June 4, 2025
The Lumina Effect with CoCo Collier: Building Community Through Purposeful Connection
Send us a text Ever found yourself fighting against a calling that feels too big, too demanding, too disruptive to your carefully constructed life? Coco Collier knows this tension intimately. After battling uterine cancer and finally settling into a peaceful rhythm, she found herself repeatedly approached by strangers sharing stories of their darkest moments – divine appointments that couldn't be dismissed as coincidence. "I was throwing a temper tantrum and telling God no, pick anybody but ...
Ever found yourself fighting against a calling that feels too big, too demanding, too disruptive to your carefully constructed life? Coco Collier knows this tension intimately. After battling uterine cancer and finally settling into a peaceful rhythm, she found herself repeatedly approached by strangers sharing stories of their darkest moments – divine appointments that couldn't be dismissed as coincidence.
"I was throwing a temper tantrum and telling God no, pick anybody but me," Coco confesses with disarming honesty. Yet these encounters only intensified until she surrendered to the vision that would become Illumina of Hope Foundation, a nonprofit creating transformative retreats for women in crisis.
The results have been nothing short of miraculous. From mothers of special needs children who haven't had a break in 15 years to women leaders seeking deeper connections, Lumina's retreats create sacred spaces where walls come down and authentic healing begins. One exhausted mother took four naps in a single day – finally experiencing the rest she desperately needed in a community that understood her struggles.
Coco's approach to ministry is refreshingly practical. She shares her system of "buckets" for managing multiple passions, her practice of reading her body's signals, and her commitment to pushing through what she calls "fear bubbles" – those moments of terror before breakthrough. "Once I pop through that fear bubble, something magnetic happens... it's transformational," she explains, encouraging listeners to embrace bold confidence in divine guidance.
Whether planning mission trips to Guatemala or teaching women to leverage technology for their businesses, Coco embodies her advice: "Being bold brings bountiful blessings." Her journey reminds us that sometimes our greatest impact comes not from our carefully laid plans, but from saying yes when God interrupts them with something better.
Ready to find hope in connection or answer your calling? Follow Coco's work at luminaofhope.com and discover how collaboration with purpose can transform lives, including your own.
CoCo Collier Contact Info
- Email: coco@luminaofhope.com
- Phone: 678-628-8738
- Website: www.luminaofhope.com
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Social Media:
- Instagram: @coco_collier
- Facebook: @cococollier
- TikTok: @cococollier
- LinkedIn: @cococollier
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00:00 - Introduction to Ready Set Collaborate
00:28 - Meet Coco Collier: Purpose-Driven Nonprofit Leader
03:23 - Birth of Illumina of Hope Foundation
12:37 - The Power of Women's Retreats
17:13 - Mission Trips to Guatemala
20:39 - Balancing Ministry, Motherhood and Projects
23:45 - Faith Shaping Business and Purpose
26:59 - Pushing Through Fear Bubbles
31:23 - Final Thoughts and Contact Information
34:45 - Episode Closing
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Welcome to Ready Set.
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Collaborate with Wanda Pearson.
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This is where ideas spark, connections grow and collaborations fuse success.
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Tune in for inspiring stories, expert insights and game-changing conversations.
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Let's build, connect and thrive together.
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Remember collaboration is the key to success.
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Hello and welcome to Ready Set Collaborate podcast, and I'm your host, wanda Pearson.
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Today, I'm joined by the incredible Coco Collier, a powerhouse of purpose, passion and collaboration, whether she's leading, creating or inspiring.
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Coco is all about impact.
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Get ready for a powerful and uplifting conversation with my guest, coco.
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Coco.
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Say hi to the audience.
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Hello everybody.
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So happy to be here.
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Thanks for having me, Wanda.
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Oh, you are welcome.
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I really admire what you're doing because we're in the same kind of soul here, because I, like you, know my work is social work as far as mentoring and what you're doing, because we're in the same kind of soul here, because I, like you, know my work is social work as far as mentoring and what you're doing.
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And we're going to talk more about you because I'm going to read your bio of what you're doing to help women to have some kind of outlet to be able to endure their lives too.
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I really appreciate you being on the podcast and some of my people that haven't been on your podcast yet.
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I pulled you in first, coco, thank you you.
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I pulled you in first, coco, thank you.
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It's dear to my heart what you're doing.
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I really appreciate what you're doing here.
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Let me read your bio.
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Coco Kaya is a founder of Illumina of Help, a hundred percent volunteer led nonprofit body empowering women through retreats, mission trips and real life encouragements.
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She's also a speaker, book coach and faith-based motivator who teaches on topics such as AI.
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Thank you for that training girl.
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You're welcome.
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Canva a personal branding and self-publishing.
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From launching a nonprofit to building a movement rooted in hope, coco's mission is to help women rest, connect and thrive right where they are.
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I love this, coco, because it really tells you.
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It gets down to the degree of what you're doing, thank you.
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In fact, I think we really need to speak to June, because you'll be a good speaker at her event as well.
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I'm going to introduce you to her again.
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Welcome to the Ready Set Collaborate podcast.
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I am so excited to have you here.
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Tell me a little bit more about you before I get into the dive into the questions that I'm going to ask you, something that I didn't ask you or you told me about.
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Oh man, there's a lot about me, but one thing that some people don't realize is I am a preacher's kid and my dad's dad was a minister as well.
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Sometimes I can get a little bit how do I say?
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It sounds like I'm putting out a sermon, when I don't mean to be putting out a sermon, but it is what it is Just a little bit about me.
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I have two kids.
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My daughter is getting ready to go to college this fall my oldest and then my son is going to be starting high school, and I'm in that weird phase.
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It's just weird.
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Things are weird right now.
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No, that's awesome.
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Things are weird right now.
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No, that's awesome.
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That's awesome.
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And you don't even look like you have a college student going to college.
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Oh, you're so sweet.
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No, that's awesome.
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And congratulations to your daughter, because I know it's a lot of graduations going on.
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We don't know how our kids are going to turn out, and I have two daughters the same thing, both of them, I said, college is not an option of not going.
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Both of them graduated.
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In fact, one of them, she's my graphic designer, which you see, my WP Associates logo as well as my QR code, but she actually creates the pliers that I send to people when they do a podcast.
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So she does that.
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She's a graphic designer, as well as her husband Like I said, you never know what they're going to be doing and the other daughter.
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She is actually my interior designer.
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She also makes my promotional items.
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It's a family.
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It's a family.
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I love it.
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Yeah, it's a family affair, but no, this is interesting.
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And really your son, he started in a journey going to high school and I know that's a big step and he's probably oh, yes, oh, what do I do, mama?
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Yeah, it's new to me, that's for sure.
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It's been so many years.
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It's good that your daughter can help him.
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That's true.
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Let's start with the end of your hair.
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Let's start with your story.
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What led you to work what you're doing now?
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Oh man.
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There was a few things I actually had.
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These conversations started happening about December of about a year and a half ago, I want to say, in our community, in our neighborhood.
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And they started when I would leave my house.
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I'd be at a grocery store or a gas station or Barnes and Nobles down the road and, for whatever reason, some complete stranger, a woman, would come up to me and we'd just start a conversation with me and we start talking and the next thing I know it's 45 minutes to an hour later.
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And the common denominator that I started noticing, this pattern I started seeing, is they're sharing about a time in their lives where they experienced hopelessness, the darkest time in their lives.
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And these women their ages ranged from as young as 18, as old as I think 81 was Winifred, this one lady I met at Barnes and Nobles.
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They started occurring here and there and big pattern right, and I started feeling like God was calling me to start a nonprofit to help give women hope and connection.
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Because there's one thing I've learned over time and I'm going to not sound a little preachy here, but the devil wants you to think that you're the only one going through what you're going through and that's simply not the case.
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It's a lie that he tells and shares with women and everyone Right, and so we got to stop that.
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We got to stop that, and we can do that by giving them spaces to connect and share their stories.
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They actually know what I'm talking about.
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They're in the same exact situation as I'm in and he was starting to point that in my direction, out that time I had made some radical lifestyle changes.
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I'd finally gotten my life into a nice, easygoing pace.
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I had uterine cancer three years ago, diagnosed with all these autoimmune things as well.
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I made radical lifestyle changes, stopped working at law firms, started working for myself as a consultant, published a couple books, very centered, grounded, a lot of time outdoors.
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My life was nice and cushioned for the first time in forever.
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Right, I didn't want to do it.
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I was basically throwing a temper tantrum and telling God no, pick anybody but me.
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It sounds like a lot of work.
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I don't know anything about a nonprofit.
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My life is easy right now.
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What are you talking about?
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We're in a good place.
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And so he's like that's fine, baby, you just keep being you, do you boo?
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And if anything, it was almost like a joke because he dialed me up, and what I mean by that is the encounters increased, they doubled or tripled.
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They also started happening when I would go on vacation or work trips and so much so the final conversation sold me and slid me into that final moment where I said all right, god, I give up, I'll do it, I'm all in.
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And once I verbally said that out loud and stopped throwing a temper tantrum, stopped throwing and stopping my feet the doors had been opening left and right.
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Once I said yes to him and that's how we started Lumina of Hope.
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I knew there was a Lumina in it, I knew hope needed to be in it some way somehow, and I knew we needed to do retreats.
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That's what I knew and I ran with it and I said yes to him.
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February 27th of last year let's see May, we filed for our 501c3 approval June.
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We received it and we've made a huge impact in the short amount of time that we've been around.
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I joke that we are starting to enter our toddler phase.
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We just finished the baby stage and I'm so excited because we are running.
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We went from crawling to running and that's where we're at and that's how I started Lumino of Hope Foundation.
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That is.
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That's awesome.
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And I totally understand when you say God said cause, I said no, I don't look at this.
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I ain't planning on doing no podcast, I'm not writing a book, but God said yes, you will.
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Yes you will.
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You can't fight with me.
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Actually it's funny you talk about.
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I just told my girlfriend I'm never writing a book.
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One of my clients called me and she's a minister.
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She said, Wanda, God told me to call you.
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I said, OK, what did he say?
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He wants you to be in our book, which was Audacity to Shine.
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I love the title.
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It was 10 of us that did that book and that was the first time I actually started writing.
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I was always writing in a journal or whatever.
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But when he says, yes, you will.
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And then I got into another collaboration book, which is Impact of One Voice, and this young lady she was from California, I hear what you're saying I said I'm never doing this again.
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I know I wrote my book God's Grace Through the Fire, from Struggle to Triumph, and now I am actually writing my fourth book, which is Forgiveness, and this is really something.
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And actually I'm going to be having a book, a pre-book launch, relaunch with my book and then talking about God's forgiveness.
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I hear you, you about God's forgiveness.
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I hear you.
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You can't ignore God.
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He's telling you, you just got to do what you got to do.
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He's got a sense of humor, that's for sure.
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Yeah, he does, he does.
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I'm like, even speaking, I was dealing with abuse and somebody telling you you're not going to be anything and then to say I am doing something.
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I know God is behind this whole thing here.
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We are God's child.
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He knows what he wants, he uses us.
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And then you I can see why people come up to you with the smile that you have, that you're inviting to people.
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I can see that.
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So that is awesome.
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That's an awesome story.
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Let's talk about collaboration.
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Collaboration is the key to growth.
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Can you share one meaningful collaboration that helped elevate your purpose?
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Oh, gosh, just one collaboration.
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Okay, I'm trying to think of what's the best collaboration, oh man.
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And let me just talk going way, way back the way I've always viewed the different roles that I've had throughout my career and the different jobs that I've had.
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Just like that work relationship with your boss, there's different.
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Collab I view as a collaboration.
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You're there as a team to work towards a common goal.
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And and everything I know about collaborations comes down to one leadership role that I had with this lady named Jane Perry when I was in my 20s, early 20s, and she was the HR director and she showed me and taught me how to work and collaborate with other team members in a way that I'd never experienced before and it's forever been a way that has blessed me and helped me pursue the right collaborations and realizing that not every team member or collaborations or partnership is going to be the right fit, and we have to be okay with that.
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We have to figure out what that looks like, what's a healthy collaboration partnership and I've had several throughout the years and I can't really narrow it down to just one.
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I just want to say that, just like with my relationships, whether they're work related or friendship related or whatnot.
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I always view everything.
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After that moment.
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I evaluate how was that experience?
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Did that help us reach our goal?
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Did that help us better ourselves, them myself, et cetera.
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And I tried to decide if it wasn't a good fit, why wasn't that a good fit?
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Did it give you an icky feeling?
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And that's how I view collaborations and partnerships and how I pursue them or I don't pursue them.
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And I think, over the journey, my journey, I've really grown comfortable having uncomfortable conversations and saying you know what I love what you're doing, sis, but this just isn't a good partnership for us right now.
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That's hard to do, but yeah, I just can't.
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I don't know, I can't.
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Wanda, you put me on the spot.
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I don't know if I can narrow it down to just one in particular one.
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It's just all these lessons I've working in the corporate.
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I work for corporate.
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I learned being a team leader.
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I had to collaborate with.
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I went to Rio de Janeiro three times.
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I had to collaborate with them and us here.
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I totally understand.
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Yeah, that is a hard's.
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So much to it.
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We at Lumina of Hope we had a women's leadership retreat last November and every retreat is so different.
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I feel like again.
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I'm always bringing up God, but I feel like he puts in the room the people he wants in that room.
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And what I love that we saw come out of that because that was our very first retreat away was that here's a group of 15 women that are game changers in their community.
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None of them, really a couple of them maybe have heard of each other, but they weren't close at all.
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We did not have to push anything.
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These relationships were just very organic.
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They connected in ways that I better, ways that I could have even dreamt for them and imagined for them, and seeing that happen at the retreat and how important it was for them to be with like-minded people, to connect on this deeper level, we see them drop their guards as well and dig a little bit deeper and build those friendships.
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And afterwards what was beautiful is that we've been able to see the actual business that's developed organically from that one moment, that one retreat.
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We've also had a retreat for our mothers that have a child with special needs, and that was an entirely different retreat.
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We have 15 women attending that retreat on sponsorships and, I'm sorry, scholarships, not sponsorships, scholarships and that was a very different retreat.
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That was a five day four, night one.
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And what we noticed, this pattern is that some again, women that have a child with special needs.
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That's the common denominator, that's it All right.
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And so for many of them, these women have not been able to have time away for 15, 20 years on their own, because they have nobody they can leave their child with to care for them comfortably.
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For so many of these women, what I heard, they were so nervous to first of all make that commitment, so nervous the day before the day of to get in the car to drive there.
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We don't know anybody here.
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What if we don't connect with anybody?
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And what was beautiful to see is how, by that third day again, people's walls were coming down.
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They were opening up their conversations, their spirit, what they're feeling, what they're going through.
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Some of them are seeing some similarities to the person, the woman that they're speaking with.
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Right, there's so much rest that happened, healing, encouragement and the connection that needed to give them this new hope.
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They've been running on an empty gas tank for years, but out of the simple five days and four nights, that's all they needed.
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It gave them new hope, new purpose.
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One of the women she took four naps one day.
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She's a young mama, has three kids, one of them very much on the spectrum there.
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Four naps in one day that's how tired this mama was, and we had conversations with so many of the women and they feel invisible, they feel unseen, they feel like they're misunderstood, they're not heard in their community, they feel sometimes helpless, and seeing them connect with other women who are experiencing the same things and actually get hope out of that was absolutely transformational and it was such a special moment to see.
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So I am a firm believer in these retreats.
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There's some magical, beautiful moments that come out of it and I'm so thankful that we're able to provide what we're able to provide to these women.
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I love it.
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That is, you're an angel to them Providing that, and I love that.
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It's faith-based, the leadership that you provide and building something bigger than you're building, what God and God.
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That's what God picked you to do, what you're doing.
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Well, Earl I, he tells me, he reminds me over and over again.
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I don't have to have the words because, again, I had a speech problem for many years.
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And that's one of my hiccups is being nervous I'm going to miss, I'm not going to say this.
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The right thing, right, you don't have to have the words, Just like Moses didn't have to have the words, he had the heart.
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And you have to have the heart.
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You have to to a choice, a decision, an action moment, and that's a pattern in the Bible.
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My choice was to show up and if I show up he tells me, reminds me time and time again I'll put the words in your mouth.
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I'll put you with the right people and he's doing it.
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Yeah, he is and I tell you it's just amazing, like what you said, what you're doing and he's blessing it.
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He's bringing you the people to actually help you sponsor some of the retreats that you're having.
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I've never heard of this as far as what you're doing for women, that actually I have a grandson that's Take turns.
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We go out and babysit in North Carolina.
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Then they have my son-in-law's mother that babysits them because she has four kids and I mean the 20 year old was just up to but he's 15.
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That is something that you because you all they need a break and my daughter said mommy you just don't know her.
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She got four.
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I said, my God, what the heck was wrong with you.
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I mean I had two like my daughter here.
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She had two.
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That was a lot.
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I am so proud of you, of what you're doing, thank you.
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That is awesome.
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It's really awesome.
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So glad I met you.
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Let's talk about Mama's Mission Trips and Miracles bringing women together across borders, the different borders.
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You're going to another country.
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Yes, we are going to Guatemala next year in April.
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It's so amazing because some of the mamas, some of the women that have attended some of our community events, this conversation just popped up at this one fundraiser one day and this one lady was like she actually is faith-based.
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She said I go to church and our church does a couple of mission trips and I want to do a mission trip but I don't want to go build a house.
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I've never even been on one.
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I don't want to go with a bunch of strangers, I don't know, and a bunch of men and all this stuff.
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And but I would, I still want to do it, but I have all these, these reservations about it.
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