John talks with Dr. Rachel D. Fox — author of Back to Me: Evolved & Unshaken - a New Awakening, certified leadership coach, speaker, entrepreneur, founder of the nonprofit You Go Girl Omaha, owner of Catapult Consulting Solutions, proud wife and mom.

Listen to this episode to learn more:

[00:00] - Intro

[04:08] - Dr. Rachel's bio and background

[05:07] - 12 years of marriage and family life

[10:05] - Dr. Rachel's family business

[11:01] - Dr. Rachel's journey

[13:50] - How her daughter's illness led her to her purpose

[19:49] - Advocacy as her calling

[21:25] - Finding purpose through pain and life's challenges

[26:37] - How pain refines people and reveals their true purpose

[28:33] - The process of making Damascus knives

[32:12] - John's must-have qualities for a partner

[37:25] - Marriage, love, and strength in hard times

[40:52] - The role of faith in Dr. Rachel's life, marriage, and business

NOTABLE QUOTES:

"I love being a mom, because it teaches me so much about the human experience and the human dynamic."

"You don't think you have courage until it's pulled out of you."

"I'm better now than when I started."

"Tough times come for everyone. No one is immune to that."

"I want you to fail … because it is the only way that provides the opportunity to learn."

"If you do something right, you didn't learn a thing. But when you fail, when you do it wrong, you have the opportunity to learn from it."

"If my daughter had never gotten sick, I would have thought my purpose was in somebody's corporate office … and it wasn't until God showed me, through the tragedy of my daughter being sick, what really mattered."

"You can take the most attractive woman in the world … but then you hear her talk, and you hear how she talks about people and to people, and what's inside is just so corrosive and so nasty and ugly. And then you take someone who maybe, on the look scale, is like a six, but is the nicest, kindest person you've ever met … that takes that six and bumps it up, like to an eight and a half."

USEFUL RESOURCES:

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https://x.com/theracheldfox

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5oUKM0EYbaKjheENkGKX5A?view_as=subscriber

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EPISODE CREDITS

Intro and Outro music provided by Jeff Scheetz - https://jeffscheetz.com/