No Longer Strangers

By Grace Ahn

What does it take for a stranger to become a friend? How can we include the excluded? How do we listen to and love people because they are made in the image of God? Each week, I’ll be inviting a friend or a stranger-that-turns-into-a-friend and talk about anything you would around a dinner table. My hope for this podcast is that we continue to move towards people in their humanity through storytelling and deem them as, dare I say it, no longer strangers. | @werenolongerstrangers

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Episode 7: Grace Ahn, host of No Longer Strangers

No Longer StrangersOct 03, 2020

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Episode 7: Grace Ahn, host of No Longer Strangers

CELEBRATION IS IN ORDER! It’s my first full solo episode + my one year anniversary of starting biblical counseling! Cheers to processing your emotions, showing up for yourself, + becoming more aware. So, what better way to celebrate this great milestone than with a solo episode. That's why this episode is super special- think of it as a spoken journal where I share more of who I am + what God has been doing this past year. Some of those are changing my season of mourning into a season of dancing, earthquaking my entire security, uprooting my life, and more! I also answer some of your fun questions sent via Instagram! :)

Here are the people and shows I mentioned in this episode. Go show them some love!

Tess Clarke does amazing work with immigrants and refugees called SEEK Peace and We Welcome Refugees. She also did an interview, which includes the story about the women and her family + the ministry of presence

Here are some of my favorite podcasts! I’m such a big fan, so go show them some love and subscribe to their show! Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey, Annie and Eddie Keep Talking, Typology, The New Activist, Thirty Minutes with the Perry’s, the Michelle Obama Podcast, and the Same Boat Podcast.

Make sure you let me know what your favorite condiment is @werenolongerstrangers on Instagram! Let’s see which condiment is the best condiment of all time! I’m voting for hot sauce. Thanks Juntaek Hong (@hong.jt) for creating the music for this episode! As always, go do something fun with a friend or a stranger that turned into a friend and I'll see you next week! :)

Oct 03, 202023:38

Episode 6: Tim Yim + how we measure the richness of our lives

Today’s guest is Tim Yim, a recent college graduate from Syracuse University, a long-time friend, and also my neighbor! He’s also a youtuber, minimalist, a money-lover, a chiropractic-connoisseur, and a semi-professional-wine-taster??? Take that with a grain of salt + listen to the rest of the show to understand what I’m talking about! In this episode, we talk about growing from challenges, how we measure the richness of our life, and a bunch of fun facts. Enjoy!

Here are some questions to think about: How do you measure the richness and quality of your life? What challenges are you thankful for?

Let me know @werenolongerstrangers on Instagram! Tell Tim (@timyimm) thanks for being on the podcast! Special thanks to Juntaek Hong for creating the music in this episode. Let’s show him some love @hong.jt on Instagram! As always, go do something fun with a friend or a stranger-that-turned-into-a-friend, maybe even with your neighbor in honor of today’s episode, and I’ll see you next week! :)

Sep 08, 202045:48

Episode 5: Cassie Bedinger + loving people well

Welcome to No Longer Strangers! Each week, I invite a friend or a stranger-that-turned-into-a-friend and talk about anything you would around a dinner table. Today’s guest is exactly that: a stranger-that-turned-into-a-friend, but this time at a cafe in Switzerland! Anyways, there is so much more to Cassie than how we met. She loves Jesus and people really well. I can personally attest to this. She is married to the sweetest guy named Bryce. She’s also an amazing photographer. In this episode, we talk about what it means to love people well. This might mean including the excluded, going beyond what we see, and digging deeper. With that, here is my conversation with my friend, Cassie! Enjoy!

Don’t forget to show Cassie some love on instagram @cassiebedingerphotography! Special thanks to Juntaek Hong for creating the music in this episode. Let’s show him our appreciation by following him on Instagram @hong.jt!

I would love to know which part of this episode you connected with the most or even if you have any questions. Let me know @werenolongerstrangers on Instagram! Go do something fun with a friend or a stranger-that-turned-into-a-friend and I’ll see you next week! :)

Aug 05, 202040:39

Episode 4: Herman Smith Jr. + the realities of living in a broken world

Welcome to No Longer Strangers! Each week, I invite a friend or a stranger-that-turned-into-a-friend and talk about anything you would around a dinner table. Today’s guest is literally that: a stranger-that-turned-into-a-friend over a dinner table. In this episode, we take you down memory lane of our friendship with three major stops talking about valuing people and friendships, grief and loss, and the difference between perfect justice vs human justice. Trigger warning: we do talk a little bit about abuse and different types of injustice towards the end of the show at 1:13:19 - 1:16:50. I completely understand if you want to skip some parts or the entire episode.