ABOUT THIS EPISODE
In one year, Hannah Kuykendall's eleven month old daughter was rushed to the ICU with no diagnosis and no promise she was coming home. Her husband's spine was crushed on a landscaping job, leaving him without feeling from the waist down and without the career he had spent ten years building. They lost their home. They moved to a new state with no family nearby. And overnight, Hannah became the only income for a family of five, on a teacher's salary.
She did not step back from a single thing she was leading.
Not the fifth grade classroom. Not chapel. Not the children's ministry at her church. Not her home.
In this conversation, Hannah tells Julie what it actually looks like to lead people while your own world is coming apart, and why she believes surrender and quitting are opposites, not synonyms. She talks about feeling like a fraud in leadership roles while privately struggling with her own faith. She talks about sitting in a parking lot calling her papaw because she did not know how to feed her kids. And she talks about what changed the day she stopped trying to author the chapter she was in.
"The chapter I was in was not in my control, but I knew the author who was writing it."
Hannah is a fifth grade teacher, a chapel teacher, a children's ministry director, a wife, a mom of three, and the author of She Builds Her Home, built on Proverbs 14:1. This episode is for the leader who is holding everything together in public and coming apart in private, and who needs to hear that being honest about it will not cost her the room.
A note on this episode: we recorded on video and the file never made it to the cloud. You will hear both of us reference video and "our viewers." The audio is fully intact. Next week's episode is our first video podcast.
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CONNECT WITH HANNAH KUYKENDALL
Website: www.mrshannah.com
Book: She Builds Her Home https://a.co/d/04hTA1bB
TikTok: @thehannahunfiltered
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Shebuildsco141
Email: contact@mrshannah.com
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CONNECT WITH JULIE
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Email: julie@juliewagner.co
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NEXT WEEK Renee E. Bryan, author of The Morality of Money, on removing fear and finding financial freedom. Our first video episode.
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