“And I think that’s the whole point, it’s trial and error. I didn’t just wake up and be like oh ‘I’m here’, ‘I’ve arrived’. I still haven’t arrived. There are still struggles and challenges. It’s really just a process of taking thoughts captive, because I know the word of God and because I know the truth of God and because I’ve experienced God in ways I don’t even know how to explain. When thoughts come up that try to send me in my past. I now know I have the authority to be like ‘wait a minute that’s not God’s nature’. Why? Because God says that I’m fearfully and wonderfully made” - Carlee Janae

On todays episode we have our friend Carlee Janae joining us on the podcast. We met Janae the summer of 2018 when we first moved to Raleigh. She was our first intern and mastermind behind all of our beautiful design work. She has her own design agency, Creative Roots Agency, she’s the host of Naked and Exposed the Podcast, the poet/ author behind it Hurts to Heal a book of short poems, and an amazing photographer. Her energy and spirit is contagious, God is working through her in such amazing ways. By the end of this episode your spirt will fell recharged! We started by discussing her journey into design and her walk with the lord. The last half hour Shane pivots in an important way discussing race, politics and injustice. We had an amazing conversation around these topics and how faith can help see “differences” and understand them in a different way. Thanks so much for joining us today...

We touch on many topics this week including:

-What got Janae into Design and Poetry

-What stared the Naked and Exposed movement

-How we move forward with our new calling and leave behind our old identity

-How we deal with suffering and hardships

-How the Bible can be translated in today’s day and age

-How Janae has fully stepped into her faith and calling

-How God shows himself to us

-How to find the root of our brokenness

-Janae’s views on race reconciliation

-The reality of her world being a black women who loves God and who has a passion for Social Justice

- && so much more . . .

Connect or learn more about Carlee Janae

Instagram @_carleejanae

Naked and Exposed Podcast

It Hurts to Heal Book

Kreative Roots Design Agency

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