hey guys I am here with my friend Carrie Ford she is another one of the offer authors offers
from the Invincible family project your book will not have the band on here this
is literally from the very first one that I got there it is it looks like that without the band
um isn't it soft is it it is this is really impressed book you just want to like hug it
um but for many reasons for many reasons it's soft and then also it's got a lot of great content in
it so one of the chapters is from Carrie here and so Carrie what I want for you to do is just to
kind of break down who you were at the beginning of your chapter so people understand really where
you were coming from with that sure I would love to um you know when I first when I first decided
to be a part of this it's because I wanted people to understand that they're not alone and I don't
think I'm unique or unusual in the way that I was feeling um you know here I was a wife and a mother
of two two Littles and um and I was a teacher and I'd have a I tried all these different side
hustles but at the end of the day I would wake up every morning look in the mirror and go is this it
is this all there is to life is this all there's ever going to be I know I was created for more
I know that I can do more I know I've always known that and so I felt like I was always on
this hamster wheel of trying to find like the Breakthrough the what's next the thing that's
going to help me to use the gifts and the talents that I know that I have but I just never could put
it together in something that was I don't know that was filling me that was you know and and
I'll be honest I have suffered most of my life from from my earliest childhood memories on with
with self-worth issues with depression clinical depression I was in counseling on medication
there were many times and the first one was as a teenager where I felt like complete loss of
Hope which then leads to thoughts of suicide which then leads to plans for suicide which then leads
to God showing up in big ways and so he always shows up in these huge ways with me but it was
um being able to to take that Miracle of him showing up and then do something with it
so to me there's nothing more heartbreaking than when God shows up for you and then you
don't know what to do with it and so that's where I was really at the beginning of this chapter in
a job where I was completely burned out but I loved it also was kind of a right I mean as a
teacher and I had you know 200 plus students that I was reaching every single you know week and it
was hard to justify walking away from that um but also knowing that I was dying inside and you know
my husband God bless him I went to him and I said I have to leave this job and he's like good they
don't value you they don't appreciate you and so I was like thank God he supports me but then his
next sentence wrecked me and he had no that was not his desire that was not his clue but he said
leave don't stay there you deserve better however the next job you get could you make more money
because we really I really need you to step up for this one which I heard him saying everything
that you've done to lead you to this place of burnout was for nothing and it was from that
place that I had to try to dig and dig and dig so I heard a couple of important things in just those
two minutes that you were talking um one the very the very first thing that I heard that was
super super important or it was the second thing but it's probably the most important thing is
when you said what your husband said and then you said what why am I crying what you heard right so
it's so important just to even be able to have that amount of discernment to be able to say he
may not have meant this this is what I heard and this is how that made me feel right and because
of this is because of how it made me feel now this set the trajectory for XYZ right and then to
be able to say like this is what I heard I don't believe that that's really what his intention was
but this is what I heard and that's that there's so much actual growth inside that statement that
like I hope that people that heard that don't just like skip past it and say okay that's part of her
story and then like keep moving on you need to sit in that for a moment just to be able to realize
like so the people that are saying things to me that are maybe triggering me in negative ways
did they mean that or is that just what I heard right or is that what did did that open a wound
for me which then the wound spoke right instead of like what they actually said which is just
so like that's just I feel like you could do a whole thing inside of that and then
in addition to that I want for people teachers I'm going to say this I want for teachers to
be able to listen to this and understand that you were guided to be a teacher for a reason
but it doesn't necessarily mean that you stay teaching in order to fulfill that Ministry or that
mission or that reason you were drawn to teaching sometimes you're drawn to teaching because you're
like I want I want to help the future Generations right I want to be involved in their lives and
Carrie I know that that's you to your heart to your core I want to be involved in their lives I
want to be able to make a difference for them and then when you were younger and going to college
you were like teacher is the way to that because when we're younger our mind is that we don't
realize as much as we do when we get older where we're like okay well there's this path and this
path and this path and it's kind of pretty minimal on there there's this thing that you want to do
all right here are the options you have like when you go to school and stuff here are the options
you have to get to that place that you want to go and and it starts to get very you know narrow
whenever you're wanting to work with kids okay well you've got one of these few options and then
whenever you've been doing it for a while I feel like there are teachers that beat themselves up
because they don't want to see that path through when really what do you think about this and what
do you have to say about this Carrie we're really that path got you to another set of paths like
what is what are your thoughts around that I would love to hear just from a teacher I would love to
hear your thoughts around that oh sure and and you're so right I mean you know most of us became
teachers because we wanted to affect the future generations and for me I didn't want any child to
sit in that place of hopelessness or which stems from feeling unseen unheard and unvalued right
it's unvalued I don't even know if that's right but you know what I mean right I do know what
you mean yeah so it's it's I didn't want anyone to have to stay in that place but I had such a
convoluted route to get to that classroom and you know I've been a missionary for over 30 years and
you know I was able to go into classrooms in over 20 different countries and so that gave me such a
view that you know these issues that our children are dealing with in our country right now it's
it's Universal it is global women have self-esteem issues children feel unheard and unseen in every
country I've been to and so for me it was a a passion it was just an extension of my mission
field you know sometimes my mission Fields is a third world country sometimes it's a classroom
you know but when I came out of that I knew that I didn't want to to to go back to a place where I
couldn't necessarily make the same impact that I wanted to because more and more the longer I was
in the classroom the more my hands were tied and the more things I couldn't say the more things I
couldn't do and the biggest thing that I couldn't do is hold children accountable for Behavior you
know which teaches them how to be good humans and you know forget the fact that I want them all
to know Jesus that's separate you can't do that either but you know so yes I agree but so many of
my friends who are teachers now have lost their passion and at heart it's heartbreaking to me
you know that they they have lost that passion because it's it's there you know where they
just have to find it again I just I just love your chapter in this book um you guys whenever
you grab it go straight to Carrie's chapter read it let it sit with you let it marinate
that's like a you know there are certain things that I really think we need to meditate over words
and I think that her chapter is definitely one of those things you guys whenever whenever you read
it let it kind of wash over you don't let it just be okay I'm done with that chapter I move on to
the next chapter I would say in this book just don't do that at all anyway right what you're
experiencing is you're experiencing different families that are restructuring what life looks
like for them and that's important for everybody out there sometimes it's Financial sometimes it's
Freedom sometimes it's just ignoring that anybody that there's even a box to begin with there's like
no box so like it's it's really just I want you to be able to redefine your own how you show up
in the world based on what you're seeing other people do because it literally is what people
are doing okay guys um so whenever you grab the book The the link is in the description of
the video jump to Carrie's chapter Carrie thank you so much for spending time with me today and
just doing what you're doing I appreciate you so doggone much oh and thank you thanks for having me
and I appreciate it being a part of this project number one uh but also just the impact that it's
had since we've been working together to help me to show up the way that I want to based on
that chapter so thank you so much there it is see you guys later love you bye bye bye