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Today’s Topic & Guest:

Taylor O’Brien (https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-at-candid/) | Candid Dating (https://www.candiddating.net/)

Today’s guest has a really awesome story (you probably already knew that though; otherwise we wouldn’t have her on). Our guest is Taylor O’Brien, Co-Founder of Candid Dating. A Catholic speed dating app. They are getting people away from the swiping culture and into face to face meetings, and are having a lot of success.

But Taylor’s journey to build Candid started out rough. She ended up having to break off an engagement. This led her back to the dating market. An experience that was less than desirable.

Through the struggle, she ended up starting what is now Candid Dating. All of which started by sneaking into the computer room of a school and hosting an online speed dating session.

It’s fascinating that, had she not gone through those challenges, she would not have had the impetus to start Candid. But here she is, helping many others solve a huge challenge.

Maybe this is your sign to embrace that challenge you have in front of you. Maybe it’s preparing you for something that is to come.

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Core Lesson:

Challenges are gifts that help us trust in God… if we see them that way.

From her own experience of breaking off her engagement just before the wedding, to the challenges of the dating market, to the offshore developer team issues… all of these challenges led her somewhere.

The first, to founding the company. The latter to trusting in God more.

This is what all challenges are. A moment for us to realize that God is there with us, giving us this challenge. To prepare us, to humble us, to strengthen us, and especially, to bring us back to Him… often on our knees.

Let’s start embracing these challenges to come closer to God — they are all intentional gifts.

God Bless & Happy Building!

~Silas Mähner

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Key Episode References:

• John 6 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%206&version=NIV)

• Venerable Fulton Sheen (https://ww...