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    01:What Are You Waiting For? Jackie Craig and the Green Chair Project

    01:What Are You Waiting For? Jackie Craig and the Green Chair Project

    FromWhat’s Your Whisper? with Kathy Izard

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    01:What Are You Waiting For? Jackie Craig and the Green Chair Project

    FromWhat’s Your Whisper? with Kathy Izard

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    Length:
    33 minutes
    Released:
    May 13, 2024
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    In 2010, Jackie Craig knew she was meant to be doing something different with her life but she couldn’t understand what the might be. When a woman at her church asked if she knew anyone who could use a lamp and a toaster, her whisper finally began to make sense. Jackie launched The Green Chair Project in Raleigh, NC to match gently loved furnishings with people coming out of homelessness, poverty and incarceration. In the last 14 years, Green Chair has helped over 24,000 people make their house a home.


    About The Green Chair Project: https://thegreenchair.org
    Green Chair Instagram: @greenchairproject
     
    Released:
    May 13, 2024
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Welcome to What’s Your Whisper? With Kathy Izard. This is a place for people who love true feel-good stories about listening for a calling and exploring ideas about what it means to live a purpose-filled life. Author of five inspirational books for adults and children, Kathy loves learning about people who have heard that quiet whisper to do something that feels unexpected, uncomfortable and maybe inconvenient. Oftentimes we feel totally unqualified to do what it suggests, but at the same time, it is impossible not to listen because that whisper is so insistent. In 2007, Kathy first heard a whisper to quit her job to begin helping those experiencing homelessness and ended up raising $10 million to build homes for those experiencing chronic homelessness in Charlotte. Since that time, she has met hundreds of other people who have heard whispers big and small that all led to remarkable stories. These are all real people with true experiences filled with amazing grace. Listen in to hear not only what happened, but why people listened. Each episode will have you asking—what’s my whisper?