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PEP Talks: People Empowering People

Kasey Crawford Kellem is a school counselor, author, yoga instructor, motivational speaker, former business owner and special ed teacher, and now, podcaster. She is a beacon of resiliency as she continues through her journey dodging hurdles but still dancing all along the way! The creator and author of Mind Over Matter Books, Kellem’s first five books, “Believe,” “Love,” “Laugh,” “Relax,” and “Dream” teach children the resiliency tools necessary to overcome obstacles. After her husband died from cancer, Kellem wrote, “Bella-Eve the Bounce-Back Dog” a book she has shared with thousands of children helping them cope with their challenges in life. Her adult memoir, “Don’t Stop Believing: Our Journey with Cancer” was written to help encourage others coping with a terminally ill family member or widowhood believe they can overcome the grief. She has spent her thirty-plus year career in education helping others overcome their hardships so they can live longer, happier quality lives.

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Jen Hengsteler: Faith, Perspective & Gratitude

June 01, 2020 • Kasey Kellem and Greta Fechter • Season 1 • Episode 14

Jennifer is a special education teacher, single mother of two teenagers, and a widow of nearly 18 years. Jen became widowed when her firstborn son, Alec was 6 months old and her late husband and she had just found out they were pregnant with their daughter, Grace. Jen shows us how faith has gotten her through not only the loss of her first husband but also the loss of her mother and the divorce with her second husband.

We learn from Jen:

*God allows us to walk through trials to shape us to who we are designed to be in order to help others.

*During stressful times you need to just try to get through each hour by hour and day by day.

*Live for today as you have no idea what tomorrow brings.

*Life is about perspective-someone always has it worse than you.

*Gratitude and giving thanks helps pull you through difficult times.

*With adversity comes opportunity.

*Live by faith, not by sight.

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