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Hi, this is Susie McIntyre, and welcome to Jesus Listen Stories of Prayer.

I have a really neat conversation to share with you today that many of you are going to relate to.

So let's sit back and listen to Bethany Rick's story in how stress and strain and responsibility

in a world that's foreign to us sometimes can cause the stress that is unbearable.

Grab a cup of coffee or a cup of tea and sit back and relax and listen to Jesus listens stories of prayer. You've written a new

book. You face forward, which is something that I have told many people in the last six months.

I broke my hip a year ago. I broke my arm in July. And they say, oh my gosh, my gosh. I said, all I need to do is

face forward and take a step forward. Oh, I love that. And you've stood up, picked yourself up,

and started again, and you just look radiant in your life. So a little bitty thing like you going to these Fortune 500

companies, I want to hear that story. I'll keep it. I'll keep it really short. I went to school.

I thought I was going to be a lawyer. As some of us think. And I got into human resources really early,

then ended up staying in human resources. And my career took off. And it was fast-paced,

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