They've Never Asked Me — Uncovering the Extraordinary Stories Hidden in Ordinary Lives | Ep. 110 with Kelsey Billingsley
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Show by Dea Irby, THE Belonging Strategist
She was just another baseball mom. Until Kelsey Billingsley got curious and asked a question.What followed was the story of a woman who survived a civil war, fled in the middle of the night after her father was killed, spent five years in a refugee camp digging through bread every morning looking for poison — and built a beautiful ordinary life that nobody around her knew anything about.When Kelsey asked why her closest friends had never heard the story, the answer stopped her cold:They've never asked me.In Episode 110 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast, host Dea Irby sits down with Kelsey Billingsley — wife, mother of three, and host of the award-winning Unspoken Lives Podcast — a show built on one powerful conviction: every person you walk past today is carrying an extraordinary story. And most of them are just waiting for someone to care enough to ask.Kelsey opens up about the waitress named Miracle — declared brain dead, family about to pull the plug, who woke up the moment they went to do it. The friend who lost her young son and said pain is a microphone. The Uber driver from South Africa who asked every single passenger the same first question: do you believe in God? And the spiritual war dream that woke her up in her college dorm and launched everything.She also shares practical wisdom for anyone thinking about starting a podcast — from zero experience to award-winning, one Tuesday at a time.Her favorite quote — carried since childhood, written on sticky notes and given to friends:When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, you rejoice and the world cries.This episode is for everyone who has been walking past extraordinary people without ever asking. 💛🎙️ Find Unspoken Lives Podcast at UnspokenLives.com and on all major platforms
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