, a non-profit ministry that provides resources to hurting women and girls. Her favorite moments are found working on the family ranch with her husband, who she calls “the Cowboy”; in her kitchen, concocting a new version of her famous spaghetti; or spending time with their three precious children. Anchor Verse: Numbers 23:19 Connect with Jennifer: Website: https://urmore.org IG: https://www.instagram.com/jenniferstrickland_author/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jenniferstrickland.urmore ***We love hearing from our listeners! Sharing your thoughts through reviews is a fantastic way to be a part of our podcast family and contribute to the conversation. If you've enjoyed our podcast, leaving a review is quick and easy! Just head to Apple podcasts or wherever you are tuning in and share your thoughts. Your feedback makes a big difference!***

Join us as Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer discusses the presidential debate and so much more! We also reminisce about having dinner at the White House with President Trump in 2017. Dr. Richard Bartlett will discuss his pioneering COVID treatments from 2020 and what we should be prepared for this year. We're also featuring Speaker and Author Jennifer Strickland on biblical womanhood and gender roles. Plus, Pastor Shane Winnings, CEO of Promise Keepers, will guide us on staying true to faith amidst the social pressures of this month.    [1:17] Former White House Press Secretary and TV host Sean Spicer discusses Trump's guilty verdict and its impact; Biden campaign's focus on Trump's felony conviction is intentional and significant; the possibility of Joe Biden being replaced as the Democratic nominee [14:22] ER Director Dr. Richard Bartlett joins to discuss hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as immune system boosters; early treatment for COVID-19; lab-created bio weapons; FBI and Department of Energy admitted bird flu came from lab, not nature; Lyme disease may be a bio weapon created in a lab; products to prevent pandemics [26:44] Speaker, Author, and host of I Am A Woman Podcast,  Jennifer Strickland defines being a woman; the need to return to biblical principles in defining gender roles; the importance of understanding the Hebrew language to grasp the true meaning of womanhood; standing up for gender boundaries and protecting the next generation [37:27] CEO of Promise Keepers and Evangelist Pastor Shane Winnings shares insights on navigating complex feelings about gay pride in a Christian context; the importance of standing on biblical truth and being honest with loved ones participating in Pride Month; balancing grace and truth; research and listen to testimonies of people who have left LGBTQ lifestyles for Christ   Sean Spicer – Instagram: @seanmspicer SeanSpicer.com The Sean Spicer Show   Dr. Richard Bartlett – richardbartlettmd.com    Jennifer Strickland – I Am A Woman on Amazon Instagram: @jenniferstrickland_author   Pastor Shane Winnings –  Instagram: @Shane.winnings Daring Faith: Promise Keepers shanewinnings.com   Sponsors   Get clean healthy water with SentryH2O Use the promo code: “HEALTHY10”   Use promo code “FREEDOM” to receive  15% off your first order at Field of Greens   Get true American made products at  switchtoamericawithshemane.com   Protect yourself with EMP Shield  Use the promo code “SHEMANE”    Get EMF & WIFI protection with  SperoGear & use the promo code "FAITH1"   Activate stem cells & reset your body's clock  at lifewave.com/shemane Please send product inquiries to: shemane.lifewave@gmail.com   Watch Faith & Freedom every Sunday,  10am est on America'sVoice.News   Organic natural products to help your family thrive with  Rowe Casa Organics & use promo code “FAITH”   Purchase “My Pillow” at  mypillow.com or call 800-933-6972 Use promo code “FAITH”   Check out Shemane's books:  Shemane's new #1 Bestseller ‘Killer House' "4 Minutes to Happy" Kill It and Grill It Cookbook   Connect with Shemane: Send your questions, suggestions,  & funny pet videos to shemane.chat@gmail.com    Share your hunting photos & questions to shemane.chat@gmail.com    Watch Killer House Documentary: KillerHouse.org Get Wildly Well at shemanenugent.rocks   Shemane's Social Media: Facebook: @shemane.nugent Instagram: @shemanenugent Youtube: /shemane Truth Social @Shemane

The dignity of girls and women is under attack. In this conversation, author, speaker and former model Jennifer Strickland talks about the dignity of womanhood and biblical womanhood. She talks about the cultural attack on womanhood, the power embedded in the name woman, and the role of women as life-givers and protectors. Jennifer shares her personal journey from being a former model to becoming a speaker and author dedicated to helping young women see their value and identity in God's eyes. They also address the current issues of gender confusion, the importance of speaking up and taking a stand, and the role of the church in addressing these issues. The conversation ends with a call to action for women to mentor and invest in younger girls and to be truth-tellers in a world that often distorts the true identity of women.   Takeaways   -Womanhood is under a cultural attack, and it is important for Christians to uphold the dignity of womanhood with clarity and compassion. -The name woman carries power and meaning, as women are designed to bring life and uphold and stabilize mankind. -Women have a unique role as protectors and guardians, warning of danger and bringing life-giving perceptions to their relationships. -It is crucial for the church to address the issues of gender confusion and to stand up for the protection of vulnerable girls. -Women have a responsibility to mentor and invest in younger girls, being truth-tellers and helping them understand their value and identity in God's eyes.   Visit our Website Join our online community Get Allie's Book: “Wonderfully Made: Discover the Identity, Love, and Worth You Were Created For”   Shownotes direct link

Join us as Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer discusses the presidential debate and so much more! We also reminisce about having dinner at the White House with President Trump in 2017. Dr. Richard Bartlett will discuss his pioneering COVID treatments from 2020 and what we should be prepared for this year. We're also featuring Speaker and Author Jennifer Strickland on biblical womanhood and gender roles. Plus, Pastor Shane Winnings, CEO of Promise Keepers, will guide us on staying true to faith amidst the social pressures of this month.    [1:17] Former White House Press Secretary and TV host Sean Spicer discusses Trump's guilty verdict and its impact; Biden campaign's focus on Trump's felony conviction is intentional and significant; the possibility of Joe Biden being replaced as the Democratic nominee [14:22] ER Director Dr. Richard Bartlett joins to discuss hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as immune system boosters; early treatment for COVID-19; lab-created bio weapons; FBI and Department of Energy admitted bird flu came from lab, not nature; Lyme disease may be a bio weapon created in a lab; products to prevent pandemics [26:44] Speaker, Author, and host of I Am A Woman Podcast,  Jennifer Strickland defines being a woman; the need to return to biblical principles in defining gender roles; the importance of understanding the Hebrew language to grasp the true meaning of womanhood; standing up for gender boundaries and protecting the next generation [37:27] CEO of Promise Keepers and Evangelist Pastor Shane Winnings shares insights on navigating complex feelings about gay pride in a Christian context; the importance of standing on biblical truth and being honest with loved ones participating in Pride Month; balancing grace and truth; research and listen to testimonies of people who have left LGBTQ lifestyles for Christ   Sean Spicer – Instagram: @seanmspicer SeanSpicer.com The Sean Spicer Show   Dr. Richard Bartlett – richardbartlettmd.com    Jennifer Strickland – I Am A Woman on Amazon Instagram: @jenniferstrickland_author   Pastor Shane Winnings –  Instagram: @Shane.winnings Daring Faith: Promise Keepers shanewinnings.com   Sponsors   Get clean healthy water with SentryH2O Use the promo code: “HEALTHY10”   Use promo code “FREEDOM” to receive  15% off your first order at Field of Greens   Get true American made products at  switchtoamericawithshemane.com   Protect yourself with EMP Shield  Use the promo code “SHEMANE”    Get EMF & WIFI protection with  SperoGear & use the promo code "FAITH1"   Activate stem cells & reset your body's clock  at lifewave.com/shemane Please send product inquiries to: shemane.lifewave@gmail.com   Watch Faith & Freedom every Sunday,  10am est on America'sVoice.News   Organic natural products to help your family thrive with  Rowe Casa Organics & use promo code “FAITH”   Purchase “My Pillow” at  mypillow.com or call 800-933-6972 Use promo code “FAITH”   Check out Shemane's books:  Shemane's new #1 Bestseller ‘Killer House' "4 Minutes to Happy" Kill It and Grill It Cookbook   Connect with Shemane: Send your questions, suggestions,  & funny pet videos to shemane.chat@gmail.com    Share your hunting photos & questions to shemane.chat@gmail.com    Watch Killer House Documentary: KillerHouse.org Get Wildly Well at shemanenugent.rocks   Shemane's Social Media: Facebook: @shemane.nugent Instagram: @shemanenugent Youtube: /shemane Truth Social @Shemane

Phenomenal discussion with Author and former model Jennifer Strickland about her riveting new book: I Am A Woman - Taking Back Our Name. Great discussion on what the bible says about what a woman is and a woman's role in the family. Jennifer shared her expertise on gender ideology that currently has our society so confused.

Is the crisis facing womanhood in today's society leaving young women confused and stripped of their dignity? Join us on the Coffee and Bible Time podcast as we engage with Jennifer Strickland, author of "I Am a Woman," to uncover a powerful solution rooted in biblical wisdom. Jennifer introduces us to the term “ezer kenegdo,” describing women as strong helpers and rescuers, akin to God's own role. We explore how grounding our understanding of gender in biblical teachings can restore a woman's identity and empower her with a sense of godly purpose.In our conversation, we delve into the profound significance of womanhood through the lens of Scripture. Jennifer passionately explains the concept of being the "apple of God's eye," emphasizing that each woman is under His constant watchful care. Amidst the changing definitions of gender, we discuss the crucial role parents play in affirming and protecting their daughters' unique identities, especially in the context of sports and societal expectations. This episode underscores the irreplaceable value of understanding one's true identity as a daughter of God.We critically evaluate the influence of contemporary culture on children's perceptions of sexuality and gender identity. Jennifer urges parents to be vigilant about their children's exposure to potentially harmful content and advocates for open, Christ-centered conversations at home. We also celebrate young women of faith who are making a bold impact for Christ on social media and in educational settings. Listen in and discover how you can support and empower the next generation to uphold the traditional definition of womanhood with courage and truth.Jennifer's Favorites:Book: I Am a WomanIG: @jenniferstrickland_author)Go-To Bible: Holman CSBFavorite App/Website: YouVersionSupport the Show.Check out our website for more ways to fully connect to God's Word. There you'll find: Coffee and Bible Time Prayer Journals Coffee and Bible Time Courses Coffee and Bible Time Shop Find more great content on our YouTube channel: Coffee and Bible Time Our most popular video is “How I Study My Bible + In-Depth Bible Study!” with over 2M views! Follow us on InstagramVisit our Amazon ShopLearn more about the host Ellen KrauseEmail us at podcast@coffeeandbibletime.comThanks for listening to Coffee and Bible Time, where our goal is to help people delight in God's Word and thrive in Christian living!

In this episode, Riley interviews Jennifer Strickland, a former international model, author, and founder of the nonprofit URMore.org. Jennifer shares her journey from the modeling industry to discovering her faith in Christ, overcoming anorexia, and dedicating her life to helping women and girls find their true worth in God's eyes. They discuss the impact of modern feminism on women's identity and the importance of motherhood. Jennifer emphasizes the need for women to understand their value in Christ and teaches young girls about their purpose.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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EPISODE 211: JENNIFER STRICKLAND - I AM A WOMAN! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patriotstrong/support

Jennifer Strickland is a TEDx speaker; a former model; founder of U R More ministries; and author of the new book, I Am a Woman: Taking Back Our Name   In this exclusive Schilling Show Unleashed Podcast interview, Strickland discusses the failures of the 960s feminist movement, the terrible impact of porn on girls, and the disastrous gender “affirming” policies of today's public education.

This week Rodney sits down with author Jennifer Strickland, who has a new book coming out title, "I Am A Woman: Taking Back Our Name." It's time for women to reclaim what makes them uniquely female and affirm God's breathtaking design for womanhood. “Wake up!” cries Jennifer Strickland in this bracing call to women. With womanhood itself under a withering cultural attack, this is no time for Christians to stand teary-eyed on the sidelines. Men are invading women's sports and even bathrooms, while schools indoctrinate children in lies about gender fluidity. The assault of insanity on reality took normal women by surprise, but we can't waste another minute in fighting back. Our culture needs an answer to the lies that are crippling young women. We cannot abdicate our responsibility to the next generation. It is up to women who fear God to restore the true meaning of our name. In I Am a Woman, Strickland calls us to uphold the dignity of womanhood with clarity and compassion. She urges readers to cherish the power imbedded in the name “Woman”—because women are not undefinable. Women must reclaim their name and reject any agenda that diminishes the dignity of sex and gender for future generations—before it's too late.

The Richard Syrett Show, June 5th, 2024 The 77th World Health Assembly just adopted the amendments to the International Health Regulations and agreed to continue the negotiations for the proposed "Pandemic Agreement." https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/the-amendments-to-the-ihr-have-been  James Roguski, Independent Researcher https://jamesroguski.substack.com https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/exit-the-who THE CULT OF CLIMATE CHANGE Data tampering by NOAA is not conspiracy theory, and the evidence can be verified by any technically competent person.  One hundred years ago the glaciers were melting so fast, experts predicted the ice would be gone by 1950.  Earth was much warmer 5,000 years ago when atmospheric CO2 levels were lower - so people whose income depends on climate alarmism had to rewrite history. Tony Heller, Geologist, Weather Historian, Founder of Real Climate Science dot com Womanhood itself is under a withering cultural attack, and this is no time for Christians to stand teary-eyed on the sidelines.  https://www.amazon.com/Am-Woman-Taking-Back-Name/dp/1684515882/ref=sr_1_1  Jennifer Strickland, author of I Am a Woman: Taking Back Our Name, is the founder of U R More and the host of the I Am a Woman podcast. She is a sought-after speaker, a former model, and the author of several books, including Girl Perfect, More Beautiful Than You Know, Beautiful Lies, and 21 Myths (Even Good) Girls Believe about Sex. Strickland holds a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism and a master's degree in writing and literature. She lives with her husband and three children in Texas. https://urmore.org University of Toronto is trying to suspend the Campus Rabbi for raising concerns about antisemitism on campus https://x.com/ranting4canada/status/1796349729108045832?s=48&t=NGJd8e_0uhcJwabvmjR-8g  Rabbi Jon Jaffit Campus Rabbi University of Toronto THIS DAY IN ROCK HISTORY 1977 - Dead Boa Alice Cooper's boa constrictor, a co-star of his live act suffered a fatal bite from a rat it was being fed for breakfast. Cooper held auditions for a replacement and a snake named 'Angel' got the gig.  2002 - Dee Dee Ramone Dee Dee Ramone, (Douglas Glenn Colvin), bass guitarist with the Ramones died at his Hollywood, California apartment of a heroin overdose aged 49. He was the group's primary songwriter, penning songs such as 'Rockaway Beach', '53rd & 3rd', and 'Poison Heart'.  2003 - Pirate Radio A Grandfather who set up his own pirate radio station in Wakefield, Yorkshire was under investigation by local broadcasting authorities. The man known as Ricky Rock had erected a 32ft transmitter in his garden and had been playing hits by The Beach Boys, The Beatles and Elvis Presley. Ricky said he set the station up because 'talent-less boy bands and dance music' featured on local stations did not cater to the tastes of his generation.  2007 - Paul McCartney Sir Paul McCartney released his 21st solo album, ‘Memory Almost Full' on the new Hear Music Starbucks label. It was later announced that all copies sold through UK Starbucks would not be eligible for the UK charts as the 533 stores were not registered with the Official Chart Company. The album was being played non-stop in more than 10,000 Starbucks outlets across 29 countries. Jerimiah Tittle, Co-Host of “The 500 with Josh Adam Myers” podcast, CEO/Founder of Next Chapter Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Andrew Langer is a long-time activist for free-market and limited-government principles, and a well-recognized analyst of politics and public policy. He currently serves as the President the Institute for Liberty, the Host of the Andrew Langer Show on WBAL NewsRadio1090. A long time fighter for small business, Andrew came to IFL from NFIB, where he headed that organization's regulatory practice for six years. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Mara grew up in Weston, Massachusetts, a small town near Boston. She comes from a long line of military service members and law enforcement officers. This includes her grandfathers who were both police officers and served in WWII, several uncles and cousins in law enforcement and great grandparents serving in the military as far back as the Revolutionary War. GUEST 3 OVERVIEW: Jennifer Strickland is a former international model, TEDx speaker, author, wife, mother of three, inspirational speaker, and the founder of a non-profit called U R More, that helps women and girls discover their value, identity, and purpose. In her earlier days, she was a professional model who appeared in Vogue and Glamour and walked the runways in Europe. However, since leaving the modeling industry, Jennifer has written multiple books, hosts her own podcast, and travels the country speaking on culturally relevant issues from a Biblical worldview.

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Welcome to the final “Using Essential Oils with Mindfulness” episode with my special guest, Jennifer Strickland. Previously, Jennifer shared how essential oils can be used in practice to change our thoughts and decrease stress. She also shared how our bodies differentiate between synthetic fragrances and natural frequencies. Before Jennifer guides us in an “Aroma Reset” practice using essential oils […] The post Using essential oils with mindfulness – part 3 appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

I invite you to get into a comfortable position and be ready to enjoy the second part of the three-part series of “Using essential oils with mindfulness” with my special guest, Jennifer Strickland. Jennifer will uncover information that will make a difference in how you choose essential oils and fragrances. She also describes the discovery of […] The post Using essential oils with mindfulness – part 2 appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

During this episode, Eartha is joined by a special guest, Jennifer Strickland. Jennifer is a Health Educator and certified Young Living Essential Oils consultant. Jennifer specializes in educating communities about the benefits and usage of essential oils. This is a three-part series. In this episode, we will learn how the sense of smell affects our […] The post Using essential oils with mindfulness appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Rev. Dr. Jennifer Strickland delves into the timeless narrative of Genesis 3:1-19. In her sermon titled "The Snake," Rev. Dr. Strickland unravels the profound lessons embedded in the story of Adam and Eve's encounter with the serpent in the Garden of Eden. With wisdom and eloquence, she explores the nuances of temptation, the consequences of disobedience, and the enduring relevance of this biblical account in our lives today.

Don't Miss This One! We wrap-up  our look into the history of Feminism. Jennifer Strickland and I talk about God's point of view and the hope that we see. There are New trends that you may want to know about. This is one of my all time favorite episodes ever. Don't miss this one!   Jennifer Strickland is an Author, Speaker, Former Model that teaches women and girls their value, identity and purpose in Christ. Her podcast I Am A Woman is making heads and hearts turn to truth.    __________________________________________________________________   GUEST LINK:  Jennifer Strickland https://urmore.org/ IG- jenniferstrickland_author/ Podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-am-a-woman/id1658674095   Get More Mentoring from Mona

Part 3 in our series Feminism 101. Jennifer Strickland and I examine the Third Wave of Feminism and it will look very familiar to you. It's within your life time when sexuality became” power”   Jennifer Strickland is an Author, Speaker, Former Model that teaches women and girls their value, identity and purpose in Christ. Her podcast I Am A Woman is making heads and hearts turn to truth.        __________________________________________________________________   GUEST LINK:  Jennifer Strickland https://urmore.org/ IG- jenniferstrickland_author/ Podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-am-a-woman/id1658674095   Get More Mentoring from Mona

Part 2 in our Feminism 101 series. Jennifer Strickland and I get into the Second Wave of Feminism, the key players, mantras and some things that you may have never heard. If we are to know who we are as women we need to go back to who we were so we can go forward in wisdom.     Jennifer Strickland is an Author, Speaker, Former Model that teaches women and girls their value, identity and purpose in Christ. Her podcast I Am A Woman is making heads and hearts turn to truth.        __________________________________________________________________   GUEST LINK:  Jennifer Strickland https://urmore.org/ IG- jenniferstrickland_author/ Podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-am-a-woman/id1658674095   Get More Mentoring from Mona

Jennifer Strickland is an author, TEDx speaker, former model, wife, mother of three, and the founder of U R More, joins Sophia Lorey on this weeks episode of "This is a Woman" Podcast Tune in to learn about...- Jennifer's testimony from modeling around the world, to falling in to the social contagion of anorexia, to becoming saved and know helping girls to see their true worth in Jesus Christ- Todays social contagion of "gender identity" - The power of a woman's voice - Resources for girls to learn and find their inner beauty - The focus of shifting from finding our value in who we are externally to who we are internallyAnd so much more! Jennifer Strickland is an author, TEDx speaker, former model, wife, mother of three, and the founder of U R More, a ministry that teaches people their worth in God's eyes. Jen has written seven books and studies teaching women and girls their true worth, including Girl Perfect, More Beautiful Than You Know, Beautiful Lies, and 21 Myths (Even Good) Girls Believe About Sex. She holds a bachelor's in broadcast journalism and a master's in writing and literature.Visit UrMore.org to learn more about Jennifer, tune into her podcast, and to get access to her books! You can follow Jennifer on Instagram @jenniferstrickland_author ​

Author and former international model, Jennifer Strickland tells her 'runway' story, how her career skyrocketed, and then, how her life plummeted. Jennifer shares with Carole her difficult experiences as a high fashion model in Europe, how she came to the Lord, and what she has learned about true beauty. Carole sings two songs; her scripture song, 'I Delight Greatly in the Lord' from Isaiah 61:10 and her beautiful ballad, Morning Star. Both Carole & Jennifer are here to bless and encourage your day!

The first in our series Feminism 101, Jennifer Strickland and I talk about the first wave of feminism, the key players, and the motivation behind the movement. How did women get here? We go back to the roots of feminism so we can go forward  with a new understanding of the state of womanhood today.   Jennifer Strickland is an Author, Speaker, Former Model that teaches women and girls their value, identity and purpose in Christ. Her podcast I Am A Woman is making heads and hearts turn to truth. ----------------------------------------   GUEST LINK:  Jennifer Strickland https://urmore.org/ IG- jenniferstrickland_author/ Podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-am-a-woman/id1658674095   Get More Mentoring from Mona

A Sermon by Jennifer Strickland, author, TEDx speaker, former model, wife, mother of three, and the founder of U R More, a ministry that teaches people their worth in God's eyes.  Jen has written seven books and studies. teaching women and girls their true worth, including Girl Perfect, More Beautiful Than You Know, Beautiful Lies, and 21 Myths (Even Good) Girls Believe About Sex. She holds a bachelor's in broadcast journalism and a master's in writing and literature. For 15 years, Jen worked worldwide as a print, runway, and commercial model. She lived in several European countries and got an inside look at one of the most glamorized industries in the world. Today, Jen uses her experience as a model, knowledge of Scripture, and love for young women to expose the lies of the media and teach them to see themselves in the mirror of God.     Matthew 5:13 Genesis 2:18 Mark 10:16

A Sermon by Jennifer Strickland, author, TEDx speaker, former model, wife, mother of three, and the founder of U R More, a ministry that teaches people their worth in God's eyes.  Jen has written seven books and studies. teaching women and girls their true worth, including Girl Perfect, More Beautiful Than You Know, Beautiful Lies, and 21 Myths (Even Good) Girls Believe About Sex. She holds a bachelor's in broadcast journalism and a master's in writing and literature. For 15 years, Jen worked worldwide as a print, runway, and commercial model. She lived in several European countries and got an inside look at one of the most glamorized industries in the world. Today, Jen uses her experience as a model, knowledge of Scripture, and love for young women to expose the lies of the media and teach them to see themselves in the mirror of God. Women of Judah Conference 2023 Saturday Afternoon Session Who are we worshipping?   EZER KENEGDO = WOMAN = VITAL HELPER/RESCUER/WARRIOR DESIGNMED TO BRING LIFE AND REVALATION TO HUMANITY   1). Worship of Sexuality = Identity in Sexuality. 1 Corinthians 6:19 2).   The Worship of God = Identity as Women.  Genesis 3:16  Luke 10:18             Dear Woman .... JESUS, Luke13:12, John 2:4, 4:21, 8:10, 19:26, 20:15, Mathew 15:28, 26:10   Psalm 68:11   Revelation 12:17    Revelation 12:11

A Sermon by Jennifer Strickland, author, TEDx speaker, former model, wife, mother of three, and the founder of U R More, a ministry that teaches people their worth in God's eyes.  Jen has written seven books and studies. teaching women and girls their true worth, including Girl Perfect, More Beautiful Than You Know, Beautiful Lies, and 21 Myths (Even Good) Girls Believe About Sex. She holds a bachelor's in broadcast journalism and a master's in writing and literature. For 15 years, Jen worked worldwide as a print, runway, and commercial model. She lived in several European countries and got an inside look at one of the most glamorized industries in the world. Today, Jen uses her experience as a model, knowledge of Scripture, and love for young women to expose the lies of the media and teach them to see themselves in the mirror of God. Women of Judah Conference 2023 Saturday Morning Who are we Worshipping? 1). The Worship of Man = Identity is in Man. Psalm 146: 3-6 Psalm 141: 3-4 Proverbs 29:25 2). The Worship of God = Identity is in Him. Luke 1:54 3). The Worship of the Mirror = Identity is in Self. 2 Corinthians 4:18, 3:7 Romans 1:21-22 Romans1:25 4). Worship of our Creator – Identity is in Him Genesis 1 & 2   EZER KENEGDO = WOMAN = VITAL HELPER/RESCUER/WARRIOR DESIGNMED TO BRING LIFE AND REVALATION TO HUMANITY  

Author and former international model, Jennifer Strickland tells her 'runway' story, how her career skyrocketed, and then, how her life plummeted. Jennifer shares with Carole her difficult experience as a young woman modeling in Europe, how she came to the Lord, and what she has learned about true beauty. Carole sings two songs; her scripture song, 'I Delight Greatly in the Lord' from Isaiah 61:10 and her beautiful ballad, Morning Star. Both Carole & Jennifer are here to bless and encourage your day!

Today Heather chats with Jennifer Strickland, a former model who's appeared in magazines you've probably read and shows you may have seen and worked for designers you've heard of. Jen had amazing success in the modeling world but her life was missing meaning and though she had learned how to use her body to fit an image, she had not yet learned how to use her voice. Jen shares her story of finding Christ while modeling and what her recovery from modeling (and the eating disorder that came with it) looked like. She also talks about how a mirror fast showed her what true beauty really looks like (and where it truly comes from!) Plus: Check out the BONUS content on Patreon from this episode! Here are some other topics covered in this episode "The Model and the Mirror Fast": Jennifer explains how the pressure of modeling is extreme because bodies change every day. Jen talks about how she met Jesus through strangers on the street while she was modeling in Europe. We talk about how deceiving image can be. We discuss the lie of "I am what I see in the mirror." We talk a bit about the behind the scenes yuck of the modeling industry and what it does to young girls. Jen shares about her personal struggle with cystic acne and how a world-renowned dermatologist told her that her issues were so deep, they could only be treated by healing her heart and her mind. Jen shares how God has freed her from the belief that she has to look and how she's learned to look radiant by looking on Him. Go to Patreon for the BONUS content - 10 more minutes of my talk with Jen where she shares about how she's navigated beauty, social media, and related issues with her now college-age daughter. Plus, Jen shares about how she did a 40 Day Mirror Fast and what it taught her. Connect With Compared to Who: Take the FREE 5-Day Email Challenge to Improve Your Body Image Here: 5-Day Email Challenge Start reading the Burden of Better here: Burden of Better Book for Christian Women on Comparison Join the Patreon Community here: www.patreon.com/comparedtowho Find out more about Coaching here: Christian Group Body Image Coaching Leave a review for the show! Find out more here: https://www.comparedtowho.me/podcast Learn more about Jennifer Strickland and URMORE ministries here. Jennifer Strickland is an author, TEDx speaker, former model, wife, mother of three, and the founder of U R More, a ministry that teaches people their worth in God's eyes.  Jen has written seven books and studies teaching women and girls their true worth, including Girl Perfect, More Beautiful Than You Know, Beautiful Lies, and 21 Myths (Even Good) Girls Believe About Sex. She holds a bachelor's in broadcast journalism and a master's in writing and literature. For 15 years, Jen worked worldwide as a print, runway, and commercial model. She lived in several European countries and got an inside look at one of the most glamorized industries in the world. Today, Jen uses her experience as a model, knowledge of Scripture, and love for young women to expose the lies of the media and teach them to see themselves in the mirror of God.

Author and former international model, Jennifer Strickland tells her 'runway' story, how her career skyrocketed, and then, how her life plummeted. Jennifer shares with Carole her difficult experience as a young woman modeling in Europe, how she came to the Lord, and what she has learned about true beauty. Carole sings two songs; her scripture song, 'I Delight Greatly in the Lord' from Isaiah 61:10 and her beautiful ballad, Morning Star. Both Carole & Jennifer are here to bless and encourage your day!

We teach our kids to protect their bodies, to never allow anything to be done to them that they don't want or that isn't God-honoring. Unfortunately, many Christians today are using spiritual manipulation in an attempt to convince believers to get the vaccination. Jennifer Strickland is sharing her passion on this topic near and dear to her heart. Listen in, I know you'll be encouraged! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/support

“When are American women going to begin using their voice for women who are truly oppressed?” - Jennifer Strickland. Today, I am honored to have a treasured friend, Jennifer Strickland, on the show. Her heart is on fire for the Lord and for our nation. We are chatting about the headlines and what the role of Christians need to play in the culture right now. Listen in friends, I know you'll be encouraged! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/support

02:51 - Jennifer's Superpower: Kindness & Empathy * Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-complex-ptsd-2797491) (C-PTSD) 07:37 - Equitable Design and Inclusive Design * Section 508 (https://www.section508.gov/) Compliance * Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/) (WCAG) * HmntyCentrd (https://hmntycntrd.com/) * Creative Reaction Lab (https://www.creativereactionlab.com/) 15:43 - Biases and Prejudices * Self-Awareness * Daniel Kahneman's System 1 & System 2 Thinking (https://www.marketingsociety.com/think-piece/system-1-and-system-2-thinking) * Jennifer Strickland: “You're Killing Your Users!” (https://vimeo.com/506548868) 22:57 - So...What do we do? How do we get people to care? * Caring About People Who Aren't You * Listening * Using Web Standards and Prioritizing Web Accessibility * Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman (https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Web-Standards-Jeffrey-Zeldman/dp/0321616952) * Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm (https://www.amazon.com/Bulletproof-Web-Design-flexibility-protecting/dp/0321509021) * Progressive Enhancement * Casey's Cheat Sheet (https://moritzgiessmann.de/accessibility-cheatsheet/) * Jennifer Strickland: “Ohana for Digital Service Design” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfsZlkm59BE) * Self-Care 33:22 - How Ego Plays Into These Things * Actions Impact Others * For, With, and By * Indi Young (https://indiyoung.com/) 44:05 - Empathy and Accessibility * Testability/Writing Tests * Screen Readers * TalkBack (https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6283677?hl=en) * Microsoft Narrator (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/complete-guide-to-narrator-e4397a0d-ef4f-b386-d8ae-c172f109bdb1) * NVDA (https://www.nvaccess.org/about-nvda/) * Jaws (https://www.freedomscientific.com/products/software/jaws/) * Heydon Pickering (https://twitter.com/heydonworks/status/969520320754438144) Reflections: Casey: Animals can have cognitive disabilities too. Damien: Equitable design initiatives and destroying the tenants of white supremacy. Jennifer: Rest is key. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Transcript: MANDO: Hello, friends! Welcome to Greater Than Code, Episode number 243. My name is Mando Escamilla and I'm here with my wonderful friend, Damien Burke. DAMIEN: Thank you, Mando, and I am here with our wonderful friend, Casey Watts. CASEY: Hi, I'm Casey, and we're all here today with Jennifer Strickland. With more than 25 years of experience across the product lifecycle, Jennifer aims to ensure no one is excluded from products and services. She first heard of Ohana in Disney's Lilo & Stitch, “Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind, or forgotten.” People don't know what they don't know and are often unaware of the corners they cut that exclude people. Empathy, compassion, and humility are vital to communication about these issues. That's Jennifer focus in equitable design initiatives. Welcome, Jennifer! JENNIFER: Hi! DAMIEN: You're welcome. MANDO: Hi, Jennifer. So glad you're here. JENNIFER: I'm so intrigued. [laughs] And I'm like 243 and this is the first I'm hearing of it?! DAMIEN: Or you can go back and listen to them all. MANDO: Yeah. CASEY: That must be 5, almost 6 years? JENNIFER: Do you have transcripts of them all? CASEY: Yes. JENNIFER: Great! MANDO: Yeah. I think we do. I think they're all transcribed now. JENNIFER: I'm one of those people [chuckles] that prefers to read things than listen. DAMIEN: I can relate to that. CASEY: I really enjoy Coursera courses. They have this interface where you can listen, watch the video, and there's a transcript that moves and highlights sentence by sentence. I want that for everything. MANDO: Oh, yeah. That's fantastic. It's like closed captioning [laughs] for your audio as well. JENNIFER: You can also choose the speed, which I appreciate. I generally want to speed things up, which yes, now that I'm getting older, I have to realize life is worth slowing down for. But when you're in a life where survival is what you're focused on, because you have a bunch of things that are slowing your roll and survival is the first thing in your mind, you tend to take all the jobs, work all the jobs, do all of the things because it's how you get out of poverty, or whatever your thing is. So I've realized how much I've multitasked and worked and worked and worked and I'm realizing that there is a part of the equality is lost there, but we don't all have the privilege of slowing down. DAMIEN: I can relate to that, too. So I believe every one of our past 243 episodes, we asked our guests the same question. You should know this is coming. Jennifer, what is your superpower and how did you acquire it? JENNIFER: I don't know for sure. People have told me that I'm the kindest person they've ever met, people have said I'm the most empathetic person I've ever met, and I'm willing to bet that they're the same thing. To the people, they just see them differently. I acquired being empathetic and kind because of my dysfunction in my invisible disabilities. I have complex post-traumatic stress disorder from childhood trauma and then repeated life trauma, and the way it manifests itself is trying to anticipate other people's needs, emotions, moods, and all of that and not make people mad. So that's a negative with a golden edge. Life is full of shit; how you respond to it shows who you are and rather than molesting kids, or hurting people, I chose to do what I could to make sure that no one else goes through that and also, to try to minimize it coming at me anymore, too. [chuckles] But there's positive ways of doing it. You don't have to be like the people who were crappy to you and the same goes like, you're in D.C.? Man, they're terrible drivers and it's like, [laughter] everybody's taking their bad day and putting it out on the people they encounter, whether it's in the store, or on the roads. I was like, “Don't do that.” Like, how did it feel when your boss treated you like you were garbage, why would you treat anyone else like garbage? Be the change, so to speak. But we're all where we are and like I said in my bio, “You don't know what you don't know.” I realized earlier this week that it actually comes from Donald Rumsfeld who said, “Unknown unknowns.” I'm like, “Oh my God. Oh my God.” MANDO: You can find good in lots of places, right? [laughs] JENNIFER: If you choose to. MANDO: Absolutely. Yeah. JENNIFER: Look at, what's come out of the horror last year. We talk about shit that we didn't use to talk about. Yeah, it's more exhausting when lots of people, but I think in the long run, it will help move us in the right direction. I hope. MANDO: Yeah. That's absolutely the hope, isn't it? JENNIFER: We don't know what we don't know at this time. My sister was volunteering at the zoo and she worked in the Ape House, which I was super jealous of. There's an orangutan there named Lucy who I love and Lucy loves bags, pouches, and lipstick. So I brought a backpack with a pouch and some old lipstick in it and I asked a volunteer if I could draw on the glass. They gave me permission so I made big motions as I opened the backpack and I opened the pouch and you see Lucy and her eyes are like, she's starting to side-eye me like something's going on. And then she runs over and hops up full-time with her toes on the window cell and she's like right up there. So I'm drawing on the glass with the lipstick and she's loving it, reaches her hand behind, poops into her hand, takes the poop and repeats this little actions on the glass. MANDO: [laughs] Which is amazing. It's hilarious so that's amazing. JENNIFER: It's fantastic. I just think she's the bomb. My sister would always send pictures and tell me about what Lucy got into and stuff. Lucy lived with people who would dress her in people clothing and so, she's the only one of the orangutans that didn't grow up only around orangutans so the other orangutans exclude her and treat her like she's a weirdo and she's also the one who likes to wear clothes. Like my sister gave her an FBI t-shirt so she wears the FBI t-shirt and things like that. She's special in my heart. Like I love the Lucy with all of it. DAMIEN: Well, that's a pretty good display of your super empathetic superpower there. [laughter] And it sounds like it might be really also related to the equitable design initiatives? JENNIFER: Yeah. So I'm really grateful. I currently work at a place that although one would think that it would be a big, scary place because of some of the work that we do. I've found more people who know what equity is and care about what equity is. The place I worked before, I talked about inclusive design because that's everywhere else I've worked, it's common that that's what you're doing these days. But they told me, “Don't say that word, it's activism,” and I was stunned. And then I'm like, “It's all in GSA documents here,” and they were like, “Oh,” and they were the ones that were really bad about like prioritizing accessibility and meeting section 508 compliance and just moving it off to put those issues in the backlog. The client's happy, no one's complained, they think we're doing great work. It's like, you're brushing it all under the rug and you're telling them what you've done and you're dealing with people who don't know what section 508 is either because who does? Very few people really know what it means to be section 508 compliant because it's this mystery container. What is in this? What is this? What is this thing? DAMIEN: So for our listeners who don't know, can you tell us a bit what section 508 is? JENNIFER: Sure. So section 508 means that anything paid for with federal funds must be section 508 compliant, which means it must meet WCAG 2.0 success criteria and WCAG is Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. If you're ever looking for some really complicated, dense, hard to understand reading, I recommend opening up the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. I think the people that are on the working groups with me would probably agree and that's what we're all working towards trying to improve them. But I think that they make the job harder. So rather than just pointing at them and complaining like a lot of people do on Twitter, or deciding “I'm going to create a business and make money off of making this clear for people,” I decided instead to join and try to make it better. So the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are based on Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust, POUR. Pour like this, not poor like me. [laughs] So there's just a bunch of accessibility criteria that you have to meet to make your work section 508 compliant. It's so hard to read and so hard to understand that I feel for everybody like of course, you don't know what section 508 compliance is. It's really, really hard to read. But if somebody who is an accessibility specialist tells you and writes up an issue ticket, you don't argue with them. You don't say, “This isn't a thing,” you say, “Okay, how soon do I need to fix it?” and you listen to them, but that's not what I experienced previously. Where I am now, it's amazing. In the place I worked before here, like just the contracting, they welcomed everything I said to them regarding accessibility. So I just clearly worked at a contractor that was doing a lot of lip service and not talking the talk, not walking the talk, sorry. [laughs] Super frustrating. Because accessibility is only a piece of it. I am older probably than anybody on this call and I'm a woman working in tech and I identify as non-binary. The arguments I've had about they/them all my life have been stupid, but I'm just like, “Why do I have to be female?” It's just, why do I have to be one, or the other? Anyway, everyone has always argued with me so I'm so grateful for the young ones now for pushing all that. I'm Black, Native, Mexican, and white all smushed together and my grandma wouldn't let me in the house because apparently my father was too dark so therefore, I'm too dark. Hello? Look at this! [laughter] Currently, some people are big on the one drop rule and I always say to people, “If you hate me, or want to exclude me so much because somewhere in me you know there is this and how do you feel about so-and-so? I'm done with you and you are bad people and we've got to fight this stupidity.” I have also invisible disabilities. So I'm full of all these intersectional things of exclusion. I personally experience a lot of it and then I have the empathy so I'm always feeling fuzzy people who are excluded. So what am I supposed to do with the fact that I'm smart, relatively able-bodied, and have privilege of being lighter skin so I can be a really good Trojan horse? I have to be an advocate like, what else am I supposed to do with my life? Be a privileged piece of poop that just wants to get rich and famous, like a lot of people in tech? Nope. And I don't want to be virtue signaling and savior complex either and that's where equitable design has been a wonderful thing to learn more about. HmntyCntrd.com and Creative Reaction Lab out in Missouri, those are two places where people can do a lot of learning about equity and truly inclusion, and challenging the tenants of white supremacy in our working ways. I'm still trying to find better ways of saying the tenants of white supremacy because if you say that in the workplace, that sounds real bad, especially a few months back before when someone else was in office. When you say the tenants of white supremacy in the workplace, people are going to get a little rankled because that's not stuff we talk about in the workplace. DAMIEN: Well, it's not just the workplace. JENNIFER: Ah, yes. DAMIEN: They don't like that at sports bars either. Ask me how I know. MANDO: No, they sure don't. [laughter] JENNIFER: We should go to sports bars together. [laughs] Except I'm too scared to go to them right now unless they're outdoors. But when we talk to people about the actual individual tenants about power hoarding, perfectionism, worship of the written word, and things like that, people can really relate and then you watch their faces and they go, “Yeah, I do feel put my place by these things and prevented from succeeding, progressing, all of these things.” These are things that we've all been ingrained to believe are the way we evaluate what's good and what's bad. But we don't have to. We can talk about this stuff when we can reject those things and replace them with other things. But I'm going to be spending the rest of my life trying to dismantle my biases. I'm okay with my prejudices because even since I was a kid, I recognized that we were all prejudice and it's okay. It's our knee jerk first assumption, but you always have to keep an open mind, but that prejudice is there to protect you, but you always have to question it and go, “What is that prejudice? Is that bullshit? Is it right? Is it wrong?” And always looking at yourself, it's always doing that what you call self-awareness stuff, and always be expanding it, changing it, and moving it. But prejudice? Prejudice has a place to protect, speaking as someone who's had guns in her face, knives through her throat, and various other yucky things, I know that when I told myself, “Oh, you're being prejudiced, push yourself out into that vulnerable feeling,” things didn't go very well. So instead, recognize “Okay, what are you thinking in this moment about this situation? Okay, how can you proceed and keep an open mind while being self-protective?” DAMIEN: Yeah, it sounds like you're talking about Daniel Kahneman's System 1 and System 2 Thinking. We have these instinctive reactions to things and a lot of them are learned—I think they're all learned actually. But they're instinctive and they're not things we decide consciously. They're there to protect us because they're way faster, way more efficient than most of what we are as humans as thinking and enacting beings. But then we also have our rational mind where we can use to examine those things and so, it's important to utilize both. It's also important to know where your instinctive responses are harmful and how to modify them so that they're not harmful. And that is the word. JENNIFER: I've never heard of it. Thanks for putting that in there. Power accretion principles is that it? CASEY: Oh, that's something else. JENNIFER: Oh. CASEY: Type 1 and type 2 thinking. JENNIFER: But I know with a lot of my therapy work as a trauma survivor, I have to evaluate a lot of what I think and how I react to things to change them to respond things. But there are parts of having CPTSD that I am not going to be able to do that, too. Like they're things where for example, in that old workplace where there was just this constant invalidation and dismissal of the work, which was very triggering as a rape survivor/incest survivor, that I feel really bad and it made me feel really unsafe all the time. So I felt very emotional in the moment and so, I'd have to breathe through my nose, breathe out to my mouth, feel my tummy, made sure I can feel myself breathing deeply, and try to calmly explain the dire consequences of some of these decisions. People tend to think that the design and development decisions we make when we're building for the web, it's no big deal if you screw it up. It's not like an architect making a mistake in a building and the building falls down. But when you make a mistake, that means a medical locator application doesn't load for an entire minute on a slow 3G connection—when your audience is people who are financially challenged and therefore, unlikely to have always high-speed, or new devices—you are making a design decision that is literally killing people. When you make a design decision, or development decision not to QA your work on mobile, tablet, and desktop, and somebody else has to find out that your Contact Us options don't open on mobile so people in crisis can't reach your crisis line. People are dying. I'm not exaggerating. I have a talk I give called You're Killing Your Users and it got rejected from this conference and one of the reviewers wrote, “The title is sensationalism. No one dies from our decision,” and I was just like, “Oh my God, oh my God.” MANDO: [laughs] Like, that's the point. JENNIFER: What a privileged life you live. What a wonderfully privileged life! There's a difference between actions and thoughts and it's okay for me to think, “I really hope you fall a flight of stairs and wind up with a disability and leave the things that you're now trying to put kibosh on.” But that's not me saying, “I'm going to go push you down a flight of stairs,” or that I really do wish that on someone. It's emotional venting, like how could you possibly close yourself off to even listening to this stuff? That's the thing that like, how do we get to a point in tech where so many people in tech act like the bad stereotype of surgeons who have this God complex, that there are particular entities working in government tech right now that are told, “You're going to save government from itself. You've got the answers. You are the ones that are going to help government shift and make things better for the citizen, or the people that use it.” But the people that they hire don't know what they don't know and they keep doing really horrible things. Like, they don't follow the rules, they don't take the time to learn the rules and so, they put user personal identifying information, personal health information on the public server without realizing it that's a no-no and then it has to be wiped, but it can never really fully be wiped. And then they make decisions like, “Oh, well now we're only worried about the stuff that's public facing. We're not worried about the stuff that's internally facing.” Even though, the internally facing people are all some of the vulnerable people that we're serving. I'm neutralizing a lot of what I'm talking about. [chuckles] MANDO: Of course. [laughter] DAMIEN: Well, convinced me of the problems. It was an easy sell for me. Now, what do we do? JENNIFER: The first thing we do is we all give a fuck about other people. That's the big thing, right? Like, how do I convince you that you should care about people who aren't you? MANDO: Yeah. CASEY: I always think about the spectrum of caring. I don't have a good word for it, but there are active and passive supporters—and you can be vocal, or quiet—like loud, or quiet. I want more people to be going around the circle of it so if they're vocally opposed, just be quiet, quietly opposed, maybe be quietly in support, and if you're quietly in support, maybe speak up about it. I want to nudge people along around this, the four quadrants. A lot of people only focus on getting people who passively care to be more vocal about it. That's a big one. That's a big transition. But I also like to focus on the other two transitions; getting a lot of people to be quiet about a thing that as opposed. Anyway, everywhere along that process is useful. JENNIFER: I think it's important to hear the people who were opposed because otherwise, how are we ever going to help understand and how are we going to understand if maybe where we've got a big blind spot? Like, we have to talk about this stuff in a way that's thoughtful. I come from a place in tech where in the late 90s, I was like, “I want to move from doing print to onscreen and printing environmental to that because it looks like a lot of stuff has gone to this web thing.” I picked up Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing with Web Standards and Dan Cederholm's Bulletproof Web Design and all of them talk about using web standards and web standards means that you prioritize accessibility from the beginning. So the first thing you build is just HTML tagging your content and everyone can use it. It's not going to be fancy, but it's going to be completely usable. And then you layer things on through progressive enhancement to improve the experience for people with fancy phones, or whatever. I don't know why, but that's not how everybody's coming into doing digital work. They're coming in through React out of the box, thinking that React out of the box is – and it's like nope, you have to build in the framework because nobody put the framework in React. React is just a bunch of hinges and loops, but you have to put the quality wood in and the quality glass panes and the handles that everybody can use. I'm not sure if that analogy is even going to work. But one of the things I realized talking with colleagues today is I tend to jump to three steps in when I really need to go back, start at the beginning, and say, “Here are the terms. This is what section 508 is. This is what accessibility is. This is what A11Y is. This is WCAG, this is how it's pronounced, this is what it means, and this is the history of it.” I think understanding history of section 508 and what WCAG is also vital in the first version of WCAG section 508, it adopted part of what was WCAG 1.0, but it wasn't like a one to one for 1.0, it was just some of it and then it updated in 2017, or 2018, I forget. Without my cheat sheet, I can't remember this stuff. Like I got other things to keep in my brain. CASEY: I just pulled up my favorite cheat sheet and I put it in the chat sidebar here. JENNIFER: Oh, thank you. It's in my slides for Ohana for Digital Service Design that I gave at WX Summit and I think I also gave it recently in another thing. Oh, UXPA DC. But the thing is, the changes only recently happened where it went to WCAG 2.0 was 2018, I think it got updated. So all those people that were resisting me in 2018, 2019, 2020 likely never realized that there was a refresh that they need to pay attention to and I kept trying to like say, “No, you don't understand, section 508 means more now.” Technically, the access board that defines what section 508 is talking about moving it to 2.1, or 2.2 and those include these things. So we should get ahead of the ball, ahead of the curve, or whatever you want to call it and we should be doing 2.1 and 2.2 and even beyond thinking about compliance and that sort of stuff. The reason we want to do human beings is that 2.1 and 2.2 are for people who are cognitively fatigued and I don't think there's anyone who's been through the pandemic who is not cognitively fatigued. If you are, you are just a robot. I don't know. I don't know who could not be not cognitive fatigue. And then the other people that also helps are mobile users. So if you look at any site, look at their usage stats, everything moving up and up and up in mobile devices. There's some people who don't have computers that they only have phones. So it just seems silly not to be supporting those folks. But we need, I don't know. I need to think more about how to get there, how to be more effective in helping people care, how to be more effective in teaching people. One of the big pieces I've learned in the last six months is the first step is self-care—sleep, exercise, eat, or maybe those two need to be back and forth. I haven't decided yet because I'm still trying to get the sleep workout. Before I moved to D.C., I was a runner, hiker, I had a sit spot at the local pond where I would hang out with the fishes and the turtles and the frogs and the birds and here, I overlook the Pentagon and there's swarms of helicopters. I grow lots of green things to put between me and it, but it's hard. The running is stuck because I don't feel safe and things like that. I live in an antiseptic neighborhood intentionally because I knew every time I went into D.C. and I saw what I see, I lose hope because I can't not care. It kills me that I have to walk by people who clearly need – this is a messed up world. We talk about the developing world as the place where people are dying on the side of the road. Do you have blinders on like, it's happening here? I don't know what to do. I care too much. So what do we do? What do you think? DAMIEN: Well, I think you have a hint. You've worked at places that are really resistant to accessibility and accessibility to improvements, and you've worked at some that are very welcoming and eager to implement them. So what were the differences? What do you think was the source of that dichotomy? JENNIFER: I think at the place I worked after I left the hellhole; the product owner was an Asian woman and the other designer was from India. Whereas, before the other place was a white woman and a white man and another white man who was in charge. And then the place I work now, it's a lot of people who are very neurodiverse. I work at MITRE, which is an FFRDC, which is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center. It's full of lots of smart people who are very bookish. It's funny when I was a little kid, I was in the gifted and talented kids and so, they would put us into these class sessions where we were to brainstorm and I love brainstorming. I love imagining things. I remember thinking, “I want to work in a think tank and just all I do all the time is brainstorm and we'd figure out a way to use some of those things!” And I feel a little bit like I'm there now, which is cool and they treat one another really well at MITRE, which is nice. Not to say it's perfect there. Nowhere is perfect. But compared to a lot of places, it's better. I think it's the people are taking the time to listen, taking the time to ask questions. The people I work with don't have a lot of ego, generally. At least not the ones I'm working with. I hear that they do exist there, but I haven't run into many of them. Whereas, the other place, there was a lot of virtue signaling and a lot of savior complex. Actually, very little savior conflicts. They didn't really care about saving anyone, sorry. Snark! [laughs] DAMIEN: Can you tell us a little more about ego and how ego plays into these things? JENNIFER: How do you think ego plays into these things? DAMIEN: Well, I think it causes people to one up and turn questions around it on me, that's one way. Ego means a lot of things to a lot of different people, which is why I asked the question. I think it was introduced to English by Freud and I don't want to use a Freudian theory for anything ever. [laughter] And then when I talk to people about death of the ego and [inaudible] and all of these things, it seems really unpleasant. People like their self-identity, people like being themselves, and they don't want to stop being themselves. So I'm not sure how that's related to what you were saying. CASEY: The way I'm hearing you use ego here sounds like self-centered, thinking about your own perspective, not taking the time and effort and energy to think about other people's perspectives. And if you don't have a diverse set of experiences to lean on your own, you're missing out on a lot. JENNIFER: Yeah. I tend to think about, I guess, it's my dysfunction. Once again, it's like, how do my actions impact others? Why are other people thinking about how their actions impact others? When you're out in public and you've got to cut the cheese, are you going to do it when there are a lot of people around? Are you going to take a stinky deuce in a public bathroom that you know other people in there? If you think about the community around you, you would go find a private one if you cared at all. But most people don't care and they think, “I do what I got to do.” I just think we need to think a little bit more about the consequences of our actions and I tweeted yesterday, or this morning about how – oh, it was yesterday. I was watching TV and a new, one of those food delivery commercials came on. This one, they send you a stove, you get a little oven, and you cook all of their meals in this little throwaway dishes. So you have no dishes, nothing. How much are we going to just keep creating crap? When you think about all of this takeout and delivery, there's just so much trash we generate. We should be taxing the bleep out of companies that make these sorts of things like, Amazon should have the bleep taxed out of it because of all the cardboard and I'm just as guilty because I ordered the thing and the box of staples arrives in a box. It has a plastic bubble wrap all around it. Like it's just a box at $2.50 staples, but I couldn't be bothered to go – I don't know if they have them at Walgreens. Like for real, I don't know. We need to do better. We need to think about the consequences of these decisions and not just do it like, that's the thing that tech has been doing is let's make an MVP and see if it has wheels. Let's make a prototype, but do the thing. Okay, let's do the thing. Oh, it's got wheels. Oh, it's growing, it's growing, it's growing, it's growing. Who cares about the consequences of all of it? Who cares? Your kids, your grandkids someday maybe will when the world is gone. We talk about climate change. We talk about 120-degree temperatures in Seattle and Portland, the ocean on fire, the beaches are eroding, like the ice cap—most of the Arctic is having a 100 and some odd degree temperature day. Like we are screwing it up and our legislation isn't keeping pace with the advances in technology that are just drawing things. Where are the people who care in the cycle and how are they interrupting the VCs who just want to like be the next big tech? Everybody wants to be the next Zuckerberg, or Jack, or Bezos, or Gates, or whatever, and nobody has to deal with the consequences of their actions and their consequences of those design and development decisions. That's where I think it's ego, it's self-centeredness, it's wanting to be famous, it's wanting to be rich instead of really, truly wanting to make the world a better place. I know my definition of better. We've got four different visions of what better is going to be and that's hard work. Maybe it is easier to just focus on getting famous and getting rich than it is on doing the hard work of taking four different visions of what good is and trying to find the way forward. DAMIEN: Making the world a better place. The world will be a better place when I'm rich and famous. But that also means – and that's the truth. [laughter] But what else you said was being empathetic and having a diverse – well, marginalized people in charge where you can see that that's why the impact that things are having on other people. It's not just about me being rich and famous, but it's also about things being better for other people, too. JENNIFER: Yeah. I don't necessarily mean marginalized people have to be in charge. DAMIEN: Right. I took that jump based on your description of the places you worked for. I should have specified that. I wasn't clear enough. JENNIFER: I do have to say that in general, when I've worked for people who aren't the status quo, more often than not, they bring a compassionate, empathetic approach. Not always. There have been some that are just clearly driven and power hungry, and I can't fault them either because it's got to take a lot to come up from wherever and fight through the dog-eat-dog world. But in the project work, there's the for, with and by. The general ways that we redesign and build things for people, then the next piece is we design and build things with the people that we're serving, but the newer way of doing things is that we don't design and build the things, the people that we're serving design the things and tell us what they want to design, and then we figure out how to make sure that it's built the way they tell us to. That goes against the Steve Jobs approach where Steve Jobs said people don't know what they want sort of thing. Wasn't that was he said? DAMIEN: Yeah. Well, there was Henry Ford who said, “If you ask people what they wanted, they would've said faster horses.” JENNIFER: Right. D And Steve Jobs kind of did the same thing. JENNIFER: Right. And we, as designers, have to be able to work with that and pull that out and suss it out and make sure that we translate it into something useful and then iterate with to make sure that we get it. Like when I do research, listening sessions with folks, I have to use my experience doing this work to know what are the – like, Indi Young's inner thinking, reactions, and guiding principles. Those are the things that will help guide you on what people are really wanting and needing and what their purpose is. So you make sure that whatever your understanding is closer to what they're really saying, because they don't know what can be built. They don't know what goes on, but they do know what their purpose is and what they need. Maybe they don't even know what they need, but they do know what their purpose is, or you keep validating things. CASEY: I want to amplify, you said Indi Young. I read a lot of her work and she just says so many things that I wish someone would say, and she's been saying them for a while. I just didn't know about her. Indi Young. JENNIFER: It's I-N-D-I and Y-O-U-N-G. I am so grateful that I got to take her courses. I paid for them all myself, except for one class—I let that other place pay for one through my continuing ed, but I wanted to do it so badly that I paid for all myself. The same thing with all the Creative Reaction Lab and HmntyCntrd stuff; I paid for those out of my own money that probably could have gone to a vacation, [chuckles] or buying a car, or something. But contributing to our society in a responsible and productive way, figuring out how to get my language framework better. Like you said earlier, Damien, I'm really good at pointing out what the problems are. I worry about figuring out how we solve them, because I don't really have the ego to think that I know what the answer is, but I'm very interested in working with others to figure out how we solve them. I have some ideas, but how do you tell a React developer that you really have to learn HTML, you have to learn schematic HTML. That's like learning the alphabet. I don't understand. CASEY: Well, I have some ideas around that. Amber is my go-to framework and they have accessibility baked into the introduction tutorial series. They have like 13 condoned add-ons that do accessibility related things. At the conference, there's always a whole bunch of accessibility tracks. Amber is like happy path accessibility right front and center. React probably has things like that. We could have React's onboarding docs grow in that direction, that would be great, and have more React add-ons to do that that are condoned and supported by the community could have the same path. And it could probably even use a lot of the same core code even. The same principles apply. JENNIFER: If you want to work together and come up with some stuff to go to React conferences, or work with the React team, or whatever. 
CASEY: Sounds fun. DAMIEN: Well, one of the things you talked about the way you described it and made it sound like empathy was so much of the core of it. In order to care about accessibility, you have to empathize with people who need that functionality. You have to empathize with people who are on 3G flip phones. That's not a thing, is it? [laughs] But nonetheless, empathizing. JENNIFER: A flat screen phone, a smartphone looking thing and it's still – if anyone's on a slow 3G, it's still going to be a miserable experience. DAMIEN: Yeah, 3G with a 5-year-old Android OS. JENNIFER: But I don't think it's necessarily that people have to empathize. In an ideal world would, but maybe they could be motivated by other things like fast. Like, do you want to fast cumulative layout shift? Do you want like a great core vitals Google score? Do you want a great Google Lighthouse score? Do you want the clear Axe DevTools scan? Like when I get a 100% little person zooming in a wheelchair screen instead of issues found. Especially if I do it the first time and like, I hadn't been scanning all along and I just go to check it for the first time and it's clean, I'm like, “Yes!” [laughs] CASEY: Automation helps a lot. JENNIFER: Yeah. CASEY: When I worked at USCIS, I don't know what this meant, but they said we cannot automate these tests. I think we can and they didn't do it yet, but I've always been of baffled. I think half of it, you can automate tests around and we had none at the time. JENNIFER: Yeah, you catch 30 to 50% of the accessibility issues via the Axe rule set and JSX Alley and all that. You can catch 30 to 50. CASEY: Sounds great. JENNIFER: That's still better than catching none of them. Still not great, but it's still better than nothing. They're not here to tell us why they can't, but adding things into your end-to-end test shouldn't be that hard if you know how to write tests. I don't personally know how to write tests. I want to. I don't know. Like, I have to choose which thing am I going to work on? I'm working on an acquisition project, defining the requirements and the scope and the red tape of what a contract will be and it's such foreign territory for me. There's a lot of pieces there that I never ever thought I would be dealing with and my head hurts all the time. I feel stupid all the time, but that's okay. If you're not doing something you haven't done before, maybe you're not learning, it's growing. I'm growing. I'm definitely growing, but in different ways and I miss the code thing of I have a to-do list where I really want to get good at Docker, now I want to learn few, things like that and I want to get back to learning Python because Python, I think is super cool. CASEY: There's one thing I wanted to mention earlier that I just remembered. One thing that was eye-opening to me for accessibility concerns is when I heard that screen reader has existed, which was several years into my programming career. I didn't know they were a thing at all. I think it's more common now that people know about them today than 10, 15 years ago. But I still haven't seen someone use a screen reader and that would be really important for me as a developer. I'm not developing software lately either so I'm not really coding that. But if anyone hasn't, you should use a screen reader on your computer if you're developing software that might have to be used by one. JENNIFER: So everyone on a Mac has voiceover. Everyone on an iPhone has voiceover. It's really hard on the iPhone, I feel like I can't, oh, it's really hard. I've heard great things about Talkback on Android. And then on Windows, newer versions have Microsoft Narrator, which is a built-in screen reader. You can also download NVDA for free and install it. It depends on how much money you want to spend. There a bunch of different ways to get Jaws, do Jaws, too. Chrome has Chromebox so you can get another screen reader that way. CASEY: So many options. It's kind of overwhelming. If I had to recommend one for a Windows user and one for a Mac user, would you recommend the built-in ones just to start with, to play with something? JENNIFER: So everywhere I've tested, whether it was at the financial institution, or the insurance place, or the government place, we always had to test with Jaws, NVDA, and voiceover. I test with voiceover because it's what I have on my machine, because I'm usually working on a Mac. But the way I look at the screen reader is the number of people who are using screen readers is significantly fewer than the number of people with cognitive considerations. So I try to use good semantic markup, basic web standards so that things will work; things have always been pretty great in screen readers because of that. I try to keep my code from being too complicated, or my UI is from being complicated, which might do some visual designers seem somewhat boring to some of them. [chuckles] CASEY: Do you ever turn off CSS for the test? JENNIFER: Yes, and if it makes sense that way, then I know I'm doing it right and is it still usable without JavaScript. Better yet, Heydon Pickering's way of like, it's not usable unless you turn off the JavaScript, that was fabulous. I pissed off so many people. But to me, I try to focus on other things like how clear is, how clean is it? Can I tab through the whole UI? Can I operate it with just a keyboard? Your keyboard is your best assistive tech tester. You don't skip. If you can tap through anything without getting stuck, excellent. If you don't skip over nav items. CASEY: My biggest pet peeve is when websites don't work when you zoom in, because all of my devices I zoom in not because my vision is bad, but because for my posture. I want to be able to see my screen from a far distance and not lean in and craning my neck over laptop and my phone, both and a lot of websites break. JENNIFER: Yeah. CASEY: You zoom in the text at all, you can't read anything. JENNIFER: Yeah. At the one place I worked before, we required two steps of zoom in and two steps of zoom out, and it still had to be functional. I don't see that in most places; they don't bother to say things like that. CASEY: Yeah. JENNIFER: At the government, too – CASEY: I wonder how common it is if people do that. I do it so I think it's very common, but I don't know the right. [laughter] JENNIFER: But that's how the world is, right? I can tell you that once you hit this old age and your eyes start to turn against you and things are too small, or too light, you suddenly understand the importance of all of these things so much more. So for all of those designers doing your thin gray text on white backgrounds, or thin gray text on gray backgrounds, or your tiny little 12 and under pixels for your legaleas, karma is out to get you. [chuckles] We've all done it. Like there was a time I thought nobody cared about the legaleas. That's not true. Even your footer on your website should be big enough for people to read. Otherwise, they think I'm signing away my soul to zoom because I can't read it. If you can zoom it in, that's great. But some apps disable the zoom. DAMIEN: So we usually end on a series of reflections. How do you feel about moving to that? JENNIFER Sure! DAMIEN: We let our guests go last. Casey, do you have a reflection you want to share with us? CASEY: I'm thinking back to Mando's dog and I thought it was interesting, Jennifer, that you linked your experiences with the dog's experiences. Like, some of the symptoms you have might be similar if a dog has CPTSD, too and I think that's really insightful. I think a lot of animals have that kind of set up, but we don't treat them like we treat humans with those issues even if they're similar. DAMIEN: It was in your bio, equitable design initiatives, I really want it to dig into that because that fascinates me and I guess, if draws that bridge between things that I think are very important, or very important for me, both accessibility, that sort of work, especially in software design, because that's where I'm at. And then destroying the tenants of white supremacy and being able to connect those as things that work together and seeing how they work together. Yeah, that's what I'm going to be reflecting on. JENNIFER: Yeah. Whenever we're doing our work, looking for opportunities to surface and put it out for everyone to look at who has power, if this changes who has power, if this doesn't change who has power, what is motivating the players, are people motivated by making sure that no one's excluded, or are people motivated by making sure that their career moves forward, or they don't get in trouble rather than truly serving? I still am in the mindset of serving the people with a purpose that we're aiming to meet the needs of kind of thing. I still have that mindset. A lot of the prep work, we're still talking about the people we aim to serve and it's still about getting them into the cycle. That is a very big position of power that a designer has and acknowledging that that's power and that I wield that power in a way that I consider responsible, which is to make sure that we are including people who are historically underrepresented, especially in those discussions. I'm really proud of a remote design challenge where all of our research participants were either people of color, or people with disabilities. Man, the findings insights were so juicy. There was so much that we could do with what we got. It was really awesome. So by equitable design initiatives, it's really just thinking about acknowledging the power that we have and trying to make sure we do what we can to share it, transfer it, being really respectful of other perspectives. I've always thought of it as infinite curiosity about others and some people have accused me being nosy and they didn't realize it's not about getting up in their private business. It's just, I want to be gracious and respect others. What I will reflect on was how I really need to rest. I will continue to reflect on how I rest is key. I'm making a conscious decision for the next couple of months to not volunteer because I tend to do too much, as Casey may, or may not know. [chuckles] Yeah, I want to wake up in the morning and feel energized and ready to take full advantage of, which is not the right way to phrase it, but show up as my best self and well-prepared for the work. Especially since I now have found myself a new incredibly compassionate, smart place that genuinely aims to improve equity and social justice, and do things for the environment and how grateful I am. I totally thought this place was just about let's them all and it's so not. [laughs] So there's so many wonderful people. I highly recommend everybody come work with me if you care about things. DAMIEN: That's awesome. Well, thank you so much, Jennifer for being our guest today. It's been a pleasure. The author's affiliation with The MITRE Corporation is provided for identification purposes only, and is not intended to convey or imply MITRE's concurrence with, or support for, thepositions, opinions, or viewpoints expressed by the author. ©2021 The MITRE Corporation. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Approved for public release. Distribution unlimited 21-2206. Special Guest: Jennifer Strickland.

Do you ever look in the mirror and hate what you see? Have the opinions of others stolen your worth? Are there hidden hurts in your heart that say "I'll never measure up?" Jennifer Strickland knows all too well how you feel. Fifteen years in the beauty business left her broken, ashamed, and grappling for her value. Feeling like she could never measure up to the impossible standards placed on her, she sought affirmation from men, mirrors, and the media -- hoping that if she could just be good enough in their eyes, she would be accepted. This is the newest study at MomStrong International! Sign up and study with us in July, August, and September. Jennifer will be our guest teacher. Don't miss it! **Find more at HeidiStJohn.com** --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/support

Do you ever look in the mirror and hate what you see? Have the opinions of others stolen your worth? Are there hidden hurts in your heart that say "I'll never measure up?" Jennifer Strickland knows all too well how you feel. Fifteen years in the beauty business left her broken, ashamed, and grappling for her value. Feeling like she could never measure up to the impossible standards placed on her, she sought affirmation from men, mirrors, and the media -- hoping that if she could just be good enough in their eyes, she would be accepted. This is the newest study at MomStrong International! Sign up and study with us in July, August, and September. Jennifer will be our guest teacher. Don't miss it! **Find more at HeidiStJohn.com** --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/support

On this episode, redefinED senior writer Buie speaks with Jennifer Strickland, mother to 14-year-old Jack, a freshman at Catholic High School in Pensacola, Florida. Strickland, a former retail manager and… The post podcastED: redefinED interview with Catholic school mom Jennifer Strickland appeared first on redefinED.

Author and former international model, Jennifer Strickland tells her 'runway' story, how her career skyrocketed, and then, how her life plummeted. Jennifer shares with Carole her difficult experience as a young woman modeling in Europe, how she came to the Lord, and what she has learned about true beauty. Carole sings two songs; her scripture song, 'I Delight Greatly in the Lord' from Isaiah 61:10 and her beautiful ballad, Morning Star. Both Carole & Jennifer are here to bless and encourage your day!

CardiB wants your daughters to look to her as an example of a “real woman.” To this end, she is marketing a sexualized doll that looks like CardiB to 4-year olds. Parents, teach your daughters that their worth comes from God! **Find more at HeidiStJohn.com** --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/support

Do you feel like you’ll never measure up to the world’s expectations of beauty and perfection? Are you struggling to teach your children that their identity comes from being a loved child of God? Today’s podcast is for you! For 15 years, Jennifer Strickland worked worldwide as a print, runway, and commercial model. She saw the emptiness that comes from being obsessed with our outer appearance. Today, Jen uses her experience as a model, knowledge of Scripture, and love for young women to expose the lies of the media and teach them to see themselves in the mirror of God. **Find more at HeidiStJohn.com** --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heidistjohn/support

Faculty Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at MCC, Dr. Jennifer Strickland, sits down with Dr. Webb to speak about perseverance and gratitude.

Think about a time you got fired from a job. Perhaps you said the wrong thing at the wrong time. Maybe your heart just wasn't into the job and it caused you to miss an important deadline. Now imagine getting fired because you simply ate a real meal. That was the world Jennifer Strickland thought was normal. Blessed with exceptional physical beauty and a healthy metabolism, Jennifer rose through the ranks of the modeling industry, regularly posing for the likes of Giorgio Armani and the creme de la creme of Milan's fashion elite. Then she went home for Christmas, gained 4 pounds, and her career was effectively over. Armani fired her, and the agency that employed her didn't know what to do with her. (Sound crazy? We think so too.) This culture obsessed with skin-deep beauty, while turning a blind eye to the awful physical and spiritual effects of it, was dysfunctional but it's all Jennifer knew. And now she felt estranged by it. After meeting a group of Christians in Munich, Germany, Jennifer felt compelled to quit the profession of selling her beauty to the highest bidder, and return home where she belonged. She wrote a book about her experiences in the modeling industry, and today helps young women cope with the appearance-obsessed culture that has sadly become the norm in Western society. In our conversation with Jennifer, you'll hear: -Jennifer's breakthrough with her faith...4:00 -Life in a culture obsessed with outward appearance...9:46 -What's at the root of the toxic Instagram culture in which we live...16:15 -Just how far God will go for one girl...19:45 -Beauty doesn't equal love; ugly doesn't equal hate...29:00 -Why men need to learn the intense pressure girls feel to be loved and valued...36:30 -Speaking truth to power in the lives of girls who are trapped as Jennifer was...40:15 -One thing about Jennifer most people don't know...45:15 suicidal, depression, 11:30 Girl Perfect book and study guide urmore.org

Author and former international model, Jennifer Strickland, tells her runway story of how her career skyrocketed and then, how her life plummeted. Jennifer shares with Carole her difficult experience as a young woman modeling in Europe, how she came to the Lord, and what she has learned about true beauty. Carole sings a scripture song from Is. 61:10 and her beautiful song, Morning Star. Both Carole & Jennifer are here to bless and encourage your day! #BibleChicks

Hello Everyone and Welcome back! Today we are concluding a series about body image. Body Image is a component of self-esteem. Approximately 80% of U.S. women don't like how they look. Our perception of our body influences our mental health, our physical health, how we take care of ourselves, and how we relate to others. Those with a negative body image have a higher chance of developing an eating disorder and will often suffer from depression, low self-esteem, and obsessions with weight loss. Last week, we talked with Kara Miller. Kara shared how she intentionally parents her three girls to focus on the strength of their bodies instead of focusing on a size or number on the scale. Today we're continuing the conversation with Jennifer Strickland. Jennifer Strickland is the founder and visionary of U R More, a ministry that teaches people their identity in Christ. Her passion is teaching women and teen girls their true worth and helping them fulfill their calling. She has a master's in writing and bachelor's degrees in broadcast journalism and international relations. For 15 years, Jen worked internationally as a professional model, which led her to the ministry she has today. These days you'll either find her speaking at teen girls' and women's events, writing her inspirational messages of faith, helping other women write and publish their books, or at home cooking for her family. Her favorite moments are found working on the family ranch with her husband Shane, who she calls “the Cowboy”; in her kitchen, concocting a new version of her famous spaghetti; or spending time with their three precious children. In this episode, we discuss: Jen's rock bottom moment where she knew she needed to change. Jen shares powerful mindsets that help her to practice a healthy body image. Jen shares how her faith was instrumental in creating a path of wholeness and healing. Favorite quotes: Loving your body is a myth. Instead of focusing on loving your body, find ways to honor your body. If your identity is always based on what you see in the mirror, you'll always be on a roller coaster. Turn away from the things that don't serve you. What you look at is what you reflect. Helpful links: URmore.com Facebook Let's Write and Speak Beautiful Lies by Jennifer Strickland Girl Perfect by Jennifer Strickland Thank you for joining me this week on the Thrive: Mental Health and the Art of Living Free. Make sure to visit my website where you can subscribe to the show on Apple or Stitcher so you never miss a show. Hey, while you're at it, help me out by adding some stars to the rating and tell a friend about the show. Have a great week! Melissa

Episode Summary: Theodore Roosevelt said “Comparison is the thief of joy.” After my conversation with former print and runway model, Jennifer Strickland, I would have to say the strive for perfection is another thief of joy. In this episode, we talk about how the strive for perfection leaves us empty and lonely, and how our true worth and value can only be found in our true identity as children of God. Former model, Jennifer Strickland tells us her story about being an international model, and how she turned her back on modeling at the height of her career and never looked back after she found something far more precious and life-giving than a life of anorexia, bulimia, and constant striving for the perfect body. If you’ve ever looked in the mirror and walked away disappointed, I encourage you to listen to the end for hope and encouragement. Quotables from the episode: Satan works outside in. God works inside out. Jennifer Strickland We need to turn from the mirror of the world to the mirror of the Word. Jennifer Strickland The mirror doesn’t define us. The Creator defines us. Jennifer Strickland Perfection is an empty place to be. Jennifer Strickland We need to look beyond the outward appearance and into the soul. Jennifer Strickland Scripture References: 1 Samuel 16:7 “But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.’” 1 Peter 3:3-5 says, “Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty of fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes. You should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God. This is how the holy women of old made themselves beautiful. They put their trust in God and accepted the authority of their husbands.” Recommended Resources: “Girl Perfect” by Jennifer Strickland “More Beautiful Than You Know” by Jennifer Strickland “Beautiful Lies” by Jennifer Strickland “21 Myths (Even Good) Girls Believe About Sex” by Jennifer Strickland Free Download: How To Fight Fearful/Anxious Thoughts and Win Breaking Anxiety’s Grip: How to Reclaim the Peace God Promises by Dr. Michelle Bengtson Breaking Anxiety’s Grip Free Study Guide Free 7-Day YouVersion Bible Reading Plan for Breaking Anxiety’s Grip Hope Prevails: Insights from a Doctor’s Personal Journey Through Depression by Dr. Michelle Bengtson, winner of the Christian Literary Award Reader’s Choice Award Hope Prevails Bible Study by Dr. Michelle Bengtson, winner of the Christian Literary Award Reader’s Choice Award Social Media Links for Guest and Host: Connect with Jennifer Strickland: Facebook / Instagram / YouTube / Twitter For more hope, stay connected with Dr. Bengtson at: Order Book Breaking Anxiety’s Grip / Order Book Hope Prevails  /  Website  /  Blog  /  Facebook / Twitter (@DrMBengtson)  /  LinkedIn  /  Instagram / Pinterest / YouTube / Podcast Guest: Jennifer Strickland is a former international model, TEDx speaker, author, wife, mother of three, and the founder of a non-profit called U R More, that helps women and girls discover their value, identity, and purpose. Jen has written seven books and studies teaching women and girls their true worth, including Girl Perfect, More Beautiful Than You Know, Beautiful Lies, and 21 Myths (Even Good) Girls Believe About Sex. She holds a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism and a master’s degree in writing with an emphasis in biblical studies. In her earlier days, Jen worked for 15 years as a professional model, appearing in Vogue, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan. She was featured in ads for Converse Tennis Shoes, Oil of O’lay, Mercedes Benz, Eddie Bauer, and Jordache; and at the height of her career, she walked the runways of Europe for Giorgio Armani and represented Barbie for the 35th anniversary of the doll. But Jen learned beauty is more than what meets the eye when she discovered what she looked like in God’s eyes. Hosted By: Scott and Dr. Michelle Bengtson Audio Technical Support: Bryce Bengtson

As a runway and print model for designers like Armani, Jennifer Strickland had the “perfect look.”

Jennifer Strickland always dreamed of working in the “perfect world” of modeling.

We sit down and chat with West Texas native Jennifer Strickland as she shares her compelling story. She brings a whole new meaning to finding strength in the struggle as she finds triumph over tragedy year and year.   You'll see why she's the gal for the job and will find encouragement to live out YOUR story starting now!  Join our Facebook group for more resources and convo  Hear from Natalie Tuman (My Think Fit) weekly  Hear from Christi Reid weekly

Allie welcomes author, speaker and former international model Jennifer Strickland to share her story for our new "HerStory" testimony series. Jen first shares three tips to help us through this uncertain time in our nation with everything going on with the Coronavirus. Jen modeled from eight years-old to twenty-two. At the height of her career, she walked the runway for Giorgio Armani; appeared in Vogue, Glamour, Seventeen, and Cosmopolitan; and did campaigns for Oil of Olay, Converse, Mercedes Benz, Eddie Bauer and Jordache. During this time, she battled an eating disorder, depression, and her heart hit rock bottom. In Europe, some people invited her to church and she began reading the Bible for the first time. In those tattered pages, she found a relationship with God who valued her more than she ever imagined. Be encouraged by Jen's story to know that God can heal and redeem the most broken parts of your life for His good and glory.

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Upcoming actress Jennifer Strickland talks about her movie career with shows you on catch online, her writing, fitness, being a proud mom and having faith in this great interview on the Mike Wagner Show!

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Jennifer Strickland has a very unique story! She is a wife, mother, and a former, world famous super model! Let’s just say, “Tall and gorgeous!” Jennifer walked the runway for Giorgio Armani, modeled for Olay, Converse, Mercedes Benz, Eddie Bauer, and Jordache. You’ve probably seen her in lots of magazines including Vogue, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and Seventeen. What started as a glamorous, well-paying job, turned into the worst possible series of events. Be blessed and inspired as Jennifer shares with us her redemption story!

Jennifer Strickland Wamsi Research Podcast by Radio Goolarri

Whether you are a teen girl that is getting ready to date or a young woman wanting to save sex for marriage, or maybe a young woman facing a painful situation wanting hope for a new day, you will want to listen to this podcast!  Join Amy as she discusses with author and speaker, Jennifer Strickland as they chat about her newest book, 21 Myths Even Good Girls Believe about Sex and share the myths, truths, and practical ways you can enjoy the pursuit of passion and purity.  Jennifer is the founder of U R More Ministries that teaches people their value, identity, and purpose in Christ. For 15 years Jennifer worked as a professional model, but the superficial world of modeling left her disillusioned and lost. While living in Europe, she found Christ, and left modeling in search of a more authentic life. Since then, she has become a dynamic conference speaker and has written several books and Bible studies, helping women of all ages find their true value.  To purchase Jennifer's book, click here and to watch a book trailer, check out her website!

In this week's episode, we get to hear Jennifer Strickland's story. Jennifer was a very successful fashion model for some time, but then found Jesus and is now an author, public speaker, and founder of the organization "U R More". We also talk about anorexia, our culture's obsession with outward appearance, raising girls in this image obsessed society and more!

"I just woke up like this" The amount of pressure to look perfect is unbelievable on today's woman. Often giving rise to eating disorders and the like. My guest today, Jennifer Strickland understands this only too well. Here she shares the confessions of a former runway model. Everything isn't always the way it seems.

Dr Raj Persaud talks to Jennifer Strickland and Julie Walker about Bibliotherapy - a therapy which involves using a wide range of material in the form of books, quotes, readings, poetry and creative writing to help people with mental health difficulties.

Jennifer Strickland will be our guest teacher this week. Jennifer is the author of Girl Perfect, a book written to show us who we are in God's eyes-His beloved daughters!