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🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Ronda and her husband Corey founded Isaiah 117 House to provide a safe and loving home for children awaiting placement in the foster care system. Isaiah 177 House was featured on Mike’s Facebook show, Returning the Favor. Ronda tells how her appearance on the show affected her mission, her life, and especially her health.
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0:00.0 | It's the way I heard it. I don't know what episode it is, and it doesn't matter. |
0:08.1 | I've been on an emotional roller coaster. Our guest today made me cry. Twice? Once. I thought it was twice, man. |
0:15.2 | Yeah, maybe. She really touched me, man. Her name is Rhonda Poulson. And I know her. I met Rhonda on returning |
0:22.6 | the favor a couple of years ago. She lives in Tennessee. She and her husband, Corey, flew out |
0:27.4 | here to do this podcast. And I invited them because in part, I heard her on Bill Courtney's |
0:34.4 | podcast not long ago. Right. And I just had not been in touch with Rhonda. |
0:40.7 | And I had no idea the extent to which Isaiah 117 House has grown. |
0:47.1 | And it also came up. |
0:48.7 | You brought her name up. |
0:49.9 | You invoked her name in the episode with Bishop W.C. Martin, where you said, you know, basically, |
0:56.6 | oh, you guys are kindred spirits. She's doing the same thing that you're doing. Yeah. And in fact, |
1:01.3 | she sounded a lot like him. So I don't know why I'm being pulled into this foster care world, |
1:07.0 | honestly. Like there's a whole other situation with this organization called Care Portal, who keeps darkening my doorstep. Right. I don't know. Maybe there's a whole other situation with this organization called Care Portal, |
1:11.8 | who keeps darkening my doorstep. I don't know. Maybe there's a higher power at work. Ronda |
1:16.5 | certainly thinks there is. Yep. Look, this episode is called Drinking from a Firehose. That's |
1:21.5 | Rhonda's expression, because what happened to her after her episode of returning the favor dropped back in March of 2020 |
1:30.1 | was kind of unlike, well, I've seen the unintended consequences of that show happened before, |
1:37.4 | but not to this level. Put the woman in the hospital four times. Yeah. The stress. You see, |
1:43.3 | she left her cell phone number on her website. |
1:47.0 | And after this thing aired, it struck such accord with the two million people who watched |
1:52.7 | it and then the many millions who saw it after that. |
1:55.7 | Well, Rhonda's life wound up going in a totally different direction. |
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