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E161: Joni Woods

1 h 3 min · 28. apr. 2026
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Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2153202/fan_mail/new] Joni Woods - Human Connection & Culture Architect, Founder of Journey Coaching, Author, and Speaker - shares her testimony and how her faith shapes her work including her entire youth spent in the church; Heaven’s Gates/Hell’s Flames play and the traumatic experience with her father; the importance of 1 John 4:19; works mentality growing up; spending a year in service as part of a church program that caused a wedge between her and her family; rebuilding after a divorce; her husband (at the time) and her being fired from four different ministry positions; realizing that God’s love for His children is like our love for our children and the role that realization played in her divorce; how her book “Burned, Blocked, and Better Than Ever” came to be; despite her terrible grades in English class, she knew this was a story that needed to be released, and her wrestling with the process; founding her company “Journey Coaching”; creating an exceptional work culture through emotional intelligence and “soft skills”; the challenging and heartbreaking way she came to discover the importance of emotional intelligence; spending time with God in the car; and much much more!  https://joniwoods.com/ [https://joniwoods.com/] Support the show [https://cash.app/$Preachwhereyoureach]

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